这部电视电影翻拍自比利·怀德（Billy Wilder）执导的经典黑色电影《双重赔偿 》（Double Indemnity / 1944），电视版导演为杰克·斯米特（Jack Smight），由理查德·克里纳（Richard Crenna）、李·科布（Lee J. Cobb）、罗伯特·韦伯（Robert Webber）以及萨曼莎·艾加（Samantha Eggar）领衔主演。

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.

Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.