In the Cards story
Madame Myra is a fortuneteller with a lack lustre career and dim future. A man shows up eventually who is eager to guide her to a better life, but he has an ulterior motive. Directed by: John Peyser. Story by: John Collier.
5 total · 4 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| fortune telling | major | Struggling fortune teller Madame Myra gave a card reading to Charlie. She saw in his future that he was going to inherit a lot of money and then die, so she duped him into marrying her. |
| husband and wife | major | Charlie and Myra married after she told his fortune. |
| inheritance fight | major | Myra received a large inheritance and got into a fight with her husband over it. |
| spouse murder | major | Charlie shoved Myra into a pit in the yard, beat her to death with a shovel, and presumably buried as part of a plan to get his hands on a large sum of money she had recently inherited. |
| what if I came into a lot of money | minor | Myra spoke briefly about what she'd do now that she was sort-of rich. |