The Deputy (TV Series)

Judas Town (1960)

Allen Case: Deputy Clay McCord

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Sarge is watching Clay scrub a jail cell floor] 

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : Ahhh, dear. You know, Clay, the trouble is you been keepin' law and order too good in this town. Now if you had some lawbreakers in here, they'd be doin' the scrubbin' instead of you.

  Clay McCord : Thanks for the sympathy, Sarge.

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : Well, when you get all through scrubbin' here, you can come over to my place and I'll pay you 15 cents an hour.

  [Clay throws his scrub brush at Sarge] 

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : All right, all right - 20 cents!

  [Clay glares at Sarge who beats a hasty retreat] 

• [Pete McCurdy and his men have just shot up Silver City, wounding a townsman in the process] 

  Clay McCord : You part of the McCurdy drive?

  Pete McCurdy : I'm Linc McCurdy's son, Pete. So you heard we was comin' through, huh?

  Clay McCord : Mm-hmm. My boss asked me to extend courtesies to ya.

  Pete McCurdy : Yeah, that's right. Nice of him.

  Clay McCord : Gents, on behalf of Silver City, I want to welcome you to our jail. Now turn around and shuck your gunbelts.

• Mayor : I hear you locked up Pete McCurdy and three of his men.

  Clay McCord : That's right, your honor.

  Mayor : Well, I'm glad you taught 'em a lesson. I'm sure they won't forget it.

  Clay McCord : There's some that need more than a lesson. They need a whole education.

• Clay McCord : Your boy has busted up the town and shot a man. I'm going to have to keep him in jail until the circuit judge rides through in a few days.

  Linc McCurdy : I don't have a few days. I've got cattle to drive through to Tucson.

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : You can always hire a few men in town.

  Linc McCurdy : If I have to pay wages, *I* am the one who decides who I pay them to. Now I want my men out of jail!

  Clay McCord : We don't always get what we want.

  Linc McCurdy : Well, that's where you're wrong. We McCurdys do!

• Clay McCord : Hollerin' ain't gonna do you any good, Mr. McCurdy. You can't make your own laws.

  Linc McCurdy : Any laws the McCurdy's don't make, they bend it to fit.

• [Joab has become reluctant to press charges against Pete McCurdy] 

  Clay McCord : Did Linc McCurdy pay you a visit today?

  Joab : Yeah, just before sundown.

  Clay McCord : I guess he paid more than his respects.

• Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : McCurdy's tied up with the biggest politicians in the territory.

  Clay McCord : Well, he might have put some political pressure on Simon.

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : He being your commanding officer, why wouldn't he have told you?

  Clay McCord : 'Cause he's the most devious, schemin', tricky-tongued, double-dealin' honest man that I know.

• [Clay arrests Pete and his men again] 

  Mayor : Now why don't you call this whole thing off. My pa has got the whole deck to play against you.

  Clay McCord : Ain't gonna do him any good this time, McCurdy, 'cause he don't know where the game's goin' to be played.

• Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : All right, you can have the rations - and I hope you choke on 'em!

  Clay McCord : Talk like that ain't gonna get the Army any new recruits.