****SPOILERS**** It's when gunslinger Dell Delaney, Gene Barry, gave the drunk and out on his feet Red Hillman, Darren McGavin, a free pass by not drawing on him instead of being grateful to Dalaney for spearing his life Hillman felt that he dissed him in front of everyone in the bar by showing what a helpless drunk he really was. Now in a driving rainstorm Hillman tracks Delany down at Maggie's, played by Ellen Corby the famous "Screaming Woman" in the movie "They Won't Believe Me", bed & breakfast to finish the job,of him getting shot and killed by Delaney, that he started.
What in fact turns out to be a staring contest between both Delaney & Hillman who seem to be reluctant to draw their guns and fire at each other. In the cockeyed reasoning that the one who draws as well as kills first would be charged with murder and end up, after being convicted in a court of law, dancing at the end of a rope. This, the staring contest, goes on for what seems like forever with Maggie serving hams & eggs for the two screwballs until it's decided that when the cuckoo clock in the kitchen cuckoo's that when they'll draw their guns. Thus making the two immune, how they came up with that is never explained, in being charged with murder for the one who eventually shoots & kills first!
***SPOILERS*** Unknown to everyone but Maggie the cuckoo clock is in need of repairs so it never cuckoo's making it impossible for ether man to draw and shoot each other. But as "The Master" Alfred Hitchcock tells us in the epilogue of the episode that in fact both Delaney & Hillman ended up dead by the end of the day. Not from bullets from their guns but from food poisoning from the ham & eggs breakfast, laced with arsenic, that Maggie served them!
What in fact turns out to be a staring contest between both Delaney & Hillman who seem to be reluctant to draw their guns and fire at each other. In the cockeyed reasoning that the one who draws as well as kills first would be charged with murder and end up, after being convicted in a court of law, dancing at the end of a rope. This, the staring contest, goes on for what seems like forever with Maggie serving hams & eggs for the two screwballs until it's decided that when the cuckoo clock in the kitchen cuckoo's that when they'll draw their guns. Thus making the two immune, how they came up with that is never explained, in being charged with murder for the one who eventually shoots & kills first!
***SPOILERS*** Unknown to everyone but Maggie the cuckoo clock is in need of repairs so it never cuckoo's making it impossible for ether man to draw and shoot each other. But as "The Master" Alfred Hitchcock tells us in the epilogue of the episode that in fact both Delaney & Hillman ended up dead by the end of the day. Not from bullets from their guns but from food poisoning from the ham & eggs breakfast, laced with arsenic, that Maggie served them!