- [first lines]
- [opening the train's safe]
- Mail clerk: It's all there, Fargo and the car door is open. All you gotta do now is make sure I'm taken care of.
- Fargo: You've known all along you'd be taken care of, Miltie. Is Eldridge back in the coach?
- Lin Hyatt: He's there.
- Fargo: You go take care of him... while I *take care* of Miltie.
- Lin Hyatt: Sure, Fargo.
- Mail clerk: I gotta hand it to you, Fargo. Everything's going just the way we planned.
- Fargo: Not the way we planned it, Miltie - the way *I* planned it.
- [Fargo pulls out a gun from his pocket and points it at the mail clerk]
- [Cole swigs the whiskey Annie has given him]
- Cole Eldridge: Well, I see the quality of your juice hasn't improved any.
- Siwash Annie: Who cares about the taste? It's got authority!
- [Ruby finds Luke's U.S. Marshal badge and concludes he plans to arrest her fiance]
- Cole Eldridge: All right, go ahead. Shoot.
- Ruby Walker: If I had any sense I would.
- Cole Eldridge: Well, I'm just glad you're a lot more stupid than I think you are.
- [Luke and Cole have been captured by a posse out for revenge]
- Cole Eldridge: Turn me over, Luke. I'm worth money to them; you're not worth a dime.
- Luke Perry: Neither one of us is worth much dead. Besides, I'm a U.S. Marshal.
- Cole Eldridge: You won't be after they tell their story.
- Cole Eldridge: I don't mind gettin' hung, but I'm sort of particular to the class of people who do the hangin'.