Sunday, 11 October 2026

October 11, 1996: I wrote and performed


Thirty years ago today

            On Friday I did some writing and then in the evening I went across the street to perform on the Spit Fridays open stage in the back room of the Cameron.

Saturday, 10 October 2026

Lloyd Bochner


            On Friday after midnight I laid down fresh carpet tape on some of the edges of mattress where it had gotten less sticky. I lint-rolled the curtains between the bedroom and the living room, the top of the bed, and my pillow. As usual there were a few bedbugs on the curtains. I shook out my sheet and my comforter on the deck and went to bed coughing at 2:08. Like the night before I didn’t sleep very well. It’s weird that in the afternoons when I take my siestas I usually have a pretty good sleep. I got up at 5:00 for my fourth day of this cold. 
            I worked out the chords for the second verse of “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian. 
            I weighed 90.75 kilos before breakfast. 
            I played my Kramer during the first fifteen minutes of song practice but then I had to stop to get ready to leave for my 11:45 appointment with my student periodontist Dr. Martin Lambert at the U of T Faculty of Dentistry. I left at 10:55 and got there with five minutes to spare. Martin said the coverage was good on my bone graft over the implant. He took out my stitches and said to make an appointment for four months from now to see if the healing is complete. The office was closed for lunch so I just went home. I’ll call them next week. 
            I weighed 91.1 kilos before lunch. 
            I took a siesta. 
            I weighed 91.25 kilos at 17:15. 
            I complained to the landlord by email again about the heat not being on. Later I saw Raja’s handyman Yogi fiddling with the thermostat. He said it was broken and installed a temporary one with just a dial and no screen. Within an hour the heat came on and I turned it off because just a little bit is enough to last for hours. 
            I was now one day behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 
            I had a potato with gravy and my last chicken leg while watching episode 9 of the TV series Custer. 
            Everyone in a Sioux village has died of smallpox and so Custer and his men are burning everything there to prevent the spread. But Red Wolf and his warriors return from hunting to the village and believe that the white soldiers have just massacred their people, so they attack. They kill all of Custer’s men and leave Custer for dead. Custer makes his way back to Fort Hays and tells General Terry he needs men to go after Red Wolf and his Sioux warriors who are carrying Pawnee blankets that they don’t realize are infested with smallpox. Red Wolf is headed for the main Pawnee village and if he reaches it he could unintentionally wipe out the entire Pawnee nation. There is also danger of the Sioux uniting with the Pawnee because of the belief there was a massacre. Custer says they need to get to Chief Running Bear of the Pawnee first to convince him of Red Wolf’s mistake and potentially make a powerful ally. 
            Terry says he doesn’t have the men to spare for such a mission but Custer recruits a group of prisoners in the stockade. He asks for volunteers and he can’t guarantee that it will save them from their upcoming court-martials but he will make a report that will probably influence the review board. 
            Powell is the dominant prisoner and he’s in for murdering an officer. His young protegee Billie tells Custer that the officer was insane and would have caused the death of every man in his command. Powell volunteers and so does Billie to be with Powell. Billie is in for desertion because he wanted to see his father who’d been hurt in a battle. Reicher reminds Custer that he hates his guts for putting him where he is now but he volunteers to delay the US Marshall coming to collect him for several bank robberies. Stanhope studied medicine for seven years at Columbia University but he says he won’t volunteer. Custer starts reciting the Hippocratic oath: “I swear by Apollo the physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witness that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgement this oath and this covenant…” Stanhope adds, “Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice…” Stanhope now says that since he already has a noose around his neck he hasn’t much to lose, so he also volunteers. Rod Tolby says he’s there because he traded some cavalry horses for beaver pelts but now he’d rather be out riding than sitting in the stockade so he volunteers as well. Bishop also volunteers but only because Tolby owes him a lot of money and he doesn’t want him to get away. Custer warns them that anyone who disobeys will be shot. 
            They leave in one hour. On the way they find a Pawnee dying of smallpox. Stanhope can’t help him but uses a syringe to extract some of his blood. 
            Custer decides to take a shortcut through Sioux country to save a day. Reicher comments that Custer hasn’t changed, as risking his men’s lives still doesn’t mean a thing to him. 
            Billie is driving the supply wagon but he sees a rabbit and remembers that Stanhope has been looking for one. He jumps off the wagon and runs after it but the wagon is still moving and the horses begin running. He catches up and tries to stop them but the hitch breaks and the horses break free dragging Billie by the reins. Custer catches up, jumps on one of the horses and stops the team but the wagon is wrecked and all the water spilled. 
            Stanhope catches the rabbit from his horse by dropping a blanket on it. He says the rabbit is for serum (It turns out that the smallpox vaccine was the first vaccine to be developed in 1796). 
            Custer gets into a fight with Reicher because drinks water before watering the horses. He easily knocks him down but Reicher is still waiting for a chance for revenge. 
            Custer makes Powell his acting corporal to see that his orders are carried out. Powell says he’ll do it as long as it suits him. 
            Stanhope injects the smallpox infected blood into the rabbit. It’ll take 24 to 96 hours for the rabbit to be of use against the disease. 
            Custer now has smallpox but keeps pushing himself. 
            They make camp and Reicher pulls his knife to kill the rabbit. Billie steps in front of it and Reicher attacks but Powell easily disarms him and knocks him down. 
            Powell almost deserts but sees a Sioux camp up ahead. He tells Custer about it who decides they have to immediately break camp to get ahead of the Sioux. They try to quietly sneak past the Sioux but Billie's horse whinnies and the Sioux are alerted. The Sioux attack and Bishop takes a fatal arrow. Stanhope is also mortally wounded but lives until after the war party has been defeated. Before he dies he instructs Billie that when the rabbit keels over on its side it’s ready. He says to break the skin on Custer’s arm with a knife and rub the infected part of the rabbit’s belly across it. Then Stanhope dies and after he’s carried away to be buried, Billie lies down to sleep. 
            Reicher approaches the wooden rabbit cage, opens it and lets the rabbit go, but it immediately lies down on its side. Billie sees it and picks it up, taking it over to Custer, while Powell comes to help. But Reicher aims his gun commands they get away from Custer. Powell pulls his pistol and gets Reicher to back down. Billie does what Stanhope instructed. 
            Custer staggers to his horse and says they’re moving out. On the trail Custer falls from his horse. Reicher aims his rifle at him but Custer shoots him. They make camp and after a night of rest Custer is fine. They head out and are attacked by Sioux. They fight them off but now there are only Custer, Powell, and Billie left. 
            The Sioux arrive at the Pawnee village just as Custer, Powell and Billie do. Custer tries to explain to Running Bear that Red Wolf and his men are carrying smallpox. Red Wolf attacks Custer and they fight until Red Wolf is on the ground. He tells Running Bear to look at the red spots on Red Wolf’s face. He is convinced and now Red Wolf is worried. Billie still has the rabbit and can save Red Wolf and his warriors. 
            Back at Fort Hays, the review board has granted Billie a pardon but Powell is taken away either to prison or to be executed. 
            Stanhope was played by Canadian actor Lloyd Bochner, who was born in Toronto in 1924. By the age of 11 his sonorous voice already go him work as a radio and voice over actor. He started at the University of Toronto but his education was interrupted by WWII. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy and after the war returned to U of T to finish his BA in Sociology. He made hi TV debut in Studio One in 1950. In 1953 he participated in the first six seasons of The Stratford Festival. He made his film debut in The Mapleville Story in 1946. He co-starred in The Night Walker, The Detective, The Young Runaways, Tiger By the Tail, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Mr. No Legs, The Hot Touch, Fine Gold, Bram Stoker’s The Legend of the Mummy, The Lonely Lady, He co-starred in the TV series Hong Kong, He appeared on 13 episodes of The Richard Boone Show. He starred in the classic Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”. He appeared on 27 episodes of Dynasty. He won two Liberty Awards for his work in Canadian television. He co-founded the Committee to End Violence.




Burr DeBenning


            On Thursday after midnight I tried to post my blog and did so but couldn’t view it in published form. The message said I could try to reset my browser but that didn’t work. Finally I was able to copy the blog link after restarting. But then Facebook wouldn’t let me on without a password (I guess because of the resetting of my browser). I found my password but it still wanted an authentication number. I gave up and went to bed after 2:00 but then remembered something about an authentication app on my phone and got up to look. Sure enough the authentication code was there, so I got back on Facebook and posted my blog before going back to bed. 
            I still have a cold and on top of that didn’t sleep very well. 
            I got up at 5:00. A few days ago someone painted graffiti on the plywood covering the windows of the closed Dollarama. But then someone painted grey over the graffiti. Then someone put up posters but then someone else painted the whole space black. This morning there was white graffiti all over the black paint. 
            I worked out the chords for the first verse of “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian. 
            I memorized the chorus of “L’île enchanteresses” (The Enchanted Isle) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised my translation of the second verse. 
            I weighed 90.65 kilos before breakfast. 
            I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it stayed in tune most of the time.
            I lint rolled the curtains between the bedroom and living room and picked up a cluster of bedbugs near the top. 
            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco where I could have done a good price match on the grapes but they were all too soft. I bought three packs of raspberries, some bananas, an eye of round beef roast from Australia, three bags of 1% milk, and a pack of Full City Dark coffee. 
            I weighed 91.55 kilos at 18:50. 
            I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 
            I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching episode 8 of the TV series Custer.
            Custer is just returning from a meeting in Washington but there won’t be a stage coach to Fort Hays for a week and so he takes one as far as the road leading to the fort. Corporal Bates meets him with an extra horse. On the way they are ambushed by Fire Cloud’s Sioux warriors and Bates is killed. Custer is unhorsed and rolls down a hill. A Sioux tries to scalp him but Custer kills him and makes his way on foot to the Deadwood Stage Relay Station where he’s able to get a ride on the next stage. 
           One of the passengers is the journalist Ned Quimbo who recognizes Custer. Another is a handcuffed prisoner named Uvalde and another is Mrs. Nora Moffett, the widow of a Confederate soldier. 
           En route they are attacked by Sioux again and manage to fight them off but one of the coach drivers is killed. They arrive at the next coach station but the driver wonders where Jake the station agent is. Someone opens the gate and they drive in but it turns out the station has been taken over by two of Uvalde’s men. They now set Uvalde free and Custer and the rest become prisoners. Custer says the area is swarming with Sioux and that just the three of them wouldn’t make it alive. They need help from the rest of them to survive. One of the crooks climbs a ladder to look around and takes an arrow. Uvalde lets Custer and the others have their guns back. The Sioux attack again. The station is like a small fort with lower walls but it gives the defenders some cover. They fight them off.
           Inside the station Nora finds the body of the murdered station agent. 
           Uvalde fights Custer for leadership and Custer wins. 
           That night three Sioux sneak over the walls but after a fight are killed. 
           The next day Custer puts on his uniform, ties a white cloth to a stick and walks out of the station to find out if it’s him Fire Cloud is after. Fire Cloud tells him Uvalde killed his son. Custer tells him Uvalde has already been sentenced to death but Fire Cloud says the white man’s style of execution is too merciful and Uvalde needs to suffer and demands he be given to him. Custer says it goes against his people’s laws so he can’t give Uvalde up. Fire Cloud says then all in the station will die. 
           Quimbo says he’d give anything to interview Fire Cloud. Custer says there’s no romance in these wars and no absolute right on either side. 
           Custer notices a boarded up window on one side of the station and takes the boards off. He goes out through the window and kills the one guard that Fire Cloud has placed out there. Custer comes back and tells everybody to go out through that window and head for the stagecoach road. Quimbo leaves but sneaks back into the station. 
           At dawn Custer drives the stage coach out of the station but he positions himself in the centre of the four horses and ducks low. The Sioux chase after the coach and stop it only to find it empty, so they ride back the way they came but leave one warrior to guard it. Custer has been clinging to the underside of the coach and now sneaks up on the Sioux warrior to knock him out. Then Custer starts the coach moving again and picks up the passengers on the coach road. 
           Fire Cloud arrives at the station and Quimbo is brought out. He tries to tell Fire Cloud he can make him immortal in print but Fire Cloud quickly kills him with his spear. 
           The coach stops for a quick repair and Uvalde and his man take that opportunity to pull their guns on Custer and the driver and disarm them. But then Fire Cloud appears on the hill and distracts him. Custer dives for his gun and kills Uvalde. The other crook attacks the driver but Custer shoots him as well. 
           Custer throws his gun aside and walks out to meet Fire Cloud. He points out to Fire Cloud that Uvalde is dead. Fire Cloud howls in agony and rides away. 
           Uvalde was played by Burr DeBenning, who started as a Business major at Oklahoma State University but switched to drama and starred in several college plays. He made his professional debut in an off-Broadway plays and later worked with a Boston theatre troupe. He made his film debut in Beach Red in 1967. He co-starred in The Incredible Melting Man, J.C., and The House of the Dead.

October 10, 1996: The Argentinian lap dancers were much more humble than the Russians


Thirty years ago today

            On Thursday I went to the House of Lancaster where I had a few lap dances. There were two main groups of dancers there at the time: those from Argentina and those from Russia. They were all quite aggressive beyond what’s considered a normal lap dance. They would actually fondle your genitalia and invite you to do the same to them. The two groups differed in their ambitions in Canada. The Argentinians all wanted to go to school in Canada. I asked a Russian dancer if she planned on going to school here but she gave me a dirty look and said, “I went to school in Russia!”

Friday, 9 October 2026

Hunter Doohan


            On Wednesday after midnight I put some fresh carpet tape at the foot of my mattress because that area loses its stickiness sooner maybe due to fabric fibres coming off onto the tape. I lint-rolled the curtain between my bedroom and the living room, the bed, and my pillow. There were quite a few bedbugs on the curtains as usual. I shook out my sheet and my comforter on the deck and went to bed around 1:48. I got up to pee at 3:03 and slept until 5:00. 
            I definitely have my first cold in three years now. I’m sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. The furnace still hasn’t been turned on. It’s probably just a matter of switching the breaker and I’d do that myself if I had access to the basement. 
            I think I found the missing page of the piece I wrote 25 years ago about the night my open stage got kicked out of the Gladstone Hotel and moved to the Drake and the bizarre night of anger at me that unfolded during the readings. On Thursday I’ll begin transcribing it into digital format and then begin making it more poetic. 
            I looked for more chords for “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian but there are no more than the set I found. I worked them out for the instrumental intro and tomorrow I’ll find out if the chords I transcribed for the verses fit. 
            I memorized the second verse of “L’île enchanteresses” (The Enchanted Isle) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised my translation of the first verse. 
            I weighed 90.8 kilos before breakfast. 
            I played my Martin during song practice for the last of two sessions and it went out of tune all the time. 
            I weighed 91.95 kilos before lunch. I had peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar on saltines with a glass of lemonade. 
            I weighed 91.45 kilos at 18:30. I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 
            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara, tomato pesto, Montreal smoked meat, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching the second season finale of Wednesday on Discord with my daughter Astrid. 
            Pugsley has been taken by Isaac Night. Wednesday’s spirit guide, the late Principal Weems suggests that the three Ravens in the Addams family must pool their psychic abilities to locate Pugsley. Morticia asks her mother to join them. Wednesday and Grandmama reluctantly join hands with Morticia. Wednesday has a vision of her young parents Morticia and Gomez burying the dead body of Isaac under the skull tree. She confronts her mother, who tells her that Gomez used to have electrical powers like Uncle Fester and Pugsley. Isaac convinced him to be hooked up to Isaac’s power extracting machine to give some of his spark to Francoise to cure her of being a Hyde monster and dying because of that affliction. But once strapped in the machine Gomez was drained all of his power and it would have also killed him if Morticia not sabotaged the machine. The machine exploded and Isaac died. So as not to be charged with murder they buried Isaac’s body. 
           Wednesday now realizes that Isaac plans to try again this time with Pugsley. 
           Isaac forces Eugene to deliver Wednesday a snow globe with a model of the skull tree inside and a message on the bottom of “midnight”. 
           Wednesday sets up Thing with a crossbow to shoot Isaac but he catches to bolt with his right hand. Tyler captures Thing in a clear box. Isaac removes his glove to reveal that he has no right hand. Wednesday realizes that “Thing” is an anagram for “Night”. It is revealed that on the night Isaac died, Morticia caused the explosion by cutting off Isaac’s right hand with an axe. Isaac removes Thing from the box and on contact regains his telekinetic abilities, which he uses to stitch Thing back onto his arm to once again become his right hand. 
            Isaac levitates Wednesday into a grave at the foot of the Skull Tree, manipulates roots to bind her and then buries her. Isaac, Francoise, and Tyler leave for Iago Tower, while Agnes, who has been watching the whole thing becomes visible. She goes to tell Enid, who has locked herself in a Lupin cell so she does not permanently transform into an Alpha werewolf. Enid comes to Wednesday’s grave with Agnes but the two don’t have the strength to dig Wednesday out before she suffocates. Enid has no choice but to transform into an Alpha and digs Wednesday out. After a few tense moments Wednesday finally opens her eyes and says she enjoyed being buried alive. Enid runs away and Wednesday tells Agnes to track her. Gomez and Morticia arrive. They head for Iago Tower but Morticia sends Gomez to get the police. 
            Isaac and his family return to Iago Tower and Isaac uses his power to restore the lab. Pugley is strapped to the machine and sinister headpiece is placed over him. At Francoise’ request Isaac straps Tyler down against his will instead of her. She explains to her son that it’s too late for her but he can still be cured even though he doesn’t want to be. The machine is started to extract Pugsley’s power. Wednesday arrives with an axe and cuts Tyler free, then she frees Pugsley. Tyler transforms into a Hyde and attacks Isaac. Francoise also changes and the two monsters fight. Wednesday tries to sever Thing from Isaac’s arm with the axe but the machine explodes. Francoise is knocked from the tower but hangs onto a ledge. As Tyler tries to save her she deliberately lets go and falls to be impaled on the statue of a werewolf. 
            Isaac recovers and begins choking Wednesday but Thing begins to resist and then attack Isaac. He reaches for Isaac’s clockwork heart and pulls it out of his chest, killing him. Then Thing breaks free of Isaac’s arm to become independent again. 
            Later Agnes tells Wednesday that she’s tracked Enid north to near the Canadian border. 
            Tyler visits his parents’ graves and is approached by Professor Capri, who reveals that her father was a Hyde. She says she is forming a support group for Hydes. Male Hydes without masters die but she thinks that creating a pack relationship for Hydes will circumvent the need for a master. 
            The Addamses are leaving Nevermore for home but Wednesday says she’s not going with them. Morticia gives Wednesday her Aunt Ophelia’s journal. Fester arrives on a motorbike with a side car, which Wednesday and Thing enter. She tells Fester they are going after Enid. 
            We see Enid in her Alpha werewolf form trembling alone in the woods. 
            Grandmama returns home to find her daughter Ophelia there, writing on the wall with her own blood, “Wednesday must die”. 
            Tyler is played by Hunter Doohan, who became interested in acting in high school. After graduating he moved to LA to study acting and audition. He made his film debut in Hot Pursuit in 2012. He made his TV debut in The Other Client List in 2015. He co-starred in the TV series Your Honour. He starred in the film The Wilderness. He co-starred in Evil Dead Burn.





October 9, 1996: I did some writing and later performed


Thirty years ago today 

            On Wednesday I did some writing. In the early evening I performed on the Fat Albert’s open stage and later went to the Art Bar reading series to perform there.

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Robert Loggia


            On Tuesday after midnight I added fresh carpet tape to the areas around my mattress where it had become less sticky. I lint rolled the curtains between the bedroom and the living room, the top of my bed, and the pillow. There were quite a few on the curtains as they love the top. There were a couple on the bed. I shook out my sheet and my comforter on the deck and went to bed around 1:38 with the temperature outside at 7 degrees and still no heat. I was okay under my comforter. I got up to pee around 3:00 and again at around 4:00. 
            When I got up it was 4 degrees outside and it went down to 3 degrees. It might be just a matter of switching the breaker on the furnace but I don’t have access to the basement. Years ago when Coffeetime was downstairs one could go behind the counter and enter the basement but now there’s a separate locked small commercial space that’s been waiting to be rented for the last few years with no takers. I’m getting the sniffles from the cold. 
            After yoga there were quite a few bedbugs caught on the carpet tape and a couple crawling free on the walls. 
            I searched again for the missing first page of a piece I wrote 25 years ago and I think I found the handwritten first page but there’s still text missing between that and the typewritten second page of the document. I’ll keep looking on Wednesday. 
            I found two very slightly different sets of chords for “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian. I transcribed those and tomorrow I’ll keep looking. 
            I weighed 91.65 kilos before breakfast. 
            I played my Martin during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune all the time. 
            I scrubbed some disassembled parts of the drawer of my daughter’s old desk in the grooves where the bottom slips in. It’s clear that there have been bedbug nests there but I think the black spots are from the first infestation 25 years ago. I scrubbed them with hot water just in case. 
            I weighed 92 kilos before lunch. 
            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 
            I weighed 91.4 kilos at 18:00. 
            I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 
            I grilled three chicken legs and had one with a potato and gravy while watching episode 7 of the TV series Custer. 
            Custer and the 7th Cavalry are on their way to meet with the Arapaho to possibly make peace when they are ambushed by Sioux who don’t want that to happen. The Sioux would lose an important ally if the Arapaho withdraw from the plains war. They fight them off but the question is how did the Sioux know he was heading for Arapaho country unless someone betrayed that information to them? Their scout California Joe has enlisted the help of another scout named Auguste Grulé who knows this area better than him. Grulé says he rides with the cavalry because the Sioux murdered his family.
            A young Lieutenant Cox confesses to Custer that he finds it difficult to be commanded by Lieutenant Moreno because he’s unfriendly, solitary, and foreign. Custer reminds him that he’s a junior officer and shouldn’t be questioning the orders of a superior. 
           When they make camp, a lone arrow is shot at Custer but misses. How the archer got past the sentry raises suspicions of there being a spy among them. Cox starts to raise Moreno’s name as a possibility amongst the men. He says Moreno wasn’t there when the Sioux attacked earlier and said he was out looking for signs. Cox goes through Moreno’s saddle bag and discovers that he’s Kiowa.
            Suddenly there is an attack by a small pack of Sioux warriors who penetrated their position. Cox says they got through while Moreno was checking the guard. Cox tells Custer that Moreno is Kiowa, who are allied with the Sioux. Custer tells Cox, “Now you’ve just accused me of incompetence!” He says it’s his business to know the background and record of every officer in his command. He tells Cox that he knows he was 38th in his class at West Point while Moreno was 4th in his. Cox has served less than six months while Moreno has served ten years with high competence. Cox has seen no action while Moreno has been twice decorated for bravery beyond the call of duty. The fact that Moreno is Kiowa and the skills he has brought from that background have been an asset to the cavalry. Custer tells Cox that unless he has evidence to present against Moreno he should refrain from making insinuations. 
            The next day Grulé tells Custer that someone is dropping things as they travel to make a trail for the Sioux to follow. One of those items was Moreno’s canteen. Later when they stop for a rest Cox approaches Moreno and asks if he’s looking for signs or making them. Moreno has had enough and throws the first punch. Custer breaks it up and Moreno admits to striking the first blow then apologizes.
            A large war party of Sioux appears and Crazy Horse rides forward to talk with Custer. He warns Custer to turn back or die but Custer says he’s going through to make peace with the Arapaho. 
            Cox sees Moreno go out into the trees and follows him. A knife is thrown and Cox is killed. Sergeant Bustard tells Custer that Cox followed Moreno when he saw him sneak out in the dark. Custer reminds Bustard that he’s guilty of mutiny if he accuses an officer of a crime without cause. He says Moreno was scouting on his orders. 
            Joe tells Custer he thinks he’s making a mistake to trust Moreno. He thinks as a Kiowa he was born with a reason to betray them. Custer argues that the uniform means something to both him and Moreno that is thicker than blood. Moreno says when he first put the uniform on he thought it would bring him justice, equality, and honour. “But I’m still an Indian and not quite human. Maybe I should go out and join them. Perhaps theirs is the just cause after all.” 
            There is a buzzing sound coming from Moreno’s saddlebag and in it they find Lieutenant Cox’s watch. Bustard punches Moreno. 
            Custer takes from his dispatch case the Arapaho treaty. He shows it to the men and says he’s placing it in plain sight. 
            They are surrounded by Sioux. After exchanging fire for a while Custer sees that the dispatch case is gone. Grulé is seen walking away. Custer calls to him, Grulé spins and draws his gun but Custer shoots him. Before he dies he tells Custer that it wasn’t the Sioux that killed his wife and children, but white men. 
            Moreno says the best way to escape is to fight like Kiowa. He tells Custer that a Kiowa usually steals his first horse from the Sioux. He suggests that Bustard takes seven men to slowly make their way through the pass while he and Custer play a Kiowa game. The seven soldiers form a skirmish line and charge forward as Crazy Horse calls to attack. As the two sides charge towards each other, suddenly Custer and Moreno pop up beside the Sioux and begin firing. Custer is wounded and Moreno is out of ammunition. Crazy Horse charges and Moreno stands to protect Custer but is fatally wounded by Crazy Horse’s lance. Custer wounds Crazy Horse but his men carry him safely away. 
            They bury Moreno. Bustard wishes he’d had a chance to apologize. Custer tells him to just make things right with the other Morenos he encounters. 
            Moreno was played by Robert Loggia, who earned a Bachelors degree in Journalism before turning to acting. He trained under Stella Adler at the Actors Studio while doing stage work. He made his Broadway debut in The Man with the Golden Arm in 1955. He made his film debut in Somebody Up There Likes Me in 1956. He made his TV debut on Studio One in 1956. He co-starred in Cattle King, Che, Trail of the Pink Panther, Psycho II, Curse of the Pink Panther, Armed and Dangerous, Hot Pursuit, The Believers, Gaby, Relentless, Gladiator, Lifepod, The Last Tattoo, The Proposition, Holy Man, Flypaper, American Virgin, The Shipment, The Deal, Rain, Forget About It, The Diary of Preston Plummer, An Evergreen Christmas, No Deposit, Sicilian Vampire, The Red Maple Leaf, Jagged Edge (for which he was Oscar nominated), Big, Prizzi’s Honour, Over the Top, Necessary Roughness, Oliver and Company, Innocent Blood, Independence Day, The Don’s Analyst, He starred in Cop Hater, The Lost Missile, The Apostle Peter, He starred in the series T.H.E. Cat, Mancuso F.B.I. (for which he was Emmy nominated), He co-starred in the mini-series Wild Palms, He directed episodes of Quincy, Magnum, and Hart to Hart.