But if two people carry firearms, a confrontation that might otherwise have ended in words or blows ends instead with one man dead, and the other man on his way to prison for life.
" Best of all is the choice of Melody Gardot's delicately jazzy "If the Stars Were Mine" to accompany the last scene, which ends with the most enigmatic of all Shakespeare's curtain lines: "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.