User Reviews

As this episode opens Caleb and his friend Boone sneak up to a house and peek through a window; they see more than they bargained… a group of men in pig masks drowning a man in a bath. It turns out they are four Northerners who think they can extort money from the good folks of Trinity. Many people assume they must be working with Sheriff Buck but he has nothing to do with it and they soon start to learn doing things in Trinity without the sheriff's blessing is not a wise move. They are staying at the same boarding house as Caleb and he discovers their cache of ill-gotten gains; they try to frighten him but it is they who get a scare.

This was another impressive episode; and probably the first where one sides with Sheriff Buck… even if his methods are rather extreme. The four thugs are suitably unpleasant; one might wonder why people didn't group together to confront them but one has to remember everybody thought they were working for the sheriff; even his own deputy who was assaulted by them. The cast does a solid job; Gary Cole, in particular, is on top form as Sheriff Buck; he is at his most menacing as he deals with the thugs; especially the final scene that nicely mirrors the end of the original 'Mad Max' film.