Wagon Train (TV Series)
Weight of Command (1961)
Terry Wilson: Bill Hawks
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Quotes
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Bill Hawks : Hey, Malachi, you got company... MALACHI JENKINS!
Billy Gentry : Maybe he ain't home.
Bill Hawks : Smell that, Billy?
Billy Gentry : Yeah.
Bill Hawks : Y'know he's got a big hunk of buffalo cooking on the stove right now. Let's go and get some. MALACHI! Nobody home, I guess. Looks about ready to eat. Coffee? 'Funny. Go and see if he's out back, Billy.
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Bill Hawks : Well, he's a hard drinking old cuss. If somebody came by with a jug of whiskey he's likely to drop whatever he's doing and follow 'em all the way to California. By the looks of this wet ground here, he was filling this bucket here less than five minutes ago.
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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.
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Dan Foster : What do you suppose they're up to?
Bill Hawks : Probably trying to figure a way to take us without getting hurt. Just like any sensible soldier.
Dan Foster : They're at peace, you say?
Bill Hawks : Yeah.
Dan Foster : What's it like when they go to war?
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Bill Hawks : They let me go down to that waterhole on purpose. Just playing with us. Black Wolf gets wind of this, he gonna have one of their hides.
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Dan Foster : Is it always coyotes?
Bill Hawks : Not always. Sometimes it's quail, or screech owl.
Dan Foster : Means the same thing I expect.
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Bill Hawks : You out of your mind?
Major Seth Adams : I said we're going ahead.
Bill Hawks : Major, there's two men back there holding off twenty Indians. And they can't outlast the night.
Major Seth Adams : I'm sorry for them. I wish I could go after them. I can't.
Bill Hawks : We're going. I told 'em I was coming back and I'm going back.
Major Seth Adams : You're not going any place, Bill, unless I tell you. Get that through your head. Those 20 Cheyenne bucks you're talking about, they're not renegades, they're part of a war.
Bill Hawks : WAR? What are you talking about Black Hawk signed a peace treaty.
Major Seth Adams : That's gone up in smoke. Black Wolf's village is burnt out, his whole village.
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Major Seth Adams : Did you hear me, Bill?
Bill Hawks : I just pray to God that you know what you're doing, that's all.
Major Seth Adams : I do too.
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Bill Hawks : [the Major picks up a harmonica from a dead passenger] What can I say?
Major Seth Adams : Nothin'.
Bill Hawks : There ain't a man on earth that can measure up to you. Not one.
Major Seth Adams : Let's get the burying done, Bill. We've got a long way to go.
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Bill Hawks : Saw some fresh horse signs out in front. Looked like someone rode up whe Malachi was fetching some water. Probably an old mountain man with a jug. We hollared ourselves hoarse and went in, sat down and ate his supper. Stayed until sun up. No sign of him.
Major Seth Adams : h, he was up in Sioux country. By golly, it will start me thinking. Didya see any Cheyenne?
Bill Hawks : Aw, you don't have to worry about the Cheyenne, not since old Black Wolf put his mark on that Peace Treaty last fall.
Major Seth Adams : Did you see any sign on the way back?
Bill Hawks : Not Indian. Shod horses. Must have been a troop of cavalry from Fort Willoughby.
Major Seth Adams : Fresh tracks?
Bill Hawks : Since the rain.
Major Seth Adams : What in tarnation are they doing up in this part of the country? Just exercising, I expect.
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Bill Hawks : It's pride, isn't it? Stubborness and pride, isn't that it, Major?
Major Seth Adams : Bill, don't say anything you're going to be sorry for.
Bill Hawks : Can't help it. I gave my word to two men that I'd bring them back help.
Major Seth Adams : Listen to me, Bill. That half-breed over there is lying. He's led this outfit into an ambush.
