You may have to jump a few hurdles yourself to get through this story. The disparity in age between Gary Merrill and Patricia Breslin in portraying their characters, while not impossible, would have been improbable if Cash Bentley (Merrill) was as big a jerk in his younger days as he was in this episode. The former athlete and hurdles champion found it difficult to come to grips with getting older, especially when taunted by his country club members to break his 'indoor record' for jumping furniture and makeshift obstacles. I have to say, when he ran that course at the club it looked incredibly hokey, and there's no way actor Merrill would have been able to accomplish it, so kudos to the stunt double. The sad thing about the story is how Cash made such a jerk of himself when he could just as easily have been having a good time with his wife and friends. The forced ending to the episode was somewhat improbable as well, because even if you don't know how to use a gun, how many times in your life have you heard that you never point one at anybody?
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