Kamikaze story
A brilliant scientist goes insane and develops a technology that enables him to kill people by sending death rays through television cameras. He kills TV announcers and is soon hunted by police.
10 total · 7 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing a genius adversary | major | Albert, who invented a weapon that enabled him to explode people he was watching live on television, was considered to be an evil genius by the police, and they assembled a force of 50 men and women to track him down. |
| law enforcement | major | Inspector Pascot led an investigation into the deaths of a series of television presenters. Their manner of death was most unusual: their abdomens exploded on live television. |
| misanthropy | major | Albert hated interacting with other people. He isolated himself in his niece's mansion and set about killing people on live television using a directed-energy weapon of his own construction. |
| reclusiveness | major | The misanthropic scientist Albert was living as a recluse in his niece's spacious home. |
| serial murder | major | The misanthropic scientist Albert murdered a series of television presenters by exploding them on live television. |
| speculative weapon | major | Albert invented a weapon that enabled him to explode people he was watching live on television. |
| uncle and niece | major | The misanthropic scientist Albert was living as a recluse in his niece's spacious home. |
| father and daughter | minor | Inspector Pascot was living together with his young daughter whom he adored. |
| husband and wife | minor | Albert was living with his niece and her husband, but the couple was not particularly featured. |
| single fatherhood | minor | Inspector Pascot balanced his work with raising his young daughter. |