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As a bedtime story, a father (Frederick Coffin) reads a story from a dime novel about the exploits of Brisco County jr (Bruce Campbell) to his son:

This one's from the early days of his employ with Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson), when he was still trailing the killers of his father - and this time, it's professional bankrobber Ned Zed (Casey Siemaszko), who just happens to have set his eyes on a newly opening bank owned by Socrates's employer Ethan Emerson (James Drury). Brisco has of course picked up his trail, but is side-tracked by Frances (Brenda Bakke), an ex who just happens to own the hotel he's staying at, and who uses all her charms to get her back. Distracted like this, Brisco walks into a trap laid by Frenchy Bearpaux (Ray Bumatai), a trapper with a bear paw for a hand who wants revenge on Brisco chiefly because his father, whom he holds a grudge against, is already dead. Brisco is almost sawed in half and only in the nick of time saved by Frances. Brisco races to Emerson's bank, just in time to see it held up by Ned Zed - dressed in a metal suit and carrying a prototype machine gun, which makes him pretty much invincible, and Brisco and company only escape being killed by locking themselves in the bank's vault. Once freed from the vault by his horse, Brisco picks up pursuit and soon has the upper hand, as while the suit makes one impervious to bullets, it's not quite as good when it comes to riding or one-on-one fighting ...

Brisco's later companion Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) also features in this story, but here he has (temporarily) given up bountyhunting for a payroll delivery job.

It's a bit disappointing that this episode doesn't pick up where last episode left off, with Brisco, Socrates Poole and Lord Bowler all becoming gouvernment agents, and truth to be told this one also could have done without the bedtime story framing device, but that all said, it's pretty solid western entertainment very much in the tradition of 1930s B westerns, when genre movies were still allowed to feature sci-fi ideas. Solid as it may be though, it's also not one of the more memorable episodes of the series, following the established formula a bit too closely. That said, at least it's pretty enjoyable while it lasts.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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