Jack Kelly is charming enough: it's just that the story isn't really "Maverick". By which I mean Bart gets some humorous lines but basically fills the role of "the upscale cowpoke" that you could see in a lot of Westerns. He shoots Indians, and his initial losses require him to take a job with the mysterious Daisy Harris. She's rich and wants Bart to act as her bodyguard while posing as her husband.
There's an Indian attack, and Bart and Daisy become romantically involved. When a man, Snopes, shows up to blackmail her, she shoots him dead with a gun she earlier claimed to Bart that she didn't have. Bart is ready to leave, but Daisy convinces him to stay in return for answers.
Eventually, Daisy kills Bart and pretends that another man killed him and fled out the window. Daisy's attorney, Fillippe, shows up and they eventually go back to their hotel room where they loudly tell each other what they already know: that Daisy's real husband tried to kill Fillippe. Fillippe killed him and hid the body, and they set the whole thing up so that Bart posed as the husband and then was killed in a distant town.
Bart isn't dead, of course, and is working with the sheriff and the town undertaker. He comes in through the window, overhears the couple talking, and Daisy conveniently faints at the sight of the "dead" Bart. Did anybody, ever, really faint unconscious?
After punching out Fillippe, Bart turns the couple over to the sheriff. They go to jail (for what?), and Bart gets into a couch and finds Brother Bret waiting. The two brothers had originally parted ways at the beginning of the episode, so that Bret could visit a girlfriend.
The story has more plot holes than Swiss cheese. Bart fakes death, but conveniently Daisy doesn't check the body too closely. But Bart wouldn't know she wasn't going to check his body! Also, as I noted the couple go to jail at the end. For what, I don't know: Fillippe killed Daisy's husband in self-defense. I suppose hiding the body afterward and fake-killing Bart are enough of crimes. But as Bart gaslit earlier, no jury would convict Daisy because she is woman. Much woman. So it's unlikely she'll get convicted for her "crimes" in this episode, either. Fillippe, who knows or cares?
So "Jeweled Gun" (named after the jeweled derringer Daisy uses) is an okay mystery/Western. But it's nothing special as a "Maverick" episode.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
There's an Indian attack, and Bart and Daisy become romantically involved. When a man, Snopes, shows up to blackmail her, she shoots him dead with a gun she earlier claimed to Bart that she didn't have. Bart is ready to leave, but Daisy convinces him to stay in return for answers.
Eventually, Daisy kills Bart and pretends that another man killed him and fled out the window. Daisy's attorney, Fillippe, shows up and they eventually go back to their hotel room where they loudly tell each other what they already know: that Daisy's real husband tried to kill Fillippe. Fillippe killed him and hid the body, and they set the whole thing up so that Bart posed as the husband and then was killed in a distant town.
Bart isn't dead, of course, and is working with the sheriff and the town undertaker. He comes in through the window, overhears the couple talking, and Daisy conveniently faints at the sight of the "dead" Bart. Did anybody, ever, really faint unconscious?
After punching out Fillippe, Bart turns the couple over to the sheriff. They go to jail (for what?), and Bart gets into a couch and finds Brother Bret waiting. The two brothers had originally parted ways at the beginning of the episode, so that Bret could visit a girlfriend.
The story has more plot holes than Swiss cheese. Bart fakes death, but conveniently Daisy doesn't check the body too closely. But Bart wouldn't know she wasn't going to check his body! Also, as I noted the couple go to jail at the end. For what, I don't know: Fillippe killed Daisy's husband in self-defense. I suppose hiding the body afterward and fake-killing Bart are enough of crimes. But as Bart gaslit earlier, no jury would convict Daisy because she is woman. Much woman. So it's unlikely she'll get convicted for her "crimes" in this episode, either. Fillippe, who knows or cares?
So "Jeweled Gun" (named after the jeweled derringer Daisy uses) is an okay mystery/Western. But it's nothing special as a "Maverick" episode.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?