The Blue Scorpion story
A depressed anthropology professor finds a gun called the Blue Scorpion with a bullet with his name on it. Directed by: Craig William Macneill. Story by: Glen Morgan.
15 total · 8 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| divorce | major | Jeff and his estranged wife were going through a painful divorce. |
| facing financial ruin | major | Jeff was in a financially precarious place because the estate was "tied up" and his soon-to-be-ex wife had hired an attorney to get money off him. |
| husband and wife | major | Jeff and his estranged wife were going through a painful divorce. |
| magic object | major | The story centered on a magical gun, known as the Blue Scorpion, that legend said would protect its owner - or something along those lines. |
| murder | major | The story centered on Jeff's thoughts about which annoying "Jeff" he might best dispatch with the blue scorpion. |
| obsession | major | Jeff became obsessively attached the Blue Scorpion gun. Instead of using the proceeds from its sale to pay a divorce settlement, he kept it even though it had no obvious practical value to him. |
| the control of deadly weapons | major | The narrator seemed to conclude that the moral of the story is that we ought not to love guns as if they are people. |
| unrequited love | major | Jeff didn't want to go through with the divorce because he still loved his wife more than anything. Meanwhile, she had moved on and was already in a relationship with another man. |
| burglary | minor | Jeff got into a confrontation with a burglar outside of his wife's house. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | The story began with Jeff coming to grips with his father having apparently shot himself in the head for no good reason. |