It weren't hate, boy. I mean, least-wise I don't think it was... pride maybe. Sometimes a body's got nothing' left 'cept pride. And, they fight unfair to keep it. And, I'd like to think it was pride and not hatin' people.
To Mark McCain (Johnny Crawford) who confronted Ma Boyle (Dee J. Thompson), matriarch of an unsocialized mountain family, about her hatred-driven actions, as she tried to order her reluctant youngest son to shoot Mark's Dad, Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors).
The Rifleman
Woman from Hog Ridge, 1960
Written by Calvin Clements, Sr.
Four Star Productions