Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Season 2 Episode 12
Miners gather in front of Loren Bray’s store to protest Loren’s not extending credit to striking miners, and for doing business with the mine owners. A budding union leader, Conrad, is there trying to organize the workers. At the same time, Travis Stone, the mining boss, rides up, hands out flyers advertising for scabs. An angry miner throws a stick of dynamite onto Loren’s porch, which Sully, who gets knocked out in the subsequent fray, comes to just soon enough to put out. Matthew takes a flyer — decides he’ll take the job to augment building costs on his homestead. By doing this, he’s at cross-purposes with Sully and Mike, who try to talk him out of it.
Grace tells Loren she won’t be buying anything from him until the strike’s over, due to his unfair trade practices with the striking miners. Matthew finds, to his dismay, that Loren charges 10 cents on every dollar of “”scrip”” (miner’s credit) for “”bookkeeping”” costs. Later, as Mike administers some bicarbonate of soda (Brian’s got a
Serie: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Episode Title: Crossing the Line
Air Date: 1994-01-01
