A "slippery" figure who decides it’s easier to kill Marty, steal his money, and frame Abby than to actually perform the hit. He assumes he is the smartest person in the room.

A bartender who finds Marty’s body and wrongly assumes Abby killed him. To protect her, he buries Marty in a field—only to discover Marty isn't actually dead yet.

The story of (1984) is a masterclass in the "comedy of errors" applied to a brutal crime setting, where simple plans spiral into a chaotic nightmare because no one actually knows what anyone else is doing. The Deadly Misunderstanding