After making a veiled threat toward Deke o have the bounty hunters kill him if he forsakes the chase, the manipulative railroad boss Harrigan forces Thornton to make do with what he has been given and become his ""Judas goat"":Thornton: Tell me, Mr.In his office, Lt.Donald Thompson (John Saxon) questioned his own daughter Nancy, who was living with his perpetually-drunk ex-wife Marge Thompson (Ronee Blakley).Soldier: (shocked) Dead.He""s dead.Katczinsky: Why did you risk your life bringing him in?Soldier: But it""s Behm, my friend.Katczinsky: (admonishing) It""s a corpse, no matter whose it is.Now, don""t any of ya ever do that again.The next day, Katczinsky tells the exhausted Paul about the war and the interminable march they are about to take to another "party": "And this one is gonna last a long ime." As the newest Benedict patriarch, Bick was proud of his generations-old herds of longhorn livestock and his traditional Texan way of life:Bick: Boy, there""s never been anything like them in this world, I can tell ya.C.A young patriot, recites Lincoln and Jefferson, turned loose in our nation""s capital.Yeah.I think it""s all right.A "star-spangled banquet" is held to honor he new appointment and provide a proper send-off - the honor is given not to "some wealthy influential citizen merely to curry favor" or to an "unworthy political hireling.