This could have been a good episode if the writers had left well enough alone. The idea of a doctor traveling through the area who performs life-changing, emergency surgery on a successful rancher's beloved son while the rancher is away contains plenty of juice for a good plot. Should the ranch hands summon the family doctor in Laramie even though that could result in the son's death? Will the rancher be grateful to the doctor or blame him for crippling his son? Good stuff there. But to throw in the unlikely backstory about the doctor being Samuel Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg, and the rancher having led the unit that arrested him years earlier stretches the imagination to the breaking point. Too bad. A missed opportunity here. On a positive note, Daisy points a loaded shotgun at a man who is attacking Slim, so that is certainly worth a watch.
Review of Time of the Traitor
