Wagon Train (TV Series)

Weight of Command (1961)

Frank McGrath: Charlie Wooster

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• Charlie Wooster : Mr Hawks, being a poor, unlettered man of toil, I do not try to read the Major's mind.

• Duke Shannon : He's out on a one man scout.

  Bill Hawks : Where?

  Duke Shannon : Don't know. Said he'd have to pass up on the hunt, wants you to go on without him. I, ah, tried to tell him it wasn't much use getting riled up about Indians in this country.

  Charlie Wooster : That was a mistake, wasn't it?

  Duke Shannon : It was. Is he like that all day or just when he rolls out in the morning?

  Bill Hawks : Duke, he's like a forty rod whiskey. The first drink you take is kinda hard to get down. A little practice it gets a lot easier.

  Duke Shannon : Guess I ain't had that much practice.

• Charlie Wooster : What do you want me to say?

  Major Seth Adams : Answer me.

  Charlie Wooster : Well, I can't give you the answer you're looking for, Major, I wish I could but I can't. I know exactly what you want me to say. Sure, it took us twelve and a half hours, sure, it's perfectly all right to push through in the night, and leave those hunters behind. Sure, there'll be a whole army of Cheyenne ambush in the morning if we don't get through. I can't say it, Major. You're the boss. You're running this outfit. You do the thinking and you give the orders. All by yourself too.