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The last few episodes including this one seem really thin. Very little plot with a convoluted story line. Not sure what has happened with this season. Yes, the music is better and the image a little crisper but it's like the writers had a germ of a story and just couldn't figure out a way to make it gel.

This one was even thinner than most. The girl supposedly wants Paladin to help her but in a most awkward and nonsensical way. She has no money (or even water) but she still convinces Paladin to go out on a dangerous mission to find her father. How does she plan to reward him if he is successful?

Have Gun Will Travel usually has top notch writing by guys like Gene Roddenberry and others who went on to long careers in television. The stories are typically strong morality tales, some of which would make decent one act stage plays. The previous episode in the series, "The Night the Town Died" is a good case in point.

Meanwhile, "The Ledge" was written by committee and it shows. Paladin guilts a group of men into a dangerous rescue attempt by wielding a bunch of self-righteous rhetoric. No action, no decent dialog, and no "moral of the story" other than it's never good to have too many writers work on a single episode of TV.

Skip this and save yourself the boredom.