- Captain Grey Holden: Ben, let's make for Hampton. I've got a hunch...
- Ben Frazer: I don't think the crew is going to accept any of your hunches as legal tender.
- Captain Grey Holden: Let 'em take it out of our hides.
- Ben Frazer: Mighty lean pickin's.
- Fowler: You're a man who has traveled around, Mr. Holden. What do you think of it?
- Captain Grey Holden: How did you know my name?
- Fowler: You're in Hampton. I own Hampton.
- Captain Grey Holden: Where's your deed?
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- Captain Grey Holden: This was Hampton - violent, corrupting, a holing-up spot for every thief, gambler, and killer who'd been run out of Natchez and Vicksburg. Here they built a monument to greed and rottenness. And here they watched it torn down. One pirate and his henchmen ruled a kingdom of evil. Now there were corpses. I saw it happen. I was part of it. And I know why it happened.
- Ben Frazer: Darned if you don't beat all, Grey. I swear you could soft-soap the Devil into thinking he was a psalm singer.