Mike rifle is propped against the wall. When Dean shows up at the ranch and calls out, Mike gets the rifle, but it is several inches to the left of where it was a minute ago.
Unless the scene is deleted for broadcast in some syndication markets, it's not revealed how Mike was able to bring unconscious Matt to her ranch.
Matt had been convalescing at Mike's ranch for a full week and hadn't gotten around to asking her why, as a single woman, she was running the ranch alone, and wasn't married.
Three times Victor French's character Favorite was referred to as "Fortunate". Once by Mike when she was bringing coffee out to Favorite before he left her ranch, once by Matt when he asked how "Fortunate" knew his name was Matt; and again by Mike when she told Matt to go save, arrest or whatever "Fortunate."