From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Young Riders double feature -- what happened?
Date: 25 Jul 92 02:34:22 GMT
Reply-To: nad@tegra.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA

In article <1992Jul24.135440.14121@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak) writes:
>I recorded the first hour of last night's Young Riders episode,
>not knowing that they were showing two episodes back-to-back.
>Can anybody fill me in on what happened in the second hour?
>It was supposed to be the final chapter of the the show, and I've
>got to know how it ended.   Any info much appreciated.  Thanks
>in advance.
>

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Well, briefly:

Jesse's brother Frank showed up to get him.  Jesse didn't leave right
away, thus inadvertantly hanging around to hear of the plans of the
Federal soldiers to go raid the place where Peirson's raiders were
staying.  The Federal Captain had gotten the list from Rosemary, and had
it decoded. 

Jesse told Frank about the raid, and when the Federals showed up, they
were ambushed.  Rosemary followed the Federals, determined to be sure
that Peirson was killed, and Noah couldn't stop her, so he went with
her.  The Federals retreated (after suffering about 75% losses), and
Rosemary went riding into the middle of it, to get Peirson.  Noah
followed and was shot several times.  Cody and the remaining soldiers
got them out, but Noah died on the way back to town. 

Hickock went after Frank James, shot him in the arm, and almost captured
him, but was thwarted by Jesse, who eventually hit Jimmy over the head
(after appropriate anguished looks of indecision...).  But Jimmy did get
a chance to tell Jesse that Noah had been killed. 

Jesse helped Frank get away, and then returned to town to tell Teaspoon
and Hickock where Peirson's men were holed up (to make amends for Noah).
Teaspoon told Jesse to go home to Missouri and lay low.

The Federals and the remaining riders raided Peirson's camp, bringing
along a cannon (a very fast re-loading cannon, I might mention -- they
got off at least a half dozen shots...) and a gatling gun.  They
thoroughly obliterated the bad guys. 

Meanwhile, Jesse stayed with Frank until he was able to ride, and then
told him to go on.  He showed up at Noah's funeral, watched from a
distance and rode off. 

Throughout the episode were various arguments between the riders and
Teaspoon, and a couple scenes with Lou and the Kid, etc.  that didn't
really add materially to the plot.  Lou did suit up and ride with the
rest of them for the final raid, so hopefully she won't turn into a
complete wallflower now that she's married...

I thought it was a pretty decent episode, though not exceptional.  They
did set up an explanation of how young Jesse James went off and ended up
becoming an outlaw, which was fitting.

         Nancy


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