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This adventure begins with Luke driving four people on the stagecoach. Johnny and Mary Kelly and their about five year old child, Sarah. Also on the stage is a saloon operator named Ben Marble. During the trip, Luke has to pull one of the horses out of the team due to a lame leg. Johnny Kelly does not like the idea and gets into fight with Luke. Before long Luke has to defend himself and kills Johnny right in front of his wife and small child. Mary, the wife, is so distraught that she agrees to go work in a saloon with Ben Marble but wants nothing to do with her child. She leaves Sarah in the hands of the man that killed her father which is Luke Perry. Now Luke is going to raise the child.

The young child, Sarah, soon likes living in her new surroundings but every time the stagecoach arrives, she puts on her best dress hoping that her mother will be getting off the stage. But like always she finds out that her mother is not coming and runs off crying.

Luke gets word that Mary, after being used by Ben Marble, is now a drunk that is wanting to sign any paper that will give custody of her child to Luke. When Luke goes to see her, she is thin and close to death. Luke feels if he can get her away from the elements, that Ben Marble has placed her, then she will want to live and raise her child. So Luke gets her a job at a station depot where she will cook for the customers far away from the distractions of life. Everything seems to be going well until Ben Marble wants her back.

Perhaps I am a sentimental sucker for stories like this but I actually enjoyed the tale. The acting, which included Tammy Marihugh that played the young Sarah, was good enough to get the viewer right in the middle of the story. And with the disappointment that Sarah experienced after each Stagecoach arrival, it was delightful, and even chilling, when the last scene of the show unfolded. Good watch.

I think the producers wanted this story to be both sentimental and hard hitting. To me it came across as strange and nonsensical.

Johnny and Mary Kelly along with their young daughter Sara are on the stagecoach. Johnny is betting and losing money to card sharp Ben Marble.

Luke Perry checks on his horse, one of them needs a rest. This upsets Johnny who tries inexplicably to shoot Perry dead. Only Perry gets him first.

It is deemed as self defence. A distraught Mary then leaves her child to Luke to look after. Even though she blames Luke for killing her husband.

Eventually little Sara bonds with Luke even though she saw him kill her dad. Meanwhile Mary has gone of with Ben Marble into a life of prostitution and drink.

As time goes by Simon Kane tells Luke he needs to formally adopt Sara. Luke wants to check on her mother first, to make sure she is happy about it and whether she could be sobered up.

Ben Marble though is not happy, he views Sara as his property.

It is a pretty flawed story. Ben wants Sara but for a life of prostitution, to sell to other men in saloon bars. A man who always calculate the odds. Yet he gets involved in a gunfight with Luke.