Cimarron Strip/The Greeners

The Greeners
Season 1, Episode 23
Airdate	March 7, 1968
Production Number	0723
Written by	Hal Sitowitz
Directed by	Vincent McEveety
← 1x22 Without Honor	— N/A
Cimarron Strip — Season One

Guest Starring: Mark Lenard (Jared Arlyn)

Co-Starring: David Brian (Turner), Peter Jason (David Arlyn), Donna Baccala (Ruth Arlyn), Dan Ferrone (Will Arlyn), Shug Fisher (Pinky), Dub Taylor (Owley), Robert Sorrells (Whit), Roy Jenson (Larkin), Charles Horvath (Homer), Tom Brown Charlie Ives), Harry Lauter (Youngston), Olan Soule (Hendricks), Gregg Palmer (Webber), Allan Kent (Undertaker), Jack Braddock (Fabrizio)

Plot Overview

Crown throws two harmless drifters, Pinky and Owley, that he has known for years out of town after causing a commotion in one of Cimarron's saloons. Humgry the men come across a rustlers camp and scare them off to eat their food.

The God fearing Jared Arlyn, his two sons and daughter, 'Greeners' travelling from Salem to the Cimarron outlet to farm, see Pinky and Owley dragged by ropes behind four horsemen. Later, when they find the two men hanged, they take the bodies into Cimarron. Although Jared Arlyn admits seeing the two hanged men being dragged, he refuses, because he did not witness the actual hanging, to become involved by testifying against the four using his religious convictions as a shield.

Things go wrong for the Arlyn's when they discover the Cimarron outlet is closed until the government makes a desiscion

Crown, MacGregor and tracker Charles Ives set out to find the four horsemen Crown suspects are the murderers. He arrests rancher Turner and his three cowhands as they are about to drag Ives, whom they accuse of cattle rustling, behind a horse.

In jail, Turner is blackmailed for $600 by David Arlyn, who threatens to testify. David plans to buy a farm for his family, the derelict Jacob's place neighbouring Turner's cattle ranch, until his father learns how he acquired the money.

Arc Advancement

Characters

The barman of the Wayfarers Inn, played by Jack Braddock, finally gets a name; Fabrizio.

Quotes

• MacGregor "You've appealed to the wrong clan for a handout".