The Deputy (TV Series)

The Means and the End (1961)

Henry Fonda: Chief Marshal Simon Fry

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Clay McCord : How come we're headin' back to Colby's place?

  Marshal Simon Fry : I thought he might like to ride into town with us. Safer there.

  [referring to Josie, their shackled prisoner] 

  Marshal Simon Fry : She'll look better to him in bracelets than breaking into his strongbox.

• Josie Styles : You won't never find my husband! A lotta other lawmen tried - didn't do 'em no good.

  Marshal Simon Fry : Other lawmen didn't capture Farley Styles' wife and have a live witness to point her out.

• [looking at a Colby's corpse] 

  Marshal Simon Fry : Right between the eyes.

  Josie Styles : There goes your witness, Marshal.

• Clay McCord : Gallows near ready?

  Marshal Simon Fry : Yeah... and from the way some people talk, you and the judge are going to be the first ones to sample it.

• Judge : Is it going to work, Simon?

  Marshal Simon Fry : I can't say. I've never baited a trap with a noose before.

• Clay McCord : Simon, what if they all cool off and go home?

  Marshal Simon Fry : Clay, they gotta stay riled up. If Styles is gonna make his move, it's going to be because he's convinced the hangin's comin' off on schedule. If the town stays riled up, it'll help convince him.

  Clay McCord : If they don't?

  Marshal Simon Fry : Well, then Judge Stokes will give Josie a last minute reprieve.

  Clay McCord : Have you considered her feelin's?

  Marshal Simon Fry : And the feelin's of every dead victim of Farley Styles - past, present *and* future.

• [Simon suspects that "Jesse Brown" is really outlaw Farley Styles] 

  Clay McCord : Is Brown starting to earn his pay?

  Marshal Simon Fry : I'm hopin' he'll start to pay off.

• Marshal Simon Fry : I don't know what he's up to, Clay, but he's beginning to look more like Styles and less like Brown every minute.

• [refering to Brown/Styles] 

  Clay McCord : We better not let him out of our sight.

  Marshal Simon Fry : Don't worry. He's shown at least part of his hand and he ain't holdin' any aces.

• [last lines] 

  Marshal Simon Fry : I had to convince Farley I meant to hang Josie - ain't that so?

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : Yeah.

  Marshal Simon Fry : Well, nothin' could have convinced him better than what you tried to do.

  Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : You mean you even had that figured in your scheme?

  Marshal Simon Fry : Wellll, maybe there was a little sprinklin' of luck in it, too, but a little bit of luck and a dash or two of schemin' is a pretty good recipe for a lawman. Hasta Luego.