Complete Monster: "The Miracle of Alice Ames": Brother Charles lures in young homeless girls to preach them the values of God's love, encouraging them to spread it. Actually manipulating the girls into prostituting themselves to abusive men for money, Charles almost evicts the titular Alice Ames from his church for getting mysterious wounds on her hands and feet. Using Alice as his meal ticket to earn more money and prostitutes, Charles grows to value Alice as his own Sex Slave, having his way with her behind the scenes.
Harsher in Hindsight: "And If We Dream" has Stephen Collins as a high school teacher is attracted to one of his students (who also fancies him). Now think about the charges that ended up destroying his career. His character winds up trapped in the girl's dreams forever.
Ho Yay: In the episode "Made for Each Other" — loud and violent gunman Trout and his meek, mild-mannered new friend Wax, who turns out to be a serial poisoner and not at all to be trusted.
Meaningful Name: Cameron is an eccentric, alcoholic B-movie director in the episode "Cabin Fever", with particular emphasis on B-movie for this trope. Drop the often-silent "e" from Cameron's name, and you get an anagram for Corman — as in B-movie king Roger Corman.
Narm: Newbie leading lady Leda Bedell's In-UniverseBad "Bad Acting" in the episode "Last Scene". Imagine a pretty young blonde saying "I trusted you, I loved you" while holding a knife, and using different flavors of wooden for her delivery. Take note she was supposed to be angry. She does, however, get a lot better at scaring people.
Jeff's violent death in "Shattered Vows". His pet parrot escapes its cage, claws on a cursed figurine of a married couple, and that seriously wounds him while he's having sex with his lover Pamela. The bird then knocks down the figurine and breaks it, and so does Jeff, as he tumbles down the stairs and shatters into pieces.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Richard in "Man's Best Friend," a man kicked out of his home by his wife, with major self-esteem issues. He adopts an ugly, yet fierce dog he names Big Boy, and this dog goes on a killing spree, eliminating Richard's enemies as he loses his sanity. The dog is all a figment of his imagination, though, and it's actually Richard doing the killing.
Younger Than They Look: Despite being only 26 at the time the episode "Man at the Window" was aired, Michael Madsen played abusive, hardened cop John Hampton — a testament to his ability in playing such roles, even at a young age, as well as his gritty appearance. The actress who played his wife was about a decade older.
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Complete Monster: Emmett Myers is a Serial Killer on the run. A remorseless murderer who kills numerous people for their vehicles, Myers comes across the heroes on their planned fishing trip and takes them hostage so he can use them to drive him to Mexico. Plotting to murder them at the end of the trip, Myers spends the entire time abusing them psychologically to prove himself their superior.
