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Have Gun - Will Travel: Brother's Keeper (1961)
Correction and variations to the above review
The puma attack occurs AFTER Paladin has received the $2500 reward in Santa Fe. He is heading back to San Francisco. The key to the story is the complicity of the entire population of the small town, Prarie (sic) Orchard. Everyone lies in order to share in the culpability. The money was distributed in payment for debts among the towns people, as is shown in the final scene. In retrospect it is amazing how elaborate the people went to create the deception. The opening is a dilemma in itself. Paladin is playing a chess game against himself based upon the strategies of Napoleon and Hannibal. As he states, after making a move, he has to block out the strategy of the previous player and assume that of the other. His deductive skills are put to test from the observations after the attack while he is in a semi-conscious state, of the two men who found him, but leave him to die - a ring, spurs, boots, a gun holster, and voice accents.
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Date the episode
For one of the few occasions the historical time can be inferred, though is is probably just an anachronism. The opening scene takes place at the San Francisco Opera House where Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac is being performed. The play was written in 1897 and first performed in Paris, France on 28 December 1897, so this episode takes place later than this. However, this was probably just an oversight, one that the television audience would not have noticed. In this opening scene, Paladin is seen conversing with two attractive young ladies, neither of whom is addressed by name, but are identified in the closing credits as Fifi and Mimi. Fifi is played by Dyan Cannon, though her name is listed as Diane.