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A nice church going Sunday in Virginia City turns horribly chaotic when a bunch of prisoners escape from John Quade's prison wagon and grab hostages among them Mitch Vogel.

Neville Brand is the leader and he gives another classic portrayal of villainy. As these are all kids and one a teenage girl there's yet another element of danger.

Lots of tension in this episode.

Neville Brand leads a group of escaped convicts, who hijack a prison wagon and take Jamie and three other hostages. Brand played his share of mean outlaws, and this film is no exception to type. Still you got to like the way the kids stick together. Christopher Beaumont needs to be set straight on some things, when he is trying to overcome the captors. This movie brings to mind Man Who Knew Too Much. The suspense is good. It deals well with how to go about dealing with hostage takers. The baddies don't seem like the smartest. Yet that's to be expected with villains. Jamie seems to be fully on board with the Cartwrights at this point. In the series.

At first, I thought this was just another of Landon's juvenile scripts, but even if it was, Landon got no credit. Which did him a favor. Briefly, three ruffians are brought in prison wagon to Virginia City for trial, but the judge is too preoccupied to start trial until next day. An opportunist lawyer happens to be by, who insists on the prisoners' rights to be free until trial. Next thing, this lawyer's own wife is caught in choke-hold by one of the ruffians while she is appeasing him. Little Jamie rushes to the rescue and ends up in choke-hold right next to her. In the next scene, the prison wagon door is open, the ruffians are tooting guns, the captors are sniveling and the lawyer is a member of a posse. Ben Cartwright is now doctoring the sheriff's bruises. One of the ruffians tells Ben "this will cost you" (to release the hostages) and Ben - that pillar of morality, who would not appease a terrorist - what did Ben reply? ..... "how much?" !!!!! That's when I pushed the stop button.