... people are willing to believe the most horrible things about Quint (Burt Reynolds) just because he is half Comanche.
Matt is bringing an accused killer back to Dodge City to stand trial. While they are on their way back they run into Quint who is out hunting rabbits with his handy bow and arrow. He joins them in their trip back. They then run across a lone cabin where a woman is digging a grave - among a bunch of graves - in her front yard. The body of her husband is nearby, dead of some natural cause. They all stop to help dig the grave - the woman is exhausted - and to cook up Quint's rabbits into a stew for food for the woman who is now alone. It is never said who the other people in the graveyard are, but some of them are bound to be her children. She, Willa, is now all alone.
Later Quint returns to WIlla's cabin with a deer he has hunted, remembering she had no food there. Willa comes on to Quint who does not reciprocate and Willa says she will make Quint regret turning her down. Later, Willa turns up in Dodge City claiming to have been assaulted by Quint. The thing is, Doc examines her and says she really HAS been assaulted. Everybody initially turns on Quint, believing the worst. Quint refuses to defend himself, angry that the town that is so friendly to him and brings him their blacksmithing business deep down believes him to be such a savage.
This rather routine plot device is redemed by Burt Reynold's acting as Quint. James Arness was interviewed in his later years and asked about what it was like to work with Burt Reynolds. Arness says that everybody could see his talent from the beginning. He said that the role couldn't take advantage of Burt's strongest feature - his talent for comedy. This particular episode is one that makes full use of Reynolds's dramatic chops.