Allison was sitting outside the general store waiting on the others to get supplies since they were running low when she sees someone she didn't think she'd actually live to see in person ever again

"I don't believe it, I thought he was supposed to be in Texas on a prison term, best get the Sheriff involved then"

Allison runs over to the Sheriff's office hoping that the Sheriff wasn't out on a different assignment and fortunately he wasn't

"Sheriff I just saw Lucas Thorton out on the streets"

"Say what now kid?"

"I said I saw Lucas Thorton on the streets"

The sheriff leaves the office and sees the exact same thing and quickly arrests him and then checks to see if he had any notices of his escape from prison and it turned out there had been such a notice

"Good eye kid, thanks for letting me know about him, now then there isn't any reward posted for his recapture yet but I think we might be able to come to some sort of an agreement with the Texas authorities"

"No thanks Sheriff I don't want any rewards"

"Why not?"

"My friends and I have enough money for a while, speaking of which here they come"

"What happened?"

"Lucas Thorton happened guys, he's in jail but still he might not be if I hadn't recognized him"

Suddenly everyone hears the prisoner asking for the Sheriff who goes back and then comes back out looking confused

"What is it Sheriff?"

"He wants to see all of you and me at the same time for some reason"

"Guess it should be safe enough as a group"

And so they all go to where the cells were and looked at him expectantly

"You wished to speak with all of us Thorton?"

"Yes and for a very good reason, do you still have my guns Sheriff?"

"Of course I do, what for?"

"Could you get them for me please?"

"Now wait a minute mister..."

"It's important"

"Very well"

The Sheriff comes back with the guns but before anything else could be said Allison turned to the cell looking angry with the rest of the group not far behind

"I can think of only two reasons you would have that gun in your possession, either you killed our friend or you're him"

"It's me alright"

"Okay what are you doing disguised as Thorton and where's Tonto and Dan?"

"Dan's at school and Tonto is busy elsewhere's setting up the trap, we didn't know you guys were in town though or we would have included you into our plans from the start"

"Would someone care to explain?"

"Sure Sheriff, turns out you don't actually have Lucas Thorton in your jail but the Lone Ranger"

"The Lone Ranger?"

"Yes Sheriff, the Lone Ranger"

"Again what are you doing disguised as Thorton"

"I already told you a trap, you see we found out about his escape the day it happened because it was planned between us and the Marshal, he was quickly recaptured and I took his place"

"You're after the rest of his gang aren't you?"

"Exactly, right about now Tonto should be with them saying that he knows where I am camped at and is going to lead them to our camp where the Marshal is waiting"

"We messed everything up didn't we?"

"Yes and no, I was hoping to get some supplies while in town and hope to be discovered and recognized by the townsfolk and thus get backup from the local Sheriff, I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon, we're going to be back at camp several hours too early at this rate because the Marshal has to set things up as well and I can't be there for the set up for complicated reasons"

"So what's the plan then?"

"That's something we're all going to have to come up with"

"I could keep you locked up in here until you said it was time and then let you escape because I'm willing to guess that was also part of your plan"

"That will work, and I can guess that it's safe to assume that you guys will be involved in said posse"

"What do you think?"

"That's what I thought alright"

Ultimately the rest of the gang is captured and it turned out to be a good thing that the Lone Ranger was discovered early because the gang had actually passed through town without anyone knowing it and that would have ruined everything