- SLC Records Clerk: Sir, you're not allowed in here.
- Cullen Bohannan: Shit, son, I ain't allowed anywheres.
- [first lines]
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: We are on the verge of taking that mountain, thanks to you and your steam shovel. You can't quit now. I-I-I-I won't allow it!
- Cullen Bohannan: Railroad's *your* dream.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: Cullen, what happened to Ruth... you gave her every chance to walk away from her deed.
- Cullen Bohannan: No, it ain't about what I gave her.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: She threw her life away on an empty ideal. Is that what you want?
- Cullen Bohannan: I'm going home, doc.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: Home? *This* is your home.
- Collis Huntington: Well, I am curious. What brings you to this mecca of polygamist pretension?
- Cullen Bohannan: Searching for my wife and my boy.
- Doctor Major Augustus Bendix: You'll be taken into custody and shot.
- Dandy Johnny Shea: On what charges and by whom?
- Doctor Major Augustus Bendix: Conspiracy and attempted assassination of a government official.
- Dandy Johnny Shea: [long rude belch]
- Doctor Major Augustus Bendix: And by me.
- Dandy Johnny Shea: Like hell.
- Soldier: [shouts an order and a dozen guns are trained on them]
- John Campbell: Good news. There's a train leaving tomorrow morning. You'd best be on it.
- Collis Huntington: If you work for me, all of my resources will be at your disposal. Your family's out there, we'll find 'em. How's that sound?
- Cullen Bohannan: Sounds like I'd be back to working on the railroad. I've dug that ditch.
- [picks up his hat to leave]
- Collis Huntington: There's a difference between digging a ditch and owning it, sir.
- [last lines]
- Collis Huntington: Come with me! I want to show you a telegram. Durant is on the down-slope of Sherman Peak. Now with you in camp, maybe this is the moment when the zebra turns tables on the lion. What say you, Mr. Bohannon?
- Cullen Bohannan: I say blood will be spilled.