- Judge Wood: [Watching Westcott aka Davis ride away] The man sure does a lot of riding.
- Griggs: If you suspect him, why don't you tell the Major?
- Judge Wood: You know my theory. Give 'em plenty of rope.
- Judge Wood: Hart wasn't an outlaw to start. Fact is, he taught school here and we all liked him. Now at about that time, my son Henry and the sheriff's kid brother Jim were helping slaves escape from Missouri.
- Captain Alan Westcott: Your son?
- Judge Wood: Yes. Hart said he wanted to help, saying that he was all for the Union. But we were tipped off that what he really intended to do was to betray our set-up to Southern bushwhackers. I don't understand how men can play both sides. You?
- Captain Alan Westcott: Uh, peace time? No, Judge, I can't. But, uh, when there's a war, I guess... guess a man does what he's told.
- George Todd: You're not really gonna pass up that raid, are you, Chief?
- Captain William Clarke Quantrill: [laughs] Oh, no. I got a hundred score to settle me in Lawrence. 130 free sitters swore they'd kill me. I'll do the killin'. I'll run their blood in the gutters every mother's son.
- Sheriff Alden: Oh, hello, Joel.
- Joel Welter: I wasn't gonna see him, but I guess it isn't right to blame a man for somethin' til you hear what he has to say about it.
- Sheriff Alden: You kind of liked him, didn't you, son?
- Joel Welter: I had plans and everything. Thought we could be partners in the livery business.
- Sheriff Alden: Well, these things happen, Joel. You think somebody's all right. You bet your bottom dollar on him; he lets you down. People aren't always what they seem.
- Captain Alan Westcott: Kate! I didn't expect to run into you out here.
- Kate Clarke: You didn't run into me. I knew you'd be back. I want to talk to you about Quantrill. Don't trust him.
- Captain Alan Westcott: I don't.
- Kate Clarke: Quantrill will kill you the minute he doesn't need you.
- Captain Alan Westcott: Well, I know that too.
- Kate Clarke: Well, then why do you... why do go to him?
- Captain Alan Westcott: I gotta talk to him about somethin'.
- Kate Clarke: Oh? Don't you have anything to talk... talk to me about?
- Captain Alan Westcott: [laughs] Well, not with uh... not with Quantrill packin' four guns.
- Kate Clarke: You don't fool me. You're not afraid of Quantrill. And you're not afraid to take me away from me either. It's just that you just don't want to, that's all.
- Captain Alan Westcott: [laughs] Well, Kate...
- Kate Clarke: [Coming on to him] Naw it's alright. Maybe you will when, ah, when you think about what you're missing.
- [They kiss passionately]
- George Todd: So you're gonna raid Lawrence against orders, huh? Well, this is your finish, Bill Quantrill, because if the Yankees don't hang ya, the Rebels will. And when they put that rope around your neck, I want to be there, right in the front row.
- [He slaps her]