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Paladin (Richard Boone) hires on as bodyguard for waspish English author-poet Oscar Wilde (John O'Malley), who has come West as part of an American lecture tour. A pair of disgruntled hooligans named Jim and Chris Rook (Richard Shannon, Jack Hogan), angry that they were beaten out for the bodyguard assignment, retaliate by kidnapping Wilde and attempting to murder Paladin in the process. Although many of the Wildean epigrams heard on this episode are genuine ("A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies"), several were created from whole cloth by scriptwriter Irving Wallace, later the author of such bestselling novels as The Prize and The Word.