Rhoda (The Wild Wild West)

Rhoda (Susan Hart) is a secondary antagonist in the 1968 episode "The Night of the Fugitives" for the TV series "The Wild Wild West".
Rhoda is the owner of Diamond Horseshoe a saloon in the town of Epitaph, Colorado, which is owned by the crime syndicate. Jim West (Robert Conrad) arrives at the saloon and talks to Sheriff Baggs (Charles McGraw). West is on official government business looking for Norbet Plank (J.S. Johnson), who is a murderer and bookkeeper for the syndicate. The sheriff covers for Plank, telling West that he left town in the morning.
After leaving the saloon, Rhoda tells the sheriff to get word to the boss that the feds are after Plank. From there, she went into the back where Plank was located and warned him. Plank tells Rhoda that it is her job to give him refuge and protection from the law. Just then, West crashed through the window and attempted to take Plank by gunpoint. This was foiled by one of Rhoda's henchmen. While Rhoda left to get a body bag for West, he attempted to escape but was unsuccessful. Rhoda ordered the sheriff to put West in the jail until the boss arrived in the morning.
When the boss arrived, it is revealed that he is Diamond Dave Desmond (Simon Oakland), and Rhoda is more than just business partners with him. 
After Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) helps to free West, West happens upon Rhoda in her saloon. Rhoda offers to help West escape from the town with horses for a quid pro quo. Her offer is to receive 5 minutes alone with Plank in order to say goodbye. In actuality, Rhoda wants a chance to get say goodbye to him before he is taken away. West rejects her offer.
When Rhoda learns that Plank may have hidden the books in his room, she betrays Diamond and tries to find them herself. The books are the bookkeeping records that Plank is carrying on the syndicate. The records would take down Desmond's operation.
West goes to Rhoda's room where she reiterates her offer. He also reveals that he knows that Rhoda just wants to convince Plank to give her the location of the books. She tells him it is for insurance against the day that Desmond sees a girl he likes better than herself. With the books she would have blackmail against Desmond to make a clean break from him.
Once again West rejected her offer. As a result, she pressed a button which locked the door and brought an iron gate down keeping him from leaving the room. She then through an object through the window breaking the glass and screaming for help. When Desmond and her men arrived to help, West escaped.
The records didn't actually exist, because Plank had the information memorized instead. Rhoda and Desmond tore up Plank's room looking for them, but with no luck. West was able to escape the town. Desmond was caught trying to cross into Mexico with his gang. There was no mention as to if Rhoda was included in the capture.
==Trivia==
*Susan Hart appeared as one of Goldfoot's Robots in the 1965 film, "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine".
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