Festus and Newly get the stolen gold away from the train and Jack Sinclair, but he and his gang chase after them while Doc still refuses to operate on Marshall Dillon.Festus and Newly get the stolen gold away from the train and Jack Sinclair, but he and his gang chase after them while Doc still refuses to operate on Marshall Dillon.Festus and Newly get the stolen gold away from the train and Jack Sinclair, but he and his gang chase after them while Doc still refuses to operate on Marshall Dillon.
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- Jim Byrnes
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
- John Meston(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis 3-parter has the last appearance of Sam Melville. He was also in seven other episodes, all as different characters.
- GoofsIn a scene towards the end, BURLINGTON NORTHERN R.R. can be seen written across the locomotive tender. The BNRR was created in 1970 after a merger of four railroad lines (Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Seattle Portland & Spokane, and the Chicago Burlington & Quincy.
- Quotes
Kitty: They'd kill him, don't you understand that? / Referring to Matt.
Beth Tilton: So what? / She gets slapped by Kitty.
Kitty: Don't you try bucking me, Honey. As tough as you think you are, I'm a lot tougher. You're right, he is my man. And I'll do anything to keep him alive. Even to killing the likes of you!
Part two of this three-part story begins with a severely injured Matt Dillion on a train bound for Denver to see a surgeon that specializes in spinal injuries. Doc Adams, Kitty Russell, Festus Haggen, and Newly O'Brien are accompanying the Marshal.
The train is also carrying an Army gold shipment. A gang of outlaws led by one-handed -- thanks to a previous encounter with Marshal Dillon -- Jack Sinclair have stopped the train to rob the gold.
Near the end of the first part, Festus Haggen had escaped the train and attempted to take a horse to go for help, but Concho -- one of Sinclair's men -- caught him. When Festus refuses to tell Sinclair where he came from, Sinclair tells his men to search the rest of the train. When Doc allows them to enter the freight car where he and Matt are located, Doc has Matt's body fully covered and tells the men Matt is a man named Walters. In one of the few lighter moments in the three parts, Doc manages to convince the men the covered body was killed when the train stopped abruptly by challenging them to feel the dead body. "He's as stiff as a board!"
Sinclair solicits some of the male passengers to help his men offload the gold onto a wagon. Meanwhile, there is a despicable, desperate woman named Beth Tilton on board who is being taken back to Denver as a prisoner by a Pinkerton agent. She faces a prison sentence once the train reaches Denver, and she intends to do everything she can to avoid reaching the intended destination. She also knows the man in the baggage car is Marshal Dillon, and she knows he is not dead -- information she plans to use to her advantage, given the opportunity. Beth makes the unwise decision to confront and threaten Kitty with details of her plan.
Just as the last of the gold is loaded into the wagon, Newly and Festus successfully get away from their captors with the wagon. They astutely take the gang's horses with them. However, the wagon loaded with gold pulling several horses makes the progress quite slow. Sinclair and all but two of his men set out in pursuit of the slow-moving wagon on foot.
Leaving behind only two men to guard the train proves to be costly for Sinclair, as Matt manages to kill one, and the other is rendered harmless by Captain Darnell with Doc's help. Now that the captain has control of the train again, they can try to get it moving to get help.
Unfortunately, Matt's condition worsens. He completely loses all feeling in his legs, and Doc realizes the situation has become even more critical.
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- Aug 18, 2021