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Lawman Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
41 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Trapped
Sun, Sep 17, 196130 mins
Ben Toomey reports the stage is late and the telegraph operator says the line is down. Laramie is cut off. Hale Connors appears at the Marshal's office stating he has cut the town off and wants the assets of the bank: $150,000. He gives the town an hour to comply or the stage passengers will be killed. Troop takes time to think it over and discuss it with Lily who reports her liquor shipment did not arrive. Toomey against the Marshal's wishes tells the citizens who appear at the Birdcage in an up roar. Troop asks Connors about Lily's shipment and he hesitates before saying it will be returned. Troop tells the city to go along with Connors wishes. Troop hides in the wagon with the money and confronts Connors outside of town. He wounds Connors and kills his partner. He finds signs posted stating Laramie has plague which kept travelers out of the town.
Episode 2
The Juror
Sun, Sep 24, 196130 mins
Bob Cawley and five Cawley gang members kill a train conductor in a robbery at Sherman. A change of venue is given when a jury cannot be impaneled. Johnny brings Ben to Laramie for trial where Troop and Judge Trager assume the residents will act differently. However, after the Judge's clerk is beaten, the juror summons stolen, and fliers passed out saying jurors will die, people are scared. Troop takes a new set of summons to pass out but everyone refuses to serve. In the Birdcage Judge Trager says he only needs one juror in extreme emergencies. Troop draws Lily's name as he pulls one summons at random. She refuses to back down in the face of Troop's concern. She is held in protective custody overnight in the jail while Troop and Johnny keep watch with no help from the town. Early in the morning the gang enters Laramie to break Bob out. In the ensuing gunfight Troop, Johnny, and Lily kill the five gang members. Lily is the town hero.
Episode 3
The Four
Sun, Oct 1, 196130 mins
While Troop is asleep in the office, Herm Forrest enters and waits for Troop to awaken. He tells Troop he is a cattleman introducing himself. He asks if Troop has seen Lee Darragh. Troop stops by the Birdcage where Herm is drinking after stopping in the general store to ask about Lee. Lily tells Dan she has bad feelings about Herm and another in the street also with a rifle. Troop is not alarmed until he sees the other man and one in a hotel window with a rifle. When Troop asks, Harm tells Troop the four of them are there to kill a man. They hear gunfire and find one of the four men dead in the street. Troop questions Herm in the office. He tells Troop they are after a 20 year old who has killed eight people. Troop makes them deputies with the promise to let him try to take Lee alive for trial. Lee breaks into the Birdcage and then leaves. Lily warns Troop who starts a search for Lee with the deputies. Lee knocks a deputy out in the stable and Troop is forced to kill Lee. Herm then asks Troop if he can take his brother's body.
Episode 4
The Son
Sun, Oct 8, 196130 mins
Troop leaves town for a couple of days in the midst of a windy winter storm as Cole Herod, a young blind man, and his father, Zacharia, ride into Laramie. They enter the Birdcage where Cole sits at a table and his father forces, at gun point, all of the men in the bar to recite certain words. When they are done, Zacharia Herod leaves his son while he tends to the horses. Cole asks Lily if Laramie has a good marshal and if she would get him. Jake returns with the deputy, Johnny, who is told by Cole that a man killed his brother Chad and stole one of their horses. One of the men who left the bar is the killer. Jake can't remember who the man was whose voice Cole recognized. Johnny takes Cole to the Marshal and his father follows them there. Johnny puts Zacharia in jail to stop him from trying to kill anyone. Johnny takes Cole out to find the man but notices a fire started by the killer after he released the horse he stole. Jake, with the aid of another man, learns the name of the killer (Mengis) and tells Johnny. While Johnnny and others put out the fire, Mengis tries to kill Cole but Johnny is too quick for him.
Episode 5
Owny O'Reilly, Esquire
Sun, Oct 15, 196130 mins
Owney O'Reilly asks Dan to lock up his dog Sam because Sam scares his horse Jeremiah. After leaving, he is held up by a scared girl with a comb who he never sees. She takes his remaining $150 reward money for capturing Jack Saunders. Owney tells everyone that a 6' 8" man with a voice like Niagra Falls did it. Owney spots a girl peeking into the Birdcage and asks if he can help. She wants to ask the owner for a job singing so Owney introduces Millie to Lily. Troop investigating the robbery learns a girl used a $50 bill like the ones stolen to get a room at the hotel. He knows the Governor's daughter has run away. He convinces Lily to give Millie a tryout the next day and wires the Governor. Just before the stage arrives, Johnny leaves to take Saunders to Sherman for trial but is jumped by him as they leave town. He takes Johnny's gun and goes to the hotel where he takes Millie hostage as he know who she is. Against Troop's advice the Governor decides to let Saunders leave on Owney's horse Jeremiah. When Saunders does not release Millie and Owney immediately, Dan tells Johnny to release Sam who causes Jeremiah to buck Saunders off and allows Owney to re-capture him.
Episode 6
The Substitute
Sun, Oct 22, 196130 mins
The Laramie school teacher Trilby Johnson is leaving on the stage to marry and Mavis Martingale wants Troop to stop her. When Troop refuses, Mavis drops the job of finding a substitute on him. His first thought is Al Skinner who has a college degree but is a drunk. None of the mothers are thought to have enough of an education to take over in discussion with Lily. She volunteers to substitute. They scoff at the idea due to her job/background but when she is the only one who can spell seismography they concede the job to her. Homer Martingale, Mavis' husband, hears about the plan and says the women will never allow it. He brings a picture of Mavis in her Pony Dancer outfit. Troop asks Lily about using it to pressure the women to back down but Lily kills the idea. Troop arrests Skinner to sober him up. The next morning both Lily and Skinner show up to teach and Mavis brings the kids. She thanks Lily for killing the idea of showing her picture and is suddenly very pleasant. Mr. Skinner takes over as a natural. He majored in history.
Episode 7
The Stalker
Sun, Oct 29, 196130 mins
Well known trapper Alteeka McClintoch arrives in Laramie to sell his furs and restock supplies. Bully Jess Schaeffer hassles the good natured Alteeka who stops it by knocking Jess on the ground with no harm intended. Jess takes it personally but his brother Compton stops him. Alteeka sells his furs and says hi to his old trapping friend Marshal Troop. Alteeka goes to the Birdcage for a beer (he hates whiskey) where Jess at gunpoint forces Alteeka to drink a shot of whiskey. The gun is not loaded but Alteeka knocks Jess across the bar onto a table and the floor with one hit breaking Jess' neck killing him. Alteeka runs off forcing Troop to track his old friend. Alteeka traps Troop in a hole dug to trap wild animals but falls in himself when he shoots a cougar. They help each other out but at Alteeka's cabin Compton and a friend try to take Alteeka. Alteeka disarms Compton and Troop knocks out the friend.
Episode 8
The Catalog Woman
Sun, Nov 5, 196130 mins
When Walter Perkins buys two $25 bottles of champagne, everyone learns he is getting married to a woman he met via the Heart and Hand catalog. She arrives in mourning black with a heavy veil. After two weeks, banker Oren Slauson reports Walter missing. Troop investigates and finds evidence that Walter is probably dead and the woman is gone along with Walter's $5,000. Investigation turns up two other reports of similar incidents in other locations across the country. Oren is willing to put up money for Troop to pose as a Cheyenne man looking for a wife. Troop places an ad stating he has $15,000 and is looking for a wife, resulting in contact with the suspect, calling herself "Ida". Troop, Lily, and Johnny go to Cheyenne where Troop meets the woman in black (purportedly mourning the death of her father) at the stage and takes her to the hotel. A nervous Lily checks on Dan after he is knocked out by "Ida", really a man who had been posing as a woman. She shouts to Johnny in the street to catch the man with a carpet bag full of money.
Episode 9
The Cold One
Sun, Nov 12, 196130 mins
SPOILERS: Barbara Harris arrives on the stage in Laramie coldly ignoring everyone as she heads for her dead mother's cabin. She turned in her husband King Harris wanted for murder when she left him for a younger member of his gang. King escaped from prison and killed the man. Troop offers to help her but she says she is awaiting her fate with King in her mother's cabin. A couple of King's men come into Laramie to locate Barbara and see what awaits them. Troop tells them to turn over their guns or leave town. One of them tries to kill Troop but Dan is faster. Rio returns to King who decides it is time to go after Barbara since the town is scared. Dan is able to find three men to form a posse to help Johnny fight the gang while he hides in the cabin for King to make his move. With King dead, Barbara is going to leave but Dan talks her into staying.
Episode 10
Porphyria's Lover
Sun, Nov 19, 196130 mins
On a stormy night Dan joins Johnny as the only Birdcage customers. Lily notices a book and opens it to the bookmark - the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Browning. She asks who it belongs to and saloon girl Eve says it is hers. Lily tells Eve she never wants to see it again. When Dan asks about it, Lily says it was the favorite poem of a boy Galt Stevens she knew who killed another suitor. Lily's testimony sent him to prison for life. That night she wakes to see Galt standing over her bed. At breakfast a note on her tray about the poem further upsets her. After the storm Johnny and Troop with Dave's help check the town. After the telegraph is fixed, a late message states Galt escaped prison. When he kidnaps Lily, Dan has to resort to the poem to save Lily.
Episode 11
The Appointment
Sun, Nov 26, 196130 mins
After giving orders to complete the dishonorable discharge of Bern Lochard, Major Jason A. Leeds rides into Laramie to present Johnny with a letter from the Governor giving him an appointment to West Point. The Major pushed for the appointment and is pushing Johnny too hard to accept it in Troop's eyes. While Johnny ponders the decision, Lochard spots the Major and plots his revenge. He confronts the Major telling him he is going to kill him. The Major finds his hotel room trashed and Johnny's sword he brought broken. He returns to the Birdcage where Lochard confronts him and forces the Major into a duel. Johnny steps in and stops Lochard by wounding him. The incident allows the Major to better understand how Johnny can be useful where he is at leaving the decision to Johnny.
Episode 12
The Lords of Darkness
Sun, Dec 3, 196130 mins
Two men run down Lily in the street followed by a report two men killed Will Porter who Lily hired due to his ease with others. Troop finds the killers were the Lord brothers from Darkness, 150 miles away. He goes to pick them up but finds Darkness and the local marshall unwilling to help. At the Lord ranch their father is willing to bring the boys in if Troop agrees they will not be charged while refusing to tell their sister about the issue. Dan returns to Darkness and the boys arrive after being summoned by their father. Dan kills one and wounds the other. Returning to Laramie he is stopped by their father and ranch hands. Daughter Caroline joins them against her father's wishes saying that if there is more killing the whole family should be involved. She berates her father for his upbringing of her brothers and the shame it has brought on her and her dead mother. The father relents.
Episode 13
Tarot
Sun, Dec 10, 196130 mins
Joe Wyatt arrives in Laramie and runs into Lily. They grew up together in St. Louis. He makes drawings of the layout of the bank and other buildings in his hotel room. He is a gambler but his luck that night at the Birdcage is not good. He returns later to join Dan, Johnny, and Lily who asks him to tell their fortune with the Tarot deck he always carries. He finally agrees to tell the fortune of the group as a whole. It says someone will receive money, take a trip, sit with a pot of gold, and finally someone will die. Three men arrive to steal a payroll after killing the rancher picking it up. Joe provides them with a drawing of the Marshal's office where the gold is stored and the details about it in return for his $2,000 markers. Troop is guarding it all night so they plan to kill him. Joe feels guilty so he interrupts the robbery but is fatally wounded doing so.
Episode 14
The Prodigal Mother
Sun, Dec 17, 196130 mins
Maggie Coleson arrives and looks up Marshal Troop who does not remember her initially. After he learns she was Maggie Winslow, she tells Troop she is now married and has returned to claim her son she gave up 9 years ago as she cannot have more children. Dan agrees to take her to the boy and his foster parents who are determined to keep him. Her new husband is a wealthy Montana miner with connections allowing her to obtain a court order returning her son. Dan is forced to serve the order and bring back Tad. Although Tad willingly goes with Maggie, he tells her she is his mother but not his "maw". Upon hearing this and realizing the items she bought him are not changing him, she decides to return Tad to his foster parents but stay in contact with him.
Episode 15
By the Book
Sun, Dec 24, 196130 mins
Orville Luster, an uptight, self-righteous US Marshal Inspector, arrives in Laramie to check on the quality of the job Troop does enforcing the law. He is unhappy with what he sees and threatens to appoint a Deputy US Marshal to Laramie which would effectively end Troop's job along with Johnny's. Troop tries to point out the difference between real criminals versus men blowing off steam. Luster forces Johnny to arrest two men for scuffling in the Birdcage although everyone knows the two pose no threat. Troop releases the men later. They continue to get drunk in the stable where they overhear two men planning to kill Luster and rob the railroad. Although drunk, they stop the men from killing Luster until Troop arrives.
Episode 16
Trojan Horse
Sun, Dec 31, 196130 mins
A construction crew led by engineer Duncan Clooney needs to move a wagon load of nitroglycerin through Laramie as they take it to Cheyenne. A demonstration of the power of the explosive makes Troop a believer that Laramie must be evacuated. Eggers, who works for Clooney, has had enough and convinces his co-worker Falk they can be rich using the explosive to rob the Laramie bank. They tie-up Clooney and in Laramie take Johnny hostage. Troop returns as they enter the bank resulting in a stalemate. Johnny convinces Falk he should release him as Falk doesn't want to kill anyone. Eggers blows the safe and tries to escape the bank with the leftover explosive after Johnny removes the wagon load out of gun range.
Episode 17
The Locket
Sun, Jan 7, 196230 mins
Lily is awaiting the arrival of her friend from six years ago Marcia on the stage but it arrives with her unconscious and the driver missing. Johnny and then Troop with Johnny search for the missing driver but he is not to be found. While Lily is tending to her friend, Lily finds a man in Marcia's room. He says he is her husband. Marcia awakens but pretends to still be unconscious so she can tell Lily her husband was hung and this man is his partner looking for hidden loot. The man, Breen, hears Marcia talking to Lily and forces her to tell him where the money is. He has Lily pass a signal to his partner Scar to meet him outside. Lily manages to pass Marcia's locket to Johnny who realizes the pictures indicate that Breen is not her husband. Troop intervenes but is wounded and Johnny makes a leap out a window to save the day.
Episode 18
A Friend of the Family
Sun, Jan 14, 196230 mins
Three men ride into Laramie to rob the bank as it opens. Miss Selma notices the robbery and warns Troop and Johnny resulting in a shootout. One man escapes, one is wounded, and the third captured by Johnny turns out to be "Uncle" Joe who knew Johnny's dad and helped raise him. They are a well known gang wanted in Cheyenne. Troop and Johnny escort the two prisoners on the trip during which Joe plays on Johnny's sympathies. During camp Joe asks Johnny to untie some of the ropes holding him as he can't sleep. Johnny falls asleep allowing Joe to escape. After lecturing Johnny on his actions, Troop continues with the remaining prisoner while Johnny goes after Joe at an abandoned fort. He finds Joe shot the other man in the back forcing Johnny to confront Joe who won't go to jail.
Episode 19
The Vintage
Sun, Jan 21, 196230 mins
It is a hot day in Laramie and Troop expects trouble due to it. Two men start a fight in the Birdcage which ends up in the street as two Italian men drive into Laramie with a wagon. The fight lands the two men in the back of the wagon owned by the immigrants. Although an accident, they smash the grape vines being transported in the wagon from New York to California. The grandfather has worked on the vines for fifteen years. The judge fines the men $250 in damages. The grandson tries to kill the men after they leave the Marshal's office but he is killed. Although the grandfather challenges the man who shot his grandson to a duel, neither man is able to follow through. In the mean time Troop with help of others is able to save the vines and the two men decide to help the grandfather on the trip to California.
Episode 20
The Tarnished Badge
Sun, Jan 28, 196230 mins
Ex-marshal Jess Bridges rides into Laramie with two men who appear to be his prisoners to rob the stage. Troop is prepared for the robbery attempt and has the town filled with armed men and wagons to blockade the streets. A shootout ensues but ends when the men escape by riding through a saloon but Jess is severely wounded. Troop used to be a deputy under Jess and wants to take him alive. The posse splits up with Johnny on the trail of Jess. Johnny is caught by Jess but when Jess faints due to the wound, Johnny removes the bullet saving Jess. However, Jess knocks Johnny out with a rock and takes him prisoner to help Jess make it to the cabin where the men are to meet. At the cabin Jess pretends Johnny is a friend. He is forced to shoot the other two men who learn Johnny is a lawman but Jess is fatally shot by them.
Episode 21
No Contest
Sun, Feb 4, 196230 mins
Johnny's cousin Jeff Allen from Boston is visiting Johnny. When Jeff arrives, Troop notices that he is the spitting image of Billy the Kid. On the stage Jeff meets a local girl Elly who takes a shine to every new boy in town but is Jib Willis's girlfriend. When others mistake Jeff for Billy the Kid, he buys a gun and assumes the part including learning to shoot. After Jib and friends beat Jeff up in front of Elly's house, Jeff wants revenge via the gun. Adding to the problem a man whose friend was killed by Billy starts to take revenge out on Jeff until Johnny stops it. Troop is forced to prove to Jeff he is not a killer by provoking Jeff into a duel.
Episode 22
Change of Venue
Sun, Feb 11, 196230 mins
Troop is taking Barron Shaw to Green River for trial. The Laramie townspeople are upset with the change of venue as he murdered the judge's relative and robbed the bank. On the stage Troop has a deputy and a woman for company. At a water stop the deputy is shot and killed. At the next stop for new horses, the station master and replacement horses are gone. One of the stage drivers is wounded and the group is forced to spend the night at the station. Unknown to Troop the woman was hired to provide Shaw a gun but she did not plan on the killings. In the morning Shaw's gang tries to free him and the woman has a change of heart as Troop and the wounded stage drivers battle the Shaw gang. At Green River the woman is able to start a new life as Troop suggested.
Episode 23
The Holdout
Sun, Feb 18, 196230 mins
A man named Logan is leading a group of men who have created a "vigilante" group to supposedly fight crime but in reality are an extortion group. They have targeted Blake Stevens who is the leading businessmen in Laramie. He refuses to give in to their demands but will not testify against Logan. After Blake's store is bombed, Troop arrests Logan's gun hand Ed James for attempted murder. Logan demands James' release or the city council fire Troop. Troop refuses to resign, so Logan marches with a group on the Marshal's office to free James. After Johnny chews Blake out about his actions, Blake confronts the vigilante group. He tells them his story of being abandoned by Logan in Kansas. Blake escaped from prison where he and others were sent for second degree murder for a lynching. Logan makes a move but Troop and Johnny shoot him and his remaining henchman.
Episode 24
The Barber
Sun, Feb 25, 196230 mins
Troop has his hands full with a series of minor complaints. Johnny adds to the list when he comments that it seems odd Ed Caruthers sold his barbershop and left town without a word. The new owner Mr. O'Toole has a bill of sale signed by Ed. The new barber seems to be trying to drum up new business. His uncle arrives in town and deposits $5,000 to O'Toole's account. Several new men quietly arrive in town. O'Toole asks Troop and Johnny to stop by for free haircuts to encourage business. At the barbershop the officers find themselves prisoners while the bank is being robbed. Lily senses something is wrong when the banker refuses to take her deposit. One of the robbers fires at her creating a disturbance giving Troop and Johnny a chance to free themselves.
Episode 25
The Long Gun
Sun, Mar 4, 196230 mins
Ben Wyatt, a marshal for 30 years, brings to Laramie the body of an outlaw he killed. He checks into the hotel in a front room with a view of the street. He is waiting for the two brothers of the dead man to arrive and plans to kill them with his rifle without warning. The men murdered a family at a stage depot. Troop knows Wyatt as a brave lawman and is disappointed to see how Wyatt has changed. He decides he has to do something about it but is unclear what he can do. After he learns the brothers are coming in to town, he confronts Wyatt again. He tosses Wyatt's rifle into the street alerting the brothers and tells Wyatt to go retrieve it. Wyatt confronts the men in the street and is able to take them without firing a shot.
Episode 26
Clootey Hutter
Sun, Mar 11, 196230 mins
Clootey Hutter drives to Laramie late on a rainy night from her ranch 2 days north of Laramie for supplies but the store is closed. The Henry brothers Paul and Earl are in town for a good time but Earl is always asking for trouble and Paul often slides into it. Raggedy looking Clootey stops in the Birdcage for a beer and Paul decides to show Earl how to talk to a woman. Paul is drunk so Clootey tries to avoid him but is forced to toss her beer on him. Troop sends the two men to jail with Johnny who holds them until they cool down and sober up. Johnny releases them later but Paul stays to rest but Earl leaves. He confront Clootey forcing her into a duel which he loses. His gun is still in the holster leading many including Ed Cramer to believe she murdered Earl. When Troop goes to arrest her, Clootey resists so Paul tells her he feels responsible and will allow her to prove her story by fighting him. Clootey wounds him in the arm proving to all but Ed she is innocent.
Episode 27
Heritage of Hate
Sun, Mar 11, 196230 mins
John Kemper has not forgiven Laurie Kemper for killing his son when he attacked her even after Laurie on parole served three years in prison. Kemper runs off the men Troop sends to work Laurie's farm. Laurie tries a new tactic - a mail order husband, Bill Fells. He spent time in a Texas prison for his own crimes. Laurie makes it clear the marriage is to ensure a man to help her run the farm but there is to be no romantic interests. She expected Fells to be an older crusty type but he is a good looking man her age with a good temperament. Kemper and his men continue to bother them including beating Fells in Laramie. When Troop arrests Kemper's men for the beating, Kemper decides to burn their home but Johnny following Kemper witnesses his actions. The people of Laramie who were against the couple, change their minds based on the couple's actions versus Kemper's actions.
Episode 28
Mountain Man
Sun, Mar 25, 196230 mins
Mountainman Lex Buckman is in Laramie when Lily returns on the stage. Lex has been entertaining the residents with his strength in the saloon. Everyone goes to greet Lily and Lex is smitten by her. He hauls her heavy trunk to her room after announcing he intends to marry her much to her dismay. He decides his long beard and fur clothes needs to change to change her mind. He cleans up and Lily turns to Dan for help. She nudges Dan in to telling Lex they are engaged. Lex informs Dan Lex will have to eliminate Dan Indian style. He takes a shot at Dan in the office but misses. Dan makes rounds at midnight as the town waits to hear shots. Johnny decides to trail Dan via the alleys and spots Lex and blocks his shot. After a scuffle with Johnny and Dan, Lex realizes town life is not for him. He tells Lily he has to leave her. Lily at first upset realizes she has escaped Lex.
Episode 29
The Bride
Sun, Apr 1, 196230 mins
Frank Farnum and supposed niece beautiful Melanie Wells spot wealthy rancher Ollie Earnshaw during a stop in Laramie. They decide to stay in Laramie over night saying Melanie feels fatigued. As Melanie catches Ollie's attention in the Birdcage he falls for her under Dan's watchful eye. Dan wires the law in Casper learning they swindled a rancher who thought he was going to marry Melanie. Troop warns Farnum not to try anything. After Ollie announces his engagement, Dan tells him what he has learned. Ollie knew part of the story. That night Farnum puts the bite on Ollie for $5,000 which Ollie pays. The next morning Dan confronts Melanie as she packs. Farnum walks in and pulls a derringer on Dan. Ollie enters and is wounded by Farnum who is shot by Dan. Dan asks Ollie if he wants to press charges but he says not against the woman he is going to marry. Melanie who felt strongly for Ollie is willing.
Episode 30
The Wanted Man
Sun, Apr 8, 196230 mins
On a cold rainy night Ben Jesse drives his pregnant and critically ill mother into Laramie in the back of a wagon. He pulls into the livery stable. Troop and Johnny find her while on rounds as Ben returns with the doctor. Ben refuses to move her to a more comfortable place as he has only one dollar that is to pay the doctor. Bounty hunter Joe Street rides into Laramie later and tells Marshal Troop he is after Frank Jesse the husband of the woman. Troop tells Street he won't allow a killing. The mother awakens and asks Troop to pledge not to arrest her husband if he shows to which Troop agrees at the doctor's urging. Frank Jesse arrives before the baby is born as his wife hoped. He and Ben argue about his long absence as the baby boy is born but the mother dies. Frank tells Ben to take his gun and walk him to the Marshal for the $5000 reward. On the way Joe Street tries to take Frank from a rooftop. Frank protects Ben with his body as Joe shoots mortally wounding Frank and Troop guns down Joe Street.
Episode 31
Sunday
Sun, Apr 15, 196230 mins
Troop brings in Billy Deal. He is to take him to Casper the next day on the 4:00 pm Sunday train. Billy is wanted for several murders so Dan is not surprised when someone shoots at them as they enter the office. The next day Jim Young tells Troop that Frank Boone wants to see him at church.Troop knows Boone as he caught Frank trying to commit a robbery when both were young and Dan was a deputy. Troop released Frank with his word to go straight but he never did. Billy is wanted in Montana where Frank is also wanted and has a small ranch where he wants to start life over. If he brings Billy to Montana, Frank will receive amnesty. However, Dan is unwilling to turn Billy over. At 4:00 pm Dan and Johnny walk Billy to the train. The Young boys try to take out Dan and Johnny from charging horses but are killed. It is left to Dan to face Frank. As he dies, Frank tells Dan he meant to go straight many times but never did and probably never would.
Episode 32
The Youngest
Sun, Apr 22, 196230 mins
Troop spots a card fall to the floor by Jim Martin Sr. indicating he is cheating at cards again. Troop gives his winnings to the other players and tells Jim to leave and never come back. As Troop walks out of the Birdcage, Martin pulls his gun, Jake yells, and Troop hits the floor as he fires and kills Martin. Ma Martin and her three boys pick up the body at the Marshal's office. Troop is out of town but Ma Martin tells Johnny the family will return for Troop. After burying Jim Sr., Ma tells the youngest Jim Jr. to take his dad's gun as he is the best shot. At the Birdcage the thuggish two older boys create a scene. Johnny tries to force them to leave. Jim Jr. stops them and shows Johnny and Lily he is the smartest and most reasonable of the family but he tells Lily to stay out of their business. Nonetheless, Jim Jr. tries to talk his mother out of her revenge scheme but fails. She guilts him and he goes to get a drink himself. Johnny confronts Ma Martin and gives her until 3:30 pm to leave town with her sons but she refuses. At the confrontation, Jim Jr., still uncomfortable, tells his mother to forget revenge, drops his father's gun, and walks away. His brother Sam takes the gun and tries to shoot Johnny but Johnny wounds him first. Johnny again tells Ma to take the two boys and leave town, as Jim Jr. leaves them.
Episode 33
Cort
Sun, Apr 29, 196230 mins
On Sunday morning in Laramie a haggard man rides past Troop and falls off his horse. After examining him, the doctor says he has a week or two to live. When asked, Troop guesses the man to be 50 but the doctor says his age is 35. Troop questions the man who says he is not wanted but is looking for someone. At the Birdcage he asks Lily if she has heard of Mitch Evers. Lily tells him no but tells Dan Mitch is working on a local ranch. Troop has learned a similar story. While resting and drinking in the Birdcage, Cort says Mitch is his brother and responsible for the death of six fellow servicemen from their home town who tried to escape as prisoners but were shot. Mitch had given them up and Cort was sick or he would have been dead as well. Troop finds Mitch who decides it is time to confront Cort rather than continue to run. As they meet Mitch removes his gun and tells Cort he must know the truth. It was Cort under the influence of the fever who gave up the men. Cort suddenly realized the truth but it causes his heart to fail as falls into Mitch's arms.
Episode 34
The Doctor
Sun, May 6, 196230 mins
Troop is in Saratoga to pick up Will Evans and Alexander Burrell, a drunk, to testify in Laramie. The local law helps capture Evans at the hotel 15 minutes before the stage leaves. Troop takes Evans and Burrell on the stage plus Evan's lawyer and Cissy Lawson is a fifth passenger. The stage driver becomes seriously ill as they arrive at a depot to change horses. When he collapses, Troop assumes heat is the problem. Burrell surprises everyone with an offer to examine the driver since he is a doctor. After the examination he informs Troop they need to stay there for a minimum of four days as he thinks the driver has plague. Cissy meeting a future husband at Laramie and the lawyer don't want to wait. Evans wants to escape. The hallucinating driver runs off forcing Troop to go after him leaving Burrell with a gun to hold the group. After Troop leaves, Evans knocks the gun loose and Cissy uses it to break his handcuffs. Troop returns to report the driver dead and is able to distract Evans by telling him he is showing signs of the illness. After waiting, the rest of the group arrives in Laramie safe and well.
Episode 35
The Man Behind the News
Sun, May 13, 196230 mins
Kansas City newspaperman Luther Boardman has taken over the newspaper in Laramie hoping to relive the excitement of the wild west. He wants Troop's cooperation in getting the news but isn't happy with Dan lack of eagerness to cooperate. Mort Peters, known gunman, is in a fight in the Birdcage. Dan goes to handle it without waiting for Boardman. Peters is knocked out when he hits his head on the bar after Dan punches him. Boardman misses the clash and decides to write it up as if Troop violated Peters's rights. After Peters trial and release, Boardman goads Peters into challenging Troop. They meet in the Birdcage. Peters is blinded by Boardman's flash equipment and nicks Boardman while Troop wounds Peters. Boardman initially thinks he is mortally wounded but he has learned his lesson.
Episode 36
Get Out of Town
Sun, May 20, 196230 mins
Amos Hall returns to Laramie from Denver. He owns the freight company and sawmill in Laramie making him the bank's biggest depositor. He sees that Jim Bushrod is opening a new saloon. He confronts Bushrod telling him to leave town. At the bank Amos demands Oren close Bushrod's account or Amos will close his accounts. Amos won't tell Oren what the issue is so Oren asks Troop for help but he has no legal reason to act. Troop confronts Amos learning Bushrod was tried for selling guns and whiskey to the Indians leading to the killing of 200 soldiers but was found not guilty by the Army due to hearsay evidence. Amos decides to have a reunion for the 233 Calvary hoping the men will drive Bushrod out. Bushrod fakes a plan to sell out to Lily and asks for protection until he leaves. Johnny is left to guard him but Bushrod knocks him out hoping to frame Amos for killing Johnny. However, Troop is expecting a play by Bushrod and catches Bushrod before he can complete his plan.
Episode 37
The Actor
Sun, May 27, 196230 mins
A tired man on a hard-ridden horse arrives and enters the Birdcage asking for whiskey. Jake serves him a bottle. He takes a couple of drinks and interacts with the piano player. Jake asks for payment which the man does not have. As Jake tries to throw him out but Lily stops him and finds the man is bleeding. Troop and Johnny help him into Lily's office and bring a doctor to tend to the arm wound. Lily learns the man was a well-respected actor in the past being chased by a husband and brother who think he took liberties with the husband's wife. Overhearing the wife talk to him, Lily learns the actor is innocent. The wife is pursuing him. The actor performs at the Birdcage to pay his way. The husband and brother arrive. Troop tells them no guns. When the husband draws, Troop wounds him in the arm. The wife fires a derringer at the actor but appears to miss. The husband and brother leave town on Troops's orders, quite obviously distancing themselves from the woman who is forced to follow them separately. Inside the Birdcage, however, they learn the actor has been mortally wounded but continues to perform for the crowd. He dies as they applaud.
Episode 38
Explosion
Sun, Jun 3, 196230 mins
The Murdochs coldly and abruptly tell Jess Billings they have decided not to sell him a plot of land they had promised him which he wanted to use to start a life with his fiancee, Bobbie Desmond. Jess erupts into anger, grabbing Mr. Murdoch. Mrs. Murdoch fights with Jess and then her husband whips Jess twice with a bull whip. Jess grabs a nearby shotgun and kills the Murdochs. When their bodies are brought into Laramie, a mob of local men break into anger at Jess goaded by Sam Brackett. Brackett had brutally beaten Jess in a fight over Bobbie who had spurned Brackett. Jess suffered a severe head injury and has not behaved the same since the beating. Troop sends Johnny to track Jess while he talks to Bobbie. Johnny trails Jess to the secret cabin he built. Bobbie takes Troop there where they capture Jess. Returning to Laramie, Johnny leads the "posse" astray while Troop goes with Jess. While resting the horses, Jess escapes from Troop. In Laramie, Brackett is in the Birdcage with the posse when Jess calls him out into the street. Brackett mortally wounds Jess as Troop rides in. As Brackett starts to fire at Troop, Jess kills Sam with a last shot.
Episode 39
Jailbreak
Sun, Jun 10, 196230 mins
Johnny goes to Casper to testify at Pete Bole's trial. Pete's gang hired Heracles Snead to break him out of jail. A young girl, Little Britches, thinks she is in love with Pete. Snead needs to get rid of Little Briches so he takes her out of town and strands her without a horse. As she walks back to Casper, she is found by Johnny. When she learns who he is, she knocks Johnny out and handcuffs him to a tree. When Snead learns what she did, he sends her back for Johnny to prevent the Sheriff from suspecting anything. Snead uses a cattle stampede through town to break Pete out but Johnny spots the escape and kills Pete. Little Britches learns she is not hurt as she expected. At the end she arrives in Laramie looking for Johnny who rides for his life when he sees her.
Episode 40
The Unmasked
Sun, Jun 17, 196230 mins
As a medicine man is peddling his wares on the street, two well dressed men arrive on the stage. They register at the hotel. The owner upon reading their names becomes visibly shaken. Later the men tell Troop they are looking for a lost cousin that might have come to town six years ago with considerable money. He has come into an inheritance. Troop doesn't give them a name but believes it is Joe Brockway. However, Joe denies it is him. The men ask Oren Slauson, the banker, who immediately gives them Joe's name. Joe and his wife finally go to Troop and tell him there is a $20,000 reward on his head for shooting John Wilkes Booth. After disarming the two men, Troop and Johnny stay close to them. However, when one goes for a walk, Johnny can't be found nor Joe. Troop realizes they were smuggled out in the medicine man's wagon. He tracks the wagon rescuing the men after wounding the two kidnappers.
Episode 41
The Witness
Sun, Jun 24, 196230 mins
Overbearing Nathan Adams comes home to have his sister-in-law, Anna, tell him his wife is dead - lying in the floor shot. He takes Anna to the Birdcage to find Troop. A sketch artist there is doing a big business. After Nathan tells his story, the artist, Beebee Williams, states he saw a man exit the Adams house and he can draw him. The picture is of Jim Martin who has no alibi. At the jail Beebee and Anna identify Jim. At trial Anna says she doesn't know what happened leaving the jury to decide not guilty. Nathan, however, swears to kill Jim. Troop realizes the truth is the only answer and questions Beebee. He wants revenge against Jim for wrongly identifying his brother leading to his lynching and Beebee's near death. Troop brings in Anna who confesses she accidentally shot her sister moving a loaded rifle and was afraid of Nathan and to say what happened.
