I like these posts for the most part but I'm continually struck by how much you miss — like you're only half-watching and relying on memory of your first viewing the series to sort things out. One of the fundamental things Alma revealed earlier in the season is that she was essentially handed to Brom Garrett as a…

Right, I made the same point before seeing your post. The last shot is of Wayne standing outside the door in the harsh sunlight, unable to join the happy reunion inside. He stops short of killing his niece but can't bring himself to accept her.

Did you miss the The Searchers point that John Wayne's character is an awful racist who talks throughout the movie about killing the Natalie Wood(!) character to spare her the indignity of having lived as an Indian? At the end, he pulls back from that level of crazy but he is left out of the family reunion because he…

Emile did not mean "Spread her legs and fly" as a joke.  But it was the funniest moment of the episode.