Mr. Princey's batty daughter, Millicent, has just killed the schoolmaster, with whom she was in love, when she found out he had gotten engaged to another woman. A murderess in the family? That won't do. Mr. Princey has a shallow dimwit for a son and a wife who, whatever her other qualities, is no good when it comes to covering up a murder. Mr. Princey takes it upon himself to keep Millicent out of prison or the madhouse. Good luck is on his side when Captain Smollet stops by for a visit. Captain Smollet, it seems, has just as much a motive for murder as Millicent.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fog Closing In (Season 2 | Episode 2 - aired 7 October 1956)
Arthur Summers hands his wife Mary a revolver. She says “No,” and he says not to worry, it won’t go off. “I know how to handle a gun,” he says. He got Mary a gun so that she’ll feel safe while he’s gone away on another business trip.
Mary is afraid to be alone in their enormous house. Arthur says, “We could have had that nice apartment in town,” but Mary says it was too small and it wouldn’t have been enough room to have company or... to have her parents move in. Arthur says he moved them from the East Coast to get her away from her parents.
Then, while Arthur is away, an escaped mental patient breaks into the house. Surprisingly, the patient gets along with Mary. She is not afraid of him. She tells him about a dream she has had where someone follows her up the stairs. When the police arrive, the mental patient escapes. After the the police leave, Mary hears someone coming up the stairs just like in her dream. She find's Arthur's pistol as the door opens. At the door is Arthur. He came home early when he heard about the escape at the asylum. Though she knows it is her husband, Mary shoots him. She then calls her parents and tells them she is coming home.
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