YMMV / Bonanza S 08 E 05

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Carol is a Pathological Liar: Put here because of a couple of scenes of how Carol's character could be interpreted. In the very least, her explanation that she never wanted Hoss and that she played him for a fool, all while sidestepping the fact that she killed her husband in the first place, doesn't make sense. Even more chilling is the final scene, where Marshall Duggan tells Carol, just after a dejected Hoss departs, where he tells her she's going to be tame and cooperative while he takes her back to New York to face justice ... implying that her story to Ben (who earlier demanded the truth from her and is skeptical if not refusing to believe her) about killing an abusive husband was a lie, and that she was simply a wild woman, cold and callous, who killed her husband in cold blood for no reason. And the scene where Duggan, posing as Carol's "real" husband, was concocted by Ben and Duggan to protect Hoss from real heartbreak.