The Deputy (TV Series)

Brand of Honesty (1961)

George Dolenz: Ramon Ortega

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Quotes 

• Ramon Ortega : What's the real reason you come to Silver City?

  Marshal Simon Fry : Oh, I wanted to check up on some rumors I heard.

  Ramon Ortega : Rumors?

  Marshal Simon Fry : In writin'.

• Ramon Ortega : Now look, Marshal, no matter how bad my past record, I'm an honest man today and yet Mr. Gardner wants Clay to run me out of town.

  Marshal Simon Fry : If I know my deputy, he laughed in his face.

  Ramon Ortega : You know your deputy.

  Marshal Simon Fry : Well, he'd better stop laughin' and start to finagle something. By buyin', borrowin', beggin' or stealin', he's going to have t get enough help to stop these robberies or I'll make him wish he was back runnin' the general store again.

• Ramon Ortega : You know I've given up the use of guns.

  Clay McCord : Open your coat.

  Ramon Ortega : Hmm?

  Clay McCord : Open it.

  [Ortega opens his coat and reveals two small pistols inside] 

  Clay McCord : Looks like they haven't given you up.

  Ramon Ortega : Well, a man cannot walk around undressed. You know, somebody who's not peaceful may shoot holes in him.

  Clay McCord : I'm afraid that's the price you have to pay for you kind of life.

• Ramon Ortega : You cannot drive us out of business. We have broken no laws!

  Clay McCord : I've got a whole book full of ordinances. If you haven't broken any of them, I'll have the city council pass some you have broken.

• Ramon Ortega : You're lying to me, Ruby.

  Ruby : I'm not lying to you.

  Ramon Ortega : Of course you are - and not very well.

• Ramon Ortega : How many are in the bunch?

  Ruby : Six or seven. I can't remember how many Blue said.

  Miller : That's a tough job takin on six hard cases on their home ground.

  Ramon Ortega : If you would fish, you must put something very tempting on the line. I'm thinking of silver buillion - a wagonload of silver bars worth eighty thousand dollars.

• Ramon Ortega : You'll soon see who are the real bandits.

  Clay McCord : If what you say is true, Ortega, you better duck fast when they show up, 'cause they hit hard and they use lead, not words.