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Another out-of-control vengeful woman? Yikes......head for the hills - it's the nasty "Angela," played by Fay Spain, who starred on a lot of good television shows all the way up to her early death at the age of 50 (cancer).

Two other pretty famous actors are in this episode: Wayne Rogers, who starred in TV's early editions of "MASH," and Warren Oates, who played in a lot of feature films of the '60s and '70s.. They play partners and bad guys in this one.

Randall walks into this situation, looking for a guy named "Quinn," but he's already in the sheriff's possession. He's the guy who was responsible for an old man dying in the show's introduction. That guy was the father of "Angela," and she wants this guy lynched NOW while the sheriff wants to do things the right way and bring the accused back to a neighboring town for trial. She vows he'll never make it, and Randall offers to help. The sheriff declines but a shocking development takes place and now Josh is going to risk getting killed by taking the guy himself.

Not only is this a well-acted episode but it's nicely-photographed, too, and has good suspense. It's a very solid entry in this second season.

Agreed - the cast was stellar! I was just happy to see cutie Wayne Rogers in it. He's the reason I tuned into M*A*S*H on Sunday nights, to assuage my adolescent crush...

Steve McQueen was true-to-form: cool, self-possessed, unflappable, even when everything was going wrong. I half-expected him to wink at the camera...

Hmph. So i just stopped to mention that if the CAST of this episode doesn't THRILL YOU ... gorgeous Faye Spain! Soo young & handsome Warren Oates! Wayne Rodgers! And always ... STEVE!! ... but i digress ... i was gonna say more but first i read @ccthemovieman's review and i think it's completely PERFECT! Soo ... BYEEE!

This is a very interesting story that features several cold hearted killers. The story opens with Sam Pryor (Howard Petrie) fighting back against a robber who kills him as Pryor's daughter (Fay Spain) walks in and sees her Dad murdered.

A second later the Sheriff walks in (Joe Patridge) and arrests the killer (Harry Bakalyan). Fay Spain immediately demands that the Sheriff (her ex-boyfriend) kills Harry. When the Sheriff refuses, Spain vows that he will not live to take the killer to trial.

Fay Spain really put forward a powerfully mean and cold-hearted character in this episode. She was usually a temptress or girlfriend. Sometimes she had a harder edge, but I cannot recall any time that she was this ruthless.

Into town comes Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) along with Warren Oates and young Wayne Rogers (of MASH fame). They tell Randall they are just looking for work, but Randall is suspicious.

As the story unfolds, the Sheriff gets murdered taking Bakalyan out of town. Randall takes over, and he is told by Fay Spain that he is next unless he gives up Bakalyan.

A short time later, as Randall is on the road, he comes across Spain, Oates and Rogers, who are now going to free Bakalyan and kill Randall. Spain is fine with it as long as Bakalyan gets lynched, but the twist is that Oates and Rogers came to town to free Bakalyan, who is their buddy.

The very cool shootout happens, and Randall barely avoids getting killed. One issue I always have with this episode is that I believe it was Fay Spain that ordered the Sheriff to get killed, but apparently the blame is swept to Oates and Rogers.

Afterwards, Fay Spain is asking Randall to look her up in San Francisco, like she just may have had her ex-boyfriend murdered, and she paid Oates and Rogers to kill off Randall too. Why would any sane human want to be her friend??