while irby is meeting with the sympathetic town doctor, murrell shows up looking for someone to set his broken arm. irby offers murrell $10,000 to have his banditos attack the garrison, which will force the union soldiers guarding the roads to come to its defense. while the soldiers are busy, irby's rebels will smuggle the gold out in the false bottoms of their wagons. first irby needs to take care of bradford. he uses julia to arrange a meeting between the two men, and then takes bradford prisoner, intending to return him to prison.