Shiloh Season

Next Saturday, Marty and Shiloh help Doc Murphy with chores again. They’re trying to avoid Judd, so they run quickly. Marty helps with yard work, but during a break, he confesses to Doc that he blackmailed Judd to get Shiloh. Now, Marty is wondering if blackmailing Judd was the right thing to do. 

Doc explains that he has made mistakes with patients because it can be hard to tell right from wrong in every situation. For instance, Doc didn’t tell a hopeful couple that the husband couldn’t be cured, and the man’s wife was furious when she realized that he wasn’t being honest. On the other hand, when he was honest and told a different patient and that she couldn’t be cured, she gave up on her life of painting. Doc gives other examples, stating that what is right in one situation may be wrong in another.

That night, Marty worries about Judd’s worsening alcohol addiction and dangerous behavior, as Judd has picked fights, run over mailboxes, lost his dogs, and gone to work while intoxicated. Marty worries that Judd will shoot at his sisters next. Later, Marty wakes up to a strange crashing sound and then hears Shiloh’s howl.