Walker: Independence is a drama on the CW network and a spin-off of Walker, though since it's set 100 years in the past and I haven't seen Walker I haven't noticed any connections other than the name of the main character.

Abby Walker (Katherine McNamara) and husband, traveling from the East Coast to the Old West town of Independence, are ambushed one night. Husband is killed and Abby left for dead. She is saved by a local American Indian, Calian (Justin Johnson Cortez) and, with a partial picture of the murderer in her mind, walks into town to report the crime.

But then runs into the new sheriff Tom Davidson (Greg Hovanessian) who she thinks is the murderer. Abby immediately thinks up of an alias (actually Abby Walker is her maiden name) and explains she's new in town and gets herself hired as the sheriff's assistant.

Determined to prove that sheriff Davidson is the murderer she befriends and recruits allies: rogue and sometimes train robber Hoyt Rawlins (Matt Barr), saloon dance girl show coordinator Kate Carver (Katie Findlay), Calian and his friend deputy sheriff Augustus Philemon Chambers), and I guess by the end of the season Chinese restauranter and laundry man Kai (Lawrence Kao)...

It's not an amazing show but kind of moves along. It's got twists along the way the main one being whether or not sheriff Davidson is the murderer cause he's a bit of bad guy but seems to genuinely want to protect Independence. Naturally the other characters have their own subplots which makes this a rather ensemble show and it's not all about Abby Walker.

Season one is thirteen episodes and by the end there are enough interesting subplots left hanging that I'm kind of looking forward to season two and hopefully also thirteen episodes to keep the main plot focused.