When the Pueblo Gang rides into Dodge City, Matt Dillon already knows their history. Stage holdups from Colorado to the California border. Men shot in the back. A reputation that travels faster than the law. Dillon warns them plainly: one wrong move and all three of them are done. But in Dodge, a man can’t be jailed on suspicion alone and so the Gang sits down to eat, and Dillon walks away to wait.
The Buckeye stage is more than two hours late. The gold dust shipment – $80,000 or more – should have been on the eastbound Santa Fe by three o’clock. When Dillon and Chester ride out to meet it, they find the coach wrecked in a draw, the guard and driver shot dead, the strongbox empty. And in the willows by the river, a woman named Helen Ford – someone Dillon once knew as Helen Marlowe, shot and left behind in the cold. The Pueblo Gang is back in Dodge. The reckoning has only just begun.
Episode Quotes
“The law doesn’t say you can hang a man because he might steal a horse.” – Marshal Matt Dillon
“A man shouldn’t be jailed on suspicion, I figured, just because he might do something wrong. Only sometimes you can see it a lot plainer afterwards.” – Marshal Matt Dillon
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