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While George is headed to see his girlfriend, he meets a mysterious limping stranger who makes George fear for his life. George learns that the stranger is his girlfriend's jealous husband and that his girlfriend arranged this meeting between them in hopes that her husband would kill George. The stranger tells George that she has done this sort of thing before and that he tried, but failed, to kill his wife's last lover. The stranger convinces George to plot revenge and tells him to tamper with the steering of his wife's car. George does as the stranger suggests and his girlfriend dies. George discovers to his dismay, however, that the limping stranger was really his girlfriend's former lover and that he used George to get his revenge on her. Directed by: Joseph M. Newman. Story by: Lewis Davidson.
13 total · 2 choice · 9 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic jealousy | choice | The mysterious stranger pretended to be a jealous husband. He was, in fact, a vengeful ex. The real husband had been jealous and shot him in the leg in the past. |
| the desire for vengeance | choice | The mysterious stranger turned out to be a vengeful ex who wanted the girlfriend dead and the crime pinned on George. |
| extramarital affair | major | The girlfriend turned out to be a serially unfaithful married woman. |
| how to murder someone and get away with it | major | It transpired that everything the stranger had said and done was part of a ruse to trick George into doing the worst bit of murder, and have George take all the blame. |
| husband and wife | major | The stranger pretended to be the girlfriend's husband. We learned something about the real one and his wife. |
| love triangle | major | The story turns on George being confronted by his girlfriend's spurned lover. |
| murder | major | The stranger made it seem as if he was going to murder George. |
| murder of a lover | major | The stranger said he was going to murder George, but in the end tricked George into murdering the girlfriend instead, who was also George's ex lover. |
| paramour and paramour | major | George's plans to spend a quiet weekend together with his girlfriend blew up in his face when a man claiming to be her husband showed up. |
| unrequited love | major | The stranger wanted nothing more than to be with George's girlfriend, but she wanted nothing to do with him. |