History Recap / PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E4CrazyDiamond

* WholePlotReference: The overall plot of this episode is a reference to the classic FilmNoir ''Film/DoubleIndemnity'', where a FemmeFatale impulsively convinces a seemingly happily married man with a stable job into risking everything on a [[TheCaper wild caper]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Jill puts special emphasis on telling Sally she sells "''double indemnity''" life insurance. Note that compared to the plot of ''Double Indemnity'' there's multiple twists and reversals -- Jill is the one who comes to Ed's house to sell insurance, not vice versa, and the sale of the double indemnity policy is the cover for the caper rather than the caper itself. [[spoiler: Until we find out that convincing Sally to help her murder Ed and collect the insurance money was, in fact, Jill's Plan B all along. (The means of death is even a similar [[PlausibleDeniability plausible accident]], falling off of a moving vehicle.) And then Ed ends the episode [[StealthPun literally]] [[IncrediblyLamePun "all washed up"]].]]

* TitleThemeTune: Played with. The song that opens the episode, "Octopus", is ''not'' the Music/PinkFloyd song "[[Music/WishYouWereHere Shine On You Crazy Diamond]]", but ''is'' a song by the person "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was written as a tribute to, Music/SydBarrett. May intentionally parallel how Ed, like Syd, has a beautiful TragicDream that he never fully manages to realize.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The little girl singing songs in the woods by the thugs' hideout. Presumably the daughter of one of the thugs Jill is going to meet up with, but we never get to see her reaction to Jill presumably killing her father when she goes on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In his doomed attempt to keep multiple mutually contradictory promises -- to his wife, to his boss, and to Jill -- Ed ends up [[ShaggyDogStory letting everyone down and losing everything]]. He wakes up in the ruins of his house, now with no job, no wife, no friends or allies, no money and nowhere to go -- only to pick up his beloved vinyl Syd Barrett record and burst out in a grin that -- against all odds -- it has survived, and so has he.]]

* NamesTheSame: Just like the previous episode, [[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E3TheCommuter "The Commuter"]], this episode stars an ordinary married working man named "Ed" whose life is turned upside down by a mysterious FemmeFatale.