Elkhorn — Season 1, Episode 7: Bandits
Drama • 44 min • 2 seasons, 18 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
When a masked bandit terrorizes the stagecoach line, killing a passenger, Theodore Roosevelt and his Elkhorn men join the citizens of Medora to track down the culprit. All the clues point to Redhead Finnegan, a petty criminal and ne’er-do-well who is suddenly flush with cash. The townsfolk confine Finnegan in an abandoned cavalry jailhouse, but he soon escapes and the stagecoach robberies resume. Deadwood’s sheriff arrives to help lay a trap, but things aren’t at all what they seem. In the end, it’s the town’s newspaper publisher who finally puts the clues together and identifies the killer, bringing his reign of terror to an end.
About Elkhorn
Theodore Roosevelt is bound for greatness—he's a Harvard graduate from a prominent family, a rising politician, and his wife, Alice, is pregnant. Then his promising future turns tragic. His mother succumbs to typhoid, and Alice dies in childbirth on the same day. Devastated, Teddy leaves his urban world of high rises and high society for the desolate Dakota Territory, where, by facing the harsh reality of surviving life on America’s frontier, he intends to remake himself into something greater.