covering up a crime to save a friend theme

A character struggles with whether to report a crime committed by a friend, or to help said friend evade the law.

Examples

In talesoftheunexpected4x08 "Never Speak Ill of the Dead", Bob and Sim came to believe that their friend, Dr. David Rankin, had murdered his promiscuous young wife and buried her corpse in the basement. They decided to help him cover up the crime, had their help rejected and their hypothesis soundly refuted by the shovel.

5 total · 5 major

Story	Level	Motivation
ahp2x03	major	Professor Rankin's friends Bud and Wally were prepared to help him cover up his wife's murder.
ahp2x16	major	Harry helped Miss Elliot to move her boyfriend's dead body out of her apartment and in so doing became an accessory to murder, or so he thought.
columbo1971e3x08	major	Mark seemed like a true friend to Hugh when he helped Hugh cover up the accidental killing of his wife. Alas, Mark had the ulterior motive of seeing an opportunity to use Hugh to dispose of Mark's own disfavored wife.
columbo1971e5x06	major	Thinking his wife had bludgeoned the titular Commodore to death in a drunken stupor, Charles Clayton covered up the murder by taking the body out on the Commodore's yacht at night and throwing it overboard.
talesoftheunexpected4x08	major	David's friends Bob and Sim were prepared to help him cover up his wife's murder.