This episode was a good opportunity to show Matt Dillon's easy-going, matured, philosophical side (James Arness was still just shy of 40 when this was screened in early 1963) as the one-time big brother figure of an intelligent, thinking man's stagecoach bandit who is deeply resentful of how 17-year-old Matt treated him as a 10-year-old little kid back in Texas. It was a rare showcase too for the thoughtful screen presence of tall, dark and handsome Michael Forest (later seen convincingly personifying a Greek God come to life in the original "Star Trek" series, c.1967). The to-ing and fro-ing of the development of their renewed relationship is very well handled, the younger man laid up in Dodge from breaking his leg saving an old lady driving a runaway carriage. He has time to mull things over while supposed to be planning his gang's next big job at Matt's expense. "Gunsmoke" was almost on its own among tv westerns in presenting demanding leading roles for under-appreciated talents to shine, as it had done for Ben Cooper a little earlier in the series, as well as Anthony Caruso, Mariette Hartley and others. A couple of niggles: The talented Gloria Talbott, now all of 30 or so and nicely matured from her days in the fifties as a sex kitten, is sadly under-utilised here as a prairie gang moll. Her very brief showing (maybe edited and mostly left on the cutting room floor) nagged as a missed chance, given her fulsome, satisfying appearance torn between two wooers the year before. Somewhat misused too is rangy John Anderson, though with more screen time, playing against type as the dumber one of Michael Forest's underlings.