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* DownerEnding: Leona is murdered, and Henry is arrested for theft.

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* DeadHandShot: The final shot of the film starts with Leona's hand going limp as George murders her offscreen.
* DownerEnding: Leona is murdered, and Henry is arrested for theft. Downplayed in that neither Leona or Henry [[AssholeVictim are exactly angels themselves]] (with Henry even being the one who planned Leona's murder in the first place).

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* {{Flashback}}: As Leona learns about what Henry’s been up to, there are various flashbacks of other characters and their interactions with him.

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* {{Flashback}}: As Leona learns about what Henry’s Henry's been up to, there are various flashbacks of other characters and their interactions with him.



* ObfuscatingDisability: The only reason Henry has stayed so long with Leona (even though he’s clearly unhappy) is her heart condition. Once he finds out that her condition has only been in her head, it’s the catalyst to him planning her murder.

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* ObfuscatingDisability: The only reason Henry has stayed so long with Leona (even though he’s he's clearly unhappy) is her heart condition. Once he finds out that her condition has only been in her head, it’s it's the catalyst to him planning her murder.



* ThePerfectCrime: Henry concocts a plan to steal from Leona’s father, but it fails miserably. It seems, however, that his plan [[spoiler:to murder Leona]], came off without a hitch.
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:It was Henry who planned Leona’s murder.]]

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* OhCrap: In the final phone call between Henry and Leona, they both get the expressions of people who know they're irrevocably doomed:
** Henry thinks he's just calling Leona to distract her while [[spoiler:George comes upstairs to kill her]], but when she tells him about her conversation with Evans, particularly the fact that Morano has been arrested (and is implied to be singing like a canary to the DA's office about Henry's role in the ongoing theft), his expression almost immediately shifts from cold and calculating to horrified alarm, as he knows it's only a matter of time before the police catch up with him (indeed, it's already happened; a uniformed policeman and a plainclothes detective speak on the train platform behind him before the latter opens the phone booth door to arrest Henry).
** Now aware that his scheme to [[spoiler:have her murdered]] will achieve nothing besides additional criminal charges, Henry tries to get Leona to go to the window and scream to alert the neighbours, but as her heart condition is psychosomatic, she cannot move from her bed out of fear, which escalates to full-blown panic when she sees [[spoiler:George's shadow coming up the stairs; she knows she has seconds to live and cannot do anything about it]].
* ThePerfectCrime: Henry concocts a plan to steal from Leona’s Leona's father, but it fails miserably. It seems, however, that his plan [[spoiler:to murder Leona]], Leona]] came off without a hitch.
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:It was Henry who planned Leona’s murder.Leona's murder so that he could use her life insurance money to pay off Morano.]]



* RearWindowWitness: A crossed line causes an invalid to [[ExactEavesDropping overhear]] two people planning to kill her.

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* RearWindowWitness: A crossed line causes an invalid to [[ExactEavesDropping [[ExactEavesdropping overhear]] two people planning to kill her.



* WhamLine: Also, a TitleDrop [[spoiler: the murderer answers Henry’s call and says the title]].

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* WhamLine: Also, a TitleDrop [[spoiler: the as [[spoiler:Leona's murderer answers Henry’s Henry's call and says the title]].
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* AssholeVictim: Leona is a vain, spoiled woman who gets whatever she wants because of her wealth and manipulates her heart condition to keep Henry in her life.

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