Misadventure story

ahh3x08 · 1964-12-07

An outsider befriends a woman who is bent on murdering her husband. Directed by: Joseph M. Newman. Story by: Lewis Davidson.

21 total · 2 choice · 10 major · 9 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
greedy heir	choice	Colin's real motive for killing both Henry and Eva was to get the inheritance that he though, perhaps with some justification, ought to belong to him.
murder	choice	Eva helped to murder George. Colin murdered both George and Eva.
blackmail	major	Colin blackmailing Eva into sleeping with him.
brother and brother	major	Colin and George were half-brothers and resented each other.
extramarital affair	major	Eva was unfaithful to her miserly husband. She was having an affair with an unnamed man and slept with Colin, whom she thought was a blackmailing gasman.
family dispute	major	George and his half-brother, Colin, were in a dispute over an inheritance.
fratricide	major	Colin killed his half-brother Henry to gain an inheritance.
generous character vs. mean character	major	George was notoriously tightfisted. That Colin was his polar opposite in this respect was made clear when Colin declared that, were their places reversed, Colin would indeed share his fortune with George.
husband and wife	major	Eva was unfaithful to her miserly husband, George.
miserliness	major	George was pathologically tight with money. He prided himself on using the same old silverware he inherited from his father, and opted to have go out of his way to have leftovers for lunch when he could just as well have eaten at a coffee shop. Most of all, however, George let his half-brother starve rather that share some of his inheritance.