- Dustin Groat: Are you as fast with your guns as they say you are?
- Kemmer: Well, those I proved it on ain't around to say.
- Kemmer: Why are you hiring me, Groat?
- Dustin Groat: To be my gun. I'm going to keep you by my side like gun in a holster. When I draw, you fire - you understand?
- Dustin Groat: You didn't get much of a bargain. You got cheated on the deal because of a bullet fired years ago in a Kansas border town.
- Priscilla Groat: I've never complained, have I?
- Dustin Groat: You want to know why Kem is here? Because the man who fired that shot is finally going to pay for it.
- Priscilla Groat: Oh, Dustin, he's beyond your reach. He's dead - you told me so yourself.
- Dustin Groat: But his son's alive - and he's here in Silver City.
- Kemmer: Evenin', McCord.
- [points to the deputy's badge pinned to Clay's vest]
- Kemmer: Goin' into a new business, I see.
- Deputy Clay McCord: I'm hopin' this'll get me back to my old one.
- Deputy Clay McCord: I'm sorry, Mrs. Groat, but as far as I'm concerned, Kemmer's just a gun with your husband's finger on the trigger.