Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident Below the Brazos (1959)

Irene Tedrow: Minnie Lou

Quotes 

• Eli Becker : Well, who's cheating who here? You take it easy on him, Aunt E. He's a tenderfoot, y'know.

  Cort : Tenderfoot? My left eyebrow! Pretty face cardshark. I swear he's got 19 fingers and every one of 'ems crooked.

  Cort : She's right, Eli. I'm not fit company for a decent lady. You should have left me in that saloon.

  Eli Becker : Well, I couldn't do that. You were spilling blood all over Jake's floor and he didn't have any sawdust left.

  Minnie Lou : Ah, you still didn't have to bring him here. I don't know why you can't bring home stray cats and dogs like other men do, Eli Becker.

• Cort : Farce. All he did was taunt the trail boss, take a glance around the ravine and that was the whole investigation.

  Minnie Lou : So it means a war.

• Cort : A tribute, my lovely lady.

  Minnie Lou : Sit down. Show me how to do that trick with the red card.

  Cort : Well, that's cheating, Minnie Lou.

  Minnie Lou : Never mind the morality, you pious fake. Just show me how,

• Millie Wade : What kind of men, Aunt Minnie?

  Minnie Lou : Hardworking, god-faring men, I suppose, who tried to ease your pain the only way they know how.

  Millie Wade : Blood money. What good is it? What can I buy with it?

• Minnie Lou : It's not for you to point the avenging finger. Lest you point your finger towards the Heavens. That's where the lightning came from that caused the horses to bolt.

  Millie Wade : What are you saying? What are you trying to do? Turn me against God?

• Millie Wade : You've never even had a husband to lose.

  Minnie Lou : No, I never had, that's right. But there was gonna be. We made plans for 5 years. Only the Comanches took a hand. When it was over, I buried what was left. My sister, Eli's mother, then I buried his father and his two older brothers.

  Millie Wade : Minnie.

  Minnie Lou : Buried all the hopes and dreams me and Frank had. And I took Eli to raise. But you're quite right, Millie, I never have had a husband to lose.

• Millie Wade : Minnie Lou, I hope you understand.

  Minnie Lou : That's the trouble, I do.

  Millie Wade : I only want to see justice done.

  Minnie Lou : You mean revenge.

  Millie Wade : They murdered my husband. I want to see them pay for it. Is that so terrible?

  Minnie Lou : It is when you use Eli to be your executioneer.