- Original release
- Previous episode S01E08 - Hondo And The Mad Dog
- Number S01E09
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Director
Lee H. Katzin
- Country United States
- Genres Action, Adventure, Western
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Hondo And The Judas
Hondo receives a letter to meet in the ghost town of New Caanan signed with a Q. While on his way three cowboys recognize him and trail him waiting their chance to take him, thinking the reward for him is still good. When he arrives in New Caanan he is greeted by his former confederate commanding officer Colonel William Quantrill, who he thought was dead. Soon Jesse and Frank James arrive accompanied by Cole and Jim Younger and Charley and Bob Ford. The last of old army unit, Johnny Reno, rides in and Quantrill announces he has assembled them for two reasons. The first is two rob a $200,000 U.S. Army payroll shipment and the second is to find out who the Judas is that shot him in the back and left him for dead. Hondo decides he doesn't want any part of it and while riding out stops to water his horse where he is ambushed by the three cowboys but saved by Quantrill, who followed him. Quantrill later forces the Judas' hand in a saloon showdown. The results, however, force them t
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