How the West Was Won (TV Series)

Luke (1979)

Bruce Boxleitner: Luke Macahan

Quotes 

• Luke Macahan : You want me to go down to the border and pose as an outlaw?

  Grimes : Oh, you won't be posin'. You are an outlaw. At least in the New Mexico territory.

• Luke Macahan : Wait! I... I got to think these things over. I don't know if I can trust the likes of you two.

  Grimes : We don't trust each other, why should you?

• Florrie : Yep, you two are th' same all right, my brother Alan and you. Got everything goin' for you, good looks, some schoolin', passable common sense.

  Luke Macahan : Thanks for the compliment.

  Florrie : Wasn't a compliment, you're a jackass, same as that brother o' mine. Why does any man hanker to be outside o' the law, when he can have more than he'll ever need inside of it?

• Florrie : What are you doin' sneaking round, followin' me?

  Luke Macahan : I ain't sneakin' around 'n followin' you, I'm ahead of you.

  Florrie : You know what I mean.

• Luke Macahan : What's goin' on?

  Sheriff Gruner : What's the matter, boy?

  Luke Macahan : That's plain murder.

  Sheriff Gruner : Is it now? I call it a pleasurable mornings work. A little while ago, I was feeling bad. But now I feel fine...

  [makes a clicking sound with his mouth] 

  Sheriff Gruner : ... just fine.

• Luke Macahan : Father, I'm hopin' there's enough to see that Florrie's little girl can be raised by the mission orphanage.

  Padre : I can't accept this money, my son.

  Luke Macahan : You can't?

  Padre : Well eh, I must know where it came from.

  Luke Macahan : [thinks for a moment]  Father, I can tell you this: that money was to be used to take a life, mine. Now it can be used to give life, to Florrie's child.