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Tom Jennings, Dorothy's son, shows up in Loren's store one day when Mike and the kids are there shopping. He's a Civil War Veteran with an old war injury -- his leg was almost blown off. Dorothy asks Mike to treat him when he complains of pain in his seemingly healed leg. She gives him a syringe of morphine for the pain, not noticing his blissful expression. Mike invites he, Dorothy and Loren to dinner. During dinner, Colleen develops a crush on him. Sully's suspicion is piqued when Tom leaves and he forgets to use his cane. The next day, Tom returns to Mike, telling her his leg hurts. She treats him, but denies him her last vial of morphine, which she's saving for an emergency. Later that day, Loren catches Tom slipping a vial of patent medicine from the store under his coat. When Dorothy confronts Tom, he replies that the pain just got to him, and complains that Mike won't give him any morphine. Later that night, he goes out and tries to mooch free drinks at the saloon. Later still, he breaks into the clinic searching for Mike's bag, then he breaks into the homestead itself. In the melee, and having no idea who the masked man is that has his hand over Colleen's face, Mike shoots him in the leg, upon which she must now operate The family races into town, Tom in tow. Dorothy is outraged, "You shot Tom?" Colleen immediately manifests signs of trauma; she doesn't want to leave Mike's side. After the operation, in which Mike manages to save Tom's leg, Mike exhibits some trauma of her own -- she's never shot a man before. The next day at school, Brian acts out the events of the night before, and Colleen, sickened at the memory, leaves school with a "stomach ache." Mike tells Dorothy Tom's addicted; Dorothy is angered -- "Tommy would never do something like that just to feel good." They hear Tom scream -- his leg is hemorrhaging and must come off. Later, when Mike's morphine does come in, she refuses to give any to Tom. At the homestead, Sully enters to find two disturbing sights -- Brian's play-acting with guns and Colleen, dark rings around her eyes, refuses to go to school. Sully explains to Brian that guns are bad, but he's at a loss as to how to handle the Colleen situation. Later, Mike and Dorothy butt heads when Mike initially refuses Dorothy's repeated requests to medicate Tom with the morphine.

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