Barry Corbin credited as playing...
Ellis
- Ellis: What you got ain't nothin' new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.
- Ed Tom Bell: That man that shot you died in prison.
- Ellis: Angola. Yeah...
- Ed Tom Bell: What you'd done he had been released?
- Ellis: Oh, I dunno. Nothing. Wouldn't be no point in it.
- Ed Tom Bell: I'm kindly surprised to hear you say that.
- Ellis: Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it. Your granddad never asked me to sign on as a deputy.
- Ed Tom Bell: How many of those things you got now?
- Ellis: Cats? Several. Well, depends what you mean by got. Some are half-wild and some are just outlaws.
- Ellis: Your daddy ever tell you how Uncle Mac come to his reward? Gunned down on his own porch over in Hudspeth County. Seven or eight of 'em come up there, all wantin' this, wantin' that. Uncle Mac went back in the house to get the shotgun. Well, they was ahead of him. Shot him in his doorway. Aunt Ella come out, tried to stop the bleeding. Uncle Mac all the while trying to get that shotgun. They just sat there on their horses, watchin' him die. After a while, one of 'em said somethin' in Indian and they turned. Left out. Uncle Mac knew the score, even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung. And that was that - as they say.