![]() He says he will continue to dog Frank for the next seven years if necessary to prevent him from collecting the insurance money. He suspects that Frank has murdered her and actually starts to dig up his back yard in search of a body. Kettle, comes to ask Frank some questions following Mildred’s “disappearance” or presumed death. ![]() When he finally opens the door, he is perspiring and a bit dirty which is at odds with the explanation he gives Lucy for why it took him five minutes to answer the door (that he was napping).Ī man with the life insurance company, Mr. Frank parks his car down the street and in his haste to rush around the back, trips and falls onto the lawn. Frank has to rush home to meet Lucy and he is late arriving and Lucy is already at the door. Their cover story for her disappearance is that Mildred will be taking a bus to visit her sister Lucy when what will really happen at that time is Frank driving her to her new apartment but the plan is nearly foiled when they find out that Lucy is coming to their house to pick Mildred up instead. The whole thing seems an unlikely, preposterous scenario yet within minutes they both fully embrace it. She will move into an apartment under an assumed name, alter her appearance a bit, get a job, they will meet secretly for “dates” from time to time and then presumably after the seven years are up, she will come out of the shadows. Over dinner, Frank and Mildred at first jokingly hit upon the idea of collecting life insurance as a solution to their financial woes and after an all-too-brief conversion, commit themselves to the following plan: Mildred will “go missing” for seven years until she can be declared legally dead and Frank can collect on a $25,000 life insurance policy. It’s been difficult holding down a job long-term and the good news he brings home of a new job offer as a salesman is tempered by the fact that the pay is commission-based and it doesn’t begin for a month. ![]() In his mid-fifties, Frank Partridge hopes for some financial security for himself and his wife, Mildred. A middle-aged couple with money worries decides their best bet is to fake one’s death and play a long con to collect insurance money in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents, episode “Don’t Come Back Alive,” reviewed here. ![]()
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