Lomax Quotes in Mercury Rising (1998)
Lomax Quotes:
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Lomax: [to Jeffries] Sometimes you got something... just magic, and then it goes away. You had it, but the magic's gone.
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Lomax: Why'd he jump out the window... it's 12 floors down.
Steele: Nah... it's only 9.
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Lomax: Well, I guess you don't know about his new toy - a little iron-plated thing he calls "The War Wagon."
Taw Jackson: It takes an average shipment of fifty thousand in gold from Emmett to the railhead in El Paso 43 1/2 miles away.
Lomax: Then there are a few guards...
Taw Jackson: Thirty-three of 'em. Twenty-eight outriders and five in the coach. Each man is armed with a Henry repeating rifle, two Colts and two hundred rounds of ammunition.
Lomax: What's all this got to do with me?
Taw Jackson: We're going to take that wagon.
Lomax: We are? Have you taken a look lately at the cemetery in Emmett? There's a bunch of cheap wooden crosses in one corner all kind of crowded in together. That's the tribute to the last fools who tried to stop The War Wagon. Like facts? A dollar fifteen for the casket, twelve cents for the crosses - Pierce foots the bill. A dollar twenty seven seems a poor price for a man's life - especially mine.
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Lomax: Do you always wear a gun over your underwear?
Taw Jackson: Just lately.
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[after shooting down two bad guys]
Lomax: Mine hit the ground first.
Taw Jackson: Mine was taller.
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Lomax: I can't afford to let you get killed, unless I do it!
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Lomax: You caused me a lot of embarrassment! You're the only man I shot, that I didn't kill.
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Lomax: [Jackson and Lomax see a man getting shot at by a gang] Let me guess which one's your friend.
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Lomax: What made you think I wouldn't kill you?
Taw Jackson: Curiosity.
Lomax: Well, you're still alive. Now what's to keep you that way?
Taw Jackson: Money.
Lomax: How much?
Taw Jackson: Your share will be over a hundred thousand.
Lomax: That's what I've always said the world needs... more simple understanding to bring people together!
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Taw Jackson: Did you know why Pierce wanted you to kill me?
Lomax: Sure, so he could legally steal your land once he found there was gold on it. You were a hard-working rancher defending your property, yet it's you who gets shot, framed and sent to jail. I always thought that was kind of amusing.
Taw Jackson: Well, it's nice to find a fellow with a keen sense of humor.
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Taw Jackson: In four days, Pierce is going to make the biggest gold shipment ever made out of the territory - a half a million dollars.
Lomax: How are we goin' to take it? With the Prussian army?
Taw Jackson: With three other fellas. Five of us.
Lomax: Five. I'm kind of glad I didn't kill you tonight - you're funny as hell!
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[Lomax agrees to join Taw Jackson's gang]
Lomax: One condition.
Taw Jackson: What's that?
Lomax: My time from now till the robbery costs you one hundred dollars a day... if I fire my gun - five hundred.
Lomax: Haven't got that kind of money.
Lomax: I'll take a marker against your share of the gold.
Taw Jackson: It's a deal.
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Lomax: You got a bargain, Big Man.
Taw Jackson: How's that?
Lomax: Two five-hundred dollar days for the price of one.
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Lomax: Don't let anything happen to ya.
Taw Jackson: Not likely.
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[flirting during a poker game]
Lomax: What's your pleasure?
Lola: Stud.
-- Lomax -
Lomax: You know, Pierce upped the ante on you. You're worth twelve thousand to me... dead.
Taw Jackson: And a hundred thousand alive.
Lomax: One's a gamble, the other's a sure thing.
Taw Jackson: Lomax, nothing's a sure thing.
Lola: [from the bedroom] Precious?
Lomax: Well, I didn't feel much like shooting you this morning anyway... partner.
Taw Jackson: Neither did I... precious.
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Taw Jackson: The plans have changed. The Kid wants to use nitro.
Lomax: Nitroglycerine?
Taw Jackson: Which is in a safe that you'll have to open.
Lomax: Forget it! I'm not gonna be anywhere near that drunk kid and nitro.
Taw Jackson: Lomax, that cuts it! Nobody takes a half a million sittin' on their backside. You'll either quit acting like a prima donna or we'll call the whole thing off.
Lomax: All right, but it'll cost you two thousand dollars more of your share.
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[during the fight with Wild Horse's braves, the wagon with the stolen gold hidden in the flour barrels flips over spilling it's contents among the grateful Indian women]
Lomax: They're picking it clean! Why didn't you stop 'em?
Taw Jackson: Well, just how do I go about that?
Levi Walking Bear: I'm afraid Taw's right, Lomax. They'll fight you.
Lomax: Shut up, you Indian!
Levi Walking Bear: I know my people. To them it's flour.
Lomax: Flour? What about the gold?
Levi Walking Bear: As far as they know, it's just food.
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Lomax: Oh great, just great. I'm out a hundred thousand of my share, two thousand from Levi...
[to Levi who is riding off towards the Indians sifting through the barrels of flour where Taw's gang has hidden the gold dust]
Lomax: Where are you going?
Levi Walking Bear: Back to my people.
Lomax: Now what am I supposed to do, live with the Indians for the next year and open up a bakery? And with Pierce dead, it doesn't even pay to kill you any more!
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[last lines]
Lomax: How much is there and what did you do with it?
Taw Jackson: A hundred thousand. I hid it.
Lomax: Where?
Taw Jackson: I'll let you know in about six months.
Lomax: Six months? I want it now!
Taw Jackson: Now it wouldn't be smart to start flashing gold dust around right after a robbery would it?
Lomax: What am I supposed to do in the mean time, huh?
Taw Jackson: Well, for one thing, you better make damned sure I stay alive.
Lomax: That's a twenty-four hour a day job!
Taw Jackson: That's your problem... partner.
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[repeated line]
Lomax: Well...
Taw Jackson: ...yeah...
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Levi Walking Bear: [at the bar] Whiskey! I said, Whiskey!
Bartender: We don't serve Indians here.
Levi Walking Bear: Then I serve myself.
[pours drink for himself and Lomax]
Levi Walking Bear: Join me.
Lomax: Thanks.
Taw Jackson: [Levi pours drink for Jackson] No thanks.
Levi Walking Bear: You too good to drink with Indian?
Taw Jackson: That's right.
[Levi puts bottle down, hits Jackson, starts bar fight]
-- Lomax
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