I’m tired of dead fiancés and pointless wars on Bonanza! It’s high time we had a fun
episode, and a fun episode we shall now have!
For a refreshing change of pace, we start with a man walking
down the streets of Virginia City, instead of riding up to a location on a
horse. It’s been awhile since our man’s cleaned himself up, but he speaks articulately
when he stops to ask the sheriff for directions.
Behind them, laugher echoes from the Bucket of Blood as
Little Joe flies backwards through the doors and lands on the street. The mysterious
stranger helps Little Joe up, and watches as Joe wordlessly charges back into
the saloon to finish whatever fight he was in the middle of. The stranger asks
the sheriff if Little Joe might need any help, but the sheriff is like: “Him?
No.”
Little Joe gets punched out of the saloon again, but this
time the stranger bounces him back in before he can hit the ground. Again, Joe
just silently returns to the fray. It sounds like things are starting to get
rough.
The stranger asks if the sheriff, as the local avatar of
justice, might want to go in there and maybe stop the violence. A familiar
figure in a ten gallon hat passes in the background behind them and goes
straight into the Bucket of Blood. The sheriff says that these things always
have a way of quieting themselves down.
