Quite a strange episode, this one is.
It begins with Lazarus escaping from a small town jail, using a boot nail to loosen the bars on a window. (How he got there is anyone's guess.)
Narration explains that a man is coming to take him into custody, which is why he had to escape.
That man, Dunn, arrives the next day, and after a brief conversation with the sheriff heads off in pursuit of Lazarus.
The sheriff is forming a posse, but neither is seen or heard from again.
Dunn catches Lazarus in short order, but the two are soon found and captured by four men who claim to have been sent by Major Gaffney.
So Lazarus and Dunn must work together to escape the four men.
Lazarus and Dunn have a running conversation throughout their four days together in which Dunn proves to have no sense of fair play or morality. Lazarus tries to teach it to him. (If the DVD had captions I could go into more detail.)
At one point they discuss Major Gaffney, who was killed by Lazarus in the previous episode, "Dance With Shadows." In this episode Lazarus doesn't seem to know who Gaffney is, or even what his own real name is, which was revealed in "Dance With Shadows."
So this episode was probably meant to take place before the events of "Dance With Shadows."
The episode did, however, seem to take less time to play out as any other episode. I guess you can chalk it up to pacing. I was surprised when it ended, not because the ending was surprising, but that it seemed to come so soon. I thought there was 15 minutes to go.
Marcus Gilbert turns in a credible performance as Dunn, the limey bounty hunter sent by Gaffney to bring Lazarus in. But he is frequently difficult to understand for this hard of hearing reviewer.
I was disappointed that Tony Frank, who played the sheriff, didn't figure more prominently in the episode because he dominated the one scene he had.
I'm not sure of the actor's name who played the old man who lends a mule and a gun to Lazarus and Dunn, but he did a great job, too.
It begins with Lazarus escaping from a small town jail, using a boot nail to loosen the bars on a window. (How he got there is anyone's guess.)
Narration explains that a man is coming to take him into custody, which is why he had to escape.
That man, Dunn, arrives the next day, and after a brief conversation with the sheriff heads off in pursuit of Lazarus.
The sheriff is forming a posse, but neither is seen or heard from again.
Dunn catches Lazarus in short order, but the two are soon found and captured by four men who claim to have been sent by Major Gaffney.
So Lazarus and Dunn must work together to escape the four men.
Lazarus and Dunn have a running conversation throughout their four days together in which Dunn proves to have no sense of fair play or morality. Lazarus tries to teach it to him. (If the DVD had captions I could go into more detail.)
At one point they discuss Major Gaffney, who was killed by Lazarus in the previous episode, "Dance With Shadows." In this episode Lazarus doesn't seem to know who Gaffney is, or even what his own real name is, which was revealed in "Dance With Shadows."
So this episode was probably meant to take place before the events of "Dance With Shadows."
The episode did, however, seem to take less time to play out as any other episode. I guess you can chalk it up to pacing. I was surprised when it ended, not because the ending was surprising, but that it seemed to come so soon. I thought there was 15 minutes to go.
Marcus Gilbert turns in a credible performance as Dunn, the limey bounty hunter sent by Gaffney to bring Lazarus in. But he is frequently difficult to understand for this hard of hearing reviewer.
I was disappointed that Tony Frank, who played the sheriff, didn't figure more prominently in the episode because he dominated the one scene he had.
I'm not sure of the actor's name who played the old man who lends a mule and a gun to Lazarus and Dunn, but he did a great job, too.