Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin Quotes in Ulzana's Raid (1972)

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Well, what's the point, Mr. MacIntosh, if we can't close the gap.

McIntosh: Remember the rules, Lieutenant. The first one to make a mistake gets to buryin' some people.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Do you hate Apaches, Mr. McIntosh?

McIntosh: No.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Well, I do.

McIntosh: Well, it might not make you happy, Lieutenant, but it sure won't make you lonesome. Most white folks hereabout feel the same way you do.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Why don't you feel that way?

McIntosh: It would be like hating the desert because there ain't no water in it. For now, I can get by being plenty scared of 'em.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Well, killing I expect, Mr. McIntosh, but mutilation and torture? I cannot accept that as readily as you seem to be able to.

McIntosh: What bothers you, Lieutenant, is you don't like to think of white men behaving like Indians. It kind of confuses the issue, don't it?

[points at Ke-Ni-Tay]

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Can this man be trusted to pick up the trail if we leave him behind?

McIntosh: I trust him.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Then they are on foot!

McIntosh: A mighty fair description of men without horses, Lieutenant.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Would you kill a man like that?

Ke-Ni-Tay: Yes.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Why?

Ke-Ni-Tay: To take the power. Each man that die, the man who kill him take his power. Man give up his power when he die. Like fire with heat. Fire that burn long time. Many can have heat.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: You mean you'd torture a man for hours? And you can get power from watching some poor creature suffering? What kind of power is that?

Ke-Ni-Tay: Here in this land man must have power.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Why didn't they kill the boy?

Ke-Ni-Tay: Man cannot take power from boy... only man.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Which way do you think they're headed?

McIntosh: [Nodding in the direction] Indian land.

Ke-Ni-Tay: Apache will take us where it's hard to follow.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Where will he fight us?

McIntosh: He don't mean to fight yuh no place, Lieutenant. He only wants to kill yuh.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: You know Ulzana?

Ke-Ni-Tay: His wife my wife's sister.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Sisters?

Ke-Ni-Tay: His wife ugly. My wife, not so ugly.

McIntosh: [Describing and picking up aa horse turd] Lieutenant, a horse apple dries out at a certain rate. This one's pretty solid. Ke-Ni-Tay figures four, maybe five hours.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: What do *you* think?

McIntosh: I ain't about to argue with no Apache about horseshit, Lieutenant. He's the expert.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: How many are watching?

Ke-Ni-Tay: One man see as many as ten.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Can we find him and kill him?

Ke-Ni-Tay: You cannot.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: But Ke-Ni-Tay can?

[Ke-Ni-Tay nods]

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: But will he?

Ke-Ni-Tay: Ke-Ni-Tay sign paper. Ke-Ni-Tay soldier.

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: All right. Find him and kill him!

Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: [Referring to the dead Mrs. Rukeyser] At least they don't seem to have violated the woman.

McIntosh: That's because she was dead before they got to her.