"This is the one thing I can do to keep people safe. The one thing Mathias deigns fit to cede to my control. I intend to take it. I am tired of cleaning up afterwards. Of shoveling and burying and trying to make the nightmares go away. What use is there to kill him after the deed is done? Maybe you're a lawman - maybe he's gotta do the crime before you can do jackshit about it. I ain't. And my world don't work that way." He would love to hear Raylan try to convince him that a man like that deserves a second chance. Just because he said 'sorry' a half a dozen times to cowboys who don't even need to hear the apology and has no doubt justified the brutality to himself, sleeps like a baby for all his sorries.

"I teach you a lesson, you teach me a lesson - when does it end? We wouldn't'a done what he'd done if we were in his shoes and you know it." Wyatt made this mistake, incurring a wrath that is still going strong long after his death. Doc doesn't intend to repeat it.

"If you honestly think I pose the same danger to the boys, I would gladly leave the house too. Wouldn't even make a scene of it or tell you how sorry I am for shooting some assholes."