Peter Breck: Clay Culhane

Quotes 

• Marshal Gib Scott : Is the Starkey woman a client of yours?

  Clay Culhane : No. I doesn't look like she needs a lawyer right now as much as she needs someone to see she isn't killed.

• [Gunther is staring at a chessboard] 

  Clay Culhane : You're black?

  Ed Gunther : Uh-huh.

  Clay Culhane : Where's white?

  Ed Gunther : Denver.

• Karl Borgen : Things happen to a man. Sometimes he remembers them; sometimes he forgets.

  Clay Culhane : A man gets it in the spine with a bullet, he remembers it. He also remembers who did it.

  Karl Borgen : It might be I just don't choose to speak about it. One faculty I've got left, speech - or silence.

• Clay Culhane : Taking over a whole town wasn't easy. It takes a brain. Starkey wasn't smart enough. Oh, he was tough, used to taking orders - especially from his old commanding officer.

  Marshal Gib Scott : What happened, Gunther? He get greedy... or just fed up?

  Clay Culhane : Oh, I don't suppose it mattered much, Marshal. Pawns are expendable - they come cheap.

• [last lines] 

  Ed Gunther : You know, there's a difference between check and mate, Mr. Culhane. The people in this town are my friends. A jury would never convict me - not on a wild story like that.

  [the crowd at the inquest edge away from Gunther] 

  Clay Culhane : Think not? Vox populi, Mr. Gunther - the voice of the people, essence of democracy. He's all yours, Marshal. I'm going to tell Nora.