- Sheriff McDowell: The logging barons always cry "jobs" and "free enterprise," but the truth is, you barely pay enough to put food on the table!
- Pemberton: Oh, we pay more than any job these men can get, and that's why there's a line fifty-deep every time there's an opening.
- Sheriff McDowell: Openings? Yes, you always have openings, don't you, Mr. Pemberton? Because your camps have killed more men than the war between the States.
- [first lines]
- Pemberton: Hell, that dog's bigger than that. I thought you said there were panthers here.
- Galloway: I ain't seen a panther in these mountains for nine years.
- Pemberton: What about the carcass we found up in Noland? Something mauled that.
- Galloway: That weren't no panther. Chest weren't torn open. They eat the heart first.
- Pemberton: You find me an honest-to-God panther to hunt, and I'll give you a $20 gold piece.
- Galloway: If there's a panther still around here it's likely touched by the devil. They end up hunting you.
- Pemberton: Well, I want one.
- Sheriff McDowell: Got anything to add?
- Galloway: It was an accident.
- Sheriff McDowell: How do you know that?
- Galloway: He ain't a good enough shot to do it on purpose.
- [last lines]
- Sheriff McDowell: SPOILER WARNING
- [knocking]
- Sheriff McDowell: Mrs. Pemberton? Mrs. Pemberton, you need to come out and identify your next of kin.
- Sheriff McDowell: All right. Let's take him away then. Come on, boys. Get back to the car.
- [car doors slamming]