Tales from the Crypt S2E5
Episode 5 "Three's a Crowd"
A man is sitting and smoking in the late evening hours and awaits his wifey coming back home. He immediately accosts her upon her arrival, accompanied in an expensive new coat. He is very calm but it's obvious he's suspish as fuck but wifey tries to play it off and in what we call it these days, GASLIGHTING as she is spending more time with the dude that was actually his best man at their wedding...ten years ago. Nowadays? Not so much.
"Things change, Donna. People change."
Wouldn't you know it...today is actually their anniversary of all days. She's pooped so she tries to hit the hay for the day. This only seems to irritate him, Richard, even more. He is saying that by being complicit in allowing this "best man" to buy her things that it's immasculating. Donna doesn't give a hoot.
Donna has the audacity to guilt trip him saying that he's being such a sour puss ruining the trip that was gifted to them from....guess who?
Poor Richard is on the verge of breaking down sharing his fears that he is going to lose her to him because he can't give her kids. They are making out until...the motherfucking phone rings.
Donna being the bitch she is answers it and it confirmed his fears who was on the other line.
The next day, all three of them are on a boat. He is sitting off to the side while Donna and guy are chatting it up. She even kisses him on the cheek, in front of her own husband. DA FUCK?!
So now they are all in the car ride. There is a chauffer which good for guy since he can have his undivided attention to Donna. They are having a conversation about despite him being rich as fuck, it's lonely. Richard makes a offhand comment but he retaliate by saying that the one thing he regrets in life was not trying harder at winning Donna's heart while he lightly squeezes her leg. He tries to play it off as kidding but who are WE kidding around here?
They get to the cabin. Richard is silently observing his surroundings while he's continuing to be ticked off at him and Donna's wink wink tomfoolery. He finally GTFOs out of there. Fin-fucking-ly.
Except not because it is night time and what do ya know? It seems like literally every waking second, they are both just clinging to each other. None of them are really getting the hint but whatever...fine.
Richard then excuses himself outside for some fresh air, albeit at night when the chauffer comes up to him to compliment his wife. He actually seems like a nice guy, they have a short chit chat and he goes on his way just as quickly. Nothing too exciting here.
Later that night when he is trying to sleep, he actually wakes up in the middle of the night and his wife is nowhere to be found so he gets out of the room and overhears a conversation of these 2 outside. He catches glimpses of the conversation like "You don't think he suspects anything, do ya?" She replies that "It's just been so hard not telling him."
He slugs back into bed feigning being asleep despite Donna coming back in the room even beckoning him a bit. He just stares dead ass into the void as she cuddles with him goodnight. Poor guy.
Richard wakes up the next morning and as per usual, she is gone. He bursts out and of course those 2 are nowhere to be found. He goes back in the room and looks in the dresser and sees more new wardobe outfits. Fucking great!
He hears someone enter the cabin he storms out expecting at least one of them but nah, it's the driver. He asks where they went and he replies that the wife asked to "watch over" him and keep him out. That's when he stops dead in his tracks when he realizes that they have made this driver in on this sick and twisted affair. Before he can probe any further, both come back in.
She seems surprised that he's up. He starts drinking. Which really spoils the mood.
The truth gets out that he's a bartender and no longer sells insurance in which Donna has apparently never told him about this change in employment. He volunteered that imformation about himself, actually. The dude gives such a patronizing "I'm sorry" line but of course Richard doesn't want his disingenuous phoney baloney apology here, son!
Well, the conversation does NOT get any better as he is already on edge now that he already figured it out that this dude is fucking his own wife and here he is immasculating him. To say he is not in the greatest mood is a vast understatement. He lashes out at her and she runs out of the house in tears. Guy calls him an asshole and also walks out.
This only causes him to delve further into madness as he continues to drink and ruminates in further diabolical means that he can pay them back.
Later that night dude comes back to look for Richard. They meet each other but the entire cabin is enveloped in darkess with not a hint of light on. He beckons him over and says that he has a surprise for him.
"Oh, I love surprises." Richard says in the most diabolical foreshadowy kind of way. "Where are we going?" Well, guess what? Richard has a surprise for him too. He tells him to take a gander on the moose mounted on the high rise ceiling. On the wall is a handful of arrows shot in the moose head.
He holds up his bow and arrow and says he's been practicing and now he is aiming at soon to be former bestie.
Guess what he does?
In an attempt to talk him down, he yells SIKE surprise boi! They both share a brief laugh but just as quickly, no one is really laughing because it is clearly still loaded and Richard ain't lowering the bow and arrow thingy. Guy is still tense and goes down the stairs slowly while still facing Richard that is slowly inching towards him. All the while he is taunting him as he is far off drifted into mad ness. He is against the wall now and shoots this dude dead with a single arrow to the heart. He writhes in pain while Richard stares in glee and laughs like a maniac now that he's finally out of their lives for good.
Not too long later, Donna enters the cabin wondering where TF Alan is. As soon as she walks in, there is a fire. Entire cabin is still quiet until Richard makes himself known.
He reappears from the shadows wearing Donna's expensive coat from the beginning of the episode. She asks where Alan is.
"Here's hanging around somewhere."
She shrieks at the sight of his bloodied corpse while he calmly tells her "Happy anniversary, baby." She runs inside her room and tries to block her door shut but hey, if there is a will, there is a way amirite?
Like a psycho he talks through the door in his calm creepy demeanor to lure her out. Obviously it doesn't work so he hulk smashes through the door. She jumps through the window to escape!!!
Richard runs outside he proceeds to strangle Donna with the stocking that he found earlier that day. Poor Donna is dead. So he ends up dragging her lifeless body over to the other cabin that he assumes is occupied until....
Holy fuck. He just walked in on his own surprise party! It was a congratulatory party to announce Donna is finally pregnant!!!!
Uhhhh awkward. Festive applaud immediately...dedz when they sees Donna's corpse being drug in. Yeah, it's an abrupt ending but that is the ending to this episode.