WEBVTT 00:00:18.780 --> 00:00:26.079 Come in. Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:30.379 to the sound of suspense. To the fear you can 00:00:30.379 --> 00:00:35.359 hear. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination. 00:00:36.939 --> 00:00:41.159 Our story is about a very old man. Living just 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:45.700 outside a tiny village. A very old man. whose 00:00:45.700 --> 00:00:49.539 long life has been lived close to the soil and 00:00:49.539 --> 00:00:53.100 close to the people he loved. People still living 00:00:53.100 --> 00:01:04.719 and people long dead. Lie still. Lie still, girl. 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:08.219 Is it very bad? I don't know. She's very dear 00:01:08.219 --> 00:01:10.599 to me. If I should lose her... She's trying to 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.840 raise her head. She knows I want to help her. 00:01:13.950 --> 00:01:17.730 Do you think you can? Young man, I never said 00:01:17.730 --> 00:01:21.549 I was a doctor. But I thought... I mean the way 00:01:21.549 --> 00:01:35.030 you... I'm just an old man. A very old man. Our 00:01:35.030 --> 00:01:39.170 mystery drama, A Very Old Man, was written especially 00:01:39.170 --> 00:01:42.099 for the Mystery Theatre by Elspeth Eric. and 00:01:42.099 --> 00:01:45.739 stars Santos Ortega. I'll be back shortly with 00:01:45.739 --> 00:02:02.719 Act 1. Look long and carefully at the face of 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.560 a tiny baby. Look carefully and long into the 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.180 face of someone who is very old. Do you see the 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:17.099 wisdom in both? The very young and the very old 00:02:17.099 --> 00:02:23.840 have wisdom. In between, there is only accumulated 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:30.960 information. Oh, you're home. Good. Well, he's 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.919 done it again. Who's done what? Are you talking 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.740 about my father? You know I am. I warned him. 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.439 I said, Stephen, if it ever gets around, you'll 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.620 ruin my medical practice. People won't believe 00:02:42.620 --> 00:02:45.060 in me. They'll only... Manfred, come sit down. 00:02:46.780 --> 00:02:50.360 Now, what's he done? The same thing. Where is 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.000 he? Isn't he home? Not yet. He went to the cemetery, 00:02:54.020 --> 00:02:56.699 as usual. But you still haven't told me what 00:02:56.699 --> 00:02:59.080 happened. Well, Anna Brandt came to see me about 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.580 a month ago. Severe attacks of pain in the upper 00:03:01.580 --> 00:03:04.259 abdomen. All the symptoms indicated appendicitis. 00:03:04.740 --> 00:03:07.120 I sent her to Carl Weiss for the operation. Of 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.199 course, he examined her, too. And he agreed with 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.639 me. No doubt about it. The inflamed appendix 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.000 had to come out. But he operated the next day. 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.560 And that night, that same night, she had another 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:19.860 attack. Well, so it was. How could she have had 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:21.840 another appendicitis attack when he'd just taken 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:24.919 her appendix out? Well, he was as flabbergasted 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:27.659 as I was. Yes, but what's it all got to do with 00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:30.240 my father? Stefan happened to be in my office 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.460 the day Anna Brant first came to see me. You 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:34.400 know how he loves to hang around the office. 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.979 Anna Brant wasn't ten feet out of the office 00:03:36.979 --> 00:03:39.159 when he told me there's nothing wrong with her 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:41.939 appendix. Oh, not again. I can't have my father 00:03:41.939 --> 00:03:44.060 -in -law, who's been a farmer all his life, telling 00:03:44.060 --> 00:03:46.460 me, a doctor with a reputation, that I don't 00:03:46.460 --> 00:03:48.439 know what's wrong with my own patients. Of course 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.759 you can't. For a minute I... I did think back 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.699 to that boy. The one with the asthma. What seemed 00:03:54.699 --> 00:03:58.400 to be asthma, anyway. The Rothberg boy. Father 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.960 was right about him. I know, I know. He made 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.960 a lucky guess. Father went to see him every day. 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.419 Talked to him, rubbed his chest, his throat. 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.479 In two weeks, the boy was all right. The boy 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.139 was hysterical, over -aspirated, nothing more. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.800 But, this business with Anna Brant, the day she 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.180 came to see me, Stefan was asleep in the waiting 00:04:20.180 --> 00:04:22.639 room. I was explaining to Anna that I couldn't 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.959 perform the operation, simple as it is, because 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.560 of my hands, my arthritis. But I would send her 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.100 to Carl Weiss. Well, she accepted that. Everybody 00:04:30.100 --> 00:04:32.339 knows about my arthritis. And she said something 00:04:32.339 --> 00:04:34.670 pleasant to Stefan. That was the first I knew 00:04:34.670 --> 00:04:37.149 that he wasn't asleep. Well, he didn't answer. 00:04:37.230 --> 00:04:39.170 He just stared at her as though he'd never seen 00:04:39.170 --> 00:04:43.029 her before. I reached for the phone to call Carwise. 00:04:44.509 --> 00:04:47.170 Stefan got up, came over to the desk and took 00:04:47.170 --> 00:04:49.550 the receiver out of my hand. Manfred. The Stefan 00:04:49.550 --> 00:04:55.230 don't. It's not so. Not so. Have you had a bad 00:04:55.230 --> 00:04:57.449 dream, old man? It's not so what you said to 00:04:57.449 --> 00:05:00.100 Anna Brandt. There's nothing wrong with Anna 00:05:00.100 --> 00:05:02.579 Brandt's appendix Stefan. Don't start diagnosing 00:05:02.579 --> 00:05:04.579 again. You're not a doctor. There's nothing wrong 00:05:04.579 --> 00:05:06.699 We had enough trouble after you diagnosed the 00:05:06.699 --> 00:05:09.939 Rothberg boy the Rothberg boy never had asthma 00:05:09.939 --> 00:05:12.100 All right, it turned out that he didn't but that 00:05:12.100 --> 00:05:15.019 was a lucky guess And it didn't do my reputation 00:05:15.019 --> 00:05:16.920 any good when word went around that you'd been 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.259 right. I never told anybody That's what the boy 00:05:20.259 --> 00:05:23.160 did and his mother did and people started coming 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.319 to the house coming here all of them wanting 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:29.300 to see you But I told them to go away It's not 00:05:29.300 --> 00:05:32.300 always that I can help. I keep hoping, expecting 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:35.379 God knows what miracles. Now are you gonna start 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:38.040 the whole thing up again with Anna Brandt? There 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.060 are three of them. Come on now, get your coat, 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:46.240 Stefan. They're dark, brown or black, and hard, 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.660 hard. It's getting late. They're the size of 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:52.759 olive pits. Are you talking about Anna Brandt? 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:57.779 I saw them close together. They were high in 00:05:57.779 --> 00:06:03.339 the body about here Three of them you saw them 00:06:03.339 --> 00:06:09.779 three of them the size of olive pits lying here 00:06:09.779 --> 00:06:14.759 Above the stomach About here. Have you got x 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:18.959 -ray eyes Stefan? Is that it? No No, my eyes 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.339 are like everybody's well What do you mean you 00:06:22.339 --> 00:06:27.100 you you saw them her body was transparent? I 00:06:27.100 --> 00:06:30.319 could see right through it, as though the skin 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:40.600 had been removed. I could see everything. Carl 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.519 Weiss was as confident as I was before the operation, 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:47.259 and he was as confused as I was after. I swear 00:06:47.259 --> 00:06:49.620 I don't know what made me say it, but I said 00:06:49.620 --> 00:06:53.639 it. I said, Carl Weiss, could it be a stone, 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.259 a gallstone perhaps? Well, he was taken aback 00:06:57.259 --> 00:06:58.939 a little, but he couldn't deny a possibility. 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.439 Maybe a remote one, but a possibility. I felt 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.259 like a fool, but I told him I thought he should 00:07:04.259 --> 00:07:09.060 go ahead. And he did. This morning. And he found? 00:07:10.660 --> 00:07:15.480 Gallstones. Three of them. The size of olive 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:30.319 pits. Lie still, Kerr. Is it very bad? I don't 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.939 know. She's very dear to me. She's trying to 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:36.800 raise her head. She's trying to tell you something. 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:40.300 She knows I want to help her. Do you think you 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:44.120 can, Doctor? Young man, I never said I was a 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:48.139 doctor. But the way you... I'm just an old man. 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.639 A very old man. Well, I took it for granted the 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.819 way you spoke. My son -in -law is a doctor. Manfred 00:07:55.819 --> 00:07:58.720 Gottlieb. I live with him and my daughter Bertha. 00:07:58.819 --> 00:08:01.519 Oh, then you know something. You've learned things 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.699 from him. No, I know nothing. Only what I see, 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:09.360 what I feel. When I passed you by the cemetery, 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:14.139 what were you doing? My wife is buried there. 00:08:15.379 --> 00:08:20.480 Did I harm her? No. No, I even think she's a 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.279 little better. Her eyes, they look brighter. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:30.560 Not so full of pain. You did nothing but touch 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.559 her. Stroke her a little and talk to her. Let 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:39.120 me look at your hands. Now, they're... they're 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:44.759 just hands. What should they be? Now, let me... 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:48.059 Well, your hands are warm. On a night like this, 00:08:48.779 --> 00:08:52.440 more than warm. Hot. Very hot as though they 00:08:52.440 --> 00:09:08.830 were... burning. Burning from inside! If it should 00:09:08.830 --> 00:09:11.570 get around about Anna Brant... You don't think 00:09:11.570 --> 00:09:14.110 I'd tell anyone? These things have a way of leaking 00:09:14.110 --> 00:09:17.509 out. Look, you're not going to tell Father, are 00:09:17.509 --> 00:09:20.350 you, that Carl Weiss found the three stones? 00:09:20.570 --> 00:09:22.929 You think I shouldn't? He wouldn't tell anyone. 00:09:23.289 --> 00:09:25.330 He didn't tell anyone about the Rothberg boy. 00:09:25.750 --> 00:09:27.590 It was the boy's mother who shouted it from the 00:09:27.590 --> 00:09:30.529 housetops. And look what happened. People showing 00:09:30.529 --> 00:09:34.049 up here. When he saw them, he hid in his room. 00:09:34.350 --> 00:09:36.929 And when they left, he went to the cemetery, 00:09:37.529 --> 00:09:40.330 sat by my mother's grave. You think that he's 00:09:40.330 --> 00:09:43.990 there now? I suppose. Sometimes he stays for 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:48.750 hours. I wish he'd get home before the rain starts. 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:59.080 Emily, my dear. Come now, Emily, my precious. 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:05.379 I need you. You are my strength. I can do nothing 00:10:05.379 --> 00:10:11.259 without you. Come to me, my darling. Come to 00:10:11.259 --> 00:10:25.350 me, my darling. I don't want him to start thinking 00:10:25.350 --> 00:10:28.669 that any of this is real. He mustn't think that 00:10:28.669 --> 00:10:32.389 he has some magical power. Listen, if you treat 00:10:32.389 --> 00:10:34.750 him as though he were possessed in some way, 00:10:34.769 --> 00:10:38.190 he might begin to believe it, and then his mind... 00:10:38.190 --> 00:10:40.710 Who knows what might happen. Bertha, have you 00:10:40.710 --> 00:10:43.490 thought that, well, perhaps it's already happened? 00:10:43.509 --> 00:10:46.149 No. That he is deranged? I won't believe that. 00:10:46.429 --> 00:10:49.889 He's my father. I love him. He's old and childish, 00:10:50.529 --> 00:10:53.309 and sometimes I'm impatient. I am too, often. 00:10:53.629 --> 00:10:57.990 But only the way I'd be with a child. In many 00:10:57.990 --> 00:11:02.370 ways, he is my child. The only child I have. 00:11:02.570 --> 00:11:05.450 My dear, I thought you'd stop brooding about 00:11:05.450 --> 00:11:08.250 that. Oh, I have, I have. I stopped last year 00:11:08.250 --> 00:11:12.629 when I turned 40. But that's why. Because I have 00:11:12.629 --> 00:11:16.309 no child, he's twice as precious to me. I understand. 00:11:16.429 --> 00:11:19.539 I do understand. You know that I'm fond of him. 00:11:19.620 --> 00:11:23.139 Then let's leave him as he is. Don't let him 00:11:23.139 --> 00:11:25.440 think he's different from other people. Whatever 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:29.399 you say. You know, the widow holder has been 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:32.860 asking for him. The widow holder? Why? They keep 00:11:32.860 --> 00:11:35.559 telling me in the village that she has this great 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.320 swelling on her head. Big as an ape. Yes, I've 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.340 heard about it. She's afraid of doctors. Dorothy, 00:11:41.860 --> 00:11:46.559 you don't suppose... The rain, it started. It's 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:53.159 coming down like crazy. Father, thank goodness. 00:11:55.700 --> 00:11:59.460 I made it. Just in time. You shouldn't take such 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:01.960 chances. Why weren't you home for dinner? Where 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.299 have you been? I kept something hot for you. 00:12:04.620 --> 00:12:08.080 Thank you, thank you. Give me your coat. That's 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:12.740 it. Where were you all this time? I didn't birth 00:12:12.740 --> 00:12:16.700 a telly at the cemetery. You didn't go to see 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:20.200 anybody? No, I didn't go to see anybody. Here's 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:23.000 a plate for you, Father. Nice pot roast and potatoes. 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.419 Thank you, Bertie. I'm sorry I wasn't here for 00:12:26.419 --> 00:12:29.340 dinner. I lost track of the time. I ran into 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:32.779 somebody. We talked a little. Manfred, let's 00:12:32.779 --> 00:12:36.500 go up to bed. Father, you'll be all right? Of 00:12:36.500 --> 00:12:40.320 course I'll be all right. Go to bed. Good night. 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.299 Good night, daughter. Good night, Stan. Oh, uh, 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.480 Manfred. Yeah? How is Anna Brandt? Anna Brandt? 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.519 I thought about her tonight in the cemetery. 00:12:53.379 --> 00:12:56.779 Is she all right? Yes, she's fine. I thought 00:12:56.779 --> 00:13:00.779 she was. I had a feeling... Good night. Enjoy 00:13:00.779 --> 00:13:06.519 your dinner. Good night. He is asking about Anna 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:08.769 Brandt? He hasn't even mentioned her since that 00:13:08.769 --> 00:13:11.409 day in the office. Bertha, could he have heard 00:13:11.409 --> 00:13:14.809 about Carl Weiss finding the gallstones? Oh, 00:13:14.809 --> 00:13:17.629 he'd have said so. He always has precisely what's 00:13:17.629 --> 00:13:22.389 on his mind. There are times when I wish he didn't. 00:13:22.549 --> 00:13:26.549 Listen. Listen, he's talking to himself in the 00:13:26.549 --> 00:13:30.570 kitchen. Sounds as though he's calling someone. 00:13:30.789 --> 00:13:33.830 Manfred, he's an old man. Leave him be. Please 00:13:33.830 --> 00:13:37.850 close the door. Come to bed. It sounds like... 00:13:37.850 --> 00:13:44.909 like Amelie. What? Did you say Amelie? Wasn't 00:13:44.909 --> 00:13:48.769 that your mother's name? No. No, it was my sister's. 00:13:49.210 --> 00:13:51.950 Bertha, I never knew you had a sister. You never 00:13:51.950 --> 00:13:55.330 told me. It was so long ago, before I was born. 00:13:56.350 --> 00:14:01.889 Their first child. She only lived an hour. My 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:04.169 mother told me they'd just agreed on a name. 00:14:05.180 --> 00:14:09.399 Father leaned over the crib to kiss her She was 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:16.379 dead But that was 45 years ago all these years 00:14:16.379 --> 00:14:19.100 he's never mentioned her what was that the door 00:14:19.100 --> 00:14:21.580 opened downstairs He's gone out in this rain. 00:14:21.980 --> 00:14:25.799 There's only one place. He's gone to the cemetery 00:14:34.570 --> 00:14:38.710 When those around us cannot understand, where 00:14:38.710 --> 00:14:43.129 do we turn? When the world is dark, where do 00:14:43.129 --> 00:14:48.750 we go? To the unknown? Or to the once familiar, 00:14:49.350 --> 00:14:54.029 the once well -known, the once well -loved? To 00:14:54.029 --> 00:14:57.889 those who have left the dark earth and moved 00:14:57.889 --> 00:15:02.590 into light? I'll be back shortly with Act Two. 00:15:14.050 --> 00:15:17.269 Now, come back with me to the story of a very 00:15:17.269 --> 00:15:21.070 old man and the people who loved him and could 00:15:21.070 --> 00:15:24.929 not comprehend him. Or could not comprehend him 00:15:24.929 --> 00:15:28.889 because they loved him. Or because they tried 00:15:28.889 --> 00:15:33.690 too hard. Breakfast on the table, Manfred. All 00:15:33.690 --> 00:15:38.629 right, darling. Well, did you talk to him? He's 00:15:38.629 --> 00:15:42.279 still asleep. Oh, let him sleep. After last night. 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:44.100 Yes, we're lucky if he doesn't come down with 00:15:44.100 --> 00:15:47.940 pneumonia. He was drenched, Bertha, soaked clear 00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:51.340 through, lying across your mother's grave with 00:15:51.340 --> 00:15:56.059 a rain beating down on him, crying, Amelie, Amelie, 00:15:56.419 --> 00:16:00.879 as though his heart was broken. Amelie is buried 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.919 next to mother. Bertha, are you going to ask 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:08.179 him about her? Oh, it's been so long, 45 years. 00:16:08.570 --> 00:16:10.850 You know, in all that time I've never heard him 00:16:10.850 --> 00:16:13.950 say her name. Naturally, I never mentioned it. 00:16:14.389 --> 00:16:16.870 She died years before I was born. Your mother 00:16:16.870 --> 00:16:20.870 never talked about her? Oh, just that once when 00:16:20.870 --> 00:16:23.470 she told me she wanted to be buried near her 00:16:23.470 --> 00:16:28.649 and how she died. Menford, she was only one hour 00:16:28.649 --> 00:16:31.330 old. Yes, crib deaths. They happen. We don't 00:16:31.330 --> 00:16:35.129 know why. They thought of naming me Amelie at 00:16:35.129 --> 00:16:38.610 first, my mother said. It's a pretty name. Now 00:16:38.610 --> 00:16:43.009 who's that? So early in the morning? Yes. Is 00:16:43.009 --> 00:16:45.870 this the Gottlieb house? Yes, it is. And you're 00:16:45.870 --> 00:16:48.809 Manfred Gottlieb, Dr. Gottlieb? Yes, I am. But 00:16:48.809 --> 00:16:51.049 I don't see patients at home. My office is... 00:16:51.049 --> 00:16:54.009 Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm not a patient. The patient's 00:16:54.009 --> 00:16:56.090 outside. Well, bring the patient to my office 00:16:56.090 --> 00:16:57.649 in about an hour. No, there's no need. She's 00:16:57.649 --> 00:16:59.929 quite well, completely cured. Well, then what's 00:16:59.929 --> 00:17:01.970 the point of... I hoped I could see the old man. 00:17:02.629 --> 00:17:05.740 You're... father -in -law is he Stefan what's 00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:08.539 this about my father madam good morning beautiful 00:17:08.539 --> 00:17:11.000 morning isn't it after last night all that rain 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.359 you you wanted to see my father if I may what 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:19.799 about he's asleep oh oh I'm sorry well um when 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:22.420 he does wake up would you tell him the patient 00:17:22.420 --> 00:17:26.410 recovered and is better than ever Lively, frisky, 00:17:26.849 --> 00:17:29.329 enjoying life to the full, romping in the fields. 00:17:29.849 --> 00:17:32.470 What patient is this? You said she's outside. 00:17:32.750 --> 00:17:35.029 Yes, right there. Look, look, the picture of 00:17:35.029 --> 00:17:38.750 health. I don't see any... You don't mean... 00:17:38.750 --> 00:17:42.150 not the horse? Yes, my prize mare, my favorite. 00:17:42.910 --> 00:17:44.490 I thought I might have to have her put away, 00:17:44.609 --> 00:17:46.769 but your father, madame. Oh, yes, it's all due 00:17:46.769 --> 00:17:49.869 to him. When was this? When did you meet, Stefan? 00:17:50.009 --> 00:17:52.920 Last night. Just before the rain started, didn't 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.460 he tell you? Oh, well, come inside. Have some 00:17:55.460 --> 00:17:59.579 coffee with us. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Sit 00:17:59.579 --> 00:18:02.799 down. Manfred, get another cup. May I introduce 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:06.319 myself? Otto Krauss. Well, I'm Bertha Gottlieb. 00:18:06.539 --> 00:18:09.279 This is my husband. But then my father must have 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.140 told you he lives with us. Your father is quite 00:18:12.140 --> 00:18:16.740 a man. Your coffee. Oh, thank you. Thank you. 00:18:17.900 --> 00:18:21.079 Yes, you see... Was returning to the village 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.539 and I was passing the cemetery Suddenly the mayor 00:18:24.539 --> 00:18:27.720 sank to her knees her legs seemed to give way 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.579 completely and There she lay on her side in the 00:18:30.579 --> 00:18:33.460 middle of the road. I I was frantic I I thought 00:18:33.460 --> 00:18:36.319 perhaps a stone bruised, but but I looked at 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.960 all four hooves nothing and there I was half 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:43.279 a mile from home my precious horse stretched 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.799 out on the road in a storm coming up and then 00:18:46.910 --> 00:18:50.289 I heard a sound coming from the cemetery, someone 00:18:50.289 --> 00:18:56.250 calling a name. Was it Amelie? Yes, yes, yes, 00:18:56.250 --> 00:18:59.349 something like that. I shouted for help. In a 00:18:59.349 --> 00:19:02.890 minute, an old man appeared. My father? Yes. 00:19:03.269 --> 00:19:05.589 I asked him to help me, but I wasn't sure he 00:19:05.589 --> 00:19:09.109 even heard. He seemed very distraught. He went 00:19:09.109 --> 00:19:12.250 straight to the mayor, knelt down and took her 00:19:12.250 --> 00:19:15.490 foreleg in his hands and started rubbing it very 00:19:15.490 --> 00:19:20.829 gently. He knew which one was hurting her and 00:19:20.829 --> 00:19:24.890 after a while the pain went out of her eyes Couldn't 00:19:24.890 --> 00:19:28.210 understand it. It it was something about the 00:19:28.210 --> 00:19:33.390 way he he touched her I I asked to see his hands 00:19:33.390 --> 00:19:36.829 and he held them out and Even before I touched 00:19:36.829 --> 00:19:40.890 them. I could feel the heat Spreading out from 00:19:40.890 --> 00:19:44.609 them heat what heat? Haven't you ever noticed? 00:19:45.869 --> 00:19:49.049 The extraordinary heat from his hands? I can't 00:19:49.049 --> 00:19:52.170 say that I have. Oh, but it's true. His hands 00:19:52.170 --> 00:19:55.750 give off a warmth. I can't believe you've never 00:19:55.750 --> 00:19:58.009 noticed it. Well, it could have been on such 00:19:58.009 --> 00:20:00.170 a wet, cold night. It only seemed that way to 00:20:00.170 --> 00:20:04.329 you. You imagined it. Oh, I suppose that's possible. 00:20:04.369 --> 00:20:06.690 But I didn't imagine it when the mayor got to 00:20:06.690 --> 00:20:09.509 her feet. Was she was all right? I walked her 00:20:09.509 --> 00:20:13.069 home. I couldn't quite believe it all. I bedded 00:20:13.069 --> 00:20:15.839 her down. And this morning, all I could think 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.559 was I must tell the old man about it. There are 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:20.359 stories going around about him in the village. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.579 Perhaps you've heard some of them? Well, I'm 00:20:23.579 --> 00:20:26.680 only here on a visit to see my aunt. I don't 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.420 live here. Well, he doesn't really do anything. 00:20:29.500 --> 00:20:33.569 He's just around. and people love him they like 00:20:33.569 --> 00:20:35.609 to think because he's such a sweet old man that 00:20:35.609 --> 00:20:38.690 he can do things doctors can't do and because 00:20:38.690 --> 00:20:40.849 he's such a very old man we wouldn't want him 00:20:40.849 --> 00:20:43.609 to start thinking that there was anything miraculous 00:20:43.609 --> 00:20:46.210 about well about anything that happened quite 00:20:46.210 --> 00:20:50.069 naturally well you think it might might affect 00:20:50.069 --> 00:20:53.490 him might might affect his mind in some way he's 00:20:53.490 --> 00:20:58.380 a very old man it it could happen well i Suppose 00:20:58.380 --> 00:21:01.460 it's possible she wasn't really lame. Of course 00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:06.079 it's possible only Ask him will you about his 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.640 hands those amazing hands. Yes. Yes, we'll ask 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.640 him. I mean giving off that heat I I felt it, 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:17.180 you know Well, I'll be getting along my my aunt's 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:19.519 expecting well, we'll tell him you stopped by 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:23.259 yes Yes, I wish you would tell him and please 00:21:23.259 --> 00:21:26.490 tell him. Thanks. We'll tell him Do you think 00:21:26.490 --> 00:21:28.190 we should wake him? Come on, it's time. Yes. 00:21:28.970 --> 00:21:31.509 We have to tell him about the young man. And 00:21:31.509 --> 00:21:33.769 the horse. But we won't make anything out of 00:21:33.769 --> 00:21:35.750 it. Nothing at all. Just say that he dropped 00:21:35.750 --> 00:21:42.890 by. To say thanks, yes. Father? Stefan, are you 00:21:42.890 --> 00:21:46.670 awake? What time is it? Oh, it's almost nine 00:21:46.670 --> 00:21:51.329 o 'clock. Why aren't you at your office? Well, 00:21:51.450 --> 00:21:55.589 it... It seems that a young man stopped by to 00:21:55.589 --> 00:21:58.410 see us Stefan actually father he wanted to see 00:21:58.410 --> 00:22:02.369 you but we told him you were sleeping Why me? 00:22:02.829 --> 00:22:05.410 Well, it seems he met you on the road last night 00:22:05.410 --> 00:22:09.849 at a horse Married once that's right. The horse 00:22:09.849 --> 00:22:12.130 that is sweating. Do you feel well enough to 00:22:12.130 --> 00:22:15.670 get up now father? I think so. You're sure after 00:22:15.670 --> 00:22:19.799 last night. I'm all right Alright, now just let 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:22.680 me help you out of bed, Stefan. I can manage. 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:27.740 Give me your hand. Come on. That's it. Here are 00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:31.819 your slippers. I'll splash some water on my face. 00:22:31.900 --> 00:22:35.980 And then you'll have breakfast. Bertha. Bertha, 00:22:36.140 --> 00:22:40.240 his hands are as cold as mine. Colder. That young 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.859 man did imagine it about his hands. You know 00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:45.900 how it is. If your hands are cold, anyone's feel 00:22:45.900 --> 00:22:47.839 warmer, even if they're only a little warmer 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:49.819 than your own. And he'd been riding back from 00:22:49.819 --> 00:22:52.119 the village on horseback. Yes, so of course his 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:54.920 hands were very cold. Of course, of course. My 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:57.660 head is clearing a little. Oh, good. I'll go 00:22:57.660 --> 00:22:59.579 down and have some coffee ready for you. Thank 00:22:59.579 --> 00:23:02.039 you, my friend. And two eggs, four minutes. Your 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.740 clothes are on the bed, Father. Thank you, Bertha. 00:23:06.500 --> 00:23:09.009 Father... Last night when Manfred and I came 00:23:09.009 --> 00:23:11.690 up to bed and you were eating your supper Anyway, 00:23:11.730 --> 00:23:13.890 that's what we thought you were doing. It's what 00:23:13.890 --> 00:23:19.309 I was doing. Well, we heard you talking Was I 00:23:19.309 --> 00:23:23.390 talking what you kept saying? We heard you say 00:23:23.390 --> 00:23:30.930 Emily I said what over and over Father were you 00:23:30.930 --> 00:23:33.970 talking to Emily? What do you know about Emily? 00:23:34.349 --> 00:23:36.569 Only what mother told me. What did your mother 00:23:36.569 --> 00:23:41.170 tell you? That Emily died. That she only lived 00:23:41.170 --> 00:23:44.789 an hour. She was her first child. Forty -five 00:23:44.789 --> 00:23:49.130 years ago, Father. She died in the crib. I remember 00:23:49.130 --> 00:23:51.450 her so well. Why do you talk to her now, Father? 00:23:51.470 --> 00:23:54.309 Why do you call to her? Because... Because she 00:23:54.309 --> 00:23:56.910 comes back to me when I call her. Father, you 00:23:56.910 --> 00:24:01.049 don't mean that. She comes back to me. To me. 00:24:01.730 --> 00:24:04.259 Not to anyone else. Only to me when I call her. 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:06.680 You don't believe in ghosts. Amelie is not a 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:10.880 ghost. Her spirit comes back to me when I call. 00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:13.119 Father, you can't believe this. I am the only 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.319 person left on earth she remembers. Her mother 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:19.759 is dead, the midwife is dead. When I am dead, 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:21.980 there will be no one for her to come back to. 00:24:22.940 --> 00:24:25.480 No reason to come back. You can't believe what 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:28.160 you're saying. I don't have to believe or not 00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:31.849 believe. I know. I won't let you. You have nothing 00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:36.049 to say about it. Nothing. I will not stay in 00:24:36.049 --> 00:24:37.930 this house and listen to you tell me that my 00:24:37.930 --> 00:24:41.190 Amelie will not come when I call. I'm going to 00:24:41.190 --> 00:24:45.109 her now. Father, wait! Father, come back! Stefan, 00:24:45.150 --> 00:24:48.130 what's the matter? Get out of my way! Stefan! 00:24:48.970 --> 00:24:53.289 Father! Oh, Father! He came tearing down the 00:24:53.289 --> 00:24:55.250 stairs. He brushed right past me. What's the 00:24:55.250 --> 00:24:57.410 matter with him? I talked to him about Amelie. 00:24:57.430 --> 00:24:59.470 I made him angry. Where's he gone? Do you know? 00:25:00.299 --> 00:25:18.859 to her to Emily Emily I need you darling Come 00:25:18.859 --> 00:25:23.900 be with me my darling Your father needs you. 00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:29.609 I need you my sweet, Emily Old man. Oh, my Emily. 00:25:29.890 --> 00:25:34.269 This is Stefan. Emily. Stefan, can I help you? 00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:38.490 No, no. You remember me, don't you, from last 00:25:38.490 --> 00:25:43.109 night? The man, young man with the mare. She 00:25:43.109 --> 00:25:46.349 was lame. You should see her now. They told me 00:25:46.349 --> 00:25:49.430 she's better. Better than better. Come, come 00:25:49.430 --> 00:25:54.549 have a look. Please, please come. Look there. 00:25:55.009 --> 00:26:00.809 Look, look at her. Am I fine? Not a sign of lameness. 00:26:00.930 --> 00:26:02.930 I came to your house a little while ago. You 00:26:02.930 --> 00:26:05.109 were sleeping. They told me you were there to 00:26:05.109 --> 00:26:07.609 say thanks. There was no need for that. Oh, I'd 00:26:07.609 --> 00:26:09.730 like to do more than just leave my thanks. I'd 00:26:09.730 --> 00:26:12.069 like to invite you to my aunt's place. Oh, no, 00:26:12.069 --> 00:26:14.049 no. I couldn't. No, no. I'd like you to meet 00:26:14.049 --> 00:26:17.970 my aunt. Please. Your aunt won't mind? No, not 00:26:17.970 --> 00:26:20.589 a bit. Come on. We'll both ride the mare. Here. 00:26:20.809 --> 00:26:25.269 I'll give you a leg up. You're assured about... 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.619 Oh, she'll be delighted. She doesn't get out 00:26:28.619 --> 00:26:33.900 much these days. Is she very old? Well, she's 00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:36.380 not young. But that's not why she stays home. 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:39.240 She has this disfiguring growth on her head. 00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:42.359 It makes her shy. She should see a doctor. No, 00:26:42.380 --> 00:26:45.079 no, she won't. Absolutely refuses. Won't hear 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.059 of it. Hates them all. Oh, that's very wrong. 00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:50.160 Oh, yes, yes. All the money in the world and 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.880 won't go to a doctor. So she sits in her parlor 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.190 and reads her Bible. Ah, there. There's the house. 00:26:57.450 --> 00:27:00.950 Oh, yes. The big stone house. You know the house? 00:27:01.950 --> 00:27:05.150 I've admired it since I was a boy. My aunt bought 00:27:05.150 --> 00:27:07.950 it when my uncle died. My uncle was Fritz Halder. 00:27:08.089 --> 00:27:11.269 You've heard of him? The manufacturer? I don't 00:27:11.269 --> 00:27:14.009 think so. Ah, around here I understand my aunt 00:27:14.009 --> 00:27:25.420 is known as the Widow Halder. Some folks are 00:27:25.420 --> 00:27:28.640 afraid of one thing some are afraid of another 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:33.380 Everyone who's afraid wants to run and hide it's 00:27:33.380 --> 00:27:37.980 natural most natural thing in the world But what 00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:41.839 may be hiding in the hiding place? That's the 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:46.539 question It could be something else to be afraid 00:27:46.539 --> 00:28:04.680 of I'll be back shortly with act 3 A very old 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:08.079 man is mounting the steps of a big stone house 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:12.200 in the company of a very young man, whose aunt 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:15.680 is known to the village as the Widow Holder. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:21.960 Listen now. My aunt is in. Otto? There you are, 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:23.839 just where I knew you'd be. Come in, come in, 00:28:23.900 --> 00:28:27.240 Stefan. Where have you been all morning, Otto? 00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:31.049 I missed you at breakfast. Oh, you, you... You 00:28:31.049 --> 00:28:33.690 brought someone with you? Yes, this is the very 00:28:33.690 --> 00:28:36.470 wonderful man I met near the cemetery last night. 00:28:36.509 --> 00:28:39.609 When my mare went lame, Stefan, this is my aunt, 00:28:39.890 --> 00:28:44.589 Mrs. Halden. How good of you to come by. I don't. 00:28:44.970 --> 00:28:49.589 I don't have many visitors, not anymore. And 00:28:49.589 --> 00:28:54.670 I seldom go out because of this on my head. I 00:28:54.670 --> 00:28:58.710 don't like to be seen. I hope it doesn't offend 00:28:58.710 --> 00:29:04.799 you. No. No. It doesn't offend me at all. Well, 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.859 it offends me. Perhaps I'm too sensitive, but 00:29:08.859 --> 00:29:13.900 that's the way I am. So I sit here and read my 00:29:13.900 --> 00:29:16.759 Bible. And that Bible's too heavy for you to 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.400 hold in your lap all day. But it's the family 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:23.579 Bible. It's the one I'm used to. I love this 00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:25.359 Bible. All right, all right. Sit down, Stefan. 00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:28.880 I'm all right. I understand. Both of you, sit 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:33.160 down. And Otto, you tell me where you've been 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.339 all morning and why you weren't at breakfast. 00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:37.759 Now, I told you last night how the mayor went 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:40.220 lame and how I met Stefan near the cemetery. 00:29:40.779 --> 00:29:43.119 Well, this morning I let her out of her stall 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.700 and she was dancing on her toes. I couldn't believe 00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:49.740 it. Stefan hadn't done a thing but rub her pasta 00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:55.599 in a bit. Is that really all you did? I did nothing. 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:58.559 Well, he talked to her, rubbed her foreleg and 00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:03.359 talked to her. How remarkable. You're a remarkable 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:10.640 man. No, no. You're staring at me. Why? I apologize. 00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:13.440 It's this awful growth. Otto, fetch me my shawl. 00:30:13.619 --> 00:30:17.240 I'll cover my head. No, no. Please, please. It's 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:20.779 in my bedroom. I am not offended. I give you 00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:22.920 my word. Otto, don't go. No, no. It's all right. 00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:26.650 I'll be right back. Mrs. Alda. I am not offended. 00:30:26.890 --> 00:30:30.329 I am sorry I stared so. I will not stare again. 00:30:31.190 --> 00:30:35.230 Please forgive me. It's quite all right. Please 00:30:35.230 --> 00:30:40.210 be calm. Sit down. I can't. Otto mentioned that 00:30:40.210 --> 00:30:44.109 you live with your daughter. Is that right? My 00:30:44.109 --> 00:30:47.390 daughter, Bertha. And your son -in -law? Manfred. 00:30:47.990 --> 00:30:53.109 They have children. No children. How sad. Here 00:30:53.109 --> 00:30:55.910 comes Otto with my scar. Mrs. Holder, forgive 00:30:55.910 --> 00:31:00.029 me, but I must take the Bible from you and... 00:31:00.029 --> 00:31:02.829 Stefan! Stefan, are you going mad? Forgive me. 00:31:03.369 --> 00:31:05.190 I could not help myself. Aunt, Aunt, are you 00:31:05.190 --> 00:31:09.430 all right? I think so. I saw him take the Bible 00:31:09.430 --> 00:31:14.309 off your lap. Stefan! He hit me with it. He brought 00:31:14.309 --> 00:31:17.230 it down on my head with all his strength. Forgive 00:31:17.230 --> 00:31:20.450 me, I didn't know what I was doing. I wouldn't 00:31:20.450 --> 00:31:23.289 hurt you, Mrs. Holder. I wouldn't hurt anybody. 00:31:24.289 --> 00:31:29.049 When I feel this way, I see things. I feel things. 00:31:29.910 --> 00:31:33.329 The Bible seemed to put itself in my hands. I 00:31:33.329 --> 00:31:36.049 didn't think what I was doing. I could not think. 00:31:36.789 --> 00:31:39.630 The feeling was so great that I must smash this... 00:31:39.630 --> 00:31:42.349 this thing on your head. That's all I wanted 00:31:42.349 --> 00:31:44.789 to do, Mrs. Holder, to get rid of it. And it 00:31:44.789 --> 00:31:46.890 looks to me as though you'd done that, Stefan. 00:31:47.450 --> 00:31:50.980 I... Ant! Go look in the mirror. I know I'm not 00:31:50.980 --> 00:31:54.019 always in control of myself. I do things. I don't 00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:59.740 know why. I see things. I don't know why. But 00:31:59.740 --> 00:32:04.700 I would never hurt anyone. It's unbelievable. 00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:11.140 The growth is gone. Will you forgive me? There's 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:15.099 no blood. No blood at all. All the same, I'm 00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:17.140 going to get you to a doctor. No doctors, no. 00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:19.519 A blow on the head like that... No, no, no, I'm 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:23.900 all right. My head is clearing now. It was just 00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:30.259 a shock. And that awful, ugly thing is gone. 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:34.079 I don't need a doctor. Let me take you to my 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.880 son -in -law. He's a fine doctor, a nice man. 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.759 Maybe you've heard of him? Manfred Gottlieb? 00:32:42.299 --> 00:32:46.339 Gottlieb. Gottlieb? You will like him. Manfred 00:32:46.339 --> 00:32:49.759 Gottlieb is your son -in -law. A wonderful man. 00:32:50.140 --> 00:32:53.740 A good doctor. But you must be Bertha Gottlieb's 00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:58.259 father. You cured the Rothberg boy. And I've 00:32:58.259 --> 00:33:01.839 heard talk about Anna Brandt. Look what you did 00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:06.680 for Otto's mayor. Look what you've done for me. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:11.799 Why? You're the man I've been trying to find. 00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:15.400 I've been asking for you. It was God's hand let 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:18.019 you hear. Let me take you to Manfred's office. 00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:35.180 I don't need him. I only need you. If I've hurt 00:33:35.180 --> 00:33:40.829 your aunt in any way, we'll soon know. Otto, 00:33:40.829 --> 00:33:45.930 I don't want these spells that I have. I don't 00:33:45.930 --> 00:33:49.650 ask for them. Only sometimes a pain gets so great. 00:33:50.309 --> 00:33:54.589 What pain? The pain of living. It seems more 00:33:54.589 --> 00:33:56.450 than I can bear. I go to the grave of my wife 00:33:56.450 --> 00:34:00.269 and my baby daughter, my Amelie. And I call to 00:34:00.269 --> 00:34:04.430 her, my little one, who only had one hour of 00:34:04.430 --> 00:34:07.410 life. And she comes to me and gives me comfort. 00:34:08.099 --> 00:34:12.280 and courage and belief. I believe that even though 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.420 I can do nothing about the great pain of living, 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.300 there are other pains and I can do something 00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:21.900 about them. I know I'm not quite myself when 00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:26.159 I'm like that. I know I'm not really strong or 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.920 courageous, but when the spell is on me, the 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:35.460 people in pain, they become transparent. You, 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:40.829 you mean... You can see through them. I do see 00:34:40.829 --> 00:34:44.610 through them How do you explain your hands? Why? 00:34:45.610 --> 00:34:49.650 Yeah, just hands. Oh, no, no, no the night you 00:34:49.650 --> 00:34:52.730 massage the mayor I took hold of your hands and 00:34:52.730 --> 00:34:55.989 they gave off a glow a sort of Radiating warmth. 00:34:56.010 --> 00:35:00.309 I know I felt it. They they burned like a steady 00:35:00.309 --> 00:35:05.909 flame Perhaps I grow feverish when Emily is with 00:35:05.909 --> 00:35:08.860 me Now, you go home and rest, Mrs. Holder. Come 00:35:08.860 --> 00:35:10.719 back in a few days and I'll change the bandage, 00:35:10.739 --> 00:35:13.519 or you can do it yourself. I'll do it myself. 00:35:13.579 --> 00:35:15.639 She's all right, Doctor? Right as rain. Well, 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:18.280 what was it? I mean, the growth on her head. 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:21.980 It was a win, a common, ordinary win, a hardened 00:35:21.980 --> 00:35:24.320 cyst. If you'd come to see me, Mrs. Holder, I 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:25.940 might have recommended that you have it removed 00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:28.860 by surgery. Oh, no. On the other hand, I might 00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:31.260 have done precisely what my father -in -law did, 00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:34.159 broken it with some heavy object. Probably not 00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:38.880 the Bible. Come, Aunt. I'll take you home. Thank 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:41.900 you, Dr. Gottlieb. You may get more of these 00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:44.159 growths, these winds on your head, Mrs. Holder, 00:35:44.179 --> 00:35:46.679 or someplace else on your body. Now, if you do, 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:51.559 call me and I'll... Oh, no. No, thank you. I 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:56.019 know whom to call. And you'll come, won't you, 00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:59.960 Stefan? Of course you will. No offense, doctor, 00:35:59.980 --> 00:36:05.820 but I put my faith in Stefan. Goodbye. Goodbye. 00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:11.820 Thank you. Goodbye, Stefan. No offense, doctor, 00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:15.059 but I put my faith in Stefan. Why did I bother 00:36:15.059 --> 00:36:17.639 to become a doctor at all? Why all those years 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:19.920 at school? Why did I take examinations, get my 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.119 license? What good is it if everyone would rather 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.539 put their faith in a farmer? Manfred, I'll never 00:36:25.539 --> 00:36:29.699 do it again. Come in. The door's open. Oh, you 00:36:29.699 --> 00:36:32.760 again? A doctor. Those pains are back. Well, 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:34.559 of course those pains are back because you've 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:36.159 been drunk day and night. What do you expect? 00:36:36.780 --> 00:36:39.880 Can't you do something, doctor? No, I can't. 00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.639 Only you can. Stop drinking. You've been drinking 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:44.739 steadily for 30 years and you have cirrhosis 00:36:44.739 --> 00:36:48.420 of the liver. But the pains are awful. Stop drinking 00:36:48.420 --> 00:36:50.440 for a month and then come back and see me and 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.960 don't come back before. Silly old fool. Hasn't 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:57.000 been sober for 10 minutes since he was 16. I 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.619 can't help him if he won't... Manfred. Manfred, 00:36:59.739 --> 00:37:02.739 he has a... An obstruction of some kind. He has 00:37:02.739 --> 00:37:05.739 a diseased liver. But he has an obstruction in 00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:07.179 the intestines. Now look, you're not starting 00:37:07.179 --> 00:37:10.380 all over again, are you? I saw. I could see. 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.199 It's getting to be more than I can take, Stefan. 00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:15.619 You're interfering. I saw. He was standing in 00:37:15.619 --> 00:37:19.840 the doorway and I saw. His body was transparent. 00:37:19.860 --> 00:37:23.119 I could see everything. In his intestines there 00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.199 is an obstruction. And that's what gives him 00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.480 pain. Stop it, Stefan. I'm warning you. It's 00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:30.940 all so... Clear, I know. I'm just going to stop 00:37:30.940 --> 00:37:39.360 it if I have to. My friend, take the hurts on 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.599 my throat. No, no, no. Oh, Stefan. Stefan, I'm 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:49.599 sorry. I didn't mean to do... Stefan. I'm all 00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:54.739 right. I'm all right. I'm all right. Let me loosen 00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:58.340 your shirt. Oh, Stefan, I don't know what possessed 00:37:58.340 --> 00:38:06.199 me. I lost control. It's all right. Stefan, look. 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.500 Look at my hands. Look how they move. My fingers. 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:17.360 No pain from the arthritis. What does it mean? 00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:20.300 It means... Well, it must mean the arthritis 00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:24.349 is better. It's gone perhaps. Oh man Fred. The 00:38:24.349 --> 00:38:29.670 way I unbuttoned your shirt So fast no trouble. 00:38:30.130 --> 00:38:34.369 No pain. Is it possible? It's true. Look Look 00:38:34.369 --> 00:38:37.670 how I can move them Stefan the way you used to 00:38:37.670 --> 00:38:45.690 Stefan Stefan I I Felt the warmth Otto was talking 00:38:45.690 --> 00:38:50.380 about the heat from your hands When you were 00:38:50.380 --> 00:38:54.179 trying to tear my hands from your throat, I felt 00:38:54.179 --> 00:39:01.860 it. A warm glow. You really felt it? Yes. A glow. 00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:10.119 A radiance. Stefan, give me your hands. Yes. 00:39:11.260 --> 00:39:25.619 There it is. It's a fire. A fire! Bertha! Bertha! 00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:28.280 Manfred, please. I think you're wrong. How can 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:30.039 I be wrong? Look at these fingers. Look how they 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.960 move. Watch me unbutton my coat. Oh, Stefan, 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.280 I had to lose my temper. Tried to choke you in 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.300 order to touch you. I might have killed you. 00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:39.400 No, you wouldn't have. Where is Bertha? Bertha! 00:39:39.739 --> 00:39:42.340 Manfred, you're excited now. Excited? I'm delirious. 00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:44.579 I can go back to surgery. We'll be rich again. 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.179 Our lives will change. Yours too. I don't want 00:39:47.179 --> 00:39:49.880 my life changed, Manfred. It means my daughter 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:53.940 thinks me mad. deranged. Oh, she won't. It's 00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:56.239 only when my Amelie is with me, my little one, 00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:59.639 that I see him. It's Amelie who gives me the 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:01.519 power. Bertha! Bertha, where are you? Are you 00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:04.260 upstairs? I have nothing without Amelie. It's 00:40:04.260 --> 00:40:07.500 her innocent soul that enters into me. What are 00:40:07.500 --> 00:40:09.900 you doing home at this hour? Bertha, where were 00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:13.719 you? Oh, I was taking a nap. Bertha! Bertha, 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:18.579 look! My hands! Look! Look how my fingers move! 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:23.360 What happened your father your father happened 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:26.619 his wonderful hands Bertha you remember the young 00:40:26.619 --> 00:40:29.239 man with the mayor how Stefan put his hands on 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:31.139 the mayor's foreleg and the mayor got up and 00:40:31.139 --> 00:40:33.699 walked We don't know that it's true. It's true. 00:40:33.699 --> 00:40:35.820 You haven't seen the mayor. It happened to me 00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:38.820 to me. Believe me I can't I didn't believe it 00:40:38.820 --> 00:40:41.460 either but but then mrs. Holder came to the office 00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:43.900 mrs. Holder Yes, she's the aunt of the young 00:40:43.900 --> 00:40:47.139 man with the mayor Stefan went to see mrs. Holder. 00:40:47.139 --> 00:40:50.480 He didn't her nephew took him Bertha, and Stefan 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.239 broke the wen on her head with a big Bible. Oh, 00:40:53.539 --> 00:40:56.440 no! He did right, Bertha, right! It was only 00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:58.340 a wen, and he was right! He didn't know what 00:40:58.340 --> 00:41:00.619 he was doing, and he was right! Manfred, Manfred, 00:41:00.739 --> 00:41:03.199 you must stop this, this talk! Bertha, Bertha, 00:41:03.539 --> 00:41:07.340 after Mrs. Halder left, an old patient of mine 00:41:07.340 --> 00:41:10.420 came in. The man has been a drunk for years. 00:41:10.539 --> 00:41:13.099 I was sure his liver was enlarged, diseased. 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.239 I sent him away, and then your father said... 00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:19.940 Manfred, you are wrong. The man has an obstruction. 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:23.380 His intestines are blocked. You believed him? 00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:25.659 No, I didn't believe him. I was out of my mind 00:41:25.659 --> 00:41:27.320 with rage that he would dare to tell me that 00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:29.900 I was wrong, and I... But Bertha, I took him 00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:32.579 by the throat. He tried to tear my hands away, 00:41:32.579 --> 00:41:36.360 and it was then... Bertha, it was... it was then 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:40.519 that I felt the heat, the blessed heat from his 00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:46.440 hands entering into mine. Now look. Look! Bertha, 00:41:47.699 --> 00:41:54.000 if he can use his hands, be happy. Father, how 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.420 long will it last? How can I know? Your moods, 00:41:58.460 --> 00:42:02.460 your spells, they've bewitched us all. I never 00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:05.619 meant harm. Well, they've got to stop. I want 00:42:05.619 --> 00:42:09.000 you to stay away from the cemetery. I'll stay 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:12.159 away. I'll watch you every minute. If you like. 00:42:12.179 --> 00:42:13.980 I won't let you out of my sight. I'll treat you 00:42:13.980 --> 00:42:18.059 like a child. As you were. Because you are a 00:42:18.059 --> 00:42:22.980 child. I am a very old man. From now on, you're 00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:28.659 my child. No. From now on, you will have your 00:42:28.659 --> 00:42:36.280 own child. A real child. Not me. What? I can 00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:42.219 see the child is growing inside you. Soon you'll 00:42:42.219 --> 00:42:47.489 know it yourself. Next spring you will bear your 00:42:47.489 --> 00:42:51.630 child and it will be beautiful a little girl 00:42:51.630 --> 00:42:57.369 And you will I Hope you will give her the beautiful 00:42:57.369 --> 00:43:08.210 name of Emily Father then my Emily can rest I 00:43:08.210 --> 00:43:14.489 Won't have to call her anymore She can Rest. 00:43:20.530 --> 00:43:24.130 Did you believe our story? For that matter did 00:43:24.130 --> 00:43:28.369 I. Now, really. What difference does it make 00:43:28.369 --> 00:43:32.510 if you believe it or if I do? For the truth is 00:43:32.510 --> 00:43:35.929 that none of us knows what transpires in the 00:43:35.929 --> 00:43:40.469 mind and heart of a very old man. I'll be back 00:43:40.469 --> 00:43:55.710 shortly. Ever happen to look up the word murder 00:43:55.710 --> 00:44:00.570 in a dictionary? No? Then I'll tell you how the 00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:04.489 dictionary defines it. To kill with premeditated 00:44:04.489 --> 00:44:09.030 malice. The wrongful intentional slaying of one 00:44:09.030 --> 00:44:13.269 human being by another. But don't let a wee bit 00:44:13.269 --> 00:44:16.409 of murder upset you, friends. The people on Mystery 00:44:16.409 --> 00:44:20.590 Theatre don't mind being killed. Not a bit. Because 00:44:20.590 --> 00:44:25.260 every one of them... is a deadhead. Our cast 00:44:25.260 --> 00:44:29.360 included Santos Ortega, Norman Rose, Bryna Rayburn, 00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:32.719 and Billy Redfield. The entire production was 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:35.380 under the direction of Hyman Brown. This is E 00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:37.880 .G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:41.519 theater for another adventure in the macabre. 00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:45.880 Until next time, pleasant dreams.