Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Night Visitor (1960)

Tom Nolan: Joey Gardner

Quotes 

• Joey Gardner : Gee, I'd like my father to be somebody like Rowdy.

• Gil Favor : You're trying to tell me you're all alone out there on the plains alone?

  Joey Gardner : Yes, I am. At least I am now. I was travelling with some horse traders for the last few days but I left them last night after I seen your herd yesterday.

  Gil Favor : Horse traders? What horse traders?

  Joey Gardner : From Colorado, going to Missouri. The boss is a fella called Nick Mesa.

  Gil Favor : Well, that explains a bit of it.

  Jeff Barkley : Yeah.

  Rowdy Yates : Who's Nick Mesa?

  Gil Favor : Probably the biggest horse thief on the plains. Doesn't even bother with single horses, steals whole herds.

• Joey Gardner : Ma said once he's got a scar on his neck right under his left ear slanting down forwards. And I heard Mr Gardner

  [his stepfather] 

  Joey Gardner : say he was in prison once. And I know his initials, GF.

  Gil Favor : Well, don't look at me. I ain't his Pa! I ain't got no scar! And, ah, there's two men on the crew with the initials GF. Gus French and George Fuller.

  Wishbone : Ain't neither of them got a scar on their neck.

  Gil Favor : Probably changed the name anyway. Being in prison using his travelling name maybe.

• Joey Gardner : Rowdy?

  Rowdy Yates : Yeah?

  Joey Gardner : You got a scar under your left ear?

  Rowdy Yates : Well, you see one, Joey?

  Joey Gardner : What are your initials? Your real initials?

  Rowdy Yates : Hey, Joey. Ah, you know, of everyone on this drive, I'm the last one that could be your father. Twelve years ago, y'know, I was hardly bigger than you are now.

• Jeff Barkley : What was your Ma's name?

  Joey Gardner : Hazel. For her eyes they used to say.

  Jeff Barkley : Hazel. How old are you, son?

  Joey Gardner : Twelve. Well, not quite. But I will be in September.

  Jeff Barkley : Twelve years ago.

  Joey Gardner : Something happen to you then too, mister?

  Jeff Barkley : Yeah, something happened to me.