![]() Divorce Requires Death/ Til Murder Do Us Part: The result of Patrick asking Mary for a divorce.Death by Woman Scorned: Mary's husband Patrick after he tells her he wants a divorce.Mary gets so deep into her happy housewife act when she's establishing her alibi that when she gets back home, she starts crying over Patrick's body. Asshole Victim: Patrick is having an affair while his wife is pregnant, then tells said wife he doesn't want a scandal and that he hopes Mary won't make a fuss, even though he's abandoning her for another woman.This, like with many similar stories in the series, was demanded by the censors who refused to allow them having a person get away with a crime on television. The meat isn't hard enough to even injure him because "he was the forgetful type and had forgotten to plug in the freezer". Adaptational Karma/ Offscreen Karma: Hilariously in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents version, Hitchcock explains in the epilogue that Mary got caught attempting to murder her second husband in the exact same way.It was later adapted as a 1979 episode of Tales of the Unexpected as well. Mary doesn't take it well.ĭahl adapted his own story into a 1958 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, one of the handful to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself Barbara Bel Geddes starred as Mary. Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. "Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written by Roald Dahl and first published in Harper's Magazine in 1953.
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