Branded (TV Series)

Salute the Soldier Briefly (1965)

Chuck Connors: Jason McCord

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• Lt. Shanley : I served under the Captain at Shiloh, Fredericksburg, and in the Comanche wars.

  Charles Briswell : But fortunately, not at Bitter Creek.

  Jason McCord : As I recall, you lost two good friends at Bitter Creek.

  Lt. Shanley : As I recall, you lost thirty.

• Jason McCord : My name might be dirty to others, but now you've made it dirty to me.

• Jason McCord : Lieutenant, according to Regulations, a soldier salutes the uniform, not the man.

  Lt. Shanley : I just broke a Regulation. Report me, Captain.

• Charles Briswell : Everybody knows Apaches don't fight at night.

  Jason McCord : That's what everybody thinks, Briswell. You haven't been in this country long enough or you'd know, Apaches fight when they're in the mood. Day or night.

  Charles Briswell : Are you calling me a liar, McCord?

  Jason McCord : Thirty dead troopers at Bitter Creek are calling you a liar. That massacre happened at night.

• Jason McCord : You said you were prospecting there. You don't act or look like a prospector.

  Charles Briswell : I don't grovel with a pick or shovel, if that's what you mean. I'm a geologist. Magna cum Laude, Oxford. I spent years following the elusive yellow from India to South America, finally, here.

• Charles Briswell : I saw McCord shoot down five Apaches. Then he ran out of bullets and he started using his sabre> Two more Apaches were sliced lengthways. Like bloody melons.

  Jason McCord : Those details are necessary.

  Charles Briswell : You never know what small detail may help. Where was I? Oh, yes, he tracked down three more Apaches.

  Lt. Shanley : You said two.

  Charles Briswell : I did? They were falling all around like leaves. Anyway, suddenly, one of them came up behind McCord and laid him out with the butt of a carbine directly beside the body of Colonel Reid.

• Jason McCord : That tree you said you were hiding behind up on the hill. Was it a juniper?

  Charles Briswell : And that first Indian you shot, did he have two feathers in his hair, or three?

  Jason McCord : I see what you mean.

  Charles Briswell : I was watching a massacre. I wasn't classifying trees.