The Deputy (TV Series)

Badge for a Day (1959)

Allen Case: Deputy Clay McCord

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Quotes 

• Clay McCord : Ever cross your mind that if nobody carried a shooting iron, there wouldn't be no shootin'?

  Customer : Mister, I came in here for some service, not a sermon.

• Clay McCord : You say it's shooting a little high and to the left?

  Customer : Yeah, that's right.

  [Clay fires six times, breaking a stick with each shot] 

  Clay McCord : Well, it must be you shootin' high and a little to the left, not the Colt - it's beaded dead on. Now you take my advice and don't reload that thing. You'll be better off.

• Clay McCord : I got no interest in the Ace Gentry gang.

  [several shots ricochet nearby] 

  Marshal Simon Fry : You have now.

• Marshal Simon Fry : I'm goin' after eight killers and all you're worried about is will you get your stinkin' groceries back?

  Clay McCord : Well, if you don't come back, Simon, I'll forget about payment. It'll be worth it.

• Marshal Simon Fry : We've been in tighter spots.

  Clay McCord : When?

• [Fry and mcCord are trapped in an abandoned mine by Ace Gentry's outlaw gang] 

  Marshal Simon Fry : It's just like old times, isn't it, Clay?

  Clay McCord : Too much like old times.

• [Simon shoots a mud-covered, knife-wielding combatant in the hand] 

  Clay McCord : Well, you gun-crazy foo! You didn't even know which one of us you was shootin' at!

  Marshal Simon Fry : I figured a busted hand was worth more than takin' the gamble you had the knife - and I was right.

  Clay McCord : But that would have been my gun hand!

  Marshal Simon Fry : What do you care? You're all the time sayin' you aren't goin' to use it no more anyway.

• Clay McCord : Simon, it ain't just the gettin' killed I don't like - it's the killin', too. You never could understand that, could you?

  Marshal Simon Fry : Nope - not when it's killin' varmints like them.

• Marshal Simon Fry : I've got another wagonload of supplies like this impounded up in Herk's office. I'll get somebody over in Prescott to send it to you for a reward.

  Clay McCord : If you just stay in your office up in Prescott, that'll be reward enough for me.

• [last lines] 

  Clay McCord : Well, here's your badge, Marshal. Consider me unsworn.

  Marshal Simon Fry : Aw, why don't you keep it. You never know when you might be using it again.

  Marshal Simon Fry : [narrating]  Clay kept it. We both knew he'd be using it again.