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The Rifleman/Woman from Hog Ridge
| Woman from Hog Ridge | |
| Season 3, Episode 2 | |
| Airdate | October 4, 1960 |
| Production Number | 2470 |
| Written by | Calvin J. Clements |
| Directed by | William Claxton |
| Produced by | Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven |
| ← 3x01 Trail of Hate |
3x03 → Seven |
| The Rifleman — Season Three | |
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Woman from Hog Ridge is the second episode of the third season of The Rifleman, and the seventy-eighth episode overall.
Starring: Chuck Connors (Lucas McCain), Johnny Crawford (Mark McCain)
Additional Cast: Paul Fix (Micah Torrance), Dee J. Thompson (Ma Boyle), Jan Stine (Johnny Boyle), Lane Bradford (Martin), Jim Hurst (Sylvester), Bill Quinn (Sweeney), Robert Hoy (Lester Boyle), Charles Tannen (Storekeeper)
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Plot Overview
Lucas and Mark interrupt two young men stealing horses. Lucas is forced to defend himself and shoots and kills one of the men. He is one of the sons of Ma Boyle, the bitter and hard-bitten matriarch of a family of unsavory hillbillies who live by their own laws and Micah foresees trouble. When the Boyle clan arrives in North Fork, they are set on hanging the man responsible for the killing and, as Micah predicted, they begin making trouble for the townsfolk. When the Boyles find out Lucas had killed one of the Boyle boys, Ma Boyle, ignoring the reason he had to shoot him, forces Lucas into a gunfight with her son Johnny, the dead man's brother. Lucas refuses as he knows Johnny would not stand a chance against him in a gunfight, so Ma Boyle orders her clan to lynch Lucas while pulling guns on Micah to prevent him from stopping them, leading Mark to angrily berate Ma Boyle for her hateful attitude, for letting vengeance blind her to what really happened and for her willingness to put her son in harm's way to prove a point. After Johnny confesses to being with his brother on the night of the shooting and admits the truth, the tense situation is defused and the Boyles, with the exception of Johnny (who has to stay behind to answer for his part in the incident), leave without further trouble.
