Lamb to the slaughter

a TV episode by Alfred HITCOCK, based on a short story by Roald DAHL.

Put back the following events in chronological order.

1 ___ 2 ___ 3 ___ 4___ 5 ___ 6 ___ 7 ___ 8___ 9___ 10___

a) She places the leg of lamb in a pan in the oven and goes down to the corner grocery to get
some food for "Patrick's dinner", making sure the grocer sees her in a normal and cheerful
state of mind.

b) Within minutes a team of officers are searching the house and conducting an investigation.
Mary's story of coming home from the grocer and finding him is corroborated as she had
planned.

c) They are happy to accept the invitation. While they eat in the kitchen and discuss the case,
Mary Maloney sits in the living room and giggles softly to herself.

d) Mary Maloney is a devoted wife and expectant mother.She waits happily each night for the
arrival of her husband Patrick, home from work at the police station.

e) While the police are searching fruitlessly into the night for the murder weapon, Mary offers
them some lamb that she had prepared for dinner.

f) And yet, she goes into the kitchen to prepare their supper and pulls a large frozen leg of
lamb from the deep freezer.

g) As she looks at Patrick lying dead on the floor, she slowly begins to come back to her
senses. Immediately she realizes the ramifications of what she has done. As she doesn’t want
her unborn child to suffer as a result of her crime, she begins planning her alibi.

h) She returns home and screams when she finds Patrick lying on the floor. She calls the
police and informs them that she found her husband lying dead on the floor.

i) She carries it into the living room and without warning hits her husband on the head with it.

j) On this particular night, though, she can tell something is wrong. In disbelief, she listens as
Patrick tells her that he is leaving her for another woman.