Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Liam Fitzmorgan Story (1958)

David Leland: Michael McDermott

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• Michael McDermott : And a grand place it was. None of those kinglovers allowed inside neither. I tell you one thing. It was the very place that they planned the Ash Wednesday bombings. Eddie Brogan's lads. I was there myself.

  Ethan Carney : And I suppose you led the whole blithey thing.

  Michael McDermott : Well, I done my share, but I had committments at the very time.

  Ethan Carney : Ah, stop whistling up my sleeve, will ya.

  Michael McDermott : I'll fight the man that says

  [he grabs Carney by the lapels of his jacket] 

  Flint McCullough : HOLD ON, hold on. The last time I was down here the two of you were about to stage a donnybrooke.

• Michael McDermott : An heirloom? I know the very ring. If it's worth sixpence, then I'm a millionaire.

  Ethan Carney : I've a right to have my own property back, don't I?

  Michael McDermott : It probably fell off the backend of a tinker's wagon. That's about the worth of it.

  Ethan Carney : What about you, are you one of the Lords of London?

  Flint McCullough : ALL RIGHT, all right. Let me out of here before the shillelaghs start flying.

• Michael McDermott : Oh, the times I've had for myself in that grand city. And when I think of it now. It's just the time of the racing fair with porter flowing all about. And the wild...

  Liam Fitzmorgan : There'll no fair this year. The English shut it down. For spite.

  Michael McDermott : Well, you don't say the truth. Oh, the heathens, the swine-ish heathens. Oh, the shame of it all. But when Denny Brogan and his lads strike, they'll whistle another tune.

  Liam Fitzmorgan : Denny Brogen won't be striking again. They hung him by the neck.

• Michael McDermott : A man's stomach was not created to be abused by such food as this.

• Michael McDermott : You was asking after a doctor? Well, just this morning, well, mark me, I seen Carney hiding a black bag, same size as a doctor's kit it was too. So's I said to myself...

• Michael McDermott : I wish I was a braver man. I'd set off and help you with the deed myself.

  Liam Fitzmorgan : Be grateful you're free of it. It's not an easy thing to swear an oath to kill a man.