Profit-Sharing Plan story
On Miles Cheever's last day of work, he is given a retirement party. When he comes home, his wife tells him that he deserved more for fifteen years. Miles agrees and that night goes to office and robs the safe. Intending to leave his wife, he heads to the airport where he is met by his girlfriend. A stewardess, however, tells Miles to put his suitcase in a rear storage compartment. Though the suitcase contains the money from the office, Miles reluctantly agrees. Later as he waits on the plane, he learns that a bomb threat has been called in. Since the police are searching the bags, he worries that he will be caught. What he doesn't realize is that his wife called in the bomb threat. She knew he was having an affair and called the threat in so he'd get caught. Directed by: Bernard Girard. Story by: Richard Levinson & William Link.
10 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| theft | choice | Miles stole a large sum of cash form the company safe one day after he retied. |
| extramarital affair | major | Miles had a mistress he tried to run off with with her to Hawaii. |
| hell hath no fury like a woman scorned | major | Furious at Miles for having an affair, Miles wife Mrs. Cheever made a fake bomb threat with the goal of landing him in deep waters. |
| husband and wife | major | Miles' wife thwarted his attempt to fly off to Hawaii with his mistress in dramatic fashion. |
| retiring from one's job | major | Miles' stole a large sum of money from his office on the night of his last day after fifteen years of service. |
| infatuation | minor | Miles and his mistress, Anita, couldn't keep their hands each other. |
| law enforcement | minor | The police turned up at the airport. |
| terrorism | minor | Mrs. Cheever made a bomb threat against an airline. |
| the unappreciated and unimportant at the workplace | minor | Miles looked dejected upon being given a pen for his twenty years of service at the company. His wife later made a derogatory remark about the miserly gift. |
| what it is like on a passenger flight | minor | The viewer is shown the scene of groaning passengers when a flight was deplaned on the tarmac owing to a delay. |