Rawhide (TV Series)

The Last Order (1965)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

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• Gil Favor : Welcome back, Mr Yates. Hope you enjoyed your trip.

  Rowdy Yates : Sorry.

  Gil Favor : Just had to go against orders, didn't you. Just had to do it your way. Oh, where's Hey Soos? That was the whole point of the trip, won't it?

  Rowdy Yates : They wouldn't release him.

  Pete Nolan : You really fixed things up, Rowdy. They got everything they want: the Lieutenant, the money and Hey Soos.

  Rowdy Yates : McKeever gave me his word.

  Gil Favor : And you believed him.

  Jim Quince : We gotta go in now, Mr Favor, and release Hey Soos.

  Rowdy Yates : No, Pete's right. It wouldn't do any good. They got everything they want, they're not about to be there.

  Gil Favor : Oh, they'll be there.

  Rowdy Yates : What makes you think that?

  Gil Favor : I guess that Lieutenant friend of yours checked the box too carefully and check that the money was there or not.

  Rowdy Yates : No, he trusted me.

  Gil Favor : He shouldn't have trusted me.

• Rowdy Yates : What're we going to do now?

  Gil Favor : You? You don't do nothing. You're through. You're through as a drover. You're through as ramrod. You're through as anything. Now get out of here as quick as you can.

• Jim Quince : You mean we have to ride herd on 50,000 dollars?

  Gil Favor : No, I mean you are going to be riding on 3,000 head of beef. That's all you going to have to worry about.

• Jeff McKeever : There's only five that you saw. There's twice that on the way to the rendezvous.

  Gil Favor : I want a guard on big mouth all the time.

• Jim Quince : I swear I never thought it'd get any hotter.

  Pete Nolan : You ain't started to boil yet, it's still the cool of the morning.

  Jim Quince : I tell you, Pete, I could've had me a gentleman's job tending bar down home. I don't know why I signed up on this drive for again anyway.

  Pete Nolan : Ah, that's easy. Light work, short hours, good pay.

  Gil Favor : Everything's going to turn to dust if we don't get to water soon. Where's the next waterhole?

  Pete Nolan : Salt Water Springs. It'll be a couple of days.

  Gil Favor : Two days? Where're you leading us? By way of the Sahara?

  Pete Nolan : Look, I ain't no Moses, I can't touch one of these rocks and make it spurt water out of it.

  Gil Favor : Even if you could, you might be of some use.

  Pete Nolan : Who put the burr under his saddle? Sometimes I wonder why I joined up with this blasted drive.

  Jim Quince : Ah, that's easy. Light work, short hours, and good pay.

• Gil Favor : Bah. When, when are you meatballs ever going to learn? Those are renegades out there you want to deal with, They got no honesty, their word don't mean nothing. As long as each side has got a hostage, it's a stand-off, no matter what they threaten. They won't kill Hey Soos for fear we'd kill McKeever. As long as we got him, he's our insurance that Hey Soos stays alive. We'll trade when the odds favour us.

  Rowdy Yates : Well, I don't see it that way.

  Gil Favor : No, you don't. Do you really think for one minute, if we turn McKeever and the money back, they'll gonna let Hey Soos go? He can identify every one of them. Smartest thing in the world they could do is for them to kill him. And that's just what they'd do.

  Rowdy Yates : These men are soldiers. They're gonna fight by rules of war.

  Gil Favor : They're trash, they ain't got no rules. In any case this is the way it stands, You can go along with the herd or tuck your tail between your legs and take off.

  Pete Nolan : We're staying, Rowdy.

• Colonel Reed : I must congratulate you, Mr Yates. You completely outwitted my naive Lieutenant, taking that money out of the box.

  Gil Favor : He didn't take it out, I did. He thought it was still in there.

  Colonel Reed : Who's he?

  Jeff McKeever : Gil Favor, the trail boss.

  Colonel Reed : That's more like it. One commander negotiating with another. All right, Mr Favor, what do you want?

• Colonel Reed : Why should I believe you, Mr Favor?

  Gil Favor : Like you do, I'll give you my word as an ex-officer and gentleman.

• Jeff McKeever : You come to surrender, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : Here, don't guzzle it.

  Jeff McKeever : Why?

  Gil Favor : If I'm gonna turn you into the Sherriff, look better turning in a live one than a corpse.

  Jeff McKeever : That's your only reason , keep me alive so I can go to jail.

  Gil Favor : What else?

  Jeff McKeever : You were an officer yourself, Mr Favor. Let's talk soldier to soldier.

  Gil Favor : Is that different from talking man to man?

  Jeff McKeever : Soldiers live by a different set of rules, rules of war. You're losing this war, Mr Favor. You're being out-manoeuvred, out-deployed, your losses are mounting everyday. You're a wise commander, you'll come to terms with the enemy before he annihilates you.

  Gil Favor : Yeah but I ain't no commander. The only war I'm fighting is the war to survive. That battle of survival has won more victories than all the cannons and cavalry charges put together. So I'll take my chances with your Colonel Reed. He's just a man, and from what I know of him,not too much of one at that.