Muldoon believed that undead loved ones should be preserved until a cure could be found, contrary to O""Flynn""s view: "Puttin"" the dead to sleep before they put all of us to sleep.One Week Before the ""Dinner at Eight"" PartyScheming, excitable, social-climbing Park Avenue snob Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) was in the midst of planning and hosting a fancy dinner party, scheduled for the following Friday evening ("Dinner at Eight"), a week away.(See # 8 death above) This confirmed Garris"" contentions about Tommy: "Our boy sure wants us to believe his story." The law sought to "prevent performance in which human life is needlessly imperiled to satisfy either.