Stagecoach West (TV Series)

The Guardian Angels (1961)

Malcolm Atterbury: Reverend Joshua Jessop

Quotes 

• 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.