Hard Ground (2003 TV Movie)
Burt Reynolds: John 'Chill' McKay
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Quotes
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[McKay refuses to join Billy after his gang has killed the men guarding the wagon in which they were being transported to prison]
Billy Bucklin : What about you?
John McKay : I'll see you in hell, Billy.
Billy Bucklin : Hell's bound to be a better place than Yuma prison.
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John McKay : Just you and me?
Hutch : I got me a tracker - I need a killer.
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Joshua : What the hell is she doin' here? I told her to go home!
John McKay : So did we.
Hutch : She's a little hard of hearin'.
John McKay : Stubborn, too - kinda like you, I hear.
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John McKay : Mr. Hutchinson, you realize, of course, that what you're asking is for you and I and the boy and the girl to do exactly what got me into Yuma prison?
Hutch : I know.
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John McKay : Well, they're still pullin' that paymaster's wagon. Must be headin' for Tortuga.
Hutch : Franco.
Joshua : Who's that?
Hutch : Not who, what.
John McKay : A place where gold and guns make the law, boy.
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Hutch : The only thing to do with a den of rattlesnakes is to stomp it shut or blow it closed.
John McKay : Kind of like Yuma prison, although not as bad.
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John McKay : What the hell is he doing here?
Hutch : Savin' your sorry ass!
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Hutch : What the hell is she doin' here?
John McKay : Savin' our sorry asses!
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Hutch : That's a full pardon that's been signed by the governor and notorized and now it's on fire!
John McKay : You know, Hutch, I told you I wouldn't go back to Yuma prison. Either way, I don't fit in... I don't fit in this century - and it won't be long before you don't fit in, either. I kinda like Mexico. I swore before I died I was going to see the ocean.
[scoops up a handful of coins]
John McKay : I'm going to keep this for services rendered.
Hutch : And rendered rather well, I might add.
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[last lines]
John McKay : Miss Elizabeth Kennedy...
Elizabeth : Yes, sir?
John McKay : Take good care of my boy.
Hutch : He ain't a boy, he's a full-grown man!
