Cade visits a Native American casino where the locals are undecided as to whether to keep the business going and two Gua are trying to use the situation to their own ends.

There’s little more to this, and it’s certainly not the most coherent of episodes. Despite early suggestions to the contrary, Eddie is barely involved. Then there’s Lonetree, a Native American who hates the impact of the White Man on his culture. Well, fair enough, but I thought this kind of prejudice had pretty much vanished by now. And then there’s Native American spirits: never a good idea, and it’s not clear how the ‘Woman of the Woods’ is familiar with the Gua or why she’s helping Cade.

The bounty hunter plotline seems almost tacked on as Cade dispenses with him with relative ease. There are plenty of things happening: Gua theft and takeover, Native American mysticism, the bounty hunter, but unless I blinked and missed something important, the concepts don’t seem to come together at all. The Gua are relatively ineffective (one can’t shoot Cade due to his over-reliance on an arrow; ‘That’s it, load, pull back the string and… oh he’s gone.’) and the other is picked off easily by wolves. Their plan seems poorly thought through and their only real power seems to be that they can talk people into agreeing with them.

There’s too much here and as such, it’s badly developed, poorly formed and simply a big waste of time. It doesn’t seem to do Cade any favours in the end, so why should us viewers care either?

**

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