Plot: We start with Brisco and Bowler doing a poor job guarding a stage full of money. They spend so much time debating who was smartest, or most dangerous of Bly's gang that they get ambushed by robbers, including one with a figure that's pretty familiar to Brisco.
The trail leads to a cabin near Reno, and to Dixie Cousins, plus her younger sister, Dolly. Seems Dolly's casino was stolen out from under her by a family called the Tattaglias, and they're raising enough money for their crack poker player to win the casino back from the youngest Tattaglia, Dino. The Cousins sisters' problem is their crack poker player is Whip Morgan. Not that Whip isn't good, but he's still not always bright, especially when dealing with Dino's older brother, Joey (Paul Ben-Victor).
Well, if at first you don't succeed in winning your casino back, open another one and steal all the Tattaglias business. Which leads to inevitable conflict, eventually bringing in Enzio Tattaglia, patriarch of the family. Amongst all this we have the issue of Dolly making eyes at Brisco, which leads to Dixie playing around with Whip, which leads to sniping between the sisters, and a bit of chest puffing out of County. But nobody makes eyes at Bowler, so disappointing.
Does Brisco use his gun? He fires repeatedly at various outlaws.
Stuff Comet does: N/A
Kiss Count: 1, Dixie (22 overall).
Is Pete Hutter in this episode? No.
Pete Quote: N/A
Non-Pete Quote: Joey - 'It's funny, you always did rely a little too much on luck, Whip. But luck, it's kind of like an unfaithful woman, right? Eventually, it runs out.'
Brisco's Coming Things: Neon lights.
Other: Even though I'm on the record as not being a fan of mobster movies in general, I did mostly enjoy this episode. It helps I don't think we're entirely supposed to take them seriously as threats. Dino's clearly a clumsy dope, and while Joey's clever, he's a little to sure of that, and a little too hot-headed. Enzio has the benefit of experience making him calmer, but he and Brisco also negotiate in the middle of the street, sitting on chairs at a little table with a red-and-white checkercloth on it. A bit too tongue in cheek to take seriously. Which is fine. "The Brooklyn Dodgers" suffered because it expected me to take the Tommies seriously as threats to Brisco and Bowler, and I resolutely refused to do so.
The downside was that we hadn't seen Dixie since "A.K.A. Kansas", and this seems to play out much the same story. Brisco can't express his feelings, but also gets proprietary when Whip starts to believe Dixie is interested in him. It's a little irritating he hasn't managed to address this since the mess with Doc McCoy. He does go a long way towards demonstrating his feelings when dramatically rescues Dixie from some of Joey's guys, and that was an impressive scene. But it wouldn't have been any less impressive without all the friction between Dixie and Brisco earlier in the episode.
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