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The Adventures of Brisco County jr - Bounty Hunters' Convention

episode 16

USA 1994
produced by
Paul Marks, Jeffrey Boam (executive), Carlton Cuse (executive) for Boam/Cuse Productions, Warner Brothers/Fox Network
directed by Kim Manners
starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Johnathon Schaech, Clare Wren, Morgan Woodward, Ian Ogilvy, Clement von Franckenstein, Rex Linn, J.G. Hertzler, Luis Contreras, Robert Winley, David Youse, Coleman McClary
written by James L. Novack, created by Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse, music by Velton Ray Bunch

TV series
The Adventures of Brisco County jr

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Bounty hunters Brisco (Bruce Campbell) and Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) and their employer Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson) are invited to a bounty hunter conference on an island off the coast by rich philanthropist Hayes (J.G. Hertzler), who figures organizing bounty hunters is the way to make the West a safer place. And bounty hunters from all walks of life have come to attend, there's dandy-ish former Scotland Yard agent Furlong (Ian Ogilvy), young hotshot Nevada (Johnathon Schaech), cutthroats turned bounty hunters Mountain (Rex Linn), El Gato (Luis Contreras) and Snakeskinner (Robert Winley), inventor of non-lethal weapons Dr. Ambrose Curber (Clement von Franckenstein), and then there's Sam Travis (Morgan Woodward), an bounty hunter from an older generation still vying for relevance. However, the conference is off to a bad start when Snakeskinner is blown up in his room and Travis is dissolved to his skeleton by acid in his bath tub. Also, an attempt is made on Furlong, but Brisco can save him in the nick of time. Brisco is beginning to see a pattern, and he starts to investigate, and soon unmasks Hayes to be nothing but an actor ... just he's not a very likely culprit, as he's one of the struggling kind who takes any job he can get. Also, he leaves with the next supply boat, leaving all the surviving bounty hunters with just his secretary Rosalind (Clare Wren). More bounty hunters fall, like Mountain and El Gato, and an attempt is made on Brisco's life, but he can save himself in the nick of time. Meanwhile, Lord Bowler discovers a secret passage way that leads from his room to the killer's secret lair, and also to Rosalind's room - and after being almost killed for his discovery, he and Brisco find out the killer's planning to kill the rest of them by poisoned champagne, so to find out who the killer is, they replace the poisoned bottle with one spiked with sleeping pills, to for the final toast see who'll refuse to drink, as he or indeed she is logically the killer - and indeed it looks as if Rosalind is behind it all, though she tells Brisco she actually has been behind the conference all along and has only hired Hayes because nobody would have taken a woman seriously, and Brisco is actually kind of impressed - but still has to insist on her partaking in the champagne ... and he's finally convinced when she passes out sleeping. With the others all having had champagne and down for the count as well, Brisco and Bowler pretend to break down themselves - to ultimately literally unmask the killer to be Travis, who has only faked his own death by acid by throwing a random skeleton into his tub. And for Travis, who has somewhat lost his grip on modern times, this was merely a ploy to get rid of the competition ...

 

It's fun to see the series deviate from its western tropes for a bit to do a pretty classic whodunnit, replete with inventive killings, red herrings, close brushes with death, and a cast of colourful enough characters to keep the audience guessing to the last. And of course, casting Ian Ogilvy of The Saint fame was an inspired idea. But what really makes this episode work is that despite its genre swap it never falls out of line with the rest of the series, as the central characters and the whole thing's brand of humour are still the same, as is its sense for adventure and excitement and even its slight science fiction tinge, to make this another fine episode.

 

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