“One Good Deed” (Tales of the Underworld 1.6) is an homage to the 1952 western High Noon. In both the film and the episode, a marshal who dedicated his career to reforming a violent town is warned that an old nemesis is out of prison and will return at noon to take his revenge. Like the outlaw Frank Miller, Cad Bane wants revenge not only for his time in prison but because the marshal took his place in the affections of a woman. Like the marshal Will Kane, Niro discovers that he must face his enemy alone: the town council wants him to run away, he has no allies in the saloon, and even his own deputy would rather quit than fight. The episode is so thoroughly patterned after the film, it prominently features clocks, a rarity in
Usually, showing a back story for characters like Bane does more harm than good, but in this case it works well.
I think it was a good call to make Bane the antagonist, rather than the audience POV character, in this third short.