A person that is loathsome ends up dead, but it is not clear who's to blame. If a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, a drunk drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death when his throat cuts on. But because he's such a dreadful human being, police are not sure which of his acquaintances chose to kill him.