History Recap / TheWildWildWestS4E4TheNightOfTheSedgewickCurse

* ChekhovsGun: Artie practices his ventriloquism skills early in the episode and later uses these skills to distract Dr. Maitland in the lab.

* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: Arte replaces the aging drug with water when Dr. Maitland isn't looking. This takes place before Louis Pasteur pioneered the use of sterilized water in medical settings, so that water would have come straight from the well. Artie would almost certainly contract a serious infection mere hours after the injection.

* ArtisticLicence-Medicine: Arte replaces the aging drug with water when Dr. Maitland isn't looking. This takes place before Louis Pasteur pioneered the use of sterilized water in medical settings, so that water would have come straight from the well. Artie would almost certainly contract a serious infection mere hours after the injection.

* ArtisticLicence--Medicine: Arte replaces the aging drug with water when Dr. Maitland isn't looking. This takes place before Louis Pasteur pioneered the use of sterilized water in medical settings, so that water would have come straight from the well. Artie would almost certainly contract a serious infection mere hours after the injection.

* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: Arte replaces the aging drug with water when Dr. Maitland isn't looking. This takes place before Louis Pasteur pioneered the use of sterilized water in medical settings, so that water would have come straight from the well. Artie would almost certainly contract a serious infection mere hours after the injection.

Disguises used by Artie: [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/l8dreamr/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxODAwMzgxOA==/?ref=1 Colonel Doyle, retired from the British Army]]; [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/l8dreamr/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxODAwNDIzOA==/?ref=1 Henri Pichot, a French Tourist]]

* PetTheDog: Dr. Maitland makes sure that Lavinia will be taken care of as the disease takes its toll on her.

West and Gordon are sent to meet with a government official, but he disappears very mysteriously from his hotel room before they can do so. Gordon checks into the same hotel (in disguise) while West tracks down a desk clerk who appears to be involved; however, the clerk turns up dead and Gordon ends up nearly so. Enter Lavinia Sedgewick in a runaway carriage. West saves her and accompanies her home, earning an invitation to dinner that night. However, a little research turns up some suspicious facts about the Sedgewicks and soon both agents find themselves the unwilling house guests of a very strange family...

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lavinia Sedgewick, who plays the damsel in distress right up until the last act in order to keep Jim off-guard.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Miss Sedgewick, by her own actions, dooms herself to the rapid-aging demise that she wanted to avoid.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Miss Sedgewick (who has been arranging inhuman experiments that cause RapidAging in the unwilling test subjects) ignores her colleague's advice when she thinks it's worked, tries the serum herself before he or Artie can stop her (Artie substituted distilled water, and the doctor tells her they have to carry out more experiments just to be sure) and becomes a decrepit invalid.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Dr. Maitland, the Sedgewick family physician, is set up as the villain of the piece throughout most of the episode, but [[spoiler:his "victim," Lavinia Sedgewick,]] is really behind it all.

* VainSorceress: [[spoiler:Lavinia Sedgewick is determined to retain her youth and beauty]], albeit using sci-fi technology instead of magic.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Dr. Maitland [[InvokedTrope invokes this trope]] during his speech about longevity.

West and Gordon come upon the Sedgewick family, whose members have experienced rapid aging. In an attempt to cure this disorder, their family physician has been kidnapping people afflicted with the same disorder and using them to test a serum he has prepared.

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lavinia Sedgewick.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Lavinia Sedgewick, who by her own actions dooms herself to the rapid-aging demise that she wanted to avoid.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: The BigBad (who had been arranging inhuman experiments that caused RapidAging in the unwilling test subjects) ignores her colleague's advice when she thinks it's worked, tries the serum herself before he or Artie can stop her (Artie substituted distilled water, and the doctor tells her they have to carry out more experiments just to be sure) and becomes a decrepit invalid.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Lavinia Sedgewick.]]
* OldDarkHouse: Sedgewick Manor.
* RapidAging: The curse in question.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Artie ends up this way.
* VainSorceress: [[spoiler:Lavinia Sedgewick]], albeit using sci-fi technology instead of magic.