Fridge / Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Fridge Brilliance

• An episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents revolved around a woefully incompetent mother who hasn't seen her daughter since she was a baby. The daughter is being raised by another couple, and the mother kidnaps her. Then at the end, it turns out that the mother really kidnapped the daughter of a private investigator hired by the daughter's foster parents, and this other girl was in on the whole thing. The character was acting the whole time, and in an added bit of brilliance, the kidnapper probably didn't even realize how bad her act was. — Mon Solo
• In the episode, "The Hidden Thing", Dana is being helped by a man named Hurley to recover his memory about the hit-and-run of his fiancé. Hurley's reasoning is because he lost his son in a hit-and-run as well and it was never solved. The reason that Dana blocked out that memory is because he felt guilty. You would think that Dana was the one who killed Hurley's son & that Hurley is trying recover his memories of his death, or even that Hurley was the one who killed Dana's fiancé out of revenge. Turns out the guilt that Dana has been holding is for not getting his fiancé's compact from the car, which is why he repressed the memory of her death. And the twist is that Hurley never had a son. Heck, he's not even married! Turns out he's just a nut who likes to solve crimes. So the whole build-up about remembering the license plate and Hurley's non-existent son... didn't mean a thing whatsoever.

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