ARCHER: You didn't get to finish your lesson. I'd like to hear the rest of it.
North Star Line-by-Line
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Bethany: They used it 300 years ago to go to Earth and bring our ancestors back here. They were building colonies, they needed workers.
ARCHER: You mean slaves.
Bethany: It was a terrible crime.
Bethany: That's where the stories differ somewhat. To the humans he's a folk hero, our liberator. I'm sure that's what you were taught. But the Skagarans, they call him rakh'tar. It means butcher. He and his men burned the Skagaran ship, destroyed their weapons. They murdered most of them. Entire families. Have you heard that version? Smith wrote the first laws that kept the Skagarans from going to school, owning property, even marrying.
ARCHER: So they could never enslave the humans again.
Bethany: That's how they justified it. Men like Bennings are happy to carry on the tradition.
[Later in the Barber shop]
(The Sheriff is having his stubble carefully removed by cut-throat razor.)
MacCready: Care for a shave, Mister Archer?
(The Sheriff is having his stubble carefully removed by cut-throat razor.)
MacCready: Care for a shave, Mister Archer?
ARCHER: No, thanks.
Archer: I feel civilized enough.
(^ love that line!)
MacCREADY: Suit yourself. Thanks, Henry.
MacCREADY: Suit yourself. Thanks, Henry.
Barber: Any time, Sheriff.
(The barber leaves them.)
(The barber leaves them.)
MACCREADY: Have a seat. Skagaran whisky. It's illegal, but I've let Henry keep a bottle around for pulling teeth.
(He pours two shots.)
MACCREADY: Packs a hell of a wallop. (he drinks) I thought you were heading south to raise bluehorns.
(He pours two shots.)
MACCREADY: Packs a hell of a wallop. (he drinks) I thought you were heading south to raise bluehorns.
Archer: That's the plan.
MacCREADY: Then maybe you can tell me why you were out in Skagtown in the middle of the night.
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