- Carol Otis: I beg your pardon...
- Bat Masterson: A lady as pretty as you doesn't have to apologize for anything, ma'am.
- Carol Otis: I've tried to hire a guide, and there just isn't anybody. I won't be any trouble.
- Bat Masterson: I'm sure you won't. Not to me.
- Bat Masterson: Where's Poke?
- Carol Otis: He's dead.
- Bat Masterson: He'd have died anyway for his past. This way, he died saving somebody's future.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Pine Junction, a railroad head east of San Francisco. The fastidious Bat Masterson always chose his friends carefully. One of them was General Moran, railroad president. But complications lay ahead in the life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.
- [last lines]
- [after Bat promises Carol Otis to go straight, he enters General Moran's hotel room in Pine Junction]
- Bat Masterson: Well.
- [They shake hands]
- Gen. Zachary Moran: Bat!
- [Bat hands the case with the black-pearl necklace to the general. He looks inside the case. The general, Bat, and the sheriff get ready to eat a meal prepared by chef George]