U.S. Marshal

[first lines]

[Morgan and Ferguson drive into a tiny rural town]

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
This is about as close to no place as any place could be and still be some place.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Yeah... What?

[discussing Matt Charles's rundown shack]

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Well, nobody's lived here for a long time - not Matt Charles or anybody else.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
It's not too bad a place to live. All you have to do is fix the window, dust a little bit, burn the whole thing down and build a new house.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Any ideas?

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Yeah, I'm hungry - let's eat.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
You're always hungry.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Only between meals.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Does a shower come with this room?

Rich:
Down at the end of the hall.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Good. A guy can sure get dusty around here.

Rich:
Eh, you get used to it after a while.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
We won't be here that long.

[discussing the town constable's curious actions after a jailbreak]

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Now there's a considerate husband. Two escaped prisoners, probably murderers, wandering around loose, but he doesn't want to worry his wife, so he closes up shop and goes home.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
What makes you so sure he's going home?

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
We can't very well tail him in broad daylight.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
We don't have to tail him - we just have to follow that dust cloud.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
This dust is good for something after all.

[after refusing to squeal on the rest of the gang, Dub learns he's going to Alcatraz for a long prison sentence]

Dub McLane:
Frank, you won't find them - not in ten years.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
I'll see them before you do, Dub.

[Morgan and Ferguson have trailed two murderous escaped convicts to a desert ghost town]

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Nugget City, huh?

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
I'll bet there used to be gunfights galore in this old street.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Used to be?

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
You're doing everything you can to bolster my morale, aren't you?

[last lines]

[Morgan and Ferguson has just finished a deadly gunfight on the streets of an old ghost town]

Ellen Wilson:
What's the matter?

Marshal Frank Morgan:
I was just thinkin'. Is this what they mean by the good old days? Let's go back the Twentieth Century.

Doc Andrews:
Andrews is the name - Doc Andrews

Link Thompson:
Horses or people?

Doc Andrews:
It makes no difference - as long as I'm not expected to cure them.

[Ferguson is going undercover]

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Well, Tom, you've always wanted to be an actor - now's your chance to win one of those statues.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Well, I hope it won't be in the shape of a tombstone.

[last lines]

[Tom has been beaten badly and his clothing shredded while operating undercover for Frank]

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Oh, and Frank - can I please have my old job back?

Marshal Frank Morgan:
If you're going to work in my office, Tom, you'd better clean yourself up.

[Tom sighs and salutes]

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Yes, sir.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
What makes a crooked cop, Frank?

Marshal Frank Morgan:
A crooked man.

Tom Ferguson:
You know, I won't enjoy a meal until we wrap up this case.

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Force yourself, Tom.

[last lines]

[discussing the killer Ferguson has just shot to save Morgan's life]

Lou:
He's just like I said he was - no good!

Tom Ferguson:
No good? That's putting it mildly. Harry Wilton, wanted in four states for murder... he almost made it five.

[Morgan and Ferguson are investigating a murder]

Marshal Frank Morgan:
That broken bottle may be the only lead we got.

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Broken bottle, yeah. That's the glamorous part of law enforcement. That's why I joined up.

[Burke, holed up in a cabin, has been shooting at the marshals]

Sheriff Frank Morgan:
Wally, listen to me. It's about your mother.

Wally Burke:
You're wastin' your time, Morgan. Now you come on and try wastin' your life!

Marshal Frank Morgan:
Is that all you ever thing about - eating?

Deputy Tom Ferguson:
Only three times a day. It's a habit I've never been able to break.