- Bat Masterson: Just a minute, Sheriff. It's customary even in the most backward communities to charge a man with some offense before locking him up.
- Sheriff Jeb Crater: That's right. Disturbing the peace! Is that good enough for you?
- Bat Masterson: No, but it doesn't matter, does it?
- Bat Masterson: From where I stand, this town could use an honest dealer.
- Ellie Winters: From where you stand, you'd better keep right on going. Oh, Bat, this is one time you picked the wrong man to play "King of the Hill" with.
- Ken Wills: What are you in for?
- Bat Masterson: The charge is cheating at cards. The facts are somewhat different, though.
- Bat Masterson: Anything wrong with my life expectancy?
- Ellie Winters: You'd better ask Jim Crater. He held an emergency meeting of the dealers' association this morning. Bat, they won't get up that early unless it's a matter of life and death!
- Bat Masterson: Probably mine. Is that what you're thinking?
- Bat Masterson: Never bet on a sure thing unless you got enough money to get you back home.
- Ken Wills: Yes sir, professor!
- [last lines]
- Ellie Winters: You still want to vary your diet?
- Bat Masterson: You know, it's like riding a trail, Ellie. You leave it, cross it, forget it, but you always come back to it again someday.
- Ellie Winters: Especially if you want to.
- Bat Masterson: I'll meet you where the trails cross.
- Ellie Winters: That sounds like a song.
- Bat Masterson: It is. It's a good one.
- [they kiss]
- Bat Masterson: Keep a light in the window, will you?
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Mason City, Kansas, October 1879. A shaved ace of spades and a license to cheat were the origin of an adventure in the life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.