A group of Juárez followers takes the Ponderosa, wounding Little Joe in the process. Their plan is to rob a wagon full of gold sent out of Mexico by emperor Maximilian.
This episode has a psychoanalytic structure which was perceived by Christopher Mulrooney (if I understand him correctly). The structure is similar to Khouri's As Deusas, and, to a certain degree, also to Kubrick's The Shining. In all of them, the action emulates the workings of the human mind (according to a more or less Freudian model), and the characters are metaphorical incarnations of the constituents of the human psyche. Here, we have a general which stands for the Super-Ego, and two of his lieutenants which stand respectively for the Id and the Ego.
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