To Perfect Murder {Adaptation}

Lovely American woman caught in crossfire of mad sibling calculations for fortune/scandal finds this story-adaptation of Earthling things quieting.

Inserting my adaptation-attempt of A Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas), for your Feb.-'26 pre-weekend. Thanks for reading (stay safe/warm), 

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MR. AMLAN SATAN: I made $15M on Wall-St. during the '09-crash (Ford), brother.

MR. AJAY SATAN: As your (wilder) Slovak-Algerian Catholic twin/brother, I worry!

MR. AMLAN SATAN: My twin-brother of artistic sensibility worries for me, eh?

MR. AJAY SATAN: What do you want, brother?

MR. AMLAN SATAN: I'd like you to stage a perfect bloody murder (of my wife).

MR. AJAY SATAN: Emily, brother?
MR. AMLAN SATAN: You're to break into our Haddonfield home on Devil's Night.

MR. AJAY SATAN: Oct.-30, the eve before Halloween's Eve (wow).

MR. AMLAN SATAN: $2M for you to fly you to Brussels/Belgium on KLM, fool.

MR. AJAY SATAN: Sure (sibling non-rivalry, Facebook-like).

The Bros.-Satan had hired a special writer to adapt their bio-tale of Algerian immigration to the American Homeland, rise to fortune, and contrast of careers (investor-ID, painter) for a portrait of Earthling qualia; but Amlan got the notion that his dear mail-order-bride (from Europe), Emily, was having an affair and wanted to have her murder staged/illusioned to avoid any writer's scandal for the Bros.-Satan feature. Of course, he recruited his wild/insane/artsy twin-brother (Ajay Satan) for the payoff-task...but he didn't know Ajay was the culprit, the 'bad-dude' having that extra-marital affair (with his wife).

AJAY: He doesn't know.

EMILY: You want us to fly to Europe and retire with the money and crime-stage?

AJAY: He'll think you're dead...and we'll restart our lives, Emily (damn).

EMILY: Cool (Facebook-like).

AJAY: It's a perfect home, idiot.

DAVID: You hired me, since I'm a plumber, man (ok!).

AJAY: Just do the job...kill Emily (for me/us).

DAVID: You were gonna fly to Belgium with her but want the whole money-bag.

AJAY: You get 25%, idiot.

DAVID: Whatever (fine).

Plans went awry. Emily used a kitchen-tool for self-defense and killed David, the plumber whom Ajay Satan hired to kill Emily (for him). Emily confided in brother Amlan about Ajay having an affair with her...and brother Amlan put the pieces together...and concocted his new plan to kill Ajay and choreograph his suicide illusion (to avoid that writer's scandal). Emily and Amlan were to fly to Brussels to retire (quietly) for an investment-life and gardening (wow). On the night-before the departure post-success of Amlan murdering his twin/brother, Emily realized Amlan wanted to kill her (himself) and used the very-same kitchen-tool (for self-defense) and killed Amlan (ok). She confided in the comforting detective (Mr. Yale).

MR. YALE: You have become the Rapunzel (of brothers-library)?

EMILY: Ajay's (fake) suicide-note would've read, "Amlan won't knot Romeo."

MR. YALE: I pity you, miss...for art's sake...and the Super Bowl (don't fear).

EMILY: Facebook-like.

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)