The Deputy (TV Series)

Judas Town (1960)

Read Morgan: Sergeant Hapgood Tasker

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] 

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.