Bad Company
WILL JAMES BUTLER HICKOK FIND ANSWERS IN THE LAWLESS TOWN OF REGRETS OR WILL HE FIND SWIFT DEATH...
Teaspoon receives a letter from Russell, Majors and Wadell telling them that a reporter was going to come down to the station to document the riders' "way of life." The stationmaster says he thinks the company is more interested in publicity rather than actual documentation of the riders' day to day activities.
When
the reporter arrives, Cody, Kid and Ike put up their best front. But their
good behavior doesn't last long when they realize that the reporter is
more interested on getting the goods about the infamous James Butler Hickok
than on the heroes of the Pony Express.
Meanwhile, Jimmy returns to Sweetwater after a run, sad and angry. Kid tries to find out what Jimmy's problem is but Hickok ignores him. Jimmy decides to leave Sweetwater because all he brings to people he loves is "trouble and pain." Rachel tries to stop him, telling him that his friends could help. But Jimmy tells her that the only truth is that he has been pretending to be something he is not.
Lou offers to go to the last place Jimmy went to so they could find out what was troubling their friend. Just outside of town, Lou meets up with a man who tells her that Jimmy accidentally killed a woman in Benton during a gunfight with a drifter. The riders all want to go after their friend, but Teaspoon says that what was happening seems to be a part of Jimmy's destiny. He does allow Kid and Noah to go after the troubled rider.
Jimmy,
on the other hand, found himself in a town called Regrets -- described
as the most lawless town in the territory. Kid says nobody goes there unless
they were looking for trouble. Despite their best efforts to lose her,
the female reporter managed to follow them. Deciding it would be better
if they can keep their eye on her, Kid and Noah takes her with them.
Shortly after reaching Regrets, Jimmy find himself in trouble and is saved by a prostitute with the heart of gold. It appears that Jimmy and some of the other riders helped out the woman in the past and she was repaying Hickok for his kindness. The next day, Jimmy finds the sheriff dead and volunteers to take the badge. When a man asks who was volunteering, Jimmy uses his infamous moniker for the first time and introduces himself as "Wild Bill" Hickok.
Kid and Noah arrive with the reporter in tow and they try to take Jimmy home, but Hickok is stubborn. Later, the husband of the woman Jimmy accidentally killed arrive in Regrets and challenges Jimmy to a gunfight. Jimmy agrees but his friends try to stop him because they know Jimmy wants to be killed. During the fight, though, the man couldn't kill Jimmy. It turns out that he is feeling guilty because an argument between him and his wife caused her to run unwittingly into Jimmy's line of fire.
IN THEIR WORDS: Teaspoon, answering Noah's question about publicity being the truth: Sort of. Stretched a bit. But not so it would take your head off.
Teaspoon: There's something about Hickok, I don't know, that's bigger than life. If I wasn't superstitious -- which I am -- I'd call it destiny. Whatever it is, all I know is that we can't keep protecting him from it because, sooner or later, he would have to face it. And it ain't something a man ever beats. Not in this life anyways.
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