- Detective: [on the phone] Not Mexico, New Mexico! It's in this country! How should I know, it's out there after Chicago someplace!
- Chris Coughlin: Jimmy Roy Taylor is one of the countries top ten pasttimes, Peter.
- Peter B. Clifford: Sorry, but I... I spend all my time chasing after people engaged in the other nine.
- Peter B. Clifford: Well, Marshal, I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?
- Sam McCloud: Well, let's have the good news.
- Peter B. Clifford: You're going home.
- Sam McCloud: Well, what's the bad news?
- Peter B. Clifford: You're coming back.
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Slow down, McCloud.
- Sam McCloud: I'm slowed to a crawl long enough.
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Expedition's a tricky thing. Takes a while to get all the paper's processed.
- Sam McCloud: Well, I'm not growin' old waiting for some clerk to lick a postage stamp!
- Grover: Last hand, McCloud, and you'd better lose, or I send you back to yokel-land with a 30/30 up your saddle bags.
- Sam McCloud: If there'd been any other way to bring Wilks down, I would've found it.
- Peter B. Clifford: That explanation hasn't satisfied Mr. Becker.
- Sam McCloud: Well, Becker wasn't the one who was getting shot at.
- Peter B. Clifford: Pitty.
- Peter B. Clifford: Allright, McCloud, seeing as you're our only vaguely tangible link to this phantom, you're back on the case. But if you so much as take that big 45 out of your pants, just to check the load, I'll put a bounty on you, your mother couldn't resist.
- Sam McCloud: There ya go.
- Peter B. Clifford: Any idea what McCloud is up to?
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: He just said he was going fishing and to stand by with a big net.
- Peter B. Clifford: I spend half my week trying to translate his Pidgin English back into English.
- Sam McCloud: Joe, I need your help. You know who to put your finger on to get special work done in a hurry.
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: You see this finger? This is all the special work it's gonna be doing tonight.
- [presses down button for the elevator]
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Now it's off duty.
- Sam McCloud: Now I'm gonna tell you one more time: I tried to get take that man alive, but he just wasn't interested.
- Sam McCloud: Now wait a minute, Chief, I don't know what's going on here, but I didn't come all this way to be the butt end of a joke.
- Peter B. Clifford: That's your opinion.
- Sam McCloud: That's a fact, and I got a couple o' more of 'em.
- Peter B. Clifford: Marshal McCloud, I've requisitioned a desk and a chair for you, along with some papers for you to shuffle until this case is closed.