The Dakotas (TV Series)

Sanctuary at Crystal Springs (1963)

Chad Everett: Deputy Del Stark

Quotes 

• Deputy Del Stark : To come in here, how do I justify that? How do I say to myself, it was one of those things, Del. And forget about it?

  Reverend Spencer : Is that what you want? To blot it from your memory, as if it had never happened?

  Deputy Del Stark : I want to feel good again. About myself, about my work. Instead I feel...

  Reverend Spencer : You feel damned.

  Deputy Del Stark : Am I damned, reverend? Am I!

  Reverend Spencer : I don't believe you are.

  Deputy Del Stark : Well, how do I know?

  Reverend Spencer : Do you want to be forgiven? I can forgive you. But when you start asking me for proof

  [shakes his head] 

  Deputy Del Stark : Then you offer me nothing.

  Reverend Spencer : I offer you all that there is. Faith.

  Deputy Del Stark : Faith doesn't tell me it was right to shoot up a church. I need a sign.

  Reverend Spencer : Oh, a miracle?

  Deputy Del Stark : If you want to call it that. I have to know.

  Reverend Spencer : The answer is still the same.

  Deputy Del Stark : Faith? In God? Well, I have faith in God, reverend. The question in my mind is - how does He feel about me?

• Deputy J.D. Smith : What do you want to do now, Frank?

  Marshal Frank Ragan : Del made the play. We'll see it through. Give them their thirty minutes.

  Deputy Del Stark : He was wrong, JD.

  Deputy J.D. Smith : What makes you so sure? They still got two hostages.

  Deputy Del Stark : Two live hostages.

  Deputy J.D. Smith : Hmm, for a while.

  Deputy Del Stark : I won't buy that. There isn't any reason for the Bartons to kill them now.

  Deputy J.D. Smith : That was Clarence and Jim Barton. What makes you think men like that need a reason, huh?

• Deputy Del Stark : I wanted to kill 'em and I didn't care how. And what's worse, I didn't care where. And that's what I've come to, marshal. Can you tell me where I've got left to go?

  Marshal Frank Ragan : You go back out and patrol the territory and try not to make the same mistake again.

  Deputy Del Stark : I won't make the same mistake again, because I'm through! With the badge, and the gun, and everything that goes with it!

  Marshal Frank Ragan : And with self pity?

• Marshal Frank Ragan : Alright. I'll go as far as the edge of town with you.

  Deputy Del Stark : Why don't you come all the way?

  Marshal Frank Ragan : I've wanted to, many times. But if we all throw away our badges, the Barton's wouldn't just cease to exist. They'd multiply, like disease, 'til they'd infected all of us.