– she buys the bank behind the colonies to free the Stardoc from the debt she now owes. The 2001 comedy film Tomcats features a variation on a tontine where the last investor to get married gets the full amount of the invested funds. The Diagnosis: Murder episode "Being of Sound Mind" (2001) features a tontine as a motive for murder. In the Archer episode "The Double Deuce" (2011), Archer's valet Woodhouse is revealed as one of three final survivors of a group of World War I Royal Flying Corps squadron mates who each put £50 into an interest-bearing account, now worth nearly a million dollars. The office workers at ISIS HQ, realizing that a new tontine could capitalize on the high mortality rate of field agents, begin persuading people to join. The Brokenwood Mysteries episode "Tontine" (2018) centers on a tontine. See also Life estate References Sources External links "The Great Tontine Gamble", one of a series of articles by Burton J. Hendrick appearing in McClure's Magazine in 1906 The Straight Dope: "What's with tontines, the odd annuities in which you benefit when others die?" Baker et al. (Winter 2009–2010) "Tontines for the Young Invincibles", Regulation "Forbes Pensions Research Council (Jan 18, 2018) "Fintech's Answer To The Global Retirement Crisis" Investment Informal finance 1653 establishments in France 17th-century introductions Economic history of the Netherlands