Paladin's next job may require him to do something he finds morally questionable. If he turns it down, innocent people may start dying. Gene-ology covers "El Paso Stage", Gene's only script from season 4 of Have Gun - Will Travel.

Gene-ology gives Gene Roddenberry's "Charley Red Dog" episode of Have Gun - Will Travel a fresh watch and finds the classic Roddenberry elements, messages aplenty for the audience, and a hard-to-ignore casting issue.

Gene's scripts for Have Gun - Will Travel continue with a third season entry that seems to be about the unlikeliest of antagonists: a "Tiger" is loose in Texas! But is it truly a threat, or will someone else show Paladin their real stripes first?

Gene-ology keeps hopping through Gene Roddenberry's scripts for Have Gun - Will Travel, examining "The Golden Toad", a tale dropping Paladin between two families fighting over the rights to what they believe is buried treasure...a treasure they're willing to kill for.

Framed for murder, Paladin walks a tightrope between justice and revenge, and even if he establishes the truth, someone dies at the hands of "The Posse", a grim but much-loved episode of Have Gun - Will Travel written by Gene Roddenberry.

Do you hear all the giggling cover from that covered wagon winding its way through Oregon? That's the sound of "Les Girls", one of the episodes Gene Roddenberry wrote for Have Gun - Will Travel, with a storyline and subject matter that Star Trek reused and expanded upon.

Gene-ology continues examining Gene Roddenberry's early TV scripts, including Have Gun - Will Travel's "Episode In Laredo", encompassing topics from toxic masculinity, to parental responsibility, to the futility of bloodshed, to possible pathways to peace paved with potatoes.

Paladin responds to an urgent request for help from Roy Carter, whose own lack of urgency is strange considering that a man's life is at risk. Gene-ology examines Gene Roddenberry's final script for the second season of Have Gun - Will Travel, "The Return of Roy Carter".