There are certainly a lot of contrasting opinions for this episode from the reviewers here. Having read them all, I almost don't know what to think. The idea that Brother Thomas Fitzgibbons (Ed Begley) was somewhat smitten with the lovely Lucy Sprague (Maggie Pierce) was apparent, but I don't think it translated into a desire to kill his wife (Jeanette Nolan). It would seem that Lucy was ready for anything that might come her way via Mary Fitzgibbons, including an attack during the middle of the night. But it doesn't make sense to me that she would leave the missionary camp with Thomas, what did that solve if they were simply going to turn around and come right back in a matter of days? It also doesn't seem probable that Thomas could have mangled his wife's corpse to such a degree that Brother John Sprague couldn't figure out who it was in the hand dug grave. And if he did know who it was, why fire at both Thomas and the woman returning in the boat if he knew it to be his wife? Revenge for running off with Thomas? You would think he'd like to at least find out about Lucy's motivation. Just too many imponderables in the story for it to make any kind of sense, which wasn't helped by Hitchcock hot-dogging it in his closing monolog.
Review of Triumph
