Jeffrey Hunter credited as playing...
Martin Pawley
- Ethan: Our turnin' back don't mean nothin', not in the long run. She's alive, she's safe... for a while. They'll keep her to raise her as one of their own till, until she's of an age to...
- Martin: Don't you think there's a chance we still might find her?
- Ethan: Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.
- Laurie Jorgensen: [Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie] You're not goin', not this time.
- Martin: Are you crazy?
- Laurie Jorgensen: It's too late. She's a woman grown now.
- Martin: But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home.
- Laurie Jorgensen: Fetch what home? The leavings of a Comanche buck, sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own?
- Martin: Laurie, shut your mouth.
- Laurie Jorgensen: Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain.
- [pause]
- Laurie Jorgensen: I tell you, Martha would want him to.
- Martin: Only if I'm dead.
- Martin: You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?
- Laurie Jorgensen: Why, Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old!
- Martin: We have?
- Laurie Jorgensen: 'Bout time you found out about it.
- Martin: [speaking to Debbie for the first time in five years] Debbie, Debbie, Debbie, don't you remember? I'm Martin, I'm Martin, your brother, remember? Debbie, remember back.
- Martin: [pause] Do you remember how I used to let you ride my horse? And tell you stories? Oh, don't you remember me, Debbie?
- Debbie Edwards: I remember, from always. At first I prayed to you: "Come and get me, take me home." You didn't come.
- Martin: But I've come now, Debbie.
- Debbie Edwards: These are my people. Go. Go, Martin, please!
- Laurie Jorgensen: Ethan rode on an hour ago. Now Martin I don't know what you can do about finding Debbie that he can't. He'll find her now, Martin. Honest he will.
- Martin: That's what I'm afraid Of Laurie, him finding her. Oh I've seen his eyes at the very word "Comanche". I've seen him take his knife and - - Never mind. He's a man that can go crazy wild and I intend to be there to stop him in case he does.
- Martin: Well, why don't you say it? We're beat, and you know it.
- Ethan: Nope. Our turnin' back don't mean nothin'. Not in the long run. If she's alive, she's safe. For a while, they'll keep her to raise as one of their own until... she's of an age to...
- Martin: Do you think maybe there's a chance we still might find her?
- Ethan: An Indian will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter who'll just keep coming on. So we'll find 'em in the end I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as the... turnin' of the earth.
- Ethan Edwards: You remember that scalp string on Scar's lance? Long and wavy?
- Martin Pawley: Yeah, I saw it, and don't try to tell me it was Aunt Martha's or Lucy's.
- Ethan Edwards: It was your mother's.
- Martin Pawley: If we go chargin' in there, they'll kill her and you know it.
- Ethan Edwards: That's what I'm countin' on.
- Martin Pawley: What do you mean you don't have any blood kin? Debbie's your blood kin.
- Ethan Edwards: Not any more she ain't.
- Brad: There's only one way you can stop me from looking for Lucy, mister, and that's kill me!
- Martin: That's the way I feel, Uncle Ethan
- [Edwards glares at him]
- Martin: Ethan... Sir.
- Ethan: Alright, but I'm giving the orders here. I'm giving the orders and you'll follow 'em, or we're splitting up right here and now!
- Martin: Well, sure, Ethan. Just one reason were here, ain't it, is to find Debbie and Lucy?
- Ethan: If they're still alive.
- Ethan Edwards: What's she followin' us for?
- Martin Pawley: Oh, you go on back now. Go on. Look, I changed my mind. You can keep your blanket. Look, you don't understand. I don't want it.
- Ethan Edwards: You don't understand, you chunkhead. You didn't buy any blanket, you bought her. You got yourself a wife, sonny.
- [laughs]