Josh Randall is barely in this episode. Noah Beery, Jr. Plays the father of Jonathan Bolt. The beginning is a scene where a gunfighter makes a coward out of Jonathan Bolt, and Noah Beery comes to the rescue of his wimpy son. The scenes between Beery and Bolt are beyond awkward, and Bolt and his father have no chemistry at all as father and son. It is like they had just met for the first time (it was probably true as actors).
Noah Beery spends the whole episode calling Steve McQueen as "Josh" and then "Sam" and there is no point to it except that this episode seems to be about building up Noah Beery as some kind of ecentric friend of Randall, and possibly a supporting character if the series had continued.
The whole feel of this episode is slapdash, like they realized that McQueen was not returning, and they tried to improvise some kind of continuity using Noah Beery Jr as a possible replacement. I am surprised that Wright King was not worked into this episode also. It would have been interesting to see Wright King and Noah Beery Jr trying to take over for Steve McQueen if a fourth season had been filmed.
The fact that all the scenes are on the beach makes it seem even more ridiculous. Why would Josh Randall travel a thousand miles on horseback to find two bounties in California? You get the feeling they just wanted to slap something together that they could put on TV, and it turned out to be the final episode.
The only highlight is that McQueen and Beery are clearly riding the horses that are going down some steep sandy California hills, and I was impressed. They were both good at riding horses. The scenes looked a bit dangerous.