Recap
Aboard a stagecoach, Averi Trent tries to ignore the over-eager casket salesman going on about his wares. The stagecoach slows down and the driver tells them that they're picking up another passenger. Averi objects, saying there's no room, but the driver still slows down and lets Jim on-board. He moves Averi's luggage, ignoring her complaint that she paid for two seats, and let's a Mexican woman and her child sit there instead while he occupies the floor. ..
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Episode Notes
Corner slides:
Lower Right: Artie realizes that Jim has the plague.
Upper Right: Averi foils Jim's attempt to rescue her.
Lower Left: Jim rides off with Averi.
Upper Left: Jim and Artie stare at Donald in shock.
Episode Quotes
Averi Trent: Hey you, whatever your name is.
Duncan: Dear lady, from my bottom of my heart, I do sweetly urge you to shut up!
Cultural References
Duncan: The quality of mercy is not strained.
The gambler quotes from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1596). Portia continues, "It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven; Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
Stills: Oh my offenses rank. It smells to Heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t.
The outlaw actor quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3.
Artemus: Artemus, looks like the play's the thing, wherein we'll capture the conscience of... I wonder who?
Artie quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. The full line is "I'll have grounds more relative than this--the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
Artemus: There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
Artie quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2.