The Memory Man story
Colin Mearns has a gift for memory, but is struggling financially. Advertising to teach his methods, he is met by a shady character who is desperate to remember the combination of a locker. Mearns soon becomes curious to what the locker contains. Directed by: Peter Duffell. Story by: Henry Slesar.
9 total · 3 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing financial ruin | major | Colin was on the brink of loosing his business and his girl. |
| greed for riches | major | Colin wanted money and bad. |
| photographic memory ability | major | Colin advertised a method to achieve perfect memory. |
| coping with getting dumped | minor | Colin was dumped like a sack of potatoes by Mary. |
| coping with the death of a lover | minor | Mary mourned Colin who had blown himself up with dynamite. |
| gold digging | minor | Colin accused Mary of gold digging for taking a personal assistant job from an older man in a far flung Scottish city. |
| how to crack a safe | minor | Krebs had cracked a casino safe and it was said of him that he was the best safe blower in the business. |
| speculative hypnosis | minor | Colin used hypnosis on Krebs. |
| theft | minor | Charlie Krebs had the safe of a casino, but forgot the pin number to the locker where he stored the money. |