Tracker Lewis Gates Quotes in Last of the Dogmen (1995)

Professor Lillian Stone: [Getting to bed, in the middle of the woods] Good night, Gates.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Good night, Doc.

[Small pause]

Tracker Lewis Gates: You're not gonna walk around naked in the morning, are you?

Professor Lillian Stone: I'll try to restrain myself.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Why Indians?

Professor Lillian Sloan: Oh, because I admire them. And because we owe them a tremendous debt.

Tracker Lewis Gates: How's that?

Professor Lillian Sloan: Well, they gave us romance, myths, legends. They gave us a history. The Indians shaped the character of our entire nation.

Tracker Lewis Gates: We picked a hell of a way to say thank you, didn't we?

Tracker Lewis Gates: What are you telling him?

Professor Lillian Sloan: I told him we come in a good way, in peace. I also told him you were a great warrior who wasn't afraid to fight them all single-handedly.

Tracker Lewis Gates: You've got to be kidding.

Professor Lillian Sloan: The Cheyenne admire bravery. Let's just hope they don't put you to the test.

Tracker Lewis Gates: If they do, I'm coming after you first.

Tracker Lewis Gates: [a deputy has just arrived to Lewis' house and all the deputy has done so far is call out Lewis' name] I didn't do it. Whoever said I did is a liar.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Dynamite? It's like wine, it only gets better with age.

Tracker Lewis Gates: I've seen this place reduce grown men to tears. It ain't no place for a woman.

Tracker Lewis Gates: I told you to watch your step! You're not in a classroom! Out here one little mistake will get you killed.

Tracker Lewis Gates: You wanna go back?

Professor Lillian Sloan: Yes. I'm an anthropologist, not Daniel Boone.

Professor Lillian Sloan: [after Tracker Lewis Gates hands her an arrow] So, where'd you find this?

Tracker Lewis Gates: In the Oxbow.

Professor Lillian Sloan: The Oxbow. Wasn't that just in the news? Something about convicts?

Tracker Lewis Gates: Yeah, I'm the guy they hired to find them.

Professor Lillian Sloan: Bounty hunter?

Tracker Lewis Gates: Please, civil servant. It sounds a little less...

Professor Lillian Sloan: Barbaric?

Professor Lillian Sloan: You know what this is?

Tracker Lewis Gates: Well, call it a wild guess. An arrow?

Professor Lillian Sloan: A Cheyenne arrow, Dog Soldier to be exact.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Dog Soldier?

Professor Lillian Sloan: Within the Cheyenne tribe there used to be a military society made up of the strongest and bravest men. They were fierce fighters - unyielding. They called themselves Chotometnea - dogmen.

Professor Lillian Sloan: He's leader of the dog soldiers: next in line to be chief.

Tracker Lewis Gates: I guess it takes a real man to shoot a dog.

Professor Lillian Sloan: You should be happy they didn't eat him. Oh, didn't I tell you? That's the other reason they're called dog soldiers.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Could you promise me something? No matter how bad it gets, no matter what happens... don't let them eat my dog.

Tracker Lewis Gates: [explaining about his wife's death] We were riding the back country, making a river crossing. Her horse spooked, bucked her. I went in after her. Current was too strong. One second she was there, and... Her dad still blames me to this day.

Professor Lillian Sloan: What else could you have done.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Drowned.

Sheriff Deegan: Drunk or sober, you're still the best tracker in this state.

Tracker Lewis Gates: You always were a charmer.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Why are you being so god damn pigheaded?

Professor Lillian Stone: Because I'm god damn good at it!

Tracker Lewis Gates: Rule number 1, Briggs, never take your eyes off a suspect.