High Plains Drifter (1973)
Billy Curtis: Mordecai
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Quotes
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[last scene: the stranger is on his way out of town. He stops at the cemetary, where Mordecai is chiseling a gravestone]
Mordecai : I'm just about done here.
[pause]
Mordecai : I never did know your name...
The Stranger : Yes, you do.
[Mordecai stares at the stranger, confused]
The Stranger : Take care.
Mordecai : [salutes] Yes, sir, captain!
[the Stranger rides away. The camera pans back to reveal the writing on the gravestone: "MARSHAL JIM DUNCAN - REST IN PEACE"]
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The Stranger : Wonder what took her so long to get mad?
Mordecai : Because maybe you didn't go back for more?
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Mordecai : What about after we do it?
The Stranger : Hmm?
Mordecai : What do we do then?
The Stranger : Then you live with it.
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Mordacai : What did you say your name was again?
The Stranger : I didn't.
Mordecai : No. I guess you didn't at that, did you?
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Lutie Naylor : [the stranger has bought a round for the house] Let's see, one round for the house plus the smoke; that comes to about eight dollars and fifty cents.
Sheriff Dan Shaw : [chuckling] There's no charge Lutie; you were at the meeting, anything he wants.
Lutie Naylor : I didn't know that mean free whiskey!
Sheriff Dan Shaw : Everybody's got to put something in the kitty.
The Stranger : [Reaches over a takes off Shaw's badge and pins it on Mordecai] 'Bout time this town had a new sheriff.
Mordacai : I'm the new sheriff!
[looks around the saloon]
Mordacai : I'm the new sheriff!
Mayor Jason Hobart : [laughing] I'm sorry, Dan; but you should have seen the look on your face when he took off your badge and pinned it on the runt.
Mordacai : I'm not a runt anymore; I'm the new sheriff!
The Stranger : [reaches over and takes off the mayor's hat and puts it on Mordecai] And the mayor. Any objections?
Mayor Jason Hobart : Uh, no.
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Mordecai : All right, everybody grab a brush and start in!
Mayor Jason Hobart : You mean you want the whole place painted?
The Stranger : Everything.
Preacher : You can't possibly mean the church, too?
The Stranger : I mean *especially* the church.