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Hardin
- Cajun Trapper: I ain't gonna kill y'all if I don't got ta... you got a bayou over dere... take it... stay to the west side... you're gonna find a road about a mile up dere.
- Hardin: Do you mind tellin' us what the Hell this is all about?
- Cajun Trapper: It real simple... we live back in here... dis is our home, and nobody don't fuck with us.
- Hardin: [pointing at Bowden, who is hanging dead from a tree] What about HIM?
- Cajun Trapper: What about 'im?
- Hardin: Did he do it to himself or did your friends help him out?
- Cajun Trapper: [fires shot at Hardin's feet] Now, if I was you all, I'd quit askin' questions and haul ass... 'cause my buddies... dey not nice like me.
- Hardin: Are we supposed to say thanks?
- Cajun Trapper: You not supposed to say nuttin'... soldier.
- Spencer: How long you been married?
- Hardin: Five years.
- Spencer: Happily?
- Hardin: Yeah. I like her, she's got a good sense of humor. Why do you ask?
- Spencer: Well, I just figured if I get out of here alive and you don't, I might look her up.
- Hardin: Hey, I said *she* has a good sense of humor. *I* don't.
- Spencer: Here's your ammo... blade to the throat, huh, that how they do these things in El Paso?
- Hardin: Yeah, that's how they do things where I grew up.
- Spencer: Thought you're some kind of chemical engineer.
- Hardin: I am, and I'm out of the habit of spending time with a bunch of gun-totin' rednecks.
- Spencer: Well, you know how it is, down here in Louisiana, we don't carry guns, we carry ropes, RC colas and moon pies, we're not too smart, but we have a real good time.
- Staff Sgt. Crawford Poole: [when they first meet] So, Hardin, how do you like being in the Louisiana Guard?
- Hardin: [flat] I don't. But then I didn't much like being in the Texas Guard, either.
- Staff Sgt. Crawford Poole: ...Well, not liking the Texas Guard makes sense. Not liking the LOUISIANA Guard can get you in trouble with me. You got that?