15. Four-Sided Triangle

First aired: 5/29/1990

Mary Jo is a young slave girl on a farm. One day while escaping to the fields she has a vision that a scarecrow comes to save her from the cruel couple. When her master discovers the identity of her new boyfriend, he decides to disguise himself as the man in straw. His jealous wife appears and kills the scarecrow to prove that it's a fake only to discover that she's killed her husband. Mary Jo kills her mistress and steals the keys to the tractor from her mistress's pockets setting herself free.

Writer: James Tugend, Tom Holland
Director: Tom Holland
Guest star: Patricia Arquette (Mary Jo), Susan Blommaert (Louisa Yates), Chelcie Ross (George Yates)