Ear Today… Gone Tomorrow story
Glynn Fennell, a gambling safecracker who suffers from impaired hearing after a beating in prison, finds himself getting entangled in a deadly game between crime boss Malcom Lawson and his exotic wife, Kate, who turn out to implant animal features into human bodies in an effort to boost his subordinates' abilities. Eventually, Glynn is given the auditory system of an owl, but Glynn's new condition soon displays some unusual side effects. Directed by: Christopher Hart. Story by: Ed Tapia.
18 total · 7 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with being in debt | major | Glynn was hard up to pay a gambling debt he owed to a high-level gangster. |
| greed for riches | major | The viewer is led to believe that Kate was intent on running off with a large sum of money from her husband's safe. |
| how to crack a safe | major | The viewer is shown the expert safe cracker Glynn Fennell at work. |
| husband and wife | major | Malcolm and Kate's marriage was fueled in part by a common interest in surgically augmenting people with animal abilities. |
| murder | major | Malcolm was about to have Glynn killed but was implored to stay his hand by Kate. The story ended with Kate and Malcolm about to have their surgeon murder Glynn to purloin his auditory system. |
| problem gambling | major | Glynn would have never ended up half-owl had he kept his gambling under control. |
| super hearing | major | Glynn was surgically implanted with an owl's auditory system. |
| compassion | minor | Kate urged her gangster husband, Malcolm, to spare Glynn's life in what seemed to be an act of compassion. In reality, it was all an act as Kate and Malcolm were in cahoots. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | A gangster had Glynn tied down to a snooker table spread-eagle and beat over the abdomen with a cue. This was in regard to coming to an equitable arrangement over an unpaid debt. |
| human addiction | minor | Kate explained to Glynn that she craved sex to an extreme degree. [sex addiction] |