Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of Fear in the Streets (1959)

Gary Merrill: Jed Mason

Quotes 

• Jed Mason : I want Kels Morgan.

  Dr. Tom Jackson : That won't help your son. He's dead.

  Jed Mason : Lynched is the word. And it's simple justice to hand out the same treatment to the ones responsible.

  Dr. Tom Jackson : The whole town is responsible. Why pick on one man?

  Jed Mason : Two, Doc. We got the Sherrif locked in his own jail. He let the mob get Ben. Kels Morgan led the mob. When we find him, we're gonna string both of them up.

  Dr. Tom Jackson : What'll that give you?

  Jed Mason : We're gonna hang 'em in the middle of town. We're gonna hang 'em so high that every time the decent law-abiding folk of Provost look up, they'll remember what they did to a boy they never let reach his majority.

  Dr. Tom Jackson : He was guilty, Jed.

• Jed Mason : You gonna let another man's trouble take importance over our grief?

• Gil Favor : Mr Mason, it's my guess that before sundown, you end up murdering a lot more people than just the Sherrif.

  Jed Mason : You got me pegged wrong, Mr Favor. You can't rile me into murder. Hanging the Sherrif and Kels Morgan is justice. In the eyes of God and decent men, it's justice.

  Gil Favor : You're like a loco steer, anything in its path has to be stomped to death.

• Gil Favor : Mr Mason, nobody can say you haven't got a grievance. But you're running down a wild road.

  Jed Mason : What do you think I should do? Raise my hand like a kid in school and ask the Judge to punish the ones that did it? In 15 years maybe I'd get some satisfaction.

  Gil Favor : There's some here that had nothing to do with that lynching.

  Jed Mason : The whole town's gonna sweat 'til I get my hands on Kels Morgan.

• Gil Favor : We aim to free the Sherrif.

  Jed Mason : You aim to commit suicide.

• Jed Mason : Wilt, I gave Ben everything I could. I gave him the best bed in the house, the best food. I went without so he could have the kind of clothes that pleasured him.

  Wilt Mason : I know, Pa.

  Jed Mason : Why did he do it? The Masons been respected in these parts since we settled.

  Wilt Mason : Let's go home, Pa.

  Jed Mason : Wilt, there's some things men have to do to preserve the name: men. If we leave this business unfinished, we'll be miserable 'til the day we die. And the day we die, the ground will spit us right out of the graves for the shame of having a Mason in it.