Dan Tobin: Alvin Watson

Quotes 

• Jack Dingo : It might not be so easy. You're not dealing with a simple savage. He's traveling with a hardcase by the name of Yancy Derringer.

  Alvin Watson : Alas, how quickly the barometer falls from fair to rainy.

  Jack Dingo : They both came to town with one of Custer's scouts, Colorado Charlie.

  Alvin Watson : From rainy to stormy.

• Alvin Watson : From the transparent look in your eye, it's quite obvious, Mr. Derringer, how, you're saying to yourself, did this chap ever wind up as the head of the Department of the Western Frontier, land of the scalplock, tomahawk and six-shooter. Well sir, let me tell you it wasn't easy. It required blackmail, influence, politics... and a few scalps of a different kind.

• Alvin Watson : Doesn't he talk?

  [Pahoo makes sign language] 

  Alvin Watson : What did he say?

  Colorado Charlie : He says there ain't no point makin' talk if nobody's gonna listen.

• Jack Dingo : Well, I told you he was a very hard case. What are you going to do?

  Alvin Watson : Kill them.

  Jack Dingo : Kill them?

  Alvin Watson : Socially, I mean. That's a fate worse than death.

• [during Pahoo's address to the U.S. Senate, plainclothes detectives arrest Watson] 

  Alvin Watson : What a pity to leave. It's really a very good speech.