This one gets off to an interesting start; you quickly get the idea that maybe this will be one of those episodes where it's an object, not a person, that Duke has been hired to shoot. Just who he is working for remains a secret most of the way, which adds some intrigue. The plot was fairly clever, too. It doesn't seem to make sense that Duke appears to be working for the bad guy, but in the end things come together. The conclusion seemed mildly cathartic, as everything goes as the bad guy had planned it, yet he winds up seeming a pathetic person anyhow. Not perfect, but definitely better than the average episode. An odd point was Duke adding a little moral to the story; also, the scene of two similar looking men talking--then we're told that one of them is Japanese and the other is German!
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