The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Dust (1961)

John Larch: Sheriff Koch

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• Sheriff Koch : It isn't a carnival, Rogers. It's a hanging.

  Rogers : You mean the kids? They ain't never seen a hanging. I figured it was about time.

  Sheriff Koch : Why?

  Rogers : Why not? They'll learn a lesson. They'll see what happens to drunks that kill kids.

  Sheriff Koch : I guess that's pretty vital. How do you teach 'em pain, Rogers? Shoot one of them in the arm?

• Luís Gallegos : I'm free!

  Sheriff Koch : Are any of us free? But you can go home now. You have that much freedom.

  Gallegos : Luís? It was magic! It was magic dust! It brought back love to the people.

  Luís Gallegos : Yes, father, it was magic. Time to go home now. Please, let's go home now.

• Sheriff Koch : As for that boy in there, he had his trial and today he's gonna swing for it. There's nothing in his sentence that says he's gotta be tormented by a pig who sells trinkets at funerals.

• Sheriff Koch : There are only two people here who have the right to ask for an eye for an eye. What about it, Mr Canfield?

  Mrs. Canfield : No more today, John. No more!

  John Canfield : He killed our child!

  Mrs. Canfield : And part of himself while doing it. And he's suffered enough.

  John Canfield : Sherriff Koch, there must be... there must be another hand in this, for the rope to break like that. Another hand. Maybe... maybe the hand of providence.

  Sheriff Koch : You want to stop at that, Mr Canfield?

  [Mr Canfield nods, and turns to walk away] 

  Man : John? We leave it like this?

  John Canfield : We leave it like this. One victim is enough.

  [addressing the crowd] 

  John Canfield : I think we should all go home now.