- Jessie Marlow: The men you posted are coming into town.
- Clay Blaisedell: I thank you for warning me, but I've already heard.
- Jessie Marlow: Why does it have to happen? Why do these things always have to end in bloodshed?
- Clay Blaisedell: Ah, that's how things are, Miss Jessie. That's why I was hired... why you hired me.
- Jessie Marlow: And so they'll come into town, and you'll shoot them all down dog-dead in the street, is that it?
- Clay Blaisedell: Or them me.
- Jessie Marlow: Or them you...