The Rebel: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Rebel Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
Sep 18, 1960 · 30 min
General Grant pays a post-war visit to the South, and Johnny tells young Jimmy the story of Lee's surrender.
The Bequest
Sep 25, 1960 · 30 min
Jeremy Hake receives a double blow of bad news---that his mine is worthless, and that his family is in need. Hake commits murder in a robbery attempting to help his family. Hake as
The Champ
Oct 2, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma buys the contract of a war buddy, who is now a boxer past his prime, and attempts to discourage the friend from further competition.
The Waiting
Oct 9, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma stops at a bar where a bounty hunter is holding the wife of the outlaw he hopes to collect on. Seeing Yuma's descriptive resemblance to the outlaw, the bounty hunter decides u
To See the Elephant
Oct 16, 1960 · 30 min
Rancher Bull Hollingsworth commissions Yuma to make a man out of his sheltered son, Seldon.
Deathwatch
Oct 23, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma finds himself in the midst of a confrontation between a sheep man haunted by war memories and Mexican bandits.
Run, Liller, Run
Oct 30, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma is shackled by a sheriff to Traskel and forced to flee on foot with him when Traskel knocks out the sheriff and the horses ride off. Traskel believes that his twin brother is
The Hunted
Nov 6, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma's friend Jim Colburn has been found innocent of a murder for which he was to hang. Before the news of his innocence arrived, Colburn escaped from jail with a posse unaware of
The Legacy
Nov 13, 1960 · 30 min
The Ricker family frames Yuma for a murder that one of them has committed and then arranges for Yuma to flee town before he is hanged. But Yuma refuses to leave.
Don Gringo
Nov 20, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma escorts young Demetria to an arranged marriage after her family escorts are killed by Apaches. On the way, she starts to express feelings for Yuma, which begins to trouble him
Explosion
Nov 27, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma witnesses as Roy Shandell murders his partner to keep the money from a stage robbery. Yuma nabs Shandell and delivers him to the Socorro jail but Shandell's father uses nitrog
Vindication
Dec 4, 1960 · 30 min
After his horse is killed by Apaches, Yuma is found by a stagecoach driver. On the stage is Travers, who is blind and tormented by a previous stagecoach encounter with Apaches, in
The Scalp Hunter
Dec 11, 1960 · 30 min
John Sims, Yuma's godfather, saves him from an attack by Indians at his campsite. He asks Yuma in turn to help him track renegade Indian Masi and take his scalp, as revenge for the
Berserk
Dec 18, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma stops to visit Dunsen who arrives in town and commences to randomly shoot townspeople. The townspeople believe Dunsen's war service has driven him mad and want to kill Dunsen
The Hope Chest
Dec 25, 1960 · 30 min
Yuma aids Ulysses Bowman in a gun battle and accompanies him back to his camp where Yuma learns that Ulysses is in the habit of offering a chest with two hundred dollars to any man
The Liberators
Jan 1, 1961 · 30 min
A woman doctor, her sister, and their ailing father have been left behind by townspeople fleeing hostile Indians. A group of Mexican insurgents led by a demagogic Commandante and b
The Guard
Jan 8, 1961 · 30 min
A sadistic former Union prison guard who tortured Yuma wants revenge for the punishment he suffered when Yuma escaped from the POW camp.
The Promise
Jan 15, 1961 · 30 min
When Yuma arrives to give Laurie Buford her late father's affects, he learns that she is being forced into marriage to a brutal man, so he vows to stop the marriage.
Jerkwater
Jan 22, 1961 · 30 min
George Campbell, who blames Yuma for his brother's death in the war, provokes a gun battle in which Yuma is wounded after being forced to kill Campbell's nephew. Yuma's godfather J
Paperback Hero
Jan 29, 1961 · 30 min
When a newswoman observes Yuma defending a boy against an adult bully, she decides to promote him as the typical Western hero in a news story, much to the Yuma's displeasure and po
The Actress
Feb 5, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma is chosen by an esteemed but unethical itinerant actress to take part in her performance. While Yuma and she dispute wages, they are kidnapped by a man who demands that the ac
The Threat
Feb 12, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma arrives in a town in which an old friend of his father is sheriff. He learns an advance team of marauders, including the man who killed Yuma's father, has arrived. But none of
The Road to Jericho
Feb 19, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma rescues Arthur Sutro, who was staked to an ant hill by Indians. Sutro tells Yuma he is responsible for him now. But Sutro wants to rob Yuma's peacefully reclusive and scholarl
The Last Drink
Feb 26, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma is on a mission to rescue his cousin Eddie who has become a student of gunslinger Dawes.
The Burying of Sammy Hart
Mar 5, 1961 · 30 min
Elderly Kiowa Sammy Hart is believed to have kidnapped a boy, who has actually gone to stay with Hart in his last hours. But the boy's father is on the hunt planning to kill Sammy,
The Pit
Mar 12, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma arrives in a town with a woman to help her search for her husband. The husband has written of a successful mine but the townspeople are most resistant to help in the search.
Shriek of Silence
Mar 19, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma is forced to kill outlaw Jake Fellows in a gunfight and then learns he has a deaf mute son. Yuma proceeds to help the boy find a home but two of Fellows' associates are on the
Two Weeks
Mar 26, 1961 · 30 min
An embittered confederate prison camp survivor talks Yuma into a card bet of two weeks servitude on the man's property. When Yuma loses the bet, he learns that service must be unde
Miz Purdy
Apr 2, 1961 · 30 min
After convincing a woman living alone at her homestead that he is not an outlaw, Yuma joins forces with her to fend off marauders who have robbed a bank and killed a neighboring fa
The Ballad of Danny Brown
Apr 9, 1961 · 30 min
Emily Hardy is awaiting the return of her fiancé Danny Brown from prison. But Emily 's brother Vergil is bent on revenge against Danny, who killed his son in self-defense. though
The Proxy
Apr 16, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma joins an uneasy voluntary alliance with two other men. They hope to bring back a fugitive bank president from Mexico to testify about a bank failure scheme which may force hom
Decision at Sweetwater
Apr 23, 1961 · 30 min
Three murderous stage robbers hold up the stage Yuma is on, killing the drivers. When they find that a mining executive on the stage was not carrying the payroll with him as they t
Helping Hand
Apr 30, 1961 · 30 min
Seeking water, Yuma is forced to side with two brothers who are in a stand off in a feud with their uncle and cousin, who betrayed the brothers' father and brother after a bank rob
The Uncourageous
May 7, 1961 · 30 min
Yuma strays into Mexico and becomes involved in the conflict between a successful matador and the rest of his family, who are against his grooming his son to follow in his professi
Mission-Varina
May 14, 1961 · 30 min
Because he had been a member of secret group during the war, Yuma is asked by Jefferson Davis' wife to ensure her husband's safety upon his prison release. But one of the members o
The Calley Kid
May 21, 1961 · 30 min
Johnny tracks down the man who knocked him out at his campsite and stole his horse and gun. When he finds him, he is forced to dig a bullet out of the man's brother, a well-known g
Ben White
May 28, 1961 · 30 min
When the posse chasing Ben White and his gang capture White's wife, Yuma is given the task of taking her to a town jail while the posse searches for the outlaw. But the treachery o
The Found
Jun 4, 1961 · 30 min
While traveling with a posse, Yuma encounters the quarry's wife, who is having a baby. He stays with her and the baby while the outlaw is trapped between the posse and two bounty h
The Hostage
Jun 11, 1961 · 30 min
When Yuma stops to see his old friend Coley Wilks, Yancey Daggett takes Coley hostage. Yuma is then sent to negotiate a deal with Coley's brother, a sheriff, to exchange Coley for
The Executioner (Last Show)
Jun 18, 1961 · 30 min
A Shoshone chief keeps three prisoners in exchange for three braves held in jail. But Yuma then learns that the braves have already been killed. Since they had killed a white woman