This "Tales from the Crypt" episode from season 6 titled "The Assassin" wasn't one of the best episodes ever made still it had an interesting plot and twist in an unexpected way at the end, also the episode moves due to the performances of the well known guest stars. Shelley Hack(from 1970's TV "Charlie's Angels")stars as a suburban L.A. housewife who seems happy and content as a happy homemaker and housewife who's married to a man who's on a successful job. Then all of a sudden one day her life is flipped upside down when a trio of supposed special agents(Chelsea Field and "The Lost Boys" Corey Feldman guest star as two of the agents) enter her house claiming her husband is a spy! Yet these people have chosen the wrong housewife to pick on as in the end this episode really twist for a strange and funny shock. As you will find this lady is the real one with the secret and the one that brings home the bacon! As the smarts and wit is revealed proving the best way to escape the past is to go secret with not only a new identity but a new gender! An okay and nice twisting episode of the crypt.
Review of The Assassin
If you want to escape your past life just don't change your identity change gender too!
10 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers