I like the guest stars in this one, particularly those who played Stiles, the Strayhorn brothers and Isom Dart. I had no trouble believing that they were who they were supposed to be.
The plot was good, although it's a bit of a stretch to think that a man who lied in wait to kill Lazarus, as happened early on, would take a shot at night instead of waiting for daylight when Lazarus gets up and makes coffee.
However, this could be taken to be a clue that the rogue elements of the federal government searching the West for Lazarus know him to be an exceptionally capable man best murdered in his sleep.
There are no Lincoln assassination flashbacks in this episode, but it has already been established that Lazarus was a presidential bodyguard ordered from his post so Lincoln could be killed.
The wrangler characters were written well, and their half-baked and ultimately forfeited idea to steal the herd seemed believable. They were rough, tough men, but becoming outlaws was something that gave them pause. Although they didn't like Dart (because he was both literate and black) he was on the trail with them, and they ultimately threw in with Lazarus to rescue him from hanging.
The end of the episode was a little hard to believe, as Lazarus returns to the site where the US Marshall was killed, and his body has been removed. This presupposes at least one more federal man in the area who was working with the Marshall. Why didn't HE try to kill Lazarus?
But overall the episode works and is well worth watching.
The plot was good, although it's a bit of a stretch to think that a man who lied in wait to kill Lazarus, as happened early on, would take a shot at night instead of waiting for daylight when Lazarus gets up and makes coffee.
However, this could be taken to be a clue that the rogue elements of the federal government searching the West for Lazarus know him to be an exceptionally capable man best murdered in his sleep.
There are no Lincoln assassination flashbacks in this episode, but it has already been established that Lazarus was a presidential bodyguard ordered from his post so Lincoln could be killed.
The wrangler characters were written well, and their half-baked and ultimately forfeited idea to steal the herd seemed believable. They were rough, tough men, but becoming outlaws was something that gave them pause. Although they didn't like Dart (because he was both literate and black) he was on the trail with them, and they ultimately threw in with Lazarus to rescue him from hanging.
The end of the episode was a little hard to believe, as Lazarus returns to the site where the US Marshall was killed, and his body has been removed. This presupposes at least one more federal man in the area who was working with the Marshall. Why didn't HE try to kill Lazarus?
But overall the episode works and is well worth watching.