Lewis Gates
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What's an Indian boy who don't speak a word of English doing out in the middle of nowhere, sixty miles from the nearest town?
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Could you promise me something? No matter how bad it gets, no matter what happens... don't let them eat my dog.
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Lillian Sloan:
[after Tracker Lewis Gates hands her an arrow] So, where'd you find this?
Lewis Gates: In the Oxbow.
Lillian Sloan: The Oxbow. Wasn't that just in the news? Something about convicts?
Lewis Gates: Yeah, I'm the guy they hired to find them.
Lillian Sloan: Bounty hunter?
Lewis Gates: Please, civil servant. It sounds a little less...
Lillian Sloan: Barbaric?
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Lillian Sloan: You know what this is?
Lewis Gates: Well, call it a wild guess. An arrow?
Lillian Sloan: A Cheyenne arrow, Dog Soldier to be exact.
Lewis Gates: Dog Soldier?
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. The cavalry called them dog-soldiers — and they were suicide soldiers — they often acted as rear-guard, a sort of sacrificial decoy so the rest of the tribe could escape.
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Lillian Sloan: You're really in your element out here aren't you?
Lewis Gates: I like the solitude. Lately, seems the only time I'm at ease is when I've got a hundred miles between me and the rest of humanity.
Lillian Sloan: Sounds like you were born about a century too late.
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Lillian Sloan: There's been plenty of men, some worked out and some didn't, it just always had to be on my terms.
Lewis Gates: Lady, if I was born a century too late, you were definitely born a century too early.
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Lewis Gates: Why Indians?
Lillian Sloan: Oh, because I admire them. And because we owe them a tremendous debt.
Lewis Gates: How's that?
Lillian Sloan: Well, they gave us romance, myths, legends. They gave us a history. The Indians shaped the character of our entire nation.
Lewis Gates: We picked a hell of a way to say thank you, didn't we?
Lillian Sloan: What happened was inevitable. The way it happened was unconscionable.
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Lewis Gates: What are you telling him?
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.
Lewis Gates: You've got to be kidding.
Lillian Sloan: The Cheyenne admire bravery. Let's just hope they don't put you to the test.
Lewis Gates: If they do, I'm coming after you first.
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Lillian Sloan: He's leader of the dog soldiers: next in line to be chief.
Lewis Gates: I guess it takes a real man to shoot a dog.
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.
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Lewis Gates: You're not gonna walk around naked in the morning, are you?
Professor Lillian Stone: I'll try to restrain myself.
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