Invitation to an Accident story
Albert Martin fears that his good friend, Virgilia Pond, is going to be killed by her jealous husband, Joseph Pond due to her affair with her ex. Albert goes on a fishing trip with Joseph to warn him off, but Joseph confronts Albert first, revealing that Albert has been poisoned. As Albert is dying, he weeps and tells Joseph that he has the wrong man. Directed by: Don Taylor. Story by: Wade Miller.
15 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic jealousy | choice | Joseph was a stereotypical jealous husband. |
| coping with a jealous lover | major | Virgilia was so fed up with her jealous husband, she said, that she almost couldn't go on. |
| extramarital affair | major | Virgilia was having an affair with her old friend Cam. But her husband wrongly believed that she was having an affair with her other friend Albert. |
| friendship | major | Albert's friendship with Virgilia was central to the story. |
| husband and wife | major | Joseph suspected, rightly as it turned out, that his wife Virgilia was having an affair behind his back. |
| poison murder | major | The story culminated with Joseph doing in his supposed romantic rival Albert with arsenic-laced coffee. Albert convinced himself that Joseph was going to poison his own wife, Virgilia, using arsenic. |
| spouse murder | major | The plot hinged on Albert mistakenly believing that Virgilia's jealous husband, Albert, was going to poison her with arsenic. |
| commoner vs. intellectual | minor | A point was made during their second encounter Albert was clearly a man of culture and sophistication while Joseph was brusque and boorish. |
| cowardice | minor | Virgilia's ex-husband professed himself a devout coward. |
| facing death | minor | Albert wept as he realized he had but moments to live. |