Like the opening episode, this deals with a 12-year-old but unlike the first week, this boy is sick. He has a ruptured appendix and needs an operation, pronto.
Josh found the very ill boy out in the woods and brought him into town. At first, someone tells him that no doctor for a hundred will touch this kid. Soon, we find out why. His hot- tempered father had a bad experience with doctor's once in which his dad died after an operation. Now, he wants no doctor handling his kid. He says "all doctors are butchers" and won't listen to reason, and says if his boy dies he's going to hold Randall responsible because he didn't bring the kid right to him. (Randall didn't know there was a family nearby, only seeing the sick kid and bringing him straight to town to a doctor.)
The father wind up bringing his boy to some mystical-type "healer," some woman who really has no medical knowledge, just some crackpot, but this boy needs an operation which is a lot more than this woman can offer Josh has to do what he can to help save the kid. Well, he doesn't "have" to but, being the good guy he is, "wants" to help because it's the right thing to do.
He thinks he might get somewhere with the boy's mother, hoping she isn't as pig-headed as the father. Mort Mills and Virgina Gregg, two regulars on TV, play the father and mother, respectively.
These Wanted: Dead Or Alive stories are not your typical westerns with gunslingers every week. Many times, such as the first two weeks of this season, they involve other things, very human stories.