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The Missing (2003/I) More at IMDbPro »

Lieutenant: Any man found looting... will have the value of their property deducted from his pay.

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Chidin: [speaking Chiricahua] Take your bad luck to your grave.

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Kayitah: [speaking Chiricahua] Forget the hides. Give us your horses and your guns and we'll call it even.
Samuel: They want our horses and guns.
Maggie: I am not giving over my horses!
[to Kayitah]
Maggie: You understand? You'll have to kill me first!
[turns to Samuel]
Maggie: You tell em... You, you tell em what I said.
Samuel: [speaking Chiricahua] Now look. You pissed her off.

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Samuel Jones: You take this money for your children.
Maggie Gilkeson: No, you take it for your funeral.

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Lt. Jim Ducharme: I don't know what they were thinking.
Samuel Jones: What makes you think they were thinking?

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Samuel Jones: If I stay here very long, I might misbehave. Somebody might have to kill me.

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Dot Gilkeson: I swear to god I won't stay put.

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Maggie Gilkeson: You know that Indian name of yours? Wha, what's that, what's that mean?
Samuel Jones: Very hard to translate that.
Maggie Gilkeson: Try it.
Samuel Jones: It means "shit for luck."

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Maggie: Why didn't you stay?
Samuel: [long pause] There's an Apache story about a man that woke up one morning and saw a hawk on the wind. Walked outside and never returned. After he died he met his wife in the spirit world. She asked him why he never came home, he said "Well, the hawk kept flying".
[pause]
Samuel: There's always the next something, Maggie. And that will take a man away.

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Samuel: I didn't kill anyone! I said I didn't kill anyone! I am looking for my grand-daughter!
Lieutenant: Then tell me her damn name!
Samuel: I don't *know* her damn name!

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