1 00:00:01,484 --> 00:00:05,070 [clock ticking] 2 00:00:23,623 --> 00:00:26,709 [clock ticking] 3 00:02:24,127 --> 00:02:27,079 Good morning, Mr. Evans. 4 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:32,635 Monday morning is never good. 5 00:02:32,635 --> 00:02:34,136 Anything important? 6 00:02:34,137 --> 00:02:35,638 David Norliss on three. 7 00:02:35,638 --> 00:02:38,140 Ah. 8 00:02:38,141 --> 00:02:40,643 Hello, David. Been a while. 9 00:02:40,643 --> 00:02:41,593 How's the book coming? 10 00:02:41,594 --> 00:02:43,512 Sanford, I've gotta talk to you. 11 00:02:43,513 --> 00:02:45,898 I know, you're gonna tell me it's only half-written, 12 00:02:45,899 --> 00:02:47,317 and we're gonna have to delay our-- 13 00:02:47,317 --> 00:02:49,652 Half-written, hell. I don't have a word on paper. 14 00:02:49,652 --> 00:02:51,987 It's been almost a year. 15 00:02:51,988 --> 00:02:54,273 I know how long it's been, Sanford. 16 00:02:54,274 --> 00:02:58,278 But I, uh... 17 00:02:58,278 --> 00:03:01,281 I can't write it. 18 00:03:01,281 --> 00:03:03,082 I'm afraid to write it. 19 00:03:03,082 --> 00:03:05,367 You're not making sense. 20 00:03:05,368 --> 00:03:07,370 We gave you a sizeable advance 21 00:03:07,370 --> 00:03:09,338 to write a book debunking the supernatural, 22 00:03:09,339 --> 00:03:11,290 which was your idea, not ours. 23 00:03:11,291 --> 00:03:12,875 And now you tell me, a year later, 24 00:03:12,876 --> 00:03:13,760 you haven't even started it. 25 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,180 I'm into the book. 26 00:03:17,180 --> 00:03:20,683 Deep into it. 27 00:03:20,683 --> 00:03:24,186 But, uh... 28 00:03:24,187 --> 00:03:29,192 it's on...on tapes. 29 00:03:29,192 --> 00:03:31,611 A series of tapes. When you hear them, you'll understand. 30 00:03:31,611 --> 00:03:33,362 What will I understand? 31 00:03:35,231 --> 00:03:36,732 How far I've gone. 32 00:03:39,736 --> 00:03:42,739 How dangerous this whole thing is. 33 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,575 Sanford, I have to talk to you. 34 00:03:46,576 --> 00:03:49,662 David, you sound very strange. 35 00:03:49,662 --> 00:03:51,163 Are you all right? 36 00:03:52,632 --> 00:03:56,135 David, are you all right? 37 00:03:56,135 --> 00:03:57,636 Yeah. 38 00:03:57,637 --> 00:04:02,642 Okay. Okay, what about The Canellia Room for lunch tomorrow? 39 00:04:02,642 --> 00:04:05,144 That's no good. I have to see you now. 40 00:04:05,144 --> 00:04:08,147 It's Monday, Dave. You know what Mondays are like. 41 00:04:08,147 --> 00:04:09,648 Why not tomorrow? 42 00:04:12,652 --> 00:04:15,071 Tomorrow might be too late. 43 00:04:39,512 --> 00:04:40,513 Do you wish to order now, sir? 44 00:04:40,513 --> 00:04:43,015 No, just bring me a phone. 45 00:04:58,982 --> 00:05:01,951 [phone rings] 46 00:05:05,955 --> 00:05:09,959 [phone rings] 47 00:05:11,961 --> 00:05:14,964 [phone rings] 48 00:05:17,967 --> 00:05:20,970 [phone rings] 49 00:05:23,973 --> 00:05:26,976 [phone rings] 50 00:05:29,979 --> 00:05:33,599 [phone rings] 51 00:05:33,599 --> 00:05:35,684 That was a week ago. 52 00:05:35,685 --> 00:05:38,187 He never showed for lunch, never phoned to explain why, 53 00:05:38,187 --> 00:05:41,190 and I haven't been able to contact him since. 54 00:05:41,190 --> 00:05:45,194 Sanford, you should be used to eccentric writers by now. 55 00:05:45,194 --> 00:05:47,196 And, in my opinion, David Norliss 56 00:05:47,196 --> 00:05:50,165 is just a bit more eccentric than most. 57 00:05:50,166 --> 00:05:51,700 Man, I'll never get over this view. 58 00:05:51,701 --> 00:05:53,703 There is something wrong. 59 00:05:53,703 --> 00:05:56,205 I wish you'd check this thing out, find out where he is. 60 00:05:56,205 --> 00:05:59,208 Sanford, I'm his lawyer, not his nursemaid. 61 00:05:59,208 --> 00:06:00,709 Please. 62 00:06:00,710 --> 00:06:02,712 All right, I'll look into it. 63 00:06:02,712 --> 00:06:06,215 I still say you're making too much of a broken lunch date. 64 00:06:14,023 --> 00:06:15,524 Sanford! Sanford! 65 00:06:15,525 --> 00:06:16,526 Oh, good. I was hoping I'd see you. 66 00:06:16,526 --> 00:06:18,027 Yeah, glad I ran into you. 67 00:06:18,027 --> 00:06:19,528 Have you got time to catch the cable with me? 68 00:06:19,529 --> 00:06:20,530 Where are you going? 69 00:06:20,530 --> 00:06:21,531 I'm going up to the club. 70 00:06:21,531 --> 00:06:22,532 All right, fine. We'll have a drink. 71 00:06:22,532 --> 00:06:24,033 Good. Yeah. 72 00:06:24,033 --> 00:06:27,036 I, uh, have been terribly worried. 73 00:06:27,036 --> 00:06:28,537 I tried to phone you earlier. 74 00:06:28,538 --> 00:06:30,540 Well, I was in a publisher's meeting. 75 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:32,542 Tied up the whole bloody afternoon. 76 00:06:32,542 --> 00:06:35,545 Sanford, I'm sorry I didn't take you very seriously 77 00:06:35,545 --> 00:06:36,546 in the meeting the other day. 78 00:06:36,546 --> 00:06:37,547 Well? 79 00:06:37,547 --> 00:06:39,549 I just thought you were making much too much of it. 80 00:06:39,549 --> 00:06:42,051 I hope you have something. 81 00:06:42,051 --> 00:06:43,552 What'd you find out? 82 00:06:43,553 --> 00:06:46,055 Nobody knows where David is. Nobody's seen him. 83 00:06:46,055 --> 00:06:47,556 He's just...gone. 84 00:06:47,557 --> 00:06:49,058 Are you sure? 85 00:06:49,058 --> 00:06:51,060 We checked every possible source, 86 00:06:51,060 --> 00:06:52,061 everything conceivable. 87 00:06:52,061 --> 00:06:55,064 It seems incredible to me. 88 00:07:36,272 --> 00:07:38,774 David? 89 00:09:06,362 --> 00:09:08,364 [David] Notes for introduction. 90 00:09:08,364 --> 00:09:13,369 Today is Thursday, September 25, 91 00:09:13,369 --> 00:09:17,373 and I might as well get started with this thing, 92 00:09:17,373 --> 00:09:21,377 get the book rolling with what I've got so far. 93 00:09:21,377 --> 00:09:24,880 God knows, it isn't taking the direction I assumed it would. 94 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:29,885 This whole thing began when my natural writer's curiosity 95 00:09:29,885 --> 00:09:34,389 was aroused by an article I had read in a weekly periodical. 96 00:09:34,390 --> 00:09:37,393 The article was concerned with the commercial aspects 97 00:09:37,393 --> 00:09:39,395 of spiritualism and the occult. 98 00:09:39,395 --> 00:09:42,898 My original idea was to expose the phonies 99 00:09:42,898 --> 00:09:45,400 who are bilking millions of dollars each year 100 00:09:45,401 --> 00:09:47,403 out of their gullible victims, 101 00:09:47,403 --> 00:09:51,407 to go after the fake mediums, phony astrologers, 102 00:09:51,407 --> 00:09:55,411 the self-proclaimed seers and trick mystics. 103 00:09:55,411 --> 00:09:59,281 I was successful at this for some time. 104 00:09:59,282 --> 00:10:02,251 The floating face, which was a dummy's head on a wire, 105 00:10:02,251 --> 00:10:04,786 the ghost of a woman's son 106 00:10:04,787 --> 00:10:08,207 who turned out to be the medium's own kid in a weird get-up. 107 00:10:08,207 --> 00:10:12,294 The fortune teller who's life images in a crystal ball 108 00:10:12,295 --> 00:10:15,298 were supplied by a hidden film projector. 109 00:10:15,298 --> 00:10:20,803 But then I got into this business with Ellen Cort. 110 00:10:20,803 --> 00:10:24,723 I had better try to get this down exactly the way it happened. 111 00:10:27,193 --> 00:10:31,197 Ellen Sterns Cort was recently widowed. 112 00:10:31,197 --> 00:10:33,199 Her late husband, James Raymond Cort, 113 00:10:33,199 --> 00:10:36,702 was a successful sculptor from a well-to-do family. 114 00:10:36,702 --> 00:10:40,706 He worked from a studio on the grounds of his estate in Carmel. 115 00:10:40,706 --> 00:10:44,209 When he married, he brought Ellen there to live. 116 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:46,212 The night before she came to see me, 117 00:10:46,212 --> 00:10:50,216 she'd undergone a very bizarre and frightening experience. 118 00:10:50,216 --> 00:10:53,919 Shortly after midnight, she was awakened from a sound sleep 119 00:10:53,919 --> 00:10:57,923 by the barking of her dog, Rollie. 120 00:10:57,923 --> 00:11:02,928 [dog barking] 121 00:11:15,074 --> 00:11:18,110 What is it, Rollie? 122 00:11:18,110 --> 00:11:21,113 What's the matter, boy? Is somebody out there? 123 00:11:21,113 --> 00:11:23,615 [dog barking] 124 00:11:55,948 --> 00:11:57,032 Show me. 125 00:11:57,032 --> 00:11:59,034 Okay, show me what you want. 126 00:11:59,034 --> 00:12:03,038 Okay. Easy. Easy, boy. Easy. 127 00:13:05,351 --> 00:13:08,053 [growling] 128 00:13:26,489 --> 00:13:28,991 The following night, Mrs. Cort came to see me. 129 00:13:28,991 --> 00:13:31,493 Actually, her sister, Marsha Sterns, 130 00:13:31,494 --> 00:13:33,496 an acquaintance of mine, had set up the meeting. 131 00:13:33,496 --> 00:13:36,999 Marsha knew about my work in the supernatural. 132 00:13:36,999 --> 00:13:40,002 When Ellen called her about the incident, 133 00:13:40,002 --> 00:13:44,506 Marsha had Ellen contact me. 134 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:49,812 And the police found only the body of my dog Rollie, 135 00:13:49,812 --> 00:13:52,347 his next snapped, ribs broken. 136 00:13:52,348 --> 00:13:53,849 They analyzed the blood stains on the floor, 137 00:13:53,849 --> 00:13:56,351 and they were his. All his. 138 00:13:56,352 --> 00:13:57,853 Are you sure you hit the man 139 00:13:57,853 --> 00:13:59,354 when you fired the shotgun? 140 00:13:59,355 --> 00:14:00,856 I'm telling you, I hit him. 141 00:14:00,856 --> 00:14:02,858 Well, think about it. You were upset, you saw your dog killed. 142 00:14:02,858 --> 00:14:03,775 You could've missed. 143 00:14:03,776 --> 00:14:05,360 I've handled guns before. 144 00:14:05,361 --> 00:14:06,862 He was right in front of me 145 00:14:06,862 --> 00:14:08,363 in my direct line of fire. 146 00:14:08,364 --> 00:14:10,866 The charges hit him, smashed him backwards, 147 00:14:10,866 --> 00:14:13,368 and that's when I ran. 148 00:14:13,369 --> 00:14:15,371 But when the police arrived, 149 00:14:15,371 --> 00:14:17,373 there wasn't a trace of him. 150 00:14:17,373 --> 00:14:18,874 No, he was gone. 151 00:14:18,874 --> 00:14:20,342 And when I told them who it was, 152 00:14:20,342 --> 00:14:21,376 they wouldn't believe me. 153 00:14:21,377 --> 00:14:24,380 Now, that's why I've come to you. 154 00:14:24,380 --> 00:14:28,350 Mrs. Cort, why wouldn't the police believe you? 155 00:14:28,350 --> 00:14:33,388 Because the man I shot was already dead. 156 00:14:33,389 --> 00:14:36,392 It was Jim. 157 00:14:36,392 --> 00:14:40,396 My dead husband, James Cort. 158 00:14:46,068 --> 00:14:48,570 Ellen Cort seemed convinced that she had encountered 159 00:14:48,571 --> 00:14:51,574 the risen form of her recently entombed husband. 160 00:14:51,574 --> 00:14:56,579 I asked her to describe the circumstances surrounding Cort's death. 161 00:14:56,579 --> 00:14:58,581 Jim had been feeling very bad. 162 00:14:58,581 --> 00:15:00,583 We didn't know why, and our family doctor 163 00:15:00,583 --> 00:15:05,588 suggested that he undergo a series of tests at the Frasier Clinic. 164 00:15:05,588 --> 00:15:08,090 That's when we discovered he was suffering 165 00:15:08,090 --> 00:15:11,593 from a terminal disease of the brain called Pick's Disease. 166 00:15:11,594 --> 00:15:13,095 I've heard of it. 167 00:15:13,095 --> 00:15:15,597 There's no cure, there's no treatment, 168 00:15:15,598 --> 00:15:17,099 and he-- I don't know, 169 00:15:17,099 --> 00:15:19,601 Jim just seemed to change almost overnight. 170 00:15:19,602 --> 00:15:23,105 He was confined to a wheelchair, would no longer work. 171 00:15:23,105 --> 00:15:24,606 He even had me board up his studio. 172 00:15:24,607 --> 00:15:27,610 He wouldn't even talk about his work. 173 00:15:27,610 --> 00:15:30,613 Was he at all involved with the supernatural? 174 00:15:33,115 --> 00:15:35,617 Yes, he was. 175 00:15:35,618 --> 00:15:39,121 And it started just before his death. 176 00:15:39,121 --> 00:15:42,124 Tell me about that. 177 00:15:42,124 --> 00:15:46,211 I'd arranged an exhibit of Jim's sculptures 178 00:15:46,211 --> 00:15:48,213 at the Langdon Gallery, 179 00:15:48,213 --> 00:15:51,015 and he met a woman there named Madame Jeckiel. 180 00:15:51,016 --> 00:15:53,852 She owns an antique shop here in San Francisco, 181 00:15:53,852 --> 00:15:56,354 and part of her business involves the occult. 182 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:57,305 In what way? 183 00:15:57,306 --> 00:15:58,724 She deals with objects 184 00:15:58,724 --> 00:16:01,226 that are supposed to have occult power. 185 00:16:01,226 --> 00:16:04,612 She even claims to cure the sick, and Jim believed her. 186 00:16:04,613 --> 00:16:07,649 Hmm. No doubt asking for a lot of money, too. 187 00:16:07,650 --> 00:16:10,235 No. No, she didn't. 188 00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:13,238 As far as I know, Jim never gave her a penny. 189 00:16:13,238 --> 00:16:14,739 Not even for that ring. 190 00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:15,824 What ring? 191 00:16:15,824 --> 00:16:18,126 An Egyptian scarab. 192 00:16:18,127 --> 00:16:20,496 Something to do with the god Osiris. 193 00:16:22,297 --> 00:16:26,801 Osiris is an Egyptian god 194 00:16:26,802 --> 00:16:28,170 involved with the doctrine of immortality. 195 00:16:28,170 --> 00:16:32,424 Yes. The ring was part of an agreement he made with her. 196 00:16:32,424 --> 00:16:36,845 You use the word agreement. 197 00:16:36,845 --> 00:16:39,347 What kind of agreement did they have? 198 00:16:39,348 --> 00:16:41,566 I wish I could tell you. I can't. 199 00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:45,153 All I know is Jim accepted that ring 200 00:16:45,154 --> 00:16:47,239 in return for some kind of promise. 201 00:16:47,239 --> 00:16:49,324 He refused to discuss it. 202 00:16:49,324 --> 00:16:50,825 Where's the ring now? 203 00:16:50,826 --> 00:16:52,911 Do you know where it is? 204 00:16:52,911 --> 00:16:54,913 Yes. 205 00:16:54,913 --> 00:16:56,331 It's in his coffin. 206 00:16:56,331 --> 00:16:58,866 His coffin? 207 00:16:58,867 --> 00:17:03,872 Jim even specified that he was to be buried with that ring, 208 00:17:03,872 --> 00:17:06,875 that it be kept on his hand. 209 00:17:06,875 --> 00:17:09,377 And his body is in the crypt 210 00:17:09,378 --> 00:17:11,380 on the grounds of the estate? 211 00:17:11,380 --> 00:17:14,383 That's where his body should be, 212 00:17:14,383 --> 00:17:16,885 but after what I saw last night, 213 00:17:16,885 --> 00:17:18,887 I don't know anymore. 214 00:17:21,390 --> 00:17:23,892 The next afternoon, I had lunch with Marsha, 215 00:17:23,892 --> 00:17:26,394 who was taking a flight to New York. 216 00:17:26,395 --> 00:17:28,397 She was quite worried about her sister. 217 00:17:28,397 --> 00:17:31,400 You know I'm not easy to panic. 218 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,403 And when Ellen phoned me, I knew she was desperate. 219 00:17:34,403 --> 00:17:36,905 I suggested she talk to you. 220 00:17:36,905 --> 00:17:39,908 Actually, we haven't been close for over 3 years 221 00:17:39,908 --> 00:17:41,826 since she married that James Cort. 222 00:17:41,827 --> 00:17:44,246 Why, didn't you get along with Cort? 223 00:17:44,246 --> 00:17:45,664 No, I didn't. 224 00:17:45,664 --> 00:17:48,967 And when Ellen married him, it affected our relationship. 225 00:17:48,967 --> 00:17:51,552 We just haven't seen very much of each other. 226 00:17:51,553 --> 00:17:54,556 And now, when she really needs me, I can't be here. 227 00:17:54,556 --> 00:17:55,974 How long do you have to be in New York? 228 00:17:55,974 --> 00:17:57,558 Well, only a few days, 229 00:17:57,559 --> 00:17:59,844 but I felt that we should talk before I left. 230 00:17:59,845 --> 00:18:01,062 It's important. 231 00:18:01,063 --> 00:18:03,982 If she says that she saw James alive, 232 00:18:03,982 --> 00:18:05,433 Well, then, somehow-- Marsha. 233 00:18:05,434 --> 00:18:08,403 If I didn't believe she was telling me the truth, 234 00:18:08,403 --> 00:18:09,821 and she knows it, I wouldn't be here. 235 00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:13,775 I know, but it's just all so fantastic. 236 00:18:13,776 --> 00:18:16,028 I mean, how could such a thing be possible? 237 00:18:16,028 --> 00:18:18,363 I don't know, 238 00:18:18,363 --> 00:18:21,249 but we're certainly going to try to find out. 239 00:18:23,118 --> 00:18:25,587 However, before I was able to contact Ellen again, 240 00:18:25,587 --> 00:18:29,624 another bizarre incident occurred. 241 00:18:29,625 --> 00:18:34,630 That night in Carmel, a salesgirl was closing her shop for the day. 242 00:18:34,630 --> 00:18:39,601 Millie Parks. Pretty, blond, in her early twenties, 243 00:18:39,601 --> 00:18:42,637 was tired after a full day's work. 244 00:18:42,638 --> 00:18:45,140 She was anxious to close up, get into her car, 245 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:47,642 and drive the six miles to her home, 246 00:18:47,643 --> 00:18:52,614 a small one-story beach house on the ocean near Big Sur. 247 00:19:10,082 --> 00:19:12,084 [cat howls] 248 00:19:37,192 --> 00:19:39,277 [screams] 249 00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:51,316 [Truck Driver] Just my luck, you know. 250 00:20:51,316 --> 00:20:53,818 I'm running late, trying to make Frisco by 3:00, 251 00:20:53,819 --> 00:20:55,320 and this happens. 252 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,821 I never would've seen it. 253 00:20:56,822 --> 00:20:59,774 I was so tired, I was almost asleep at the wheel. 254 00:20:59,775 --> 00:21:02,611 If that other rig hadn't come along in the opposite direction 255 00:21:02,611 --> 00:21:05,947 and given me a blast, I might never have seen it. 256 00:21:11,954 --> 00:21:14,256 It's unbelievable. 257 00:21:14,256 --> 00:21:15,674 [Truck Driver] Sheriff, huh? 258 00:21:15,674 --> 00:21:17,676 I suppose he'll wanna talk to me about it. 259 00:21:17,676 --> 00:21:19,177 All right. 260 00:21:27,185 --> 00:21:30,438 Get a blanket over that fast. 261 00:21:30,439 --> 00:21:32,524 Hey, come here. I wanna talk to you over here. 262 00:21:32,524 --> 00:21:35,026 Gene, Mike, get these spectators out of here. 263 00:21:35,027 --> 00:21:37,029 Come here. Is that the way you found her? 264 00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:39,948 Yeah, but I ain't seen nobody ever look like that 265 00:21:39,948 --> 00:21:41,532 after no car crash, Sheriff. She was, like-- 266 00:21:41,533 --> 00:21:43,535 Never mind what she was. 267 00:21:43,535 --> 00:21:45,537 You just keep shut on that part of it. 268 00:21:45,537 --> 00:21:48,540 Anybody asks you, you just found her dead in the car. 269 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:50,041 Sheriff, nobody looks like that after-- 270 00:21:50,042 --> 00:21:51,543 I just got through telling you 271 00:21:51,543 --> 00:21:54,045 I don't want any more talk about this at all. 272 00:21:54,046 --> 00:21:55,547 Now is that clear? 273 00:21:55,547 --> 00:21:57,048 Yeah, it's clear, but let me ask you something. 274 00:21:57,049 --> 00:21:59,051 How am I gonna forget the color of that face? 275 00:21:59,051 --> 00:22:01,470 Help him get on his way, will ya? Charlie? 276 00:22:01,470 --> 00:22:03,555 Charlie? 277 00:22:09,061 --> 00:22:11,063 I'm putting the lid on this one. 278 00:22:11,063 --> 00:22:14,566 Nobody talks to anybody about the condition of the deceased. 279 00:22:14,566 --> 00:22:16,568 Give me your mic. 280 00:22:16,568 --> 00:22:19,571 This is Sheriff Hartley. We have a 946. 281 00:22:19,571 --> 00:22:21,940 Let me talk to the coroner. 282 00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:40,675 Now, you know where I am if you need me. 283 00:22:46,181 --> 00:22:48,183 Sid. 284 00:22:48,183 --> 00:22:50,685 Ah, can't you ever be on time? 285 00:22:50,685 --> 00:22:52,186 What've you been so sour about? 286 00:22:52,187 --> 00:22:53,688 What do you think? 287 00:22:53,688 --> 00:22:56,190 You know, every time I manage to steal an afternoon, 288 00:22:56,191 --> 00:22:57,692 up come the rain clouds. 289 00:22:57,692 --> 00:23:00,695 Don't know what you're crying about. Doesn't look so bad to me. 290 00:23:00,695 --> 00:23:02,196 Well, if I came from Chicago, 291 00:23:02,197 --> 00:23:04,199 it wouldn't look so bad to me, either. 292 00:23:04,199 --> 00:23:07,702 Hey, what about the autopsy report? 293 00:23:07,702 --> 00:23:10,705 I didn't get it yet. Oh, might be ready now. 294 00:23:10,705 --> 00:23:13,207 Why don't I call the office and find out? 295 00:23:13,208 --> 00:23:15,210 It's gonna take a couple of minutes. 296 00:23:15,210 --> 00:23:16,711 Why don't you go get changed? 297 00:23:16,711 --> 00:23:18,212 Unless you wanna play in those. 298 00:23:18,213 --> 00:23:20,665 Aren't you funny. I'll meet you on the first tee. 299 00:23:27,672 --> 00:23:30,174 What'd you get, Sid? 300 00:23:30,175 --> 00:23:32,177 Extraordinary case. 301 00:23:32,177 --> 00:23:34,179 I've never heard of anything like this in my life. 302 00:23:34,179 --> 00:23:36,181 Even when I was a lab assistant in Chicago, we never-- 303 00:23:36,181 --> 00:23:39,684 Never mind Chicago. What about this girl? 304 00:23:39,684 --> 00:23:41,652 The cause of death was strangulation, 305 00:23:41,653 --> 00:23:44,188 but from the depth of the indentation marks in her neck, 306 00:23:44,189 --> 00:23:47,192 it seems that the murderer must have possessed exceptional strength. 307 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:48,693 Okay, I know she was strangled. 308 00:23:48,693 --> 00:23:51,195 What I wanna find out is what else was done to her. 309 00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:53,698 All right. That's the extraordinary part. 310 00:23:53,698 --> 00:23:59,203 The sallow skin cast and the collapsed sack-like appearance of the body 311 00:23:59,204 --> 00:24:03,208 was a direct result of a total evacuation of all the main arteries. 312 00:24:03,208 --> 00:24:04,709 Oh, Sid, I don't-- 313 00:24:04,709 --> 00:24:06,711 All right, I'll make it simple for you. 314 00:24:06,711 --> 00:24:09,213 The girl's body was totally drained of blood. 315 00:24:09,214 --> 00:24:11,716 It was-- [sighs] 316 00:24:11,716 --> 00:24:13,718 Look, I don't want the media to get a hold of this. 317 00:24:13,718 --> 00:24:16,721 That's all I need, a bunch of newspaper men crawling up my back. 318 00:24:16,721 --> 00:24:18,222 Now, I can see the headlines now. 319 00:24:18,223 --> 00:24:20,225 "Vampire Killer Loose In Monterey." 320 00:24:20,225 --> 00:24:21,726 What can you do for me? 321 00:24:21,726 --> 00:24:23,728 I'll do the best I can, but I can't guarantee anything. 322 00:24:23,728 --> 00:24:25,229 You know that I have to file a report. 323 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:27,232 I cannot falsify the report. You know that. 324 00:24:27,232 --> 00:24:28,233 You know damn well I don't want you 325 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:29,734 to do anything like that. 326 00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:31,235 All I want kept under wraps 327 00:24:31,236 --> 00:24:32,737 is the condition of the corpse, 328 00:24:32,737 --> 00:24:34,705 not the fact that she was murdered. 329 00:24:34,706 --> 00:24:38,242 Look, I gotta have time to work this thing out. 330 00:24:38,243 --> 00:24:39,744 Okay, I understand. 331 00:24:39,744 --> 00:24:42,747 I'll try and keep it under wraps for you. 332 00:24:42,747 --> 00:24:45,249 Okay. That's one favor I owe you. 333 00:24:52,641 --> 00:24:55,727 From the looks of that, I'm gonna have to take two shots a side. 334 00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:57,729 Sid, now, you know the only people 335 00:24:57,729 --> 00:25:00,231 who give shots are doctors. 336 00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:01,516 Tee it up. 337 00:25:11,943 --> 00:25:15,947 The morning I drove down from San Francisco, the weather was foul. 338 00:25:15,947 --> 00:25:20,451 A curtain of cold rain fell from a gunmetal gray sky. 339 00:25:20,452 --> 00:25:23,421 I'd set up a meeting with Sheriff Hartley in Carmel 340 00:25:23,421 --> 00:25:27,291 to discuss the Ellen Cort situation. 341 00:25:27,292 --> 00:25:28,793 I didn't expect much cooperation from him, 342 00:25:28,793 --> 00:25:32,296 but it was worth a try, a way to begin. 343 00:25:32,297 --> 00:25:34,716 When I pulled up in front of Hartley's office, 344 00:25:34,716 --> 00:25:36,217 the sky had begun to clear 345 00:25:36,218 --> 00:25:38,220 and the sun was breaking through. 346 00:25:38,220 --> 00:25:41,223 I hoped it was a good omen. 347 00:25:51,533 --> 00:25:56,037 Mr. Norliss, at the risk of seeming inhospitable, 348 00:25:56,037 --> 00:25:58,039 I just don't understand why any of this 349 00:25:58,039 --> 00:26:02,543 would interest a man who spends his time, uh... 350 00:26:02,544 --> 00:26:04,746 [chuckles] 351 00:26:04,746 --> 00:26:07,131 ...chasing ghosts. 352 00:26:07,132 --> 00:26:09,717 I'm sure you find this all very amusing, Sheriff. 353 00:26:09,718 --> 00:26:12,220 Mrs. Cort swears her husband is alive. 354 00:26:12,220 --> 00:26:15,723 She asked me to help her, I agreed to. 355 00:26:15,724 --> 00:26:17,175 What do you want from me? 356 00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:18,726 Any information that ties in 357 00:26:18,727 --> 00:26:20,729 with the man she shot in her husband's studio. 358 00:26:20,729 --> 00:26:23,732 Shot at. It's plain she missed him. 359 00:26:23,732 --> 00:26:26,684 Nobody can take a shotgun charge and keep walking. 360 00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:30,155 Look, she saw an intruder, she went panicky. 361 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:31,156 It could've been anybody, 362 00:26:31,156 --> 00:26:33,658 some bum looking to spend the night indoors. 363 00:26:33,658 --> 00:26:35,660 It gets cold out here in these woods at night. 364 00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:39,664 Now, I'll bet you that right now your "ghost" 365 00:26:39,664 --> 00:26:42,833 has hopped a freight and is halfway to Chicago. 366 00:26:42,834 --> 00:26:47,922 As for information, I don't have any to give. 367 00:26:47,922 --> 00:26:52,760 What about that girl who was murdered in her car the other night? 368 00:26:52,761 --> 00:26:54,846 The late Millie Parks. 369 00:26:54,846 --> 00:26:56,130 Well, what about it? 370 00:26:56,131 --> 00:26:58,933 Well, I stopped in town before I came here, 371 00:26:58,933 --> 00:27:00,384 and I heard a few people talking about it. 372 00:27:00,385 --> 00:27:02,303 Well, it's like they say, 373 00:27:02,304 --> 00:27:04,222 read all about it in your daily newspaper. 374 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:05,723 I have. 375 00:27:05,724 --> 00:27:10,145 Somebody hid in the car, strangled her, the car hit a tree. 376 00:27:10,145 --> 00:27:13,231 And that's all there is to it. 377 00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:16,033 Mm-hmm. Are you sure that's all there is to it? 378 00:27:18,870 --> 00:27:22,373 Mr. Norliss, now are you saying 379 00:27:22,374 --> 00:27:26,378 there's some connection between that dead girl and Mrs. Cort's ghost? 380 00:27:26,378 --> 00:27:29,881 I'm not saying anything, I'm just asking questions. 381 00:27:29,881 --> 00:27:31,883 That's what I get paid for. 382 00:27:31,883 --> 00:27:34,886 And I'll handle it, if it's all right with you, Mr. Norliss. 383 00:27:34,886 --> 00:27:37,889 Sure, Sheriff, it's all right with me. 384 00:27:37,889 --> 00:27:39,891 It just seems that there are a lot of nervous people in town. 385 00:27:39,891 --> 00:27:44,395 I think they saw a lot more than they're willing to talk about. 386 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:46,898 Like I said... 387 00:27:46,898 --> 00:27:49,317 That's police business. 388 00:27:49,317 --> 00:27:53,821 Okay. Thanks for the information. 389 00:27:57,826 --> 00:27:58,827 Think maybe he's on to something? 390 00:27:58,827 --> 00:28:00,778 On to what? 391 00:28:00,779 --> 00:28:04,833 Now, there's a very simple explanation to this whole thing. 392 00:28:04,833 --> 00:28:06,835 All we've gotta do is find it. 393 00:28:06,835 --> 00:28:09,838 I hope so, Tom. I sure hope so. 394 00:28:09,838 --> 00:28:11,840 Oh. 395 00:28:22,517 --> 00:28:26,020 As I headed for the Cort estate along the 17-mile drive, 396 00:28:26,020 --> 00:28:30,140 acres of lush cypress and tall pine loomed over me. 397 00:28:30,141 --> 00:28:32,643 The ocean below bellowed and roared, 398 00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:34,145 smashing into the coastline, 399 00:28:34,145 --> 00:28:37,531 spilling white foam along the sand. 400 00:28:37,532 --> 00:28:39,534 There's no doubt this rugged peninsula country 401 00:28:39,534 --> 00:28:43,037 could give the French Riviera tough competition. 402 00:28:43,037 --> 00:28:47,041 But on this afternoon, my mind really wasn't on the scenery. 403 00:28:47,041 --> 00:28:49,543 I kept thinking about the girl 404 00:28:49,544 --> 00:28:51,746 who had been murdered the night before, 405 00:28:51,746 --> 00:28:54,749 trying to tie what I knew about her 406 00:28:54,749 --> 00:28:56,751 into the story Ellen had told me. 407 00:28:56,751 --> 00:28:59,253 I had a gut hunch the two were connected. 408 00:28:59,254 --> 00:29:01,256 How, I didn't know, 409 00:29:01,256 --> 00:29:05,260 but I was going to have to try and find out. 410 00:29:17,188 --> 00:29:19,190 Hello, Mrs. Cort. 411 00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:21,692 I really do appreciate your coming. 412 00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:30,001 It's really a beautiful place. 413 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:32,503 It was, but it isn't anymore. 414 00:29:32,504 --> 00:29:35,006 Not for me. 415 00:29:35,006 --> 00:29:37,508 I let the servants go after Jim's death. 416 00:29:37,509 --> 00:29:39,511 Now I'm trying to sell the estate. 417 00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:42,096 Would you like some coffee? 418 00:29:42,096 --> 00:29:44,098 Sure. 419 00:29:44,098 --> 00:29:46,100 You mean to tell me you're out here all alone? 420 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:48,602 I had Mrs. Harrison with me until today. 421 00:29:48,603 --> 00:29:50,104 She'd been with the family for years, 422 00:29:50,104 --> 00:29:51,605 so I kept her on to look after the place, 423 00:29:51,606 --> 00:29:54,609 but that girl's murder frightened her. 424 00:29:54,609 --> 00:29:57,612 She turned in her notice this morning. 425 00:29:57,612 --> 00:30:00,114 Said she wouldn't stay this far out of town after dark. 426 00:30:00,114 --> 00:30:02,116 Well, she makes sense. 427 00:30:02,116 --> 00:30:03,066 I think it'd be a good idea 428 00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:04,118 if you went back into town with me tonight 429 00:30:04,118 --> 00:30:06,120 and stayed at the inn. 430 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,622 Well, I guess maybe you're right. 431 00:30:08,623 --> 00:30:10,074 I didn't sleep a wink last night. 432 00:30:10,074 --> 00:30:13,127 Every time the house creaked, my skin scrawled. 433 00:30:13,127 --> 00:30:17,631 I kept imagining I heard noises from the woods. 434 00:30:19,133 --> 00:30:21,635 Think we could take a look at your husband's studio? 435 00:30:21,636 --> 00:30:24,639 Sure. I'll get the keys. 436 00:30:47,245 --> 00:30:49,247 You say the dog led you in this direction? 437 00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:52,750 Yes, I practically had to run to keep up with him. 438 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:55,252 What time did he wake you up? 439 00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:58,673 Just after midnight. 440 00:30:58,673 --> 00:31:00,958 There it is, over there. 441 00:31:13,271 --> 00:31:14,772 Jim loved this place. 442 00:31:14,772 --> 00:31:18,559 Used to be a barn before he converted it into a studio. 443 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,145 From what the people in town tell me, 444 00:31:21,145 --> 00:31:23,147 your husband was something of a recluse. 445 00:31:23,147 --> 00:31:25,649 Well, I suppose that's true, but he liked being alone. 446 00:31:25,650 --> 00:31:29,153 After we were married, I had a studio set up in the main house, 447 00:31:29,153 --> 00:31:30,154 but he never used it. 448 00:31:30,154 --> 00:31:32,656 He'd always come out here to work. 449 00:31:32,657 --> 00:31:35,626 Called it his personal hideaway. 450 00:31:49,057 --> 00:31:51,092 Is this from the dog? 451 00:31:51,092 --> 00:31:53,594 Yes. All of it. 452 00:31:53,595 --> 00:31:56,097 He killed Rollie as easily as you'd smash a fly, 453 00:31:56,097 --> 00:31:57,598 and he was a German Shepherd, 454 00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:00,602 a very powerful animal. 455 00:32:00,602 --> 00:32:03,104 And you say you had to unlock the door to get in. 456 00:32:03,104 --> 00:32:05,606 That's right. 457 00:32:05,607 --> 00:32:10,111 The only question is how did he get inside? 458 00:32:10,111 --> 00:32:13,447 Is this the corner he came from? 459 00:32:13,448 --> 00:32:15,450 Yes. 460 00:32:15,450 --> 00:32:18,453 He was standing right here. 461 00:32:18,453 --> 00:32:22,957 I'll never forget his eyes. 462 00:32:22,957 --> 00:32:27,962 They were horrible, wild, and staring at me. 463 00:32:27,962 --> 00:32:31,548 How long has it been since you've been out here? 464 00:32:31,549 --> 00:32:34,552 I haven't been here since Jim died. 465 00:33:05,667 --> 00:33:10,221 Now you don't believe me, do you? 466 00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:13,257 What do you believe? 467 00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:15,259 I don't know. 468 00:33:18,262 --> 00:33:20,180 [Ellen] But I'm still confused about the ring. 469 00:33:20,181 --> 00:33:21,732 It must be worth a great deal of money. 470 00:33:21,733 --> 00:33:23,768 [David] Why do you say that? 471 00:33:23,768 --> 00:33:27,271 Because Charles Langdon phoned me yesterday regarding the purchase 472 00:33:27,271 --> 00:33:29,273 of all the studio sculptures. 473 00:33:29,273 --> 00:33:30,774 When he mentioned the ring, 474 00:33:30,775 --> 00:33:32,276 I told him it wasn't for sale. 475 00:33:32,276 --> 00:33:33,777 Well, what did he say? 476 00:33:33,778 --> 00:33:35,162 He became quite upset. 477 00:33:35,163 --> 00:33:37,582 And that's when I hung up. 478 00:33:37,582 --> 00:33:40,585 Maybe I should have a talk with Langdon. 479 00:33:40,585 --> 00:33:43,087 Look, while I'm in San Francisco, do me a favor. 480 00:33:43,087 --> 00:33:45,589 Find out all you can about that murder the other night. 481 00:33:45,590 --> 00:33:49,677 There's something about that girl's death they're trying to hide. 482 00:33:49,677 --> 00:33:51,762 Well, then you think there's a connection 483 00:33:51,763 --> 00:33:54,766 between what happened to me and the Parks girl? 484 00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:57,268 I don't know. That's what I'm gonna find out. 485 00:33:57,268 --> 00:33:59,553 I'll call you tonight. 486 00:34:25,913 --> 00:34:27,414 Hello. 487 00:34:27,415 --> 00:34:29,417 May I be of some assistance? 488 00:34:29,417 --> 00:34:30,918 Yes, you might. 489 00:34:30,918 --> 00:34:34,421 You tell Mr. Langdon that David Norliss is here to see him. 490 00:34:34,422 --> 00:34:38,926 If you'll be so kind as to follow me. 491 00:34:57,328 --> 00:35:00,831 Mr. Langdon, a Mr. Norliss to see you. 492 00:35:00,832 --> 00:35:02,333 May I help you? 493 00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:05,336 Uh, David Norliss. 494 00:35:05,336 --> 00:35:07,204 Oh, I know you. 495 00:35:07,205 --> 00:35:09,590 I enjoyed one of your books very much. 496 00:35:09,590 --> 00:35:10,591 Really? Which one? 497 00:35:10,591 --> 00:35:12,593 I have a terrible memory for titles. 498 00:35:12,593 --> 00:35:14,094 It dealt with undersea life, 499 00:35:14,095 --> 00:35:16,597 and I believe it was off the coast of Yugoslavia? 500 00:35:16,597 --> 00:35:18,599 The Man Below. I'm glad you liked it. 501 00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:20,100 I did. 502 00:35:20,101 --> 00:35:21,102 You're the only one who read it. 503 00:35:21,102 --> 00:35:24,105 Come, may I show you something here? 504 00:35:24,105 --> 00:35:26,607 No, thank you. I would like to ask you some questions. 505 00:35:26,607 --> 00:35:29,109 Regarding your association with James Raymond Cort. 506 00:35:29,110 --> 00:35:30,111 Oh? 507 00:35:30,111 --> 00:35:32,613 You see, I'm looking into his death. 508 00:35:32,613 --> 00:35:36,116 Looking into? In what capacity? 509 00:35:36,117 --> 00:35:38,402 As a private investigator working for Mrs. Cort. 510 00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:40,237 Well, I'd be glad to help Ellen, 511 00:35:40,238 --> 00:35:42,240 but, I mean, it seems a little bit on the bizarre side. 512 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:45,243 There was nothing of a mysterious nature about James' death. 513 00:35:45,243 --> 00:35:47,745 Well, then you won't mind answering a few questions, will you? 514 00:35:47,745 --> 00:35:49,747 Fire ahead. 515 00:35:49,747 --> 00:35:51,215 How well did you know him? 516 00:35:51,215 --> 00:35:53,250 Oh, we were closely associated. 517 00:35:53,251 --> 00:35:54,752 You see, our gallery is the main outlet 518 00:35:54,752 --> 00:35:58,255 for James' work here in San Francisco for the past several years. 519 00:35:58,256 --> 00:36:01,259 I've placed a great number of his works with collectors, 520 00:36:01,259 --> 00:36:04,762 and I've arranged for a few special commissions, things of that sort. 521 00:36:04,762 --> 00:36:08,982 Hmm? How much do you know about the occult, Mr. Langdon? 522 00:36:08,983 --> 00:36:12,069 Very little, actually. Doesn't interest me at all. 523 00:36:12,069 --> 00:36:15,072 Hmm. That's interesting because Mrs. Cort was saying-- 524 00:36:15,072 --> 00:36:18,075 Uh, could we talk upstairs? 525 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:19,576 Sure. 526 00:36:19,577 --> 00:36:23,080 Please. 527 00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:28,119 You see, I somehow got the impression 528 00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:32,123 that you were responsible for Mr. Cort's fascination with the supernatural. 529 00:36:32,123 --> 00:36:35,626 No, it was simply a manifestation of his disease. 530 00:36:40,097 --> 00:36:42,099 You do know Madame Jeckiel, don't you? 531 00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:43,600 In a business sense. 532 00:36:43,601 --> 00:36:45,603 I frequently send people to her shop. 533 00:36:45,603 --> 00:36:47,605 She has excellent tastes. 534 00:36:47,605 --> 00:36:50,107 Accepts some really splendid items from time to time. 535 00:36:50,107 --> 00:36:54,611 Hmm. See, I was told that he met her here in your gallery. 536 00:36:54,612 --> 00:36:58,065 Yes, we had James' last exhibition. 537 00:36:58,065 --> 00:36:59,116 I introduced them, as a matter of fact, 538 00:36:59,116 --> 00:37:01,118 though, frankly, I wish I hadn't. 539 00:37:01,118 --> 00:37:06,623 His obsession with the supernatural began with Madame Jeckiel. 540 00:37:06,624 --> 00:37:08,075 What about that ring he got from her? 541 00:37:08,075 --> 00:37:10,077 You know anything about that? 542 00:37:10,077 --> 00:37:13,080 Apparently, it's from Egypt. It's very ancient. 543 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,500 Known to collectors of antique jewelry as the Osiris Scarab. 544 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,084 Valuable. 545 00:37:18,085 --> 00:37:20,420 It's true value is difficult to determine. 546 00:37:22,757 --> 00:37:25,760 The beetle, as you know, is the symbol of immortality. 547 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,763 There are rumors that the Osiris Scarab is a life ring, 548 00:37:28,763 --> 00:37:32,233 capable of granting restorative powers to its wearer. 549 00:37:32,233 --> 00:37:34,685 You believe that? 550 00:37:34,685 --> 00:37:38,188 Hardly. Myth and nonsense. 551 00:37:38,189 --> 00:37:40,691 Why do you want the ring so badly? 552 00:37:40,691 --> 00:37:43,193 Apparently, Ellen told you of my interest. 553 00:37:43,194 --> 00:37:45,696 Obviously. 554 00:37:45,696 --> 00:37:49,700 I deal in antique art and objects, Mr. Norliss. 555 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:52,202 This ring is such an object. 556 00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:54,205 It has a fascination for those of us who are connoisseurs, 557 00:37:54,205 --> 00:37:56,957 so, certainly, I should like to own the Osiris Scarab. 558 00:37:56,958 --> 00:38:00,544 Well, Mrs. Cort told me that you demanded to know 559 00:38:00,544 --> 00:38:02,512 why the ring wasn't for sale. 560 00:38:02,513 --> 00:38:04,097 Well, naturally, I was disappointed, 561 00:38:04,098 --> 00:38:06,600 and I vented my disappointment over the telephone. 562 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,468 It was purely an emotion of the moment. 563 00:38:08,469 --> 00:38:12,389 So she didn't tell you why she wouldn't sell the ring 564 00:38:12,390 --> 00:38:13,858 or where it is? 565 00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:16,360 No, she did not. 566 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,861 Do you know where it is? 567 00:38:17,862 --> 00:38:19,864 Mm-hmm. 568 00:38:19,864 --> 00:38:23,367 You see, Mr. Cort's will declared that the ring 569 00:38:23,367 --> 00:38:25,986 should be buried with him. 570 00:38:25,987 --> 00:38:28,823 It's now on his finger in the family crypt. 571 00:38:28,823 --> 00:38:32,827 How curious. How very curious. 572 00:39:02,023 --> 00:39:04,025 [quiet footsteps] 573 00:39:04,025 --> 00:39:07,528 [screaming] 574 00:39:29,183 --> 00:39:31,268 I had a private agreement with Mr. Cort. 575 00:39:31,268 --> 00:39:34,271 Now, it's no business of yours or anybody else's. 576 00:39:34,271 --> 00:39:37,274 I keep private business private. 577 00:39:37,274 --> 00:39:41,778 Madame Jeckiel, Mrs. Cort thinks her husband is alive. 578 00:39:41,779 --> 00:39:44,782 As a matter of fact, she thinks she saw him. 579 00:39:44,782 --> 00:39:47,284 In the studio? 580 00:39:47,284 --> 00:39:48,785 Well, now, isn't that interesting? 581 00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:51,288 How did you know where she saw him? 582 00:39:51,288 --> 00:39:54,791 Jim always loved being in the studio, 583 00:39:54,792 --> 00:39:56,743 and his presence might linger there. 584 00:39:56,744 --> 00:39:59,296 Oh, come on! This was no presence. This was a real man. 585 00:39:59,296 --> 00:40:00,797 Real enough to kill a dog 586 00:40:00,798 --> 00:40:03,417 and take a double shotgun blast in the chest. 587 00:40:03,417 --> 00:40:05,502 Why are you telling me this? 588 00:40:05,503 --> 00:40:08,222 Look, this has nothing to do with me. 589 00:40:08,222 --> 00:40:10,807 Well, I think it has a lot to do with you. 590 00:40:10,808 --> 00:40:13,811 And the ring you gave to Cort. 591 00:40:13,811 --> 00:40:16,313 All part of a puzzle, and I'd thought you'd help me 592 00:40:16,313 --> 00:40:18,315 put the pieces together. 593 00:40:18,315 --> 00:40:20,817 There's nothing I can say. 594 00:40:20,818 --> 00:40:22,769 What about the studio? 595 00:40:22,770 --> 00:40:24,822 I think you know something about the studio, 596 00:40:24,822 --> 00:40:26,824 and it's linked with the ring. 597 00:40:26,824 --> 00:40:30,410 Look, I'm gonna tell you something. 598 00:40:30,411 --> 00:40:31,912 You stay away from that place. 599 00:40:31,912 --> 00:40:34,414 Stay away from the whole Cort estate. 600 00:40:34,415 --> 00:40:36,417 Why? 601 00:40:36,417 --> 00:40:40,120 It's the House of Sargoth. 602 00:40:43,624 --> 00:40:46,677 [phone rings] 603 00:40:58,939 --> 00:41:00,023 Hello? 604 00:41:00,024 --> 00:41:01,525 Ellen, it's David. How are you? 605 00:41:01,525 --> 00:41:04,027 Okay, but it sure is raining here. 606 00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:05,362 Listen, I think I'm on to something. 607 00:41:05,362 --> 00:41:07,197 I saw Madame Jeckiel. 608 00:41:07,198 --> 00:41:09,200 She wasn't too talkative, but she did make a slip 609 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,701 in reference to James' studio. 610 00:41:10,701 --> 00:41:14,204 I think this whole thing ties in to the studio. 611 00:41:14,205 --> 00:41:15,706 I'm gonna be down there in about an hour. 612 00:41:15,706 --> 00:41:16,957 I'll pick you up at 11:30. 613 00:41:16,957 --> 00:41:18,575 Well, where are we going? 614 00:41:18,576 --> 00:41:21,662 Back to the studio. Now, you're familiar with it, and I'm not. 615 00:41:21,662 --> 00:41:22,629 I wouldn't know what to look for, 616 00:41:22,630 --> 00:41:24,164 but I'm convinced something is there. 617 00:41:24,165 --> 00:41:25,132 Will you go with me? 618 00:41:25,132 --> 00:41:27,634 I'll be ready. Okay. 619 00:41:37,928 --> 00:41:39,980 It's almost midnight. I was worried. 620 00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:41,514 I thought something might have happened to you. 621 00:41:41,515 --> 00:41:43,934 The storm slowed me down. I was in a lot of heavy traffic. 622 00:41:43,934 --> 00:41:46,353 What do you expect to find at the studio? 623 00:41:46,353 --> 00:41:47,854 I don't know, I'm not sure. 624 00:41:47,855 --> 00:41:49,239 Did you find anything out about the Parks girl? 625 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,826 Only that there seemed to be something strange about the body. 626 00:41:52,826 --> 00:41:53,827 Like what? 627 00:41:53,827 --> 00:41:57,247 Like she had no blood. 628 00:42:24,608 --> 00:42:27,193 Through here. 629 00:42:34,401 --> 00:42:36,903 I hate to put you through this. 630 00:42:36,904 --> 00:42:38,739 I'd rather have done it alone. 631 00:42:38,739 --> 00:42:40,791 No, I'm glad I can help. 632 00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:44,327 Anyway, I was going stir crazy waiting back at the inn. 633 00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:26,002 I wish I knew what to look for. 634 00:43:26,003 --> 00:43:28,538 Anything odd or abnormal. 635 00:43:46,557 --> 00:43:48,442 What's this? 636 00:43:51,312 --> 00:43:54,315 I don't know. I've never seen it before. 637 00:43:54,315 --> 00:43:56,317 Wasn't here the other day. 638 00:43:56,317 --> 00:43:58,319 I know. 639 00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:00,321 You sure he didn't start this just before he died? 640 00:44:00,321 --> 00:44:04,124 No, this isn't his. 641 00:44:04,124 --> 00:44:07,127 It's not like his work. 642 00:44:07,127 --> 00:44:10,079 Look at the face. 643 00:44:18,589 --> 00:44:21,592 And this clay. 644 00:44:21,592 --> 00:44:25,596 What about it? 645 00:44:25,596 --> 00:44:28,098 It's still damp. 646 00:44:28,098 --> 00:44:30,100 Someone's still working on this thing. 647 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:33,103 But that's impossible. How could that be? 648 00:44:37,441 --> 00:44:40,694 [growling and screaming] 649 00:45:03,801 --> 00:45:05,769 [Ellen screams] 650 00:45:14,778 --> 00:45:16,780 Here he comes! 651 00:46:11,952 --> 00:46:13,954 [no audible dialogue] 652 00:46:18,959 --> 00:46:20,961 [David] Thank you. 653 00:46:20,961 --> 00:46:24,464 Okay. Mrs. Cort. 654 00:46:24,465 --> 00:46:25,966 Mr. Norliss, you know, it's 2:00 in the morning. 655 00:46:25,966 --> 00:46:26,967 Have you been drinking? 656 00:46:26,967 --> 00:46:27,968 Look, I'm not gonna argue with you. 657 00:46:27,968 --> 00:46:29,469 I saw Cort. 658 00:46:29,470 --> 00:46:30,971 He was as close to me as you are. 659 00:46:30,971 --> 00:46:31,972 Another one of your ghosts? 660 00:46:31,972 --> 00:46:33,440 A ghost doesn't rip up a car door. 661 00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,443 Take a look out the window. 662 00:46:40,948 --> 00:46:42,399 He did that? 663 00:46:42,399 --> 00:46:46,369 He did that. 664 00:46:46,370 --> 00:46:48,789 Mrs. Cort, are you all right? 665 00:46:53,494 --> 00:46:55,329 All right, let's go. 666 00:46:56,630 --> 00:46:58,665 Get 'am around in the back, there, would ya? 667 00:46:58,665 --> 00:47:01,167 All right, listen. Check this over here. 668 00:47:01,168 --> 00:47:02,169 We're still trying to find a body. 669 00:47:02,169 --> 00:47:05,672 He says he hit one, and we can't find it. 670 00:47:05,672 --> 00:47:07,674 Get on, get over there. 671 00:47:10,177 --> 00:47:13,680 It seems to me that you must've just grazed him with a fender. 672 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,181 I'm telling you, I hit him head on. 673 00:47:15,182 --> 00:47:18,185 All right. Frank, Jim, search the main house. 674 00:47:18,185 --> 00:47:20,687 The rest of you, check the studio and all the grounds. 675 00:47:20,687 --> 00:47:21,688 You come with me. 676 00:47:21,688 --> 00:47:22,689 Where? 677 00:47:22,689 --> 00:47:25,191 I'm gonna see if Mr. Cort is at home to friends. 678 00:47:25,192 --> 00:47:27,577 Come on with it. Let's go. 679 00:47:46,463 --> 00:47:48,965 Someone's taken the body. 680 00:47:48,966 --> 00:47:51,468 Did you hear what I said? That's all there is to it. 681 00:47:51,468 --> 00:47:53,970 Somebody's taken the body. 682 00:47:54,938 --> 00:47:56,389 Look, Hartley, what more do you need? 683 00:47:56,390 --> 00:47:58,225 Now, you look, Mr. Norliss. 684 00:47:58,225 --> 00:48:00,694 I just don't buy your zombie story. 685 00:48:00,694 --> 00:48:04,064 As far as I'm concerned, we've got a prowler that looks like Mr. Cort 686 00:48:04,064 --> 00:48:07,067 who assaulted you people when you caught him doing his job. 687 00:48:07,067 --> 00:48:08,034 Mrs. Cort saw him-- 688 00:48:08,035 --> 00:48:09,536 Now, for his own reasons, 689 00:48:09,536 --> 00:48:10,987 he removed Mr. Cort's body. 690 00:48:10,988 --> 00:48:12,489 I'm still in the dark as to why, 691 00:48:12,489 --> 00:48:14,407 but maybe it's to just follow up the disguise. 692 00:48:14,408 --> 00:48:16,410 Explain the abnormal strength. 693 00:48:16,410 --> 00:48:17,911 You think I pulled the door off the car? 694 00:48:17,911 --> 00:48:19,913 I don't try to explain anything. 695 00:48:19,913 --> 00:48:23,917 If I did, I would say that you snagged the open car door 696 00:48:23,917 --> 00:48:25,418 on the garage in your hurry to get out. 697 00:48:25,419 --> 00:48:27,921 Now, look. When people panic, they do funny things. 698 00:48:27,921 --> 00:48:29,422 What're you gonna do about all of this? 699 00:48:29,423 --> 00:48:32,426 Assuming that we don't find the prowler on the grounds, 700 00:48:32,426 --> 00:48:34,428 and I agree, that's very unlikely, 701 00:48:34,428 --> 00:48:36,430 then I'll have the woods searched. 702 00:48:36,430 --> 00:48:38,932 In the meantime, it's late, and I'm tired. 703 00:48:38,932 --> 00:48:40,433 I'm gonna take Mrs. Cort back to town. 704 00:48:40,434 --> 00:48:41,435 You follow us. 705 00:48:41,435 --> 00:48:43,937 When you get there, you can sign a complaint. 706 00:48:43,937 --> 00:48:47,440 Let's give up on this wild goose chase. 707 00:48:52,613 --> 00:48:56,199 [phone rings] 708 00:48:59,202 --> 00:49:00,703 Who is this? 709 00:49:00,704 --> 00:49:02,706 It's David. Are you all right? 710 00:49:02,706 --> 00:49:07,711 I suppose so. They gave me a sedative. 711 00:49:07,711 --> 00:49:09,379 What time is it? 712 00:49:09,379 --> 00:49:12,465 It's afternoon. 2:00. 713 00:49:12,466 --> 00:49:13,467 Where are you? 714 00:49:13,467 --> 00:49:14,968 I'm at home. 715 00:49:14,968 --> 00:49:16,469 Been trying to reach Charles Langdon. 716 00:49:16,470 --> 00:49:17,387 Has he called you? 717 00:49:17,387 --> 00:49:19,355 No. No one's called. 718 00:49:20,724 --> 00:49:24,227 That sheriff still won't believe me. 719 00:49:24,227 --> 00:49:25,144 Thinks we're both crazy. 720 00:49:25,145 --> 00:49:27,530 Did you show him the sculpture we found? 721 00:49:27,531 --> 00:49:28,949 No, no. 722 00:49:28,949 --> 00:49:30,533 I don't want anyone touching that thing 723 00:49:30,534 --> 00:49:34,037 until I can determine what it is, what it means. 724 00:49:34,037 --> 00:49:35,872 I'm having the clay analyzed right now. 725 00:49:35,872 --> 00:49:38,958 Sheriff Hartley wants me to 726 00:49:38,959 --> 00:49:41,461 make a full statement at his office this afternoon. 727 00:49:41,461 --> 00:49:42,829 What-- what should I tell him? 728 00:49:42,829 --> 00:49:44,380 Tell him the truth. 729 00:49:44,381 --> 00:49:45,999 Just leave out the sculpture. 730 00:49:45,999 --> 00:49:47,083 David? 731 00:49:48,585 --> 00:49:50,587 David, I'm still very frightened. 732 00:49:51,588 --> 00:49:54,591 He's out there. Alive. 733 00:49:54,591 --> 00:49:57,093 And you and I know he's out there. 734 00:49:57,094 --> 00:49:59,096 Why won't the sheriff believe us? 735 00:49:59,096 --> 00:50:01,598 Hey, what's it gonna take to make him believe us? 736 00:50:09,106 --> 00:50:11,608 [Corliss] That night, Ellen's sister Marsha 737 00:50:11,608 --> 00:50:14,611 drove down from San Francisco. 738 00:50:14,611 --> 00:50:16,613 She'd returned from her trip to New York 739 00:50:16,613 --> 00:50:19,115 earlier than expected. 740 00:50:19,116 --> 00:50:20,617 And unfortunately, 741 00:50:20,617 --> 00:50:22,619 when she tried to reach me, 742 00:50:22,619 --> 00:50:25,121 I was out. 743 00:50:25,122 --> 00:50:27,124 It was after midnight when she pulled into 744 00:50:27,124 --> 00:50:28,625 the deserted Cort estate. 745 00:50:30,127 --> 00:50:31,128 And when she found no one there, 746 00:50:31,128 --> 00:50:32,629 she was already too tired 747 00:50:32,629 --> 00:50:34,631 to make the half-hour drive to Carmel. 748 00:50:36,633 --> 00:50:39,636 And since another storm was building, 749 00:50:39,636 --> 00:50:41,554 Marsha decided to seek closer lodgings. 750 00:50:43,056 --> 00:50:46,059 By the time she's arrived at the Orange Grove Motel, 751 00:50:46,059 --> 00:50:48,978 a small, off-the-road scattering of faded cabins, 752 00:50:50,063 --> 00:50:51,564 the storm had broken, 753 00:50:52,566 --> 00:50:55,068 and the rain had begun to fall. 754 00:50:57,954 --> 00:50:59,288 [thunder] 755 00:51:12,803 --> 00:51:14,304 [knocking on door] 756 00:51:14,304 --> 00:51:15,305 We're closed. 757 00:51:15,305 --> 00:51:16,806 Please! Let me come in! 758 00:51:16,807 --> 00:51:18,225 We're closed for the night! 759 00:51:18,225 --> 00:51:20,227 Please! I need a room! Go away! 760 00:51:20,227 --> 00:51:22,812 Poppa, will you tell her we're closed? 761 00:51:22,813 --> 00:51:24,648 I'll tell her we're closed. 762 00:51:25,982 --> 00:51:27,483 [Man] Now, look, lady! 763 00:51:27,484 --> 00:51:29,486 My wife said-- 764 00:51:29,486 --> 00:51:30,987 Oh, please, could I come in? 765 00:51:30,987 --> 00:51:33,489 It's so wet out here. I'm freezing to death. 766 00:51:33,490 --> 00:51:34,491 Well, come on in. 767 00:51:35,992 --> 00:51:38,411 Well, thank you. 768 00:51:38,411 --> 00:51:40,329 Oh... It's awfully late. 769 00:51:40,330 --> 00:51:43,833 But I could give you cabin number nine. 770 00:51:43,834 --> 00:51:44,835 It's our best one. 771 00:51:44,835 --> 00:51:47,454 New springs and mattress in there. 772 00:51:47,454 --> 00:51:50,039 Just a shower. No tub bath. Is that all right? 773 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,042 [Marsha] Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Really. 774 00:51:52,042 --> 00:51:55,045 I said we're closed. 775 00:51:55,045 --> 00:51:57,047 Can't turn the girl away, Momma. 776 00:51:57,047 --> 00:51:59,632 No harm in giving her 9. 777 00:51:59,633 --> 00:52:01,301 [Momma] Well, give her the key, and hurry up about it, 778 00:52:01,301 --> 00:52:03,303 and come to bed, Poppa. Now. 779 00:52:05,305 --> 00:52:06,306 [chuckles] 780 00:52:06,306 --> 00:52:10,443 Momma. She gets a little grouchy after midnight. 781 00:52:10,443 --> 00:52:11,944 I can handle her, though. 782 00:52:11,945 --> 00:52:12,946 Well, I hope so. 783 00:52:12,946 --> 00:52:14,948 I don't wanna cause you any trouble. 784 00:52:14,948 --> 00:52:16,449 Oh, no trouble at all. 785 00:52:16,449 --> 00:52:19,452 Now let's see. That will be 10 dollars. 786 00:52:23,406 --> 00:52:24,824 Thank you. Ah, thank you. 787 00:52:30,664 --> 00:52:32,716 Can I help you with your things? 788 00:52:32,716 --> 00:52:35,218 No. No, thank you. I can manage. 789 00:52:37,220 --> 00:52:38,721 Pleasant dreams. 790 00:52:43,727 --> 00:52:45,228 [thunder] 791 00:53:03,496 --> 00:53:05,498 [thunder] 792 00:53:19,546 --> 00:53:21,548 [thunder] 793 00:53:34,444 --> 00:53:36,896 [thunder] 794 00:54:05,892 --> 00:54:07,393 [thunder] 795 00:54:15,318 --> 00:54:16,986 [screams] 796 00:54:16,987 --> 00:54:18,238 [glass shatters] 797 00:54:21,157 --> 00:54:24,076 [screams] No! No! 798 00:54:24,077 --> 00:54:35,705 [screaming] 799 00:54:35,705 --> 00:54:38,708 [pounding on door] Open up! It's the manager! 800 00:54:41,428 --> 00:54:42,962 What's going on in here? 801 00:54:44,264 --> 00:54:46,266 [Manager] No, I didn't get a good look at him. 802 00:54:46,266 --> 00:54:47,767 He just came wailing out. 803 00:54:49,352 --> 00:54:52,438 And he knocked me sideways. 804 00:54:52,439 --> 00:54:54,441 And he carried her off into the woods. 805 00:54:54,441 --> 00:54:56,943 [Momma] I knew when she checked in that she was no good. 806 00:54:56,943 --> 00:54:58,945 All right. Tell me what you did see. 807 00:54:58,945 --> 00:55:00,446 Was he tall? Was he short? 808 00:55:00,447 --> 00:55:01,948 Was he thin? Was he fat? 809 00:55:01,948 --> 00:55:03,449 In what order do you remember? 810 00:55:03,450 --> 00:55:05,952 Tall. And all wild in the eyes. 811 00:55:05,952 --> 00:55:08,454 And he wore dark clothes. 812 00:55:08,455 --> 00:55:10,457 All right. Now listen to me, Mr. Dobkins. 813 00:55:10,457 --> 00:55:12,459 Mrs. Dobkins. And listen very good. 814 00:55:12,459 --> 00:55:16,463 I'm gonna take you downtown, so that you can see some mug shots. 815 00:55:16,463 --> 00:55:17,464 Now in the meantime, 816 00:55:17,464 --> 00:55:19,966 if word of what happened here gets around, 817 00:55:19,966 --> 00:55:21,884 this whole town's gonna go into a panic. 818 00:55:21,885 --> 00:55:24,470 I don't want the newspapers to find out about it 819 00:55:24,471 --> 00:55:26,923 until I have a chance to find the girl. 820 00:55:26,923 --> 00:55:28,975 That means that you don't see anybody, 821 00:55:28,975 --> 00:55:31,477 and you don't talk to anybody about what happened here. 822 00:55:31,478 --> 00:55:33,480 Do you understand that? Oh, I won't say a word! 823 00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,483 You understand that? Oh, I do! I certainly do. 824 00:55:36,483 --> 00:55:38,985 Sheriff, there's just one thing I'd like to know. 825 00:55:38,985 --> 00:55:39,986 Yeah? 826 00:55:39,986 --> 00:55:41,988 What do I do if he comes back? 827 00:55:45,158 --> 00:55:46,742 [Norliss] Helen, I just wanted to call and tell ya 828 00:55:46,743 --> 00:55:48,745 I'll be late getting back there tonight. 829 00:55:48,745 --> 00:55:50,196 Is your sister there? 830 00:55:50,196 --> 00:55:51,247 [Ellen, on phone] Marsha? No. 831 00:55:51,247 --> 00:55:52,748 I thought she was still in New York. 832 00:55:52,749 --> 00:55:54,200 No, she tried to call me. 833 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,168 Got my service, and left a message. 834 00:55:56,169 --> 00:55:58,254 Said she was driving home late last night. 835 00:55:58,254 --> 00:55:59,755 [Ellen] I haven't seen her. 836 00:55:59,756 --> 00:56:01,758 Well, maybe she changed her mind. 837 00:56:01,758 --> 00:56:03,259 Thank you. 838 00:56:03,259 --> 00:56:05,761 If she calls again, I'll tell her where you are. 839 00:56:05,762 --> 00:56:07,764 Now, look. I'm at the architectural firm 840 00:56:07,764 --> 00:56:10,016 who originally designed your place. 841 00:56:10,016 --> 00:56:13,102 I found out how Cort got into the studio 842 00:56:13,103 --> 00:56:15,221 without unlocking the door. 843 00:56:15,221 --> 00:56:17,306 He came up from below. 844 00:56:17,307 --> 00:56:19,309 These blueprints I've been looking at show 845 00:56:19,309 --> 00:56:22,695 some very curious construction that went on back in the '20s. 846 00:56:22,695 --> 00:56:25,114 Seems the people who originally owned the place 847 00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:27,617 built a series of underground tunnels. 848 00:56:27,617 --> 00:56:29,986 Why would anybody wanna build tunnels? 849 00:56:29,986 --> 00:56:31,070 Well, during Prohibition, 850 00:56:31,071 --> 00:56:33,289 they probably stored guns and liquor. 851 00:56:33,289 --> 00:56:35,874 The plans also show several entrances, 852 00:56:35,875 --> 00:56:38,210 one of which is in the crypt. 853 00:56:38,211 --> 00:56:39,295 Now, I found the connection 854 00:56:39,295 --> 00:56:41,997 between Cort and 855 00:56:41,998 --> 00:56:44,083 the bloodless condition of the Parks girl. 856 00:56:44,084 --> 00:56:47,220 I think the sculpture is being done by Cort. 857 00:56:47,220 --> 00:56:50,306 And I think he needed the girl. Needed to kill her. 858 00:56:50,306 --> 00:56:51,807 But why? 859 00:56:51,808 --> 00:56:53,726 For the clay in the sculpture. 860 00:56:53,726 --> 00:56:55,811 I just got the chemical analysis back. 861 00:56:55,812 --> 00:56:57,763 The clay is 40 percent human blood. 862 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,985 Now look, Ellen. Stay put. 863 00:57:02,986 --> 00:57:04,487 I have a few more things to check on, 864 00:57:04,487 --> 00:57:06,489 and I'll be done as soon as I can. 865 00:57:06,489 --> 00:57:07,490 Okay? 866 00:58:00,877 --> 00:58:02,662 [shattering glass] 867 00:58:02,662 --> 00:58:03,713 I've got to talk to you. 868 00:58:09,419 --> 00:58:11,504 Now do you mind telling me 869 00:58:11,504 --> 00:58:13,506 why you have to see David Norliss? 870 00:58:13,506 --> 00:58:16,976 I've got to break free. 871 00:58:16,976 --> 00:58:19,928 I've got to strike back at them. 872 00:58:19,929 --> 00:58:22,348 The powers of darkness. 873 00:58:22,348 --> 00:58:23,932 They've controlled me. 874 00:58:26,936 --> 00:58:28,570 Twisted me. 875 00:58:28,571 --> 00:58:31,240 And I've done their bidding. 876 00:58:31,241 --> 00:58:32,742 Listen. 877 00:58:32,742 --> 00:58:34,243 When I met your husband, 878 00:58:34,244 --> 00:58:35,745 the thing he most wanted 879 00:58:35,745 --> 00:58:37,246 in this world 880 00:58:37,247 --> 00:58:38,748 was that his crippled body be healed. 881 00:58:41,251 --> 00:58:42,252 And so... 882 00:58:43,253 --> 00:58:47,257 I told him about the Osiris scarab. 883 00:58:47,257 --> 00:58:48,758 I tried to convince him 884 00:58:48,758 --> 00:58:51,177 about its power over death. 885 00:58:51,177 --> 00:58:53,262 Of a life beyond death. 886 00:58:53,263 --> 00:58:55,715 But that only by the use of his talent 887 00:58:55,715 --> 00:58:57,299 could it be purchased. 888 00:58:57,300 --> 00:58:58,968 So we made a pact. 889 00:58:58,968 --> 00:59:00,052 After death, 890 00:59:01,554 --> 00:59:03,556 the ring would allow him the power 891 00:59:03,556 --> 00:59:05,024 to rise from his coffin, 892 00:59:05,024 --> 00:59:07,142 to work on a figure of Sargoth. 893 00:59:07,143 --> 00:59:08,727 Once the sculpture's finished, 894 00:59:08,728 --> 00:59:09,729 it'll have a physical form 895 00:59:09,729 --> 00:59:11,230 in which to enter our world. 896 00:59:13,233 --> 00:59:15,785 And in return for bestowing life to Sargoth, 897 00:59:15,785 --> 00:59:18,370 Jim Cort will be granted immortality. 898 00:59:20,206 --> 00:59:21,540 But we can stop him. 899 00:59:21,541 --> 00:59:23,159 That's why I came here. 900 00:59:23,159 --> 00:59:26,295 His powers take effect after sundown. 901 00:59:26,296 --> 00:59:28,381 If we can reach him by sunset, 902 00:59:29,832 --> 00:59:31,884 we can remove the ring from his finger. 903 00:59:36,639 --> 00:59:38,090 [Man] Mr. Norliss? 904 00:59:38,091 --> 00:59:39,592 I have a message for you, sir. 905 00:59:47,150 --> 00:59:48,151 Thank you. 906 00:59:56,159 --> 00:59:57,160 When did Mrs. Cort leave? 907 00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,112 Hm. 15 or 20 minutes ago, I guess. 908 01:00:00,113 --> 01:00:02,165 She and the other lady, they left in a big hurry. 909 01:00:02,165 --> 01:00:03,666 How long before it gets dark here? 910 01:00:03,666 --> 01:00:05,668 Mm...about a half hour, I guess. 911 01:00:14,294 --> 01:00:16,796 Entrance has got to be here someplace. 912 01:00:26,306 --> 01:00:28,308 Over here! I think I found it. 913 01:00:38,818 --> 01:00:41,320 [stone door grinding open] 914 01:00:46,826 --> 01:00:47,827 I'll go first. 915 01:00:47,827 --> 01:00:49,829 Maybe we should wait. 916 01:00:49,829 --> 01:00:51,330 We don't have time. We can't wait. 917 01:00:53,082 --> 01:00:54,383 [echoing footsteps] 918 01:01:01,891 --> 01:01:03,342 This way. 919 01:01:03,343 --> 01:01:04,894 How do we know which one to take? 920 01:01:04,894 --> 01:01:06,845 We don't. 921 01:01:30,670 --> 01:01:32,672 You take that tunnel, and I'll take this one. 922 01:01:32,672 --> 01:01:34,173 What if I find his body? 923 01:01:34,173 --> 01:01:36,175 Then you remove the ring. 924 01:01:36,175 --> 01:01:37,176 Let us go. 925 01:02:01,484 --> 01:02:02,952 [honks horn] 926 01:02:06,122 --> 01:02:07,406 [honks again] 927 01:02:17,333 --> 01:02:19,668 [honking] 928 01:02:19,669 --> 01:02:22,138 [honking, tires squealing] 929 01:02:37,019 --> 01:02:38,020 [tires squealing] 930 01:02:54,954 --> 01:02:56,455 [wood creaking] 931 01:03:01,260 --> 01:03:03,345 Ellen, I found him! 932 01:03:07,717 --> 01:03:08,718 He's over here! 933 01:03:11,854 --> 01:03:12,855 I can't get it off. 934 01:03:12,855 --> 01:03:13,805 [whispers] Hurry... 935 01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:22,314 [brakes screech] 936 01:03:27,737 --> 01:03:30,156 Edith, hurry. Hurry! 937 01:03:32,375 --> 01:03:34,210 I can't get it-- 938 01:03:34,210 --> 01:03:36,212 [screaming] 939 01:03:49,842 --> 01:03:51,476 [yelps] 940 01:03:53,980 --> 01:03:54,981 [panting, groaning] 941 01:04:02,321 --> 01:04:03,405 [shrieks] 942 01:04:04,991 --> 01:04:06,859 [screaming] 943 01:04:11,447 --> 01:04:12,698 [screams] 944 01:04:18,337 --> 01:04:19,504 No! 945 01:04:19,505 --> 01:04:23,592 [unearthly moaning] 946 01:04:29,966 --> 01:04:30,933 Ellen! 947 01:04:30,933 --> 01:04:34,519 David! He killed Marsha. And Jeckiel too. 948 01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:35,521 Come on! Let's go. 949 01:04:38,024 --> 01:04:39,608 I don't know why he let me go. 950 01:04:39,609 --> 01:04:41,060 I don't understand it. 951 01:04:41,060 --> 01:04:45,114 It's no use. Nothing's any use. 952 01:04:45,114 --> 01:04:46,615 Can't get it open. 953 01:04:52,905 --> 01:04:54,406 It's been moved. 954 01:04:57,410 --> 01:04:58,911 It's almost finished. 955 01:05:01,747 --> 01:05:03,665 [Norliss] Everything but the eyes. 956 01:05:05,918 --> 01:05:08,003 We can't let him come to life! 957 01:05:08,004 --> 01:05:08,804 We've got to! 958 01:05:08,804 --> 01:05:10,889 We've gotta let him finish! 959 01:05:10,890 --> 01:05:11,807 [Ellen] Let me--! Forget it! 960 01:05:13,726 --> 01:05:15,094 It's the only thing that can stop it. 961 01:05:16,812 --> 01:05:18,396 What are you doing? 962 01:05:18,397 --> 01:05:20,899 Making a blood circle. 963 01:05:20,900 --> 01:05:22,902 According to medieval alchemy, 964 01:05:22,902 --> 01:05:24,853 you can enter a blood circle. 965 01:05:24,854 --> 01:05:26,322 But if it's on fire, 966 01:05:26,322 --> 01:05:27,323 you can't get out. 967 01:05:29,025 --> 01:05:30,526 [loud shifting] What's that? 968 01:05:30,526 --> 01:05:31,527 Hurry! 969 01:05:36,532 --> 01:05:37,533 [clinking glass] 970 01:05:37,533 --> 01:05:39,001 Quick. Quick! 971 01:05:40,036 --> 01:05:41,587 [creaking] 972 01:05:44,590 --> 01:05:46,592 [crickets] 973 01:06:32,555 --> 01:06:33,973 [growling groan] 974 01:06:33,973 --> 01:06:35,891 [guttural scream] 975 01:06:36,809 --> 01:06:40,312 [howling moan] 976 01:06:41,731 --> 01:06:43,899 [roar] 977 01:06:44,850 --> 01:06:47,519 [thunder, roaring] 978 01:06:49,405 --> 01:06:51,607 [speaking in tongues] 979 01:07:03,586 --> 01:07:05,087 [voice echoing] 980 01:08:08,601 --> 01:08:11,270 [police sirens] 981 01:08:45,304 --> 01:08:48,273 [indistinct police radio] 982 01:08:50,810 --> 01:08:53,813 [police, shouting] 983 01:09:03,823 --> 01:09:06,325 [Norliss] I tried to explain it all to Sheriff Hartley. 984 01:09:06,325 --> 01:09:08,827 But he couldn't accept it. 985 01:09:08,828 --> 01:09:10,329 The next morning, they found the bones 986 01:09:10,329 --> 01:09:12,831 of a man in the ashes. 987 01:09:12,832 --> 01:09:16,836 The remains of James Raymond Cort. 988 01:09:16,836 --> 01:09:19,839 And of the demon Sargoth, they found nothing. 989 01:09:19,839 --> 01:09:22,341 Absolutely nothing. 990 01:09:22,341 --> 01:09:23,842 [rainstorm, thunder] 991 01:09:30,816 --> 01:09:32,350 [Sanford] Sargoth. 992 01:09:33,853 --> 01:09:35,855 Strange name. 993 01:09:35,855 --> 01:09:38,357 [clicks off tape] 994 01:09:38,357 --> 01:09:40,859 I wonder. 995 01:09:40,860 --> 01:09:44,864 I wonder if he was truly destroyed. 996 01:09:44,864 --> 01:09:46,365 Or could he be the key 997 01:09:46,365 --> 01:09:47,833 to David's disappearance? 998 01:09:58,377 --> 01:10:01,847 Well... maybe this will tell me. 999 01:10:07,887 --> 01:10:09,305 [Norliss] Chapter Two. 1000 01:10:09,305 --> 01:10:12,858 December 4th. 1001 01:10:12,858 --> 01:10:15,393 It was a rainy afternoon when I received the letter.