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father are you

asleep where is she in her room I expect

I haven't seen

her what time is it shouldn't it's 5:30

I'm on my way to pick them up is it

still raining no F it's let up for a

while take care Alex drive carefully I

will now you go back to

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sleep

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hold it hold it let me get this out of

your

way okay come

ahead hey Alex

Alex

Alex Morgan how are you Ted Lindsay it's

drct Lindsay now I'd heard you come back

I couldn't believe it it's been a long

time nine years but it's just for the

holidays not for good even so the fact

you come back at all after what happened

means this Old Town can breathe a little

easier your uh sisters are coming too or

so they say who are they doctor the town

just town talk Alex and if there's one

thing the good people of Kenyon like to

talk about it was the Morgan

Family your sisters are coming aren't

they I'm on my way to the airport to

pick them up now they should be arriving

at 6:15 unless the plan's held up by

this weather that's why I'm hurrying

it'll be a race back to Father's before

the road washes out still mothering him

to death huh I'll tell them you said

hello

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let's go get a drink before we catch

pneumonia Freddy you drank enough on the

plane to last you through New Year's Eve

come on Chris help me with the luggage

no you've been stalling too long unless

you tell me exactly what this family

crisis is you can drive me back to the

airport please Joe what's wrong Alex's

father

ill he's

dying is that the only reason you made

us come

back he is our

father I swore I would never set foot in

that house again not even to have the

pleasure of seeing his coffin

closed

if he were just dying I'd say let his

new wife bury

him but I I couldn't ignore

this what does it say one line my wife

is slowly poisoning me to

death we may not care whether he lives

or dies but we can't let that woman get

away with murder

again

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put your bags down now hurry up get your

coats off father's very anxious to see

all of

you here Freddy let me help you Alex

let's have a drink first it's been 9

years not

now do we have to see him this very

second please he's so

desperate what a night let's get it over

with Joe stays in the study now he can't

take the stairs anymore come

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on

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we haven't

met I know you each have your own idea

about

me I won't try to change those opinions

but I do hope that while you're here we

can all at least be civil to each

other your father when he used to be in

the mood to talk went on at Great length

about each of you it was talk of the

past of course but I still feel I know

you

well but he's in there

waiting I would have liked to have

welcomed you properly when you arrived

but this moment belongs to him he he's

longed for it for many

years too

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many good

Lord when I think of

her sleeping in the same bed mother died

Freddy please don't think about that I

can't help it I just can't help it

mother was so

beautiful and he killed her she killed

herself father merely gave her 2001

reasons all legitimate that makes him

responsible for her death now he's

asking us to save

him he's our father and he's

waiting

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shut the

door that woman has ears that can hear

sunshine

so you came you all came Christine you

were so young when you left is it

graduate school that you're in now or

haven't you started yet no I'm in My

First

Year

Joe I stopped counting the husbands

after the third so did I after I found

out you didn't have to marry them to

sleep with them as I remember it you

found that out in junior high

school Fred R poor

Freddy is it pills or alcohol this time

or

both please isn't it enough that I came

you think

so after nine years my loving daughter

you keep taking those pills and one

night you'll go like your mother

did

well shall we talk about what we're

supposed to be here for she's out there

listening if she hears one word of this

your lives won't be worth a red scent no

she's gone

out it looks like she's heading towards

the barn uh shall I keep the door open

so we can hear her just in case she

tries to sneak back in my fears amuse

you am I amused the old man is imagining

things is that what you we all imagine

somebody's out to murderers at one time

or another she is slowly poisoning me to

death is that such a hard thing to

believe she's murdered before hasn't she

we didn't come all the way up here to

decide whether or not she killed her

first husband the point is Father

believes she's trying to kill him but

you don't believe it none of you do I

believe it yes you must even you Alex

even you would never have come home if

you thought I was dying of natural

causes and your wife knows this she

knows why we're here no she thinks you

came home because I begged you

to I told her I needed your

forgiveness and you needed my money well

I hope she believed you for our

sakes you haven't accused her have you

through her face

she called me a scile old fool and even

offered to phone sheriff Nolan for me

maybe that's what we should

no don't you understand Freddy the

people of this town have been waiting

exactly 10 years for something like this

to happen our father would rather be

murdered than laughed at the righteous

don't laugh they

cluck I believed in her

innocence I believed her

I was wrong what do you want us to do

save my life the question is how do we

save it she knows you won't let us go to

the police so we can't threaten her with

that just what exactly do you want us to

do get rid of

her

how kill

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her

don't be so

ridiculous really Joe couldn't you see

the humor that one thing I have never

seen in our father is a sense of humor I

was going to say the humor he's in it

was only his way of making a strong

point he wasn't asking us to literally

commit murder I'm not so sure about that

don't be

ridiculous excuse me

ready I'll get her a cup of

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coffee

hello

Christine I came to get a cup of coffee

it's for Freddy well let me fix it for

you sit by the stove this weather chills

right through the

walls

please

does Mrs Killian still work for my

father

Yes yes but she's been ill she cooked up

the basics of a Christmas Eve dinner

last night she kind of expected she

wouldn't be well enough to come in today

but how she walks through those woods

even when she's feeling her best I'll

never know they scare me to

death I've got dinner in the oven but

it'll be a good while before it's

ready there's some nice cheese if you

need something to hold

you no thank you I'll just get Freddy

her coffee she's not feeling very

well yes I understand from your father

that she also takes pills

if that's the case she shouldn't be

drinking so much

alcohol she shouldn't be drinking any at

all it's heartbreaking a girl so

beautiful and so

young I overheard Alex telling your

father that fredric's never gotten over

your mother's

death what it's done to

her does fredri still blame your father

for your mother's death I think

so yeah

yes most of us can never accept the

terrible fact of

suicide but I suppose drinking a little

too much is better than going a little

too

mad as I

did your coffee is

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ready thank

you

you

know she knew he was carrying on with

that

woman

why why did he do

it did he think she was going to give

him the son's mother

couldn't that

murderous oh

Chris sweet

girl you didn't know what was going on

in this house you were just a child I

remember he'd leave

mother crying in her room while he drove

across town to see

her Elizabeth

Hall Elizabeth Hall Morgan

now mother would have left a note not

for him for us she loved us she loved

us I haven't been loved since the day

she

died of a broken heart didn't she Chris

didn't she die of a broken heart didn't

she die of a broken heart yes Freddy yes

I guess she

did look Freddy why don't we get dressed

in something nice ni come on downstairs

to dinner it's almost

ready I'm having my

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dinner

oh how Christmasy you'd really think we

were home for the

holidays sit

down are we going to wait for she's

drunk I was going to say our intended

victim sh keep your voice down

Joe

good evening good evening

evening would one of you like to say

grace thank you Lord for this food th

has set before us and hold us all of us

close to thee

amen I was so hoping your father could

join us for

this the Christmas Eve dinner is one

tradition he's always has found the

strength to uphold well last year he had

a very high fever he was down with

something Dr Lindsay called Galloping

old age and what does Dr Lindsay call my

father's present condition your father

has forbidden me to call in Dr

Lindsay or any

doctor why was some men are too proud to

die of old age so they convince

themselves it isn't happening

or else blame it on something else or

someone else father may be too proud but

he's not paranoid all men are paranoid

that's why some of them finally do get

murdered I mean a wife can take just so

much can't

she you sound like you've been married

more than once but then I always had

Alex to run home to when things got

crazy so I never had to resort to

murder well nor have I Heavens I I hope

you don't think I was implying I'm quite

aware of the

implication uh did they ever find out

who did Poison your husband or the two

of you were alone in the house that

evening according to the papers that is

yes the two of us were

alone and wasn't it in something he

drank just before going to bed the hot

tardy that I made for him just as I did

every

night maybe he did himself

you're the first person that's

considered that

possibility aside from the grand jury

and myself of

course oh well it's all in the

past I'd hardly ever think of it at all

if it weren't for the people in this

town who still enjoy treating me as if I

were a coldblooded

murderous I still remember it

though the long days and the cold prison

cell the months looking for

someone Fearless enough to give me a job

and a place to

live it was like a nightmare that didn't

seem like a nightmare until I woke

up screaming in an

asylum I will tell you this if a

nightmare like that should ever happen

again if for some evil reason I ever

accused by anyone of

killing the next

time I will not be the one who wakes up

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screaming she's in the sewing

room

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block that

Freddy so beautiful why Die Why dead

Freddy please let us help you drop that

glass

Freddie

killed

murdered murderer no suicide no no no

suicide he killed her Freddy you're

going to bleed to death

death Death who will care about

me for

me mother will because Mommy loves me

Mother's gone Freddy

no no not gone not gone I I I feel her

I've seen her I I see her I see

her I see her I see her come on

Freddie the door was locked how did you

get in here I have no idea

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I'm not running out on you Al if I'm

running out on anyone it's father

because whether he dies of arsenic or

Galloping old age simply doesn't matter

to me anymore it may have once but no

more whatever he may have been or done

he's still our father look who's talking

who wanted us to leave him in the first

place well I never considered him guilty

for mother's death morally or

otherwise she was baddy from the day

Chris was born as baddy as poor Freddy

is now what a Charming way to talk about

your family Alex I'm a big girl now stop

treating me like a child stop playing

big sister I'm

sorry you know I once told Chris that I

felt we were your emotional prisoners

and she said wouldn't it be funny if it

was the other way around if you were our

emotional prisoner are

you I'm sorry if I made you feel like a

prisoner Joe but please don't take this

moment to make your Great Escape

we need you doesn't it matter to you

that we need you don't try and give me

the guilts I Am the first to admit I am

no good at Family crises but not bad at

causing them I didn't cause this one all

right but something has to be done about

it about her and I can't do it alone

it's Freddy in that state and Chris

Chris is just a baby I need your help

Joe to do what exactly I don't know all

I know is we can't let her kill

father you really believe him don't

you don't

you I can't explain it Alex but the

first moment you showed me his letter I

had this Eerie feeling we were being

tricked into coming

here why would he do

that okay suppose she is trying to kill

him

why well I guess she can't wait to he's

already told her we're back in his will

now that alls forgiven so she can't

possibly hope to get the whole thing for

herself anyway there are other motives

besides profit countless some people

kill just for the thrill of it does

Elizabeth Hall Morgan strike you as the

kind of woman who's searching for

Thrills maybe she's just looking to be

free what was that expression you used

emotional

prisoner

Alex I'm

going and it's still raining you can't

fly in this

weather I better call and make sure

there'll be an evening train I've

already called but I'll need to borrow

your car and I have the keys they're in

my

bag Joe how are you going to explain

you're leaving to Father you'll never

believe you're going home you'll think

you're going for the sheriff if I miss

miss the last train I just

might

Chris Chris I'm ready to

leave I must have left the keys in the

car

car what's the matter I I can't face

Freddy when she's like that and she's

liable to make another scene say goodbye

for

me please

Joe okay I'll say goodbye to

her

Alex what do I tell father that he'll

believe I mean

let me handle

it it could be months before he even

notices you're

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gone

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ready

aren't you going to tell him no Alex is

handling

it leave with me Chris why oh Joe now

don't start spooking me with your Eerie

feelings oh baby don't you be the one

who Wes up

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screaming

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hey

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Ted hi hi I was just in the neighborhood

and I thought I'd drop by and say Merry

Christmas come on in

what is it open

it

Ted oh it's lovely glad you like

it oh this is so nice of you I'm sorry

but I don't have anything to give you

well how about letting me get warmed by

the fire I'm freezing oh sure come on

in tell me what's a nice sane man like

you doing all the way out here on

Christmas morning had to stop in look at

M Killian oh how's she doing she's doing

much better good anyway being as I was

so close I couldn't help but stop by and

take a fresh look at someone who

secretly worshiped me when she was all

of

16 guess I wasn't being as secretive as

I thought your face was never a very

good place to hide things

you're not

married why do I look not married yeah

how

come truth is I scare them off

how I don't know I I have a habit of

needing too much well that's not a habit

that's a way of

life well as much as I hate to I better

be heading back to town am I scaring you

off no you're not scaring me

off uh if your father found out I was

here he might be very upset he gave Miss

Morgan strict orders did she tell you

that didn't have to I was standing right

outside the door heard it myself

Ted could you tell just by looking at

him tell what what's the matter with

him come

on he uh can't throw me out for just

wishing him a merry

Christmas Dr Lindsay just wanted to wish

father a Merry

Christmas he's

sleeping look I know what's bothering

you but unless your father would allow

me to do the lab test it would be his

word against mine and hers well how do

you know did Alex show you the letter

no well father wrote her that Elizabeth

was trying to poison

him that's

funny because it was

Elizabeth who asked me to come here it

was about a month

ago she told me that he' acced used her

of trying to

poison she was hoping that I'd be able

to prove to him that he was just

imagining

things oh no she she wouldn't have done

that if she weren't

innocent or

clever look if the roads are clear

tomorrow why don't I stop in again you

think it'd be a wash out hard to tell

the river's still

rising in any case call me if you have a

sudden need to hear a friendly

voice

keep it that way till I get

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back see you

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later

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for

what's the matter darling can't you

sleep Alex what are we going to

do well I'm going to get a good night's

sleep and then I mean about Elizabeth

well in the morning I'm going to talk to

her calmly and

reasonably what are you going to

say I'm going to ask her to leave

quietly

Alex this is her house if she's innocent

why should she just give it up and walk

away without a fight if she's

innocent you really think she might

be she might be oh Lord how naive you

are don't you ever get tired of being so

eternally

childish I'm sorry Chris I didn't mean

to say that just

that well it's been a hard day for me

too it's just that it never seems to

change I feel like this whole thing's on

my

shoulders readyy runs to her bottles and

pills Joe runs to her

parties I'm still

here don't mind me CU some storm is

getting on my nerves Good night darling

good

night it's cold in this house do you

have enough blankets yes I'm fine thank

you

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oh

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e

all of us seem to be having trouble

sleeping

tonight would you like some of this what

is it warm milk and

honey I made some for your father

earlier but I don't suppose your sister

allowed him to drink

it why don't you get yourself a mug and

have

some no thank you I never need anything

to help me sleep

just

Restless yes I guess that's

it I

understand good night good

night did you know the telephone was out

yes I

did from the storm I would imagine

wouldn't

you

yes

for

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yeah

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w

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for

she's

dead what's happened what's going on up

there stay with

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Father please tell me what's

happened

fra has killed

herself God forgive

her poor

freder she has finally done

it it could have been accidental I saw

some pills on her dressing table and I

warned her that mixing alcohol with

barbituates can easily be

fatal were you in her room last night

yes why her crying Disturbed me I

brought her something to help her get

some sleep milk and honey and she drank

it you mean after you'd warned her about

me I don't think any of them believed

you Ben I know Joanna didn't even so she

did not drink it

oh how do we know that because I drank

it

myself you'll find the empty mug on my

bedside table still unwashed Sheriff

Nolan should have no trouble analyzing

what's left in the mug nor my

fingerprints you know I wouldn't me call

the

sheriff well they couldn't even if they

wanted to the phone is dead and it

rained heavily all night the roads are

bound to be washed out we are trapped

here there's no way back until the river

goes down

again now you'd better get back to bed

before you catch your death there's no

mug on your

table there's no mug and there are no

pills or vials in Freddy's

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room

come on

Chris Freddy doesn't need us

anymore but we may need each

other

I think I'd better look in on Daddy you

fix some coffee we need something in our

stomachs Alex I don't want to be alone

it's all right darling uh she's in her

room I'll leave the study door open so I

can hear you if you

call it's still

dead

Alex it could have been accidental

Freddy's death novad do sa vodka that be

yes but if she was taking sleeping pills

where would you get them don't you think

I took that

precaution did she cut her wrists I

searched her room her medicine cabinet

her

handbag besides there was nothing in

that milk why get rid of the

mug darling can't you understand

Elizabeth is afraid that we're going to

take all this away from her was not just

the money and the property but well this

is her

Sanctuary so she's going to kill all of

us how can she hope to get away with it

it's insane of course it's insane she's

insane well then why didn't she try to

stop

Joe maybe she didn't know Joe was

going just be thankful that she got

away at least if anything does happen to

us there'll be someone to see that she

doesn't get away with

it what are we going to do just sit here

and wait for it to

happen what would you suggest the roads

are washed out the telephone lines are

down it's 10 mil to town can you walk 10

miles in this weather or have you

forgotten Joe took my car no but I can

walk one mile to Mrs Killian's

house what could she do an old woman

woman's sick in bed I don't know maybe

her phone is working Alex I know I'm

grasping at straws but I can't just sit

here and wait to die what do you think

will happen to you if you get lost in

those woods Alex I know those woods

inside and out every tree every path it

was N9 years

ago you think everything stays the same

don't you nothing ever changes nothing

ever will until I do I'm going Alex

Chris are you listen

Chris

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he

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he

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he

h

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he

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a

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be

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Christine I'm so worried I wouldn't find

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you

Al

Al

Alex

Al Alex she's the

fell

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chistine

Christin

Christine

where are

you

Christine you're safe now

darling

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Christine I know you're here

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is

for

father he's

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dead trusty come

back come

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back help

me help me please help

me Alex Alex Alex father's dead and she

killed Joe I ran to the house I was

looking for you and She chased me and I

found father I managed to get out of the

house I I just

ran I know Chris I knew you'd come to me

you all always came to

me Al she would have killed me if I

hadn't gotten

away she wouldn't have killed you

Chris she didn't kill

Joe she didn't kill

Freddy she didn't kill

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father

Alex

why I Want to Be Free of you

all Al you you could have left any

time no not

really not

emotionally your your helpless little

faces would have followed me wherever I

went sooner or later I've come running

back because somebody needed me even

father after all these years even father

Al Alex please please

Alex now none of you will ever need me

again please

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Alex

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head Alex what happened dead They're All

Dead Joe and Freddy and father They're

All

Dead what Mrs Hall killed all of them

I I was going to help I thought Chris

would be safe we we thought we locked

her out of the house we locked every

door then then when I was driving away I

looked back and I saw Chris running out

of the house running for her life she

was she was wearing that that little

blue Park I gave her for her birthday

she must have been frightened out of her

mind I called to her she couldn't hear

me she just kept running into those God

physic in

woods let me take you back to town we'll

take your car no I've got to find Chris

she's all I have left she's in there

somewhere she may be

hurt do you think you can get back to

town

alone you

mean you mean you you look for her I

think I have a better chance on foot

than you have yes I suppose so take the

main road they've got part of it cleared

now tell Sheriff Nolan to get some

Troopers in there to back me up it'll be

morning before I'll be okay you just

come back here with the sheriff tell him

everything show him the

letter the letter Chris told me your

father wrote to you and what he

said how could Chris I stopped by

Christmas

morning oh yes I forgot I saw your car I

I was busy taking care of Freddy you can

find the main Highway can't you you

won't get lost again hurry

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Alex

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my father's in the

study Joe's body's over there behind the

barn and your sister's

body upstairs in bed

you thank you I'll show

you

Alex I found

Chris I put her in

there Sheriff I have to call the Corner

well before you do I have a few

questions

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CH oh my poor

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baby

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oh

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for

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take care of her

I

will

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Chris

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all