This Gunsmoke episode explores the dark intersection of ambition, rejection, and desperation on the Kansas frontier. When Marshal Matt Dillon discovers a dying man in actor Irving Henry's wagon, a tragic tale unfolds. Henry, a classically trained student of Shakespeare whose unfortunate appearance relegated him to comic roles, murdered his mentor Sam Matchett in a desperate bid to finally play the heroic parts he believed he deserved. Trapped by his physical limitations and driven to desperation, Henry takes a widow and her children hostage in a tense standoff that can only end one way.

Episode Highlights & Quotes

"My life has been the theater. As a boy, I was a student of Shakespeare. He would look at me. Who would accept this face for Hamlet? This ill shape of body For Romeo?" - Irving Henry's tragic confession

"I shot him. He did not die at first. When I saw what I had done, I wanted him to live and I put him into the wagon and I drove on hoping to find a doctor." - Henry reveals his crime

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