The Jeffersons

Anyone remember (of course you do!) The Jeffersons?  Sherman Helmsley (a.k.a. George Jefferson) and his wife Louise "movin' on up to a deluxe apartment in the sky".

One episode I think about from time to time is the one where George is alone at home, and gets an unexpected visit from a former girlfriend of his during his pre-Louise younger days.  George thinks she is just "in the neighborhood" and wanted to pay him a friendly visit - until she pulls a gun on him in the apartment and says that she is going to kill him for "ruining her life".

George, as we know, is a successful business entrepreneur with his own chain of dry cleaning stores.  He has a storybook life with his loving wife and grown-up son Lionel.  George's visitor, on the other hand, tells him about the hard life she has led since her and George broke up.  She tells him she has four children - "two in jail and two on drugs".  As she continues keeping George at bay, who is desperately/comically trying to convince her not to kill him while she waves the gun at him, she says to him that he deprived her of the life she was meant to have, and that it should have been her deriving all the benefits of George's success.

Towards the end of the episode, George is finally able to disarm her of the weapon.  As he empties the bullets out of the chamber and tells her he is going to send the police after her, he also says:

"You think this was the life meant for you?  You're wrong, you know why?  Because I never would have been able to accomplish all the things I did if it had been you by my side."