- Emmett Thompson: You are to go into that no-man's land, get Ryker and bring that tank back to the army.
- Hank Brackett: Kind of a hard thing to do.
- Emmett Thompson: The recommendation is that you can do what no one else can. I hope so, because I'm desperate.
- Hank Brackett: Well, there's a new saying in Kansas City - "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em."
- Emmett Thompson: Join them? The men who tried it before were shot on sight!
- Hank Brackett: Yes, I know. Well, we'll just have to get a royal welcome.
- Emmett Thompson: It's customary to leave the amount of payment for your services blank, yes?
- Johnny Reach: Yeah, well, you could look at it this way. If we don't come out of this alive you're getting our services for free.
- Johnny Reach: Alright, I'll bite. Now why would Ryker and his men welcome us?
- Hank Brackett: Well, because we're mean and nasty.
- Johnny Reach: What makes us mean and nasty?
- Hank Brackett: We've done bad things.
- Johnny Reach: Maybe you have - not me.
- Hank Brackett: You forget - we held up an army payroll.
- Johnny Reach: Yeah, but... We what?
- Hank Brackett: We held up an army payroll.
- Johnny Reach: When did we do that?
- Hank Brackett: We didn't yet. I just thought of it.
- Johnny Reach: And when you tell Ryker that, he's going to welcome us with open arms?
- Hank Brackett: Unh-uh. First we have to escape from a federal prison.
- [Hank and Johnny, dressed as monks, try to enter Ryker's stronghold, dodging gunfire as they approach]
- Jason Ryker: Hold your fire, you mule-headed crushbellies!
- Billy Joe: But Mr. Ryker, you said that we...
- Jason Ryker: Monks come looking for monks. You shoot one, you get a whole congregation.