When the westbound stage rolls into Dodge City short a strongbox and short a passenger, Marshal Matt Dillon already has his suspicions. Franklin Reeves – a wealthy New Yorker with a fiancée named Laura on that very stage – is frantic, though Kitty Russell at the Long Branch will later offer a rather different account of how Reeves came to be engaged. The outlaw who stopped the coach, a stranger with two sorrel horses and a shotgun, rode off with $50,000 in gold and a woman, and then vanished into the Kansas prairie without a shot fired. Days of hard riding, a washed-out trail, and a Texas cattle drive three thousand head wide stand between Dillon and any answers.
What nobody counted on was the outlaw riding back into Dodge and giving himself up. Jack Fitch returned the gold. He returned the girl. And it turns out Laura has opinions of her own about all of it. With Reeves stirring up a mob at the saloon and the jail filling up fast, Dillon finds himself untangling a robbery, a kidnapping, a coerced engagement, and something that looks very much like a love story – all before somebody gets killed over the lot of it.
Episode Quotes
“First Reeves steals her, and then some outlaw steals her. That girl could learn to hate men.” – Kitty Russell
“I’m a lawman, Laura, not a matchmaker.” – Marshal Dillon
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