what if I killed someone by accident theme
We are made to imagine what it would be like if we, accidentally but directly, caused someone else's death.
25 total · 7 choice · 13 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror4x03 | choice | Mia and Rob covered up a hit-and-run death. |
| columbo1971e10x14 | choice | The story begins with Vanessa Farrow accidentally causing her ex-husbands death as she was defending herself against assault. In gender-stereotypical fashion, she then turns hysterical and calls her current boyfriend who arrives with a harebrained scheme to conceal the death. |
| columbo1971e1x02 | choice | The hard-nosed head of a private detective agency Carl Brimmer killed the wife of a publishing magnate in a fit of rage and made it look as if she'd been killed in a scuffle with muggers. He would have gotten away with his crime had it not been for Columbo. |
| columbo1971e2x04 | choice | The Shakespearean acting couple Nicholas Frame and Lillian Stanhope accidentally killed the wealthy backer of their latest theatrical production in a scuffle. The pair tried to cover up the killing by stuffing the body into a trunk, taking it home to his estate, and staging an apparent fall down the stairs. They would have gotten away with it had it not been for the ever-tenacious Lt. Columbo. |
| columbo1971e4x06 | choice | Dr. Mark Collier hit Carl over the head with a fire iron when Carl attacked his own wife, Nadia, and inadvertently killed him. Worried perhaps more about his reputation than the legal repercussions of what seems like obvious self-defense, Mark and Nadia decided to try and cover up the murder by blaming it on unknown masked assailants that wanted to rob the house. |
| movie: The Trouble with Harry (1955) | choice | Albert, Jennifer, and Ivy each at a time thought they were responsible for the death of Harry. The entire plot hinges on what to do with the unfortunate corpse. |
| tz1959e5x14 | choice | This was a typical story about someone who caused a sever accident and ran from the law in panic - as it happens the victim did die in the end but thinking this theme would apply even if he had recovered from his critical condition. |
| ahh1x04 | major | The novelist was charged with involuntary manslaughter after news arrived that the victim of his apparent hit-and-run had succumbed to his injuries. |
| ahh1x24 | major | George felt much remorse after "accidentally" strangling the "town floozie" to death. |
| ahh2x08 | major | Skip woke up to discover that he'd apparently murdered a waitress in a drunken rage. |