User Reviews

This episode is fascinating, with Bart having $2,600 in a suitcase, which gets stolen from his hotel room. He goes to the room of the person who he thinks stole it, finds the guy dead, and gets hit on the head. Later, a judge who'd been on the same stagecoach knocks on his door saying oops, we switched suitcases. So now Bart has his money back...and the judge has no suitcase. He accuses Bart of switching them on purpose, to which Bart replies "Why would I give you a suitcase filled with money?" So through the whole episode, we watch a bunch of different people (including a girl) trying to get this suitcase, the contents of which no one will tell Bart. He gets kidnapped and beat up by some badguys who want the suitcase, and they threaten him with death if he doesn't give them the contents. Bart and the girl work together to find it, even though the girl told him right out that she'll double-cross him to get it. She does, after they locate the thief--who'd thought that he's stolen Bart's suitcase full of money--and he tells them that he threw the suitcase through the window of a barn when he found no money inside. It turns out that it isn't there, and Bart figures out that there had been a wagon in the barn that the thing had landed on. He locates the wagon and finds a bundle of papers--documents incriminating government people. Bart gives them back to the judge, where they belong. (Turns out the girl was the daughter of one of the government men.) I consider Bart to be the better Maverick, and this episode is one of the reasons why--excellent plot, with Jack Kelly better at drama than James Garner as Bret Maverick was.