A succussful real estate agent Ralph Montgomery (Everett Sloane) hires a cook Mrs. Sutton (Beulah Bondi) only to learn the police are searching for a woman posing as a cook who's responsible for the deaths of three people. He suspects his new help is the culprit after discovering his cocoa has been laced with a fatal dose of arsenic. But, is his cook really the culprit?.
While I guessed the twist to this one as soon as a character walked into frame in the first three minutes of the story, this is still a very entertaining little tale that builds off of the suspense of Sloane's character more and more getting obsessed with the fact he thinks his cook is this killer, after having horrible stomach pains at work and discovering someone is trying to slowly poison him to death. Of course SPIOLERS she isn' t, but, the episode really makes good use of its 25 minutes, building this story up nicely for a good if rather predictable conclusion. Sloane is very good here, and Hitchcock's narratives are great as well.
While I guessed the twist to this one as soon as a character walked into frame in the first three minutes of the story, this is still a very entertaining little tale that builds off of the suspense of Sloane's character more and more getting obsessed with the fact he thinks his cook is this killer, after having horrible stomach pains at work and discovering someone is trying to slowly poison him to death. Of course SPIOLERS she isn' t, but, the episode really makes good use of its 25 minutes, building this story up nicely for a good if rather predictable conclusion. Sloane is very good here, and Hitchcock's narratives are great as well.