The Stranger (1987)

Plotzle Expert · E48 · April 18, 2026 · Thriller

Six plot descriptions for The Stranger (1987). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A diplomat's son kills a pedestrian while driving drunk in Prague and his father arranges for a local vagrant to confess in exchange for money his family desperately needs.
2. A woman witnesses a murder and flees but crashes her car, leaving her with amnesia that erases her identity while preserving her memory of the killing but not its location or participants.
3. An elderly man receives letters addressed to someone else at his remote farmhouse and realizes the previous owner disappeared under circumstances that mirror his own fabricated past.
4. Someone wakes in a motel room with no identification or belongings and the clerk insists they checked in three days earlier asking not to be disturbed under any circumstances.
5. A high school teacher relocates to a coastal town after a scandal but her new neighbor recognizes her from news coverage and begins leaving anonymous notes at her door.
6. A parole officer in Detroit begins an affair with the wife of an inmate he supervises and discovers she has been visiting multiple officers using different names.