- Terry Pugh: [after tearing up phone book upon failing to find his cousin] Must've moved. Probably couldn't have heard him anyway; this goddamn ear's still bleedin'. You ever try that shit again...
- Butch Haynes: [sternly] What?
- Terry Pugh: [puzzled] ... What?
- Butch Haynes: You were in the middle of threatenin' me.
- Terry Pugh: [holds up a revolver] Ain't a threat - it's a fact.
- Butch Haynes: Here, kid - take the wheel.
- [Phillip holds the wheel to steer as Butch turns to face Pugh in the back seat]
- Butch Haynes: In two seconds, I'm gonna break your nose. That's a threat.
- [Butch punches Pugh in the nose, then picks up the gun as Terry moans]
- Butch Haynes: ...And that's a fact.
- Terry Pugh: I'm gonna kill you for that.
- Butch Haynes: And that's a threat. Begin to understand the difference?
- Butch Haynes: You know, Phillip, you have a goddamn red, white and blue American right to eat cotton candy, ride roller coasters.
- Phillip Perry: I do?
- Butch Haynes: Hell, yes, you do!
- Butch Haynes: Hey - have you ever ridden in a time machine before?
- Phillip Perry: [shakes his head]
- Butch Haynes: Well, sure you have - what do you think *this* is?
- Phillip Perry: A car.
- Butch Haynes: You're lookin' at this thing bass-ackward. This is a 20th-century time machine. I'm the captain...
- Butch Haynes: [taps Phillip on the head] And you're the navigator. Out there?
- Butch Haynes: [points out front windshield] That's the future. And back there?
- Butch Haynes: [taps on the rear view mirror, then points toward the back windshield] Well, that's the past. If life's moving too slow, and you wanna project yourself into the future? Just step on the gas, right here.
- Butch Haynes: [steps on the gas pedal] See?
- Butch Haynes: [laughing lightly] If you wanna slow her down? Well, hell - you just step on the brake here, and you slow her down.
- Butch Haynes: [car comes to a stop] This is the present, Phillip. Enjoy it while it lasts.
- Terry Pugh: [after Butch has Phillip point a pistol at his face] You're a fuckin' crazy man.
- Butch Haynes: And that's a fact. I believe you're getting the hang of this.
- Butch Haynes: [after intimidating a woman into giving them supplies by flashing his gun] Never underestimate the kindness of the common man, Phillip.
- Phillip Perry: [after Pugh snatches the car keys] Why'd he take the keys?
- Butch Haynes: So I won't leave him.
- Phillip Perry: ...*Would* you leave him?
- Butch Haynes: ...Oh, yeah.
- [last lines]
- Sally Gerber: You know you did everything you could. Don't you?
- Chief Red Garnett: ...I don't know nothin'... Not one damn thing.
- Butch Haynes: Guys like us, Phillip - we gotta be on our own. To seek foolish destiny... that sort of thing.
- Butch Haynes: You and your old man get along alright?
- Phillip Perry: Yes, sir.
- Butch Haynes: Toss the ball around, play grab-ass in the yard - that sort of thing?
- Phillip Perry: No, sir.
- Butch Haynes: Why the hell not?
- Phillip Perry: He ain't around, really.
- Butch Haynes: Well, he is, or he ain't... When's the last time you saw him?
- Phillip Perry: [shrugs]
- Butch Haynes: ...Me and you got a lot in common, Phillip. The both of us is handsome devils...
- Phillip Perry: [smiles]
- Butch Haynes: We both like RC cola, and neither one of us got an old man worth a damn.
- Phillip Perry: [frowns]
- Butch Haynes: [meeting his Texas Ranger pursuer face-to-face] Do I know you, friend?
- Chief Red Garnett: ...No. Not really.
- Butch Haynes: You don't want to get undressed in front of me? Is that it?... You're embarrassed 'cause I might see your pecker?
- Phillip Perry: ...It's... puny.
- Butch Haynes: What?
- Phillip Perry: It's puny.
- Butch Haynes: Who told you that?
- Phillip Perry: [sits sullenly]
- Butch Haynes: Lemme see.
- Phillip Perry: [shifts uncomfortably]
- Butch Haynes: Go on - I'll shoot you straight.
- Phillip Perry: [pulls down shorts]
- Butch Haynes: Hell no, Phillip. Good size, for a boy your age.
- Phillip Perry: [smiles broadly]
- Butch Haynes: You're a hero! Probably be in all the papers tomorrow - how you saved those folks. Truth is, I don't think I'd have killed 'em, though. Only killed two people in my whole life. One hurt my mama... one hurt you.
- Butch Haynes: Ain't you ever seen your mama kiss a man?
- Phillip Perry: No... Kissed her backside, huh?
- Butch Haynes: ...Well, it's kinda hard to explain. I... I know how it must've looked... Hell, I - hell, *I* don't know how it looks.
- Phillip Perry: You love her?
- Butch Haynes: Who?
- Phillip Perry: The lady who cooked the hamburgers.
- Butch Haynes: ...Yeah, Phillip - yeah, I love her... I kissed her butt, didn't I?
- Phillip Perry: [bursts out laughing]
- Chief Red Garnett: [interrupting a confrontation] How do you like your steak, Sally?
- Sally Gerber: Rare.
- Chief Red Garnett: Good. Well, I'll, uh, wipe its ass, herd it through, and you can tear off a slab. How's that?
- Sally Gerber: On second thought, medium rare.
- Tom Adler: [looking at Texas roadblock map] There - that oughta put his pecker in a sling, huh, Red?... Sorry.
- Sally Gerber: Dick humor. Unique. Shouldn't these be roadblocked as well?
- Tom Adler: Well, in a perfect world, Miss Gerber, we'd all lock arms and thrash the bushes until he turned up.
- Sally Gerber: Well, in a perfect world, things like this wouldn't happen in the first place, right?
- Butch Haynes: Can you write?
- Phillip Perry: I can print.
- Butch Haynes: Good enough. I want you to make up a list, of everything you ever wanted to do, wasn't allowed to.
- Phillip Perry: Like what?
- Butch Haynes: Like... cotton candy.
- Phillip Perry: [writing] Cotton candy...
- Butch Haynes: Hell, I don't know, Phillip. It's your list.
- Phillip Perry: ...Butch?
- Butch Haynes: Yeah?
- Phillip Perry: How do you spell rocketship?
- Tom Adler: They got T-bones in the fridge!
- Naomi Perry: Now, I don't think we should eat that - those were ordered special for the governor.
- Tom Adler: And Tater Tots!
- Naomi Perry: He might not approve of this!
- Chief Red Garnett: That so? Hmmm... I *do* like Tater Tots.
- Butch Haynes: If you and your pals back outta here, uh... I'll drop the boy at the border! If you don't, I'll shoot him in the head. I mean it!
- Phillip Perry: [stares at Butch]
- Butch Haynes: ...Don't look at me like that. I ain't have a gun... What'd you do with the pistola, anyway?
- Phillip Perry: ...Dropped it in the well.
- Butch Haynes: ...Good thinkin'.
- Lt. Tom Hendricks: Cordoned off the area.
- Chief Red Garnett: Tight?
- Lt. Tom Hendricks: Watertight. Like a frog's pussy. Sorry, ma'am.
- Sally Gerber: No doubt an observation based on personal experience.
- Lucy: Oh, look - a friendly ghost! Say boo!
- Phillip Perry: Boo.
- Lucy: Oh, well - not very scary. But you'll have a whole year to work on it, if your daddy lets you have it. It's a good price, too. What'd you go as this year?
- Phillip Perry: [pulls back mask] A bandit.
- Chief Red Garnett: I, uh... hope you don't drink before noon.
- Sally Gerber: Oh - no, I don't.
- Chief Red Garnett: The last one we had here, seemed like she was on a liquid diet.
- Phillip Perry: Are you gonna shoot me?
- Butch Haynes: No - no, no. Me and you are friends... If I was choosin' a runnin' buddy, I'd take you over him any day of the week.
- Phillip Perry: Can we stop at the filling station?
- Butch Haynes: What for?
- Phillip Perry: Number one.
- Butch Haynes: ...This here's nature, Phillip. Why don't you just... pee over by the tree?
- Butch Haynes: Alaska, Phillip - wild and woolly. Man against nature. Me personally, I like them odds.
- Butch Haynes: If you wanted to go home so bad, why didn't you stay at the store today?
- Phillip Perry: 'Cause.
- Butch Haynes: 'Cause why?
- Phillip Perry: 'Cause - I stole. Put me in jail - probably go to hell.
- Butch Haynes: [laughs] Same difference, Phillip. Same difference.
- Chief Red Garnett: She promises!
- Butch Haynes: Make her say it!
- Gladys Perry: ...Uh - I promise!
- Butch Haynes: Can we trust her?
- Phillip Perry: She's a real good mama.
- Sally Gerber: The idea is that an understanding of the particular behavioral case history should, in parole situations, help the subject to avoid habitual traps - and, in penal escape situations, could conversely identify those self-same traps as an aid to apprehension.
- Chief Red Garnett: ...Let me tell you somethin', Miss Gerber.
- Sally Gerber: Sally is fine.
- Chief Red Garnett: Let me tell you somethin', Sally: This is not a 'penal escape situation', this happens to be a manhunt. And no talkin' around in circles is gonna fix all that.
- Sally Gerber: And what will?
- Chief Red Garnett: Well, it's having a nose like a Bluetick, possum medulla, with an antenna and a lot of coffee.
- Robert 'Butch' Haynes: [Phillip, aka 'Buzz', unintentionally shoots Butch at the Mack's family house and Bobby Lee, Fed's marksman, also shots Butch shortly thereafter] Damn, Buzz, shot twice in the same day.
- Butch Haynes: [after Phillip nervously picks up the revolver] Point it at me.
- Phillip Perry: [looks at Butch, confused]
- Butch Haynes: Point it!
- Phillip Perry: [points it at Butch, uncertain]
- Butch Haynes: Now say, "Stick 'em up!"
- Phillip Perry: ...St- stick 'em up.
- Butch Haynes: [laughs] ... Perfect.
- Sally Gerber: What do you think I am? Some dumb schoolgirl who's wandered into the boys' locker room? Well, you're wrong. I don't mean to boast, but I happen to be one of the two most intelligent people involved in this fiasco.
- Tom Adler: One puzzler, though - they say the kid could have gotten away, but he didn't.
- Sally Gerber: Probably scared to death.
- Tom Adler: Well, one more thing: The kid stole a Halloween outfit.
- Chief Red Garnett: So they're a team.
- Butch Haynes: You feel like a hike?
- Phillip Perry: How far?
- Butch Haynes: Can't be more than - oh, say... fifteen hundred miles.
- Phillip Perry: [looks up, stunned and worried]
- Butch Haynes: You're probably right. Go give our supplies a check.
- Sally Gerber: [imagining herself as Butch] Years later, I'm back in trouble.
- Tom Adler: Kill somebody else?
- Sally Gerber: Uh-uh. Saw a Ford coupe I couldn't resist, so I took her for a spin.
- Tom Adler: Hell - that ain't no big deal.
- Sally Gerber: That's what I thought - but the judge didn't. He gave me four years in Gatesville. Toughest juvie farm in Texas.
- Tom Adler: Yeah - that's where the sonofabitch *learned* to be a criminal. We've seen that before, haven't we, Red?
- Sally Gerber: [imagining herself as Butch] I killed a man when I was eight.
- Chief Red Garnett: How'd you kill him?
- Sally Gerber: Shot him with a .38 special. There was always one lyin' around the dance hall. That's what they called it, but it was a whorehouse; that's where we lived.
- Tom Adler: What'd the authorities do?
- Sally Gerber: Victim was wanted by the locals, so the whole thing got swept under the carpet, Cajun-style.
- Phillip Perry: [on the family they have deserted along the road] They look funny.
- Butch Haynes: Maybe. But Bob did the right thing. What if he'd put up a fight? I mighta had to shoot him.
- Phillip Perry: [turns to Butch, angry]
- Butch Haynes: And where would that family be then? No, Bob's a fine family man. And that's about the best thing a fella can hope to be.
- Chief Red Garnett: Tell you the truth, I kinda hope they make it across the border; let the feds take this. I got things I could be doin' at home.
- Phillip Perry: [seeing the approaching trailer] What is it?
- Butch Haynes: Well, it's kinda like a silver whale. And there's people inside, just like old Jonah in the Bible.
- Butch Haynes: [honks the horn and pumps his arm in the air] Go like this - maybe they'll honk. Maybe they'll honk back at us.
- Butch Haynes: You Dottie?
- Eileen: Eileen. Dottie died. Her son runs the place but, uh... he ain't never here.
- Butch Haynes: Never?
- Eileen: He leaves around four. You know, not much traffic after lunch.
- Eileen: [takes a pickle spear from Butch's plate, sucking it and biting it suggestively, then licks her finger]
- Eileen: ...If you need me, I'll be right over here.
- Agent Bobby Lee: Think you're pretty smart now, don't you?
- Sally Gerber: Excuse me?
- Agent Bobby Lee: I ain't smart, but goddamn - you are pretty.
- Sally Gerber: Please...
- Agent Bobby Lee: See, I think that, uh, business and pleasure should just, uh, naturally mix. Don't you?
- Sally Gerber: [laughs him off]
- Agent Bobby Lee: Now, take me - I... I love my work.
- Sally Gerber: So did Hitler.
- Agent Bobby Lee: Goddamn - you got a mouth on you.
- Butch Haynes: I want you to strut right over to them cops, and yell, "Trick or treat!"
- Phillip Perry: What are you gonna do?
- Butch Haynes: Somethin' will come to mind.
- [first lines]
- [Butch lies in a grassy meadow, next to a Casper the Friendly Ghost mask; he opens his eyes as money begins to flutter over him, and looks up at the overhead sun, which is then blocked out by a helicopter, and Butch closes his eyes again; CUT TO: an early Halloween evening as costumed children run about the street; inside the Perry home, the three children sit around the kitchen table]
- Naomi Perry: If I was going, I'd go as a, um...
- Ruth Perry: A princess!
- Naomi Perry: A - yes! Judy Baumer's going as a twirler.
- Ruth Perry: But she's so fat. I'd rather go as Cinderella, or Peter Pan.
- Naomi Perry: Peter Pan's a boy; Tinkerbell's a girl. Phillip could go as Peter Pan, except you gotta fly.
- Ruth Perry: Phillip could go as a bump on a log.
- Phillip Perry: Why can't we just go once?
- Ruth Perry: 'Cause we just can't, OK?
- Gladys Perry: Our personal beliefs lift us to a higher plane.
- Sally Gerber: Haynes is a criminal's criminal - armed robbery, man-on-man confrontation. Pugh, on the other hand, has a rap sheet littered with manslaughter, you name it. They'll split soon.
- Tom Adler: What about the hostages? What are they gonna do - flip a coin to see who gets to keep who?
- Sally Gerber: It's happened before. Either way, it's a dilemma they'll address soon - that's why we've got to address it now.
- Chief Red Garnett: Well, "we" don't have a dilemma. Neither do they. They'll simply get rid of one hostage, and keep the other - if they haven't done so already.
- Chief Red Garnett: You get to know me a little better, you'll find havin' a strong backside and a good sense of humor'll get you a lot.
- Sally Gerber: Yeah; well, I have a fine sense of humor - but the one thing I won't do is be your straight man, so you can play hero to a bunch of morons who think you're some kind of hillbilly Sherlock Holmes.
- Chief Red Garnett: [taking a sip of coffee] Oh, shit. Damn... You know, Arthur Godfrey said this stuff'll keep you young, but I'm not sure it's worth it.