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This one suffers from having an unsympathetic punk as the victim. Maybe Sam Dann didn\'t want anyone nice to get hurt, but it definitely hurts the story\'s emotional impact. Also, Paul Hecht seems a little miscast. His role should have gone to Bob Kaliban, Jack Grimes or Russell Horton, each of them great at playing young punks.

Actually, Mr. Hecht played an even slimier punk in another great RMT episode \"The man who asked for yesterday\".

- I love the stock cuban(?) music used when Hecht\'s character is in his apartment and Janney\'s character turns on the stereo. This was used elsewhere as well, usually as background music in a bar / restaurant scene, so it was nice to hear this at a louder level.

- This was the very first episode I ever heard, and I remember listening to it curled up in the back seat of my Dad\'s Volkswagen bug on the way to visit our family in Illinois. (Sadly, unbeknownst to us he had cancer and died 9 months later. I didn\'t know what this program was at the time being young, and didn\'t \"discover\" the RMT until four years later, so I never got to listen to other episodes with He and my Mom.) 