I always forget how it was phrased, but quite some time ago someone here said that Frances Galesko struck them as a wife who could've been a lot of "fun" (if you know what I mean) if Paul had gone about things a certain way. This is getting into a sort of "taming of the shrew" area (so it could sound sexist), but maybe if he'd confronted her early on with "some new-found masculinity" - even though she meant that phrase sarcastically - things could have gone differently. Or maybe not.

(Of course, that reference to him wanting to go off with "Isis herself" ALSO makes a lot of sense.)

I mentioned this on another thread recently, and it's getting into a sensitive area, but there's Jesse Jerome in NOW YOU SEE HIM. I don't know the episode well and I don't remember just how he phrases it, but Santini says that he's a "victim" of those camps in his own way, and it isn't automatically a ridiculous thing to say, but of course Jerome dismisses it. Also, Jerome has the nerve to get on a kind of moral high horse with Santini, instead of blackmailing him and leaving it at that! So those two things make him a victim who pretty much goads the killer into doing it (even apart from the blackmail itself).

I have to re-watch that episode. The interaction sounds familiar.

I've watched Now You See Him...many many times...and always delight in Nehemiah Persoff's (Jesse Jerome) performance...the guy has a very long acting resume. The way he delivers his lines making use of the name Stefan Mueller is highly effective.
Being divulged as a Nazi war criminal, I always thought, was the MOST valid of motives in all the episodes.