Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

The Roarer (1967)

Richard Boone: Sergeant Bill Disher

Quotes 

• Major Ben Covington : You shouldn't have come back here, Sergeant.

  Sergeant Bill Disher : [chuckling]  Not come back, Major? I'm a soldier. That's all I am. That's all I ever will be in my entire bleedin' life.

• Sergeant Bill Disher : Hey. Hey! What do you think you're doin'?

  Francis Wilde : I think you're a great storyteller, Sergeant, and I think a lot of my readers will be mighty interested in reading about your friend.

  Sergeant Bill Disher : My friend. My friend is not a curiosity to tickle the sweet imaginings of some sweet-smelling corset salesman in a barber chair. You want to write about Little Tom, well, you write about the way Little Tom died. Certainly it was an Apache tommyhawk. Certainly it was a Sioux arrow. Certainly it was a bullet fired over a game of chance or a prairie fire or, at the very least, a kick from a wild white Arabian. Oh no, my little Pekinese, to bring down Tom it took a length of covered wire and a railroad track.

• [Francis fires a warning shot over the head of the escaping Sergeant Disher] 

  Sergeant Bill Disher : You'll never hit me that way, boy.

  Francis Wilde : That was a warning!

  Sergeant Bill Disher : A warnin'? Oh, you'll have to do better than that. Tricky Jim would have warned me with a bullet through the belt buckle.

  MacGregor : And that's where the next one will go!

  Sergeant Bill Disher : Ah, that's good, MacGregor. You're the cold-blooded one. The steel of Scotland is in ya.

  MacGregor : You come down here, or I'll introduce a little lead into your system!

  Sergeant Bill Disher : Ha! Here's me heart. Make it a quick, clean shot. I know you wouldn't want me to suffer.

• [last lines] 

  Sergeant Bill Disher : Will you listen to how quiet it is. All the shopkeepers gone back to their bleedin' inkpots. Listen to how quiet the wind is. Ah, it's a glorious day. There's a hawk under the sun...