I was creating the plot to a story in which two soldiers were involved in an operation in which they had to swim across a river. One was carrying a great deal of money and some oxygen tanks. The other fellow was simply an assistant.

After the operation was over, the assistant reported that the other fellow had been killed by enemy troops and that the money had sunk to the bottom of the river and been lost.

As I developed the plot, I decided the assistant would then be accused of having actually killed the man himself, taken the money, buried the money and swam away with the oxygen tanks. He would have planned to return later to dig up the money and keep it for himself.

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