Tombstone Territory (TV Series)
Payroll to Tombstone (1959)
Pat Conway: Sheriff Clay Hollister
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Quotes
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[Lt. Lowery tries to open an important dispatch case that Clay has been guarding]
Lieutenant Lowery : This key doesn't fit. This is a different case.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Try it again.
[the lock still refuses to budge]
Lieutenant Lowery : Mr. Hollister, do you have something I can open this with?
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Oh, sure.
[Clay pulls out his pistol and shoots the lock off]
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Very efficient.
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[last lines]
Harris Claibourne : Well, it looks like another unexciting day.
[gunshots are fired outside the jail]
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Harris, would you do me a favor? Never say that again!
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Sheriff Clay Hollister : How's it been around here?
Harris Claibourne : Oh, a real quiet day.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Oh? I heard there was some shooting.
Harris Claibourne : Oh, somebody tried to rob Enoch Ward's store this morning. Ward put the run on him.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Nobody gets killed, so it's a quiet day?
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[Ellen gives Clay an important telegram]
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Make sure nobody else finds out about this, will you?
Ellen the Telegrapher : It was sent to you.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : [to himself] And Harris said it was a quiet day.
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[referring to Captain Emerson who is accused of stealing an army payroll]
Harris Claibourne : Do you really think he did it, Clay?
Sheriff Clay Hollister : I don't know, but if he did, he's going to spend a lot more time in the Army - without pay.
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[discussing Captain Emerson]
Ellen the Telegrapher : He didn't do it.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : And just *how* do you know he didn't do it?
Ellen the Telegrapher : Ohhh, a woman's intuition.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : Well, I wish you'd use a little more of that woman's intuition and tell me who did.
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[King pulls out his pistol and lays it on the table]
Sheriff Clay Hollister : I said you could make it easy on yourself.
King Cahoon : I like it the hard way.
Sheriff Clay Hollister : All right...
[Clay turns King's gun so the muzzle faces his belly]
Sheriff Clay Hollister : That's just the way you'll get it.