The Deputy (TV Series)

The Example (1961)

Allen Case: Deputy Clay McCord

Quotes 

• [Sarge twists Jeb's arm behind his back] 

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : Now the first thing you're going to learn is that it ain't polite to point a gun just to scare people!

  Clay McCord : Plannin' to write a book on etiquette, Sarge?

• Clay McCord : Let's go.

  Jeb Barton : Where?

  Clay McCord : If you're gettin' old enough to play with guns, you're old enough to spend a night in jail.

• [discussing outlaw Frank Barton's son, Jeb] 

  Clay McCord : Ever since she passed away, he's been runnin' wild... gettin' into one scrape right after the other.

  Frank Barton : Well, McCord, boys will be boys. What are you tryin' to do - stunt his growth? I was the same way when I was his age.

  Clay McCord : Yeah - and look at you now.

• [last lines] 

  Marshal Simon Fry : You know your trouble, Clay - you got a nasty temper.

  Clay McCord : Well, if you spent the last 48 hours the way I did with one eye on Barton and the other lookin' for bounty hunters...

  Marshal Simon Fry : And no sense of humor. If it wasn't for your blind luck, you'd never make a good lawman.

  [Clay smiles]