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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Subverted. Stanley thinks a marital dispute isn't worth his time, but decides the repeated murder threats warrant a discussion, even if he's just trying to put an end to her rambling. Then she gets hit by a car and Stanley realizes how to use Bernard's scheme to his own benefit.
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* HumanResources: Bullivant is an exporter of goods on the surface, but his ''true'' business is helping murderous and reprehensible criminals like Landau flee the country. He does so by toasting to his clients' voyages and slipping them a potent poison, shipping him out of the country ''after'' they've been turned into his brand of canned dog food.
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!!Deliveries in the Rear
Dr. Fletcher (Cornel Wilde), a Victorian anatomy professor, needs bodies to use in his class, and he isn't picky about where he gets them. However, when he's nearly caught with the body of a woman's husband, he orders a female cadaver to keep the police from becoming involved... and receives a nasty bit of karma.
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Dr. Fletcher (Cornel Wilde), a Victorian anatomy professor, needs bodies to use in his class, and he isn't picky about where he gets them. However, when he's nearly caught with the body of a woman's husband, he orders a female cadaver to keep the police from becoming involved... and receives a nasty bit of karma.
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' Number one entry. A painting that suggests a story replete with gaslight, handsome cabs, and cadavers. An all-star cast of corpses appearing in what we call: '''Deliveries in the Rear,''' delivered to you now on ''Night Gallery.''
In Victorian London, Dr. John Fletcher (Cornel Wilde), a
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* GraveRobbing: A doctor uses grave robbers to obtain bodies for dissection. Multiple other people are disturbed at the very possibility, but Fletcher just defaults to "don't ask, don't tell" regarding his suppliers' sources.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Fletcher argues that using one corpse (regardless of how it was obtained) will train the doctors of the future and save many lives. That is, until the corpse is someone he knows.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Fletcher needs corpses for his classes, and he doesn't really care how his providers get them, even after his future father-in-law questions him about it. He argues that the knowledge is more important, and that one life isn't too big a sacrifice if it saves many others. The segment ends with his horrified discovery that the providers killed his fiancée when he tasked them with getting a female cadaver.
* PlausibleDeniability: Dr. Fletcher doesn't ask where his suppliers get the corpses to minimize his own blame.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Dr. Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he doesn't stop using his current body-providers, even though circumstances suggest that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues that the bodies are vagrants, who are now being of some use to society for the first time in their existence.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being confronted by a woman who claims he has her husband's body and threatened with the police if the body is found there, Dr. Fletcher orders his suppliers to get him a female cadaver very quickly so no one can pin anything on him. They kill his fiancée.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Fletcher argues that using one corpse (regardless of how it was obtained) will train the doctors of the future and save many lives. That is, until the corpse is someone he knows.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Fletcher needs corpses for his classes, and he doesn't really care how his providers get them, even after his future father-in-law questions him about it. He argues that the knowledge is more important, and that one life isn't too big a sacrifice if it saves many others. The segment ends with his horrified discovery that the providers killed his fiancée when he tasked them with getting a female cadaver.
* PlausibleDeniability: Dr. Fletcher doesn't ask where his suppliers get the corpses to minimize his own blame.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Dr. Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he doesn't stop using his current body-providers, even though circumstances suggest that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues that the bodies are vagrants, who are now being of some use to society for the first time in their existence.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being confronted by a woman who claims he has her husband's body and threatened with the police if the body is found there, Dr. Fletcher orders his suppliers to get him a female cadaver very quickly so no one can pin anything on him. They kill his fiancée.
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* GraveRobbing: A doctor uses CardCarryingVillain: Everything about Fletcher's partners, from their appearances, voices, and demeanors, is meant to establish that they're not at all decent men.
* CruelTwistEnding: Fletcher discovers that the latest body he's working on is that of Barbara, leaving him heartbroken. Also, Mrs. Woods, who he tasked his partners with murdering, is still free to notify the police, bringing Fletcher's medical career to a very likely end.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dr. Fletcher takes note of one of his students, Mr. Tuttle, for nearly fainting at the sight of how "unappetizing" the cadaver he's dissecting looks, prompting him to note that the body isn't on a restaurant menu.
* ExactWords: Fletcher tasks his shady partners to get him a female corpse for his next class, refusing to name names to retain plausible deniability. Though he intended for them to murder Mrs. Woods, this causes the grave robbers toobtain bodies indiscriminately kill the first woman they can find: Barbara.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** One of the corpses Fletcher gets early in the segment is noted to have been dead fordissection. only two hours after having been bashed in the head by a statue, and it's subtly implied that the grave robbers are responsible. Come the end of the segment, they give this same treatment to Barbara.
** As he meets with Barbara, Fletcher tells her that until man finds a way to conquer death, she'll have to "share the man in [him] with the surgeon." She ends up murdered by his nefarious partners at the end of the episode and is put on the slab for Fletcher's latest class, horrifying him by making him eat his words.
* GraveRobbing: Dr. Fletcher uses a pair of shady "undertakers" to steal corpses for him to dissect for his classes, and they're also heavily hinted to have actively murdered some of the people they gave him beforehand. Multipleother people are disturbed at the very possibility, but Fletcher just defaults to "don't ask, don't tell" regarding his suppliers' sources.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Mrs. Woods, who threatens to get the police involved when she accuses Fletcher of hoarding her husband Charlie's body, causing him to rope his shady associates into killing her so her own corpse can be used for his next class. They instead bring him Barbara's corpse, as she was the first woman they saw and Fletcher wasn't specific about who it was he wanted to hide his association with them.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Dr. Fletcher vows that cutting into the dead will train the next generation of doctors and life-savers, but he hires grave-robbers to pilfer corpses for him to slice into, and even kill them ahead of time, to further his ghoulish goals.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The grave robbers who Fletcher hires to steal bodies for him end up killing and delivering Barbara when he tasks them with giving him a female cadaver. What's more, they ended up killing the first woman they saw instead of the woman who threatened to send the police after Fletcher, because he didn't give them specifics to retain his plausible deniability.
* KarmaHoudini: Fletcher is mortified when he finds Barbara's corpse on his slab, having paid for his contempt for the dead thanks to what his "partners" brought him, but he and the grave robbers themselves receive no punishment for their illicit actions. However, that may change if and when Mrs. Woods, who accused him of holding her husband's body, follows through on her threat to get the police involved.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Fletcher argues that usingone corpse (regardless peoples' corpses, regardless of how it was obtained) they were obtained, will train the doctors of the future and to save many numerous lives. That is, until all goes down the corpse toilet when he discovers that his latest cadaver is a certain someone he knows.
* NoNameGiven: The grave robbers.
* OhCrap: Fletcher has a pretty huge one when he discovers Barbara's corpse under the sheets.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Fletcher needs corpses for his classes, and he doesn't really care how his shady providers get them,even after his future father-in-law questions him about it. He argues arguing that the knowledge to be demonstrated on them is more important, and that one life isn't too big a true sacrifice if it saves many others. The segment ends with his horrified discovery that the providers grave robbers killed his fiancée fiancee Barbara when he tasked them with getting a female cadaver.
* PlausibleDeniability: Dr. Fletcher doesn't ask where his suppliers get the corpses they give him to minimize his ownblame.involvement in their racket.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In the midst of being accused by Mrs. Woods, the elderly woman who claims he has "Charlie's" body, Fletcher quickly tasks his "partners" with getting a female cadaver for his next class. Because he's not specific about who he wants, the grave robbers kill Barbara and bring her corpse to him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Shockman, Fletcher's boss, tells him that Mrs. Woods who hinted that her husband's body is in his collection of corpses spoke to him about her theory, telling Fletcher that he should discontinue the act of dissecting corpses and having a good explanation if and when Charlie's body is found on school grounds.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Mrs. Woods, the old woman who accuses Fletcher of being in possession of her spouse's body and threatens to send the police after him, who sets up the CruelTwistEnding when Fletcher sends his partners to get a female cadaver for his next class. Before that, she already went to his superior, Dr. Shockman, with her accusations, already tightening the vice Fletcher was getting stuck in.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he ''does'' hire a pair of sinister grave robbers to deliver their bodies to him, even under circumstances which suggest that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues that the bodies he gets are those of vagrants and scum, who are now of use to society for the first time in their existence.
*TheSocialDarwinist: Dr. TemptingFate: During what will come to be the last time he sees Barbara alive, Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he doesn't stop using his current body-providers, even though circumstances suggest tells her that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues his one redeeming quality, which he and her father were "arguing" about, is that he loves her; a quality which no cadaver can change. This bites him in the bodies ending, as his sole good quality is broken by the cadaver he's given for his next class.
** For bonus points, he opens this class with a lecture of how the cadavers the school gets arevagrants, who are now being meant solely to serve a purpose in teaching students, and that no individual life is of some use consequence if it means saving multiple ones.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The grave robbers Fletcher hires tosociety procure cadavers for the first time in their existence.
him.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being confronted bya woman Mrs. Woods, who claims he has her husband's Charlie's body and getting threatened with having the police called on him if the body is found there, in his lab, Dr. Fletcher orders his suppliers to get him a female cadaver very quickly so no one can pin anything on him. They kill end up killing his fiancée. fiancée Barbara when he isn't specific about ''who'' he wants.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fletcher is given harsh rebuttals for his callousness and his rumored complicity in grave robbing and murder by four separate people over the segment's runtime: his soon-to-be father-in-law, the old woman who accuses him of holding her husband's body, his superior at the school, and the detective who insists on viewing his latest dissection to check if the body is that of a woman like he says.
* CruelTwistEnding: Fletcher discovers that the latest body he's working on is that of Barbara, leaving him heartbroken. Also, Mrs. Woods, who he tasked his partners with murdering, is still free to notify the police, bringing Fletcher's medical career to a very likely end.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dr. Fletcher takes note of one of his students, Mr. Tuttle, for nearly fainting at the sight of how "unappetizing" the cadaver he's dissecting looks, prompting him to note that the body isn't on a restaurant menu.
* ExactWords: Fletcher tasks his shady partners to get him a female corpse for his next class, refusing to name names to retain plausible deniability. Though he intended for them to murder Mrs. Woods, this causes the grave robbers to
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** One of the corpses Fletcher gets early in the segment is noted to have been dead for
** As he meets with Barbara, Fletcher tells her that until man finds a way to conquer death, she'll have to "share the man in [him] with the surgeon." She ends up murdered by his nefarious partners at the end of the episode and is put on the slab for Fletcher's latest class, horrifying him by making him eat his words.
* GraveRobbing: Dr. Fletcher uses a pair of shady "undertakers" to steal corpses for him to dissect for his classes, and they're also heavily hinted to have actively murdered some of the people they gave him beforehand. Multiple
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Mrs. Woods, who threatens to get the police involved when she accuses Fletcher of hoarding her husband Charlie's body, causing him to rope his shady associates into killing her so her own corpse can be used for his next class. They instead bring him Barbara's corpse, as she was the first woman they saw and Fletcher wasn't specific about who it was he wanted to hide his association with them.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Dr. Fletcher vows that cutting into the dead will train the next generation of doctors and life-savers, but he hires grave-robbers to pilfer corpses for him to slice into, and even kill them ahead of time, to further his ghoulish goals.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The grave robbers who Fletcher hires to steal bodies for him end up killing and delivering Barbara when he tasks them with giving him a female cadaver. What's more, they ended up killing the first woman they saw instead of the woman who threatened to send the police after Fletcher, because he didn't give them specifics to retain his plausible deniability.
* KarmaHoudini: Fletcher is mortified when he finds Barbara's corpse on his slab, having paid for his contempt for the dead thanks to what his "partners" brought him, but he and the grave robbers themselves receive no punishment for their illicit actions. However, that may change if and when Mrs. Woods, who accused him of holding her husband's body, follows through on her threat to get the police involved.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Fletcher argues that using
* NoNameGiven: The grave robbers.
* OhCrap: Fletcher has a pretty huge one when he discovers Barbara's corpse under the sheets.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Fletcher needs corpses for his classes, and he doesn't really care how his shady providers get them,
* PlausibleDeniability: Dr. Fletcher doesn't ask where his suppliers get the corpses they give him to minimize his own
* PoorCommunicationKills: In the midst of being accused by Mrs. Woods, the elderly woman who claims he has "Charlie's" body, Fletcher quickly tasks his "partners" with getting a female cadaver for his next class. Because he's not specific about who he wants, the grave robbers kill Barbara and bring her corpse to him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Shockman, Fletcher's boss, tells him that Mrs. Woods who hinted that her husband's body is in his collection of corpses spoke to him about her theory, telling Fletcher that he should discontinue the act of dissecting corpses and having a good explanation if and when Charlie's body is found on school grounds.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Mrs. Woods, the old woman who accuses Fletcher of being in possession of her spouse's body and threatens to send the police after him, who sets up the CruelTwistEnding when Fletcher sends his partners to get a female cadaver for his next class. Before that, she already went to his superior, Dr. Shockman, with her accusations, already tightening the vice Fletcher was getting stuck in.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he ''does'' hire a pair of sinister grave robbers to deliver their bodies to him, even under circumstances which suggest that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues that the bodies he gets are those of vagrants and scum, who are now of use to society for the first time in their existence.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: The grave robbers Fletcher hires to
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being confronted by
* WhatTheHellHero: Fletcher is given harsh rebuttals for his callousness and his rumored complicity in grave robbing and murder by four separate people over the segment's runtime: his soon-to-be father-in-law, the old woman who accuses him of holding her husband's body, his superior at the school, and the detective who insists on viewing his latest dissection to check if the body is that of a woman like he says.
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A woman, Mrs. Turchin (Geraldine Page), comes to the police station to report a murder -- her own. She tells the incredulous Sergeant Bevelow (Creator/JamesGregory) that her husband has been trying all manner of things to worry her to death. After hearing the woman's story, the officer begins to wonder if he could pull it off.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Turchin is fed up with his nagging, overbearing wife and turns to murder to get rid of her.
* TillMurderDoUsPart: Mrs. Turchin comes in to report that her husband is trying to worry her to death. Her manner reminds the police officer of his own wife, and he begins contemplating using Mr. Turchin's method.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Turchin is fed up with his nagging, overbearing wife and turns to murder to get rid of her.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: The Turchins, as Frances' husband Bernard employs a long-term ParanoiaGambit to trick her into killing herself when his divorce is refused. Before that, Frances claims he has a long list of "crazy reasons" why he wanted the separation, such as the fact that she's not a good cook, she's not as beautiful as she was when they were wed, he has nothing left to say to her, she clutters up the bathroom, etc.
** Stanley's wife, depicted in a picture frame on his desk, is hinted to be equally unpleasant to him (as indicated by the overly-dour grimace on her face), so he phones Bernard to teach him how he can play his mind game on her.
* TheBadGuyWins: Bernard succeeds in making Frances kill herself through her paranoid fantasies, and he's likely more than eager to share his technique with Stanley.
* BottleEpisode: The segment is essentially an extended blackout sketch, as it's mostly set in one room with only two characters and feels one-note in nature.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the short story"Stop Killing Me" the segment is based on, Mrs. Turchin Frances survives. The adaption TV adaptation has her step ending up dead when she distractedly steps in front of a car speeding car.
* DirtyCop: Stanley, the police sergeant who interrogates Frances, phones Bernard to teach him how to pull the same trick he played on her on his own wife.
* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Frances, the only reason why Bernard is subjecting her to an agonizing andperish.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Turchinparanoid mind game so that she ultimately kills herself is fed up with his nagging, overbearing wife and turns because she refuses to murder to get rid of her.grant him a divorce.
** Before that, she also brings up the list of petty insults that Bernard has made against her, like her horrible cooking, her faded beauty, her cluttering the bathroom, and the fact that he just has nothing more to say to her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** As Frances introduces herself and reports that her husband Bernard is killing her, Stanley replies with a rather humorous declaration of "''My'' wife is killing ''me''." We learn at the end that his wife (as portrayed in a framed photo) is as overly stern and obnoxious as Frances appeared to Bernard, and he phones the man himself after Frances is run over by a car to teach him how to play the ruse on her. He also stares at the picture before noting to Frances that refusal of a divorce is a somewhat good-enough reason to resort to murder.
** One of the ways that Frances imagines that her supposed paranoia-induced death could come about is her being hit by a car, which does indeed occur at the end of the segment. She even notes that she was standing in the middle of a busy street thinking about her eventual death, and would have nearly been flattened right there if a young girl didn't pull her out of the way.
* HenpeckedHusband: Frances' husband Bernard apparently thought of her as an overbearing nag, so he turns to a psychological mind game to get her to kill herself.
* HereWeGoAgain: Once Frances accidentally kills herself, Stanley phones Bernard to ask how exactly he killed her so he can play the ruse on his own ball-breaker wife.
* KarmaHoudini: Bernard gets away with killing Frances, and Stanley may likely follow in his footsteps when he kills his own wife.
* LargeHam: To contrast with how laid-back and snarky Stanley is, Frances spends the whole segment rapidly alternating between her frightened tone of voice and mimicking her murderous husband's threats, evil laughter, and even his snoring.
* LighterAndSofter: The segment is played for black comedy, as it concerns a frightened wife driven to near-insanity by her husband repeating a threat to kill her again and again.
* MotorMouth: Frances dispenses her story to Stanley at a mile per minute, including seamlessly going back and forth between her regular voice and an impersonation of Bernard.
* MurderByInaction: Bernard does this to Frances via his psychological game, allowing him to kill her through the power of suggestion alone.
* ParanoiaGambit: Bernard has been saying to Frances, wherever they are and without any warning, "I'm going to kill you, Frances." It works like a charm, as the fear and paranoia that builds up in Frances' mind causes her to get so distracted that she's hit by a speeding car.
* RunningGag: Frances brings up how Bernard randomly repeats his threat to kill her by pointing straight ahead and mimicking his voice.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: As he's listening to Frances' story, Stanley notes that Bernard's motivation for divorce/murder could easily be solved by him and Frances just visiting a marriage counselor.
* TillMurderDoUsPart:Mrs. Turchin Frances comes in to the police station to report that Bernard is "killing" her by trying to "worry her to death". The story reminds Stanley of his own ball-buster of a wife, and after Frances is hit by a car, he phones Bernard and asks him if he can tell him how he set the mind game up.
* TitleDrop: Frances fervently tells Stanley about how her husband is trying to worry her todeath. Her manner reminds the police officer of his own wife, death, and pleads that he begins contemplating using Mr. Turchin's method. call Bernard and tell him to "stop killing me!"
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** Stanley's wife, depicted in a picture frame on his desk, is hinted to be equally unpleasant to him (as indicated by the overly-dour grimace on her face), so he phones Bernard to teach him how he can play his mind game on her.
* TheBadGuyWins: Bernard succeeds in making Frances kill herself through her paranoid fantasies, and he's likely more than eager to share his technique with Stanley.
* BottleEpisode: The segment is essentially an extended blackout sketch, as it's mostly set in one room with only two characters and feels one-note in nature.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the short story
* DirtyCop: Stanley, the police sergeant who interrogates Frances, phones Bernard to teach him how to pull the same trick he played on her on his own wife.
* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Frances, the only reason why Bernard is subjecting her to an agonizing and
* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Turchin
** Before that, she also brings up the list of petty insults that Bernard has made against her, like her horrible cooking, her faded beauty, her cluttering the bathroom, and the fact that he just has nothing more to say to her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** As Frances introduces herself and reports that her husband Bernard is killing her, Stanley replies with a rather humorous declaration of "''My'' wife is killing ''me''." We learn at the end that his wife (as portrayed in a framed photo) is as overly stern and obnoxious as Frances appeared to Bernard, and he phones the man himself after Frances is run over by a car to teach him how to play the ruse on her. He also stares at the picture before noting to Frances that refusal of a divorce is a somewhat good-enough reason to resort to murder.
** One of the ways that Frances imagines that her supposed paranoia-induced death could come about is her being hit by a car, which does indeed occur at the end of the segment. She even notes that she was standing in the middle of a busy street thinking about her eventual death, and would have nearly been flattened right there if a young girl didn't pull her out of the way.
* HenpeckedHusband: Frances' husband Bernard apparently thought of her as an overbearing nag, so he turns to a psychological mind game to get her to kill herself.
* HereWeGoAgain: Once Frances accidentally kills herself, Stanley phones Bernard to ask how exactly he killed her so he can play the ruse on his own ball-breaker wife.
* KarmaHoudini: Bernard gets away with killing Frances, and Stanley may likely follow in his footsteps when he kills his own wife.
* LargeHam: To contrast with how laid-back and snarky Stanley is, Frances spends the whole segment rapidly alternating between her frightened tone of voice and mimicking her murderous husband's threats, evil laughter, and even his snoring.
* LighterAndSofter: The segment is played for black comedy, as it concerns a frightened wife driven to near-insanity by her husband repeating a threat to kill her again and again.
* MotorMouth: Frances dispenses her story to Stanley at a mile per minute, including seamlessly going back and forth between her regular voice and an impersonation of Bernard.
* MurderByInaction: Bernard does this to Frances via his psychological game, allowing him to kill her through the power of suggestion alone.
* ParanoiaGambit: Bernard has been saying to Frances, wherever they are and without any warning, "I'm going to kill you, Frances." It works like a charm, as the fear and paranoia that builds up in Frances' mind causes her to get so distracted that she's hit by a speeding car.
* RunningGag: Frances brings up how Bernard randomly repeats his threat to kill her by pointing straight ahead and mimicking his voice.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: As he's listening to Frances' story, Stanley notes that Bernard's motivation for divorce/murder could easily be solved by him and Frances just visiting a marriage counselor.
* TillMurderDoUsPart:
* TitleDrop: Frances fervently tells Stanley about how her husband is trying to worry her to
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A gangster, Landau (Bobby Darin), wants to flee to escape justice after accidentally killing a boy during a bank robbery. To save himself, he visits an older man, Bullivant (Creator/JackAlbertson), who has a reputation for helping criminals get out of the country...but the service may not be what he thinks.
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!!Dead Weight
A gangster, Landau (Bobby Darin), wants to flee to escape justice after accidentally killing a boy during a bank robbery. To save himself, he visits an older man, Bullivant (Creator/JackAlbertson), who has a reputation for helping criminals get out of the country...but the service may not be what he thinks.
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A gangster, Landau (Bobby Darin), wants
!! Dead Weight
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A news story about Landau calls him "an armed gunman".
* DisposingOfABody: Bullivant "exports" criminals from the country by turning them into dog meat.
* ExactWords: Bullivant promises Landau that he will get him "out of the country" after he accidentally kills a little boy during a bank robbery and wants to escape prosecution. He gets out, all right... by being murdered, ground up, put in the meat mixture for the smuggler's brand of dog food, and is taken "out of the country" on a barge that is shipping the brand overseas.
* HumanResources: Bullivant's business is getting passage out of the country for the most reprehensible murderous criminals who want to escape. He does so by toasting his client's voyage and slipping him a mickey, then shipping him out of the country... as canned dog food.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Criminals who need to escape the country in a hurry come to Bullivant for help. It turns out that he kills them, turns their bodies into dog food, and ships it out of the country.
* SlippingAMickey: Before sending them out of the country, Bullivant offers his clients a toast with a drugged drink.
* DisposingOfABody: Bullivant "exports" criminals from the country by turning them into dog meat.
* ExactWords: Bullivant promises Landau that he will get him "out of the country" after he accidentally kills a little boy during a bank robbery and wants to escape prosecution. He gets out, all right... by being murdered, ground up, put in the meat mixture for the smuggler's brand of dog food, and is taken "out of the country" on a barge that is shipping the brand overseas.
* HumanResources: Bullivant's business is getting passage out of the country for the most reprehensible murderous criminals who want to escape. He does so by toasting his client's voyage and slipping him a mickey, then shipping him out of the country... as canned dog food.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Criminals who need to escape the country in a hurry come to Bullivant for help. It turns out that he kills them, turns their bodies into dog food, and ships it out of the country.
* SlippingAMickey: Before sending them out of the country, Bullivant offers his clients a toast with a drugged drink.
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* AffablyEvil: Bullivant is eager to do business with all his criminal customers, and takes pride in his ability to ship anyone who comes to him out of the country. What they don't know is that he doesn't ship them out of the country ''alive''.
* BottleEpisode: Much like the preceding segment, this one is set in a single room with only two main characters and is only a few minutes long, essentially making it another one-note blackout sketch. The difference is that this segment plays nothing for comedy.
* DeathOfAChild: The newspaper Bullivant reads, which reports on Landau's bank robbery, notes that he shot a six year old boy and his mother among his other victims.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:A news story about The newspaper regarding Landau and his bank robbery calls him "an armed an "armed gunman".
* DisposingOfABody: Bullivant "exports" the criminals that come to him from the country by poisoning them and turningthem their bodies into dog meat.food.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Landau notes that he accidentally shot an innocent six-year old boy and his mother during his getaway, and is clearly upset that it happened.
* ExactWords: Bank robber Landau is promised by Bullivantpromises Landau that he will get him he'll be taken "out of the country" country", never to see the inside of a prison cell, after he accidentally kills a little boy during a his bank robbery and wants to flee the country to escape prosecution. He gets out, all right... does so by being murdered, then getting his corpse ground up, put in the meat mixture for the smuggler's up and made into Bullivant's brand of dog food, and which is taken "out of the country" on a barge that is shipping the brand it overseas.
* HumanResources:Bullivant's Bullivant is an exporter of goods on the surface, but his ''true'' business is getting passage out of the country for the most helping murderous and reprehensible murderous criminals who want to escape. like Landau flee the country. He does so by toasting to his client's voyage clients' voyages and slipping him them a mickey, then potent poison, shipping him out of the country... as country ''after'' they've been turned into his brand of canned dog food.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Bullivant poisons everyone who needs a quick getaway through his firm, then turns them into dog food to ship overseas. Given that all his customers are criminals who want to avoid the law, such as Landau, who shot a little boy and his mother, it's a fitting punishment for their misdeeds.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Bullivant chipperly turns people into dog food that he ships overseas for a living. While this would be a grievous thing to do to anyone, his clientele are remorseless criminals who have made stealing and killing their top priority.
* POVCam: There are a few brief shots from Landau's point of view as the poison in his drink kicks in.
* ReleasedToElsewhere:Criminals who need to escape the country in a hurry come to Bullivant has a reputation for help. It turns out this among criminals, who often go to him when they need help escaping the country. It's revealed that he Bullivant kills them, turns their bodies into dog food, and ships it out of the country.
said dog food overseas.
* SlippingAMickey: Beforesending he sends them out of the country, Bullivant offers his clients a toast with a drugged drink.poisoned drink. As we observe with Landau, the poison activates within seconds.
* VillainHasAPoint: As Bullivant is rebuking Landau for killing that little boy, the thief admits that there were bullets flying everywhere and he couldn't control where they were going to go. He also points out that the robbery took place at 10 AM, so it made no sense for a child his age to be on the street instead of in school at that time of day, prompting Bullivant to grimly note that such a fate is a steep price to pay for playing hooky.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Bullivant tells Landau that his firm has no negative reviews of its performance. This is later revealed to be because no one's been left alive to give it any reviews at all.
* WouldHurtAChild: Landau accidentally shot a six-year-old boy and his mother as he was escaping the cops. He's greatly dismayed about it (mostly for the kid), but he shrugs it off when he realizes that he can't do anything about it now.
* BottleEpisode: Much like the preceding segment, this one is set in a single room with only two main characters and is only a few minutes long, essentially making it another one-note blackout sketch. The difference is that this segment plays nothing for comedy.
* DeathOfAChild: The newspaper Bullivant reads, which reports on Landau's bank robbery, notes that he shot a six year old boy and his mother among his other victims.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
* DisposingOfABody: Bullivant "exports" the criminals that come to him from the country by poisoning them and turning
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Landau notes that he accidentally shot an innocent six-year old boy and his mother during his getaway, and is clearly upset that it happened.
* ExactWords: Bank robber Landau is promised by Bullivant
* HumanResources:
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Bullivant poisons everyone who needs a quick getaway through his firm, then turns them into dog food to ship overseas. Given that all his customers are criminals who want to avoid the law, such as Landau, who shot a little boy and his mother, it's a fitting punishment for their misdeeds.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Bullivant chipperly turns people into dog food that he ships overseas for a living. While this would be a grievous thing to do to anyone, his clientele are remorseless criminals who have made stealing and killing their top priority.
* POVCam: There are a few brief shots from Landau's point of view as the poison in his drink kicks in.
* ReleasedToElsewhere:
* SlippingAMickey: Before
* VillainHasAPoint: As Bullivant is rebuking Landau for killing that little boy, the thief admits that there were bullets flying everywhere and he couldn't control where they were going to go. He also points out that the robbery took place at 10 AM, so it made no sense for a child his age to be on the street instead of in school at that time of day, prompting Bullivant to grimly note that such a fate is a steep price to pay for playing hooky.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Bullivant tells Landau that his firm has no negative reviews of its performance. This is later revealed to be because no one's been left alive to give it any reviews at all.
* WouldHurtAChild: Landau accidentally shot a six-year-old boy and his mother as he was escaping the cops. He's greatly dismayed about it (mostly for the kid), but he shrugs it off when he realizes that he can't do anything about it now.
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!!Deliveries in the Rear
Dr. Fletcher (Cornel Wilde), a Victorian anatomy professor, needs bodies to use in his class, and he isn't picky about where he gets them. However, when he's nearly caught with the body of a woman's husband, he orders a female cadaver to keep the police from becoming involved... and receives a nasty bit of karma.
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* GraveRobbing: A doctor uses grave robbers to obtain bodies for dissection. Multiple other people are disturbed at the very possibility, but Fletcher just defaults to "don't ask, don't tell" regarding his suppliers' sources.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Fletcher argues that using one corpse (regardless of how it was obtained) will train the doctors of the future and save many lives. That is, until the corpse is someone he knows.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Fletcher needs corpses for his classes, and he doesn't really care how his providers get them, even after his future father-in-law questions him about it. He argues that the knowledge is more important, and that one life isn't too big a sacrifice if it saves many others. The segment ends with his horrified discovery that the providers killed his fiancée when he tasked them with getting a female cadaver.
* PlausibleDeniability: Dr. Fletcher doesn't ask where his suppliers get the corpses to minimize his own blame.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Dr. Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he doesn't stop using his current body-providers, even though circumstances suggest that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues that the bodies are vagrants, who are now being of some use to society for the first time in their existence.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being confronted by a woman who claims he has her husband's body and threatened with the police if the body is found there, Dr. Fletcher orders his suppliers to get him a female cadaver very quickly so no one can pin anything on him. They kill his fiancée.
!!Stop Killing Me
A woman, Mrs. Turchin (Geraldine Page), comes to the police station to report a murder -- her own. She tells the incredulous Sergeant Bevelow (Creator/JamesGregory) that her husband has been trying all manner of things to worry her to death. After hearing the woman's story, the officer begins to wonder if he could pull it off.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the short story "Stop Killing Me" is based on, Mrs. Turchin survives. The adaption has her step in front of a car and perish.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Turchin is fed up with his nagging, overbearing wife and turns to murder to get rid of her.
* TillMurderDoUsPart: Mrs. Turchin comes in to report that her husband is trying to worry her to death. Her manner reminds the police officer of his own wife, and he begins contemplating using Mr. Turchin's method.
!!Dead Weight
A gangster, Landau (Bobby Darin), wants to flee to escape justice after accidentally killing a boy during a bank robbery. To save himself, he visits an older man, Bullivant (Creator/JackAlbertson), who has a reputation for helping criminals get out of the country...but the service may not be what he thinks.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A news story about Landau calls him "an armed gunman".
* DisposingOfABody: Bullivant "exports" criminals from the country by turning them into dog meat.
* ExactWords: Bullivant promises Landau that he will get him "out of the country" after he accidentally kills a little boy during a bank robbery and wants to escape prosecution. He gets out, all right... by being murdered, ground up, put in the meat mixture for the smuggler's brand of dog food, and is taken "out of the country" on a barge that is shipping the brand overseas.
* HumanResources: Bullivant's business is getting passage out of the country for the most reprehensible murderous criminals who want to escape. He does so by toasting his client's voyage and slipping him a mickey, then shipping him out of the country... as canned dog food.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Criminals who need to escape the country in a hurry come to Bullivant for help. It turns out that he kills them, turns their bodies into dog food, and ships it out of the country.
* SlippingAMickey: Before sending them out of the country, Bullivant offers his clients a toast with a drugged drink.
Dr. Fletcher (Cornel Wilde), a Victorian anatomy professor, needs bodies to use in his class, and he isn't picky about where he gets them. However, when he's nearly caught with the body of a woman's husband, he orders a female cadaver to keep the police from becoming involved... and receives a nasty bit of karma.
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* GraveRobbing: A doctor uses grave robbers to obtain bodies for dissection. Multiple other people are disturbed at the very possibility, but Fletcher just defaults to "don't ask, don't tell" regarding his suppliers' sources.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Fletcher argues that using one corpse (regardless of how it was obtained) will train the doctors of the future and save many lives. That is, until the corpse is someone he knows.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Fletcher needs corpses for his classes, and he doesn't really care how his providers get them, even after his future father-in-law questions him about it. He argues that the knowledge is more important, and that one life isn't too big a sacrifice if it saves many others. The segment ends with his horrified discovery that the providers killed his fiancée when he tasked them with getting a female cadaver.
* PlausibleDeniability: Dr. Fletcher doesn't ask where his suppliers get the corpses to minimize his own blame.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Dr. Fletcher doesn't kill people himself, but he doesn't stop using his current body-providers, even though circumstances suggest that they're not above murder to get fresh corpses to sell. He also argues that the bodies are vagrants, who are now being of some use to society for the first time in their existence.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After being confronted by a woman who claims he has her husband's body and threatened with the police if the body is found there, Dr. Fletcher orders his suppliers to get him a female cadaver very quickly so no one can pin anything on him. They kill his fiancée.
!!Stop Killing Me
A woman, Mrs. Turchin (Geraldine Page), comes to the police station to report a murder -- her own. She tells the incredulous Sergeant Bevelow (Creator/JamesGregory) that her husband has been trying all manner of things to worry her to death. After hearing the woman's story, the officer begins to wonder if he could pull it off.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the short story "Stop Killing Me" is based on, Mrs. Turchin survives. The adaption has her step in front of a car and perish.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Turchin is fed up with his nagging, overbearing wife and turns to murder to get rid of her.
* TillMurderDoUsPart: Mrs. Turchin comes in to report that her husband is trying to worry her to death. Her manner reminds the police officer of his own wife, and he begins contemplating using Mr. Turchin's method.
!!Dead Weight
A gangster, Landau (Bobby Darin), wants to flee to escape justice after accidentally killing a boy during a bank robbery. To save himself, he visits an older man, Bullivant (Creator/JackAlbertson), who has a reputation for helping criminals get out of the country...but the service may not be what he thinks.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A news story about Landau calls him "an armed gunman".
* DisposingOfABody: Bullivant "exports" criminals from the country by turning them into dog meat.
* ExactWords: Bullivant promises Landau that he will get him "out of the country" after he accidentally kills a little boy during a bank robbery and wants to escape prosecution. He gets out, all right... by being murdered, ground up, put in the meat mixture for the smuggler's brand of dog food, and is taken "out of the country" on a barge that is shipping the brand overseas.
* HumanResources: Bullivant's business is getting passage out of the country for the most reprehensible murderous criminals who want to escape. He does so by toasting his client's voyage and slipping him a mickey, then shipping him out of the country... as canned dog food.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Criminals who need to escape the country in a hurry come to Bullivant for help. It turns out that he kills them, turns their bodies into dog food, and ships it out of the country.
* SlippingAMickey: Before sending them out of the country, Bullivant offers his clients a toast with a drugged drink.
