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5. Episode V: The Buffalo Gun

As Eli aims to make penance for his actions 15 years ago, Trafford desperately tries to feed his herd with an immense hayrick, Marshall continues to deal with the fallout of Flynn's death and a fresh attack on Trafford's cattle, and Cornelia has a run-in with the businesswoman Black-Eyed Mog.

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Kills On Water demands that Whipp kill rival outlaw Black-Eyed Mog. Under the pretense of warning Mog, Locke kills her, earning Whipp's freedom and liberating a Native boy held captive by Mog. In Hoxem, Marshall discovers that Timothy Flynn and Billy Myers had identical markings, and Martha shoots one of her stolen steers in defiance. Whipp and Locke grow closer, and he offers to take her the rest of the way north. Reaching the Wyoming border, they almost consummate their relationship, but Locke abruptly withdraws. The boy is taken by Major MacKay, director of a telegraph company, who "educates" Native children to become servants.

Whipp recognises one of MacKay's captives as Touching Ground, Running Hawk's widow, who identifies the boy as her son, White Moon. Whipp and Locke flee with White Moon, but are pinned down by MacKay's long-range buffalo rifle. Touching Ground kills MacKay, sacrificing herself as Whipp fends off their pursuers, but a feverish Locke collapses.

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