having a skeleton in the closet theme
A character thinks about a dark and old, possibly incriminating, secret they are keeping from everyone else, or at least from the general public.
45 total · 9 choice · 24 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp6x30 | choice | The now successful singer Crystal shot Tony in cold blood to ensure her sordid past didn't come back to bite her. |
| ahp7x08 | choice | Central to the story was Frank's dark secret: that he was a retired hitman. |
| blackmirror4x03 | choice | Rob and Mia had lived with the fact that they covered up a hit-and-run death for 15 years. |
| columbo1971e5x05 | choice | The villain of the story Santini was concealing that he was a former Nazi SS prison guard. |
| columbo1971e6x01 | choice | The villain of the story Ward Fowler was hiding that he was a deserted in the Korean War. |
| ds95x16 | choice | Julian was hiding that his DNA was illegally resequenced to enhance him both cognitively and physically |
| owgm1x01 | choice | The narrator spelled out the point of the story: that we all have things in our past that we'd rather forget, but we can never be sure who is still around and might come back to remind us. The story centers on an innkeeper, named Mullet, who was concealing the fact that he was formerly the notorious pirate Captain Roger. |
| play: The Wild Duck (1884) | choice | the Ekdal home is full of lies that people tell in order to get along. Gregers' father may have impregnated his servant Gina then married her off to Hjalmar to legitimize the child, and Hjalmar's father has been disgraced and imprisoned for a crime the elder Werle committed. |
| tftc1989e4x09 | choice | The fixture of the community Sheriff Joe Garrett had a dark secret: He was once a notorious street racer, and, moreover, never faced justice over having killed a teenager while behind the wheel. |
| ahp3x14 | major | Eddie was haunted by the fact that he'd behaved in a cowardly manner during his time fighting in the Korean War. |