- [Bat removes the bullets from Powers' pistol]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Your fangs are drawn, Mr. Powers, but this establishment still finds rattlesnakes unwelcome.
- [Katie and her rifle get the drop on Bat]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Cherche la femme.
- Powers: Cherche la what?
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Nothin'.
- Powers: Now don't go making French remarks around Katie.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Oh, I wouldn't think of it. Not in front of innocent, blue-eyed, little old Katie.
- [Carstairs has ordered Bat to dig his own grave]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Oh, ah, Katie... how about lunch tomorrow?
- Katie: For me, yes - for you, no.
- Carstairs: It's not over yet, Mr. Masterson. You've got some digging to do.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Dig?
- Carstairs: We're going to shoot you, bury you, then run a herd over your grave. No one will ever know where you've gone.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: You're late.
- Hugh Blaine: Well, I got a little lost, but you're right, you didn't need any help.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: On the contrary, there's a man in my grave.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: You tired of playing cowboy?
- Hugh Blaine: Me? I'm a businessman, not a rancher. I'd be bored to death.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Ah, you're right. A shoemaker should stick to his lasts. As for me, Hugh, I'm staying with gambling.
- Hugh Blaine: That's no business.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: With me it is. The cheaters are fewer and easier to spot.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: A short distance from Denver, Colorado in the early '80s. Very few people get both feet in a grave and live to tell about it. A notable exception was Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.