WEBVTT 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:25.719 Come in. Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:30.140 to the world of terrifying imagination, to the 00:00:30.140 --> 00:00:35.259 fear you can hear. There is a green land called 00:00:35.259 --> 00:00:39.439 the Emerald Isle, where stardust dapples shining 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.320 lakes that sparkle against blue mountains which 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.429 fall away to winding bays. But there are darker 00:00:46.429 --> 00:00:51.869 sides to Ireland currents that run deep a wasting 00:00:51.869 --> 00:00:55.590 bitter civil war in the north and everywhere 00:00:55.590 --> 00:00:58.649 lurking behind the shamrock and beneath the laughter 00:00:58.649 --> 00:01:04.790 a dark world of legend of banshees and warlocks 00:01:04.790 --> 00:01:07.629 of voices on the wind against which the traveler 00:01:07.629 --> 00:01:12.019 should stop his ears or the sound Of the death 00:01:12.019 --> 00:01:14.439 bell. Well, if you won't read the tea leaves 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.239 for Brian, she'll at least give a look at his 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.519 palm. Oh, whist, Denny. No, no, come on, cousin 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.340 -in -law. I claim a visitor's privilege. What's 00:01:21.340 --> 00:01:23.319 the sense of a long trip to Arendt to visit family 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.159 if I don't get some special treatment? Which 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.719 hand? Denny, I really... Oh, she's only shy. 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.859 You're right -handed, aren't you, Brian? Yes. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:37.340 The left hand is what God gave you. Here. How's 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:41.290 it look? You were well rewarded. And the other 00:01:41.290 --> 00:01:44.150 hand? That's the one which shows what you make 00:01:44.150 --> 00:01:51.189 of the gifts God gave you. And? Holy Mary herself. 00:01:51.629 --> 00:01:56.049 Didn't I know it? It's a hand I won't... I can't 00:01:56.049 --> 00:02:10.289 read. It is marked by the shadow of death. Our 00:02:10.289 --> 00:02:14.210 mystery drama, The Death Bell, was written especially 00:02:14.210 --> 00:02:17.650 for the Mystery Theatre by Ian Martin and stars 00:02:17.650 --> 00:02:34.849 Michael Tolan. Since time immemorial, man has 00:02:34.849 --> 00:02:38.090 sought to trace the future in the lines of the 00:02:38.090 --> 00:02:43.879 palm. Can it be read there? Can a future be read 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:48.780 from the stars, or from tarot cards, or in a 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:55.120 crystal ball? The best answer always is, if you 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.620 truly believe. As in spite of herself, it would 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:08.159 appear that Sheila Doyle does. The moment I clapped 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.960 eyes on Denny's cousin from the States, Brian 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:15.360 Macken, there was a bogal tugging at my skirts. 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:18.960 And the one look in his hand ran the blood in 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:31.639 me cold, for I never saw a shadow planer. Brian? 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.879 Hmm? Oh, yes, Denny. Well... What are you doing 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.699 over by the window? I'm trying to see where that 00:03:38.699 --> 00:03:42.479 bell came from. What bell? It's been ringing 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:44.259 ever since you went up with Sheila, don't you? 00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:53.159 Well, that's funny. What? It stopped. You didn't 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.800 hear it? Nope. Well, maybe you're just used to 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.099 it. Don't you have some kind of a bell around 00:03:58.099 --> 00:04:01.039 here? Well, the church? No, no, not a church 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:05.360 bell. Something much smaller like... On an animal, 00:04:05.379 --> 00:04:08.180 maybe. Well, there aren't any animals around. 00:04:09.379 --> 00:04:11.539 Well, maybe I'm just hearing things after that 00:04:11.539 --> 00:04:13.580 scare Sheila threw into... Oh, look, Brian, I'm 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:16.300 sorry about that. Sheila... Well, Sheila's as 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:18.579 level -headed as they come about everything except 00:04:18.579 --> 00:04:21.740 some of the old country superstitions. She wasn't 00:04:21.740 --> 00:04:23.920 kidding, you know. She really believes in a lot 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:25.800 of this. Well, forget it, Denny. I'm not worried 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.399 about me. I was only concerned about Sheila. 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.800 She looked... all shook up. Oh, she was embarrassed. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.160 I think she felt she'd made a fool of herself. 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.600 I don't think she'll be able to face you again 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:39.100 tonight, but by morning she'll cook you a breakfast 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:41.420 that'll stick to your ribs. You are gonna stay, 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:43.480 huh? Oh, I can take the car and run down to the 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.439 local inn. No, sir, no, sir. Not on your life. 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:47.439 My cousin comes all the way from the States. 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:49.680 I don't let you get away till we do some catching 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.860 up. Catching up? Yes. I want to hear all about 00:04:53.860 --> 00:04:58.449 your wife. My wife? Yes. Sheila and I are so 00:04:58.449 --> 00:05:01.629 sorry she didn't come along with you. She, uh, 00:05:01.689 --> 00:05:03.930 she wasn't feeling herself at the last moment. 00:05:04.110 --> 00:05:06.829 Yes, I know, so you said. You see, this isn't 00:05:06.829 --> 00:05:10.610 so much a trip. It's more a sort of pilgrimage. 00:05:11.689 --> 00:05:16.350 A what? I want to find Carrie Kleiner. I want 00:05:16.350 --> 00:05:20.250 to see it for myself. If it exists. What do you 00:05:20.250 --> 00:05:22.990 mean? Well, Brian, I always understood it was 00:05:22.990 --> 00:05:26.360 just a family legend. You mean to say you've 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:28.120 been here in Ireland now for three years, and 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.480 you haven't tried to look it up? Man, it's near 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.100 250 miles from here, and I haven't a car. Anyways, 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.139 it wasn't my side of the family. Well, it was 00:05:36.139 --> 00:05:38.980 mine. Or should have been. At the very least, 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.660 from my mother's side. You know that. Well, I 00:05:40.660 --> 00:05:42.680 honestly don't. All I know is that my mother 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.220 used to ramble on when she got older about how 00:05:45.220 --> 00:05:47.839 there was royalty in the blood somewhere far 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.360 back, and the ancestors lived in a castle in 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.779 the north. Carrigg Claynor. It was a castle. 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.459 The Carrigs were set to be in the direct line 00:05:57.459 --> 00:06:00.819 of descent from Brian Boru himself. And it was 00:06:00.819 --> 00:06:02.959 a family custom to name the residence for the 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.139 family name and for the wife who reigned over 00:06:05.139 --> 00:06:08.579 it. My great -great -grandmother, Clayna, was 00:06:08.579 --> 00:06:11.100 married to the last of the line, Lord Carrig. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.259 Your great -great -grandfather? That's one of 00:06:15.259 --> 00:06:17.740 the things I'd like to find out. See, I think 00:06:17.740 --> 00:06:23.259 he was. You think? Lord Carrig didn't. He killed 00:06:23.259 --> 00:06:26.170 Clayna. And through the man he said was her lover 00:06:26.170 --> 00:06:28.269 from the balcony over the sea to be smashed to 00:06:28.269 --> 00:06:32.009 death on the rocks below. And he sent my great 00:06:32.009 --> 00:06:34.209 -grandfather to be brought up by his wife's family, 00:06:34.310 --> 00:06:36.529 the Mackens. Your great -grandfather? You mean 00:06:36.529 --> 00:06:41.310 Carrick's son? He refused to recognize him. Claimed 00:06:41.310 --> 00:06:44.689 he was illegitimate. Ah, I see, I see. Well, 00:06:44.810 --> 00:06:47.329 now look, looking for an old lost castle is as 00:06:47.329 --> 00:06:49.750 good a way as any of spending a vacation. You'll 00:06:49.750 --> 00:06:51.529 get a chance to see a good bit of Ireland on 00:06:51.529 --> 00:06:54.430 the way. Now come on, let's go get your bag out 00:06:54.430 --> 00:07:01.810 of the car and I'll show you to your room. For 00:07:01.810 --> 00:07:05.350 the first time in our marriage, I found myself 00:07:05.350 --> 00:07:07.829 getting a little annoyed with Sheila as I walked 00:07:07.829 --> 00:07:10.990 Brian to the car. There was that vague kind of 00:07:10.990 --> 00:07:13.209 family connection between us, you write off as 00:07:13.209 --> 00:07:16.870 cousins, but mostly what we were was old friends 00:07:16.870 --> 00:07:21.220 and classmates. Now with Sheila's superstitions 00:07:21.220 --> 00:07:25.699 jogging my imagination, I was uneasy with Brian. 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:29.199 A feeling, thank the Lord, that a few minutes 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:37.639 in the soft Irish night blew away. Oh, it's good 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:41.180 to be alive on a night like this. It makes me 00:07:41.180 --> 00:07:46.129 think of... What, Brian? Commencement. The end 00:07:46.129 --> 00:07:49.370 of the term, anyway. Or after the last ball game 00:07:49.370 --> 00:07:52.170 of the season. Tired, but loose, you remember? 00:07:52.290 --> 00:07:54.990 Well, for pitchers, maybe. Catchers with old 00:07:54.990 --> 00:07:59.730 football knees took longer to unwind. Well, so, 00:08:00.269 --> 00:08:03.769 how's the old rat race? Advertising? Oh, it still 00:08:03.769 --> 00:08:06.310 goes round and round. Hamsters on a cage wheel. 00:08:07.389 --> 00:08:10.250 How's the writing? Slow, slow, but sure. And 00:08:10.250 --> 00:08:13.110 I make an honest buck cutting peat to keep myself 00:08:13.110 --> 00:08:15.790 in shape. You're a happy man. Ah, what more could 00:08:15.790 --> 00:08:19.069 I ask for? Wait till you see your namesake tomorrow. 00:08:19.370 --> 00:08:22.089 Little Brian, how soon will he be two? About 00:08:22.089 --> 00:08:24.649 the time his little sister comes to join him, 00:08:24.709 --> 00:08:26.670 six months or so. Oh, hey, you're having another? 00:08:26.730 --> 00:08:29.930 Yes. Well, that's... that's solid, man. It's 00:08:29.930 --> 00:08:32.629 solid. Well, you know I always like kids. Nothing 00:08:32.629 --> 00:08:36.570 like having your own, though. And how about you, 00:08:37.110 --> 00:08:40.120 senior citizen? What does that mean? Well, you 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:42.480 have been married longer than Sheila and me. 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.559 When are you and Gloria gonna have yours? As 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:49.100 a matter of fact, Gloria got pregnant seven months 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:53.299 ago. Oh, and you're trying to keep it secret. 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:56.580 So that's why she didn't come along, huh? That's 00:08:56.580 --> 00:08:59.620 one of the reasons. But come on, I can't keep 00:08:59.620 --> 00:09:02.600 you away from your wife any longer. Here, just 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.039 let me... Get my gear and we can hit the south. 00:09:05.059 --> 00:09:06.799 Oh, there's no hurry, no hurry. For my money, 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:08.860 we could sit up all night and shoot the breeze. 00:09:08.980 --> 00:09:11.759 Well, let it suit me if I didn't have a long 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.559 journey ahead of me tomorrow. Oh, I see. You're 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:22.340 still determined to go chasing rainbows. I heard 00:09:22.340 --> 00:09:25.320 the door close when they left the house. And 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:27.259 had gone to the window to watch Denny and Brian 00:09:27.259 --> 00:09:30.620 talk at the car. I couldn't hear the words. But 00:09:30.620 --> 00:09:33.480 at least Brian's arms slung around Denny's shoulder 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:38.159 eased my mind enough to make me go to bed. Still 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.440 and all, even with the soothing sound of their 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.639 voices rumbling below and their laughter, it 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.960 was long before I fell into an uneasy sleep. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:53.799 Oh, I... Denny? Ah, I'm sorry. Shh, Sheila, shh. 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:55.840 Darling, go to sleep. It's all right. I was half 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.259 -onto waking. Turn the light on. No need, no 00:09:59.259 --> 00:10:01.850 need. I'm all undressed. Just come into bed. 00:10:02.590 --> 00:10:05.850 And did you get Brian settled? Ah, you see, he's 00:10:05.850 --> 00:10:09.110 snoring already. By the time I closed up and 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:11.169 looked in on little Brian, he was dead to the 00:10:11.169 --> 00:10:17.629 world. Darling, what's wrong? Hmm? You shivered. 00:10:17.809 --> 00:10:20.450 Oh, it was maybe a hair limped over my grave. 00:10:21.190 --> 00:10:27.149 Hold me. Who needs to be asked? Sheila, you're 00:10:27.149 --> 00:10:30.340 wrong about Brian. What way? We've had a long 00:10:30.340 --> 00:10:33.519 talk, just like old times. I never felt closer 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:35.600 to him. Well, I know you've missed him since 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.440 you came away here. We were always more like 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.320 brothers than cousins. Well, I'm not saying he 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.919 isn't tense and all wound up, but that's old 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:47.399 stuff to me, Akushla. Oh, you're making to be 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:50.659 a real Irishman again. Well, next to you because 00:10:50.659 --> 00:10:54.740 of you, and grateful I am. Are you for real, 00:10:54.940 --> 00:11:01.419 Danny? Don't you know? Oh, Sheila. I used to 00:11:01.419 --> 00:11:03.840 be all tied up in knots like Brian, and that's 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.580 all it is, you see. Well, I hope you're right. 00:11:07.139 --> 00:11:10.980 You haven't heard the best news yet. What? Well, 00:11:11.019 --> 00:11:13.419 you're not the only one that's carrying a heart 00:11:13.419 --> 00:11:17.159 beneath your own. Gloria's expecting. Brian's 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.899 wife? When? Before you. That's why she didn't 00:11:19.899 --> 00:11:22.000 come along this trip. Well, that's good news, 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.019 Jenny. I want to be happy for your friend, dear. 00:11:25.529 --> 00:11:28.309 cousin, your brother, almost. Well, so you can 00:11:28.309 --> 00:11:36.389 be. You can be. Sheila, what did you think you 00:11:36.389 --> 00:11:42.710 saw in Brian's palm? Don't ask me. First of all, 00:11:42.710 --> 00:11:45.129 because I have no words to tell you, and second, 00:11:45.309 --> 00:11:48.809 I'm praying to sweet Mary to forgive me, for 00:11:48.809 --> 00:11:50.850 I'm hoping it was himself who's only given me 00:11:50.850 --> 00:11:54.289 a warning not to meddle in the Lord's business. 00:11:59.139 --> 00:12:03.259 The night is quiet outside, except for the tinkle 00:12:03.259 --> 00:12:06.980 of that far -off bell. There's a kind of peace. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.360 I had to stop here with Denny, touch normal life, 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.159 if only for a moment. I will not think back, 00:12:15.740 --> 00:12:19.399 and tomorrow must wait till I find it. I know 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.539 what it will bring to so many people. I wonder 00:12:22.539 --> 00:12:27.600 what it will bring to me, Brian Mackin. The last... 00:12:27.710 --> 00:12:30.990 The only thing I hear is the bell, lulling me 00:12:30.990 --> 00:12:42.840 to sleep. Well, that does it. All set for the 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:44.720 road. Oh, I wish you didn't have to go so soon. 00:12:44.820 --> 00:12:47.139 So do I. Will you stop by, then, to see us on 00:12:47.139 --> 00:12:49.200 your way back? I don't know if I'll be coming 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.879 this way, Sheila. Oh, try. Try to make it. And 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.740 Brian. Yes? The farther north you get, particularly 00:12:54.740 --> 00:12:56.980 beyond Sligo, hug the coastline all the way. 00:12:57.100 --> 00:12:59.460 Please, don't go near the border. I'll stir you 00:12:59.460 --> 00:13:01.460 made. There's still a lot of trouble. I wish 00:13:01.460 --> 00:13:03.919 you'd forget the whole thing. Except I won't. 00:13:04.179 --> 00:13:05.799 Well, man, it's like looking for a needle in 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.139 a haystack. And if there ever was a Carrie Kleiner, 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.639 it's probably nothing but ruins by now. If there 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.019 ever was one, I'll find it. And I think I will. 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:19.679 And if you should, what would it prove? I don't 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:24.700 know. Goodbye, Brian. Come again. I'll try. Bye, 00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:28.519 Danny, old pal. I'll only say au revoir. And 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.559 it's glad I am to have met you and... And forgive 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.620 me for last night. The gypsy's warning? I don't 00:13:34.620 --> 00:13:36.700 know what came over me. Think nothing of it. 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:38.840 Well, so long, Charmin. Drive carefully. I hope 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.419 you had a good night's sleep. With the good company 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:44.179 and the good air, what else? Even the little 00:13:44.179 --> 00:13:46.820 bell I finally got used to. And off I went like 00:13:46.820 --> 00:13:58.620 a log. So here goes. Hail and farewell. What 00:13:58.620 --> 00:14:03.000 was that about a bell, Denny? Search me, my warning. 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.000 When I came downstairs last night after I took 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.779 you up to bed, Brian was by the window. He insisted 00:14:09.779 --> 00:14:12.100 he could hear a little bell ringing somewhere, 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:16.019 but I couldn't hear it. What kind of a bell was 00:14:16.019 --> 00:14:19.159 that? Like it was on an animal, he said. Not 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:23.899 like a cow, but more, say, like a goat. The Lord 00:14:23.899 --> 00:14:27.279 and all his saints be praised. What is it, Sheila? 00:14:27.299 --> 00:14:29.720 We should call him back. He should get out of 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.059 Ireland. What are you getting all riled up about 00:14:32.059 --> 00:14:34.039 now, honey? I told you he was holding the shadow 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.679 of death in his palm. Now I know I made no mistake. 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.559 There's no bell in this town he could have heard 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:45.139 like you said. Except one. What? What? The one 00:14:45.139 --> 00:14:48.139 that's only heard by him it sounds for, and I 00:14:48.139 --> 00:14:58.080 know it for sure. Twas the death bell. Old age 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:02.299 is dark, and I heard the death bell, and I dare 00:15:02.299 --> 00:15:06.659 not go out for gold or for fee. So runs the old 00:15:06.659 --> 00:15:10.000 Gaelic folk belief that death sounds the warning 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:14.120 of his coming by a ringing in the ears. Is Brian 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:18.059 Mackin really marked for death? And if so, how 00:15:18.059 --> 00:15:23.039 soon? And how? We will return shortly with Act 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:39.940 Two. 250 miles is a short day's drive, as we 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:43.059 reckon it, in the good old U .S. of A. But through 00:15:43.059 --> 00:15:46.080 the length of Ireland, stopping more and more 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.340 in the last 50 miles to ask the still unanswered 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:52.159 question, do you know of a castle in these parts 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.320 called Carrickleyna? It's a long, long trip that 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.620 at last has brought Brian Mackin to a little 00:15:58.620 --> 00:16:02.279 bridge across a valley stream. Stopping there 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.460 to eat the lunch Sheila put up for him before 00:16:04.460 --> 00:16:07.830 he left, he has scarcely finished it as twilight 00:16:07.830 --> 00:16:12.370 falls then as he doses for a moment back against 00:16:12.370 --> 00:16:22.529 a tree pull him up pull him up hold on hold on 00:16:22.529 --> 00:16:27.429 don't get thrown oh boy oh easy easy hold up 00:16:27.429 --> 00:16:30.970 there pull there pull there hold up all right 00:16:30.970 --> 00:16:39.460 easy boy easy Are you all right, ma 'am? Yes, 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:41.960 and I'm much beholden to you, sir. Well, it's 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.159 my pleasure. What happened? Well, something frightened 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.700 my horse. I lost control. May I have the reins, 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:53.080 sir? All right, now, stay, boy, stay. There, 00:16:53.179 --> 00:16:57.039 here you are. Thank you, mister. Brian Mackin. 00:16:57.220 --> 00:16:59.340 How do you do? I am the Lady Clayna Carrick. 00:17:00.460 --> 00:17:05.920 What? I said I'm Lady Carrick. Of Carrie Clayna? 00:17:06.089 --> 00:17:10.430 Well, naturally. Then it does exist. I should 00:17:10.430 --> 00:17:13.809 hope so. I was just on my way home. Where? Where 00:17:13.809 --> 00:17:16.970 is it? Just across the bridge and over the hill. 00:17:18.150 --> 00:17:21.809 Now that I've regained my composure. By my soul, 00:17:21.809 --> 00:17:24.910 you do look familiar. I didn't catch your name. 00:17:25.509 --> 00:17:31.130 Brian. Brian Mackin. Oh, no. No! You must be 00:17:31.130 --> 00:17:33.549 mad to try to intercept me here. Run, Brian! 00:17:34.089 --> 00:17:37.430 Run for your life! Wait a minute. Wait a minute, 00:17:37.569 --> 00:17:41.930 my lady. If you value your life, stay away from 00:17:41.930 --> 00:17:50.250 me. I am frozen at her sudden flight. Then, suddenly, 00:17:50.349 --> 00:17:53.230 I find myself running after her, laboring for 00:17:53.230 --> 00:17:55.470 breath over the last burst to the crest of the 00:17:55.470 --> 00:18:02.829 hill. Oh, damn, the light going. But where? Where? 00:18:03.150 --> 00:18:06.759 She couldn't have just... disappeared into... 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:13.460 into thin air. But she had. In the lowering darkness, 00:18:13.500 --> 00:18:15.759 I can see the long sweep of the countryside down 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.339 to the rocks and sea cliffs, and there is no 00:18:18.339 --> 00:18:21.119 sign of horse or rider, or of any destination 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.079 they might be bound for, nor any road for a horse 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:29.119 to follow, much less my modern car. For the moment, 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.839 I realize I must return to my car. and seek some 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:44.680 lodging for the night. Danny, is that you? Well, 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:47.220 who else were you expecting, Sheila? Oh, darling, 00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:50.119 I'm that glad to see you. It's late, you are. 00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:52.660 Oh, we cut a few extra squares tonight as long 00:18:52.660 --> 00:18:56.500 as the light was with us. Here, here, what is 00:18:56.500 --> 00:18:58.759 it, little bird? You're all a flutter. It's Brian's 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.779 on my mind. Oh, you'll laugh at me again, I suppose. 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:05.180 But as I was laying our little one down with 00:19:05.180 --> 00:19:08.920 the sun just gone over the hill, I thought I 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:13.259 heard him calling, Kleena, Kleena. Oh, now, Sheila, 00:19:13.579 --> 00:19:18.079 I... What's got into you? I wish I knew. I only 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.640 know somehow we should never have let Brian go 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.980 off to the north. Something terrible is going 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:25.059 to happen to him. And if there is, what could 00:19:25.059 --> 00:19:26.640 we do to stop it? Well, we should try. Would 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:29.019 you have me follow him on Shanks, Mayor? How 00:19:29.019 --> 00:19:30.500 fast do you think I could walk it? You could 00:19:30.500 --> 00:19:33.119 borrow the McFadden's car or Seamus' motorcycle. 00:19:33.259 --> 00:19:36.180 And if I did, where would I head for? Oh, don't 00:19:36.180 --> 00:19:39.599 fault me, darling, or make me the fool. It's 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:41.920 just a feeling comes over me and I can't help 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.819 it. I want to be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. Sheila, 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.819 now please, please stop worrying about Brian. 00:19:49.019 --> 00:19:51.500 If anyone ever knew how to take care of himself, 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:59.509 that's the guy. I said it with authority because 00:19:59.509 --> 00:20:02.230 I meant it, or I thought I meant it, or I tried 00:20:02.230 --> 00:20:04.549 to mean it because I wanted to reassure Sheila. 00:20:05.670 --> 00:20:09.710 The truth is, I was shaken again. I'd been three 00:20:09.710 --> 00:20:12.029 years living in Ireland, long enough to fall 00:20:12.029 --> 00:20:15.029 under all of her spells, even the black ones, 00:20:15.690 --> 00:20:18.630 and I'd have given anything to know where Brian 00:20:18.630 --> 00:20:22.609 was at at that moment, and what he was doing. 00:20:29.700 --> 00:20:32.960 Excuse me, gentlemen. Sorry. Clothes and time 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.099 is posted. I wasn't... I wasn't looking for a 00:20:36.099 --> 00:20:38.200 drink as much as I was for accommodations tonight. 00:20:38.980 --> 00:20:42.660 Well, now, as to that... I'm willing to pay well 00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:46.339 for it. An American, is it? Well, for that much, 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.079 I suppose we could be after finding your room 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:52.279 and a bite to soup. And perhaps a little information? 00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:55.380 We're not for doing much talking around these 00:20:55.380 --> 00:20:59.539 parts, in particular to strangers. What would 00:20:59.539 --> 00:21:02.259 you want to know? Well, something very simple, 00:21:02.259 --> 00:21:04.819 I hope. Would either of you know where I could 00:21:04.819 --> 00:21:08.160 find a place called Carrie Kleiner? Carrie Kleiner? 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:12.299 We should know. What will be after bringing her 00:21:12.299 --> 00:21:14.799 to these parts looking for the likes of Carrie 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:16.980 Kleiner? Well, till late this afternoon, only 00:21:16.980 --> 00:21:19.299 a dim hope of finding it after all these years. 00:21:19.859 --> 00:21:23.039 For private reasons. Oh, and what would the private 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:27.200 reasons be? Family ones. My great -grandfather 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:31.029 was born there. Who was he now? And what was 00:21:31.029 --> 00:21:33.890 it that late this afternoon gave you the good 00:21:33.890 --> 00:21:36.849 hope of finding Carrie Cleaner? I ran into someone 00:21:36.849 --> 00:21:39.750 who lives there. Who lives there? Patty? Will 00:21:39.750 --> 00:21:44.089 you hold your tongue, Mick? And who would you 00:21:44.089 --> 00:21:46.069 have met that said they was from the castle? 00:21:46.230 --> 00:21:49.430 A very beautiful woman. A girl, actually, who 00:21:49.430 --> 00:21:51.950 said she was the Lady Cleaner Carrie. Oh, the 00:21:51.950 --> 00:21:55.049 Lord and his saints preserve us. The Lady Cleaner. 00:21:56.069 --> 00:21:59.650 Where was this then? five miles or so north of 00:21:59.650 --> 00:22:02.109 here. There's a road that goes winding down to 00:22:02.109 --> 00:22:04.369 a little bridge and then goes up a rise on the 00:22:04.369 --> 00:22:06.869 other side, but sort of... sort of peters out. 00:22:06.950 --> 00:22:09.970 Ah, that's the old bali brig across the Scalinore. 00:22:10.069 --> 00:22:12.390 Did you drive your car across that bridge? No, 00:22:12.410 --> 00:22:14.569 I stopped this side of it because the going was 00:22:14.569 --> 00:22:16.490 getting so rough. Sure, it's lucky you didn't 00:22:16.490 --> 00:22:19.049 drive on it. It might have carried away with 00:22:19.049 --> 00:22:21.650 you. That bridge has been condemned for anything 00:22:21.650 --> 00:22:24.670 but foot travel as long as I can remember. But 00:22:24.670 --> 00:22:28.660 why? Because it doesn't lead to anywhere anymore. 00:22:28.920 --> 00:22:31.460 It leads to Carrie Kleiner somehow. How would 00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:33.980 you know that? Because the lady was bound for 00:22:33.980 --> 00:22:37.000 there on her horse. Huh? Was it a big bay mare 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.740 with a mane as white as snow? Yes, that's the 00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:43.660 one. And the woman? How was she dressed? Why, 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.079 she, uh... She was in sort of a green velvet 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.500 dress with a big hat. Like an old -fashioned 00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:52.299 riding habit, you'd say. Oh, Mary bless us. And 00:22:52.299 --> 00:22:56.319 the good Lord save us all. Old -fashioned it 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.559 is for sure where the lady cleaner has been dead 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:02.619 these hundred years and more No, no this this 00:23:02.619 --> 00:23:05.579 was a young woman. She was only passed her 21st 00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:08.920 year when she died That was no real woman. You 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:12.099 saw this afternoon stranger That was her ghost, 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:16.519 but I talked to her did you know then? What you 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:20.920 saw was never real and you can take that as gospel 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:24.740 Well, perhaps. I hadn't eaten all day and I did 00:23:24.740 --> 00:23:27.599 take a nap under a tree. And it was twilight, 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.859 when all fancies begin. We'll let it go at that 00:23:30.859 --> 00:23:35.519 anyway. But, carry cleaner, is that just fancy 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:38.980 too? We'll know as to that. Must you always put 00:23:38.980 --> 00:23:42.140 your oar in, Mick? I'm talking to the gentleman 00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:46.089 here, Mr... Macken. Brian Macken. That is a good 00:23:46.089 --> 00:23:48.609 Irish name. I mentioned that my family came from 00:23:48.609 --> 00:23:52.170 Ireland. So you did. And at least you've had 00:23:52.170 --> 00:23:55.809 the sense God gave you to come back. I'm Paddy 00:23:55.809 --> 00:23:58.869 Flynn, and the little runt here is Mickey Mahan. 00:23:59.049 --> 00:24:01.950 The top of the evening to you. Is it back you 00:24:01.950 --> 00:24:05.069 are to stay, Mr. Markin? That depends on what 00:24:05.069 --> 00:24:08.170 I find at Kerry Claynor. It's little you'll find 00:24:08.170 --> 00:24:12.170 there. Deserted and empty, and blown by the winds 00:24:12.170 --> 00:24:15.650 for a century. It's not but a ruin. Not worth 00:24:15.650 --> 00:24:18.569 the effort to go by it. And sometimes at nightfall, 00:24:18.609 --> 00:24:21.410 there's a woman's voice that'll call, come away, 00:24:21.750 --> 00:24:25.150 come away, and you'll be tied the man who listens. 00:24:25.309 --> 00:24:28.109 Well, just the same, I want to see Carrie Kleiner. 00:24:29.089 --> 00:24:32.950 Can you guide me there? Not by night. I wouldn't 00:24:32.950 --> 00:24:35.890 stir out by night for all the gold in a leprechaun's 00:24:35.890 --> 00:24:41.109 hoard. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see. Yeah, it's 00:24:41.109 --> 00:24:44.579 time we were all to bed. Come. I'll show you 00:24:44.579 --> 00:24:57.160 your room, Mr. Mackin. Do you think he's from 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:01.380 the police? I don't think so, but I'm taking 00:25:01.380 --> 00:25:04.140 the chances. Sure, and what are you doing there? 00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:09.099 I'm making Mr. Mackin a little nightcap, as he 00:25:09.099 --> 00:25:12.640 requested. Only it will be a little stronger 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:16.740 than he expected. Ah, how is that, Paddy? Sure, 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:20.019 I'm giving him a little extra dividend. Your 00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:22.559 namesake, as you might say. Who would that be 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:27.619 at all? Mickey... Pin. I never heard tal of him. 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:31.539 Well, no. That's because he emigrated to Chicago, 00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:35.420 USA, long before your time and mine. But he gave 00:25:35.420 --> 00:25:38.119 his name to what's in this little bottle here. 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.500 Well, looks like. no more than bog water. It'll 00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:46.579 make your sleep a dear sounder. Now then, you'll 00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:49.559 take this drink up to him whilst I go arrange 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:53.240 for the truck. It is a good thing we have a full 00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:56.500 moon to work with this night. To work? Isn't 00:25:56.500 --> 00:25:59.099 it obvious the guns are no longer safe at Carrie 00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.819 Kleiner? We'll have to have them up on the way 00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:05.049 over the border by morning. Before our American 00:26:05.049 --> 00:26:07.529 gets to knowsin' about... Wish we're not goin' 00:26:07.730 --> 00:26:10.190 by the castle by the dead of night. How else? 00:26:10.690 --> 00:26:12.990 But she'll be walkin' again by the full moon. 00:26:13.569 --> 00:26:16.230 You heard Mr. Mackin saw her abroad in scarce 00:26:16.230 --> 00:26:19.589 before dark. What kind of soldier are you, Mick, 00:26:19.930 --> 00:26:22.549 that starts at shadows? Now, let's have no more 00:26:22.549 --> 00:26:25.529 nonsense out of ya. And away up with a drink 00:26:25.529 --> 00:26:35.859 to Mr. Mackin. I look at my watch. It's just 00:26:35.859 --> 00:26:38.960 after midnight. The nightcap is untasted on the 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:42.640 table beside my bed. I don't trust it. I don't 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:45.420 trust a lot of things. But where to get rid of 00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:49.299 it? A vagrant memory drifts across my mind of 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:51.759 jokes among old country people. A quick look 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:55.000 under the bed, and there is the receptacle. It's 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.200 a matter of a moment to empty the glass in it. 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:00.319 And none too soon, I can hear stealthy footsteps 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:05.880 approaching. Don't use the kashmik unless there's 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:09.140 trouble. If there is, I'll put him to sleep myself. 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:20.279 Mr. Mackin? Mr. Mackin? I think he's away. Follow 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:28.279 me. Ah, he's dead to the world. We'll check that 00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:36.240 out. He's drunk it. Will it keep him quiet long 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:39.960 enough? Eight to ten hours. And even when he 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:43.119 wakes, he'll not want to leave his bed. Now come 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:53.519 away, man. We've much to do. Lying on my bed, 00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:56.559 snoring, pretending to be asleep, I have listened 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.619 to everything. But the fall of that heavy lock 00:27:59.619 --> 00:28:03.440 tells me once and for all. I am a prisoner. But 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.440 as I wait for them to leave the house, I know 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.099 that nothing will keep me from Carrie Kleiner. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:11.839 I have an appointment there that's been waiting 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.960 a hundred years. And even now, in the still of 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:18.740 the night, I can hear the far -off tinkle of 00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:41.200 that bell and a voice crying. Two sounds tempt 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:44.400 Brian Mackin to venture into a night made bright 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:49.500 by moonlight, but shadowed by dangers, both physical 00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:55.039 and supernatural. What draws this man inexorably 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:59.240 to an appointment with the past? Is the death 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:02.119 that Sheila foresaw in his hand something that 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:07.680 he seeks, or fails to realize, approaches? I 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:24.240 will return shortly with Act 3. What is this 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:28.440 man, Brian Mackin? 28, successful advertising 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:33.019 man. What drives him to leave his wife in the 00:29:33.019 --> 00:29:36.299 seventh month of their first child? to make a 00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:39.980 confessed pilgrimage into the distant past, to 00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:42.539 a land foreign to him in every way except by 00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:46.940 extraction, generations back. Where is he headed? 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:54.099 And why? I stand by the window, carefully on 00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:56.619 the side where the moonlight cannot cast my shadow, 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:00.859 and watch the courtyard of the inn below. A small 00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:03.720 truck like a weapons carrier is there, and Patty 00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.970 and Mick climb into it. In a moment it has gone 00:30:06.970 --> 00:30:10.369 to a destination I can only guess. By the time 00:30:10.369 --> 00:30:12.829 I am out the window, clambering to the courtyard 00:30:12.829 --> 00:30:15.769 and into my car, there is no hope of following. 00:30:16.670 --> 00:30:19.269 Particularly when I find my distributor cap gone 00:30:19.269 --> 00:30:26.170 and my car useless. It's a long, agonizing walk 00:30:26.170 --> 00:30:29.369 for five miles, even on a moonlit night. And 00:30:29.369 --> 00:30:31.509 by the time I have crossed the bridge and climbed 00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:34.579 to the ridge above, I am at the ragged edge of 00:30:34.579 --> 00:30:39.940 exhaustion. But there is a reward. Far below, 00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:42.700 against the restless sea, there are pinpoints 00:30:42.700 --> 00:30:47.339 of light that move. I am near the end of my pilgrimage, 00:30:48.279 --> 00:31:00.619 and a bell is sounding again. Danny? Danny? Oh, 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.329 boy. Well, what is it, Sheila? The phone, it's 00:31:03.329 --> 00:31:05.529 ringing. Well, what time is it? It's half past 00:31:05.529 --> 00:31:07.509 three in the morning. Well, who could be calling 00:31:07.509 --> 00:31:10.509 us now? I don't know. I have been lying here 00:31:10.509 --> 00:31:12.349 awake, afraid that something was about to happen. 00:31:12.490 --> 00:31:14.490 Will you go down now and answer it, or shall 00:31:14.490 --> 00:31:17.170 I? All right, all right. I'm on my way, but who? 00:31:17.210 --> 00:31:20.630 It's Brian, or something about him. And whatever 00:31:20.630 --> 00:31:23.170 it is, no bell that rings in the night brings 00:31:23.170 --> 00:31:36.750 anything but ill luck. Is that the last of them? 00:31:36.829 --> 00:31:42.230 Not by a long shot. And damn the moon. It's off 00:31:42.230 --> 00:31:45.269 away behind the clouds again. I wish I was off 00:31:45.269 --> 00:31:48.750 away with it. What's the matter, Mick? You afraid 00:31:48.750 --> 00:31:51.369 a banshee'll howl you off to your grave? Well, 00:31:51.490 --> 00:31:53.630 there's little I like at all about this night. 00:31:54.109 --> 00:31:56.269 We're all stretching our necks across the gibbet 00:31:56.269 --> 00:31:58.990 one way or t 'other. Well... The sooner we deliver 00:31:58.990 --> 00:32:01.230 these guns over the border, the safer we'll be. 00:32:01.450 --> 00:32:03.750 I wish now I'd strut away with a ship that delivered 00:32:03.750 --> 00:32:06.549 them three days ago, and I'd be out of this and 00:32:06.549 --> 00:32:09.349 away home. Well, you didn't. So let's have at 00:32:09.349 --> 00:32:13.509 it and get them away from the storehouse before... 00:32:13.509 --> 00:32:17.490 Wait a minute. Ah, what is it? By the ridge there. 00:32:18.109 --> 00:32:21.150 The silhouette of a man. Let's get the truck 00:32:21.150 --> 00:32:23.450 away and hidden around to the seaward side. Eh? 00:32:23.769 --> 00:32:27.480 You take it. Give me that caution of yours. And 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:36.900 I'll handle whatever comes this way. Yes, Sergeant, 00:32:36.900 --> 00:32:40.200 he was. Well, he left this morning. I mean, yesterday 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:42.940 morning, about nine. All I know is he was headed 00:32:42.940 --> 00:32:46.759 somewhere north of Sligo, Galway Bay area. Yes, 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:49.200 he was looking for a place named Curried Claynor. 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.420 No, no, no, not at all. And please, he's a cousin 00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:55.960 of mine and a very good friend. You will keep 00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.039 us notified and let us know what's happening. 00:32:59.339 --> 00:33:03.539 Yes, I'd appreciate that. Thank you. What is 00:33:03.539 --> 00:33:06.740 it, Denny? What are you doing out of bed, Shield? 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:09.440 Who was on the phone? You said Sergeant. It was 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.400 Liam Flaherty of the police. Shield has all hell 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.599 to pay. Tell me. There was a tracer from the 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:18.240 States. They called the local here to get in 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:22.660 touch with us. Why? The police in America. They're 00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:26.079 trying to get in touch with Brian. What has Brian 00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:28.960 done? That isn't the point. It's what's been 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:32.960 done to him. What? Praise yourself, my darling. 00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:42.559 Somebody murdered his wife. A moment ago, on 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:45.500 my way down the hill, I could see Carrie Clayna 00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:48.880 full in the moon. What do they mean it's a ruin? 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.319 It was just as I pictured it. Turrets mullioned 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:55.980 windows with diamond -shaped glass panes, great 00:33:55.980 --> 00:34:00.480 oak doors, and ivied granite. Now with the moon 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.859 hidden, its silhouette looms over me, reaching 00:34:04.859 --> 00:34:10.559 out to me as I come home at... Oh, you didn't 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:13.099 have to hit him so hard. I wasn't taking any 00:34:13.099 --> 00:34:15.900 chances with Mr. Mackin this time. Ah, is that 00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:19.079 who it is? Say for yourself. How do you get over 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:21.900 the drink and away in here? No time to worry 00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:24.480 about that now. You think he is police or maybe 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:27.260 the British? Whatever he is, we'll decide that 00:34:27.260 --> 00:34:30.539 later. Let's get the guns off and away first. 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:38.059 I'm standing in front of the great door of Kariklena. 00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:41.159 And I know that everything is going to come clear 00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:44.699 at long last. I reach out and pull the bell. 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:51.320 Even the bell is familiar, although I cannot 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:54.699 quite place where I've heard it before. And now, 00:34:55.260 --> 00:35:01.460 the door is opening. Good evening, Brian. We've 00:35:01.460 --> 00:35:04.059 been waiting for you. Good evening, Your Lordship. 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:09.280 I'm sorry I'm late. No matter. We've just finished 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:13.860 dinner, and Her Ladyship is with the... the child. 00:35:15.849 --> 00:35:18.989 Will you join me in a glass of mulled wine? That's 00:35:18.989 --> 00:35:22.289 your pleasure. I've not seen you for some time, 00:35:22.389 --> 00:35:27.130 and, ah, the devil. I've forgotten. I must catch 00:35:27.130 --> 00:35:30.010 my sea captain before he leaves to send some 00:35:30.010 --> 00:35:33.449 packets. Will you forgive me? I should not be 00:35:33.449 --> 00:35:36.969 over two hours or so. May I hope you will attend, 00:35:37.170 --> 00:35:39.809 milady, in my absence? I should be happy to, 00:35:39.809 --> 00:35:42.630 except would you not rather I transmit the packages 00:35:42.630 --> 00:35:46.179 for you on my way home? No. I must have certain 00:35:46.179 --> 00:35:49.000 words with the shipmaster that I alone can bring. 00:35:49.780 --> 00:35:52.559 Besides, I would not deprive Clayner of some 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:56.179 outside companionship. We're so isolated here, 00:35:56.539 --> 00:35:59.500 it would be cruel to deny her a new face to brighten 00:35:59.500 --> 00:36:02.320 her solitude. The hour is late. Perhaps it would 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.059 be better... No, no, I won't hear of it. You 00:36:05.059 --> 00:36:07.019 shall be our guest for the night, and I shall 00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:11.079 be back post -haste. I'll try to make it in as 00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:14.739 close to two hours as possible. Meanwhile, make 00:36:14.739 --> 00:36:20.519 yourself completely at home. I am in a dream, 00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:24.780 I suppose. For by my host's clothes, the speech, 00:36:25.219 --> 00:36:28.320 a calendar I find on the wall, I am back in the 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.840 past over a hundred years. But more important, 00:36:32.579 --> 00:36:35.800 I am within the walls of Carrigg Claynor. And 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.059 the riddle of my whole life, I feel, is near 00:36:38.059 --> 00:36:42.079 to being solved. When Lord Carrigg leaves, I 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.139 am too impatient to wait for my answers. So I 00:36:45.139 --> 00:36:47.679 climb the great staircase to Kleiner's bedroom 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:55.179 and knock on the door. Who is it? Brian! A moment. 00:36:58.619 --> 00:37:01.099 What are you doing here? I grew tired of waiting 00:37:01.099 --> 00:37:02.820 for you to come down. My husband, he's gone. 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:05.619 Lord Carrick has ridden to town. It will be two 00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:10.610 hours before he returns. May I come in? I shouldn't 00:37:10.610 --> 00:37:15.289 let you. It's too late. I thought you'd left 00:37:15.289 --> 00:37:17.889 for good two years ago. When I lost you to him, 00:37:17.889 --> 00:37:20.889 I meant to. But for a while I stayed hiding in 00:37:20.889 --> 00:37:24.210 the fen. Oh, I know you were seen. Do you know 00:37:24.210 --> 00:37:27.670 what you've done to me? And why do you come back 00:37:27.670 --> 00:37:30.250 now? I wanted to see the boy. By what right? 00:37:31.630 --> 00:37:36.250 He... Is he mine, Kleiner? I have to know. Is 00:37:36.250 --> 00:37:39.300 he mine? No. You called him by my name. It was 00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:42.420 a foolish choice. Why? Because I loved you. And 00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:46.820 now? Oh, Brian. The years have come and gone. 00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:48.880 Lord Carrick is my husband and the father of 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:52.420 my child. And I have a whole new life I've learned 00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:55.280 to accept. I still want to know if the child 00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:57.760 is mine. Let me go. When you answer me. How could 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:01.460 it be yours? He was born ten months after I married 00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:03.519 Lord Carrick. Then why does everyone whisper 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.579 he's mine? Because you didn't leave as you promised. 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.880 Why didn't you take yourself right out of my 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.440 life? But there was nothing between us after 00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.300 your marriage. We know that, but no one else 00:38:15.300 --> 00:38:18.460 believes it. They still think the child is mine. 00:38:18.539 --> 00:38:21.900 Even Lord Carrick. I can't imagine why he could 00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:23.519 have welcomed you here tonight. I can't tell 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:28.760 you how he... Wait a minute. What is it? Ash. 00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:36.219 Dear God, he's here. He'll kill me. Over my dead 00:38:36.219 --> 00:38:43.150 body. And here it is. The moment I've reached 00:38:43.150 --> 00:38:46.190 back through a century for. The one I want to 00:38:46.190 --> 00:38:49.989 change. It's today I want to bring back. And 00:38:49.989 --> 00:38:52.469 Gloria and my own child that I killed in one 00:38:52.469 --> 00:38:54.650 moment of anger and hate as Lord Carrick plans 00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:58.489 to do with me and Kleiner now. I have only one 00:38:58.489 --> 00:39:02.849 chance of bringing Gloria back. To change history. 00:39:03.530 --> 00:39:08.030 Or at least to set it right. He's coming up the 00:39:08.030 --> 00:39:11.510 outside balcony stairs. Through the French windows. 00:39:12.110 --> 00:39:14.349 Ron Bryan, he'll kill me if he finds you here. 00:39:14.389 --> 00:39:18.329 I'll kill him first for doubting you. In heaven's 00:39:18.329 --> 00:39:23.349 name, no! Lord Carrig, hold. So once again you 00:39:23.349 --> 00:39:26.550 try to steal my wife. Put up your dagger. I am 00:39:26.550 --> 00:39:30.250 unarmed. So much the better. You first and then 00:39:30.250 --> 00:39:33.849 my wife. This time not so easily. I'm not the 00:39:33.849 --> 00:39:36.989 hunted but the hunter. Look through yourself! 00:39:39.210 --> 00:39:42.409 He stands with his dagger half raised, frozen 00:39:42.409 --> 00:39:44.630 with inaction as I hurtle myself towards him, 00:39:45.150 --> 00:39:47.889 hands raised to shield and grapple and destroy 00:39:47.889 --> 00:39:52.610 him. But what I reach for is nothing but a shade. 00:39:53.329 --> 00:39:56.730 My outstretched hands grasp only air, and my 00:39:56.730 --> 00:39:59.710 hurtling body passing through his spectral waist 00:39:59.710 --> 00:40:02.530 crashes full tilt against the crumbling battlement, 00:40:02.869 --> 00:40:05.630 which gives way like powder. And of a sudden, 00:40:06.369 --> 00:40:09.070 just like the lover in the ancient legend, I 00:40:09.070 --> 00:40:11.630 am plummeting like today's skydiver towards the 00:40:11.630 --> 00:40:15.670 rocks below. And in this awful moment, I know 00:40:15.670 --> 00:40:18.090 that I was just as wrong about my wife, Gloria, 00:40:18.750 --> 00:40:20.989 as Lord Carrig was a hundred years ago about 00:40:20.989 --> 00:40:25.429 Kleena. Small comfort now to know that I am legitimate, 00:40:26.289 --> 00:40:29.389 as the rocks below rush up towards me like an 00:40:29.389 --> 00:40:44.210 express train, and I am no more. ready, Sheila? 00:40:44.989 --> 00:40:49.929 In a moment. What is it, darling? A bell. I don't 00:40:49.929 --> 00:40:52.250 know if I ever want to hear a bell in my life 00:40:52.250 --> 00:40:55.449 again. That's only the church bell. We didn't 00:40:55.449 --> 00:40:59.289 ever hear the other one. What happened to him, 00:40:59.449 --> 00:41:02.929 Denny? Oh, I'd have to be God to answer that. 00:41:03.650 --> 00:41:06.670 He snapped, the way a lot of us do when life 00:41:06.670 --> 00:41:09.289 spins us around too fast and curdles our brains. 00:41:09.949 --> 00:41:12.469 Why do you think I ran away from it all and... 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:18.099 And came here to find peace Brian really killed 00:41:18.099 --> 00:41:21.460 Gloria. He'd had a nervous breakdown two months 00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:25.639 ago He escaped from the sanitarium his obsession 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:27.820 about paternity had put him there and Gloria 00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:32.880 was asking for a divorce He lost his head She 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:34.900 lost her life, but how did he think he could 00:41:34.900 --> 00:41:38.280 escape by coming here? I don't think he was looking 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.480 for escape but oh I No, it's such a writer's 00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:47.460 word, but expiation. Are you saying then he was 00:41:47.460 --> 00:41:49.760 after taking his own life? We'll never know, 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.699 Sheila. The police say there's some evidence 00:41:52.699 --> 00:41:55.400 that the IRA were using Carrie Kleiner as a depot 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:58.199 for smuggled arms from the sea. Maybe he stumbled 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.699 on them. The local folk would tell you that anyone 00:42:00.699 --> 00:42:03.019 in that haunted castle after dark, especially 00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:06.199 when the moon was full, was risking God knows 00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:11.789 what. And someone I know. Very dearly sensed 00:42:11.789 --> 00:42:16.409 he was marked by fate for death. Ah, don't. I 00:42:16.409 --> 00:42:19.449 wouldn't wish that on anyone. Perhaps for Brian 00:42:19.449 --> 00:42:22.909 Mackent was the only way. Let's us go give him 00:42:22.909 --> 00:42:43.010 a decent burial and wish him peace at last. A 00:42:43.010 --> 00:42:46.429 tortured man who borrowed a century -old sorrow 00:42:46.429 --> 00:42:49.610 and carried it on his back like the old man of 00:42:49.610 --> 00:42:53.329 the sea. Small wonder he broke eventually under 00:42:53.329 --> 00:42:57.250 the senseless strain and ran amok. A man to be 00:42:57.250 --> 00:43:01.869 censured, but also to be pitied. A man for whom 00:43:01.869 --> 00:43:06.070 the death bell sounded. Let his epitaph be John 00:43:06.070 --> 00:43:10.090 Dunn's, lest you stop to criticize too harshly. 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:15.559 Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:32.940 thee. I'll be back shortly. There does stand, 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:36.420 facing across the Atlantic to America, what once 00:43:36.420 --> 00:43:40.780 was a proud castle named Carrick Claynor. True 00:43:40.780 --> 00:43:44.360 enough, shortly after Brian Mackin's death, it 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.639 was discovered that the cellar had been used 00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:50.159 for extensive gun running and as a munition dump. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.880 And two months after Brian died there, a mysterious 00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:57.420 explosion tumbled the rest of the castle into 00:43:57.420 --> 00:44:00.659 the sea, including the bodies of two smugglers 00:44:00.659 --> 00:44:03.920 later identified as Patty Flynn and McMahan. 00:44:04.820 --> 00:44:07.719 Since in the police view they were prime suspects 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:11.260 on Brian Mackin's death, that closed the file, 00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:14.380 which had been titled for convenience, Carrig 00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:18.599 Clena. Our cast included Michael Tolan, Marion 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:22.539 Seldes, William Redfield, and Guy Sorrell. The 00:44:22.539 --> 00:44:24.619 entire production was under the direction of 00:44:24.619 --> 00:44:28.820 Hyman Brown. This is E .G. Marshall inviting 00:44:28.820 --> 00:44:31.920 you to return to our mystery theater for another 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:38.039 adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant 00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:39.280 dreams.