The episode is mainly, like other ones such as The Return of Dr. Thackeray, about the story of a young man with problems to become the same strong man figure as the man who has raised him.
Its secondary theme is about a Iago - named just Gault here... - who tries and almost manages to reach his vile ends by using the complexes of the young man to instill in him envious resentment and a suicidal urge to defy the older man. This is quite a bright scenario, and credibly developed. It takes all the wiles of Paladin to open the eyes of the young man unmask the scoundrel and, more importantly, his punch to avoid the senseless bloodshed plotted by Gault.
Its secondary theme is about a Iago - named just Gault here... - who tries and almost manages to reach his vile ends by using the complexes of the young man to instill in him envious resentment and a suicidal urge to defy the older man. This is quite a bright scenario, and credibly developed. It takes all the wiles of Paladin to open the eyes of the young man unmask the scoundrel and, more importantly, his punch to avoid the senseless bloodshed plotted by Gault.