Ulysses Everett McGill: I'm not sure that's Pete.Delmar O'Donnell: Of course it's Pete! Look at him!... We gotta find some kind of wizard to change him back.
I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that money on the barrelhead and buy back the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete's cousin turned us in for the bounty.Pete: The hell you say! Wash is kin!Washington Hogwallop: Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to do for me and mine.Pete: I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!
Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us.Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I'm surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar.Delmar O'Donnell: But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.Ulysses Everett McGill: That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed.Ulysses Everett McGill: Baptism! You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!