Stagecoach West (TV Series)

The Guardian Angels (1961)

Steve Brodie: Casey Dunlap

Quotes 

• Davey Kane : You know, Mr. Dunlap, you're a funny kind of man. It seems to me you go out of way just lookin' for trouble.

  Casey Dunlap : It's a good way to pass time, Davey.

• Davey Kane : He used to be a good lawman. They used to like Mr. Morgan; they showed him respect and then, for one time in his life, he got scared.

  Casey Dunlap : Yeah, Davey, that one time was enough. Abel Morgan has never paid for what he did.

  Davey Kane : It seems to me he's been payin' ever since it happened. He'll probably keep on payin' as long as he lives... as long as he remembers. My pa says there's lots of ways a man can get scared. Sometimes it happens when he can't help himself; when he's got no way of stopping himself from getting scared. My pa says that sometimes you've got to judge a man from beginning to end and not just for one bad mistake. He says there's something about it in the Bible that sort of explains all that. Something about who's got the right to judge anyway. Maybe you know what he meant, Reverend.

  Joshua Jessop : Judge not others unless ye judge thyself.

  Davey Kane : Yeah! You see all I was tryin' to say is everybody gets scared once in a while.

• Joshua Jessop : Just had to fight and scrounge to make a living. So I turned to selling other things - fake stocks to old widows, gold mines that never existed, land you had to go six feet underwater to find... finally, religion. Kinda funny being in a spot like this gets a man to thinkin' about what he's done with his life. I took on religion because of the fast and easy money. I wish I had taken it up on a more serious note. I could use some honest prayers just about now.

  Casey Dunlap : Yeah. We could use a couple of guardian angels right about now, too.

• Casey Dunlap : And what's your sad story, David boy? Why would anyone leave the niceties of the East to wind up like this.

  David Harkness : Too much of everything you might say; not enough of knowing why. Gentlemen, a life of luxury can prove to be quite a bore... especially if it has no aim, no reason - so you wake up one morning and decide to find that reason. They say that when a man doesn't know which course to take he usually takes the most difficult one.