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bon-677-318564 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 02:18 PM)

The reviewer is confusing The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with A Fistful of Dollars. Which Fistful itself is a remake of Yojimbo, a very good movie to watch.
There was no Good side. In Fistful, there two competing Bad families trying to take over control of the town for themselves.
The comparison also breaks down because Duddy tries to help the police when he realizes that he is actually being employed by both sides.
The end is where this episode really fails. Duddy didn't do anything wrong, and in fact tried to help the police. He was also protecting himself and his home, when crockett and tubbs charge into his house and threaten to shoot him.
And finally, apparently hacking into his computer(?) and crockett making threats. In the real world, the police would be paying big money to duddy in a court settlement and crockett would be lucky to stay on the force as a beat cop.

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Duddy is well aware he's playing for both sides and cold-bloodedly sets up his drug-dealing client for a "righteous" Stand Your Ground kill when he doesn't want to work for him, anymore. Granted the guy was a psychopath who wouldn't have just let Duddy walk away, but come onDuddy was in that situation in the first place because he liked the money and then he intentionally played double agent.
I seriously doubt Duddy wants to get anywhere near a courtroom (it would put him under too much scrutiny), so Crockett would get off scot-free for harassing him. Which is the pointDuddy is not the Teflon guy protected from both sides that he fantasizes he is. The gray area in which he operates to spy on people can also be exploited by others against him.
I don't think the writer was doing Spaghetti westerns at all, but instead, a nifty indie thriller from the 70s called "The Conversation."
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