Clint Goodman

&nbsp "To easy" Clint reconsiders killing his wife with a gun

Clint Goodman played by Tim Matheson was an average family man until a seres of events turnned him into a vengful killer.

Personality
In the begining Clint was a man with everything; a good job, a beautiful wife and everything a sucseful man could hope for. He wanted for nothing and was content with his life hopeing to start a family with his wife Joanna.

After Joanna's failed attempt at mudering him and the subsequent discovery of her affair and that she aborted his child he suffers a qsycotic break. He becomes a cold and remorsless killer. He also developes a deranged sense of irony and murders his wife by burrying her alive in his own grave with all his money that she wanted. Despite his insanity he is still loyal to his friends and is thankful when Sam Eberly (Who worked out the truth) allowes him to leave town.

Burried Alive
At the start of the film Clint is a sucsefull buisness man who is unaware that his wife only married him for his money and that she and her lover Cortland Van Owen are planning to muder him to take his money. Cort gives Joanna a vile of Puffer fish venom to poison Clint with and make it look like he died of a heart attack.

That night Joanna is preparing the poison only for Clint to come home early and startle her; causing a portion of the vile to be splashed on the floor unoticed. As a result Clint is only left in a near death state that to all intence purposes apeares to be death. He is then burried in a cheep casket by his wife and his wife also orders that the body not be properly prepared.

The night after the funeral while Joanna and Cortland celabrate the sucsess of their scheme they do not realise the toxin has worn off and Clint awakens in his own grave. Panicked and disorientayted he manages to break free of the coffin, dig his way out and stumble home accoponied by his dod who Jonna tried to shoot.

Realising his wife's deed he plans to shoot her the next day in the house confident that as a dead man he wont be suspected. However while hiding in the basement when Cortland arrives he not only learns of their affair but also that his wife never loved him and aborted a child he had unkowingly concieved with her. This revalation along with the tauma of the attempted muder leads to a qsycotic break in Clint and he decided that simply shooting his trecherous wife would be too easy.

While Clint spends the next few days recovering and qsycologicaly tormenting his wife with various malicious pranks around the house, his best friend Sam Eberly searches for his body under the impression it was stolen by vandals. By the time he realises what might have ocurred Clint makes his move.

Luring Cortland to the house he locks the pair of them in the basement where the bicker through the night while Clint prepares his revenge. Useing his carpentry skills he turns the house into a makeshift maze hearding the pair up the stairs and seperating them.

He confronts Cort first who believes he is dealing with Sam; believing Sam found out what they did and this is all an elabroate blackmail scheme. He offers him the money while secretly preparing to strike the hidden Clint with a syringe of Blowfish venom he was going to use on Joannna. Clint mearly steps out if the shadows saying "Keep it". In fear Cort tries to run only to trip and accidently inject himsef with the venom and die.

He then confront his wife who he has trapped in a wodden box revealing himself by uttering the same tauting words she uttered to him has he lay supposedly dieing at her feet. In a lingering moment of humanity he asks his wife what the baby was before deciding it dosent matter anymore and dumps Cort's body and the money in the box with her before setting the house on fire.

The next day Sam gose to the graveyard to visit Clint's grave were an undertaker has reburied the hole in the grave sight. Speaking to the back of the man Sam says he always thought of Clint as his friend but got a chance to tell him. The Gravedigger revealed to be Clint says that Clint probably knows and start to leave only for Sam to stop him. Facing his firend Sam tells him he dosent know who he is and it would be best for both men if Clint leave down. Taking the hint Clint leaves with a nod of thanks to his friend while below ground his wife is screaming her last few minits of life surronded by the wealth craved.