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It should be a hint where this episode was going in that Jarrod doesn't crack a smile even once in the whole episode. This is about a bad love affair come back to haunt him after too many years, a Civil War never really ended, a female spy named Julia who used a friend of Jarrod's during the war, the friend later killing himself, and Julia coming to Stockton because life had gone badly and she wants to try to get back some of the love she and Jarrod had during the war. But Jarrod wants none of it. He gets sucked in when she is blamed in a murder. The town turns on him and he is beaten up and out of action. Brother Nick steps in to beat the truth out of those who know who really committed the murder, but Julia never even gets close to getting Jarrod back. The best he can do is say he wishes it could have been different. A downer of an episode, but there was no way for it to be otherwise. Still, it was so well done you really didn't want it to end on an up note.

Another fine turn for Richard Long and a wonderful performance by the absolutely gorgeous Julie London. Interestingly, 20 years before this was filmed, the two played brother and sister in a Civil War epic called "Tap Roots." The characters of the people they played in "Tap Roots" are very much like you could picture Jarrod and Julia being during the CW, and since they were so young when they made "Tap Roots" in 1948, you could see them physically, too.

Singer Julie London gives a good dramatic turn as a performer come back to her home town of Stockton. But she's hardly welcome there as she was not only a southern sympathizer, but a spy who used her feminine wiles to elicit information from the gullible and the horny.

It was nice to even her Julie London sing albeit her performance is slightly interrupted. Later on the man who booked for this hometown concert in his theater is murdered and London is the suspect.

Such a thing occurring in Stockton and its Jarrod Barkley for the defense. But Richard Long has some history with London himself and he gets assaulted for even to dare to take her case. In the end it's Nick Barkley who saves the day and the rough and tumble Peter Breck gives a good account of himself taking on three guys.

Interesting story, but I'm with Long when he asks London why she simply didn't settle in the south among her friends.