It never occurs to Jack that a jailbreak perhaps isn't in Paul's best interests – that it's a delusion that they could just lay low until things blow over and life returns to normal. And, appropriately, it's straight out of a B-western: hiding a couple of hacksaws in his boot, deliberately getting himself arrested on a drunk & disorderly charge, and busting Paul out from the inside. He hasn't seen Paul (Michael Kane) or his family in years, but upon hearing that his friend has been jailed for aiding Mexicans who've illegally crossed the border, Jack quickly hatches a scheme to set him free. The world around Jack may have transformed into something unrecognizable, but he himself is immutable.
He travels on horseback rather than by automobile. He carries with him not a driver's license or credit card, but a bandolier and a dried bull's ear. A justice that was instinctively understood rather than codified in tens of thousands of pages of laws. Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) remembers all too well what the West once represented. And either you go by the rules or you lose. Out there is a real world, and it's got real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. "Jack, I'm going to tell you something: the world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist.
So when people sneaked across it, he just felt they were still people, so he helped them." He just naturally didn't see the use of it, so he acted as if it wasn't there. That one between here and Mexico is the fence that got Paul into trouble. "Then they got those fences that say this side's jail or that side's the street. You ever notice how many fences there are getting to be? The signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespass, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead. "I never heard such nonsense in my life." And the more fences there are, the more he hates them."
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