Lawman

:46:03

I knew it'd be him.
I saw him in town earlier.

:46:06

Thanks, Ryan.

:46:08

I owe you something, too. I feel good.

:46:16

I remember you at Fort Bliss.

:46:19

That's my trouble.
Everybody remembers me at Fort Bliss.

:46:24

That's all I got, Maddox.
A bunch of yesterdays.

:46:27

It's a long ride down from the high
country, with stops all the way down.

:46:32

In Abilene I ran.
In Acadia City I hid in a cellar.

:46:36

In Monmouth the Loring brothers
made me eat dirt.

:46:40

What keeps pushing you?

:46:43

I've been a lawman for 20 years.

:46:45

What stops you running sand inside?

:46:49

I guess the question doesn't arise.

:46:51

After killing Stenbaugh,
Bronson'll come for you.

:46:55

It's always the same.

:46:58

You post a man, he has to
come into town to prove he's a man.

:47:01

Or you kill a man and he's got a friend
or a kin just has to come against you.

:47:06

And for no reason.
No reason that makes any sense.

:47:10

And it don't matter a damn
to the man already in the ground.

:47:14

Nobody wins.

:47:17

You can stop it. Ride out tomorrow.

:47:21

It's not a private matter with me.

:47:23

The law. The honest ones
carry it hard and clean all their lives.

:47:28

Behind their backs, the others buy it,
sell it, dirty it, tie it into knots.

:47:34

Who lives longer, Maddox?

:47:36

I was bringing in a killer
when the shoot-up happened.

:47:39

I could have chased a few tracks
and let the matter drop.

:47:42

But I'm the law in Bannock. Anybody who
goes against the law goes against me.

:47:47

I don't know any other way.

:47:49

How many more for one old man?

:47:52

I don't call the numbers.

:47:54

I never drew first on a man in my life.
That's the only way to stay clean.

:47:58

You play it by the rules.
Without the rules, you're nothing.