History Recap / TalesFromTheCryptS4E8Showdown

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(dressed as a cowboy, he makes his way to a skeletal cowpoke posed for a duel and gets in a similar position; in a voice reminiscent of Creator/JohnWayne)'' Howdy, ''ill-''grim. Wah-huh! ''(in his regular voice)'' It's ''die'' noon, and you know what that means, don't you? ''(the skeleton readies itself to grab its weapons, the Crypt Keeper pulls his own six-shooters)'' Means it's time for a gun-''fright'' at the O.K. ''Ghoul-''ral. ''(cackles)'' 'Cause this ''tomb'' ain't big enough for the both of us. Which brings me to tonight's tale. It's about a gunslinger who's about to ride into his last roundup. I call this prairie poison: '''Showdown.'''

In the Old West, William "Billy" Quintane (Neil Giuntoli), a gunslinger on the run, arrives in a small town pursued by Texas Ranger Thomas "Tracker Tom" [=McMurdo=] (Creator/DavidMorse) and his posse. Tom accosts Billy with the intention of taking him in, but Billy has no intention of going down without a fight, so he challenges Tom to a duel in the town square, which ends with Tom's death. Billy victoriously enters the local saloon, ordering a bottle of whiskey. While there, an old man calls to his attention and invites Billy to sit with him. The old man tries to sell a bottle of "Dr. Silver's Wonder Tonic" to Billy, who pulls his gun on him, suspecting him of being a SnakeOilSalesman. Not wishing to be shot, the old man introduces himself as Cornelius Bosch, and offers Billy the bottle for free.

When Billy drinks the tonic, things start to get unusual. One by one, the ghosts of Billy's previous victims start appearing, each with a flashback of their dying moments at Billy's hands. Billy accuses Bosch of making him hallucinate with the tonic, only for Bosch to pull his jacket back and reveal a gunshot wound at his own heart, the result of a stray bullet from Billy's gun. At this point, the ghosts start accosting Billy, surrounding him and muttering haunting words. Billy furiously shouts at them, making the voices cease and leaving Billy alone in the saloon.

Bewildered by what he's witnessed, Billy watches a man he's never seen before, a tour guide named "Big Bart", lead a group of tourists inside the saloon, none of whom can see Billy or interact with him. Bart gives a brief rundown of the events that unfolded in the town, informing the tourists that Billy killed Tom in their duel, but Tom's posse actually managed to gun ''him'' down immediately afterwards, and it's rumored that the town is haunted by his ghost. Bart and his tourists leave Billy as they exit the saloon, which has now become a gift shop.

Confused by what he had just witnessed, Billy leaves the saloon, only to find that he's somehow been brought decades into the future, where the town he's in has now become a tourist attraction. Overwhelmed by everything he has heard and seen, including the fact that he's actually been long dead, Billy heads back inside the empty saloon, emotionally breaking down and begging for someone to take him in. The voice of Tom jolts him Billy back to reality and seems to sober him up to his current state. Billy heads back outside for one last time, knowing now what he must do and the facts he must accept.

Once outside, Billy finds himself back in his duel with Tom, where he again challenges Tom and kills him. Now aware of what actually happened in his final moments, Billy calls out to all those around him, allowing Tom's posse to make their move. Tom's posse surround Billy and snipe at him from all sides, overpowering and killing him despite losing a few of their own in the process. The scene switches to a photographer taking a picture of Billy's corpse with the surviving members of Tom's posse, who hold a sign claiming the credit of taking him out.

Back in the present day, some of the tourists visit Tom and Billy's graves. Tom and Billy's ghosts (the latter now at peace with himself and no longer feuding with Tom) examine their resting places, where they remark on Billy's fast-shooting skill and Tom's determination to bring him in. The episode ends with them joining the ghosts of Tom's posse in riding their horses' ghosts into the sunset.

!!This episode provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: Cornelius Bosch, the old man who gives the Wonder Tonic to Billy, turns out to have died from a shot to the heart, the bullet having been misfired from Billy's gun when he was robbing a bank.
* AgonizingStomachWound: Harley, Billy's partner, was shot in the gut three days after he and Billy outran the posse. The wound gets so bad that Billy does him in with a headshot to relieve the pain, then buries him in a manmade grave.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Doc Holliday is one of the people Billy killed in this episode. In real life, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Holliday Doc Holliday actually died of tuberculosis]].
* TheAtoner: Billy admits that he was wrong/in denial about being killed by Tom's posse, so he kills Tom again and dies as he's supposed to so he can join them in the afterlife.
* BarredFromTheAfterlife: This is shown to be happening to Billy because he's forgotten or otherwise refuses to accept that he's dead. He manages to gain entrance after he relives his death and goes down the way he was meant to.
* {{Bookends}}: The episode begins and ends with a view of horses riding into the sunset.

* BreakTheHaughty: The reveal that he's a ghost, and the previous victims who were bombarding him were trying to get him to accept that fact and join them, makes Billy break down weeping, begging to be taken in. When he dies again and accepts it this time, he drops the trope and is shown to be at peace.
* ChromosomeCasting: Every main character is male, since the episode is set in the Old West.
* CowboyEpisode: The only episode of the series to put cowboys and the old West as its central theme. It's also one of the few episodes of a horror anthology series outside of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' to do so.
* DeadAllAlong: Every person inside the saloon is a ghost. It's gradually revealed that Billy himself has been dead for decades, as Bart claims that his ghost still haunts the town. It's even hinted that the events of the episode were set up by Tom's ghost to convince Billy that he's dead and he needs to accept that fact to move on. Case in point, when Billy's ghost is seen after he relives his death, he's at peace with himself, and made a friend in Tom.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The end of the episode has Billy's corpse shown in a picture a photographer takes, with the surviving members of Tom's posse around it and holding up a sign as confirmation that Billy is indeed dead and they're the ones who killed him.
* DecapitatedArmy: Averted. Tom's death doesn't cause his posse to scatter. Instead, they surround Billy and kill him, though they lose a few men in the process.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Once they're both in the afterlife, Billy and Tom are shown to have made amends with one another, even sharing a friendly exchange where they compliment the other's skills in a duel.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite the many men he's killed in life, and being bombarded with the leering voices of said men's ghosts, as well as the reveal that he himself is a ghost who refuses to accept his death, Billy ends the episode at complete peace, making amends with his pursuer and surrounded by others like him, who ride off into the sunset with him.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Billy initially assumes that the spirits of his victims are actually demons wearing their skins after his soul. They turn out to be real ghosts, and they've been trying to tell Billy that he needs to accept the fact that he's dead to find peace.

** He refrains from killing unless he absolutely has to.
** He gives his dying partner Harley a mercy killing to save him from a painful death, then buries him in a hand-made grave.
** He doesn't have a lot of tolerance for scamsters, pulling his gun on Bosch when he suspects him of being one.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Billy learns that he's been dead halfway through the episode. He's shown to have slowly begun accepting the news, though he still intends to go down fighting. Once he dies again after learning the truth about himself, the ending shows that he's at peace.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Late in the episode, Billy shouts an impressively boastful one in the town square, just before Tom's posse does him in: "'''COME ON, YOU SORRY SONS OF BITCHES!!'''"
* FastestGunInTheWest: Billy is sharp and fast with a gun in his hand, having claimed many a life with his quick-draw skills. Big Bart even calls Billy the trope verbatim.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are glimpses of horses galloping into the sunset in the throughout the episode. These same horses reappear in the end of the episode, where we learn that they're being ridden by the ghosts of their former riders into the afterlife.
** A picture of Billy's corpse is seen in the saloon once it's turned into a gift shop. The end of the episode shows the surviving members of Tom's posse posing next to it as they initially took the photograph.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: This is one of three episodes produced for the failed "Two-Fisted Tales" series.
* GhostAmnesia: Billy turns out to have completely forgotten that he died after killing Tom, thinking he went to the saloon for a celebratory drink instead. Tom and the ghosts of his victims end up reenacting Billy's death to get him to remember his true self so he can join them in the afterlife.
* GhostTown: The town where the events of the episode take place turns out to be one of these. It's shown that it's since become a popular tourist destination when it's revealed that the episode is set in the future.
* TheGunslinger: Billy and Tom. Many of Billy's victims were also gunslingers.
* HeroAntagonist: Tom and his posse, who are dedicated to catching Billy and throwing him in the clink.
* MadnessMantra: "Accept it, Billy!", which the ghosts of his victims tell him over and over.
* MeaningfulEcho: Tom's claims to Billy that he's going to take him in, once the ending rolls around, to have been a promise to let him know that he's dead and join him and the others in the afterlife.
* MercyKill: Billy initially travels with a partner named Harley, who was shot in the gut and has begun hallucinating three days after he and Billy escaped Tom's posse. Billy puts him out of his misery to spare the poor guy from an excruciating death, then whips up a makeshift grave for him.
* MrExposition: Big Bart, the tour guide (whose job it is to give exposition) who reveals that Billy's unknowingly been dead and haunting the town for decades.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Billy's first duel with Tom has him divert from his predestined path by heading off to the saloon for a drink, where he ultimately learns that he's a ghost who hasn't accepted that he's dead and is forbidden from joining his friends in the afterlife until he does so. He manages to overcome this obstacle by re-dueling Tom's ghost and reliving his death in the way it was meant to be.
* NoAnimosityInTheAfterlife: After Billy and Tom's bodies are buried, their ghosts (as well as those of the rest of Tom's posse) stop by their graves, where the former two have a cordial exchange about their drawing skills before they go RidingIntoTheSunset.
* OffscreenAfterlife: Billy's victims are pretty vague about what the afterlife is like. They tell Billy that they don't care whether he calls it Heaven or Hell, but it's apparently a warm and quiet place where everyone who "lived and died by the gun" ended up.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: A ghost apparently can't get into the afterlife until they learn and accept the fact that they're dead. As Billy shows, a ghost who either denies or just doesn't know that he's a ghost is subject to a state of shock, misery, and hysteria when they find out. But when the ghost accepts that they've died and reenacts the scenario in which they were killed, they manage to achieve inner peace and are able to pass onto the next life.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Billy says to Tom as they prepare for their duel: "Tommy... make your move." Said duel ends with Billy victorious... for a minute.
* QuickDraw: Billy's duel with Tom early in the episode, which ends with Billy being the winner. Tom is the last such example in the episode. If the flashbacks are anything to go by, quite a few of Billy's victims seem to have died challenging him to a duel as well.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Billy is confronted by the spirits of his victims and the reveal of what's happened to the town since he died, including an InUniverse narration about how his own life ended, causing him to show remorse for the first time in his life. After rationalizing everything, Billy goes outside and accepts his state as a ghost by reliving his death honestly, even if he goes down fighting. This is revealed to have been the right thing to do, since Billy's at peace with himself after learning the truth.
* TheReveal: Thanks to Bart's exposition, it's revealed that the setting of the episode isn't the actual Old West, but a ghost town-turned tourist attraction decades into the future, haunted by a large number of ghosts the tourists can't actually see or hear.
* RiddleForTheAges: How do Billy's victims, most of whom died before the start of the episode, end up in the saloon? Who, or what (if anything at all), allows him to see the future afterwards? If it ''was'' Bosch's tonic that allows Billy to see all of this, just ''what'' was in it to allow that to happen?
* RidingIntoTheSunset: The episode ends with the ghosts of Billy, Tom, and Tom's posse riding off into the sunset, having been reunited in death.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Billy learns that he didn't survive his duel with Tom, being gunned down by his posse seconds after Tom hit the dirt, and spending the episode as a ghost haunting a derelict town without even knowing it. After making a decision about what to do with his dilemma, Billy goes out and dies the way he was supposed to, allowing himself to move on.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Big Bart, who reveals that Billy's been dead for a century and has been haunting the saloon ever since, as well as how he really died. It's his exposition that finally clues Billy in that his victims were right, and he truly is dead.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Billy suspects that Bosch is one when he offers the Wonder Tonic. If only it were that simple...
* TheStoic: Billy is portrayed as a remorseless gunfighter. The events of the episode and the reveal of his true nature ultimately turn him NotSoStoic.
* SuddenlyShouting: Billy gets pretty shouty a few times in the episode. Big Bart himself says that Billy's ghost can be heard "screaming like a banshee" nearly every night in the saloon's rafters.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Billy still dies and ends up as a ghost, but the reveal of his true nature and the experience of reliving his death have sobered him up, and he ends the episode both at peace with himself, and welcomed with open arms by his fellow ghostly gunslingers.
* ThrivingGhostTown: Even though the town featured in the episode is effectively deserted, it's never empty, since it's housing a large number of spirits and is a popular hotspot for tourists.
* TogetherInDeath: Once Billy joins Tom and his posse into accepting the fact that he's dead, the former two are shown to have gained respect for each other. They celebrate their newfound friendship by joining Tom's posse in riding into the sunset.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Billy's revealed to be a ghost, since he met his maker after he killed Tom by the ranger's posse.
* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The episode makes it look like it's set in the days of the Old West. The tour guide leading a bunch of tourists into the saloon reveals that it's actually the present day, and the town that the episode is set in is a tourist attraction that is unknowingly haunted by actual ghosts.
* VillainProtagonist: Billy, the gunslinger who's been working to escape the law.
* TheWildWest: The setting of the episode, until TheReveal halfway through changes that.
* YouCantFightFate: The tour guide tells the tourists he leads into the saloon about how Billy was killed. Guess how Billy's life ends late in the episode?
** In fact, it's hinted that Tom's ghost might've planned to reenact the day Billy killed him to get Billy to come to his senses and find peace with himself.

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(seated at a table in a saloon, blowing smoke from his smoldering gun)'' Talk about a ''sick'' shooter. Who'd have thought being a cowboy could ''stirrup'' so many bad feelings? ''(cackles)'' Well, kiddies, I've got to go. There's a ''ghoul'' rush on, you know. ''(takes note of his skeletal opponent, now crushed under a chandelier)'' Hmm. I wonder: who was that ''mashed'' man? ''(cackles)''

* TheReveal: Thanks to the Bart's exposition, it's revealed that the setting of the episode isn't the actual Old West, but a ghost town-turned tourist attraction decades into the future, haunted by a large number of ghosts the tourists can't actually see or hear.

[[caption-width-right:350: The following is not a story about Old West zombies... though that ''would'' be awesome.]]


William "Billy" Quinton (Neil Giuntoli), a gunslinger on the run, arrives in a small town, pursued by Texas ranger Thomas "Tom" [=McMurdo=] (Creator/DavidMorse) and his posse. There, Tom accosts Billy with the intention of taking Billy in, but Billy has no intention of going with him without a fight, and so he challenges Tom to a quick-draw duel in the town square, which ends with Billy killing Tom.

Billy enters the local saloon, and orders a bottle of whiskey. While there, an old man calls to his attention and invites Billy to sit with him. The old man tries to sell a bottle of potion to Billy, who, suspecting him of being a SnakeOilSalesman, draws his gun on him. The old man, not wishing to be shot, offers Billy the bottle for free.

Billy drinks the potion, but things start to get weird for him. One by one, his previous victims start appearing, with a flashback of their own dying moments at Billy's hands. Billy accuses the old man of making him hallucinate with the potion, only for the old man to pull his suit back and reveal a gunshot wound at his own heart, caused by a stray bullet fired from Billy's guns. At this point, his previous victims start accosting him, surrounding him while muttering their own haunting words, until Billy shouts at them and their voices suddenly vanish. Surprised, Billy looks up and around, only to find himself alone in the saloon with no one else in sight.

Bewildered by the events, Billy finds himself suddenly witnessing the entry of a man he's never seen before, who acts as a tour guide, followed by a group of tourists, none of whom either see Billy or interact with him. The tour guide gives a brief rundown of the events that unfolded in this town. Apparently, Billy killed Tom in a gun duel, only for Tom's posse to gun ''him'' down afterwards. The tour guide and his tourists then exit the saloon, which at this moment appears to be a gift shop, again leaving alone Billy, who hears some ghostly voice.

Confused by what he had just witnessed, Billy leaves the saloon, only to find himself looking at another scenario he doesn't recognize. It appears that the town he's in has become a GhostTown-turned tourist attraction decades into the future, though there's no one in his own present time to explain it to him. He heads back inside the empty saloon, and, overwhelmed by everything he has heard and seen, breaking down sobbing tearfully, whispering to himself "take me in, please", before the voice of Tom jolts him back, and he heads back outside for the final time.

Once outside, Billy finds himself in a familiar scene. Billy again challenges Tom to a quick-draw gun duel and kills him, but the familiar scene ends here. He's not heading inside the saloon again, but shouts around him, challenging Tom's posse to face him. Tom's posse, instead of heading outside to the town square, snipes at him from all sides, having surrounded Billy. The gunfight ensues, with Billy taking out some members of the posse, but the posse eventually overpowers and kills him. The scene switches to a photographer taking a picture of Billy's corpse with the surviving members of Tom's posse, who hold a sign claiming the credit of taking him out. The episode ends with Billy, riding with Tom and his posse, stopping by their own graves and remarking on Billy's fast-shooting skill, before everyone rides away together.

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* AccidentalMurder: The old man who gives a bottle of potion to Billy turns out to have died this way, having been shot dead by a stray bullet fired from Billy's guns.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Doc Holliday is one of the people Billy killed in this episode. In real life, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Holliday Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis]] instead.
* DeadAllAlong: Not only the old man who interacts with Billy, but ''everyone else'' inside the local saloon as well.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Billy's corpse is shown in a picture a photographer takes, with the surviving members of Tom's posse around it and holding up a sign, as confirmation that Billy is KilledOffForReal and they're the ones doing the deed, towards the end of the episode.
* DecapitatedArmy: Averted. Tom's death doesn't make his posse scatter and run. Instead, they surround Billy and kill him, losing a few of them in the process.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Billy comes to this point late in the episode, though he intends to go down fighting.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Late in the episode, Billy shouts the following words while out in the street square before dying in the gunfight against Tom's posse: "COME OUT, YOU SORRY SONS OF BITCHES!!"
* FastestGunInTheWest: Billy has this reputation.
* GhostTown: The town where the events of the episode sets turns out to be this, decades later in the future.
* TheGunslinger: Billy and Tom. Many of Billy's victims are also this.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: How do Billy's victims, most of whom died before the start of the episode, end up there? And who, or what (if anything at all), shows him the visions of the future events he witnesses right afterwards?
* NoAnimosityInTheAfterlife: After Billy's and Tom's dead bodies are buried, the presumed ghosts of Billy and Tom (and some others) stop by their graves, where Billy and Tom have a cordial exchange about their fast-draw skills before they go RidingIntoTheSunset, at which point the episode ends.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Billy says to Tom as they prepare for their QuickDraw duel: "Tom... make your move." Said duel ends with Billy killing Tom.
* QuickDraw: Billy's duel with Tom early in the episode, which ends with Billy killing Tom. Tom is the last such example in the episode -- if the flashbacks are anything to go by, quite a few of Billy's victims seem to have died challenging him to such a duel as well.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Billy is confronted by the spirits of his prior victims and visions of things to come, including an in-universe narration about how his own life ended, causing him to show remorse for the first and only time over all the killings he has committed, moments before going outside and dying fighting.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: How the episode ends.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Billy suspects the old man offering him a bottle of potion to be this. If only it were that simple...
* TheStoic: Billy is portrayed as a remorseless gunfighter. The events of the episode would make him NotSoStoic, though.
* TokenMinority: A black guy, one of the people in the photograph surrounding Billy's corpse, is the only non-white character in this episode.
* YouCantFightFate: The tour guide tells the tourists he leads briefly about the way Billy died. Guess how Billy's life ends late in this episode?

* FacingTheBulletsOneLine: Late in the episode, Billy shouts the following words while out in the street square before dying in the gunfight against Tom's posse: "COME OUT, YOU SORRY SONS OF BITCHES!!"

%% * FacingTheBulletsOneLine: "COME OUT, YOU SORRY SONS OF BITCHES!!"

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner[=/=]FamousLastWords: "COME OUT, YOU SORRY SONS OF BITCHES!!"

* PremortemOneLiner: Billy says to Tom as they prepare for their QuickDraw duel: "Tom... make your move." Said duel ends with Billy killing Tom.

* TokenMinority: A Black guy, one of the people in the photograph surrounding Billy's corpse, is the only non-white character in this episode.

William "Billy" Quinton (Neil Giuntoli), a gunslinger on the run, arrives in a small town, pursued by Texas ranger Thomas "Tom" [=McMurdo=] (David Morse) and his posse. There, Tom accosts Billy with the intention of taking Billy in, but Billy has no intention of going with him without a fight, and so he challenges Tom to a quick-draw duel in the town square, which ends with Billy killing Tom.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: How do Billy's victims, most of whom died before the start of the episode, end up there? And who, or what (if anything at all), shows him the visions of the future events he witnesses right afterwards? Whatever explanation might work for the former (e.g. his own conscience catching up with him, assuming it sounds valid) isn't likely to help to explain the latter.

Billy drinks the potion, but things start to get weird for him. One by one, his previous victims start appearing, with a flashback of their own dying moments at Billy's hands. Billy accuses the old man of making him hallucinate with the potion, only for the old man to pull his suit back and reveal a gunshot would at his own heart, caused by a stray bullet fired from Billy's guns. At this point, his previous victims start accosting him, surrounding him while muttering their own haunting words, until Billy shouts at them and their voices suddenly vanish. Surprised, Billy looks up and around, only to find himself alone in the saloon with no one else in sight.

Billy drinks the potion, but things start to get weird for him. One by one, his previous victims start appearing, with a flashback of their own dying moments at Billy's hands. Billy accosts the old man of making him hallucinate with the potion, only for the old man to pull his suit back and reveal a gunshot would at his own heart, caused by a stray bullet fired from Billy's guns. At this point, his previous victims start accosting him, surrounding him while muttering their own haunting words, until Billy shouts at them and their voices suddenly vanish. Surprised, Billy looks up and around, only to find himself alone in the saloon with no one else in sight.

Once outside, Billy finds himself in a familiar scene. Billy again challenges Tom to a quick-draw gun duel and kills him, but the familiarity ends here. He's not heading inside the saloon again, but shouts around him, challenging Tom's posse to face him. Tom's posse, instead of heading outside to the town square, snipes at him from all sides, having surrounded Billy. The gunfight ensues, with Billy taking out some members of the posse, but the posse eventually overpowers and kills him. The scene switches to a photographer taking a picture of Billy's corpse with the surviving members of Tom's posse, who hold a sign claiming the credit of taking him out. The episode ends with Billy, riding with Tom and his posse, stopping by their own graves and remarking on Billy's fast-shooting skill, before everyone rides away together.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: How do Billy's victims, most of whom died before the start of the episode, end up there? And who, or what (if anything at all), shows him the visions of the future events he witnesses right afterwards? Whatever is explained for the former (e.g. his own conscience catching up with him, assuming it sounds valid) isn't likely to help to explain the latter.

* TokenMinority: A Black guy, the only non-white character in this episode, is one of the people in the photograph surrounding Billy's corpse.

* SnakeOilSalesman: Billy suspects the old man offering him a bottle of potion to be this. If only it were that simple...

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: How do Billy's victims, most of whom died before the start of the episode, end up there? And who, or what, if anything at all, shows him the visions of the future events he witnesses right afterwards? Whatever is explained for the former (e.g. his own conscience catching up with him) isn't likely to help to explain the latter.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Billy is confronted by the spirits of his prior victims and visions of things to come, including an in-universe narration about how his own life ended, causing him to show remorse for the first time over all the killings he has committed, moments before going outside and dying fighting.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Billy is confronted by the spirits of his prior victims and visions of things to come, including the in-universe narration about how his own life ended, causing him to show remorse for the first time over all the killings he has committed, moments before going outside and dying fighting.

* SnakeOilSalesman: Billy suspects the old man offering him a bottle of potion to be this. If only it were that simple...

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Billy is confronted by the spirits of his prior victims and visions of things to come, including the in-universe narration about how his own life ended, moments before going outside and dying fighting.

Confused by what he had just witnessed, Billy leaves the saloon, only to find himself looking at another scenario he doesn't recognize. It appears that the town he's in has become a GhostTown-turned tourist attraction decades into the future, though there's no one in his own present time to explain it to him. He heads back inside the empty saloon, and overwhelmed by everything he has heard and seen, breaking down sobbing tearfully, whispering to himself "take me in, please", before the voice of Tom jolts him back, and he heads back outside for the final time.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: "COME OUT, YOU SORRY SONS OF BITCHES!!"

* AccidentalMurder: The old man who gives a bottle of potion to Billy turns out to be this, having been shot dead by a stray bullet fired from Billy's guns.

* RidingIntoTheSunset: How the episode ends.

William "Billy" Quinton (Neil Giuntoli), a gunslinger on the run, arrives in a small town, pursued by Texas ranger Thomas "Tom" McMurdo (David Morse) and his posse. There, Tom accosts Billy with the intention of taking Billy in, but Billy has no intention of going with him without a fight, and so he challenges Tom to a quick-draw duel in the town square, which ends with Billy killing Tom.

Once outside, Billy finds himself in a familiar scene. Billy again challenges Tom to a quick-draw gun duel and kills him, but the familiarity ends here. He's not heading inside the saloon again, but shouts around him, challenging Tom's posse to face him. Tom's posse, instead of heading outside to the town square, snipes at him from all sides, having surrounded Billy. The gunfight ensues, with Billy taking out some members of the posse, but the posse eventually overpowers and kills him. The scene switches to a photographer taking a picture of Billy's corpse with the surviving members of Tom's posse, who hold a sign claiming the credit of taking him out. The episode ends with Billy, riding with Tom and his posse, stopping by their own graves and remarking on Billy's fast-shooting skill, before everyone rides away together.