Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
What has happened here?

Judge Roy Bean:
These men tried to hang me. They have been killed for it.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
How many of 'em are there?

Judge Roy Bean:
A lot of 'em.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
Who did the killing?

Judge Roy Bean:
I did. They were bad men, and the whores weren't ladies.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
Vengeance is mine sayeth, the Lord!

Judge Roy Bean:
It was. I'm waiting for the buzzards. They don't deserve burying.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
Maybe they don't, but they ought to be. They are a stench and an abomination! I got a shovel if you don't.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
I will read over the dead now. My Bible, please. Mister, uh...

Judge Roy Bean:
Bean.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
Bean?

Judge Roy Bean:
Roy Bean. Judge Roy Bean. I am the law in this area.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
What has qualified you as such?

Judge Roy Bean:
I know the law. And I have spent my entire life in its flagrant disregard. But I had never killed a man before. Oh, I had shot at some... in self-defense or blind fright, but I never hit anyone. So God must have directed my bullets. Why, he even sent an angel to deliver this weapon

Judge Roy Bean:
.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
Just how do you intend to dispense this law?

Judge Roy Bean:
With this

Judge Roy Bean:
and a rope.

Rev. Mr. LaSalle:
And will you rely again on the grace of God?

Judge Roy Bean:
Well, I intend to

Judge Roy Bean:
practice and give Him some help. Get on with the reading.