A tense standoff opens when an arrogant youth pulls a gun and proposes a one-bullet duel: "One bullet each. If I lose, you walk. If you lose, you die." The other protests guns are illegal, but the youth boasts laws don't apply—"In Verdance, I'm the law," and says the mayor bows to his father. He taunts him as worthless without family, offers another bullet and dares him to bet or die. The challenger shoves the weapon forward: "Your turn. Take it!" The episode ends with the other man forced into a deadly choice.