Seven years into the series' run, this minor but revealing episode's title could as easily apply to The Virginian as the sullen lone wolf Garrison, played by former pro footballer Shelly Novack. Drury's character identifies a kindred spirit in this isolated individual who keeps to himself and won't be prodded or pushed. Garrison also recognizes the invisible bond between them. In the midst of a struggle, the two men suddenly burst out in gales of laughter, a puzzling moment but clearly cathartic for them both. Drury never shared such a pointed exchange with David Hartman, who laid an egg with his recurring role as philosophical cow puncher David Sutton. Hartman's character was written out of the last act of this, his final appearance in the series, which just about says it all.
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The Loner
bkoganbing13 March 2020
A real hard case comes to Shiloh when James Drury hires on Shelley Novack as a
new hand. He's got a hair trigger temper and ain't much for small talk conversation.
Sociability ain't a requirement to work for Shiloh, but when the money from a sale of horses winds up missing, a sale from Shiloh to neighbor John Doucette and Doucette's hand Michael Conrad winds up dead.
I have to say that Novack's attitude doesn't help his case. Most would drop the iconoclasm in real life in the jackpot he was in.
We never do find out the reason for the chip on the shoulder.
Sociability ain't a requirement to work for Shiloh, but when the money from a sale of horses winds up missing, a sale from Shiloh to neighbor John Doucette and Doucette's hand Michael Conrad winds up dead.
I have to say that Novack's attitude doesn't help his case. Most would drop the iconoclasm in real life in the jackpot he was in.
We never do find out the reason for the chip on the shoulder.
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