A scene from True Grit 1969
Mattie

I'm here to take you back to Fort Smith and hang you!

Chaney

And I think I will not go. Now how do you like that?

Mattie

Well, there's a posse of officers up the hill who'll force you to go!

Chaney

How many officers?

Mattie

I'd say right around fifty — and they mean business! So you just walk up that hill right in front of me.

Chaney

I believe I'll oblige those officers to come after me.

Mattie

If you refuse to go with me, I'll have to shoot you.

Chaney

Is that so? Well, you better **** your piece. [Mattie pulls back the lever on the revolver to load it. She doesn't pull it all the way.] All the way back, until it locks!

Mattie

[**** revolver properly]

I know how to do it. Now you mean to say that you won't go with me on your own free will?

Chaney

You just got it the other way around, now you will follow me!

Chaney

[Mattie pulls the trigger as a response and shoots Chaney in the ribcage. The recoil knocks her back and she falls down, while Chaney falls down onto the sand on the river as well.]

I didn't think you'd do it!

Rooster

[From the top of the hill]

Sis! Where are you!

Mattie

I'm down here! I got Chaney!

Chaney

I just didn't think you'd do it! One of my short ribs is broke!

Mattie

You killed my father when he was trying to help you! You're just a piece of trash! You also killed a senator in Texas when he was sitting on a porch swing!

Chaney

Everything happens to me and now I'm shot by a child!

Mattie

I'll shoot you again if you don't get up!

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