My Love Comes Home

In “My Love Comes Home,” bush pilot Sam Hardesty returns from months in the Canadian wilderness dreaming of surprising his wife, only to find her studying art on Cape Cod under the attentive eye of Jeff Christie. Suspicion gnaws at Sam until a night of cocktails ends with him drugged, tossed from a bridge, and left for dead. He survives, hides in a vacant cabin, and decides to punish Helen and Jeff by framing them for his murder. Through anonymous tips, planted evidence, and a forged letter, Sam turns the entire town – and the police – against them. But when a truck driver reveals Sam had been drunk and wandering near the bridge on an earlier night, Sam realizes too late that Helen and Jeff never tried to kill him at all. He steals a plane to race back and clear them, only for the engine to fail over open water. The wreck is finally found six weeks later, and Helen and Jeff plead guilty in despair, unaware Sam’s misguided vengeance ended in his own death.