This is a rare episode where most of the action takes place outside the West in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Kathleen Crowley would return as Melanie Blake a few epsodes later in The Misfortune Teller.

Pappyism #1: If you're gonna drop names, drop 'em hard.

Pappyism #2: If at first you don't succeed, try something else.

Bret: Well, I'm much obliged to you, Mrs., uh...
Kate Dawson: Kate Dawson, and it's Miss. Never met a man up to changin' it.
Bret: Well, I'm pleased to meet ya. Do I know you?
Kate Dawson: No. And I don't know you from Adam, but I heard about ya.
Bret: Well, it's a very kind thing you're doing.
Kate Dawson: I don't go in for charity, Mr. Maverick. Charlie Peters here'll tell you that.
Charlie Peters: She can read the numbers off a dollar bill at a hundred paces.

Bret: What makes you think I can do the job?
Kate Dawson: Anybody that could take Charlie Peters' saloon away from him the way you did could handle anything.
Bret: You'll notice Charlie Peters got his saloon back. And you're talkin' about a woman. That's even worse.

Bret: Did I say I was going?
Kate Dawson: You got a choice. Either you go to Saratoga Springs or you go to jail, boy.
Bret: Oh.

Desk Clerk: What town in Texas, Colonel?
Bret: You just name a town in Texas and I'm from it. I got business interests most everywhere.

Bret: There's nothin' like a good, fast game of poker, I always say.

Bret: (to Melanie) I have the kind of a face that people find it easy to forget.

Mark: Nothing anybody can ever say or do will get me back to Texas again.
Bret: Oh, really. A man of determination.

Mark: (to Bret) I believe it's only in poker that three is never a crowd.

Mark: Women are fickle, Colonel. Longhorns are not.
Bret: Well now, that's something worth remembering.

Melanie Blake: What kind of woman do you think I am?
John Flannery: Well, I have the answer to that, but I don't think you'd like it.

Melanie Blake: Ooh, you'd better go now. It isn't, uh, nice for a gentleman to be seen in a lady's boudoir.
John Flannery: I've never been in a lady's boudoir.

Mark: I suppose from time to time each of us has been known to walk down temptation's path.
Bret: Well, I've been known to run down it.

Bret: Mr. Dawson, I'm gonna try to win your way back to Texas.

Bret: Why, Miss Melanie, I don't see how any man could concentrate on cards with you around.

Bret: (to Flannery) I won't be back here but you'll be seein' me.

Bart: Lovely country you have here, Colonel.
Bret: Uh, this is the first time I've seen the Professor since he was run outta Abilene for, uh, runnin' a shell game.
Bart: And he hasn't changed. He was almost thrown off the train for dealing marked cards.

(as Melanie flirts with Bart)
Bret: She's poison, Mr. van der Grift.
Bart: I'll do my own sampling, Colonel Maverick.

Bart: Trust me, Brother Bret, when I hire a crook, I hire the best.

John Flannery: Gentlemen, I'm prepared to become an active partner, and give you the benefit of my vast experience in smoothing the way for this development.
Bret: Well, what do you think, Mr. van der Grift?
Bart: Oh, I think we should take Mr. Flannery… in.

Flannery: I have a lot of influence, sir.
Bret: You have a lot of nerve, sir.

Bart: (to Bret) I hear Texas calling.

Kate Dawson: I can offer ya 25,000. Cash.
John Flannery: I'll take it. Anything to get the name of Flannery separated from the fumes. Thank you, Miss Dawson. You're the only gentleman around here.
Bret: Now, how come you'd a throw away 25,000 perfectly good dollars for nothin'?
Mark Dawson: Well, it isn't exactly for nothin'.
Kate Dawson: I took a look at that property. I hired a real geologist. We got the finest deposit of natural gas in this whole part of the country.
Bret: You know, brother Bart, we could take lessons from her.

Bart poses as the nephew of a New York millionaire yet he still wears his Western outfit. Warner Brothers must have been cheapskates in the wardrobe department.