However the jubilation is short-lived when a mysterious stranger at the door guns Jim down.

           

Next morning, Jarrod finds Cunningham (Lloyd Bochner) and his two henchmen, Corell (Ed Bakey) and Mason (Dennis Cross) in his office. The businessman came to dragoon the attorney into refusing the position as prosecutor, a bold move that annoys Jarrod to the point of getting him to alter his decision. Now it’s personal. He intends to grind Cunningham down and see him hang for the Jim’s murder.

           

Seconds after Nick and Heath leave the office, dynamite is thrown through the window. The blast sends the brothers charging up the stairs to find their brother alive but blind.

           

All rush back into the examining room at the sound of a loud crash. There they find Jarrod on the floor explaining how he merely wanted to reach for a glass of water when he tripped.

           

           

Later that evening, Jim’s wife Sharon (Carol Booth) offers to bring Jarrod his tray up to his room, but he refuses to eat in front of an audience owing to his newly acquired embarrassing eating habits. She leaves him with his frustration.

           

Jarrod is escorted inside the courtroom as Bromley begins his opening statement. Cunningham urges his attorney Sanders (Shep Menken) to have the blind man removed from the case by bringing Judge Farnumm’s (Harlan Warde) attention to the fact that Jarrod Barkey’s blindness will likely exert an undue influence on the jury, thus creating an unfair and partial hearing. His motion for a dismissal is however declined and Jarrod is allowed to proceed with his opening statement.

           

The family adjourns to the judge’s chambers to give Jarrod time to recover his composure. Victoria will not allow her son to wallow in self-pity and urges him to proceed with the case. Eager to help, Nick and Heath propose to teach their brother how to move around the courtroom so that by tomorrow he’ll feel right at home.

           

Jarrod appears much at ease as he begins the interrogation of his first witness Simon , (Ollie O'Toole) proprietor of a general store where Cunningham recently purchased an unusually large amount of dynamite.

He continues with Aimee Carter, (Eve Brent) owner of the Big Nugget saloon a few miles down Collier’s dam. She positively identifies Cunningham, Corell and Mason as the three men who dropped by on the night of the explosion.

           

At night, a messenger reports that Nick has taken Heath to Dr. Merar’s following a bad fall off his horse. Audra, Victoria and Silas head for town, leaving Jarrod behind.

     

Down in the foyer, Jarrod knocks Corell out and locks the two other men outside. He then gropes his way to the living room to break all the lamps.

           

           

He orders Corell and Mason to drop their weapons and hightail it away. Once his henchmen gone, Cunningham succeeds in wrenching himself free from the grasp but before he has a chance to gun Jarrod down, the lawyer shoots at random, hitting his target.