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At a dinner party, the hosts Roger (John Duttine) & Mary (Susan Penhaligon)
get into a fight in front of their guests, which clearly reveals in what
a bad state their marriage is ... a few days later, Mary is gone, & all she
has left is a good-bye note. Roger however cannot get over losing her, & -
always hoping that she eventually will get back - turns to befriended couple
Steve & Carol (Ray Lonnen, Brenda Blethyn) for moral support, who at first
are sympathetic but after a time find his strong beliefs that his wife will
come back rather weird, a little sick, sickening even. So they are rather
pleased when he moves to another town, where he has found a better job at a
hospital (he is a doctor).
Months later, an unidentified car crash victim is broght into the hospital,
whom Roger immediately identifies as his wife, a claim confounded by the fact
that she wears her engraved wedding ring & her sister Joan (Phyllida Nash)
identifies her too ...
Only it wasn't Mary after all, who is very much alive & very much at the
side of her husband Roger. Turns out it was all just an elaborate scheme of
insurance fraud, for Roger & Mary to get their hands on half a million
Pounds.
The loser, it turns out, is sister Joan, who gets a meager 25.000 Pounds out
of the deal for having hidden Mary for all the time, & for identifying the
corpse as her sister. But when she tries to blackmail Roger & Mary, she has
to realize she is in too deep herself.
As often in Tales of the Unexpected, this episode emphasizes on the
story - which is well told & way less obvious than this synopsis might
suggest - rather than on direction (which is rather stagey) or on performances
(which are adequate but by no means outstanding).
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