Prison for Children (1987 TV Movie)

William Bryant: Will Waylon

Quotes 

• Will Waylon : You're gonna ask the county to bury Chris Parsons in a pauper's field?

  Bea Saunders : Chris had friends all over this basin, but that didn't stop him from being a saddle bum! Let some of his good friends put on a fancy funeral!

  Will Waylon : [sighs]  I'll be back in an hour with an ambulance. I'll ride John back to his cabin.

  Bea Saunders : No, you're not gonna do that.

  [gets up] 

  Bea Saunders : That kid ain't my problem! And you ain't gonna stick me with problems that ain't mine!

  Pop Saunders : Bea, he's only a boy!

  Bea Saunders : I'm selling that cabin.

  Will Waylon : What the hell for?

  Bea Saunders : I'm puttin' you on notice, Will! I'm taking possession!

  Will Waylon : That cabin was in such bad shape, even the drifters wouldn't stay there! Chris and John fixed it up, they made a home! They've been living there for ten years!

  Pop Saunders : Bea, you can't!

  Bea Saunders : You stay out of this, Pops! Let the sheriff do his job. I want him out of there, Will! That place is mine... and everything in it!

  Will Waylon : All right... I'll be back in an hour. If the snow's not too deep, I'll take him off your hands.

• Pop Saunders : [Sheriff Will has returned to the Saunders ranch to try and talk some sense into Bea. He gets out of his vehicle and Bea's father meets him]  It didn't use to be like this, you know that, Will. She brought Chris and John their first meal. The day they came here, she brought John that sleeping bag in the tent, remember? It was after her own run away. Her only boy took off and went... then came the bitterness.

  Bea Saunders : [walking up]  Stay outta this, Pops!

  Will Waylon : [softly]  Sorry, Pop.

  [turning to Bea] 

  Will Waylon : Bea, I wanna talk to you! You don't give a damn about that cabin!

  Bea Saunders : Whose side you on, anyway?

  Will Waylon : And that horse! That horse belongs to John! Everybody knows that! Chris bought it from ya!

  Bea Saunders : It was MY horse until it was paid up! And it wasn't! He stole it! I figured all along that kid might jump his track! He never knew about Chris, and he taught that boy what he knew!

  Will Waylon : Chris Parsons worked for you for ten years! What the hell are you so froze up about?

  Bea Saunders : That kid stuck me without a cabin. You're stuck with making him pay for it!

  Will Waylon : [holding warrant]  Bea, these are FELONY charges! You're putting that boy in front of a judge!

  [Bea keep walking ahead of him] 

  Will Waylon : Hold up, dammit!

• Will Waylon : [gently but firmly to John]  Get down off that horse, boy.