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Back in the day of the B western it was always a plot gambit to have the cowboy hero ride up and unerringly take the right side of someone outnumbered in a shootout. One reason I like this episode of Laramie so much is that in this case Jess Harper sees three guys shooting it out with David McLean.

Boy does he ever get it wrong. Later on one of those same bounty hunters spots Robert Fuller and McLean in a saloon and the guns start blazing. Fuller gets a scalp wound and when he wakes up he finds himself being held for murder and a $1000.00 bounty by the sheriff. McLean switches identies with him and a wallet which contains $500.00 proceeds from a sale of Sherman cattle.

The only clue Fuller has to go on was McLean remarking he was heading for a certain ranch. I won't say more because the plot really gets convoluted. Also McLean gains his trust again and nearly kills him this time. You'd never think Jess Harper is so easily fooled.

One of the best Laramie episodes.

The only reason to watch this episode is to see karen steele ... she was one of the few women of the era to draw a crowd just by her presence on screen ... i've seen most of everything she's been in and she is the real deal ... unfortunately she died very young from cancer ... i should also mention here that david mclean once again plays the putz he really is and has always been