The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Chelcie Ross: Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains")

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• Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains") : You're bounty hunters.

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : Literal man! Cruel man!... yes, fine: bounty hunters. An ugly title, really... as if emolument were the point. Is the cobbler not paid for his shoes? It's an honest calling!

• Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains") : So... him on the roof, he was wanted?

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : Oh, Mr. Thorpe was very much wanted... judging by what the are paying for him!

  [the Englishman and the Irishman chuckle] 

  Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains") : What did he do?

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : I don't know. Does it matter?

  [addressing the Lady] 

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : Just as you said, Madame, there are two kinds of people. In our business they are: dead or alive.

• Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : I must say... it's always interesting watching them after Clarence has worked his art. Watching them negotiate... the passage.

  Frenchman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : Passage?

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : From here to there. To the other side. Watching them try to make sense of it, as they pass to that other place. I do like looking into their eyes as they try to make sense of it.

  [stares at the Frenchman] 

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : I do.

  [stares at the Lady] 

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : I do.

  Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains") : Try to make sense of what?

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : [stares at the Trapper]  All of it.

  Lady (segment "The Mortal Remains") : And do they ever... succeed?

  Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") : [smiles]  How would I know? I'm only watching!