Guest for Breakfast story
Eve and Jordan Ross's marriage is on the rocks, and their morning argument is interrupted when gun-wielding Chester Lacey breaks into their home. Lacey is on the run for murder and needs a hostage; Eve and Jordan try to convince Lacey to kill the other. When Lacey is about to kill Eve, Jordan intervenes and Eve helps her husband. After Lacey is arrested, the couple is open to reconciliation. Directed by: Paul Henreid. Story by: C.B. Gilford, Robert C. Dennis.
13 total · 1 choice · 10 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a danger shared can bring people together | choice | The point of the story was to show how being threatened by a desperate murderer could make a married couple who hated each other suddenly reconcile. |
| being on the run from the law | major | Chester was on the run from the police after having killed two people, and was desperately plotting how to evade capture. |
| disintegrating romantic relationship | major | We saw Eve and Jordan's broken down marriage in its death throws, or so it seemed. |
| extramarital affair | major | A recurring point was that Jordan had a mistress and that Chester had just shot his own wife and her lover upon catching them in flagrante delicto. |
| facing a home invader | major | A wanted murderer barged into Eve and Jordan's home one morning and held them at gunpoint. |
| husband and wife | major | Eve and Jordan were unhappily married. |
| murder | major | Chester planned to kill one or the other of Eve and Jordan. Chester was on the run from the law for having shot dead his wife and her paramour. |
| reconciliation | major | The story lead up to the reconciliation of Eve and Jordan, who had long warred against each other. |
| romantic love | major | The story concluded with Eve and Jordan rekindling their love for one another. |
| spouse murder | major | Chester had murdered his own wife after catching her with another man. Each of Eve and Jordan were conniving to get Chester to kill the other. |