OP Old Prophet
I don't know him, I don't know him, I don't know him!
Manco
Come on now, you know everybody.
OP Old Prophet
Don't know anybody anymore! I'm dead! Understand? [Lifts his head from under the covers] Well, there was a time when I knew everybody. That was a long time ago, when all this was prairie. But lately everybody's in a hurry, with your damned good-for-nothing trains! [Mocks a train's wheels moving] Two two two three! [Spits] Disgusting! One day someone from the railroad comes here to see me and he says, 'Prophet, the railway's gonna go right past your house.' 'Ah, is that so?' I said. 'Mm-hm, yup that's right he says, 'All those trains gonna go right past here, and the best thing for you, Prophet, is to sell your land to the company or else we'll buy Baker's. He lives next to your place, and I'll put the tracks there, and that'll make you go crazy. What do you say, will you sell out to our company, Prophet?' "Oh, is that so?' says I. [Grins and chuckles] He was very anxious for me to sell out. You know what I told him about the railroad? You know what I told him he could do with his railroad? [laughs crazily as a train shoots by] You know what my decision about selling was?
Manco
Well, you said no.
OP Old Prophet
You're right about that! No to him and his damn trains! I wouldn't, no!
Manco
Look, listen to me, you old man! You're supposed to be a prophet, and I didn't come here to listen to you rattle on about trains! I want to find out about this man, it's obvious you don't know anything.
OP Old Prophet
[Angry]
No need to be insulting! If that's all you came here to do, you can clear out of my house fast, before I lose my temper, understand?
OP Old Prophet
[Manco shrugs and gets up to the door]
Hey! Where you going, hm?
Manco
[Turns around and smirks]
I guess I better leave before you go and lose your temper!
Col. Mortimer
One from the outside one from the inside. There's no other way. One of us will have to join Indio's gang.
Manco
Why did you look at me when you said one of us?
Col. Mortimer
Because they don't know you. Wild sees me and the sun will catch on fire.
Manco
Tell me Colonel. How do you propose that I join up with Indio? Maybe bring him a bunch of roses.
Manco
Tell me, Colonel... Were you ever young?
Col. Mortimer
Yup. And just as reckless as you. Then one day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.
Manco
What's that? Or is the question indiscreet?
Col. Mortimer
No. The question isn't indiscreet. But the answer could be.
Manco
Why this hotel and not some other?
F Fernando
You probably wouldn't that other place as much, signor. At that place you'd stay up half the night shooting cockroaches. At this hotel, the rooms will cost you so much less. And there's a landlady at this one, signor!
Manco
Married?
F Fernando
Yes, but she doesn't care!
S Sheriff
[Hands Manco the reward money for Red Cavanaugh]
Two thousand dollars. It's a lot of money. Takes me three years to earn it!
Manco
Tell me, isn't the sheriff supposed to be courageous, loyal, and above all, honest?
S Sheriff
Yeah. That he is.
Manco
[Pulls off sheriff's star and tosses it to the townspeople]
I think you people need a new sheriff.
Col. Mortimer
[Indio and his gang have been dispatched]
My boy, you've become rich.
Manco
You mean we've become rich, old man.
Col. Mortimer
No, it's all yours. I think you deserve it.
Manco
What about our partnership?
Col. Mortimer
[smiles]
Maybe next time.
Manco
[counting reward sums of outlaws he has just killed]
Ten thousand... twelve thousand... fifteen... sixteen... seventeen... twenty-two. Twenty-two? [Groggy comes from behind, Manco turns and shoots him dead] ...Twenty-seven.
Mortimer
Any trouble boy?
Manco
No old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding, it's all right now.
