Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series)

Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Ben Murphy: Jed 'Kid' Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones)

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• Jed Kid Curry - Thaddeus Jones : Well, you know what we got here, Mr. Smith? We got ourselves a walk-off.

  Hannibal Heyes - Joshua Smith : Don't get started.

  Kane : Walk-off? I don't like that, mister. I don't even know what it means.

  Jed Kid Curry - Thaddeus Jones : Well, then, I'm gonna tell ya. You see, when the good Lord was makin' men, He got a whole bunch of 'em all whomped up together and then He decided to knock off for the rest of the day, thinkin' He'd put the brains in later. But guess what happened? A whole bunch of them critters just upped and walked off 'fore he ever got back. And that's what we've got here. Walk-off.

• Hannibal Heyes - Joshua Smith : What do you know about this?

  [hands over amnesty poster] 

  Sheriff Lom Trevors : Amnesty? It's a program the governor's trying out to see if...

  [laughs] 

  Sheriff Lom Trevors : You ain't thinking of amnesty for you two? That's for cheap crooks and grifters!

  Hannibal Heyes - Joshua Smith : Can we help it if we're a bit better at what we do?

  Jed Kid Curry - Thaddeus Jones : You can't tell me the governor's gonna penalize us for excellence!

• Sheriff Lom Trevors : [last lines, which became theme lines for show]  You've been granted provisional amnesty. 'Course the governor can't come flat out and give you amnesty now without letting himself in for a lot of criticism. So first you got to prove you deserve it. 'Til then, only you, me, and the governor will know about it. It'll be our secret.

  Jed 'Kid' Curry : Secret?

  Hannibal Heyes : For how long?

  Sheriff Lom Trevors : Well, the governor figures a year. He figures if you can stay out of trouble for twelve months, you can do it forever. Then you got it! The whole thing - fresh start, clean bill of health. Amnesty!

  Hannibal Heyes : So all we got to do is just stay out of trouble for one year?

  Jed 'Kid' Curry : But we'll still be wanted. We'll still be blamed for everything that goes wrong!

  Hannibal Heyes : We'll still be the same men we was before you talked to the governor!

  Sheriff Lom Trevors : Well, that's true. But it's only for twelve months. You can do it, boys, I'm sure you can! Just like you stayed out of trouble for the last few days right here in Porterville. Now, that wasn't so hard, really, was it?