Rooster Cogburn
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:03:18
Rooster J. Cogburn, step forward.
:03:23
Are you Rooster J. Cogburn,
Deputy Marshal for Western Arkansas?

:03:30
You know I am.
:03:33
A deputy who shoots
and kills 64 suspects in 8 years,

:03:38
is breaking the law,
not upholding it.

:03:40
Let's get this straight, Judge.
Only 60 of them died.

:03:44
All were shot in the line of duty or
in self defense or attempting to flee.

:03:49
You have served
this court for almost two lustrums.

:03:53
You're a strong man
and a brave man, Rooster.

:03:56
And you have, at times,
executed your duties faithfully.

:04:00
But all too often you have
acted with excessive zeal and...

:04:04
What's a lustrum, Judge?
- 5 years. Don't interrupt me.

:04:07
Pay attention to me.
This is not just a formal reprimand.

:04:11
Investors go where the law protects
them, not shoots them.

:04:15
Is that the kind of law
my deputy got yesterday?

:04:18
I was proud to tell his wife
I shot his killers.

:04:21
It seems you can't serve
this court without breaking heads

:04:26
and spraying bullets. The West
has changed but you haven't.

:04:32
I want your badge. - They don't know
these new-fangled laws out there.

:04:38
They're still shooting
in the same direction, at me.

:04:42
Your badge, Cogburn.
:04:52
You let yourself go. Look at your
belly! You can't even close your coat.

:04:57
You drink too much.
- I ain't had a drink since breakfast.


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