Legend

Skeletons in the Closet

Here we are for the final episode of Legend the 1995 single season (half at that) which starred Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie. In this concluding episode entitled “Skeletons in the Closet” we see the Professor experimenting with moving pictures using a zoetrope with Ernest aka Legend as his star although that’s after using the young female school teacher. All is going well until they discover a skeleton buried in scrub brush, he obviously died a while back but with a unique ring on one of his fingers. Ramos takes the skeleton into the nearby town of “Bell” but runs into indifference it not outright hostility from the sheriff.

Ramos is troubled by the way he and by extension his people are treated especially the dead and leaves the service of the Professor and goes undercover as an itinerant worker for Seamus Calhoun (John Vernon) who is known to be a collector of Aztec and Mexican artifacts. The Professor and Ernest naturally search for Ramos and after a not too pleasant meeting with the sheriff they make enquiries with the locals who reside in town. As you would expect they discover that greed and desire for the artifacts drove someone to murder and soon they too become the target for the villains gun wielding enforcers.

Oh, worth mentioning that Lara Flynn Boyle makes an appearance on this episode.

Skeletons in the Closet takes a dark turn and is perhaps the most serious of the season as well as giving Mark Adair-Rios (Ramos) plenty to do as he carries the episode. Throughout the season the show has attempted to represent the native cultures in a positive light (with various degrees of success) and again the message is clear thanks to the violence, intimidation and legal indifference in this script. It would have been interesting to see where the second half of the season went but perhaps the mix of light fluff and delivering social observations is a hard trick to master. At the end of the day I’m thankful we got this show, it was a lot of fun and in hindsight a stellar list of guest stars from the old school (movies and tv) and fresh faces that went onto bigger things.

My thanks for listening to the show and especially my coverage of Legend and the plan is to get back into talking about Stargate. There were a few episodes of SG1 and Atlantis that I was not present for when recorded for the Gatecast so I might find a guest and record shows for them. If you want to be on the podcast then you can contact me through the usual social media or email etc and all you need is a headset/mic and access to the likes of skype and we are in business. So until next time once again thanks for listening and if you have a minute a rating or review on whatever podcatcher/streaming service you used would be most welcome.

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