- [Ralph has escaped from prison so he can see his father one last time before the old man dies]
- Clay McCord: I'm going to take you in, Ralph.
- Ralph Jenson: What do you mean?
- Clay McCord: Lock you up. You haven't forgot I'm a deputy, have ya?
- Ralph Jenson: Look, Clay, I'm going back to Tannersville as soon as I've seen my father. I swear I am!
- Clay McCord: Unless I take you into my custody, you're likely to be going back dead. That bounty hunter's inside.
- [Simon discovers Clay chained to a post with a dead bounty hunter lying at his feet]
- Clay McCord: Funny, just a few minutes ago, he was remakrkin' how many men had died for obstructin' justice.
- Marshal Simon Fry: You don't look like the prettiest picture of justice I've ever seen, but you sure look like the most obstructed.
- [last lines]
- [Ralph honored the terms of his unofficial "parole" from prison]
- Marshal Simon Fry: On the way home, Clay asked if Ralph would ever come out a free man. Of course, nobody could ever answer that for sure, but it appeared to me that Ralph Jenson was a free man or he couldn't have walked back in just because he said he would.