- [Ben Thompson is wounded while saving Bat Masterson's life. Bat checks Ben's wounded arm]
- Bat Masterson: Didn't touch the bone, but you won't be using a gun for a while.
- Ben Thompson: That's a shame.
- Bat Masterson: Why? Do you need to?
- Ben Thompson: I was countin' on it. I got word my kid brother Billy is sentenced to die in Ogalala for a killing he didn't do.
- Bat Masterson: I guess I'd better ride up there. You stay here and take care of that arm.
- Ben Thompson: You don't owe me anything.
- Bat Masterson: Just my life. I don't like being obligated.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: A Nebraska cow town - July 26, 1884. Ben Thompson, notorious gunman, triggered a wild sequence of events in the life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.