Frank Reardon, a former lawman and friend of Matt's whose pregnant wife was killed by a gang, has tracked the last three remaining men to Dodge to carry out his form of punishment.Frank Reardon, a former lawman and friend of Matt's whose pregnant wife was killed by a gang, has tracked the last three remaining men to Dodge to carry out his form of punishment.Frank Reardon, a former lawman and friend of Matt's whose pregnant wife was killed by a gang, has tracked the last three remaining men to Dodge to carry out his form of punishment.
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- TriviaThe title biblical verse reads: "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows."
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Thirteen Hundred Miles
Unfortunately, I was watching the TV when this episode started. This would have been better as a radio show.
At first, I thought I was watching a man in a storage room cluttered with junk but then I realized it was his home, a one-room cabin with a dirt floor. There was a small fireplace, one small table with a chair turned backward facing the fireplace and what we would think of today as a mixing bowl and a pitcher. I did not see any plates or dishes in the cabin.
Between the front door and the fireplace there was a small end table with the Holy Bible on top, opened to Exodus; and beside this, which took me awhile to recognize, was an old-fashioned cradle with a toy for a baby.
After the kerosene lamp goes out the camera zooms in on the Bible and we read Exodus 21-24, which includes life for a life, eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth. Looked like moonlight on the page but there was no window near it.
Well, not long after we see these things, we hear the main "protagonist," Frank Reardon, describe how his wife had let in seven men, fed them, and let them warm themselves by the fireplace, until they scared her so badly that she ran from her home and died in the blizzard. Frank found her after he returned from Butte (Montana), where he had been away on business during the tragedy.
Frank also said his wife did not have to let them in, she could have kept the door bolted; but the door to the cabin had a doorknob and no lock. Was Frank that inobservant about his home, or was he making an alibi for himself - leaving a pregnant woman by herself with no security?
Frank is now 1,300 miles from his home in Montana, where he has chased the last three men on his quest for vengeance. The newspaper in Dodge City has published the story up to this point, so everyone there knows about Frank (Matt, Kitty, and Doc having been friends with Frank and his pregnant wife for years, somehow), and how he has killed men along the way.
Furthermore, we have been privy to the infighting between the remaining men, and as viewers we know how one of the seven men scared his wife: too much public display of affection.
Even if a man would do that in front of six other men, to a pregnant woman, in a 150-sq foot cabin, the image of eight adults in front of that little fireplace was challenging.
There was little space between the table and the fireplace. Were all eight people standing in a huddle together and moving in a circle taking turns warming up?
Did the seven men take the plates, glasses, flatware (and their napkins) when they left? Did they sign a guest registry when they entered, and was that how Frank knew there were seven men and their names?
Did the footprints in the dirt of the cabin floor provide this knowledge? After the blizzard cleared up, were there any tracks left to follow from Montana to Kansas? If Frank knew what happened to his wife, as he claimed to all along, why was it necessary for one of the remaining men to reveal to Frank what really happened at the end (and after "four men killed")?
If this were a radio show (or we listened to the actors without watching them on screen), we could edit the images in our minds to make more sense of the story. The acting was good.
At first, I thought I was watching a man in a storage room cluttered with junk but then I realized it was his home, a one-room cabin with a dirt floor. There was a small fireplace, one small table with a chair turned backward facing the fireplace and what we would think of today as a mixing bowl and a pitcher. I did not see any plates or dishes in the cabin.
Between the front door and the fireplace there was a small end table with the Holy Bible on top, opened to Exodus; and beside this, which took me awhile to recognize, was an old-fashioned cradle with a toy for a baby.
After the kerosene lamp goes out the camera zooms in on the Bible and we read Exodus 21-24, which includes life for a life, eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth. Looked like moonlight on the page but there was no window near it.
Well, not long after we see these things, we hear the main "protagonist," Frank Reardon, describe how his wife had let in seven men, fed them, and let them warm themselves by the fireplace, until they scared her so badly that she ran from her home and died in the blizzard. Frank found her after he returned from Butte (Montana), where he had been away on business during the tragedy.
Frank also said his wife did not have to let them in, she could have kept the door bolted; but the door to the cabin had a doorknob and no lock. Was Frank that inobservant about his home, or was he making an alibi for himself - leaving a pregnant woman by herself with no security?
Frank is now 1,300 miles from his home in Montana, where he has chased the last three men on his quest for vengeance. The newspaper in Dodge City has published the story up to this point, so everyone there knows about Frank (Matt, Kitty, and Doc having been friends with Frank and his pregnant wife for years, somehow), and how he has killed men along the way.
Furthermore, we have been privy to the infighting between the remaining men, and as viewers we know how one of the seven men scared his wife: too much public display of affection.
Even if a man would do that in front of six other men, to a pregnant woman, in a 150-sq foot cabin, the image of eight adults in front of that little fireplace was challenging.
There was little space between the table and the fireplace. Were all eight people standing in a huddle together and moving in a circle taking turns warming up?
Did the seven men take the plates, glasses, flatware (and their napkins) when they left? Did they sign a guest registry when they entered, and was that how Frank knew there were seven men and their names?
Did the footprints in the dirt of the cabin floor provide this knowledge? After the blizzard cleared up, were there any tracks left to follow from Montana to Kansas? If Frank knew what happened to his wife, as he claimed to all along, why was it necessary for one of the remaining men to reveal to Frank what really happened at the end (and after "four men killed")?
If this were a radio show (or we listened to the actors without watching them on screen), we could edit the images in our minds to make more sense of the story. The acting was good.
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- zacharycabon
- May 20, 2023
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