- [first lines of episode 1.10]
- Dave Blassingame: Come on, Brown. We're goin' to eat cold and sleep wet again. Things get much worse, one of us is goin' to make a meal out of the other one. Dog, when things get bad, you got to run the string out, that's all... you just gotta run the string clean out.
- Dave Blassingame: Come on, dog! Never shoulda come to Texas no how. If you ain't hard-cooked in the sun, you're freezin' to death or drownin' or dyin' of thirst.
- Dave Blassingame: Brown? Hey, Brown! Now where'd you go? Dog, if you're just after a rabbit again, I'm goin' to pick you up by your tail and start swingin' you around and around and if I ever let go...
- [Dave finds Brown guarding a dead cowboy with a fractured skull]
- Dave Blassingame: Well... that's sure a poor way to go. Poor time and a poor place, too. Dyin' don't become a man, Brown.
- Oscar Hudson: Walt Forrest was a good man. Everybody liked him.
- Dave Blassingame: Kind of a funny thing...
- Oscar Hudson: What is?
- Dave Blassingame: I mean, once a man goes, all of a sudden everybody liked him... never had no enemies.
- [Dave and Oscar the cook are brawling in the line camp bunkhouse]
- Jones: Boy, if Oscar ever hits Dave with a piece of his bread, that'll end it.
- Ben Potts: That's enough! Knock the place down and we'll be sleepin' in the wet!
- Shep Prescott: All cow camp cooks is mean, Dave... we got the only one that can fight!
- [last lines of Episode 1.10]
- Ben Potts: You sure as heck brought a pack of trouble with you!
- Dave Blassingame: I'm sorry about that.
- Ben Potts: How am I going to explain to headquarters? Two men dead... one so shot up he can't work. How am I going to explain that!
- Dave Blassingame: Well, if things go bad, you gotta... gotta run the string out, I guess.