The Highwaymen Quotes

Maney Gault: How many bullets you got in you?

Frank Hamer: Sixteen, I think.

Maney Gault: It might be good to have a doctor look at you sometime.

Frank Hamer: It might be good to have a doctor look at you sometime.

Maney Gault: I ain't got no bullets in me.

Frank Hamer: Because I was covering you.

Detective John Quinn: [the Govenor is holding a meeting with her officials, who are seated around a table discussing the Bonnie and Clyde situation. She is standing in front of them] I'd like to have a say in how we handle this.

Ma Ferguson: Fine.

[Ma nods her head in agreement]

Ma Ferguson: Let's hear it.

Lee Simmons: There was a time when we put a pair of man killers on the trail and let them do their job. TEXAS RANGERS.

Detective John Quinn: There was a time... and that time's past.

Ma Ferguson: This is 1934 Lee and you want to put COWBOYS on Bonnie and Clyde? Is that what you're selling?

Lee Simmons: FRANK HAMER. That's what I'm selling.

Ma Ferguson: Well sure, why don't we just go dig up Wyatt Earp?

Detective John Quinn: Wild Bill Hickock.

Ma Ferguson: Legislature disbanded the Rangers Lee.

Lee Simmons: And you're right proud of it, aren't you, Mrs Govenor?

Ma Ferguson: Damned right I am. They took orders from no one and they left me to answer for the blood.

Lee Simmons: Seems like you're answering for it again. Govenor, Bonnie and Clyde have been on the road for over two years. Cold blooded killers who are more adored than movie stars.

[shakes his head in frustration]

Lee Simmons: This has to stop.

Ma Ferguson: [Ma turns around and walks over to the window in front of her looking at the rain pouring down and shakes her head] ... Well... Where is he?

[the image fades to Frank Hamer kneeling by a lakeside]

Photographer: The Governor's car pulls up in front of her mansion. She gets out in the pouring rain, facing a mass of reporters and photographers. Governor, right here.

[asking her to pose for a photograph]

Reporter 1: Would you care to comment on the escape Governor?

Ma Ferguson: [Ma smiles at the photographers and reporters] Morning boys.

Reporter 1: Ma, no one's ever broken out of your prison and BONNIE AND CLYDE BREAK IN!

Reporter 2: They've been on the run for two years, Ma.

Ma Ferguson: Never say die boys. Say damned. Never say die.

[Ma steps between the crowd of reporters and photographers and begins to walk up the steps into her mansion]

Photographer: Some folks are saying Parker and Barrow are heroes, calling them Robin Hoods. Are they Robin Hoods Ma?

Ma Ferguson: [Ma stops and turns around in anger to face the photographers and reporters in front of her] Did Robin Hood ever shoot a gas station attendant point blank in the head for four dollars and a tank of gas? We will capture Clyde Barrow and his paramour. Write that down and underline it twice.

[Ma turns back around and goes up the rest of the steps into her mansion]

Maney Gault: [Frank and Maney are sitting at a table in a coffee shop in Coffeyville, Kansas on the lookout for Bonnie and Clyde. Gault is eating a slice of cake and Frank's drinking a cup of coffee]

[chuckles]

Maney Gault: How many bullets you got in you?

Frank Hamer: Hell I don't know... Sixteen I think.

Maney Gault: [between spoonfuls] You know...

[clears his throat]

Maney Gault: Man can't PASS bullets through him like he can kidney stones?... might be GOOD to have a doctor look at you sometime.

Frank Hamer: Might be good to have a doctor look at YOU sometime.

Maney Gault: I ain't got no bullets in me.

Frank Hamer: Because I was COVERING you.

[Maney puts another spoonful of cake in his mouth, nods his head in agreement and smiles at Frank]

Frank Hamer: You ever think maybe there was something in Clyde... that made him steal that chicken in the first place?

Henry Barrow: Maybe he was hungry. Maybe we were all hungry.

Frank Hamer: You know, your boy may not have been... born with a dark soul, but he has one now.

Henry Barrow: You're not hearing me, mister. I'm trying to say something. It ain't easy for me to say. I know there's only one way that this thing is ever gonna end. And I'm asking you, please... just end it now, damn it. End it for my family.

Maney Gault: You came all the way up to the house, what changed your mind?

Frank Hamer: I don't know, maybe seeing you move like you're 85.

Maney Gault: Well, that honest. Maybe a little too honest.

Frank Hamer: How'd she fall in with an outlaw like Barrow?

Deputy Ted Hinton: Bored to tears. Along come Clyde in a fine car, by the time she found out the car was stolen, she was already in love.

Maney Gault: Ain't that romantic. I met my wife she was milking a prize Devon at the Oklahoma State Fair, I can't imagine anybody writing a ballad about that encounter.

Frank Hamer: I think I'll look up Leadbetter.

Maney Gault: He's dead.

Frank Hamer: Or Cuthbert.

Maney Gault: Dead too. So's Alvarez. And if you go any further down the roster I'm gonna be gravely offended.

Henry Barrow: [Describing his son, Clyde Barrow, as a child and youngster] You know, he wasn't always a bad boy. I had high hopes.

Frank Hamer: People don't always know who they are... 'til it's too late.

Henry Barrow: Oh, you mean one turn on the trail, huh? That what you mean? He stole a chicken... and the law took him for bad seed. And from *that day* forward he was dogged by the law.

Frank Hamer: Dogged him?

Henry Barrow: Yes, sir.

Frank Hamer: Dogged him or watched him?

Henry Barrow: [Describing his son, Clyde Barrow, as a child and youngster] You know, he wasn't always a bad boy. I had high hopes.

Frank Hamer: People don't always know who they are... 'til it's too late.

Henry Barrow: Oh, you mean one turn on the trail, huh? That what you mean? He stole a chicken... and the law took him for bad seed. And from that day forward he was dogged by the law.

Frank Hamer: Dogged him?

Henry Barrow: Yes, sir.

Frank Hamer: Dogged him or watched him?