WEBVTT 00:00:20.330 --> 00:00:25.070 Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. How nice to see 00:00:25.070 --> 00:00:28.250 you again. It's good to know that you've become 00:00:28.250 --> 00:00:31.629 a regular visitor. And since you're such a good 00:00:31.629 --> 00:00:34.929 customer, it's only fair to warn you that the 00:00:34.929 --> 00:00:37.509 story you're about to hear may be a little bit 00:00:37.509 --> 00:00:41.250 more disturbing than most. If the sounds of a 00:00:41.250 --> 00:00:43.950 woman screaming in utter terror unnerve you, 00:00:44.350 --> 00:00:46.490 then perhaps you may not want to listen to a 00:00:46.490 --> 00:00:50.899 tale called Where Fear Begins. It's a story about 00:00:50.899 --> 00:00:54.859 exactly that, fear. But perhaps the best way 00:00:54.859 --> 00:00:57.679 to find out is to hear what happens to Amanda 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:01.039 Shepard on a dark night when moonlight streams 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:07.500 through her window, but not just moonlight. Oh, 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.920 good Lord! Something flew in here! It's right 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:38.819 in my room! drama, Where Fear Begins, was written 00:01:38.819 --> 00:01:41.939 especially for the Mystery Theatre by Henry Schlesser 00:01:41.939 --> 00:01:46.180 and stars Kim Hunter. I'll be back shortly with 00:01:46.180 --> 00:02:01.000 Act One. The night is still and peaceful in the 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.799 small town known as Manassas Valley. Most nights 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.959 are peaceful here. And one person who enjoys 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:11.479 that stillness is Miss Amanda Sheppard. The big 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:15.520 city is only 50 miles away. But for Amanda, it 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.039 might as well be 50 ,000. But there are many 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:23.000 ways to shorten distances. And tonight, something 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.419 is going to happen that will destroy the peace 00:02:25.419 --> 00:02:42.500 and stillness of Amanda Sheppard's life. Yes, 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:47.419 who's this? It's Vera! Vera? Oh, for heaven's 00:02:47.419 --> 00:02:49.580 sake, what's the matter with you? Don't you know 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:52.979 what time it is? Amanda, I need help! You better 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:56.219 help me! What are you talking about? Where are 00:02:56.219 --> 00:03:28.270 you? tomorrow. Come to think of it, it's even 00:03:28.270 --> 00:03:30.810 worse than that. I have a faculty meeting. Amanda, 00:03:30.889 --> 00:03:33.289 don't you, don't you, don't you understand? I 00:03:33.289 --> 00:03:38.710 need you. Don't make me explain. Just come. All 00:03:38.710 --> 00:03:41.849 right. Look, I can't promise when I'll be there 00:03:41.849 --> 00:03:47.430 exactly. Where are you staying? Vera? Vera, what's 00:03:47.430 --> 00:04:05.240 the address? Did you hear me? What can I get 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.639 you? Nothing, thanks. I was looking for the manager. 00:04:07.979 --> 00:04:11.360 Sorry, it's creditors. Well, maybe you can help 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:13.699 me. Have you worked here long? Truth is, I don't 00:04:13.699 --> 00:04:16.060 work here now. I'm what you might call a guest 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:20.000 bartender. Oh, I see. Tell me anyway. I'm trying 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.339 to find someone. I know she no longer works here. 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:25.180 She told me she quit her job about two months 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:28.220 ago, but it's the last bit of information I have 00:04:28.220 --> 00:04:31.540 about her. Who is her exactly? Her name is Vera 00:04:31.540 --> 00:04:34.949 Shepherd. Do you know her by any chance? Nope, 00:04:35.089 --> 00:04:38.110 I can't say I do. Well, she called me last night 00:04:38.110 --> 00:04:41.769 and sounded as if she was in trouble. I was tempted 00:04:41.769 --> 00:04:45.709 to call the police, but knowing Vera could just 00:04:45.709 --> 00:04:49.370 be some of her melodramatics. Well, thank you 00:04:49.370 --> 00:04:53.389 anyway. It's okay. Hey, wait a minute. Yes? This 00:04:53.389 --> 00:04:56.430 Vera Shepard, is she blonde and pretty about 00:04:56.430 --> 00:05:00.879 your height? Yes. As a girl, I met in an encounter 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.120 group last month. Her last name was Shepherd, 00:05:03.339 --> 00:05:07.600 but her first name was Roxanne. Roxanne? Well, 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.779 that could be her. She always hated the name 00:05:10.779 --> 00:05:13.579 Vera. She was always threatening to change it. 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:16.379 Have you any idea where she might be living? 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.839 Sure. She lives with me. What? In the same rooming 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:25.160 house, upstairs. An indescribable squalor, I 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.620 might add. What's a nice lady like you doing 00:05:27.620 --> 00:05:31.699 with a friend like Roxy? She's my sister. Ouch. 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.819 Well, excuse me. I think I'll go see if I can 00:05:34.819 --> 00:05:38.279 pry my foot out of my mouth. Wait a minute. Where's 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.420 this squalid, roomy house of yours? Number 9, 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.600 Hudson Street, near the river. Do you see a bum 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.860 sleeping in the doorway? That's the place. Hey, 00:05:45.860 --> 00:05:48.379 you weren't thinking of going there now. Of course. 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.220 That's not a good idea. You can't go into a neighborhood 00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:54.000 like that, looking the way you do. What's wrong 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.040 with the way I look? Wait a bit. My friend Tony 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.139 will be back here in five minutes to take over 00:05:59.139 --> 00:06:01.980 the bar. I'll go with you. I'm sure I can find 00:06:01.980 --> 00:06:04.459 it alone. Some pretty bad customers around there. 00:06:04.819 --> 00:06:07.240 They don't look any better here. You can trust 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.240 me. Underneath this dirty shirt beats a heart 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:21.500 of pure soap. All right. Be careful of those 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:24.420 stairs. They're in bad shape. How can people 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.079 live in a place like this? Nobody lives here. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.680 We exist on another plane. Our bodies may wallow 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:34.180 in filth, but our souls live in penthouses. Is 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:36.100 that what you learned in your encounter group? 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.360 Well, here's your door. The grand portal of the 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:45.819 Princess Roxanne. She has a radio on. Well, that 00:06:45.819 --> 00:06:51.319 isn't all she has on. Princess is a little hard 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:57.089 of hearing. She must be home. Let me try. Vera? 00:06:57.870 --> 00:07:01.170 Vera, are you in there? Might be asleep or stoned. 00:07:01.269 --> 00:07:03.129 Maybe she just went out and left the radio on. 00:07:03.410 --> 00:07:05.889 Look, I'm terribly worried about her. She really 00:07:05.889 --> 00:07:08.230 sounded dreadful. She said she was frightened 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:10.050 about something. I don't always break the door, 00:07:10.149 --> 00:07:12.149 Ed. It's pretty flimsy. Do you think we should? 00:07:12.269 --> 00:07:16.129 Just say the word. All right. Please. That's 00:07:16.129 --> 00:07:18.050 the word. By the way, what did you say your name 00:07:18.050 --> 00:07:20.870 was? Amanda Shepard. My name is Kurt Davies. 00:07:21.110 --> 00:07:26.300 Pleased to meet you. That was easy. Come on in. 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.680 What an awful place. I told you, indescribable 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.519 squalor. The bedroom must be in here. Vera? That's 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:42.180 me. It's Amanda. Vera! Oh, my God! Is she sick? 00:07:43.139 --> 00:07:48.379 Look at her! Look at her eyes! Easy, easy. I 00:07:48.379 --> 00:07:53.660 don't think she's breathing. She's still... My 00:07:53.660 --> 00:08:03.459 sister is dead. I'm a shepherd. If you think 00:08:03.459 --> 00:08:06.360 you can talk about it now, let's get a few of 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.660 the facts straight. There's only one thing you 00:08:08.660 --> 00:08:11.379 have to get straight, Lieutenant Duryea. Somebody 00:08:11.379 --> 00:08:17.319 did this to my sister. Yeah, you told me. How 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:20.680 long were you two separated? A little over a 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:23.509 year. She left Manasseh Valley about 14 months 00:08:23.509 --> 00:08:25.970 ago. What for? Just to come to the big city? 00:08:26.730 --> 00:08:29.490 I suppose that was her reason. Any other reason 00:08:29.490 --> 00:08:32.230 you know about? Was there a man, for instance? 00:08:32.730 --> 00:08:34.649 There was a man, all right, but not what you're 00:08:34.649 --> 00:08:37.750 thinking. Vera had a fight with our father. Your 00:08:37.750 --> 00:08:40.629 father lived in Manasseh Valley? Yes. My sister 00:08:40.629 --> 00:08:43.110 and I never got along very well with him. Uh, 00:08:43.129 --> 00:08:46.970 the both of you? Yes, both of us. But then Vera 00:08:46.970 --> 00:08:48.710 had this fight with him and she packed her bags 00:08:48.710 --> 00:08:51.779 and left. She had some idea of becoming an actress 00:08:51.779 --> 00:08:54.779 or a singer or something like that. Did she? 00:08:55.539 --> 00:09:00.100 No. I don't know what she became here. And when 00:09:00.100 --> 00:09:02.980 she called you last night, what did she say exactly? 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.000 She just said she was scared. Scared out of her 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.600 wits. And I heard this terrible scream. Lieutenant, 00:09:10.779 --> 00:09:13.399 there's only one explanation. Somebody was after 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.580 her. Somebody was in her apartment last night 00:09:16.580 --> 00:09:20.509 and killed her. I'm sorry, Miss Shepherd, but 00:09:20.509 --> 00:09:25.409 this is no murder case. But you saw her eyes. 00:09:26.190 --> 00:09:28.830 You saw the way she looked as if she'd been frightened 00:09:28.830 --> 00:09:32.470 to death. There's just no such thing, Miss Shepherd. 00:09:33.590 --> 00:09:36.850 At least not on the law books. Your sister suffered 00:09:36.850 --> 00:09:40.250 a cardiac arrest that's a heart attack. I can't 00:09:40.250 --> 00:09:43.210 believe that. That look on her face. It was just 00:09:43.210 --> 00:09:46.779 a... Death agony, that's all you saw. Somebody 00:09:46.779 --> 00:09:50.059 was after her, some man probably. I'm sure of 00:09:50.059 --> 00:09:52.120 it. Maybe she was scared because she was sick. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:55.360 There was nothing wrong with her health. Look, 00:09:55.460 --> 00:09:57.799 the medical examiner knows his business, Miss. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.659 Of course, if you want to insist on an autopsy, 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:04.440 that's your privilege. An autopsy? That means 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:09.559 cutting her open. That's what it means. And if 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.639 it proved you were wrong? that he didn't die 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:15.679 of natural causes. Oh, we'd be the first to admit 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:21.820 it. All right, then. I want an autopsy. But I'm 00:10:21.820 --> 00:10:24.000 sure that something horrible happened to Vera. 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.259 Okay, whatever you say, Miss Shepard. I'll be 00:10:28.259 --> 00:10:31.639 in touch with you. Oh, uh, where are you going 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:42.210 to be staying? I'll be staying right here. I 00:10:42.210 --> 00:10:44.429 just don't see how you can live in that place. 00:10:44.929 --> 00:10:46.669 Rent's been paid until the end of the month. 00:10:46.850 --> 00:10:48.570 There's no reason I should stay anywhere else. 00:10:48.850 --> 00:10:51.269 I thought you had a job in Manassah Falls. Manassah 00:10:51.269 --> 00:10:55.269 Valley. I do have a job. I teach school. I've 00:10:55.269 --> 00:10:57.649 already asked for a leave of absence. I'm not 00:10:57.649 --> 00:11:00.269 leaving here until the police do something about 00:11:00.269 --> 00:11:02.789 this. You may have a long wait. It doesn't matter 00:11:02.789 --> 00:11:05.889 how long. I know something happened to my sister 00:11:05.889 --> 00:11:08.110 and nobody seems to care. Listen, I'll be taking 00:11:08.110 --> 00:11:09.970 care of the bar for another couple of hours. 00:11:10.210 --> 00:11:12.250 Why don't I meet you later for a drink or something? 00:11:12.509 --> 00:11:17.090 No, I have to get home. I have to call my father 00:11:17.090 --> 00:11:19.929 and I have to get some sleep. I'm so dreadfully 00:11:19.929 --> 00:11:23.590 tired. Okay, but if you need a friend, remember, 00:11:23.850 --> 00:11:33.600 I live one floor away. Yes, I'll remember. Dad, 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.559 there was no way I could make the funeral arrangements 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.779 yet. Why not? Because the police are performing 00:11:40.779 --> 00:11:44.360 an autopsy on Vera's body to determine the exact 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:48.259 cause of death. What? I thought you told me she 00:11:48.259 --> 00:11:50.980 had a heart attack. Yes, I still thought it'd 00:11:50.980 --> 00:11:53.139 be wise to learn more about it. Dad, she was 00:11:53.139 --> 00:11:56.779 only 26 years old. Yeah, but she wasn't a well 00:11:56.779 --> 00:11:59.399 girl, Amanda. You know that. She had rheumatic 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.070 fever when she was... Oh, it seemed perfectly 00:12:02.070 --> 00:12:05.889 well to me. But, Dad, I'm just not satisfied 00:12:05.889 --> 00:12:08.490 about this. That's all there is to it. That's 00:12:08.490 --> 00:12:10.710 why I'm not coming home until I find out more. 00:12:11.250 --> 00:12:14.149 You're a stubborn woman, Amanda. You're just 00:12:14.149 --> 00:12:17.750 as stubborn as your mother was. All right, Dad. 00:12:18.429 --> 00:12:20.769 I'll try to speak to you again tomorrow. What's 00:12:20.769 --> 00:12:23.590 the hurry? You haven't talked three minutes worth 00:12:23.590 --> 00:12:27.230 yet. I'm exhausted. I've got to get some sleep. 00:12:27.549 --> 00:12:36.120 Goodbye, Dad. How can I sleep? How can I? You 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:40.340 know, I'm just gonna lie awake all night, just 00:12:40.340 --> 00:12:45.200 thinking about Vera. Oh, Lord, why did I decide 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.740 to stay in this horrible place? I have to clean 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:52.519 it up tomorrow. It's filthy. At least that'll 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:57.639 give me something to do. Oh, if only I could 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:01.870 sleep. I wonder if there is anything in the medicine 00:13:01.870 --> 00:13:08.309 cabinet. Won't hurt to look. What a mess of bottles. 00:13:09.710 --> 00:13:15.289 Half of them are empty. What's this one? Aspirin. 00:13:16.230 --> 00:13:20.610 Where am I? This one's marked. For sleep. Thank 00:13:20.610 --> 00:13:24.389 God. It's the only way I'll get to close my eyes 00:13:24.389 --> 00:13:47.649 tonight. What is it? It sounds like someone at 00:13:47.649 --> 00:13:54.470 the door. At the door. One minute. All right. 00:13:54.490 --> 00:13:58.049 All right. I'm coming. Just find my slippers. 00:14:42.330 --> 00:14:45.429 visitor. Of course, there are neighborhoods in 00:14:45.429 --> 00:14:48.389 every large city that have their share of gorillas, 00:14:49.009 --> 00:14:51.330 but they're customarily of the human variety. 00:14:51.909 --> 00:14:54.769 How did this specimen get to Amanda Shepard's 00:14:54.769 --> 00:14:57.990 apartment? I'd be glad to tell you, but that 00:14:57.990 --> 00:15:01.009 would be spoiling the surprises that follow when 00:15:01.009 --> 00:15:16.000 I return shortly with Act Two. Here's the second 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.019 act of where fear begins. Well, it appears that 00:15:20.019 --> 00:15:22.860 no harm has come to our friend Amanda Shepard, 00:15:23.419 --> 00:15:25.659 unless you call a good case of hysteria harm. 00:15:26.460 --> 00:15:29.159 But now there's another visitor to the apartment, 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.100 Kurt Davies, who quickly raced up the stairs 00:15:32.100 --> 00:15:36.279 when he heard her cries for help. I saw it. I 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.259 saw it. So help me. I saw a gorilla. An ape. 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.580 I don't know what you call it. Sure you saw it, 00:15:42.580 --> 00:15:45.899 Amanda, but in a dream. The difference between 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:49.559 a dream and reality, it was a real gorilla. It 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:52.720 broke the door open. No, no, honey. I'm the one 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.159 who busted into the door, remember? And first 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.320 thing tomorrow, you've got to get a lock on it. 00:15:57.399 --> 00:16:01.240 Kirk, please listen to me. This was real. I know 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:05.139 it was. This animal tried to get in here and 00:16:05.139 --> 00:16:07.779 kill me. When I started to scream, it went away. 00:16:07.940 --> 00:16:10.480 Amanda, I didn't see any gorilla coming out of 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.620 this place. I mean, wouldn't I have seen it too? 00:16:14.060 --> 00:16:16.159 Maybe it's hiding somewhere in the building. 00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:19.259 Maybe it has a hiding place. This is really crazy. 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.919 Look, maybe that's what Vera saw. Maybe that's 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.220 what she was horribly frightened about. Amanda, 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.740 have you ever searched this apartment? Searched 00:16:29.740 --> 00:16:31.779 it? What for? Well, maybe you'd find something, 00:16:31.940 --> 00:16:35.500 letters, a diary maybe. Oh, Vera never kept a 00:16:35.500 --> 00:16:37.559 diary. It's worth the try, isn't it? Come on, 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.980 let's look right now. I'll help you. Why? Why 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:46.139 should you want to help me? Why not? You don't 00:16:46.139 --> 00:16:48.820 really care what happened to my sister. You hardly 00:16:48.820 --> 00:16:52.659 knew her Maybe I didn't want to know her Why 00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:57.340 not? What's the point of knocking the dead? No, 00:16:57.340 --> 00:17:02.360 tell me please Why didn't you like Vera? I didn't 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.579 like Roxanne because she called herself Roxanne 00:17:05.579 --> 00:17:07.720 when her name was Vera I didn't like the way 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.140 she spent her time looking for one kick after 00:17:10.140 --> 00:17:12.740 the other even if it meant kicking somebody else 00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:17.390 in the teeth Was she really like that? Look, 00:17:17.490 --> 00:17:19.890 it's late. Maybe you should go back to bed. We'll 00:17:19.890 --> 00:17:23.289 search the place another time. No, no, no. You're 00:17:23.289 --> 00:17:26.470 right. You know, I should have done this before. 00:17:27.690 --> 00:17:29.650 I remember seeing something in the bedroom, as 00:17:29.650 --> 00:17:31.869 a matter of fact. Say what? It looked like an 00:17:31.869 --> 00:17:34.630 address book. Wait, I'll get it. Maybe it is 00:17:34.630 --> 00:17:37.730 a diary. A record of all the kicks she got out 00:17:37.730 --> 00:17:41.940 of life. No, no. It's an address book. Not too 00:17:41.940 --> 00:17:46.380 many names in it. Let me see if I'm in it. No. 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:48.259 Guess I didn't make that much of an impression. 00:17:49.019 --> 00:17:52.160 Do you recognize anybody's name? Let's see. Well, 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:54.019 here's Tony's. That's the place where I work. 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.200 I thought you were only a guest bartender. That's 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.819 only temporary. Until my rich uncle in Argentina 00:17:59.819 --> 00:18:03.660 dies. That is if I have a rich uncle. Wait a 00:18:03.660 --> 00:18:07.160 minute. What'd you find? Are you sure your sister 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:09.819 was healthy? Well, my father doesn't agree, but 00:18:09.819 --> 00:18:12.079 yeah, I think she was, yes. I mean, I mean, healthy 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.819 in the head. Ever occur to you that the call 00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:17.759 she made to you that night was just... well, 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.680 that she might have been wigging out? Oh, no. 00:18:21.259 --> 00:18:24.079 Look, I'm sure Vera wasn't crazy. Well, the reason 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.319 I ask is she has Dr. Swally's number in her book. 00:18:27.619 --> 00:18:31.140 Who? Dr. Raymond Swally, I've heard of him. What 00:18:31.140 --> 00:18:33.500 kind of a doctor is he? Suppose you could call 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:35.599 him a shrink, but I think he calls himself a 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:38.480 psychologist. If your sister Vera was all that 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.740 together, would she be seeing someone like that? 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.019 I don't know. How would you like me to see Dr. 00:18:45.339 --> 00:18:53.980 Swally and ask him? No, the name isn't familiar, 00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:56.779 I'm afraid. But I won't trust my memory. I have 00:18:56.779 --> 00:18:58.740 a book that my secretary keeps for me. She might 00:18:58.740 --> 00:19:02.200 have called herself Roxanne Shepard. Very neat 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:04.440 alphabetical book. Miss Regalman tends to be 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:06.380 a little compulsive about her record -keeping. 00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:08.940 I have to explore her subconscious one of these 00:19:08.940 --> 00:19:12.619 days. No, there's no one of that name who was 00:19:12.619 --> 00:19:15.700 my patient. Maybe you knew her personally. Oh, 00:19:15.700 --> 00:19:18.079 I'm quite sure I didn't. Yeah, but your name 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.559 was in her address book. She might have heard 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.440 about me. You mean she might have taken down 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:24.880 your name but never called you? That's possible, 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.259 isn't it? I guess so. How old did you say the 00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:32.480 girl was? Twenty -six. Pity. And the cause of 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.460 death? They called it cardiac arrest, but her 00:19:35.460 --> 00:19:37.259 sister doesn't believe it. She insisted that 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:40.779 an autopsy be performed. Was it? Yes. And the 00:19:40.779 --> 00:19:43.500 result? Negative. It was heart failure, all right. 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:47.019 Well, then, why isn't the lady satisfied? Because 00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:49.539 she still thinks that people can die of fright. 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:57.640 Pure and simple fright. What's the use of my 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:00.720 staying any longer, Kurt? I'm just... packing 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.140 up various things and leaving. You want me to 00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:06.019 help you? No, just taking everything that belonged 00:20:06.019 --> 00:20:08.640 to her, not even trying to sort it out. Don't 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:10.759 forget the stuff in the medicine cabinet. I'll 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:13.880 bring it to you. Most of the bottles are empty. 00:20:14.059 --> 00:20:18.539 So I see, but this one isn't. What's this, Amanda? 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:21.700 Sleeping pills. I took one of them last night. 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.740 Hey, wait a minute. Let me see that again. Kirk, 00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:31.289 look. The label. What about it? It says Dr. Swally. 00:20:31.509 --> 00:20:34.990 What? You said that Swally denied that Vera was 00:20:34.990 --> 00:20:37.069 his patient, yet he prescribed these sleeping 00:20:37.069 --> 00:20:39.349 pills. Are you sure? Well, see for yourself. 00:20:40.289 --> 00:20:43.509 Well, what do you know? Now, why would he lie 00:20:43.509 --> 00:20:47.049 about something like that? I don't know. He must 00:20:47.049 --> 00:20:50.730 be hiding something. I have to know what it is. 00:20:51.089 --> 00:20:53.849 Yeah, but how? If he lied to me once, he'll lie 00:20:53.849 --> 00:20:57.359 again. What if I went to see him? I told him 00:20:57.359 --> 00:20:59.400 about you, about your being Vera's sister. What 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.640 if I didn't go there as Vera's sister? What if 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:11.240 I went as a patient? I'm so miserable all the 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.700 time, Doctor. So depressed and nervous. I don't 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:17.559 want to wake up in the morning. I want to go 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:21.000 right on sleeping, hibernating from the world. 00:21:22.059 --> 00:21:24.539 Do you think you can help me? Well, that all 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:27.759 depends. How much do you know about my treatment? 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:31.279 Well, not really very much. Just that I've heard 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:33.720 you've been able to help people. But you must 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:36.859 have also heard that my therapy isn't quite orthodox. 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.140 Well, no, no. I guess I've never heard that. 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.019 Oh, don't be alarmed. Basically, I'm a Freudian. 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:45.400 I believe in the theory of the subconscious. 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.779 But I look at it slightly differently. I call 00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:52.839 the subconscious the dungeon of the human mind. 00:21:52.970 --> 00:21:56.029 the place where we hide all our guilty fears. 00:21:56.990 --> 00:21:59.329 A conscious mind tries to forget their existence, 00:21:59.690 --> 00:22:02.690 but they cry out and rattle their chains and 00:22:02.690 --> 00:22:05.470 make our lives miserable. Do you understand? 00:22:06.210 --> 00:22:10.329 I think so. Personally, I believe that fear is 00:22:10.329 --> 00:22:13.490 the true enemy of mental health. What I try to 00:22:13.490 --> 00:22:17.529 do for my patients is eliminate fear. We're all 00:22:17.529 --> 00:22:21.289 afraid of something, aren't we? Right now, you 00:22:21.289 --> 00:22:25.000 look as if you're afraid of me. No, I'm really 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.779 very interested. It's one thing to know what 00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:31.960 we fear. Insects, mice, grizzly bears, high places. 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:35.740 But many of our fears are so buried in our minds 00:22:35.740 --> 00:22:39.259 that we forget their existence. Do you ever have 00:22:39.259 --> 00:22:43.579 nightmares, Miss Lewis? Yes. In fact, I had one 00:22:43.579 --> 00:22:46.480 just the other night. I dreamt that a gorilla 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.119 tried to break into my apartment. It was... Ooh, 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.799 so terribly real. Are you especially afraid of 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:55.319 gorillas? I've never even thought about them, 00:22:55.339 --> 00:22:59.960 not since I was... For heaven's sake. You were 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:03.660 about to say, not since you were a child. Yes, 00:23:03.740 --> 00:23:07.920 when I was a child. Only four years older. I'd 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:10.420 forgotten all about it. But you remember now. 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:14.380 Yes, my father took me to the zoo. I was having 00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:16.680 a good time until he brought me to the gorilla 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.440 cage. And it frightened you. Well, at first I 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:21.519 was fascinated. I'd never seen anything like 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:25.599 it before. So much like a man and not a man. 00:23:26.900 --> 00:23:28.440 So daddy picked me up so I could get a better 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:34.200 look. And it reached for me. It reached out for 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:36.599 me. Oh, God, how could I have forgotten that? 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:40.099 I screamed. I screamed at the top of my lungs. 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:42.900 And just the other night, you screamed again? 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:48.079 Yes. Isn't it incredible? Don't you see what 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.960 happened? You relived this fearful event of your 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.880 childhood. What we call a traumatic experience. 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:58.539 Now that you've done it, faced it, perhaps you've 00:23:58.539 --> 00:24:01.019 also uprooted it, along with other repressed 00:24:01.019 --> 00:24:03.140 fears. Well, I don't know about that. All I know 00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:06.740 is I was absolutely terrified. Terrified, yes. 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:12.279 but perhaps also purify. Ms. Lewis, I'm sure 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:15.700 you've heard of LSD, haven't you? LSD? Oh, yes, 00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:17.440 of course. It's that drug that makes you see 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:19.740 hallucination. No, it isn't the only drug, you 00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:24.559 know. There's mescaline, psilocybin, and a new 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:27.640 derivative of LSD -25 which I've developed known 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:32.359 as EN -30. I don't understand. Well, LSD is the 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:36.519 chemical shorthand for lysergic acid and diethylamide. 00:24:36.829 --> 00:24:39.750 A very small amount can produce hallucinations 00:24:39.750 --> 00:24:43.730 of every form and variety. EN30 is rather different. 00:24:44.470 --> 00:24:47.609 It produces only one kind of hallucinatory affect. 00:24:48.470 --> 00:24:52.970 The effect of fear. Fear? Some people call it, 00:24:52.970 --> 00:24:56.869 incorrectly, the horror drug. It's a powerful 00:24:56.869 --> 00:24:59.650 hallucinogen. Dangerous when used carelessly, 00:24:59.890 --> 00:25:02.869 but extremely useful under controlled conditions. 00:25:03.650 --> 00:25:06.200 It goes right to the sub - basement of human 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:09.559 consciousness and brings up images from the very 00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:13.700 place where fear begins, the dungeon of our minds. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.460 You mean it makes people see the things that 00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:21.000 they're afraid of? Yes, usually the things which 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.980 frightened us when we were children. And what 00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:27.519 makes it dangerous? The fact that we might be 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:30.960 scared to death? Scared to death is a highly 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:35.029 inexact term, but... In certain cases... In the 00:25:35.029 --> 00:25:39.109 case of a heart condition? Oh, I would never 00:25:39.109 --> 00:25:41.130 administer the drug to anyone with such a history. 00:25:42.529 --> 00:25:45.289 How long does the effect last? It varies greatly 00:25:45.289 --> 00:25:49.150 among individuals, but like LSD, the effect can 00:25:49.150 --> 00:25:52.329 often be cyclical. That is, the hallucinations 00:25:52.329 --> 00:25:55.750 can return on a cyclical basis, even if no EN30 00:25:55.750 --> 00:25:58.349 has been taken for several days. This is one 00:25:58.349 --> 00:26:01.769 reason why control use is very important. Dr. 00:26:02.069 --> 00:26:05.470 Swalley, are you giving this drug to all your 00:26:05.470 --> 00:26:09.230 patients? Oh, no, my dear. Only to a few. And 00:26:09.230 --> 00:26:12.130 under stricter supervision. And of course, with 00:26:12.130 --> 00:26:14.769 their complete understanding and agreement. I 00:26:14.769 --> 00:26:19.970 see. Yes, I really think I understand now, doctor. 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:26.359 Listen, Amanda, do you know what you're saying? 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:29.180 You're accusing Swally of being a criminal. That's 00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:32.480 why he lied to you. He was afraid to admit that 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:34.900 Vera was his patient because he gave her this 00:26:34.900 --> 00:26:38.619 horror pill of his. And she died. Well, you don't 00:26:38.619 --> 00:26:41.920 know that for sure. I don't know it. He says 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:44.579 he never gave anyone the pill except under controlled 00:26:44.579 --> 00:26:48.960 conditions. But he lied. He said he'd never give 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.380 one of those things to someone with heart trouble, 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:54.180 but he gave one to Vera. Look, you're all worn 00:26:54.180 --> 00:26:56.240 out. You better get to sleep, and we'll talk 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.380 about it in the morning. I'm going to the police 00:26:58.380 --> 00:27:02.279 in the morning, Kurt. Will you go with me? Amanda, 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:05.640 I've already been to the police. What? I saw 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:08.500 Lieutenant Durier. But why? I've been worried 00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:10.799 about this undercover game you've been playing, 00:27:10.859 --> 00:27:13.279 so I talked to Durier, told him about what you 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:16.240 were doing and what you suspected. And? Durye 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.799 made a check of Swally's records, Amanda. He 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:21.180 made it part of the routine police inquiry into 00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:23.640 your sister's death. What are you trying to say? 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:28.880 Swally wasn't lying about it. What? He wasn't 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.859 lying about your sister. She was never his patient. 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.519 But... the... the... the sleeping pills... They 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.740 must have belonged to one of your sister's roommates, 00:27:36.779 --> 00:27:39.380 or maybe she just swiped them from somebody else's 00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:41.960 house. Didn't you tell me that Vera was always 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:49.259 swiping things? Oh, Kurt. Then I'm wrong. It 00:27:49.259 --> 00:27:52.640 wasn't his fault. That's the way it looks. If 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.880 your sister was having nightmares, she was having 00:27:55.880 --> 00:28:09.359 them on her own. Oh, it's warm in here. It's 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:12.920 warm to sleep. Gotta open that window or I'll 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:23.140 suffocate. It's so hard to open it. There. That 00:28:23.140 --> 00:28:28.819 should help a little. What was that? Oh, good 00:28:28.819 --> 00:28:31.500 Lord. Oh, good Lord, something's flowing here. 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:55.880 It's right in my room. which fills almost all 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:59.619 of us with dread. Is it the cape -like wings, 00:29:00.259 --> 00:29:04.099 the rat -like face, the raking claws, the terrifying 00:29:04.099 --> 00:29:07.680 screech of their voices? Can anyone blame Amanda 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.039 Shepard for the cry of horror she admits when 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:12.880 that winged monster comes flapping into her room? 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.200 Or was there really a fact? Was it only a creature 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:21.680 of her imagination? We'll learn the answer when 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:36.210 we return shortly with Act 3. Amanda Shepard 00:29:36.210 --> 00:29:40.349 has had another nightmare. A dream so vivid that 00:29:40.349 --> 00:29:42.750 she lies in her bed this morning in a state of 00:29:42.750 --> 00:29:46.369 shock. Still unable to believe that the bat which 00:29:46.369 --> 00:29:48.930 flew into her room the night before isn't still 00:29:48.930 --> 00:29:51.589 entangled in her hair. It may have been the heat, 00:29:51.789 --> 00:29:54.559 Amanda. This building is a real hot box when 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.799 the weather turns warm. Yes. I don't know. Maybe 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.940 that's all it was. Maybe I had some kind of a 00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:02.960 heat stroke. Yes, me. You want to get out of 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:05.180 this apartment right now. Maybe that's another 00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:07.519 reason you have bad dreams. This place is depressing 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:10.660 you. Yes, you're right. There's no point in my 00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:14.079 staying here anymore. The police approve that, 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:16.200 haven't they? You just have to accept the truth. 00:30:16.700 --> 00:30:20.559 Your sister died because... Well, because she 00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:25.130 died. I guess that means I should go back. Doesn't 00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:27.690 mean you have to go back to Manassavalli. Listen, 00:30:27.750 --> 00:30:29.190 have you ever thought of teaching right here 00:30:29.190 --> 00:30:31.470 in the city? We've got an awful lot of kids here 00:30:31.470 --> 00:30:34.789 who need... No, Kurt. No, it's time for me to 00:30:34.789 --> 00:30:45.930 go home. So the whole thing was a waste of time, 00:30:46.089 --> 00:30:49.250 wasn't it? I suppose so, Dad. I told you you've 00:30:49.250 --> 00:30:52.769 been stubborn, wasting two weeks on a wild goose 00:30:52.769 --> 00:30:56.789 chase. Dad, don't you understand? Vera died without 00:30:56.789 --> 00:30:59.869 either one of us being there. She died all alone, 00:31:00.349 --> 00:31:03.529 in agony. And whose fault was that? Who told 00:31:03.529 --> 00:31:06.750 her to leave home? All right. Let's not talk 00:31:06.750 --> 00:31:10.269 about it anymore. Now you even sound like your 00:31:10.269 --> 00:31:12.690 mother. Whenever she didn't want to hear the 00:31:12.690 --> 00:31:15.630 truth, she'd ask me not to talk about it anymore. 00:31:15.650 --> 00:31:18.440 We've said it all, haven't we? I'm going to bed 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.319 early. I've been sleeping very badly lately. 00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:29.960 Amanda, wait. Yes, Dad? Look, why does it have 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:33.319 to be this way between us? I don't know what 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.420 you mean. It's been like this for years, this 00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:42.140 wall of ice between you and me. What put it there? 00:31:42.349 --> 00:31:45.289 I've asked myself a thousand times, and I still 00:31:45.289 --> 00:31:47.710 don't know the answer. Maybe you'll never know, 00:31:47.789 --> 00:31:49.990 Dad. Oh, I knew it started right after your mother 00:31:49.990 --> 00:31:53.710 died. That was when you... That was when you 00:31:53.710 --> 00:31:58.130 turned against me. You and Vera both. Oh, please, 00:31:58.289 --> 00:32:01.190 Dad. We'll discuss it some other time. I'm really 00:32:01.190 --> 00:32:03.529 too tired. No, no, you'll never discuss it with 00:32:03.529 --> 00:32:06.910 me. You'll just go on hating me for the rest 00:32:06.910 --> 00:32:09.730 of your life. I don't hate you. I saw the look 00:32:09.730 --> 00:32:13.079 in your eyes the day your mother died. I saw 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:15.819 the way you looked at me, Amanda. I don't remember 00:32:15.819 --> 00:32:18.079 how I looked at you. How could I? I was in a 00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:21.119 state of shock. You were in a state, all right. 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:24.440 And you've never snapped out of it. Please, Dad. 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:28.279 All right, go to bed. No use trying to reach 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:39.819 you. Never been any use. Hi, handsome. Hey. This 00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:41.980 is turning into a permanent job for you, isn't 00:32:41.980 --> 00:32:44.700 it? I guess I'm just a natural born bartender, 00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:47.619 so what can I get you tonight? How about a Manhattan? 00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.559 Did you learn how to make one of those? Give 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.380 it a try. Hey, how's your blonde friend these 00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:57.500 days? Which one? I know a half a dozen blondes. 00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:00.180 You know the one I mean. The one who looks like 00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:04.220 a schoolteacher. She is a schoolteacher. No kidding. 00:33:04.740 --> 00:33:06.819 And where is she now? Going back to teaching 00:33:06.819 --> 00:33:10.000 school, I guess. Hey, you really liked her, didn't 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.779 you? That's what I heard around. I liked her. 00:33:13.339 --> 00:33:16.259 But she's strictly a small town girl. Is it true 00:33:16.259 --> 00:33:19.680 that she was Roxy's sister? It's hard to believe, 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.140 isn't it? A Roxy's shepherd would have a sister 00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:25.380 like that. Hey, did you know that I was her last 00:33:25.380 --> 00:33:28.279 roommate? What? That's right. I paid half the 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.019 rent on that filthy pad of hers. I couldn't stand 00:33:31.019 --> 00:33:32.859 him more than one week. She was stoned all the 00:33:32.859 --> 00:33:35.160 time, you know? Yeah, I figured she hit the stuff 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:38.220 pretty hard. That girl would take anything, as 00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:39.980 long as there was a kick in it. She even went 00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:41.960 to some doctor just to get some kind of pill 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:44.500 he was hanting out. What'd you say? She heard 00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:47.819 about some nutty kind of LSD that a shrink was 00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:50.420 using on his patient. She told me she was going 00:33:50.420 --> 00:33:52.220 to see him and get some... Wait a second, do 00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:54.859 you know the shrink's name? No. Was it Swally? 00:33:55.099 --> 00:33:57.299 Dr. Raymond Swally? Well, how should I know? 00:33:57.500 --> 00:34:04.880 Well, I've got to know. How many times do I have 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.559 to tell you I never had a patient by that name? 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.460 If you don't believe me, ask the police. All 00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:11.340 right, maybe you never had a patient named Shepherd, 00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:13.599 but maybe she didn't give you her right name. 00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:16.900 First Orley. I'm quite sure you're mistaken about 00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:19.650 this. I've only administered EN30 treatment to 00:34:19.650 --> 00:34:22.750 four patients. I can assure you this girl wasn't 00:34:22.750 --> 00:34:24.309 one of them. Dr. Swalley, will you just look 00:34:24.309 --> 00:34:27.349 at this photograph? Oh, all right. Does she look 00:34:27.349 --> 00:34:31.750 at all familiar? Nope. I never treated her. Look 00:34:31.750 --> 00:34:33.789 carefully. It's a professional portrait. She 00:34:33.789 --> 00:34:35.809 thought she wanted to be an actress and she's 00:34:35.809 --> 00:34:38.929 pretty heavily made up. Never saw this woman 00:34:38.929 --> 00:34:44.349 before. Well, I guess I'm wrong. All right, doctor. 00:34:44.610 --> 00:34:48.599 Sorry I bothered you again. Wait. Just a minute. 00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:51.739 Something come to you? She does look familiar. 00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:56.199 She wasn't a patient, but I have seen her before. 00:34:56.219 --> 00:34:59.780 Where? Right here in my office. She came in without 00:34:59.780 --> 00:35:01.599 an appointment. That's why there was no record 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:04.340 of her. She just sat outside and waited. And 00:35:04.340 --> 00:35:06.699 did you see her? Just for a few minutes. Just 00:35:06.699 --> 00:35:08.539 long enough to realize that she wasn't interested 00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:11.639 in therapy. All she wanted was the drug. E -N 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:14.630 -30. I told her that I wouldn't accept her as 00:35:14.630 --> 00:35:16.849 a patient, that she wasn't nearly stable enough. 00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:19.769 I gave her a prescription for a mild sleeping 00:35:19.769 --> 00:35:22.969 compound, nothing else. But then... Then what? 00:35:23.530 --> 00:35:27.349 Well, I... I don't know this for certain. I could 00:35:27.349 --> 00:35:30.829 be mistaken about it. About what, doctor? I always 00:35:30.829 --> 00:35:33.670 suspected that she might have been the one who 00:35:33.670 --> 00:35:35.130 stole those pills. Wait a minute, wait a minute. 00:35:35.170 --> 00:35:37.570 Are you saying that Vera Shepard stole some EN 00:35:37.570 --> 00:35:40.269 -30 from you? I can't prove it. It wasn't until 00:35:40.269 --> 00:35:43.019 days later that I missed them. I remember stepping 00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:45.000 out of the room for a few minutes to take a call 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.380 from a hysterical patient. Dr. Swalley, Vera 00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:49.619 Shepard was a klepto. Her sister told me that 00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:52.599 she stole things all the time. If she stole those 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:56.300 pills of yours... Good Lord. Can it really be? 00:35:57.179 --> 00:36:00.440 The dosage was so large, too large for safety. 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.679 If she took them, anything might have happened. 00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:07.260 Something did happen. She had a nightmare, Doctor. 00:36:07.420 --> 00:36:09.820 She conjured up a nightmare so terrible that 00:36:09.820 --> 00:36:14.570 it killed her. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt 00:36:14.570 --> 00:36:17.289 anyone. You know that wasn't my intention. Oh, 00:36:17.289 --> 00:36:18.750 wait a minute. Wait a minute. You did say that 00:36:18.750 --> 00:36:21.190 you gave her a prescription for sleeping pills. 00:36:21.309 --> 00:36:25.030 Yes, I did. I doubt that she ever filled it. 00:36:25.530 --> 00:36:28.570 It was the EN30 she really wanted. Then what 00:36:28.570 --> 00:36:31.150 was in that bottle? What were the pills her sister 00:36:31.150 --> 00:36:34.469 took? A system? Dr. Swally, I've got to get to 00:36:34.469 --> 00:36:52.590 a telephone. She's asleep right now. Who is this? 00:36:52.730 --> 00:36:57.849 Is this Mr. Shepherd? Oh, that's right. Can I 00:36:57.849 --> 00:36:59.590 take a message? Mr. Shepherd, you don't know 00:36:59.590 --> 00:37:01.570 me. I met your daughter in the city, but it's 00:37:01.570 --> 00:37:03.849 very important that I speak to her right away. 00:37:04.150 --> 00:37:07.389 Well, I'm sorry, but I told you she's fast asleep. 00:37:07.570 --> 00:37:09.030 Would you know if she's taking anything to help 00:37:09.030 --> 00:37:12.789 her sleep? As a matter of fact, I... I thought 00:37:12.789 --> 00:37:15.849 I did see her take something. She's very tired. 00:37:15.909 --> 00:37:17.170 Listen, Shepherd, you've got to get a doctor 00:37:17.170 --> 00:37:19.409 for her right now. I know it sounds crazy, but 00:37:19.409 --> 00:37:21.369 if she took a pill that her sister was using, 00:37:21.429 --> 00:37:25.050 she may be in danger. Wait, what are you talking 00:37:25.050 --> 00:37:27.150 about? I'm driving out there, but your daughter 00:37:27.150 --> 00:37:40.730 may be in terrible danger right now. What was 00:37:40.730 --> 00:39:19.239 that? What was that? I won't let you go. That's 00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.239 what Dr. Swalley told me himself, Amanda. He's 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:25.239 discontinuing the use of AN -30. Says it's far 00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:27.300 too dangerous to take any more chances with. 00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.320 Frankly, I think he's right. Kurt. And you know 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:36.000 what my hallucination was what I? Saw my father 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:40.420 walking into the bedroom Carrying my mother's 00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:43.559 dead body ouch that must have been pretty great 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:48.380 the strange part is It reminded me of something 00:39:48.380 --> 00:39:51.320 Something I'd forgotten a long time ago. What 00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:54.820 was that? When I was a little girl, I used to 00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:56.940 hear my father and mother arguing downstairs 00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:00.980 fighting with each other night after night. Well, 00:40:00.980 --> 00:40:03.619 I was so afraid. It's understandable. But do 00:40:03.619 --> 00:40:08.039 you know what I was afraid of? I was afraid that 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:11.440 my father was going to kill my mother. That's 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.280 an awful thought. Well, it wasn't true, of course, 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:18.199 but it was a fear that stayed with me all this 00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:23.659 time. But now I... I feel as if I can get rid 00:40:23.659 --> 00:40:28.360 of it. Kurt, I... I know it sounds crazy, but 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:32.099 wouldn't it be something if it turns out that 00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:43.059 Dr. Swalley had the right idea? Well, personally, 00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.119 I don't think I would care very much for that 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:50.239 kind of shock treatment. In fact, I think I'd 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:53.300 rather have my neurosis than gorillas, bats, 00:40:53.539 --> 00:40:56.829 and so forth in my house. But, to each his own, 00:40:57.190 --> 00:41:11.869 huh? I'll be back shortly. 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