Gunsmoke: Miguel's Daughter (1959)
Season 5, Episode 12
Don't Mess with Egg Peddlers
13 August 2007
Rusk (Ed Nelson) and Ab (Wesley Lau) are two roistering cowpokes who run into a virginal Mexican girl (Fintan Meyler) along Front Street. They harass her until an outraged Kitty drives them off. Matt escorts Meyler back to small farm where we discover her father has a hair-trigger sense of honor and now wishes to punish the two interlopers. Too bad that Ab and Rusk don't know when to leave well enough alone.

Average entry with some extended byplay about Chester's coffee. Listening to his fumbling attempt to explain something to Doc is sort of amusing, but in a poignant way. It's to Weaver's great credit that he can play the slow-witted deputy without inviting scorn. Simon Oakland as the father makes up for an unconvincing accent with a strongly convincing presence. Consider how the episode would have altered had the the cowboys raped the girl which is probably what they had in mind, anyway.
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