- Gridley Maule, Junior who's the young son of a man Lucas shot and killed years earlier, arrives in North Fork seeking revenge. After he threatens a gunfight with Mark, Lucas demands that he be arrested, but Lou Mallory has other plans.
- A young boy no older than Mark, Gridley Maule Jr., shows up in North Fork gunning for Lucas McCain. It seems that Lucas killed the boy's father many years before when the man took a shot at him during a bank robbery. Lucas refuses to get into a gunfight with a kid and Micah throws the boy in jail pending being sent home. Lou thinks all the boy needs is a little discipline combined with TLC for him to mend his ways.—garykmcd
- Mark McCain arrives home and finds himself held at gunpoint by a boy no older than he. The boy is seeking Lucas "for murder" and demands to know where he is. Mark sends the boy on a wild goose chase to the hotel in town and then goes out to the fields to tell his pa what happened. Lucas goes to town to confront the boy, whose father was killed by Lucas during a failed bank robbery attempt several years earlier. Seeking revenge for the death of his father, the boy demands Lucas face him in a shootout. Lucas refuses to do so, especially after seeing that the youngster is deadly with a revolver; he doesn't want to have to shoot to kill someone so young. The boy angrily vows to make Lucas face him, then returns to the McCain ranch where he tries to get Mark to duel with him because 'I can get even with one McCain as good as another.' Mark refuses to shoot it out with the boy; the guns however were not loaded as the sole aim was to do something that would force Lucas into a shootout. Meanwhile, Lucas has realized that the boy is likely headed back to the ranch and races back home; when he arrives, Mark tells him about the duel attempt. Lucas and Mark trick the boy, tie him up and take him to Micah at the jail. He is given the chance to forget his insistence on revenge but refuses, and is put in a cell. Micah says he might be able to send the boy to a reform school. Lou believes that his lack of upbringing and parenting are things she could deal with and asks that he be released in her custody. She slaps the boy around when he refuses to take a bath and in a highly illogical plot twist, he changes from an outlaw into a practical-joking boy, giving Lucas and Micah exploding cigars.
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