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Senator's Baldwin, Hanover, Secretary Wilberton.

Your plane is holding at Dallas boarding ramp 12.

Senate floor leader, a tower of pragmatism for 40 years

on the Washington scene.

Besides the senator Lee, there were four others all important people.

Secretary of science Wilburton and his wife.

And the Jonathan Janeways publishers.

Energy the spiritualist was very impressive.

Please relax.

There are strangers here and this will be difficult.

I recognize one of us is burdened, sorrow.

Senator give me your hand.

I'm going to try to reach your wife.

Please relax.

It will help me.

Yes, yes.

Albert Hanover seeks his wife.

Margaret.

Margaret!

Margaret Hanover.

Albert is trying to reach you...

Margaret.

- Margaret. - Yes, Albert.

- Hey - Don't be troubled, Albert.

I know you're concerned with your responsibilities

The voting coming up in the senate.

But sometimes, Albert, things are different than we thought.

What are you trying to say?

Here we can see beyond the veil.

Into the future, the work you're engaged in will, not be successful.

- No, Maggie, it must be. - I can see you.

You cannot. You are taking the wrong path.

Going in wrong direction. I love you.

Albert.

Maggie.

Maggie!

Bring it back. Got to bring her back.

Of course, Senator. Another time.

What she referred to?

What the apparition of Margaret Hanover referred to was the

energy development bill coming up on the senate floor next week.

Well I thought there was a comfortable majority in the senate supporting it.

There was, but Albert Hanover's been leaning

in a different direction since that first seance.

You mean he's changing his mind about the bill.

I mean his wife, his dead wife through that

fake spiritualist is changing his mind for him.

But why?

because there are people who want the bill killed.

People who stand to lose billions of dollars

if new energy sources are discovered.

We're not sure if it's an international money group.

The arabian oil cartel or even our own national petroleum interests.

These people aren't above using any means to influence

Albert Hanover and of stopping passage of that bill.

And whichever way he goes a lot of senate votes go along with him.

I think Sheed for all his impressiveness

his unimpeachable background is a fake.

I think he's being paid a large sum of money by

some person or group to brainwash our lawmakers.

I want proof. I want you to find it. I want you

to dig it out any way you have to, but discreetly.

- What do you think? - No problem.

Here's a report on Sheed by the psychic research bureau in London.

They investigated him with his complete cooperation

although he shuns publicity and the public.

They didn't find one hint of magic or fakery.

Baldwin said he was impressive.

This was taken before her death.

- Who's that? - Andrea Hanover an only daughter.

Seems that she and the senator never did see eye to eye.

she's been out of the country since that picture, almost 10 years.

- Tragic. - Why tragic.

She'd been found dead in the Andes day before yesterday.

An accident at Machu Picchu.

No, wait a minute. Let me see that again.

Why doesn't Kate pose as Andrea Hanover just back from Peru.

And if Sheed materializes the senator's wife and she accepts Kate as her daughter.

That's all the proof you'd need to go to the

senator and expose Sheed for the phony that he is.

- Hmm not bad. - Thank you.

The photograph.

- Haven't you forgotten something? - What?

- Your face. - Oh, you noticed.

Senator Baldwin and Walter are so positive that Sheed fake.

Are you?

- People just automatically think fake. - You didn't answer my question.

Yes, I think he's a fake. Hey.

- Oh, you look ravishing, Andrea. - Miss Hannover to you.

- How are you gonna wear your hair. - I don't know.

- This. - No.

- This? - No, no!

- This? - I love it.

Get out.

Some pad.

He does pretty well for someone who shuns publicity.

Thank you dear, Mr. Sheed. I'm so grateful.

With an open mind all things are possible, Mrs. Grant.

- Good day. - Good day.

Good day. Goodbye ladies.

May we help you.

This is uh Andrea Hanover senator Albert Hanover's daughter.

My name is Daniel Weston I'm a friend of the family.

I know it's, uh, an imposition to call without an appointment but...

Miss Hanover has just returned from South America.

The senator never mentioned you, Miss Hanover.

Well, I never got along with my father very well, Mr. Sheed.

That's why I've been out of the country so much.

Is this a uh professional call?

Oh, yes, yes, It is. I came back to this country

because I heard that my father was in touch with you.

And throught you with my mother.

Come in, please.

I've had three meetings with your father, Miss Hanover.

I'm more interested in my mother, Mr. Sheed.

We were as close as my father and I were apart.

Please sit down.

How may I help you?

Can you can you bring her back?

so I can see her, talk with her.

- No. - If it's inconvenient.

I can't promise success on such short notice.

Oh, yes, yes of course and we understand.

But I'll try.

Please relax, it will help me.

Give me your hand.

Margaret Hanover your daughter is trying to reach you.

- Andrea? - Yes, Margaret.

It's andrea, she wants to talk to you.

I don't understand. I don't understand.

- What's the matter? - Wait!

Margaret, why are you upset?

This is Andrea, Andrea.

I am Andrea Hannover. There is an imposter here.

I died in Peru. Who takes my name?

Who is the imposter?

Who are you?

We don't want imposters here.

Hey, uh, uh, hold on.

Somebody tried to assassinate Mr. Sheed last week.

We're not taking any chances with the stupid and the ignorant.

- Hold on, Williams. - I asked you who you are.

We're Mr. and Mrs. Westin.

We're covering an assignment for the American Psychic Research Institute.

What kind of an assignment.

You may be entitled to a 100.000 dollars

reward for proving there's a life after death.

- I didn't apply for any reward. - You don't have to apply.

I don't like meddling in my affairs. I don't like publicity.

You don't act like psychic investigators.

Well, how are we supposed to act?

Most of them are practitioners themselves.

Ah, oh, well it's, it's not me.

As a matter of fact,

uh, it's my wife. She's the uh magical one.

- What? - Oh, are you, Mrs Westin?

- Well, I wouldn't no... - Don't be modest, darling.

No, of course not.

Modesty is a sackcloth of small minds.

And what form of the occult is your specialty, Mrs. Westin?

Oh, you know darling, your experiments with levitation.

- Levitation, oh that. - Telekinesis.

How interesting. Put the gun away, Williams, these people are not violent.

- Prove it. - Prove it.

- Here, now? - Hum, why not?

Well I could try, Mr. Sheed, but I really think I ought to be alone in here.

I wouldn't want anyone to think I was being helped.

There's an excellent view of the city from the garden, Mr. Westin.

Just don't want it too far. Remember your wife's in here with us.

Will you be all right darling with the, uh, the door closed.

I'll be fine.

All right, Mrs Westin.

All right.

How shall we begin.

Very good, Mrs. Westin, very good.

Will you please sit down, Mr. Sheed.

Yes, indeed.

What could be, Mrs. Westin?

- The door. - The door.

- The door. - The door.

It's all clear.

All right, Mrs. Weston, open the door.

- Without touching, of course. - I'll try.

I am trying to open the door.

The door, Mrs Westin.

Mrs. Westin.

Open, open.

You must have left the door off the latch.

A breeze along the hall must have come along and opened it.

Breezes don't turn doorknobs, Mr. Sheed.

Ah yes, the jade elephant, Mrs. Westin.

Splendid.

Now.

- Well, I think that... - No, no, no, no, no.

Uh, one more, Mrs. Westin, one more thing. One, one, one real test.

I mean after all the jade elephant is...

is rather light.

What about Williams. Williams sit down on that chair.

Yes, Mrs. Westin. Williams.

And the chair.

That's more than a real test, Mr. Sheed. I had trouble lifting the jade elephant.

But it will prove that you're that you're genuine and it'll convince me.

And I'll have no objections to your attending

the seance tomorrow, for senator Hanover.

I can't. I can't it's too much.

Try Mrs. Westin, try.

All right, Mr. Sheed. I'll try.

Uh, Mr. Williams, will you put your hands on the table, please?

I'm going to raise the chair you're sitting in.

Come on.

- That was impressive, Mrs. Westin. - Thank you, Mr. Sheed.

I'm sure your own accomplishments are much more successful.

With a little practice you'll be able to increase your capabilities.

Very, very promising.

- You're so kind. - Your husband is outside.

Why don't we join him?

I look forward to the seance tomorrow.

- So do I. - And your commence.

Hi!

You're right, that's a gorgeous view.

It's uh quite a hill. How did it go?

It was a strain. Until tomorrow.

Williams will show you out.

Ah, you really missed your calling, that was some show you put on.

You kind of hammed it up yourself.

Hammed it up? No that was for real.

Do you think this 150 pounds is all muscle?

Well I tried to stop him.

I mean you saw the worried look on my face.

I saw that gleam in your eye.

- Dan? - What?

How'd he do it?

How did he make senator Hanover's wife appear like that.

And then Andrea Hanover. How did he know she was dead?

How did he know to make her say those things tome.

I don't know. Looks as if we're right back where we started.

I'm just not as sure as all of you seem to be that Ernest Sheed is a fake.

I can't put down things.

I don't understand and I don't understand the occult.

It's gotta be a trick.

We have to find out how he does it that's all.

I know it's the right angle.

- Let's put up the voltage a bit. - 25.000?

Yeah! Why not? On the nose, wide open.

I put out the light.

Here goes nothing.

Oh, good, Dan.

Face facts, you can't ban coherent light.

Maybe he uses some kind of a gas or vapor as a screen.

Dan, maybe it's not a hologram.

- It has to be some kind of projection or... - Or...

Or it's real.

Hello? Walter we're right in the middle.

We'll be right there.

Walter wants us to meet a doctor Theophilus

from the research institute at Duke.

At the university we run across anomalies all the time.

Things we just can't explain by any rational concept.

Including mr Ernest Sheed.

When you talk about him,

you're talking about the most perplexing enigma we've ever known.

We've had teams of investigators snooping around him.

Yes, well as far as I'm concerned he is simply a bit more clever than the rest.

There are some things on this earth, Walter, that have

never been satisfactorily explained by science.

- Like precognition and deja vu. - ESP and telepathy.

And our experiments are Duke.

- And behind the iron curtain. - Yeah, experiments.

Well, let's just keep our feet on the ground and stick to the assignment.

- Right. - Yeah, yeah.

Get the proof that Sheed are phony.

Your research into the fields of optics and light is in the right direction.

- We've gotten nowhere so far. - If there is a key?

You must connect it up with something at the other end.

Indeed home. Yes, we'll uh,

- Thank you, doctor. - Not at all.

Don't get up.

We should be most interested in your findings.

Oh Walter, the uh information I asked for?

It's in the works.

That's him. So our information is correct they work for the Klae corporation.

So?

I don't have to remind you of the enormous

accomplishments of the Klae resource.

- Yes, but... - No buts.

- That doctor Theophilus. - Hu-hum?

He must have run across all the tricks in the trade.

- Yeah I would guess so. - Except her in his guise.

No it has to be some form of hologram.

- And the voices? - I don't know.

It's something we have to figure out.

Do you know anyone who drives an orange pickup?

No.

What's that idiot doing now?

What's that idiot doing now?

Dan!

Maniac.

He's not long for this world the way he drives.

- Dan? - What is it?

I'm not sure, it happened all so fast.

But I could swear that was Williams.

Oh, let's go home, please.

By the time I got back there they were gone.

I checked, they must have gotten away.

You were inefficient.

I could have sworn they were headed for a crack up.

He has to have sensational reflexes.

These people are dangerous. Besides we have a large fear at stake.

Not to mention our security.

I understand what you mean, sir.

Check.

Well we keep coming up empty with Mr Sheed.

That's his history.

And time's running out.

He just oozes confidence so calm self-assured.

- Do you find him attractive? - Yeah.

- Hello. - I've got that information for you.

Oh, great, let's have it.

Well, first Sheed's Washington clientele on their voting records.

Six congressmen, all together, three senators, including Hanover.

Three representatives,

a three-star general and a campaign member,

all regulars that he seances from time to time.

And what about Sheed himself?

He should be a registered lobbyist from the way he's been operating.

Every congressman on that list voted in a block on certain bills.

It's too coincidental, Dan.

And they're all leaning against the energy development bill all of them.

Now you must be getting a fortune from those

people against that Ben Baldwin mentioned.

Well, what about William, Sheed's assistant?

Ah, that could be a break.

- He was in show business. - Show business?

Yeah! He was an impressionist, a mimic.

Did all kinds of voices males females movie stars.

- He's an impressionist. - Are you going to that seance today?

- Yes. - Well, then play it with care.

- Right. I'll talk to you later. - Right.

- Who's an impressionist? - Williams.

You know, those images have to be projections, holograms.

Now where were the lights in the seance room.

- There weren't any just the candlelight. - Well, there were wall lamps.

And the chandelier but they were all turned off when the candle was lit.

- The chandelier. - Oh, that chandelier.

Stunning. I was thinking of getting

one for our dining room, the way it sparkled.

- The chandelier. - The chandelier.

Of course that's how he does it, from above.

Projected down through the crystals of the chandelier.

And Williams must be a mimic and a ventriloquist as well as an impressionist.

- What is it? - Speak the devil.

- It's Williams. - Now what's he up to?

I don't know, but there's no harm in finding out.

Pardon me while, I take my head off.

- Where are you? - By the trunk.

Here, hold this. Come on.

- What do you do? - I don't know.

- The hydraulic line. - Oh, oh, yeah, um, give me the wrench.

- There, good as new. - He wasn't much of a mechanic.

What's so funny?

Well you know I've been thinking of buying a new car.

What kind would you like walter to buy us?

A small blue one.

Well, you know after what williams just did our brakes could go at any minute.

- Why shouldn't we help him? - I love it.

I'm sorry, Mr. Sheed, you'll have to carry on

without me, my brakes they're very mushy.

I'm going to find a service station.

I'm sorry you're having these problems Mr. Westin.

Welcome, Mrs Westin. Senator Hanover is already here.

See you later.

- Senator Hanover, Mrs. Westin. - How are you doing Mrs. Westin.

Senator.

I didn't know we were going to have another guest today, Mr. Sheed.

Mrs. Westin is a member of the American Center for Psychic Research.

- Herself a practitioner. - Oh.

I hope nothing is going to interfere with our seance today.

I hope not, Senator.

Shall we start the seance, Mr. Sheed, I don't like to hurry things but...

Mrs Westin if there's anything I can do.

- Please ask. - Thank you.

Miss.

All left that car is ashes and twisted metal.

But the techs will check it out.

Thank you officer.

Mrs. Westin. I'll have Williams drive you home.

There's nothing more you can do here, believe me.

- Right officer? - Right.

And Mrs Westin I guess it was meant to be.

And meant that we weren't to have a seance today.

I'm so sorry. Oh!

Mrs. Westin?

Something stung me. A little bug in my ear.

Mr. Sheed, did you mean what you said earlier?

Of course. What did I say?

If there's anything you could do for me I should ask.

- Of course, just ask me. - Hold the seance.

- Hold the sence? After this tragedy? - And let me talk to Dan.

I'm afraid Miss Westin this is out of the question.

I mean under these conditions.

His spirit in transition.

Besides it would be too traumatic for her she's emotionally overcome.

Oh, why not try, Sheed.

Surely if you can provide some comfort for the lady.

I'm sorry, I must decline. I'm psychically disturbed.

- Another time. - Oh, nonsense, Sheed. I say let's try.

You telling me you can't help this lady speak to her dead husband?

Under different circumstances.

Oh I see circumstances that only suit your timing, Sheed?

How many of my visits were made at the right time?

Very well, senator, I can try.

But I can't promise you anything. But as the senator says we can try.

Thank you very much.

Hold me does.

We are seeking the life spirit

of Daniel Westin just departed.

Daniel Westin, Daniel Westin!

It is your wife who seeks you.

I am here.

- Can you appear for her? - It is not possible.

- Dan? - Yes. I'm here Kate.

But somebody is answering for me.

Kate, my accident was not an accident,

it was murder.

I was murdered by Williams.

The hydraulic system.

- was sabotaged by Williams. - No!

And Ernest Sheed who gave the order.

Williams!

- Senator Hanover, are you here? - Yes I'm here.

Margaret is here senator. She wants to talk to you.

Williams?

Things are not what they seemed, senator.

Margaret cannot appear this way.

Watch the chandelier, senator.

Williams, the lights.

There are evil spirits here.

Animus is all around us. We are too close to death.

Right you are this, Sheed. Too close to my death.

The death you arranged through Williams.

Like the candle flame in this, Sheed.

Confess you murdered me.

We must all get out of here.

There are evil spirits here.

You are a poltergeist.

Keep her away, she's a witch.

Lizzie borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks

when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41.

Now there was an old woman that had three sons Jerry and James and John.

Jerry was hanged, James was drowned, John was lost and never found.

And there was an end of her three sons, Jerry and James and John.

A trick. It's a trick.

Beware she lest lose the substance by grasping the shadow.

The gods help them that help themselves appearances are often deceptive.

You think a dead man cannot fight?

Who killed cock robin? I said the sparrow.

With my little bow and arrow. I killed cock robin.

Who saw him die? I said the fly. I saw him die.

Confess Sheed, you murdered me.

No, It's a trick!

Confess, confess, confess!

What I say three times is true.

Three blind mice, see how they run.

They all run after the farmer's wife.

Who cuts off their tails with a carving knife.

Confess Sheed, my blood is in your heart.

There was a little man and he had a little gun

and his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead.

He went to the brook, saw a little duck and

he shot it through the head, head, head.

And what I say three times is true, confess Sheed.

Or I'll hurt you forever.

You mock things you don't understand.

I confess! I've killed him! I did!

I've killed him! I've killed him!

I've killed him!

From beginning to end it was a fake.

Sorry, senator, it was a projection film taken with a mask of your wife.

A hologram projecting through the chandelier from the attic,

operated by Williams with a remote control device.

- Westin? - Yes, Mr. Sheed.

I managed to get out of the car before your brakes failed.

- So it was all a trick. - Of course.

You knew they planned to kill you and you staged this whole thing?

With the connivance of Mrs. Westin?

Yes I, uh, I confess. She's great, isn't she?

You confess? What's going on here?

Oh you can take Mr. Sheed and Mr. Williams to headquarters

will be preferring charges of attempted murder and fraud.

How did you do it?

And with an open mind, Mr. Sheed, all things are possible.

I mean, I know she's telegenetic.

But I've never seen such a virtuoso effort.

Mr. and Mrs Westin, how did you do i?

When I write my memoirs, Mr. Sheed, I'll reveal all.

My God, what a mistake I almost made.

- I must apologize to Ben Baldwin. - Just wishful thinking, senator.

Oh yes, I wanted so much to believe.

I'm very grateful to both of you for having opened my eyes in time.

Tell me, Mrs. Westin, is it true you can cause objects to rise by mind control?

- Well... - Sure, Senator...

but if you'll excuse us we're going to the lab to find out.

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