At the end of the previous episode Dr. Seth Hazlitt (William Windom) went to Jessica's home as her phone was ringing. He came by a basket of red apples and ate one, but he fell as the apples were poisoned and it was taken to an hospital. In the meanwhile Eudora McVeigh (Jean Simmons) has even a stint in the jail in the office of Cabot Cove Sheriff Mort Metzger (Ron Masak) who suspects her of murder but has the proff that she messed up Jessica's manuscript. Lew Bracken, Victor Caspar and Hank Shepton (Richard Anderson, David Hedison and Ken Howard) remain in Cabot Cove for seeing what they can do. After a while Eudora apologizes to Jessica for having scrambled up her manuscript and Jessica thanks her for having helped her in understand what are the simplest things in life. Sheriff Metzger continues the investigations on the dead private eye found on the gorge in the previous episode and the victim will finally be found.
For the most part this two-parts episode looked like a family tragedy as Hank's son had always problems with money and he even ended up in a brawl and also because Eudora wanted to divorce her husband. The acting was good by everyone and the ending was great and very satisfying for the viewer, with also some great soundtrack.
This two-parts episode is among the best in the entire series and if you are a fan of the show you shouldn't miss it. And don't forget to watch the previous episode before this one.