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Two really good episodes

posted 10 years ago by eighteen_percent_gray
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I saw two excellent episodes from season one last night.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0644507/?ref_=ttep_ep5
The Long Hunt
Fleeing sore losers, Bret is saved from death by stage robber Lefty Dolan who obligates Bret with a dying wish - free the man wrongly convicted in another heist, instead of Lefty. Lefty lives long enough to clue in Bret to tracking 2 other menacing gang members, Rex and Whitey. When Bret cons his way into prison to talk to the innocent prisoner Jed, Bret's pledged to an even stranger promise - don't tell Jed's wife there's any hope of saving him. Citizen Kane-style cinematography, in the first of many Maverick episodes directed or written by Doug Heyes.

and

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0644504/?ref_=ttep_ep10
The Jeweled Gun
Bart doesn't like being employed at all, but accompanying a beautiful, moneyed widow on a stagecoach apparently wasn't ruled out by Pappy. Though they are traveling North from Old Santa Fe through badlands, the coach's heating up. The closer they get to Laramie, the more Bart wants to combine business & pleasure. Are those danger signs he's ignoring from not-so-demure Daisy? Is protecting her making Bart love-blind and vulnerable ? Which is the real danger: varmints he's been hired to protect her against - or her jeweled gun?

Both were intriguing from start to finish and showed the handsome brothers at their best.

"Now are we sure. that this. is what. we want?"

[–] ZevII 10 years ago

I really enjoyed The Long Hunt as well. I liked how Bret had such compassion for both Lefty Dolan, the bandit that died, and the man in prison convicted for Lefty's crime.

I also thought it was interesting that the writers made Lefty and the man mistaken for him totally different in looks. That probably happens quite a bit.

[–] eighteen_percent_gray 10 years ago

One of the best parts for me was that Bret was trying to avoid tending to the matter and while he was playing cards his mind kept coming back to it.