Moment of Truth, Part 1 | |
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Season 5, Episode 24 | |
Takes Place | {{{takesplace}}} |
Air date | 10 May 1997 |
Written by | Carl Binder |
Directed by | James Keach |
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Moment of Truth, Part 2 | |
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Season 5, Episode 25 | |
Takes Place | {{{takesplace}}} |
Air date | 17 May 1997 |
Written by | Carl Binder |
Directed by | James Keach |
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Moment of Truth is the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth episodes of Season 5 of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, the one hundred-seventeenth and one hundred-eighteenth episodes of the series, and the fifth two-part episode.
Cloud Dancing is beaten at the reservation by soldiers. This causes Sully to realize that life on the reservation isn't tolerable for the Indians living there any more, so helps organize an escape for the Indians. To get enough horses, Sully enlists the help of Robert E. and tells Dr. Mike they are just housing them for Robert E. instead of telling her the truth. At the same time, dog soldiers resume their attacks on soldiers and local families.
When blame for the escape lands on Sully, he and Dr. Mike agree that it's best if he disappears for a while until everything calms down.
After the escape, Sully and Cloud Dancing try to get to the Tongue River Valley. When they sees soldiers coming, Sully tries to distract them to give Cloud Dancing a chance to escape. While providing a distraction, Sully gets himself trapped on a ledge with O'Conner. O'Connor wants Sully dead so a fight ensues, until they go over the ledge, resulting in the death of O'Connor before Dr. Mike and Sgt. McKay get there themselves. When they don't see Sully in the river below the ledge, McKay assumes Sully is dead, but Dr. Mike is confident he's alive as he left something on a rock.
Information[]
- Story Arc: The Separation, parts 1 & 2 of 16, prologue episodes. The separation of Sully and Michaela was spoken of by Cloud Dancing in Return Engagement and The Train.
- Character Arc: Sgt. McKay, parts 1 & 2 of 6. Terrence McKay is the new commanding sergeant of the garrison at the reservation. After the Indians revolt at the reservation, the Army sets up camp on a portion of the meadow near the Church.
Part One[]
- Katie's first birthday party and first word - "pa"
- Colleen and Andrew's first kiss
- McKay saw Sully during the escape
Part Two[]
- O'Connor barges into the homestead to search and begins to break anything he can find that's fragile
- Indians burn down Matthew's homestead (aka the old Sully homestead) to get him away from the jail to help the Indians in jail escape
- Teresa Morales's house is burned down
- Dorothy burns her book on Cloud Dancing in Robert E's forge to make sure the Army can't get the information in it.
- Sgt. O’Connor dies at the end of part two. O'Connor and Sully fall over the cliff into the ravine below thus beginning the separation of Michaela and Sully.
Patients[]
Part One[]
- Army Soldier - gash in arm after horse spooked by coyote
- Cloud Dancing - wounds from being hit and kicked and shock
Part Two[]
- Teresa Morales - burn - tended to by Andrew, then Jake