Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Tom Tuckett Story (1960)
Ward Bond: Major Seth Adams
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Quotes
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Tom Tuckett : I don't suppose you're going to tell me who made these arrangements.
Major Seth Adams : Well, they were made by an attorney in St Louis.
Tom Tuckett : Yes, they're always made by an attorney. Somewhere.
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Tom Tuckett : That was fifteen years ago. It's a long time to get the same frustrating answer.
Major Seth Adams : Yes, I suppose it is. But you don't seem to have suffered any by it.
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Major Seth Adams : Hear those drums?
Flint McCullough : Yeah, they're Ottawa.
Major Seth Adams : Ottawa? In this part of the country?
Flint McCullough : Yeah, they range from here to Canada. They're sending word about us.
Major Seth Adams : What kind of word?
Flint McCullough : That we'll be in the territory for the next 20 moons.
Major Seth Adams : What the Sam Hill does that mean?
Flint McCullough : It means someone wants to keep track of us.
Major Seth Adams : Do you think there's anything bothering them?
Flint McCullough : I don't know. I haven't seen any sign of a war party. But it wouldn't hurt if I ride ahead and see what's going on.
Major Seth Adams : Why don't you do that.
Flint McCullough : I will.
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Major Seth Adams : Nat, you're a fool to come here.
Nat Burkett : I tried not to come. I did my level beat to stay away but once I knew the boy was on the train, I just had to come.
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Major Seth Adams : Drums again, huh?
Flint McCullough : Yeah. But they're Commanche drums. They say someone has arrived at the camp. Who arrived?
Major Seth Adams : Who do they say arrived? They definitely know more about it than I do.
Flint McCullough : They're just saying he arrived safely over and over again.
Major Seth Adams : He?
Flint McCullough : That's what it says.
Major Seth Adams : Well, at least it's not a war party.
Flint McCullough : No, it isn't.
Major Seth Adams : Well, maybe we'd better check the camp anyway. You take that side , I'll take this.
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Nat Burkett : I can never go to San Fransisco, you know that. I may never get another chance to see the boy.
Major Seth Adams : Is it worth risking your neck? Your life?
Nat Burkett : Yes, it is.
Major Seth Adams : What're you gonna tell the boy?
Nat Burkett : The truth.
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Major Seth Adams : It seems to me you're disappointed. I hope you didn't let Nat see what I see.
Tom Tuckett : Well, how could I help it? How would you like to have a convict look at you and say that he made you, that he owned you.
Major Seth Adams : Convict? That's a strange word to apply to Nat Burkett.
Tom Tuckett : Does it? Last time I saw him, he had a ball and chain around his...
Major Seth Adams : And you were ten years old and you brought him a file. And for that he'll bless you for the rest of his life. And to repay you, he gave you a life far beyond anything you had a right to expect. And because of that you're disappointed, you dislike him, you hate him.
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Major Seth Adams : Tuck, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Like I said, a man only begins to live when he discovers the truth about himself.
Tom Tuckett : My values have been false, even my dreams false. What else is left?
Major Seth Adams : What's left is up to you. In fact it's the only thong that's been completely left to you. You asked for the truth, you got it. Now, let's see what you can do with it.
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Major Seth Adams : It seems to me there were some extenuating circumstances. Wasn't there a side that was never heard?
Col. Barkley : What side?
Major Seth Adams : The Indian side.
Col. Barkley : The Indian side?
Major Seth Adams : Yes. Humanities side.