This is a great episode, and one of my favorites. It also seems an appropriate choice since the last episode I listened to was about trying to change your future and this one is about trying to change your past.

Mercedes McCambridge is one of my all-time favorite RMT performers, with her wonderfully weird husky voice---I love her in the good ones as well as the not-so-good ones. This is definitely one of the good ones. And she pretty much carries the entire show. Any lesser actress, I think, could not have made this character's choices believable.

I especially love the ending ----how Dottie could actually make the same mistake again is just almost unbelieveable----but her punishment is great. A nice illustration of how those green pieces of paper that we value so highly are really, in the greater scheme of things, worth nothing at all. It reminds us that each of our values is always a choice---an important choice for which we must take individual responsibility. Sam Dann did a bang-up job on this one. It's an inventive little existential parable about human weakness, with a wonderfully, wickedly clever twist at the end for poor ol' dumb Dottie.