Is anyone familiar with this?
For a long time, for no particularly good reason, I've been trying to dientify a piece of that I saw on TV quite awhile ago. One suggestion is that it might be "Twists of Terror". What follows it what I've posted on the "Need To Know" board from time to time. I guess, ignore the time reference in this context...it is possible that I wasthat far out...
My confidence in any specific aspect of the scene is well below 100%, but I think the gist is right.
I think it was the very end of the show or movie that I caught when I turned the TV on in the late evening.
The short scene that I remember:
A man was lying sort of half prone, dying from a gunshot (?) wound, in what appeared to be a roadhouse café or restaurant or bar or something.
A woman walks out, turns out to be his wife or perhaps girlfriend…and she taunts him with one of those crowing, taunting expository speeches: “Ha Ha! It was me you fool, I set it all up. The police will believe that you’re a hero and died trying to defend us from a gang of assailants. It’s the perfect crime and I’ll be free! Free! Free!” (OK, I’m paraphrasing wildly here, I really don’t remember what she words she used, but that was the message.)
Then another guy walks into the field of view. I could be wrong, but I think he is a man of African ancestry. The woman continues to taunt and says something along the lines of “Just one more piece of evidence to take care of”, and she and her accomplice start to get busy with the nasty. She does toss out one more taunt, telling her accomplice to do it good, which I took as having double meaning, making sure she had some signs of trauma on her, and, ahem, that they had a good time. The element of the theme was definitely 'adult' but I don't recall the imagery as being at all explicit or even revealing.
The plotline as described makes me wonder if it isn’t old enough to predate the routine use of forensic DNA analysis, as in, if you had that plot today, I’m sure someone would flag that aspect as a potential flaw in the planned perfect crime. On the other hand, I guess the whole thing was as unlikely as could be.
It think that it might have been a short (i.e. 30 minute) made-for-cable sort of series (something like Red Shoes Diary or Tales From the Darkside), or perhaps a segment in one of those movies made up of 3 or 4 stories. Or I could be entirely wrong.
I think I saw it on TV in the early 80s; almost positive, on a premium movie channel. No sooner, possibly later. Pretty sure it predates Red Shoes Diary, for example.
Previous guesses have been an episode of The Hitchiker or Tales From the Crypt, but I've posted queries on both those boards and have skimmed the plot synopses, and haven't come up with a specific episode. Of the two, it 'feels' much more like The Hitchhiker, because I don't recall any aspect of the supernatural in it, although, my memory isn't great and I didn't see all of it. Same comment with respect to Ray Bradbury Theatre and Tales of the Unexpected; and have posted on all those boards, without response.
The movies "Blood Simple" and “Kill Me Again have been ruled out.
Not likely a helpful detail, but I THINK, emphasize, THINK, that I saw this in the early days of 'premium cable' in Canada, quite possible Saskatchewan, in 1981 to 1984.
Is this "Twsits of Terror"?
Apparently, dogs are wolves with Williams-Beuren Syndrome.