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00:00:31 #1 reaches its climax in shocking horror.

00:00:35 #2 Its impact is so terrifying that it may have an unforeseen effect.

00:00:39 #3 It may kill you.

00:00:44 #4 Therefore, its producers feel they must assure free burial services to anyone who

00:00:49 #5 dies of fright, while seeing the screaming skull.

00:03:17 #6 It is not a three-in-a-lambly.

00:03:20 #7 Oh, no.

00:03:38 #8 Is that a bedroom?

00:03:41 #9 Yes, it is.

00:03:42 #10 Is that a VR?

00:03:43 #11 It leads in fixing first.

00:03:46 #12 There's her room.

00:03:49 #13 Come on along and share the rest of the house.

00:03:51 #14 It's rather forbidding now, I suppose, empty like this.

00:04:19 #15 But it was usually this way.

00:04:21 #16 Shortly after Mary and I were married,

00:04:23 #17 she removed all the furniture her parents had left her.

00:04:27 #18 This is our home.

00:04:28 #19 She'd get very far before she died.

00:04:36 #20 But now that you're here, it's going to be lovely again.

00:04:41 #21 I'll get to think of a story tomorrow.

00:04:43 #22 The whole town is aware of it.

00:04:44 #23 And I'll take care of that, too.

00:04:53 #24 You have candle. Maybe twice is for Matt.

00:04:58 #25 With threshold.

00:05:08 #26 Oh, that's where Mickey keeps his gardening things.

00:05:42 #27 Who's Mickey?

00:05:43 #28 The Gardener. He's kept it up.

00:05:46 #29 The two years have been away.

00:05:48 #30 By himself?

00:05:49 #31 That's...

00:05:51 #32 He's worked awfully hard.

00:05:53 #33 Oh, he and Marian would spend hours on end

00:05:55 #34 working here in the garden.

00:05:57 #35 And up in the greenhouse back there.

00:05:59 #36 See, he loved it very much.

00:06:02 #37 Sometimes I used to wonder who she was.

00:06:03 #38 My wife or Mickey's nursemaid.

00:06:07 #39 You know, I don't think he quite believes she's gone.

00:06:10 #40 I think he expects her to show up one of these mornings

00:06:12 #41 and scold her for neglecting the gardens.

00:06:16 #42 You still love her, don't you?

00:06:22 #43 No, I'm not jealous.

00:06:25 #44 I'm grateful to her.

00:06:27 #45 I think you have loved ones, really loved,

00:06:31 #46 to learn how to love always.

00:06:34 #47 Learning it from her, you give again to me.

00:06:39 #48 I wish there was some way to think.

00:06:46 #49 Who's that?

00:06:47 #50 I don't know.

00:06:49 #51 They're driving around the back.

00:06:54 #52 Come on.

00:06:55 #53 Eric!

00:06:59 #54 I see Eric.

00:07:00 #55 Will you stop by to meet your new wife?

00:07:03 #56 Oh, Eric, this is so wonderful to see you.

00:07:06 #57 It's been a long time.

00:07:07 #58 It has.

00:07:08 #59 Reverend, good to see you, Eric.

00:07:10 #60 Jenny, this is Mrs. Snow.

00:07:12 #61 I'm very happy to meet you.

00:07:14 #62 Jenny, this is a lovely surprise.

00:07:17 #63 And the Reverend Mr. Snow.

00:07:19 #64 Hello, my dear.

00:07:20 #65 Oh, she's sweet, Eric.

00:07:21 #66 I know.

00:07:22 #67 I happen to be going into town.

00:07:24 #68 I ran into Mr. Mauer.

00:07:25 #69 He told me you were getting back today.

00:07:27 #70 And we thought we'd just drop by and bring you something for your dinner.

00:07:30 #71 Oh, nice.

00:07:31 #72 My little savior all the bother of shopping while you're trying to get settled.

00:07:34 #73 Then why don't you stay for dinner?

00:07:36 #74 Oh, no, not tonight.

00:07:38 #75 Oh, no, no, we wouldn't think of that.

00:07:39 #76 Oh, now please say yes.

00:07:41 #77 It's a lie for you two.

00:07:42 #78 It would be like old times.

00:07:43 #79 All right, on the condition that I do the cooking.

00:07:46 #80 You don't have to.

00:07:48 #81 You know, I know that, but I'd love to.

00:07:52 #82 Well, there's Mickey.

00:07:53 #83 Excuse me, honey.

00:07:55 #84 Mickey!

00:08:02 #85 Poor Mickey. This place looked like a shrine.

00:08:10 #86 Eric told me how he loved Mary.

00:08:12 #87 Mickey's father was a gardener here when Mary's mother was alive.

00:08:17 #88 Mickey and Mary grew up together here.

00:08:20 #89 Jenny, this is Mickey.

00:08:22 #90 How do you do, Mickey? I hope we'll be good friends.

00:08:27 #91 Well, Mickey...

00:08:30 #92 Thank you, Mickey.

00:08:38 #93 Well, shall we all go inside?

00:08:40 #94 It's a good idea.

00:08:41 #95 Mickey, remember you promised me some of those rose cuttings.

00:08:44 #96 I sing, you gun, Mickey.

00:08:45 #97 I'm going to have to get you down to the barbershop one day very soon.

00:08:48 #98 Excuse us, Mickey.

00:08:49 #99 Evan, honestly, the two of them are just like children.

00:09:41 #100 That doesn't look too bad, Eric.

00:09:43 #101 Jenny, I hope you have more luck in getting your husband to mine than I've had with mine.

00:09:48 #102 You know, you've got to admit it does make the room look better.

00:09:51 #103 Very well, Tyson. For pennants, you can come and help me with dinner.

00:09:55 #104 Now, come on. Edward, you keep Jenny company?

00:09:57 #105 Yes, dear.

00:09:58 #106 No.

00:10:24 #107 Oh, she's so very nice, Eric.

00:10:30 #108 Jenny?

00:10:31 #109 Isn't he wonderful?

00:10:32 #110 He's not at all like Marion and I think that's for the best.

00:10:36 #111 You know, so many men, when they lose a wife,

00:10:38 #112 they try so hard to deny the loss they

00:10:40 #113 marry someone exactly like the first wife.

00:10:42 #114 Hardly seems fair using the living to bring back

00:10:45 #115 the dead, does it?

00:10:46 #116 No, I suppose it doesn't.

00:10:48 #117 We make a prison for ourselves out of the past,

00:10:50 #118 at least our sentimental wish for a past.

00:10:53 #119 This is snow.

00:10:54 #120 Yes, dear.

00:10:56 #121 Is there something I must tell you on the river?

00:10:58 #122 Well, of course, very quiet.

00:11:01 #123 You see, Jenny has not had a very happy past. Oh?

00:11:04 #124 And talking about it, or about something

00:11:05 #125 that might strongly remind her of it,

00:11:08 #126 she's very impressionable.

00:11:10 #127 Is there something wrong, Henry?

00:11:11 #128 No, not really.

00:11:13 #129 You see, she lost her parents many years ago

00:11:17 #130 in a very tragic way.

00:11:20 #131 And talking about unhappy pasts only,

00:11:23 #132 she's very impressionable.

00:11:25 #133 See, I want her to be happy, Mrs. Snow.

00:11:27 #134 Of course you do.

00:11:28 #135 And so do we all.

00:11:30 #136 Now, how did she lose them?

00:11:34 #137 Well, I'm not crying, dear.

00:11:35 #138 It's just that Mr. Snow and I can help better if we

00:11:37 #139 know something about it.

00:11:38 #140 They drowned in an accident.

00:11:42 #141 Jenny saw it all.

00:11:46 #142 Who is Mr. Mauer?

00:11:48 #143 Mr. Mauer?

00:11:49 #144 Or is the lawyer in town?

00:11:51 #145 I thought no one knew we were coming.

00:11:53 #146 You said you heard from Mr. Mauer?

00:11:55 #147 Well, Eric wrote him.

00:11:57 #148 He takes care of the estate or what's left of it. Well, that's right.

00:12:00 #149 Eric has to see him tomorrow.

00:12:02 #150 Well, Eric's co-executor of the estate

00:12:04 #151 along with Mr. Mauer. You see, Marion's death was so sudden that, well, all it was left

00:12:09 #152 to Eric was the house and these grounds. Mr. Mauer told me that Eric had found someone

00:12:14 #153 very sweet and very kind and with whom he was very much in love. He didn't say enough.

00:12:20 #154 How did Marion die? Didn't Eric tell you?

00:12:30 #155 I think the subjects are the painful ones. I'd like to make him talk about it. Would

00:12:39 #156 You mind telling me I'd like to know.

00:12:42 #157 It was a rainy day.

00:12:45 #158 She and Mickey had been working up there in a greenhouse.

00:12:48 #159 She left him to go back to the house for a few minutes.

00:12:54 #160 The way we pieced it together after the accident is that

00:12:58 #161 while she was coming down this path,

00:13:01 #162 apparently it began to rain very hard.

00:13:04 #163 She must have run along here.

00:13:06 #164 Happened then,

00:13:23 #165 hit her head on the edge of the cement wall

00:13:25 #166 where we're sitting.

00:13:27 #167 And she fell in there.

00:13:28 #168 She died in the water.

00:13:30 #169 That's where Eric found her 10 minutes later.

00:13:32 #170 She said, you said, Mickey, wait here.

00:13:49 #171 I'm going down to the house for just a minute.

00:13:55 #172 Wait here, Mickey, you said.

00:13:57 #173 And then you went away in the rain.

00:14:00 #174 And you didn't come back to play.

00:14:03 #175 I was a mother, but...

00:14:09 #176 And don't forget that you and Eric are coming for lunch.

00:14:12 #177 coming for lunch they ask for tomorrow.

00:14:14 #178 We'll do better than that.

00:14:15 #179 We'll come to church on Sunday as well.

00:14:17 #180 Oh, I'm getting, Eric.

00:14:18 #181 The church is like moving a mountain.

00:14:21 #182 You'll come.

00:14:22 #183 Come along, my dear.

00:14:22 #184 It's getting late.

00:14:25 #185 Eric, thank you very much for bringing Jenny into our lives.

00:14:29 #186 Thank you for the dinner.

00:14:30 #187 It was a pleasure.

00:14:32 #188 Good night.

00:14:34 #189 Did you know that Jenny's very wealthy? Oh, yes.

00:14:39 #190 Mr. Ma told me in town today.

00:14:41 #191 Well, she's not at all like Mary.

00:14:42 #192 You know, she's so gentle and timid as if...

00:14:45 #193 as if she were afraid of something.

00:14:50 #194 I knew you'd like my friends, dear.

00:14:52 #195 Just happy.

00:14:58 #196 Oh, yes.

00:15:01 #197 Mom.

00:15:02 #198 It's in the jungle.

00:15:52 #199 It's all about a man who waited all of his life

00:15:55 #200 for something great, wonderful to happen.

00:16:00 #201 He had only one good friend.

00:16:04 #202 It's a woman.

00:16:06 #203 When he confided at her grave, he suddenly realized

00:16:15 #204 that she was the great and wonderful thing

00:16:17 #205 He waited for all of his life.

00:16:31 #206 As I passed, over Velma.

00:19:36 #207 I've asked for it.

00:19:47 #208 I'll give you the talk about it now.

00:19:51 #209 This will leave you beside me in my life again.

00:19:53 #210 I don't want to be sick anymore.

00:20:00 #211 Besides, how could a very poorly done self-portrait upset you so much?

00:20:13 #212 I know it's only my own fear.

00:20:16 #213 It's my own guilt that I can't get away from.

00:20:20 #214 Eric, I'm sorry.

00:20:26 #215 I want you to listen to the sick once.

00:20:37 #216 Yes, but you were cured.

00:20:41 #217 Mickey calls this. You may as well know.

00:20:44 #218 He does look for Mary a night after night down by that pond.

00:20:48 #219 And he probably comes here afterwards.

00:20:50 #220 I'm going to speak to Mickey in the morning.

00:20:56 #221 Simply, it's all explained away.

00:20:59 #222 But if I also heard a scream, Eric,

00:21:01 #223 before I went to the hospital, I was hearing things.

00:21:05 #224 I'm hearing them again.

00:21:06 #225 What did you hear?

00:21:09 #226 It was a high, strange scream.

00:21:11 #227 High, strange scream.

00:21:13 #228 Like a peacock's cry?

00:21:15 #229 What's that sound like?

00:21:16 #230 Feeling better now?

00:21:45 #231 Yes.

00:21:48 #232 But only if Mickey's not any visits anymore.

00:22:22 #233 I forbidden him to come into the house.

00:22:24 #234 I was just nervous last night.

00:22:26 #235 I wish he wouldn't take it out on Mickey.

00:22:28 #236 Now, he's a child.

00:22:29 #237 Must be disciplined.

00:22:31 #238 I'd like him to feel I'm his friend.

00:22:33 #239 Why don't you do some gardening with him while I'm in town?

00:22:36 #240 If he sees you're interested, you would

00:22:38 #241 have moved over quickly enough.

00:22:39 #242 Wait a minute.

00:22:48 #243 He lived stapled mostly.

00:22:50 #244 Are you sure you don't want to come in with me?

00:22:53 #245 You got more done without him?

00:22:55 #246 You got to see about the lights, the phone, the bank,

00:23:01 #247 and the warehouse people about that furnace.

00:23:02 #248 You know that cost just about broken my back.

00:23:05 #249 Don't forget to see Mr. Mauer.

00:23:06 #250 I have to see him this evening.

00:23:07 #251 It's a bore, but I'll have to see him.

00:23:10 #252 Will you be home in time for dinner? I'll wait for you.

00:23:12 #253 Now, if I'm not, don't you worry, darling.

00:23:14 #254 Getting out of Mauer's clutch

00:23:15 #255 is sometimes requires an act of God.

00:23:18 #256 I love you.

00:23:41 #257 Love Mickey.

00:23:50 #258 Look, I'll give him this cut in.

00:23:54 #259 The handsome one, isn't he?

00:23:56 #260 So cruddley and warm. When I was a little girl, I used to want to be a caterpillar. So I was a very little girl.

00:24:06 #261 Here you go.

00:24:11 #262 Marion must have loved her garden.

00:24:13 #263 We'll keep them lovely for her always.

00:24:17 #264 You know what I'd like to do, Nikki?

00:24:20 #265 I'd like to pick some of the nicest flowers and take them to her.

00:24:23 #266 Would you like that?

00:24:26 #267 Yes.

00:24:29 #268 Eric told me she was near here.

00:24:33 #269 Would you show me where?

00:24:36 #270 Is that all right, Mickey?

00:25:14 #271 I'm sure it was a great loss to all of you, Mickey. You cried?

00:25:27 #272 In the night.

00:25:30 #273 Dead people don't cry, Mickey.

00:25:32 #274 I heard her. Heard her?

00:25:37 #275 Down there and see it, but turn out to be none.

00:37:24 #276 I want you to call Dr. Rand tomorrow in New York.

00:37:29 #277 I want you to take me back.

00:37:31 #278 No, Jenny.

00:37:33 #279 Not me, sound selfish.

00:37:53 #280 About what?

00:37:55 #281 I think it's Mickey.

00:37:56 #282 He hated me from a friend and while I married her,

00:38:03 #283 he thought I was taking her away from it.

00:38:06 #284 And now that she's dead, taken away from him forever,

00:38:10 #285 I suppose in a childish mind of his, I'm responsible.

00:38:16 #286 And now because you're my wife and in Marion's house,

00:38:21 #287 he hates you too.

00:38:25 #288 I don't think Mickey's responsible.

00:38:28 #289 He's not quick enough or clever enough.

00:38:30 #290 Myself.

00:38:34 #291 It's all in my own mind.

00:38:35 #292 Else, darling, we need somebody outside of the confusions

00:38:41 #293 of our love for each other.

00:38:43 #294 Different snow will be here in the morning.

00:38:47 #295 You just go down here where Eric is looking.

00:39:09 #296 Find anything, Eric?

00:39:14 #297 Nothing yet.

00:39:15 #298 Just found nothing.

00:39:24 #299 Like what he told.

00:39:30 #300 See, I agree.

00:39:37 #301 Last time, over a year in the sanitary,

00:39:42 #302 this wasn't quite that kind of sanitary.

00:40:01 #303 Loving my father and hating my mother.

00:40:03 #304 Well, she never knew it.

00:40:06 #305 Something I kept to myself.

00:40:09 #306 She was very beautiful.

00:40:12 #307 Very gay. Like her.

00:40:15 #308 Very much.

00:40:17 #309 And I knew she resented that I was...

00:40:19 #310 Not more like her.

00:40:20 #311 I used to lie awake at night and wish she were dead.

00:40:25 #312 Unusual.

00:40:31 #313 I was no longer a child.

00:40:36 #314 Both drowned.

00:40:50 #315 Still here at screen.

00:40:56 #316 I would go all alone on a little boat.

00:41:00 #317 All I could see was the overturned boat on the top of the waves.

00:41:02 #318 I kept trying to reach them.

00:41:07 #319 The waves kept throwing me back.

00:41:09 #320 They were surprised no more.

00:41:17 #321 Hours later, men came and searched for the body.

00:41:27 #322 We never found them.

00:41:32 #323 This bad feeling started to strain me.

00:41:33 #324 If I really wanted to, I could have saved them,

00:41:35 #325 but I'd really killed them.

00:41:39 #326 I'm praying he doesn't make the feeling go away.

00:41:54 #327 That's when they took me to the hospital.

00:41:59 #328 They told me I was cured.

00:42:00 #329 Be there in time for lunch.

00:42:37 #330 What do you think he's gone off to, Eric?

00:42:39 #331 Who knows about Mickey?

00:42:41 #332 He might be hiding.

00:42:43 #333 You looked at Marion's brain.

00:44:27 #334 Jenny and me are of great favor by forgetting

00:44:29 #335 she ever told you that.

00:44:31 #336 But Eric, if it helps explain, it explains nothing.

00:44:34 #337 If I were you, Eric, I'd take her away.

00:44:37 #338 If she's so impressionable and that house

00:44:39 #339 frightens her so much, why subject her to it?

00:44:42 #340 Look, I can't do a thing like that.

00:44:44 #341 Be the worst thing for her.

00:44:46 #342 Mr. Snow, it would be admitting she was sick again.

00:44:49 #343 I want her to be happy.

00:44:52 #344 We'll stay here.

00:44:53 #345 Perhaps you know best, Eric.

00:44:55 #346 Yeah, I've got a simple and the only cure for her fears

00:45:00 #347 to teachers she's loved.

00:45:02 #348 I mean, really loved.

00:45:04 #349 I love her so much.

00:45:06 #350 God bless you for that, Eric.

00:45:08 #351 She's a very fortunate woman having someone like you

00:45:10 #352 to care for her.

00:45:25 #353 It will not happen again.

00:45:29 #354 I'm going to do it. Where did you get it?

00:45:55 #355 I'll take care of this.

00:45:56 #356 Jenny, I know you're going to like me.

00:45:59 #357 I know you don't need to get us to leave here.

00:46:01 #358 Idiotic attempt to scare us is that we were children. It was you.

00:46:05 #359 Wasn't it?

00:46:07 #360 No, not me. Not me.

00:46:10 #361 Get out of here.

00:46:12 #362 Oh, I should apologize to him.

00:46:25 #363 You know, as well as I do, it's not his fault.

00:46:27 #364 Oh, my own mind.

00:46:28 #365 Jenny, I'm going to do something.

00:46:31 #366 You're gonna help me do it

00:46:34 #367 That portrait of stairs remind you of your mother

00:46:43 #368 You were fine until you saw it

00:46:46 #369 Now it as you all preoccupied with memories the past we're gonna burn it

00:46:54 #370 Precious to you the picture means nothing to me. I

00:46:57 #371 Want you to be happy?

00:47:00 #372 We can't be until this fear is out of our lives. All right Jenny come on Jenny the peacock

00:47:58 #373 The fire is almost out.

00:48:21 #374 Yes.

00:48:24 #375 But can't let those ashes stand overnight.

00:48:27 #376 And the brush in these hills are regular tinderbox.

00:48:31 #377 You want to help me?

00:48:33 #378 Are you feeling better?

00:48:46 #379 As if I destroyed it with my own hands.

00:48:48 #380 She'll come back and...

00:48:53 #381 She'll come back.

00:48:55 #382 Darling, if you go on talking that way,

00:48:57 #383 you destroy the whole purpose of the thing that's out of the house

00:49:00 #384 and it's over.

00:49:02 #385 You just give it half a chance.

00:49:03 #386 You'll begin to forget it.

00:49:08 #387 If you just spread those ashes out a little for me, I'll get the water to her.

00:49:14 #388 That's it.

00:49:34 #389 Mrs. Daly?

00:49:35 #390 There's no skull!

00:49:37 #391 No skull there?

00:49:40 #392 There's no skull there, darling.

00:49:42 #393 There is no skull there, Jenny.

00:49:45 #394 Darling, there's no skull there.

00:50:16 #395 But there'd be more time.

00:51:09 #396 Time for so many wonderful things.

00:51:17 #397 Of course.

00:51:22 #398 It's just me!

00:51:23 #399 Good evening, my dear.

00:51:38 #400 Mrs. Snow's hands thought you might like some fresh eggs

00:51:40 #401 for your breakfast in the morning.

00:51:42 #402 It's a surprise.

00:51:45 #403 Those hands labored mightily, as you can see.

00:51:48 #404 Excuse me, dear.

00:52:02 #405 I've got to take Jenny away.

00:52:04 #406 That hospital should happen again.

00:52:08 #407 I thought it would help her if we got rid of that portrait. You know the one.

00:52:12 #408 Yes.

00:52:14 #409 We burned it.

00:52:16 #410 She saw a skull in the ashes.

00:52:19 #411 I saw nothing, of course.

00:52:23 #412 And I thought it was Mickey.

00:52:25 #413 But when I was there myself and I saw her, Mr. Snow, there's something I've never told you.

00:52:32 #414 I've never told anybody.

00:52:35 #415 But when Jenny was put away in that hospital, she tried to do away with herself.

00:52:41 #416 Don't be afraid. You think she might try it again?

00:52:46 #417 I know she will. Unless I get her back to that hospital.

00:52:49 #418 When are you going?

00:52:51 #419 Tonight. Mrs. Snow and I have grown very fond of Jenny.

00:52:57 #420 She and you.

00:53:01 #421 I suppose you'll be coming back here again, Eric.

00:53:03 #422 No.

00:53:04 #423 Never.

00:53:05 #424 I just know he tried to talk me out of my soul.

00:53:21 #425 Oh.

00:53:23 #426 He said he thought the skull was real.

00:53:26 #427 He's going to bring some men in the morning to search this day.

00:53:29 #428 Just talking, trying to hide upstairs in the pack.

00:53:46 #429 What the hell?

00:53:52 #430 And the pawn you must have... Where is it?

00:55:16 #431 I don't know. I don't know.

00:55:17 #432 Don't lie to me.

00:55:19 #433 Who's there? I don't know.

00:55:20 #434 Tell me the truth. He took it.

00:55:22 #435 I just...

00:55:27 #436 I don't know. He took it.

00:55:35 #437 You're a murderer.

00:55:38 #438 In the name of...

00:57:08 #439 I'm who put it there he did he did

00:57:17 #440 But Eric said that he didn't see it when Jenny saw it I know oh, but why did Eric lie like that?

00:57:24 #441 Mickey those other times with the skull did you do it? No?

00:57:28 #442 Mickey you'll never lie to me before lying is a sin you understand that

00:57:32 #443 You must not lie to me now. Did you do it Mickey all those other times? No?

00:57:37 #444 I don't understand that. It wasn't Mickey.

00:57:40 #445 And it wasn't her imagination.

00:57:42 #446 But why would Eric do such a thing?

00:57:45 #447 Don't know.

00:57:48 #448 Well, what do you think we should do about it?

00:57:50 #449 We're going back there, to that house.

00:57:52 #450 Mickey? Eric and I are leaving, Mickey.

00:59:02 #451 I'd like to say goodbye.

00:59:04 #452 I'd like to leave as your friend, Mickey.

00:59:08 #453 Mickey? Mickey?