Remember that Dustin Hoffman/Sir Laurence Olivier thriller "Marathon Man"? This RMT show opens up like that, with a european-accented gentleman who owns some type of store serving a customer (played by Mandel Kramer) who he recognizes as some hideous person from his past. He says "I swore I'd kill you" but drops from a heart attack before the American-accented customer can say much of anything.

We next meet the wonderful Teri Keane as a housewife and leader of some country club who's being mildly chastised by her husband (played by Russel Horton) because her group has been turning away members with southern European (i.e. Italian) surnames. They do love each other much...they seem like a typical American couple, right down to their phone calls, which they end by:



HORTON: "Love you."

KEANE: "Love YOU."



Keane's character is shaken up by the arrival of a mysterious "investigator" played by Leon Janney. He says that he knows her real past...that she was a little girl in a (later identified as Belgian) village called "Hammunbier" (sic) which was ordered leveled by a cruel SS officer during WWII as retribution for their not following their occupiers orders. The little girl was the only survivor of the village massacre. He says he knows she's tried to bury her past. However, the SS officer is now "Americanized" and living in St. Louis. What's worse...he's getting ready to hook up with Keane's husband in a business deal. The investigator says only Keane's testimony can bring the former officer to justice.

There are so many comparisons I could make with "Memory Killers" it's not even funny. IMO these are the top ones:

1. They're not "Jew against Nazi" stories, but "former captive against former captor". Neither Keane's nor Ralph ("Memory Killers") Bell's characters were apparently Jewish.

2. They involve 4 people who for various reasons have tried to put the past behind rather than carrying their rage forward.

3. They involve two protagonists who are haunted by voices from their past, urging either revenge or justice.

4. The protagonist/antagonists are from the RMT's "A" list: Teri Keane vs. Mandel Kramer, and Ralph Bell vs. Robert Dryden in the previous one.

What a duet of shows these are, IMHO. 