WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:24.339 Now, mystery theater. Come in. Welcome. I'm E 00:00:24.339 --> 00:00:28.820 .G. Marshall. I'm so glad you're here. You, in 00:00:28.820 --> 00:00:32.950 person. in the flesh, bone, blood, and tissue. 00:00:33.649 --> 00:00:36.990 It's all very cozy, very comforting to think 00:00:36.990 --> 00:00:40.329 of you listening at your ease to the weird little 00:00:40.329 --> 00:00:43.689 tale we're about to bring you. But where is the 00:00:43.689 --> 00:00:47.850 rest of you? The other part of you? Where is 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:52.450 your astral body? You didn't know you had one? 00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:57.509 What is an astral body? Well, according to the 00:00:57.509 --> 00:01:00.630 largest dictionary we could find, It is a subtle 00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:03.469 counterpart of the physical body, accompanying, 00:01:04.150 --> 00:01:07.849 but not usually, separated from it. Now the key 00:01:07.849 --> 00:01:11.750 word here is usually, for some swear that the 00:01:11.750 --> 00:01:15.890 astrobody can and on occasion does separate itself 00:01:15.890 --> 00:01:19.670 from the physical body and go wandering off on 00:01:19.670 --> 00:01:23.890 its own. Mother? Yes, dear? Is he with you now? 00:01:24.049 --> 00:01:28.730 He just left. But he was there. Yes. Mother, 00:01:28.790 --> 00:01:32.950 what you saw was Adam's astral body. Are you 00:01:32.950 --> 00:01:36.370 telling me I saw a ghost? It's happened again. 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:41.129 You saw Adam, Mother, but it wasn't Adam in the 00:01:41.129 --> 00:01:44.390 flesh. Not the flesh that was lying beside me 00:01:44.390 --> 00:01:49.530 in our bed. A very different kind of flesh. Maybe 00:01:49.530 --> 00:02:03.810 not flesh at all. Our mystery drama, Adam's Astral 00:02:03.810 --> 00:02:06.730 Self, was written especially for the mystery 00:02:06.730 --> 00:02:10.669 theater by Elspeth Eric and stars Michael Wager 00:02:10.669 --> 00:02:23.849 and Jennifer Harmon. This is the story of an 00:02:23.849 --> 00:02:28.569 actor named Adam Farr. An actor is someone whose 00:02:28.569 --> 00:02:32.620 whole effort is to become someone else all the 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:36.919 while remaining out of necessity himself the 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:40.560 character he portrays or becomes is therefore 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.360 a sort of second self living for the moment within 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:49.620 the actor's body any actor can pretend only a 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:54.439 very great actor can become the second self of 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.960 a great actor has a power and appliances that 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.000 is often quite incomprehensible and Adam Farr 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.479 was a very great actor. We bring you now an account 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.460 of the many strange things that happened to him 00:03:09.460 --> 00:03:15.280 or that he made happen to himself and to others. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:19.319 Oh, Adam. Oh, Adam, it's cold. We need another 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.460 blanket. Would you get up and get one? I can't 00:03:22.460 --> 00:03:28.740 get to sleep. Adam? Adam, I'm freezing. Please 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:35.740 get a... Adam? Adam, don't pretend with me. Please, 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:56.020 Adam. Oh, Adam, I... Oh, dear. Yes? Hello? Yes, 00:03:56.020 --> 00:03:59.599 sir, Mother. Mother, I can't wake him up. Adam? 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.759 Of course, Adam. What do you mean you can't wake 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:07.139 him up? What I said. He isn't sick, is he? I 00:04:07.139 --> 00:04:09.460 don't think so. He looked all right when he was 00:04:09.460 --> 00:04:13.479 here. What's that? What did you say? I said he 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.520 seemed all right when he was here. He was at 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.600 your house? He stopped by for a minute. When 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.600 was this? A little while ago. Matter of fact, 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:23.240 he just left when you called. Mother, I'm coming 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.850 over. I need to talk to you. I'm getting dressed 00:04:26.850 --> 00:04:28.810 and taking the car. I'll be there in a half an 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:53.550 hour Adam Adam Come in darling sorry to disturb 00:04:53.550 --> 00:04:56.839 you. That's all right Give me your coat. I'll 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.759 hang it up. Is it snowing? No, but it's about 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.800 to. Come sit down. I've got a fire going. Now 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.399 what's got you so upset? When was Adam here, 00:05:06.660 --> 00:05:08.560 Mother? I told you on the phone about an hour 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.060 ago. He was only here for a minute or two. I 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:13.600 was at the piano practicing some Chopin etudes. 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.279 I looked up and there he was. I must say I was 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:18.660 surprised to see him so late at night and such 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:21.399 a bad night at that. But he smiled in the emotion 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:24.129 me to go on playing. And I did, and then we exchanged 00:05:24.129 --> 00:05:27.269 a few words. What did Adam say? Heavens, I don't 00:05:27.269 --> 00:05:30.329 remember. Tessa, what is it? What's the matter? 00:05:31.110 --> 00:05:34.009 It may interest you to know that Adam was in 00:05:34.009 --> 00:05:37.189 bed with me in our bedroom, in our house, the 00:05:37.189 --> 00:05:40.509 entire time. Since right after dinner, lying 00:05:40.509 --> 00:05:42.829 right beside me. He must have got up after you 00:05:42.829 --> 00:05:46.089 went to sleep. I didn't go to sleep. We had a 00:05:46.089 --> 00:05:48.329 late dinner, then I cued him in his lines for 00:05:48.329 --> 00:05:51.180 the new play, and then we went to bed. Little 00:05:51.180 --> 00:05:54.060 later. I felt cold. I couldn't get to sleep It 00:05:54.060 --> 00:05:56.759 was so cold and I I asked him to get up and get 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.180 an extra blanket to put over I couldn't rousing 00:06:00.180 --> 00:06:04.100 and that's when I called you he was here I saw 00:06:04.100 --> 00:06:07.939 him what you saw mother was Adam's astral body 00:06:07.939 --> 00:06:11.899 Are you telling me I saw ghosts to saw Adam mother, 00:06:12.019 --> 00:06:15.540 but it wasn't Adam in the flesh Not the flesh 00:06:15.540 --> 00:06:19.120 that was lying beside me in our bed a very different 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:24.459 kind of flesh Maybe not flesh at all. Anyway, 00:06:24.620 --> 00:06:28.339 that's how Adam explains. Explains what? It's 00:06:28.339 --> 00:06:31.720 not the first time it's happened. Remember when 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.399 he was doing that play about Napoleon? He went 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.740 to Corsica to see where Napoleon was born. I 00:06:36.740 --> 00:06:39.019 don't remember Adam going to Corsica. He didn't 00:06:39.019 --> 00:06:42.839 go to Corsica. He was rehearsing the play. He 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.480 projected himself to Corsica. Astralis! You mean 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.240 he imagined himself in Corsica? He went to Corsica. 00:06:50.339 --> 00:06:54.500 How could he if he was here? By an act of his 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:58.000 unconscious will. Well, that's what he says, 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.720 anyway. Tessa, dear, Adam is an actor. A very 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.519 great actor. He did a lot of research on Napoleon 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.259 before he did that play. Maybe he imagined. Well, 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.560 that's what I thought. when he told me that he'd 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:11.860 been there, but after the play opened, I talked 00:07:11.860 --> 00:07:14.879 to the actors, a bit player, who was born in 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.439 Corsica. His mother still lives there, and he 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.740 said his mother had seen Adam in Corsica, crossing 00:07:20.740 --> 00:07:23.439 a little footbridge. She recognized him from 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.420 all the films he'd made, and she asked if she 00:07:25.420 --> 00:07:27.779 might take his picture. You're not saying... 00:07:27.779 --> 00:07:30.839 I'm saying she did take his picture, and sent 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.149 it to her son, and he showed it to me. a picture 00:07:34.149 --> 00:07:37.490 of Adam standing on a little footbridge in Corsica. 00:07:37.750 --> 00:07:41.949 You recognized him? It really was Adam? It wasn't 00:07:41.949 --> 00:07:44.970 a very good picture, but it was Adam all right. 00:07:45.550 --> 00:07:48.610 I showed it to him and he said yes. He remembered 00:07:48.610 --> 00:07:51.769 the bridge and the woman and having his picture 00:07:51.769 --> 00:07:55.449 taken. He said he was there. I said I didn't 00:07:55.449 --> 00:07:57.709 believe him. the man in the picture must have 00:07:57.709 --> 00:08:00.569 been his double and he laughed and said yes it 00:08:00.569 --> 00:08:04.569 was his double his aetheric double in other words 00:08:04.569 --> 00:08:08.629 his astral body a spirit body shaped just like 00:08:08.629 --> 00:08:13.610 his own physical body the same size a body that 00:08:13.610 --> 00:08:16.209 could detach itself and move about wherever he 00:08:16.209 --> 00:08:20.230 wanted it to go i never told you about this because 00:08:20.230 --> 00:08:23.189 i didn't want to frighten you but now it doesn't 00:08:23.189 --> 00:08:26.379 frighten me That frightens me. I think it would 00:08:26.379 --> 00:08:29.279 be lovely to have an astral body and go floating 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:34.080 about in it. Adam says everyone has an astral 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:38.419 body. So I suppose anyone can go floating about 00:08:38.419 --> 00:08:40.740 in it if they were mine too. Personally, I... 00:08:40.740 --> 00:08:43.539 I wonder if I could. Adam says that when people 00:08:43.539 --> 00:08:45.960 die, you can see the astral body hovering over 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.740 the earthly one. But that's marvelous. I'm glad 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:51.679 you think so. Because I'm leaving him, Mother. 00:08:52.479 --> 00:08:54.879 I want you to stay with Jonathan until I find 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.440 a place to live. You want to leave a wonderful 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.980 man like Adam? Do you know he thinks he can fly? 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:05.240 Really? Really fly? By himself? Well, he hasn't 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.559 quite got the knack of it yet, but he says that 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.980 because he hasn't learned to concentrate correctly. 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.240 I used to think I could fly. Mother, will you 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.700 do it? Come live at your house? Or let Jonathan 00:09:16.700 --> 00:09:18.659 come live here with you? I think it would be 00:09:18.659 --> 00:09:21.159 best if I came and stayed at your house. When 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.659 were you planning to leave? Well, just as soon 00:09:23.659 --> 00:09:39.679 as I've told Adam. Adam? Adam, wake up. Hmm? 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:45.279 Oh, what time is it? What are you doing up? I 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.559 want to talk to you, Adam. Huh? Eh, it's still 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:53.940 dark out. I'll turn the light on. Got your clothes 00:09:53.940 --> 00:09:56.639 on, where you been? Where you going some place? 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.960 I've been at my mother's house. You went to see 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:04.519 Mayda, what for? Adam, were you at her house 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:08.919 earlier this evening? Yes, I was there for a 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.620 minute. She was playing a Chopin etude, one I 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:15.700 liked. I wanted to hear it more clearly. You 00:10:15.700 --> 00:10:18.139 knew she was playing Chopin before you went to 00:10:18.139 --> 00:10:20.840 her house? Why else would I go there in the middle 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.799 of the night? Mother lives 15 miles from here. 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:25.779 How could you know that she was playing Chopin 00:10:25.779 --> 00:10:31.700 at all? I didn't know she was. I... I knew. There's 00:10:31.700 --> 00:10:33.500 a difference. Well, if there is, I can't see 00:10:33.500 --> 00:10:35.240 it. Well, the way a farmer knows. It's going 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.379 to rain. He doesn't know, but he knows. He couldn't 00:10:38.379 --> 00:10:41.840 give you evidence, but he knows. You couldn't 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.799 call it precognition, if you like. You couldn't 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:45.440 call it telepathy. I don't care what you call 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.940 it. Would you believe me that when I asked you 00:10:48.940 --> 00:10:51.179 for the tenth time to marry me, I knew you'd 00:10:51.179 --> 00:10:55.539 say yes, just before you said it. And the other 00:10:55.539 --> 00:10:57.919 nine times I knew you'd say no and tell me it 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.620 wouldn't be fair to your little boy. I don't 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:04.179 care whether you believe me or not, it's true. 00:11:04.340 --> 00:11:06.740 It happens all the time. I don't take any credit 00:11:06.740 --> 00:11:10.690 for it. It's simply true. The way you went to 00:11:10.690 --> 00:11:13.009 Corsica? I did go. And stayed here at the same 00:11:13.009 --> 00:11:15.490 time to rehearse the play. How? Do we have to 00:11:15.490 --> 00:11:18.529 go all over that again? I don't know how I did 00:11:18.529 --> 00:11:22.490 it. I simply did it. Call it astral projection. 00:11:22.529 --> 00:11:23.970 That's what the books call it, though I've never 00:11:23.970 --> 00:11:27.009 read any of them. All I know is that when I'm 00:11:27.009 --> 00:11:29.750 in a certain state of mind... What state of mind? 00:11:29.850 --> 00:11:34.330 A kind of relaxed concentration. Something... 00:11:34.330 --> 00:11:38.289 Well, sometimes there's a sudden click, and then... 00:11:39.059 --> 00:11:42.559 Click, click, click, and then something is released 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:46.639 and takes off and goes free, liberated, eh? Well, 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.460 I don't expect you to understand. And this latest 00:11:49.460 --> 00:11:54.340 notion of yours, that you can fly? Not yet. But 00:11:54.340 --> 00:11:56.679 soon men have flown, you know. You've heard of 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.019 Peter of Alicante, haven't you? The great Spanish 00:11:59.019 --> 00:12:01.200 ascetic, he flew over the tops of trees whenever 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.019 he had a mind to. And Joseph of Cupertillo, a 00:12:04.019 --> 00:12:06.320 flying monk, everyone's heard of him, 17th century, 00:12:06.740 --> 00:12:09.399 a Capuchin. One day while he was... praying he 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.860 floated off the ground and up to the altar and 00:12:11.860 --> 00:12:14.019 back again you can say it was religious ecstasy 00:12:14.019 --> 00:12:16.220 in his case but what about Daniel Douglas Holman 00:12:16.220 --> 00:12:18.240 the 19th century in England what about Simon 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.519 Majors at the time of the Emperor Adam stop it 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.779 I can't listen to anymore oh my poor darling 00:12:25.779 --> 00:12:30.919 I I mustn't expect you to understand you so so 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.240 sweet so simple how could you possibly comprehend 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.850 the power of the unconscious will The human psyche, 00:12:38.090 --> 00:12:40.830 Tessa, was designed to do more than gape at things 00:12:40.830 --> 00:12:45.049 and give them names. It can control things, not 00:12:45.049 --> 00:12:49.889 just wait for things to happen. Make them happen. 00:12:50.110 --> 00:12:54.789 I don't understand. I don't want to understand. 00:12:54.909 --> 00:12:57.610 There is nothing to understand. Oh, my darling, 00:12:57.710 --> 00:13:02.289 there is so much to understand. There's so much 00:13:02.289 --> 00:13:05.149 power within us lying there, crouching there. 00:13:06.330 --> 00:13:10.750 Holding its breath, waiting. Adam, you are a 00:13:10.750 --> 00:13:14.570 great actor, a great artist. I'm just a... Being 00:13:14.570 --> 00:13:16.769 an actor has something to do with it, I suppose. 00:13:18.350 --> 00:13:22.009 Yes, in my best moments of creativity, I have 00:13:22.009 --> 00:13:28.070 the sensation of being selfless, timeless. Yes, 00:13:28.070 --> 00:13:31.789 I feel that. But I don't feel that. On the other 00:13:31.789 --> 00:13:34.070 hand, it may have to do with my pineal gland. 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.340 There's a little grayish red thing attached to 00:13:37.340 --> 00:13:39.059 the third vertebra. They say it looks like the 00:13:39.059 --> 00:13:44.620 like an eye Actually as a retina the lens Imagine 00:13:44.620 --> 00:13:48.139 and it said to be the seat of the soul Adam everything 00:13:48.139 --> 00:13:52.019 you say may be true. Oh it is I Haven't expressed 00:13:52.019 --> 00:13:55.820 it very well, but it's way beyond me. I Don't 00:13:55.820 --> 00:14:00.000 have your mind or your talent or your you know, 00:14:00.059 --> 00:14:04.110 I am Maybe so. I can't comprehend what you say. 00:14:04.190 --> 00:14:06.389 Oh, it's all right, darling. No, it's not all 00:14:06.389 --> 00:14:08.830 right because it confuses me and it makes me 00:14:08.830 --> 00:14:11.710 unhappy. I don't want to make you unhappy, Tessa. 00:14:11.730 --> 00:14:14.590 I can't live with all this talk of astral bodies 00:14:14.590 --> 00:14:17.629 and pineal glands. I can't understand it and 00:14:17.629 --> 00:14:20.769 I don't like it. Don't try to understand it. 00:14:20.769 --> 00:14:25.090 I'm not going to try, Adam. I'm leaving you. 00:14:26.789 --> 00:14:29.950 That's absurd. As soon as it's lighter, I'm going 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:33.029 to drive into town and take a room in a hotel. 00:14:33.649 --> 00:14:35.289 Mother will be here in the morning to stay with 00:14:35.289 --> 00:14:38.149 you and to look after Jonathan. I'll follow you. 00:14:38.429 --> 00:14:40.230 I'll follow you and bring you back. It won't 00:14:40.230 --> 00:14:45.710 do any good. I'm going now, Adam. Tessa! Tessa! 00:14:48.370 --> 00:14:50.470 Something's...happening! What is it? What's happening 00:14:50.470 --> 00:14:54.789 to me? I can't stay on the bed. Tessa, hold me 00:14:54.789 --> 00:15:00.269 down. Don't let...don't let me... I'm rusting 00:15:00.269 --> 00:15:04.350 in the air. I'm floating like Simon Magus, like 00:15:04.350 --> 00:15:08.009 Peter of Copertino, Tessa! Come back! Hold me 00:15:08.009 --> 00:15:10.889 down! Adam, no! I wasn't ready for this! Adam, 00:15:10.889 --> 00:15:13.809 I'm leaving! Come back! Hold me down! Tessa! 00:15:14.509 --> 00:15:24.570 Tessa! But Tessa has gone and Adam continues 00:15:24.570 --> 00:15:28.360 to rise steadily from his bed. Perhaps it is 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.299 better to fancify that one can defy gravity, 00:15:31.580 --> 00:15:34.759 if only one wanted to, than to discover that 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:38.139 one is actually doing it when one doesn't much 00:15:38.139 --> 00:15:53.580 want to. We'll return shortly for act two. Adam 00:15:53.580 --> 00:15:58.039 Farr's wife, Tessa, left his house. And it is 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.799 a week since her mother, whose name by the way 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:05.220 is Maeda, moved in. Adam, as we know, is endowed 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:08.620 not only with a great acting talent, but also 00:16:08.620 --> 00:16:12.820 with a peripatetic soul, which on previous occasions 00:16:12.820 --> 00:16:16.379 has seen fit to take flight from his stationary 00:16:16.379 --> 00:16:19.899 body. How will he fare with only a mother -in 00:16:19.899 --> 00:16:29.429 -law to keep him anchored down? Mr. Farr's residence. 00:16:29.509 --> 00:16:32.269 Mother? Tessa, I thought you'd never call. Where 00:16:32.269 --> 00:16:34.649 are you? Well, that's what I called to tell you, 00:16:34.649 --> 00:16:37.190 but I don't want Adam to know. Well, Adam's upstairs. 00:16:37.269 --> 00:16:39.169 I hope he hasn't picked up the extension. He 00:16:39.169 --> 00:16:41.389 never does things like that. Are you all right? 00:16:41.669 --> 00:16:44.429 I'm fine. I'm in a motel about a mile out of 00:16:44.429 --> 00:16:48.590 town on Route 9. The Valley Motel, Cabin 6. Is 00:16:48.590 --> 00:16:51.570 this a nice place? Nice enough. There aren't 00:16:51.570 --> 00:16:53.809 very many people here. It's out of season, but 00:16:53.809 --> 00:16:57.330 it's okay. How's everything with you? Oh, all 00:16:57.330 --> 00:16:59.929 right. A little tense, maybe. Adam goes into 00:16:59.929 --> 00:17:02.490 rehearsal next week, you know. I know. That always 00:17:02.490 --> 00:17:04.970 makes him tense. But he's managed to stay in 00:17:04.970 --> 00:17:07.009 his physical body, if that's what you're worried 00:17:07.009 --> 00:17:10.450 about. Well, I wasn't worried exactly. I just 00:17:10.450 --> 00:17:13.230 wanted to be sure you were all right. And Jonathan? 00:17:13.349 --> 00:17:15.950 How's Jonathan? Jonathan's fine. Has he asked 00:17:15.950 --> 00:17:18.569 about me? I told him you went on a little trip 00:17:18.569 --> 00:17:21.289 for your health. Tessa, I'd better hang up. I 00:17:21.289 --> 00:17:26.380 think Adam's coming downstairs. Okay. Was that 00:17:26.380 --> 00:17:29.160 Tessa? Were you listening in on the bedroom phone? 00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:31.240 I wouldn't do a thing like that. That's what 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:36.400 Tessa said. So it was, Tessa. Well, yes, it was. 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:41.359 Did she say anything about coming back? No. She's 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.299 with a man, Maeda. No, she's not. I saw her. 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.259 You couldn't have seen her. You don't even know 00:17:46.259 --> 00:17:48.740 where she is. My mind. I saw her with a man. 00:17:49.099 --> 00:17:53.960 Well, your mind is mistaken. It never is. Maeda, 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.880 I need her back. I go into rehearsal next week. 00:17:57.980 --> 00:18:00.319 She knows that. Maybe she's forgotten. No, she 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.079 hasn't. Did she say something about it on the 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.039 phone? No, but I did. You do realize how important 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.019 it is to have her back with me before rehearsals 00:18:08.019 --> 00:18:10.579 start, don't you, Maeda? I suppose I do. It's 00:18:10.579 --> 00:18:17.220 vital, vital. Well, maybe. Maeda... Maeda, do 00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:21.539 you feel well? Me? I feel fine. You don't look 00:18:21.539 --> 00:18:24.920 well, you... You look as though you're coming 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.279 down with something. Well, I'm not. It must be 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:29.140 this terrible weather we're having. I don't mind 00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:32.119 it. Drafty old house. This is a nice house. I 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:37.640 like, I like... God bless you. I've always liked 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:40.920 this house. You're catching a cold. I'm not. 00:18:41.940 --> 00:18:45.339 Adam, what are you trying to do? Don't you see, 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.279 if you were to get sick, not seriously sick, 00:18:48.299 --> 00:18:51.579 just a little sick... Tessa would come back, 00:18:51.660 --> 00:18:54.460 please, Maida. You want me to catch a cold just 00:18:54.460 --> 00:18:57.140 to bring Tessa back to you? If only you would, 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:00.740 please, Maida, don't... don't you... Well, I 00:19:00.740 --> 00:19:08.140 won't. See? It's gone already. I'm fine. Adam, 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:13.480 did you... did you give me that cold? I mean, 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:20.210 did you, you know, wish it on me? I... Was thinking 00:19:20.210 --> 00:19:25.509 how Nice it would be just a little cold made 00:19:25.509 --> 00:19:41.049 a nothing serious just a sniffle or two Is that 00:19:41.049 --> 00:19:44.309 you Adam yep upstairs Jonathan get ready for 00:19:44.309 --> 00:19:47.970 dinner Oh, go on playing me. It sounded beautiful. 00:19:48.049 --> 00:19:51.670 I've been playing all afternoon. I'm tired. Where 00:19:51.670 --> 00:19:54.950 have you been? Oh, with Jonathan. I were playing. 00:19:55.529 --> 00:19:59.230 Playing what? Well, we tobogganed for a while. 00:19:59.430 --> 00:20:01.670 Looks to me like he did a little skiing. Well, 00:20:01.690 --> 00:20:03.930 I went down a couple of slopes. Not Jonathan, 00:20:03.950 --> 00:20:06.849 though. He doesn't know how to ski. You didn't 00:20:06.849 --> 00:20:08.710 offer to teach him, I hope. He doesn't even own 00:20:08.710 --> 00:20:11.609 a pair of skis. And he's not going to for a while 00:20:11.609 --> 00:20:14.460 yet. Well, I sort of promised him. You're not 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:17.240 to promise him any such thing. Maybe he's gonna 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.700 want them. He's never wanted them before. Adam, 00:20:20.740 --> 00:20:23.099 did you try to talk him into learning how to 00:20:23.099 --> 00:20:28.200 ski? Did you? He is old enough. Did you let him 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.200 use your skis? No. If you did... I just let him 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.200 stand on my feet while I was... You didn't. He 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.559 was perfectly safe. I held on to him. What if 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.329 you'd fallen? Jonathan could have broken an arm 00:20:40.329 --> 00:20:42.829 or a leg. He could have been killed. Oh, not 00:20:42.829 --> 00:20:45.289 killed, maid. I'm a good skier. Oh, just a broken 00:20:45.289 --> 00:20:47.930 bone or two. Is that your idea? At his age, it 00:20:47.930 --> 00:20:50.029 wouldn't have been serious. And a cold at my 00:20:50.029 --> 00:20:52.670 age wouldn't be serious either. Well, no. But 00:20:52.670 --> 00:20:55.730 either one would serve to bring Tessa home. Is 00:20:55.730 --> 00:21:01.070 that it? Maida, rehearsal start next week. You're 00:21:01.070 --> 00:21:04.029 impossible. Absolutely impossible. Oh, what have 00:21:04.029 --> 00:21:05.869 I done? I haven't done anything. Did you tell 00:21:05.869 --> 00:21:07.529 Jonathan to take a hot bath when you brought 00:21:07.529 --> 00:21:09.609 him home? Is he supposed to take a hot bath? 00:21:09.829 --> 00:21:12.269 Jonathan? Jonathan, you're to take all those 00:21:12.269 --> 00:21:14.589 wet clothes and get into a hot bath. You hear? 00:21:14.710 --> 00:21:26.450 I didn't do anything! Hello? Yes, sir. I had 00:21:26.450 --> 00:21:28.900 to call you. Yes, Mother. I don't know if I should 00:21:28.900 --> 00:21:31.099 tell you this, but your fool husband has some 00:21:31.099 --> 00:21:33.980 sort of idea that if I got sick, you'd come home. 00:21:34.259 --> 00:21:37.480 Are you sick? No, no, I'm not sick. Adam tried 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:39.680 to give me a cold, but I caught on right away 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:41.740 and put a stop to it. Well, Mother, if you're 00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:44.740 sick, I'll... I'm not sick. I'm not sick. Now, 00:21:44.740 --> 00:21:47.480 if you just listen. Adam thinks that if I got 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:49.740 a little cold or something, or if Jonathan were 00:21:49.740 --> 00:21:52.519 to break an arm or a leg, you'd come home. Well, 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.259 I would. That's why I'm calling you. I'm not 00:21:55.259 --> 00:21:57.700 sick. And Jonathan is perfectly... and we're 00:21:57.700 --> 00:22:00.140 both going to stay that way. So you're not to 00:22:00.140 --> 00:22:02.920 worry, you hear me? Not to worry. Oh, I hear 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.559 him coming downstairs now, so I'll hang up. Goodbye. 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:12.220 Bye, Mother. For goodness sake. Your mother, 00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:16.920 huh? Yes. No trouble, I hope? Well, she just 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.359 called up to tell me everything's fine. Oh. That 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:23.640 was very nice of her. Well, yes, it was. You 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:27.079 look worried. You want to tell me about it? I 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:29.599 know we only met last night, but I feel I've 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:34.099 known you for years. It's my husband. He goes 00:22:34.099 --> 00:22:37.200 into rehearsal next week, and he's always a little 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.900 difficult just before he goes into rehearsal. 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:43.859 He's a marvelous actor. Yes, he is. I remember 00:22:43.859 --> 00:22:46.500 him in that play about Napoleon. The man from 00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:49.220 Corsica. Yes, I saw it twice. Then he made the 00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:51.880 movie. I saw that three times. And all his other 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:54.779 plays and all his pictures. Oh, my, what an actor. 00:22:54.990 --> 00:22:58.750 Yes, what an actor. It must be fascinating to 00:22:58.750 --> 00:23:02.150 live with a man like that. Fascinating? Well, 00:23:02.849 --> 00:23:08.630 what a personality. Wow. Yes, wow. Makes me wonder 00:23:08.630 --> 00:23:10.690 how you can stand spending time with somebody 00:23:10.690 --> 00:23:14.569 like me. I mean, what's the percentage? Philip, 00:23:15.150 --> 00:23:19.109 you're a very nice man. Very, very nice. Oh yes, 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:22.230 perhaps, but... Next to your husband. Why do 00:23:22.230 --> 00:23:24.990 you have to say next to my husband next to anybody? 00:23:25.130 --> 00:23:28.509 Why can't you be all by yourself? You're good 00:23:28.509 --> 00:23:31.849 enough. Oh, I don't know if I go that far I would 00:23:31.849 --> 00:23:36.470 anytime Speaking of next to your husband You 00:23:36.470 --> 00:23:41.190 know, I was there last night What? You were there? 00:23:41.210 --> 00:23:46.269 Yes standing right next to him In my dream. I 00:23:46.269 --> 00:23:49.150 had a dream about him Of course, I recognized 00:23:49.150 --> 00:23:50.769 him right away from his movies and all, but I 00:23:50.769 --> 00:23:53.410 must say I never thought I'd meet him. Not even 00:23:53.410 --> 00:23:56.529 in a dream. What happened in the dream? Did he 00:23:56.529 --> 00:23:59.089 give you his autograph, or what? No, no, nothing 00:23:59.089 --> 00:24:02.849 like that. Not much of anything happened. I was 00:24:02.849 --> 00:24:04.970 right here in this room, or maybe it was in my 00:24:04.970 --> 00:24:07.210 own room. These motel rooms all look alike, and 00:24:07.210 --> 00:24:10.029 I turned around and there he was. Oh, I was so 00:24:10.029 --> 00:24:13.329 impressed. Even in my sleep, I was so impressed 00:24:13.329 --> 00:24:15.910 I couldn't get my mouth open to say anything. 00:24:16.970 --> 00:24:20.150 I just looked at him and he looked back at me 00:24:20.150 --> 00:24:28.289 and oh boy did he look sad. Sad? Yes. Sort of 00:24:28.289 --> 00:24:30.289 shook his head like he couldn't stand it or he 00:24:30.289 --> 00:24:34.730 was sorry for me or something. He was so sad. 00:24:34.970 --> 00:24:39.809 Philip, then what happened? I woke up. Crazy 00:24:39.809 --> 00:24:44.009 kind of a dream to have, wasn't it? I must be 00:24:44.009 --> 00:24:48.200 nuts. You think so? Not you, Philip. Not you. 00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:58.819 No, not you. Bring your coffee into the living 00:24:58.819 --> 00:25:02.640 room, Adam. There's a fire going. Terrible weather. 00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:06.400 Absolutely terrible. You feeling all right, Neda? 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:10.720 I feel fine, so don't start that again. I just 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:15.859 asked. Jonathan is fine too. That's good. Here's 00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:19.359 your coffee. What ever gave you the idea you 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:22.519 could make either one of us sick? Just by thinking 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:26.519 of it. Oh, not really sick. Just a little. Just 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.940 enough so Tessa would come back. Yes. How did 00:25:30.940 --> 00:25:34.099 you figure she would know? Oh, she'd know. We 00:25:34.099 --> 00:25:37.460 don't all have your psychic gifts, Adam. Yes, 00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:41.900 you do. Only you don't use them. Oh, Adam. Tessa 00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:44.789 would have known. There's a good deal of telepathy 00:25:44.789 --> 00:25:48.069 between Tess and me. I... I'd know if she was 00:25:48.069 --> 00:25:52.109 sick. That doesn't mean it works both ways. It 00:25:52.109 --> 00:25:55.769 must work both ways. It must. Don't count on 00:25:55.769 --> 00:26:00.150 it. Mate, if I could only convince you, there's 00:26:00.150 --> 00:26:04.789 a huge reservoir of feeling in us all. And that 00:26:04.789 --> 00:26:09.509 feeling is full of power and resources, cleverness, 00:26:09.690 --> 00:26:13.410 inspiration. Every man and woman alive possesses 00:26:13.410 --> 00:26:16.390 it. Not just geniuses and mystics and philosophers. 00:26:16.829 --> 00:26:22.809 Everyone has it. The meanest of us. But most 00:26:22.809 --> 00:26:26.670 of us won't use it. We let it lie dormant while 00:26:26.670 --> 00:26:29.230 we coast down the slide of our humdrum days toward 00:26:29.230 --> 00:26:34.029 the grave. You may have it, Adam. You are, after 00:26:34.029 --> 00:26:37.609 all, a very great actor. I don't act by myself. 00:26:37.630 --> 00:26:41.000 I don't act for myself. I act... in front of 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.980 people, poor people, and they react. Something 00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:49.039 profound in me is browsing something profound 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:53.819 in them. The thing that... the thing that's in 00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:58.920 me is calling to the same thing in them. Now, 00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:00.460 what's the use? You don't want to understand. 00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:06.019 It's all so futile and so tiring. Adam, I may 00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:11.789 as well tell you... I phoned Tessa and told her. 00:27:12.450 --> 00:27:15.309 Told her what? Your little plot to make me come 00:27:15.309 --> 00:27:18.750 down with something, or Jonathan. I felt she 00:27:18.750 --> 00:27:22.890 should know. That's all right. You thought you 00:27:22.890 --> 00:27:25.890 were doing the right thing. I'm glad you're not 00:27:25.890 --> 00:27:30.450 angry. Doesn't make any difference. It's perfectly 00:27:30.450 --> 00:27:34.789 clear my powers are failing anyway. If they weren't, 00:27:35.190 --> 00:27:36.869 you'd have got sick or Jonathan would have had 00:27:36.869 --> 00:27:40.069 a... Little accident and Tessa would have come 00:27:40.069 --> 00:27:43.569 home No matter what you did or didn't do you 00:27:43.569 --> 00:27:46.190 mean you're beginning to lose faith in yourself 00:27:46.190 --> 00:27:49.589 I guess I am you don't think anymore that you 00:27:49.589 --> 00:27:53.130 can fly Tessa would only come home Well, she 00:27:53.130 --> 00:27:57.150 won't She'll never Never never come home and 00:27:57.150 --> 00:28:01.930 I'm lost Adam, what's the matter? I don't feel 00:28:01.930 --> 00:28:08.279 well. What is it? I don't Feel it all well Adam 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:13.019 Why you have a fever your head is hot. I'm sick 00:28:13.019 --> 00:28:17.500 I'm burning up. I'm going to call the doctor. 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.460 No. No may to come back here. I don't want a 00:28:19.460 --> 00:28:21.759 doctor, but you need I don't need anything I'm 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:24.460 sick. I have a fever I I think it's very high 00:28:24.460 --> 00:28:28.680 fever. Yes. Yes, I am sick. I'm very sick And 00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:39.539 now my wife will come home We all know there 00:28:39.539 --> 00:28:42.140 are people who will do anything to get what they 00:28:42.140 --> 00:28:45.420 want. They'll lie, they'll cheat, they'll steal, 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:49.220 they'll even murder. And if everything else fails, 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.960 they'll get sick. Such a one is Adam Farr, the 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:57.859 great actor who is now not acting. Not with a 00:28:57.859 --> 00:29:01.400 fever of 105, he isn't. I'll be back shortly 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:16.329 with Act 3. After unsuccessful attempts to confer 00:29:16.329 --> 00:29:19.789 telepathically a small ailment on his mother 00:29:19.789 --> 00:29:23.390 -in -law and a minor injury on his stepson in 00:29:23.390 --> 00:29:27.150 order to bring his wife home, Adam Farr, actor 00:29:27.150 --> 00:29:30.589 extraordinary, has now come down with a raging 00:29:30.589 --> 00:29:35.089 fever, which we assume he conferred upon himself. 00:29:35.869 --> 00:29:39.829 Where there's a will, there's a way. And Adam 00:29:39.829 --> 00:29:44.519 Farr has a very powerful... Will. Do try to lie 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:47.420 still, Adam. I want to change the compresses. 00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:51.039 Rehearsals. Next week, rehearsals. I start rehearsals. 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.819 You don't let me take care of you. There won't 00:29:53.819 --> 00:29:56.619 be any rehearsals, so please lie still. Tessa, 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:01.180 Tessa, I need you. Tessa, come home to me. Tessa. 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:08.000 I'm dying. Adam, let me call a doctor. Not yet. 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:11.750 Not yet. Not till Tessa comes home. I'm going 00:30:11.750 --> 00:30:13.950 to get some more ice, Adam. Will you be alright? 00:30:14.049 --> 00:30:16.069 I'll be alright when my wife comes back to me. 00:30:16.470 --> 00:30:19.670 I'll... I'll fly to meet her. You'll do no flying 00:30:19.670 --> 00:30:22.529 of any kind. You're weak as a kitten. Now lie 00:30:22.529 --> 00:30:25.130 there quietly if you can while I get more ice 00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:28.029 for the compressors. Maida! Don't... don't leave 00:30:28.029 --> 00:30:35.349 me! I'll be right back. I think... she's coming... 00:30:35.349 --> 00:30:42.049 home. Tessa, are you... coming home? Yes. Yes, 00:30:42.950 --> 00:30:47.630 you are on the way. You're driving along the 00:30:47.630 --> 00:30:51.369 road to our house. Oh, drive carefully, my precious. 00:30:52.490 --> 00:30:57.049 A little faster. But carefully, my love, carefully. 00:30:57.210 --> 00:31:01.869 Yes, yes, that's it. The turn is up ahead. You 00:31:01.869 --> 00:31:03.750 haven't forgotten it, have you? That's it, now. 00:31:05.410 --> 00:31:08.829 Up the driveway between the rows of fir trees 00:31:08.829 --> 00:31:11.490 that we planted ourselves. Slow down for that 00:31:11.490 --> 00:31:20.029 last curve. Now, stop. You are here. I knew you'd 00:31:20.029 --> 00:31:24.809 come. Oh, I knew it, my love. I'll try to meet 00:31:24.809 --> 00:31:30.950 you. This is the moment for me to fly. Wait, 00:31:31.210 --> 00:31:38.849 wait, wait for me, my love. Out of bed? Oh, it's 00:31:38.849 --> 00:31:44.829 a window. Wait. Wait, Lord, how weak I am. It 00:31:44.829 --> 00:31:48.289 won't be easy to fly. Float through the window, 00:31:48.970 --> 00:31:52.230 straight down to you. You're getting out of the 00:31:52.230 --> 00:31:58.650 car now? Yes. The window's closed. Wait, my darling, 00:31:59.029 --> 00:32:06.049 I've only got to open it. Oh, and I've locked? 00:32:07.089 --> 00:32:12.940 No, no, no. There it is. I think I've got it. 00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:18.420 A little more, and I'll fly out the window and 00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:31.579 out to you a little bit more. Yes. Yes, I couldn't 00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:36.059 quite manage it. I have the... Adam, you got 00:32:36.059 --> 00:32:39.730 out of bed. Are you all right? Yes, all right. 00:32:39.990 --> 00:32:43.089 Whatever possessed you. Answer the door, Maeda. 00:32:43.269 --> 00:32:46.029 Let me help you up. Leave me here and go answer 00:32:46.029 --> 00:32:48.690 the door. What? There is someone at the door. 00:32:48.890 --> 00:32:52.529 No, there is not. Tessa. Tessa's at the door. 00:32:53.210 --> 00:33:03.950 Go. Let her in. Tess, it was uncanny. There's 00:33:03.950 --> 00:33:06.579 no other word for it. I'd gone to get some ice 00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:08.420 from the kitchen. I suppose that's why I didn't 00:33:08.420 --> 00:33:11.339 hear the car drive up. When I went back, he was 00:33:11.339 --> 00:33:14.119 lying on the floor by the window. It was open 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.599 a few inches. He must have opened it. Heaven 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:20.599 knows what he was trying to do. Whatever it was, 00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:23.119 the effort was too much for him, and he collapsed. 00:33:23.500 --> 00:33:25.559 I tried to get him back into bed, but he said, 00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:28.400 never mind, to answer the door. I thought, well, 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.440 now he's really delirious because there wasn't 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.240 a sound. He said, there's someone at the door. 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:36.710 I said, no, there's no one. He said Tessa's come 00:33:36.710 --> 00:33:41.410 home, and then we heard the door knocker. Oh, 00:33:41.450 --> 00:33:45.789 Mother. We both know by now, Adam's a very strange 00:33:45.789 --> 00:33:47.910 man. You know, I told you on the phone he wanted 00:33:47.910 --> 00:33:50.309 me to develop a cold, or Jonathan to have a little 00:33:50.309 --> 00:33:53.549 accident, just to bring you home. Well, it never 00:33:53.549 --> 00:33:56.829 occurred to me he'd make himself sick, but he 00:33:56.829 --> 00:34:02.039 did. And look, it brought you home. I suppose 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:04.700 we should go up and see how he is. Yes, we should. 00:34:04.779 --> 00:34:07.279 I left him lying on the floor. He seemed perfectly 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.219 lucid and very calm. I was the one who was frantic 00:34:10.219 --> 00:34:13.139 when I heard the knock at the door. Now you've 00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:15.320 got some idea what it's like living with a man 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.219 like Adam. Yes, yes, I have. Well, he got himself 00:34:20.219 --> 00:34:25.480 back in bed anyway. That's good. Adam? He's sleeping. 00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:28.539 It's the first time he's slept since he took 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:35.539 sick. Adam? Adam? It's Tessa. I'm here. Adam? 00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:40.659 What's the matter with him? It's like the other 00:34:40.659 --> 00:34:45.719 times. You mean... His astral body has... has 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:50.059 gone someplace else. Gone? Where? Heaven only 00:34:50.059 --> 00:35:02.550 knows. Here's tea for both of us, dear. Lord 00:35:02.550 --> 00:35:05.769 knows we need it. Thank you, Mother. It's all 00:35:05.769 --> 00:35:10.630 so strange, isn't it? Very strange. Not just 00:35:10.630 --> 00:35:13.710 this. Not just his leaving his body this way, 00:35:13.710 --> 00:35:17.210 but the whole thing. How he made you come back 00:35:17.210 --> 00:35:21.650 and everything. Tess, tell me. How did he get 00:35:21.650 --> 00:35:25.289 the message to you? How did the telepathy work? 00:35:25.630 --> 00:35:28.289 It didn't. What do you mean it didn't? You're 00:35:28.289 --> 00:35:33.300 here. I'm not here because of Adam, Mother. You're 00:35:33.300 --> 00:35:36.340 not? I'm not here because he's sick. I had no 00:35:36.340 --> 00:35:39.659 idea there was anything wrong with him. But you... 00:35:39.659 --> 00:35:43.780 you're here. Why... I came back to tell him that 00:35:43.780 --> 00:35:48.039 the separation's final. Permanent. Mother, I've 00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:52.219 met a man. A very nice man. He'll be here pretty 00:35:52.219 --> 00:35:55.519 soon. You'll meet him. I hope you like him. Well, 00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:59.710 of course, if... He's a very ordinary man. There's 00:35:59.710 --> 00:36:03.329 nothing unusual about Philip. He's like a hundred 00:36:03.329 --> 00:36:07.550 million other men. You love him? I think I do. 00:36:08.269 --> 00:36:10.630 Of course, I've only known him a short time. 00:36:11.489 --> 00:36:14.289 He was staying at the motel. We were almost the 00:36:14.289 --> 00:36:17.329 only people there. We spent a lot of time together. 00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:21.550 You know, Mother, it was so restful, so peaceful. 00:36:22.550 --> 00:36:24.750 Well, darling, of course I don't want to influence 00:36:24.750 --> 00:36:28.730 you, but... But do you know how much Adam loves 00:36:28.730 --> 00:36:32.190 you? I suppose all the time you've been away. 00:36:32.190 --> 00:36:35.269 He's talked of nothing but you You know he goes 00:36:35.269 --> 00:36:37.789 into rehearsal next week. I know I know he says 00:36:37.789 --> 00:36:41.050 he can't do it without you He'll have to Tessa 00:36:41.050 --> 00:36:45.809 when I went in to check on him He looks so different 00:36:45.809 --> 00:36:50.289 So quiet and content I'm sure that must be because 00:36:50.289 --> 00:36:54.230 you came home. I Know he thought he brought you 00:36:54.230 --> 00:36:58.079 home but even so mother I can't be concerned 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:01.659 anymore with what Adam thinks Tessa when I went 00:37:01.659 --> 00:37:03.920 back into the bedroom with the ice cubes and 00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:06.900 found Adam on the floor he was right in front 00:37:06.900 --> 00:37:10.699 of the window and his fingers were bleeding and 00:37:10.699 --> 00:37:13.219 the window was open a couple of inches Tessa 00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:17.659 I think he was trying to fly you don't yes I 00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:20.940 do I'm ashamed to admit it but I don't have fun 00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:23.880 of him about this notion he could fly I've made 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:27.139 fun of him about a lot of things. Your ordinary 00:37:27.139 --> 00:37:30.000 man would have been resentful or angry or embarrassed. 00:37:30.739 --> 00:37:35.340 But not Adam. He was very sweet, very humble. 00:37:36.380 --> 00:37:39.820 Humble? Adam humble? My dear, he doesn't claim 00:37:39.820 --> 00:37:42.420 extraordinary powers for himself. He says we 00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:46.659 all have them. Well, I don't have them. That 00:37:46.659 --> 00:37:49.519 must be Philip. Now be nice to him, Mother. Well, 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:57.210 of course. Come in, Philip. Yes, thank you. Philip, 00:37:57.329 --> 00:38:00.030 this is my mother. Mother, how do you do? My 00:38:00.030 --> 00:38:01.809 daughter's been telling me about you. Hello. 00:38:02.250 --> 00:38:04.869 Hello. Will you have some tea, Philip? No. No, 00:38:04.929 --> 00:38:09.130 thank you. Tessa. Well, come, sit down anyway. 00:38:09.730 --> 00:38:12.050 Tessa, I've got to tell you something. Would 00:38:12.050 --> 00:38:14.309 you like me to leave? I'll go upstairs and check 00:38:14.309 --> 00:38:19.070 on Adam. Is he here? Of course he's here. He's 00:38:19.070 --> 00:38:23.079 been sick, Philip. But I just saw him. You couldn't 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:25.960 have. Yes, he didn't look sick. He looked very 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:28.840 well. Where do you think you saw him? On the 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.639 road. Just outside the house. He was... He was 00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:34.159 standing in the middle of the road. That's impossible, 00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:36.679 Philip. He's been upstairs in bed since last 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:38.980 night. No, he was standing in the middle of the 00:38:38.980 --> 00:38:41.119 road, I tell you, waving his arms. Philip, you 00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:43.920 imagined it. Remember, you had a dream about 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.079 him one night back at the motel? No, no, look, 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.780 this wasn't any dream. I was driving along, looking 00:38:48.780 --> 00:38:50.800 for the house, and there he was, right in the 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.579 middle of the road. No, Philip. I talked to him. 00:38:53.940 --> 00:38:58.739 And just what did he say? He said... He said 00:38:58.739 --> 00:39:01.789 that if I took his wife away from him... He'd 00:39:01.789 --> 00:39:06.190 killed me Oh Philip But you must understand Philip 00:39:06.190 --> 00:39:09.769 that wasn't the real Adam far who said that well, 00:39:09.969 --> 00:39:16.269 then who was it it was It was the astral Adam 00:39:16.269 --> 00:39:20.349 far I Don't understand what? What's that his 00:39:20.349 --> 00:39:23.650 stand -in? Well something like that Tessa. I 00:39:23.650 --> 00:39:25.550 don't want you to think he scared me or anything 00:39:25.550 --> 00:39:27.670 like that I mean it was sort of sudden and it 00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:29.769 was spooky, but I still want you to come away 00:39:29.769 --> 00:39:33.030 with me I mean I'll take my chances, if you will. 00:39:33.449 --> 00:39:36.489 Tessa? Will you? Will you, Tessa? I don't know. 00:39:36.849 --> 00:39:40.449 We can go a long ways away from here. Well, let 00:39:40.449 --> 00:39:44.469 me think about it. All right. If you want to. 00:39:44.909 --> 00:39:48.030 Go back to the motel. I'll call you in a day 00:39:48.030 --> 00:39:50.150 or two. All right, all right. I'll be there. 00:39:51.010 --> 00:39:53.949 And whatever you decide, I know you'll decide 00:39:53.949 --> 00:39:57.449 the right thing. I hope so. I'll be right by 00:39:57.449 --> 00:40:01.219 the phone. I'll have my meal sent in. Call me 00:40:01.219 --> 00:40:03.500 any time of the day or night. I'll show you to 00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:07.900 the door, Philip. Tessa, remember... I love you. 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:13.519 I'll remember. I'll be waiting for your call. 00:40:14.260 --> 00:40:19.820 She'll call you. Wait, Philip. Wait! He's gone. 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.300 Call him back. I'm going with him. You're sure? 00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:24.980 Yes, I'm sure. I'm going to get my coat. Tell 00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:44.840 him to wait for me. If you're sure. Philip? I 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:47.679 saw him jump from the bedroom window. Philip 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:51.800 was standing right beneath it. He killed him. 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.739 Just as he said he would. Either that, or he 00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:58.639 was trying to fly. I'll call the police. Oh, 00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:05.139 wait. Do you see it? See what? That mist rising 00:41:05.139 --> 00:41:09.659 from their bodies. Thin, gluish, a sort of vapor 00:41:09.659 --> 00:41:26.010 floating toward the sky. A spirit of the same 00:41:26.010 --> 00:41:29.610 size and shape as the physical body which can 00:41:29.610 --> 00:41:33.469 detach itself and move about in space and time. 00:41:34.369 --> 00:41:37.730 In the last moment of life, it detaches itself 00:41:37.730 --> 00:41:41.590 in the form of a thin bluish vapor and moves 00:41:41.590 --> 00:41:45.429 upward. That is how Adam Farr would describe 00:41:45.429 --> 00:41:49.510 the astral self. And for all I know, he's perfectly 00:41:49.510 --> 00:41:54.380 right. Anyway, it's pleasant to think so. I'll 00:41:54.380 --> 00:42:08.099 be back shortly. Perhaps you didn't believe a 00:42:08.099 --> 00:42:12.320 word of our story. I wouldn't blame you. I'm 00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:14.739 not a hundred percent positive I believe it myself. 00:42:15.860 --> 00:42:18.360 On the other hand, I'm not a hundred percent 00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:22.099 positive I didn't believe it either. We are after 00:42:22.099 --> 00:42:25.519 all dealing here with the human soul and when 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:29.199 it comes to the human soul I'm ready to believe 00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:35.639 anything or on the other hand nothing Our cast 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:38.840 included Michael wager Jennifer Harmon Jacqueline 00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:42.340 Brooks and William Redfield The entire production 00:42:42.340 --> 00:42:45.280 was under the direction of Hyman Brown This is 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.920 EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.880 theater for another adventure in the macabre. 00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:56.480 Until next time, pleasant dreams.