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Wow...this episode might make what I have to say in this review sound like complete gibberish. Cause this one was a weird one.

Let's start with the opening. Stagecoach door opens and I would've placed money Wendy was 13 years old. Obviously the writers must've had some concerns about how young Wendy looked because you have a throw away scene of her saying she's 19 and how nobody believes her real age. So there might be some uncomfortable feelings seeing Joe go into heat over this young lady that still looks 13.

I see why this young lady was cast. She talks about her father a LOT in this episode*. Logically I can say she's put her dad on a pedestal because that's all she had. He wasn't in her life that much and all the poor girl can do is hold onto her dreams of this dream father she's picturing in her head. But logic can go out the window for me. It was starting to become creepy with 19 year old Wendy talking about her dad all the time. It might've been even more creepy to have an older actress playing this role. *Even Joe's getting irritated that she brings her dad up every time they talk. And I'm going here...Joe, do you really want this? I can't imagine it being a pleasant event if you're in bed with Wendy and she calls out "Father" instead of your name during the throes of ecstasy. Cause it was gonna head in that direction imo.

This is another episode that shows Ben Cartwright is a class act. Poor Wendy's caught between a rock and a hard place. Her father isn't wiring her money so she's basically out of luck when it concerns a place to stay and having the freedom of being able to use money to do anything she needs to do. Ben tries to put $300 into Wendy's account but it comes out that Ben's the one that put the money into the account and Wendy chooses to not use any of the money. She ends up staying at the Ponderosa. Wendy's dad does show up on the scene and he explains why he hasn't had much to do with Wendy and the episode ends with our happily ever after ending of father and daughter riding off together. ??????

I know that last remark sounds catty. Wendy's mother has passed away so I do understand the ideal of "It's just the two of us now and we need to be there for each other and support each other." Again, this episode was that bizarre that I'm leaning more towards "few steps away from being the father/daughter version of the Dollangangers from "Flowers in the Attic" "

I hate if I sound dismissive about the episode because it was still a pretty interesting episode to watch. It kept my attention even though I rolled my eyes at Joe going into heat again.

It's an uncertain that father and daughter Gene Lyons and Judi Rolin face unless she returns to Virginia City and marries Little Joe Cartwright. But they have each other.

Michael Landon halts a runaway stagecoach as it's pulling into Virginia City and saves the beautiful Ms. Rolin. She's in town expecting her father to arrive in a few days and stays at the hotel. Her father is an entrepreneurial businessman who is expecting to set up a freight line with Virginia City as a terminus. But no money, no guarantee of credit for her bills comes. Still she's got Little Joe flipping over her and who could blame him, she's a knockout.

In the end we know Lyons has come up short, but Lorne Greene gives him a lesson in Cartwright family values on the importance of one's children.

I always like happier endings, but these two as they leave Virginia City and Ponderosa hospitality face one uncertain future. What will this high flier do for a living?