The Big Heist

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Season 1, Episode 8
Original Air Date: 30 March 1979
Directed by: Bob Claver
Written by: Bruce Howard
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Hazzard County meets its politest bandit when a masked man robs the County Commissioner in his courthouse office. The fella makes his getaway in the passing General Lee, because the Sheriff has towed his vehicle to the Impound Yard. The boys drive the robber out of town and then he orders the boys out of their car and tells them they will get the General back unharmed and gassed up since it's the least he can do. Bo gets him to agree to a car wash too.

While the boys are making yet another escape from Rosco (Boss assumed that the masked robber was Bo Duke, seeing as he only saw Luke at the wheel of the General as it passed), Daisy meets a fella at the Boar's Nest who gives her a down-on-his-luck story. She agrees not only to let him stay the night in the barn, but also to help him get his car back.

Bo and Luke make it to still site #2 (the one closest to the Boar's Nest) to talk to their uncle, only be captured by the Sheriff, Enos and their employer, Boss Hogg, who says it was the boys who robbed him. While the boys are taken to jail, Jesse heads back to the farm with the truck where he meets Daisy and this fella, who says his name is Neil Bishop and he is a chicken rancher from Clarion County. At Daisy's urging, however, Jesse heads to town with her car to try to figure how to help the boys out of jail.

Daisy, in the meantime, picks up on Neil's odd behavior (his itching to unload Jesse's pick up truck...which was where he stashed the money when he arrived at the Boar's Nest). She pulls the distributor cap from his car, and when he tries to leave the farm, she holds a shotgun to him. The tables turn when Jesse comes back to the farm. Neil gets the gun from Daisy, and Jesse arrives in time to confirm his suspicion based on the information Bo and Luke gave him at the jail, that the polite young man down on his luck was the same one that robbed Boss.

Bo and Luke shuck and jive Enos that they want to confess...and they end up tying him to a chair and hanging him on a wall.

They return to the farm to find Jesse and Daisy being held by Neil. Neil explains his reasons for taking Boss's money, telling them how Boss sold him a worthless tractor and ten chicken incubators not worth a damn. "You tell a good yarn," Jesse says, to which Daisy's adds "but you're still holding that gun." Realizing he had no reason to be holding the Dukes at bay, he throws the shotgun to Luke and the bag of money to Bo. He also tells them the bag contains "liquor money". Realizing that Neil stole Boss Hogg's illegal liquor money, the Dukes make a plan to help Neil out and clear own their names.

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