Lily hires a new piano player she knew from her San Francisco days, played by ubiquitous TV actor William Schallert. He is down on his luck because he cannot shake the guilt that during the Civil War he ran from an ambush where his men were killed. Dan who was a Captain during the conflict knows the story and it is further complicated when a Civil War Vet whose brother was killed in the ambush rolls into town. The Vet played by Murvyn Vye, well known from dramatic rolls such as in 'Pick-up on South Street', wants the piano player dead. Dan knows he must intervene to save the day. This episode has many great scenes set in and outside 'The Birdcage' and in one Lily gets to accompany the pianist for a sultry song. Both Lily and Dan get to deliver moving soliloquies from the pen of episode writer William F. Leicester about the nature of courage, and Dan shows a surprising soft spot for the music of Chopin.
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