Andy (David Paymer) and Emma (Traci Lords) are having the same dinner and the same conversation about work and finally, Emma has enough and tells her husband she wants passion, so she’s running away. He chokes her and as she tries to fight back, he stabs her, leaving her for dead.

“I tell you, ladies and germs, that ghoul-friend of mine makes me so crazy. She told me she thought she’d look good in something long and flowing, so I threw her in the Mississippi! Hmm. And how about that Ernest Hemingway, always shooting his mouth Oh. Hello? Anybody? I know you’re out there, folks. I can hear you bleeding! Is this on? Hmm. I know what this crowd wants. A little slay on words! Maybe a couple of nasty fright gags? Something along the lines of tonight’s nasty nugget? It’s a little tale about marriage, or if you prefer, about wife and death. I call it: “Two for the Show.””

He’s soon being questioned by Officer Fine (Vincent Spano) about what has happened to Emma. Afterward, as he loads a box with her body in it on a train for Chicago, Andy has to get on board, as Office Fine asks what’s in the trunk. He says that he’s going to meet his wife, which means he must take the train and sit next to the cop, who keeps asking him about killing his wife. After all, Fine has a wife he’d like to murder.

What would the odds be if their wives were having an affair with one another?

Directed by Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) and written by Gilbert Adler and AL Katz, this has some good twists and turns. And you knew I’d like it just because Traci Lords is in the cast.

“Two for the Show” is based on a story in Crime SuspenStories #17 that was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Jack Kamen. Actually, that story works alongside another story in the same issue, “One for the Money,” as the corpse in that story pays off this one.