Trackdown (TV Series)

The San Saba Incident (1957)

Guy Wilkerson: Dutchy Hoffman

Quotes 

• Dutchy Hoffman : As long as Travis hasn't showed, I'm satisfied.

  Hoby Gilman : Well, that's the one thing that worries me.

  Dutchy Hoffman : You go to your church, I'll go to mine... On second thought, I guess I'll go to yours but I won't like it. Take a look.

• Travis : [Shoots a warning shot]  Gilman! I don't want any trouble with the law, all I want is justice!

  Dutchy Hoffman : They were too far away for me to get a good look at them but it looks like the two friends he came back with our Comanches!

  Hoby Gilman : All you got to do to hire them is promised them a scalp

  Dutchy Hoffman : Well we got three of them on here that I would put on the market and I would throw in a Squaw to boot!

  Ike Collins : You wouldn't sell us to the Indians would ya?

  Dutchy Hoffman : It be getting cheated but if they want to trade I'm willing!

• Travis : Gilman! Can you hear me Gilman?

  Hoby Gilman : I hearya!

  Travis : Send your prisoners out! You can have them back tomorrow

  Ike Collins : [Nervous and scared]  You wouldn't do that Hoby? you wouldn't do that to a friend?

  Hoby Gilman : I wasn't the one that double-crossed his brother and then killed them afterwards

  Ike Collins : Hoby? The law says you got to protect me until you get me to prison! That's what you're getting paid for!

  Dutchy Hoffman : Maybe you ought to talk to me I'm getting paid to drive a team not to be getting shot at!

• Dutchy Hoffman : [Referring to Travis]  well it looks like you've run him off for good, there hasn't been a sign of him since morning

  Hoby Gilman : He'll be back

  Dutchy Hoffman : Now why would he? He said he didn't want any trouble with the law

  Hoby Gilman : Sometimes a man goes crazy and that's when he gets an idea fixed in his head

  Dutchy Hoffman : He could have shot you in the back before this

  Hoby Gilman : He can always change his mind

  Dutchy Hoffman : [Nervously changes the subject]  you ever been to St Louis?

  Hoby Gilman : Once, a long time ago

  Dutchy Hoffman : It's a good town, right now, I wish I had never left it

  Hoby Gilman : That's one thing we see eye-to-eye on

  Dutchy Hoffman : You want me to take the First Watch?

  Hoby Gilman : You're only getting paid the drive the team

  Dutchy Hoffman : I ain't doing it for you! The way I got it figured it is I got to keep you rested up for self-protection!

  [Hoby laughs]