Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Andrew Elliott Story (1964)

Alfred Ryder: Major Ogden

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• Major Ogden : I have the letter, Mr Shannon. You merely wrote that certain, ah, unfortunate incidents turned Andrew Elliott's expedition into tragedy. Those were your words. This letter hides more than it tells. What are you hiding, Mr Shannon?

• Major Ogden : [He reads Andrew's last words to the Senator]  Millions know your public face, only I know your private heart. I have lived as your captive all my life and I realise now, there is nowhere I can go to live a life of my own. I don't know how.

• Major Ogden : What was his vision, Senator?

  Senator Harold Elliott : America. It was a vision as great and as simple as that one word: America. He wanted to find the greatness of his country, to discover it, to find it for himself, as if he were saying, I, Andrew Elliott, bestow my most precious possession, my name, on this tree, this rock, that hill, beloved land to that name your greatness, your awesome magnificence. Teach me to be worthy.

  Major Ogden : As all the Elliotts have prayed from the beginning of our country, sir.

  Senator Harold Elliott : Why, bless you for that, Major.

• Major Ogden : I tell you what I believe. I believe you hired the two other men and that woman. That you planned to steal the money. You and the man, Jack, were going to kill Andrew Elliott and George Simpson. George killed Jack in self defence and you killed both Andrew and George. And now you're back here in the West to see the other man, Blake, and the woman, and get your share of the money. That's what I believe. And that's what I'm going to testify in Washington.

  [Straight as a die, honest Duke takes offence at these false words and slugs him to the ground] 

  Senator Harold Elliott : Mr Shannon, please.

  Major Ogden : Well, when you're threatened, you really show your true colours, don't you, Mr Shannon? Well, I shall have my turn with you when you're dangling from the end of the gallows you so richly deserve.