Directed by Robert Longo (who directed “Bizarre Love Triangle” for New Order, “Peace Sells” by Megadeth, “The One I Love” for R.E.M. and Johnny Mnemonic) and written by Gilbert Adler (who produced 69 episodes of this show, wrote and directed Bordello of Blood and wrote Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice) and AL Katz (who worked with Adler on many of those projects), “This’ll Kill Ya” concerns George Gatlin (Dylan McDermott), Pack Brightman (Cleavon Little) and Sophie Wagner (Sônia Braga) and their attempts to study H-Cell 24, an experimental hybrid cell that may cure any disease.

“Damn! I love when that happens! You didn’t know your old friend the Crypt Keeper was the boo-it-yourself type, did you? I’m actually pretty handy with my little ghoul box. Here’s a bookshelf I just finished for my die-brary. Over there’s a stand I made for my new big scream TV! (the camera pans to the stand, where the TV shows the Crypt Keeper waving at the viewers; cut back to his original view) And here’s something else I’ve been working on. It’s a nasty nugget about an unpleasant young man in the medicine biz who’s about to get a dose of his own. I call tonight’s tale: “This’ll Kill Ya.””

Sophie used to be with George and when she accidentally injects H-Cell 24 into his body — covering him with tumors — he learns that she’s with Pack and they just may be setting him up. So he does what anyone would. He beats his romantic rival with a baseball bat and then injects his heart with insulin so that it explodes. He takes the man’s body to the police in the hopes of a suicide by cop, only to learn it was all a prank and that his co-workers have figured out the issues he couldn’t with H-Cell 24, showing how ineffective he really was despite being a workaholic.

This episode comes from Crime SuspenStories #23. It was drawn by Reed Crandall and written by Otto Binder.