Amnesiac Hero: During a scuffle between a financer and the cattle buyer that is killed, Hoss suffers a bump on the head and cannot recall the exact details of what happened. Only by reconstructing the crime does the truth become apparent.
Courtroom Episode: Much of the drama takes place in court, where Hoss faces increasingly stacked odds against acquittal for murder of a cattle buyer.
Drowning My Sorrows: Attorney Barney Sturgess, the only defense lawyer that will take a seemingly open-and-shut murder case, is wallowing in the bottle after watching his career – at one time, he was a great trial attorney – collapse.
