Val Kilmer: Inish Scull

Quotes 

• Inish Scull : Those torturing fiends down there are the best most capable opponents I've ever faced. I mean to kill them to the last man. But when it's done, hmm, my God I'll miss them.

  Gus McCrae : You'll miss 'em, sir?

  Inish Scull : I'm a fighting man, Mr. McCrae. And fighting men need other fighting men to fight.

• Gus McCrae : If only we were in Brazil, we could do with James what we did with my cousin Willy, who succumbed to the bite of the fer-de-lance, the deadliest snake in the world. Cousin Willie was a biologist...

  Gus McCrae : [Speaking low as he anticipates that they're in for another long-winded story from the captain]  Here we go! Captain's about to have a word fit.

  Inish Scull : ...and it just so happens that they got what's called an undertaker beetle down there in Brazil, and Willy wanted to go back into the food chain the fastest way possible, so we laid him out naked, and immediately the beetle went to work. The very next day Cousin Willy was part of the food chain again - just as wished.

• Inish Scull : Cousin Willy was of an agnostical bent. He didn't believe in heaven but he did believe in bugs.