- Jose the Tracker: You wanted to see me, Mr Dundee.
- John Dundee: Yes, come inside.
- Jose the Tracker: I do not wish to go inside your house, Mr Dundee.
- [Paladin stops Dundee from butting Jose in the head with his rifle]
- John Dundee: Jose here is the best tracker I've ever known. He's a friend of Ordey's. I lay in the snow with a load of buckshot in my belly, but Ordey slept warm that night at Jose's place. You'll take me to him, Mausalito, hey?
- Jose the Tracker: Si, I take you, Mr Dundee. But it will be a long journey, a very long journey.
- Frank Tanner: Blue finch. Been calling all night.
- John Dundee: It sounds like a blue finch. It does sound like a blue finch?
- Paladin: What did you intend to do, Mr Dundee? Tie this woman to a stake and wait for her husband to come for her?
- Paladin: Was it just the land, Mrs Ordey? Or was it something else?
- Mrs. Ordey: No, it was just the land. And that Mr Dundee's wife was killed by Commanche Indians.
- Paladin: And your husband is half-Commanche.
- Mrs. Ordey: My husband is a man, Mr Paladin.
- Mrs. Ordey: I told you, Mr Paladin, this is something I have to do. I have to be where my husband can find me. You can't carry me back, and I can't walk.
- John Dundee: My wife is dead.
- Paladin: I keep wondering what's driving you.
- John Dundee: I saw my wife after the Commanches were finished with her. I can't forget that.
- Paladin: Buenas dias! The dawn is a beautiful time. Time when most babies are born, a time when most men die.
- Paladin: Smoke?
- Jose the Tracker: Oh, si, gracias, senor. A cheroot is better than wine, better than woman. Havana, huh?
- Paladin: That's right. A little tube of mighty power, a charmer of an idle hour, an object of my warm desire.