- Samuel Carlton: How come you got a gun?
- Issac West: Decoration. Some men wear diamonds - I wear cold steel.
- Samuel Carlton: You good?
- Issac West: Yeah, I'm good. You know, when I was about your age, I saw my master beatin' Pappy to death for stealin' some food. I swore before God and my mama that I was gonna kill him. So I stole this pistol and I practiced and I practiced until I could shoot a fly right out of the sky.
- Samuel Carlton: Did you kill him?
- Issac West: Who? The fly or my master?
- Samuel Carlton: Your master.
- Issac West: Nooo. I grew up, he went crazy and I lost the anger.
- [last lines]
- Corporal Clive Bennett: I know this has been hard on you. I just want to say I respect you for doing it.
- Marshal Jack Craddock: Twenty years ago, I might have let him go.
- Corporal Clive Bennett: Twenty years is a long time.
- Marshal Jack Craddock: Ain't it.