Gunsmoke (TV Series)

Quint Asper Comes Home (1962)

James Arness: Matt Dillon

Quotes 

• Bob : Now look it, mister, I've been shootin' Indians for years. Every one I see, warlike or peaceable.

  Matt Dillon : Well, that's a good idea, shooting peaceable Indians?

  Bob : They're just so much meat to me.

  Cowboy : Shoot first and talk later, that's my motto.

  Matt Dillon : [with contempt]  Men like you make me understand the Comanches.

• Matt Dillon : What's your name?

  Quint : In English it's Quint. Quint Asper.

  Matt Dillon : You're a half-breed, aren't you?

  Quint : I'm Comanche! My Pa was white. And the white man killed him. I've avenged him many times.

  Matt Dillon : Well, maybe it's time you stopped?

  Quint : Never.

• Matt Dillon : [seeing Quint wearing cowboy duds]  Well, Quint, you look pretty good in those clothes.

  Quint : I don't feel so good in them.

  Matt Dillon : Could get used to them.

  Quint : I was used to them once. Never again.

  Matt Dillon : Quint, you know we're your people, too. Just as much as the Comanches are. Maybe more. A man usually takes after his father.

• Matt Dillon : Quint, the next time you're faced with killing or not killing a white man, you're going to have to make a decision. It's gonna take some courage. The kind I don't think you've had to use before.

  Quint : Why should I change? I made my choice when they murdered my Pa.

  Matt Dillon : [thoughtful pause]  Maybe.

• [last lines] 

  Matt Dillon : Quint, I'll tell you somethin'. As long as I'm breakin' all these laws, I think I'm gonna break another one.

  Quint : How's that?

  Matt Dillon : I'm gonna buy an injun some firewater.

  Quint : Well, you're just bound and determined to get us into trouble, aren't ya?

  Matt Dillon : [laughing, slaps Quint on the back and they set out together for the Longbranch]  C'mon.