The Other Half

This unfortunate story is played well by the actors involved making for a watch that is a sad tale of a family situation. After watching and taking sometime to digest then entire program, I found this to be a episode that was almost Shakespearean in nature.

Two brothers Jess and Jay Bartell have been running their father's feed and seed store since their widower father has been in poor health. Even though everyone in town had called the twins 'two peas in a pod' there was a notable different in the two for the people that knew them. Jess was the hard worker and management person while Jay was more of the dreamer. It will be difficult for their father to take when Jess is killed working late at the store after what appeared to be a robbery.

There is a suspect as Festus and Jess's girlfriend Nancy had seen a older gentleman with a mustache and smoking a pipe talking to Jess before the murder. But no one in town knew who the man's name nor anything about him.

But when the gentleman, Agus MacIntosh, returns we learn that he was selling a house to Jess so that he could marry Nancy and move away leaving Jay to run the business. But when Jay decides that he now wants to buy the house for Nancy, it begins a spiral downfall that will leave the entire situation unpleasant for the entire cast.

A very sad tale that plays out right before us. We, as viewers, know that it was only a story script to a show but if felt more real than we ever wanted. A good watch.