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Rev. Mr. LaSalle : That was the first and last time I saw Judge Roy Bean. I never got back to that country and died of dysentery in old Mexico. I haven't seen him since, so he probably went to Hell.
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Rev. Mr. LaSalle : [Narrating] The first time I saw Roy Bean, he was set on killing me. Thought I was the Devil, come to take him. It was an understandable thought, considering all the carnage that he had so recently brought forth.
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Rev. Mr. LaSalle : I shall pray for you, Bean. This land abounds in ruffians and varmints. Their numbers are legion, their evil skills commensurate.
Judge Roy Bean : Piss on 'em.
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Rev. Mr. LaSalle : What has happened here?
Judge Roy Bean : These men tried to hang me. They have been killed for it.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : How many of 'em are there?
Judge Roy Bean : A lot of 'em.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : Who did the killing?
Judge Roy Bean : I did. They were bad men, and the whores weren't ladies.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : Vengeance is mine sayeth, the Lord!
Judge Roy Bean : It was. I'm waiting for the buzzards. They don't deserve burying.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : Maybe they don't, but they ought to be. They are a stench and an abomination! I got a shovel if you don't.
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Rev. Mr. LaSalle : I will read over the dead now. My Bible, please. Mister, uh...
Judge Roy Bean : Bean.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : Bean?
Judge Roy Bean : Roy Bean. Judge Roy Bean. I am the law in this area.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : What has qualified you as such?
Judge Roy Bean : I know the law. And I have spent my entire life in its flagrant disregard. But I had never killed a man before. Oh, I had shot at some... in self-defense or blind fright, but I never hit anyone. So God must have directed my bullets. Why, he even sent an angel to deliver this weapon
[gun]
Judge Roy Bean : .
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : Just how do you intend to dispense this law?
Judge Roy Bean : With this
[gun]
Judge Roy Bean : and a rope.
Rev. Mr. LaSalle : And will you rely again on the grace of God?
Judge Roy Bean : Well, I intend to
[gun]
Judge Roy Bean : practice and give Him some help. Get on with the reading.
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Rev. Mr. LaSalle : I buried them because Christ had died for all of them. It was his choice, not mine. I am not one to question the wisdom of the almighty.