A real healthy suspension of disbelief is required for this episode to work, and even then it would be a long shot. The very ending when Lucy Pryor (Phyllis Thaxter) utters the statement in my summary line suggests that she had planned the whole thing all along. Meaning she had to be at the dinner party that opened the story, had to allow herself to be hypnotized, and had to have researched the life of Dora Evans in 1853, the woman who killed her own husband. Additionally, I couldn't understand the belief at the district attorney's office that Mrs. Pryor could never be found guilty of murder because she was hypnotized. I don't know what the law says about something like that but I think I'll research it now. On the face of it, it looked like Lucy Prior got away with murder, but really, I think it was the script writers.
Review of Murder Me Twice
