A Good Marriage

Two can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.

### Actors:

Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Stephen Lang, Cara Buono, Kristen Connolly, Mike O'Malley, Will Rogers

### Characters:

Darcy Anderson, Bob Anderson (Beadie), Holt Ramsey, Betty Pike, Petra Anderson, Bill Gaines, Vince Dorne

## Images

* Anthony LaPaglia & Joan Allen
* Serial Killer Beadie Strikes Again!
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Joan Allen & Anthony LaPaglia
* Will Rogers & Mike O'Malley
* Bob & Darcy Anderson
* Kristen Connolly as Petra Anderson
* Cara Buono as Betty Pike
* Kristen Connolly, Will Rogers & Mike O'Malley
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Mike O'Malley & Joan Allen
* Mike O'Malley, Joan Allen & Kristen Connolly
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Darcy & Bob Anderson
* Cara Buono as Betty Pike
* Kristen Connolly & Anthony LaPaglia
* Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly, Joan Allen & Anthony LaPaglia
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Joan Allen & Anthony LaPaglia
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Joan Allen, Kristen Connolly & Will Rogers
* Joan Allen & Kristen Connolly
* Stephen Lang as Holt Ramsey
* Stephen Lang & Joan Allen
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Darcy & Bob Anderson
* Stephen Lang as Holt Ramsey
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Anderson
* Marjorie Duvall
* Joan Alien as Darcy Anderson
* Marjorie Duvall
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## Synopsis

Darcy Anderson has been married to Bob, an accountant for over 25 years. They have a happy yet humdrum relationship, running a mail-order business selling and appraising rare coins. One rainy night, while Bob is away on business, Darcy goes into the garage to search for batteries for the TV remote. While she's in the garage, a man she's never seen before knocks on the door of the house. She turns off the light, and watches through the rain as he goes back to his car. She finds the whole episode unsettling, but then remembers what she's here for, batteries. As she rummages through Bob's belongings, she stumbles across a pornographic magazine showing sadomasochistic images. She finds it disturbing, but thinks it's just male exploration. That is until Darcy finds a secret compartment behind the garage's wall, and makes a horrific discovery: a small box containing the ID cards of Marjorie Duvall, a victim of a serial killer called "Beadie".

Bob calls home, and can tell Darcy is upset. She doesn't let on about her suspicions, but Bob can tell something is wrong. When their phone call ends, Darcy looks up everything she can find about Beadie. She finds a picture of Marjorie Duvall wearing the same unique earrings Bob gave her for their anniversary. She realizes her suspicions were correct. After many hours of turmoil, Darcy tries to go to bed. But her sense of forbidding wins out, and she can't sleep. She turns on the light, and sees Bob sitting in the darkened bedroom. He tells her he knows that she found his hiding place. He calmly explains his "need", recounting how he and a sadistic friend named Brian Delahanty – nicknamed "BD", from which Beadie's name was derived – "infected" him with "certain ideas," resulting in his homicidal urges. He swears he tried to fight it, and did for years, but lately the "urges" have been winning. But Bob swears his killing days are over, and with Darcy's help, they can protect their children from the scandal that his exposure will bring. Darcy has been having horrible visions of the media attacking her children since she first found Bob's hiding place. One has just gotten a promotion, one is engaged. This revelation would destroy their lives. Darcy agrees with Bob, that they can put this behind them, but she is trying to decide what to do. She knows Bob probably won't stop killing, and she can't have that on her conscience. But how can she stop his homicidal rampage, and protect the children she loves?

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