Episode 2 Summary

December 9th, 2073
-The council meets. Masterson and Keller are gone, Lorraine and Anders are in.
-Corwin briefly addresses the crowd with the facts to stop rumor-mongering.
-Electing a temporary administrator is discussed. Croft nominates Corwin Gray, seconded by White. after no one puts forth a second nomination, Corwin nominates Anders, seconded by Grissom. They depart the chamber while deliberations and voting is conducted. The council votes to suspend a normal rule allowing 24 hours for nominations from citizens.
-Sam Newton visits Virgil Church in his cell, lowering a radio through the bars. Virgil is willing to keep Sam's secret as long as Sam is willing to make it worth his while. Virgil points out that Ophelia knows too. Sam leaves him some money and some tools to escape if he so desires.
-Back at the council, Lorraine and White speak in support of Corwin.
-Sam runs into Thomas Brass, community leader and leader of the local neighborhood watch. Tom asks Sam if he knows anything about the explosives. When Sam protests his innocence Tom reveals that Judy White (the councilman's daughter) saw another local dealer in illicit goods, Erwin Parks, meeting with strangers that night, and most people believe he's the one who sold the explosives.
-Virgil gets restless in the cell and decides to escape.
-Sam meets with Parks and taunts him. Parks insists he was just selling drugs to the strangers. Sam plants money and dynamite hidden outside Parks' shed.
-Corwin is voted administrator with only Grissom opposed.
-Meanwhile, Anders notices a mob growing inside and outside Smacky's bar. Also, Virgil entering the bar despite being ostensibly imprisoned.
-Virgil meets with Ophelia and confirms that she's willing to keep Sam's secret too if it's worth her while.
-Anders goes to try to calm the crowd. Meanwhile, Corwin calls out Eva and the militia to help break up the mob.
-Anders, Corwin, Eva and the militia work together to break up the mob. Anders talks to them and eventually shoots somone in the leg, Corwin invokes William Newton ("I'm glad old Bill is dead tonight, because if he saw all of you it would break his heart, and then he'd break you"), and Eva expertly leads the militia in applying restrained force. At the last moment Virgil riles the crowd up again by yelling that he had personally seen Parks selling the explosives, but the situation is barely defused in the end.
-Anders tosses Virgil back in the slammer.

December 10th
-Anders releases Virgil and gives him his stuff back, knowing Virgil would probably just escape again/steal it back otherwise.
-Anders investigates Parks' home. He finds him gone and finds the money and dynamite planted by Sam. He thinks it's strange that Parks would leave money and hide his explosives poorly, but he has no other leads.
-Work begins on reopening the pass.
-Virgil and Ophelia pay a visit to Sam to discuss his secret. Virgil extracts a discount on supplies from him, Ophelia gets him to agree to feed her information.
-Mr. Hardy shows up with paperwork for Anders, who is faced with tons of work between his many new duties.
-The pass is opened. Corwin's shipment to Greer is the first out the door.
-Dutch gets an encrypted message from Chris Wall, a fellow mobster from Dutch's past who announces he will be visiting for Christmas and checking out Newton as a possible place to set up shop.
-Lorraine asks Corwin to bump up one of her horse caravans on the queue for outgoing shipments in exchange for her continued support.
-Lucius pays a visit to Anders, asking him to expedite the public auction of Edwin Parks' land so he can buy it. In exchange, he agrees to provide Anders with an able assistant to help him with all of his newfound work.
-That night, Corwin's shipment gets jumped by bandits in the pass.
-Corwin realizes this when the outpost fails to sight them. He sends his assistant to wake up Eva and hire Virgil. Anders, working late, sees the commotion and follows everyone to the fort to see what's going on.
-Corwin sends the militia out to try to find his shipment. Anders and Corwin get into an argument. Anders is angry that Corwin is using the militia for his own purposes, and Corwin insists that with Newton wealthier and more powerful than ever it's time to end the bandit problem once and for all.

Session ended late on the night of the 10th. The next session begins early on the 12th. The major plot arc for the next few episodes will be the bandit problem.