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The Earps and Doc Holliday approach the O.K. Corral]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
Ike Clanton, Andy Warshaw, Latigo, Curly Joe Brocious... Who's in the corral, Virg?
Marshal Virgil Earp:
Billy Clanton and the McLowerys.
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan:
You're under arrest.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
For what?
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan:
Murder
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
Not today, tomorrow or ever. You have no jurisdiction in the city of Tombstone. Even if you did you couldn't make it stick.
Frank Stilwell:
We got enough men behind us to make it stick.
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Doc cocks his shotgun]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Stilwell, if you so much as turn your head towards those men, you'll be laying in the horse manure with your friends.
Ike Clanton:
Get this through your heads. If this was the east, I could make law the way they do. But the best I can do out here is buy it.
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the judge has just thrown out the murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Well, shooting you from the front side didn't work. Next time he'll try it from the back.
Dr. Charles Goodfellow:
I can't understand why I never win.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
You don't play very well. Besides that, you never cheat.
John P. Clum:
Wyatt, the law won't work when part of it is ignored because everyone is either bought off or terrified.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
Then I'll enforce the part that does work!
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the murder charges against Clanton's gang have been thrown out]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
I don't want to hear a word out of you.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
I'm just educating myself. I've never been on the right side of the law before. I want to see how much good it does you when you are.
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the mortally wounded Morgan Earp whispers in Wyatt's ear]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
What did he say?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
When we were kids, we used to argue about whether when you were dying, your whole life flashed in front of you or not. He said, "It ain't so, Wyatt."
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Well, you got the first gun for your posse.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
Did you hear the part about "no funds available"?
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
I hear the Chamber of Commerce has put up $20,000 reward money.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
For arrest and conviction, not dead or alive. Not your style, Doc.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
For that kind of money, I can be as law abiding as, ah, you are.
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Wyatt re-introduces Doc to the Tucson sheriff]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
You know Doc Holliday. Sherm McMasters.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
You were the arresting officer when I shot Long Nose Ernie here in '74.
Tucson Sheriff Sherman McMasters:
That's right.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Good to see you.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Those aren't warrants you have there... those are hunting licenses!
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
You gonna be all right?
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Except for a slight dying spell.
Denver doctor:
You know, you don't have to get well to please me. I'm used to people dying on me.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
So am I.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
I don't care about the rules anymore. I'm not that much of a hypocrite.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
The whole thing is hypocrisy. The rules they tack on today that unless you're wearing that badge or a soldier's uniform, you can't kill. But they're the only rules there are. They are more important to you than you think. Play it that way, Wyatt, or you'll destroy yourself.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
You got some kind of plan?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
I have.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
Want to tell me about it?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
We take whoever gets in our way.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday:
You call that a plan?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
You got a better one?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
A man's life... for fifty dollars. I'm gonna give you a chance to make another fifty dolars.
Andy Warshaw:
I don't want such a chance.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
My men will stay back. I'm gonna count one, two, three. You can draw on two - I'll wait to three. If you get me, my boys won't bother you.
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