The spotlight is on Richard Long in this episode as he is the only series regular in this story. Jarrod Barkley is visiting a nearby town to arrange a purchase of some Barkley real estate to three Mexican brothers and finds they have been lynched for the rape/murder of Antoinette Bower and the beating of her husband Jason Evers. Evers recognizes the trio when they come to town and the Mexicans are lynched all before Jarrod arrives.
But he's got a letter the tone of which convinces him that these people could not be sex criminals. More important there's a piece of information there that casts doubt on Evers's version. He and sheriff Frank Marth do some investigating and I have to say the conclusion was at some variance to how I thought it would come out.
This story is an Oxbow Incident type lesson against the evils of mob violence. That's always a good lesson that bears repeating.
But he's got a letter the tone of which convinces him that these people could not be sex criminals. More important there's a piece of information there that casts doubt on Evers's version. He and sheriff Frank Marth do some investigating and I have to say the conclusion was at some variance to how I thought it would come out.
This story is an Oxbow Incident type lesson against the evils of mob violence. That's always a good lesson that bears repeating.