

And of course the catch in the show was that after the button was swapped for cash, the button was going to go to another person, assuredly someone “they didn’t know.” In the original version of the story, it is actually the woman’s husband who dies, and it is is explained that “she never really knew her husband.” You always have to remember, when you make a deal with the Devil, you’re going to get tricked.īut in the show version they made it pretty explicit that it wouldn’t just be “someone they didn’t know”, but “a complete stranger”.
