Apex story
Claude is cheating on his wife Clara with Clara's best friend Margo. Since Clara has been having problems with Claude, Clara asks Margo for advice. She wonders whether she should maker Claude the president of the company she knows. Clara tells Claude that his wife is going to divorce him. Since he will be left broke after a divorce, Margo suggests that Claude kill his wife. Claude tries to, but has second thoughts. Later she tells Margo that he will hire someone to do it. Margo decides to kill Clara herself. She offers Clara poisoned laced tea. Clara drinks it and dies. A man named Weeks arrives and Margo pretends to be Clara in an effort to get rid of him. The man says he is here to collect an envelope with two thousand dollars in it. She gets the envelope and then kills Margo thinking she was Clara. Weeks was the hitman hired by Claude to kill his wife. The two thousand dollars was his payment. Directed by: Alan Crosland, Jr. Story by: James Workman, John T. Kelley.
9 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| spouse murder | choice | Claude plotted to slay his rich wife. |
| extramarital affair | major | Claude was cheating on his wife Clara with her best friend Margo. |
| false friend | major | Margo pretended to be a close friend and confident of Clara, but was secretly screwing her husband and planning to murder her. |
| gold digging | major | Claude had married Clara because of her money and was now looking to kill her so as to inherit it. |
| husband and wife | major | Clara suspected her trophy husband, Claude, was cheating on her, but little did she know it was with her best friend. |
| poetic justice | major | Margo, after poisoning Clara, was visited by a professional hitman who mistook her for Clara and bashed Margo's skull in with a golf putter. |
| divorce | minor | Clara suspected that Claude was cheating on her and expressed a desire to divorce him, could she but find proof of his maleficence. |
| hitman occupation | minor | Margo, after slaying Clara, was visited by a professional hitman who mistook her for Clara and bashed her skull in with a golf putter. |
| poison murder | minor | In the end, Margo had to do the deed herself and selected the means of poison most foul. |