History Recap / TheWildWildWestS2E26TheNightOfTheCadre

Disguises used by Artie: [[http://s385.photobucket.com/user/l8dreamr/media/Artemus%20Gordon%20Disguises/PrisonGuardCadre.jpg.html?sort=6&o=104 Prison Guard]]; [[http://s385.photobucket.com/user/l8dreamr/media/Artemus%20Gordon%20Disguises/PrisonGuardCadre.jpg.html?sort=6&o=104 Kelton, Traveling Salesman]]

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Trask leaves Jim alive after discovering his true identity, deciding that Jim would be more valuable as one of his mind-controlled minions.

* GoneHorrioblyRight: PlayedForLaughs in the epilogue. Artie, trying to perfect his KnockoutGas, succeeds so well that he puts himself to sleep.

-->'''Artie''': ''(upon seeing the cadre members)'' "Great jumping balls of St. Elmo's fire. You didn't tell me this was going to be a costume ball."

* HaHaHaNo: Artie's [[LamePunReaction response]] to Jim's [[{{Pun}} oh-so-punny quip]] about KnockoutGas.

The warden of a territorial prison apparently goes mad after hearing a whistle, first setting free a murderer who's about to be hanged, then attacking West and finally dying of unknown causes. An autopsy reveals that a crystal had been implanted in the warden's brain - one which resonates at the frequency produced by the whistle. Since this is the latest in a string of escapes by dangerous prisoners who have made threats against [[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant President Grant]], West and Gordon set out to track down the escapees and figure out who is behind the mind-control scheme.

-->'''Jim''': "If you'll excuse the expression, it did a knockout job on the cadre."\\
'''Artie''': "Ha ha ha ha, no, it didn't."
* HerrDoktor: Dr. Frimm, Trask's resident MadScientist, although his accent is more Slavic than German.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Why Trask leaves Jim alive after discovering his true identity.
* HaHaHaNo: Artie's [[LamePunReaction response]] to Jim's [[{{Pun}} oh-so-punny quip]] about knockout gas.

* MindControl: The theme of the episode. Trask mentally enslaves his troops with the Franconium crystals and the whistles, and he eventually decides to do the same to President Grant instead of assassinating him.

The warden of the territorial prison apparently goes mad after hearing a whistle, first setting free a prisoner about to die, then attacking West and finally dying of unknown causes. An autopsy reveals that a crystal had been implanted in the warden's brain - one which resonates at the frequency produced by the whistle. Since this is the latest in a string of escapes by dangerous prisoners who have made threats against President Grant, West and Gordon set out to track down the escapees and figure out who is behind the mind-control scheme.

* SinkOrSwimMentor: This is why Grant tossed Trask out of the army. It seems Trask took his men on a long march after ensuring that their canteens were filled with water. ''Salt'' water. Some of them died. In his view, of course, those men were weak and soft and shouldn't have been in his unit in the first place. He continues the same sort of "training" with his current recruits.

-->'''Jim''': "If you'll pardon the expression, it did a knockout job on the cadre."\\

* SweetTooth: Josephine turns down fancy clothes, perfume and jewelry, but becomes quite friendly after being offered a box of candy.

* SweetTooth: Josephine turns down clothes, perfume and jewelry, but becomes quite friendly after being offered a box of candy.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The warden, who's forced to let one of his prisoners go and attack Jim. Trask's troops aren't exactly sane either, and they're definitely murderous, but unlike the warden they agreed to the operation that gave Trask control over them.

Jim impersonates a killer in order to track down General Titus Trask, a renegade army officer with a desire to kill President Grant.

* BlingOfWar: "General" Trask and his men wear some doozies.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy

* SweetTooth: Josephine.