- Claire Cantrell: "Buck", I said - that's Buck Peters, my fiancee, the sheriff of...
- Slim Tobey: ...the sheriff of Mesquitte Springs. How many more times you gonna tell us?
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: That was unkind, uncouth and uncalled for.
- Slim Tobey: She hasn't shut up once since we left Reno.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Ms. Cantrell is about to be married. I suggest you apologize.
- Claire Cantrell: Don't bother, Mr. Masterson. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Just for that, I won't say another word.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Now you see what you've done, Mr. Tobey. We'll probably die of boredom.
- [gunshots whiz overhead and the stagecoach is robbed]
- Eddie Griswell: Hey! Where's my lunch?
- [to Bat]
- Buck Peters: Eddie Griswell. He'll be hanged Saturday.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: The prospect doesn't seem to spoil his appetite.
- Slim Tobey: They say you're pretty good with a gun.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: I won't miss a target as big as you.
- Slim Tobey: I can take you, Masterson.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Don't try it.
- Slim Tobey: I can drop you with one shot.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: If you reach, I guarantee you'll see nothing but sky.
- [Tobey draws his pistol and in the ensueing gunfight, is shot by Bat]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Is the view worth it, Tobey?
- Mayor Goodwin: Masterson, you did it! Six of them with one gun!
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: With one bullet.
- Mayor Goodwin: How can you kill six men with one bullet?
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Well, simple. Just line them up like crows on a line.
- [last lines]
- Johnny: Mr. Masterson, they're sayin' you didn't kill all the outlaws!
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Who says I didn't?
- Johnny: My father says you only killed one.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Well, Johnny, that's the problem with grown-ups. They just refuse to believe the impossible.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Mesquite Springs, Nevada is a small town on the way to Carson City. In the fall of '86, it was a place of unexpected danger for Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.