- Cousin Elizabeth: General, do you know that's the third glass of whiskey you've drunk since we sat down to table?
- General Eakins: If I took the time to count, I wouldn't have the time to drink.
- [looking over his prospective heirs]
- General Eakins: Hm. Now that I've seen ya, I may decide not to die at all.
- [Bret and Homer have exchanged identities]
- General Eakins: Maverick, what do you do?
- Homer Eakins: I play poker.
- General Eakins: No, I... I mean, how do you earn your living?
- Homer Eakins: General Gibson, when a man plays poker well, he doesn't have to earn a living. Other people earn his living for him. No one can accuse Bret Maverick of having done an honest day's work since the day he left home. Isn't that right... Homer?
- Bret Maverick: That's right, Maverick.
- [Homer is examining a huge moosehead on the wall]
- General Eakins: Well, what do you think of it?
- Homer Eakins: Since it obviously isn't a relative, I'll assume you're paying off an election bet.
- General Eakins: Young man, I shot that moose myself.
- Homer Eakins: Well, the least you can do is give it a decent burial.
- General Eakins: Don't tell me. Don't even tell me. That little ratty face, that big mouth that never stops going, those same blame aggravatin' ways.
- Homer Eakins: Dear Uncle, you haven't forgotten me.
- General Eakins: Homer Eakins.
- General Eakins: Do you have to go?
- Bret Maverick: Well, let's say I don't have to stay.
- General Eakins: Well, what can you get somewheres else that you can't get here?
- Bret Maverick: A good night sleep.
- Bret Maverick: As my pappy used to say, a man who can't find his own troubles doesn't deserve to share someone else's.
- General Eakins: Maverick, did your pappy have anything comical to say about money?
- Bret Maverick: No, he always spoke very highly of it.
- [while he investigates the murders, the sheriff insists that the cousins remain at General Gibson's ranch]
- Sheriff: Folks, I'm just as sorry as I can be.
- Homer Eakins: Perhaps you can come back tomorrow and apologize to any of us who are still alive.
- Cousin Hope: You're very cool, cousin Homer. Doesn't anything bother you?
- Homer Eakins: Cousin Hope, everything bothers me; very little alarms me.
- General Eakins: Homer, if we was both to go to Paris, we could sure do her up in great style.
- Homer Eakins: Do you think you could behave yourself?
- General Eakins: No.
- Homer Eakins: All right, Paris it is.
- Bart Maverick: [narrating] It was a warm day in early spring when brother Bret first set eyes on Black Fire Ranch. And it was a day he'd long remember.
- Bret Maverick: Afternoon.
- Ranch Hand: Yes, sir. Which one are you?
- Bret Maverick: Eakins. Homer Eakins.
- Ranch Hand: All right, Mr. Eakins, looks like you're the last of the lot. Rest of 'em's up at the ranch house.
- Bret Maverick: Thank you.
- Bart Maverick: [narrating] I'd swear he said his name was Homer Eakins.
- Bret Maverick: You think I have an honest face?
- General Eakins: No, I don't, but at least you ain't a relative.
- [first lines]
- Bart Maverick: [to the audience] Hello. Glad to see you with us again. This week's intriguing story takes us to an isolated ranch deep in the Wyoming territory for a tale of mystery and violence. It's called Black Fire.