The Westerner (TV Series)

Line Camp (1960)

Brian Keith: Dave Blassingame

Quotes 

• [first lines of episode 1.10] 

  Dave Blassingame : Come on, Brown. We're goin' to eat cold and sleep wet again. Things get much worse, one of us is goin' to make a meal out of the other one. Dog, when things get bad, you got to run the string out, that's all... you just gotta run the string clean out.

• Dave Blassingame : Come on, dog! Never shoulda come to Texas no how. If you ain't hard-cooked in the sun, you're freezin' to death or drownin' or dyin' of thirst.

• Dave Blassingame : Brown? Hey, Brown! Now where'd you go? Dog, if you're just after a rabbit again, I'm goin' to pick you up by your tail and start swingin' you around and around and if I ever let go...

  [Dave finds Brown guarding a dead cowboy with a fractured skull] 

  Dave Blassingame : Well... that's sure a poor way to go. Poor time and a poor place, too. Dyin' don't become a man, Brown.

• Oscar Hudson : Walt Forrest was a good man. Everybody liked him.

  Dave Blassingame : Kind of a funny thing...

  Oscar Hudson : What is?

  Dave Blassingame : I mean, once a man goes, all of a sudden everybody liked him... never had no enemies.

• [last lines of Episode 1.10] 

  Ben Potts : You sure as heck brought a pack of trouble with you!

  Dave Blassingame : I'm sorry about that.

  Ben Potts : How am I going to explain to headquarters? Two men dead... one so shot up he can't work. How am I going to explain that!

  Dave Blassingame : Well, if things go bad, you gotta... gotta run the string out, I guess.