CBS, alas, had other plans for the show, and it is no longer on their schedule. The movie, which stars Randy Quaid as the convicted killer, is based on some very chilling facts about such events, especially as they pertain to Florida. The electric chair in the State Penitentiary there was for many years notoriously unreliable, and more than a few of the criminals who encountered it lived to tell the tale. One Florida Governor was quoted as saying he liked it that way, since it served as a further deterrent to crime. I can be if only given a chance.
Prayers are in the air for a sequel.
A plays the Shoshone who discovers Walker, alone and desperate in the wild, and brings him to live among his people.