- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Are you the doc?
- Doc Edgerton: Howard J. Edgerton, the sagebrush Hippocrates.
- [Doc Edgerton examines a mortally wounded man]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Well, what do you think?
- Doc Edgerton: Well, just say he's high on lead and too full of holes to hold whiskey.
- Jobe Crail: You tell Masterson and all the people that I'm coming back to town with every man I've got and when I finish with it, there won't be nothin' left but the nails!
- Free: You're a brave man, Mr. Masterson, but you can't fight the Devil on Earth and win. That's what you're tryin' to do.
- [referring to Free, who had an arm amputated after a gunfight with the Crails]
- Doc Edgerton: Rabbits!
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: No, not him, Doc. He's got a strong argument and a loose sleeve.
- Narrator: Mimbres, Colorado, 1883. Shoshanna woman and children had been abducted for ransom. The Arapahos had been blamed. The military thought a band of whites was behind the atrocities. But where was the evidence? Into this darkness and danger, the United States Government sent Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.