Walt (Rob Taylor) visits Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) who asks him for the only thing he can do for him which is to judge the Cheyenne Beauty Pageant which he says is nothing like their one. It's an important event. Walt also wants to know who beat him up but he doesn't say and doesn't want him to do what Malachi (Graham Greene) says. His bail hearing is approaching and Cady (Cassidy Freeman) will represent him but has no experience with trials or bail hearings. The judge gives her the weekend to decide what she's going to say on Monday as she dresses Henry in a typical suit, which is far too large for him, as well as applying concealer to his wounds. Walt later remarking on it and asking if he's wearing make-up. Cady sees an old law school friend, Cameron Maddox (Nick Gehlfuss) in court. However she later drinks at the bar as she thinks it's a lost cause and Henry won't be granted bail. Walt tells her she's got two days and to stop drinking. Yes she was having her own continual soiree wallowing in her selfish misery! ha. As he puts her photo of when she was little on the board of the Red Pony as someone who shouldn't be served.
She gets Cameron to help her and tells him she'll buy him dinner but he had other intentions back in law school and agrees to help her with affidavits on Henry's good character. All goes well until he sees her hug Branch (Bailey Chase) and then next day he pikes out by saying he's got other cases. Obviously he was giving her the cold shoulder otherwise why turn up in court to begin with unless he thought he'd have a chance with her and yes I was about to write get laid! Thinking he could get his other intentions satisfied, which fell through. Smarmy much. Cady narrows down 175 statements into one and tells the judge she has one person to testify only Ms Mae Stillwater (Irene Bedard) who tells the court about her daughter Lily, and how Henry helped her back on track, paid for counselling. His name Standing Bear and is not one where people mistakenly think that you run from a bear that is standing, but instead he faces his fears and doesn't run from them. The judge sets bail at $1 million. They need another $100,00 which Branch writes her a cheque for, it's not his money after all and his father will get it back, as long a s Henry stays put, as his name suggests.
Walt, whilst judging, is called to the scene of a crime where a doctor's DB was found in the barn. Ben was working at the Rez clinic too and Branch pays a visit to find out about him and is given the name of a patient, Grey Wolf (Gregory Cruz) who was seen and heard arguing with him. Branch also asks if he's seen David Ridges who was here a few months back. Branch in his haste forgets the name of the patient. Walt and Vic (Katee Sackhoff) pay a visit and he says he got mad cos Ben assaulted his daughter and is a pervert. She went in with flu-like symptoms and he gave her an intimate exam. So he got mad. At no time did Walt let on that Ben was killed, but he says he can't talk to his daughter, Michaela (Faye Viviana) cos the matter's been resolved. Vic thinking it was his roundabout way of saying he killed him.
Ben's parents are in town and his father, Oren (John Lawlor) says he can't go through with it again, as he already lost one son, Ben to murder as well. Oren is also a doctor as is their step mother, Sylvia (Molly Hagan) runs in the family you could say. Whilst at the pageant Walt talks with Michaela and says she looks like she's pregnant. Vic speaks with Grey Wolf who tells her this isn't the normal pageant involving bikinis and banners or the like. Grey Wolf was angry at Ben since he wanted her to get an abortion but the baby was her boyfriend's. He's also angry at Walt cos his rumours got her fired from the pageant after they had her pregnancy confirmed. Branch thinks Sylvia could've been behind it depending on her motive which must be money and Walt then speaks with Oren who tells him that she couldn't have killed his sons cos they were on vacation together, as Walt tells him the two murders were similar, thus one killer. Oren also tells them about the sterilizations and how he needs his patient files cos the killer is one of them. Oren believes he was right to do what he did cos they were in no position to look after themselves on the Rez, which Walt is disgusted with.
The patient list leads to Dina who was sterilized, having a hysterectomy performed after going in for an appendectomy in Oklahoma and she killed both of his sons since she couldn't have children of her own. She attacks herself with a knife. Walt picks Henry up from prison and vows he will never set foot in that place again. Henry doesn't want him to make promises he can't keep, but again, he will do so cos that's the sort of man Walt is.
Signs of double standards going on at the Rez and between the doctors who performed the sterilizations. With Grey Wolf being angry that she was removed from the pageant just for being pregnant, yet in away also confirming that these things happen on the Rez, as they object to women having free will and exercising it. However it's not the same thing for everyone. The case being that it was okay for women to be treated in such a way on the Rez back then and could get drunk and pregnant and their daughters too, but removing her from the pageant for being pregnant didn't resound any hypocrisy between the Rez and its people. At the end of the day it's the woman's right to choose, no matter where she's from or who she is, which is an obvious conflict with the way the doctor's behaved shockingly back then.. and now and he believes he did the right thing.
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