Blind Love
FALLING IN LOVE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DANGEROUS FOR YOUNG JAMES BUTLER HICKOK...
Jimmy Hickok encounters a beautiful woman while out practicing in the woods, but the woman disappears before he gets her name. During dinner that night, he tells the other riders about the mysterious lady and his friends kid him about it, telling him she probably ran when she got a whiff of him. Lou, however, points out that the boys are jealous because one of them his falling in love and he is actually doing something about it.
The
next day, Jimmy goes back to the woods and waits for the woman to pass
by. When she does appear, jimmy stops her and introduces himself. She flirts
with him and gives her name as Sarah Downs.
Jimmy continues to talk about Sarah, irritating the Kid who hasn't done anything about his own feelings for Lou. Jimmy points out to the Kid that "that ain't the look of a brother watching his sister when you stare at Lou." When Kid chides him for acting like an expert about "man-woman" stuff, Jimmy answers by saying "I'm no expert. But at least I got the guts to do something about it."
Later, Jimmy tells Lou that he has begun to think "strange things" like having a family since meeting Sarah. Lou advises Jimmy to do something about his feelings. In an effort to get the relationship going, Lou then tricks both Jimmy and Sarah to come down by the lake for a non-existent picnic. Realizing they have been duped, they make the most out of it -- spending time together, talking and getting to know each other.
In town, Jimmy and Lou sees a man whom Lou says is Sarah's father (she saw him when she dropped by Sarah's place). Unfortunately, the man turns out to be Sarah's husband. When Jimmy confronts Sarah about it, she says she doesn't love him and that he abuses her, showing blue-black marks on her arms. Having had an abusive father, Jimmy easily buys Sarah's story.
That night, Jimmy leaves the stationhouse to fetch Sarah and make a whole new life together. His friends try to stop him to no avail. He doesn't find Sarah when he gets to her house. Instead, someone takes a shot at him. He fires back. When he gets inside, he finds Sarah's husband dead. Someone coldcocks Jimmy and turns him over to Sam, identifying the young rider as the murderer of Randall Downs.
Jimmy
tells Sam that he was only defending himself because someone shot at him
twice. The man who knocked Hickok out cold -- a wrangler in Randall's employ
-- says there was only one shot. The man added that Jimmy probably killed
Randall because Sarah decided to stay with her husband. A seemingly crazy
man jailed next to Hickok says he remembers seeing Sarah and the wrangler
before. He tells Jimmy he is being duped, that Sarah and the wrangler Gentry
are actually married. The man can't testify, however, because he is a "double-dealing
gambler who claims he is a preacher."
Sam asks Lou and the Kid to go to Fort Laramie and check the man's story. Meanwhile, Jimmy is put on trial and is sentenced to hang. In Fort Laramie, Lou and the Kid find out that Sarah has been married before and the man died of mysterious circumstances. They also find a wanted poster for the couple.
Sam takes Jimmy to the gallows but at the last minute Teaspoon, Cody, Buck and Ike stop the proceedings. Cody tells Jimmy they were late because everytime they voted "it came out a tie." Lou and Kid arrive with proof that Sarah and the wrangler are con artists. Sarah and Gentry try to escape when they learn they were found out. But when Gentry tries to kill Hickok, Sarah stops him. Sam, Teaspoon and the boys go after Gentry while Jimmy goes after Sarah. She falls from her horse but her shoe is caught in the stirrup and is dragged for miles.
Until the end, Jimmy believed Sarah loved him but Sarah said he was a fool to think so. Yet, when Sarah is taken away to prison, she grieves for the young man that she had come to love.
IN THEIR WORDS: Jimmy, tired of Kid poking his nose into his love life, angrily tells his friend: That's not the look of a brother watching his sister when you stare at Lou now, is it?
Cody to Jimmy after the latter asked why it took the boys so long to rescue him from the noose: Everytime we voted it came out a tie.
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