What a rough episode. The lady that inspires two men to kill for her is played by Gloria McGehee, who died in 1964 at the age of 42. In this episode, she looked like she was in her fifties. She had a sour look on her face in every scene.
Her mean hearted husband is played by Larry Ward, who usually played a villain in most roles. Ward almost catches his wife with his friend Larkin, but his wife puts the blame on a passing peddler. Ward immediately tracks the wagon down, and drowns the peddler (as Louie Pheeters watches from under a shrub, where he was sleeping).
Larry Ward's equally shady home-wrecker pal is played by John Larkin, who died in 1965 at the age of 52. Larkin not only betrays Ward by sleeping with Ward's wife, McGehee, but he also plans to kill his friend Ward, and does.
Last but not least is Louie Pheeters, played by James Nusser. Pheeters was the whiny drunk who was always creeping around Dodge asking for free drinks, and drinking the leftovers that were left at the bar.
Ted Jordan also shows up in his usual role as the town gossip that runs around telling Marshal Dillon that something happened.
Marshal Dillon, like usual, shows he is not a very gifted detective. He rides by the sluice where the peddler is floating dead, not once, but twice as he goes to visit Larry Ward at his farm, and returns.
It takes Louie Pheeters riding out the next day with Dillon before he spots the dead body in the water. Then Dillon immediately arrests Pheeters even though based on what Ward told him, he was the last one to see the peddler alive, and the peddler was found dead where Ward said he had warned him to stay away from his wife.
By sheer luck Dillon figures out who killed Ward when he visits Ward's home and finds his wife was having drinks with Larkin. Larkin tips his hand by running off on his horse with Dillon giving chase. The wife gets away scot free, but thanks to her, three men died.