![]() ![]() The other series regulars are mostly or completely absent. Most of the story takes place away from Dodge City. This is a taught, well-acted drama, and it is one of those rare episodes where Festus is the main character in a serious story. Timmy is a key character and provides some surprising revelations that significantly help Festus in resolving the situation. Child actor Eric Shea, who had also played Aidman's son in the earlier "The Money Store" episode, is Timmy Decker in this story. She had been involved in three previous episodes with her first involvement being in Season 3. ![]() As with Aidman and Kellogg, Gail Kobe makes her final Gunsmoke appearance in this episode as Ellie. This is also his final appearance on the show, and he has never been nastier. John Kellogg played villains in six different Gunsmoke episodes. His performance in this story is particularly good as a desperate man who does desperate things. He also played a leading role in the episode "The Money Store" earlier in Season 14. Aidman's involvement with the show goes all the way back to Season 4. Charles Aidman makes his fifth and final Gunsmoke appearance as Riley Sharp/Bill Crawford. ![]() Decker agrees, but he has other plans he chooses to keep to himself for the time being. Decker can go to Mexico and spend the money freely. He makes a bargain with Decker: Sharp will turn over the money if Decker will leave Ellie and Timmy, the son. Sharp is saved by the fact that he knows where the $25,000 is hidden. He thinks he can tell everyone that he was forced to shoot Sharp when Sharp attacked him. When Ellie is forced to tell Decker about her relationship with Sharp, Decker decides to kill Sharp. With Sharp suffering from blood poisoning, Festus decides to leave the farm to go to Dodge and bring back Doc Adams. (He does not know about Ellie's past with Sharp until later.) When Decker rides into Dodge to find more information about Sharp, he learns about his crimes. Decker cannot stand the idea of Sharp being in his house with Ellie tending to him. She has married a cruel, opportunistic man named Henry Decker. Sharp's ex-wife, Ellie thought Sharp - who she knows as Bill Crawford - was dead. By making the injury worse, he correctly reasons that Festus will choose to stop at the farm instead of continuing to Dodge. Sharp knows his ex-wife and young son live in a nearby farmhouse. Sharp has a leg wound that he intentionally makes worse. Sharp reasoned he could spend the prison time necessary and then use the money after he served the sentence, but he found prison life unbearable and managed to escape after eight long years. Sharp and his partners robbed the freight office in Dodge, killed a clerk, and stole and hid $25,000. It is perhaps time to shelve the hill people and develop more interesting characters.Festus Haggen is picking up a prisoner named Riley Sharp to bring him back to Dodge City to stand trial. It was nice to see Merry Florene and Newly together again but little else is remarkable in this episode. Which we all knew was not going to work out well for anyone. ![]() They send for Merry Florene and grand-ma to help start the new city. There is a rush to pay ten dollars to dig near the mine which Elbert and Shorty named Gold Town. Now Albert and Shorty go into Dodge and show off the gold flakes and pretend they just dug the gold up in hours. The old timer was leaving and gave the two his bag of gold flakes that obtain for the last twenty years. It began when Elbert and Short came across an old-timer miner that had been working for twenty years with little to show in this mine. From 'Hill Girl' in season 13, this season 14 episode features the same cast of clowns as Merry Florene's cousins Elbert and Shorty come up with a scheme to get the residence of Dodge to invest in spot of land in an abandon gold mine. Merry Florene and family should have stayed in the hills but seem fit to return in this episode. ![]()
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