Brian Jordan is a simple Wal-Mart employee in Moorhead, MN. He lives at 123 Sesame Street in a duplex that he shares with Marita and Flavio Hippopot. Marita is a young woman in her last year of college at Concordia. Flavio is a middle-aged pilot and is away from home a lot, so Marita gets lonely and visits Brian. Brian soon falls in love with Marita and wants her.
"My husband's flight will be here soon. I should go home and start supper," Marita says to Brian.
"Oh, well, I'll come help. I love to cook," he replied.
Marita and Brian are in Marita's kitchen. Brian is preparing a steak for Flavio and Marita is preparing a pasta salad for herself because she is a vegetarian. While Marita's back is turned, Brian slips some deadly rat poison into Flavio's steak.
"Honey, I'm home!" Flavio calls as he comes through the front door. Just at that moment, Brian dashes out the back door because he doesn't want Flavio to see him.
As Flavio eats his meal, he realizes that he is dying a painful, agonizing death. Flavio falls from his chair as Marita screams and calls an ambulance, but it is too late. Flavio is dead.
A couple of days later a coroner performs an autopsy and finds out that Flavio was poisoned. Marita is questioned by the authorities and she remembers that Brian prepared the fatal steak. She gets very mad at Brian and tells the police all about it.
At the trial, Marita is the star witness and Robert Shapiro can't save Brian, who is very sad because Marita turned him in. Brian is given the death penalty, which is the gas chamber in Minnesota.
Brian sits in jail for a month while his lawyer goes through the appeals process. During this time, Marita becomes depressed and starts thinking about commiting suicide.
The day before Brian gets killed he gets to choose what he wants for his last meal. He chooses McDonald's because his favorite saying is "what you want is what you get."
When Brian is being escorted to the chamber the next day, Marita decides that she doesn't want to live any longer. At the exact moment that Brian dies, Marita overdoses on aspirin and dies.
Marita and Brian are reunited in the afterlife and Brian finally gets what he wants. Flavio also has a happy ending. He finds a pretty flight attendent from the Pan Am Flight 103 crash. Everyone lives happily ever after, in the afterlife that is.