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ANNOUNCER: Tonight's stars--

George Maharis,

Ray Milland,

Leslie Nielsen,

Sue Lyon,

Joe Campanella,

and Michael Constantine,

You're most welcome

in this particular museum,

There's no admission,

no requirement

of membership,

Only a strong

and abiding belief

in the dark

at the top of the stairs,

or things that go

bump in the night,

Example: tonight's

first painting,

Small boy encased in

a crystal ball,

Born with

a very special gift,

He can prophesy,

But you'll wonder,

as we look behind that picture,

if a prophecy

is always a gift,

or can it, on occasion,

take the form of a nightmare?

The painting's title is:

And this is

the Night Gallery,

Herbie, come on,

this way,

( indistinct chatter )

Hey, Rance,

this is okay?

Okay,

Gonna need some pillows,

Kid's only ten years old,

MAN: Mr, Wellman,

- When do you tape?

- In just a minute,

Mr, Wellman, I'd like you

to meet Mr, Godwin,

- What's the kid's name?

- Uh, Herbie, Herbert Bittman,

Mr, Godwin here

is Herbie's grandfather,

Uh, Mister,,,

What can he possibly do?

Well, it's in the nature

of commentary,

A commentary?

How old is the child,

seven?

He's ten, Mr, Wellman,

He's ten,

A ten-year-old

commentator,

Oh, that's really

creative, isn't it?

That's innovative,

What are we shooting for,

Wednesday night, 8:00,

the darkest hour

in the rating wars,

and whom are we auditioning

for our big gun?

A ten-year-old commentator

named Herbie?

( nervous chuckle )

Mr, Wellman, this is Herbie's

grandfather, Mr, Godwin,

This is Mr, Wellman,

the head of the station,

- You handle the kid?

- I'm Herbie's grandfather,

The boy has

a special talent,

Fine,

I give you this

up front, Reed,

A special talent

he better have,

Middle of the week,

prime time,

against network competition,

You've got to be out of it,

DIRECTOR:

Stand by to roll tape,

Roll tape,

Slate in,

Three, two, one,

Audition tape number 323,

The Herbie Bittman Show,

Action!

Hello, My name is

Herbert Bittman,

I've been reading

a very interesting book,

It's called

The Count of Monte Cristo,

I feel that anybody

might enjoy it,

I've also begun

a book on astronomy

written by a man

named Duncan,

Reading this book has made me

want a telescope,

My grandfather says

that if I work hard,

and get good grades

in school,

I can have

a small telescope

at the end of

the semester,

That's what we're going

to need to find you,

you know, Reed, after

I kick you out of here,

A telescope!

About 15 minutes from now,

Gwendolyn Box,

that little girl who's been

lost in the Sierras

since Thursday,

will be found,

Her leg is broken,

but she'll still be alive,

After I get my telescope,

I wanna become a member of

The Society of Variable

Star Observers,

It's a club

where everybody,,,

You're not really serious

about this, are you, Reed?

You are putting me on,

You weren't intending

to program this!

Mr, Wellman, the boy's

unerring in his predictions,

- Ask Mr, Godwin here,

- Oh, I should ask Mr, Godwin,

If you can just control yourself

for a moment, Mr, Wellman,

I guess that's all for now,

Except,,,

tomorrow morning,

at about one minute till 6:00,

there'll be an earthquake

in the Los Angeles area,

It'll be fairly sizable,

That's about all I can

tell you now,

Except there'll be

some damage,

and some fatalities,

as well,

I'm sorry to have to give you

this kind of bad news,

And I'm very sorry to give

you this sad news,

but you've just witnessed

Master Bittman's maiden voyage,

his audition,

and his swan song,

all concurrent with

your final act

as an employee of

this corporation,

Mr, Wellman, I checked him out,

He's altogether legitimate,

and several of the universities

have wanted to examine him,

You're the one that should be

examined, do you realize that?

Against high-powered

network competition,

you want to put

a ten-year-old myopic

who sits on pillows

and tells fright stories,

Gwendolyn Box is going to be

found in the Sierras

with her leg broken,

Los Angeles is going to have

an earthquake tomorrow morning,

You should give

the boy a chance, Mr, Wellman,

I should also contract pleurisy

and fall down an elevator shaft,

Mr, Wellman, please

be reasonable,

Did you catch that show,

Mr, Wellman?

I caught it;

I'm throwing it back,

I want that tape wiped,

Kid, I don't know

who put you up to this,

but we are not amused,

do you understand?

Just a moment,

Mr, Wellman,

Nobody put Herbie

up to anything,

He has a special talent,

A gift, if you will,

It was his own idea

to share it,

You share it, Grandpa,

Buy yourself a wagon

and take it on the road,

But right here

in this station,

I'm not interested in his gift,

his talent, or anything else,

If you can't wipe that tape,

burn it,

All I went left of

The Herbie Bittman Show

is a fading echo

and a receding memory,

Mr, Wellman,

Mr, Wellman!

( door closes )

MAN IN MOVIE:

We'll try the back way,

Have you forgotten

the house of pain?

You,,, you made us in

the house of pain,

( creatures yelling )

You made us,,, things,

Part man,,,

part beast,

Things!

Mr, Reed wants you to turn on

the television set, Mr, Wellman,

You can tell Mr, Reed

for me

that he can go

jump in the lake,

Mr, Reed says that

it's a news bulletin,

Uh, Charlie, Charlie,

hold the film,

get me the monitor, please,

( helicopter whirring )

MAN: The helicopter

is approaching

the little girl now,

Her condition at the moment

is unknown,

but the pilot has radioed back

that she is definitely alive,

Repeating

that information,

Gwendolyn Box,

lost in the Sierras

since last Thursday,

has been found alive,

First reports indicate

she has a broken left leg,

and is suffering

from exposure,

Could be coincidence,

Gigantic coincidence,

WOMAN: I'm so glad they found

her alive, Mr, Wellman,

The tapes,

Call McManus, tell him

not to wipe that tape,

And tell Reed to get

a hold of that Bittman kid,

REPORTER: ,,,stories that made

the news for February 8, 1971,

In an attempt to undermine

Vietcong support,

the South Vietnamese

today invaded Laos,

Thirty-eight candidates

have been chosen

for the Nobel Peace Prize,

Thirty-eight out of,,,

Uh, Jack, that's fine,

Thank you,

Mr, McManus says the tapes

have been wiped clean,

and Mr, Reed says the Bittman

boy and his grandfather

- have left the studio,

- Well, why don't they,,,

All right, all right,

- We'll just wait until morning,

- Anything else, Mr, Wellman?

You can ask me that again

at 6:00 a,m, Los Angeles time,

All right, Harry, let's see

the film again, please,

We'll see then

how the cookie crumbles,

Or those Los Angeles

buildings,

But I tell you this up front,

If they get the shakes

out there,

I'm signing Herbie Bittman

to a 25-year contract,

( movie resumes )

WELLMAN: ,,,how skeptical

I was, too,

but then Herbie predicted

about that little girl

being found in

the mountains,

and after that,

L,A, had their quake,

Well, I immediately called

Dr, Charles Heffern,

the big seismologist,

and I asked him,

He said there was no way

that that quake

could possibly have been

foretold, no way,

Well, it became apparent

that Herbie had

some kind of special gift,

Then a year ago,

that Strata liner wreck,

Then the gubernatorial

election,

Oh, yes, do you remember

the submarine disaster?

Marvelous, Herbie predicted

the whole thing,

What's the boy like?

Well, just as normal

as you or me,

He comes in here twice a week

with his grandfather,

does the show, never any

problems, never any temperament,

Oh, yes, doctor, perhaps

you'd like to look at

a few little trophies

that Herbie's picked up

along the way,

I'm very glad the university

has decided to study him,

In the year and a half

that he's been with us,

he has made 106 predictions,

Every blessed one of 'em's

come true,

Can I see him now?

Well, let's see, You've got

20 minutes till air time,

Sure, Right this way,

Herbie,

Herbie, I've got someone

I'd like you to meet,

This is Dr, Peterson,

Dr, Peterson's

at the university,

Oh, and this is

Herbie's grandfather,

- Don't get up,

- Mr, Godwin,

Nice to meet you,

Herbie, you give us another

great show this afternoon,

I'll see you all later,

Is this a convenient time

for you, Herbie?

They told us last week

we were gonna be investigated,

( chuckles )

Not exactly investigated,

The university's been given

an appropriation

to do a project on you,

We think we can learn

a great deal

about extrasensory

perception,

Parapsychology,

For example, do you have

any idea how this works?

You mean my being able

to predict things?

Yes,

- It just sorta happens,

- Do you get a vision?

- You mean like pictures?

- Mm-hmm,

No,

It isn't pictures,

and it isn't words,

It just sorta,,,

comes into my mind,

One thing I've noticed

is I can't predict

anything

unless I more or less

know what it is,

I can predict

an earthquake,

because everybody knows

what a quake is,

When somebody's missing,

and I predict

they're gonna be found,

if I hadn't known

they were missing,

I wouldn't have

been able to do it,

I see,

Then you're not able

to predict anything

that isn't already

in your consciousness,

That's the reason why I read

so many books,

The more things I know about,

the more things I can predict,

Herbie, could we see you

in the chair now?

We're ready to paint,

Oh, excuse me,

Dr, Peterson,

What's it like living with

such a celebrity, Mr, Godwin?

Well, he's become

public property,

He gets 1,500 letters

a week,

He gets double that

in offers,

from government officials,

bookies,

people with

terminal diseases, schemers,

They write us,

they telephone us,

they even camp

on our doorstep,

You see that man

over there?

He's with the government,

He sits in the studio

during the taping of every show,

so that in case Herbie

should say something

that might be contrary

to national policy,

they can stop the show

immediately,

But he seems unaffected

by all this,

Still, I can't help

but wonder,

Go on,

Well, what it must

be like

to be able to

look into tomorrow,

The deadly strain of it,

To suddenly have

pierce your brain

with some knowledge of

disaster or catastrophe,

and to be unable to do

anything about it,

And to have that deadly weight

on a little 11-year-old boy,

Mr, Godwin, could we see you

over here for a minute?

- A problem?

- I'm not sure,

Excuse me,

He seems very disturbed,

and I,,,

What's the matter, Herbie?

Grandfather,

take me home,

What is the trouble here?

What's going on?

Now, Herbie, Herbie,

what is the problem?

They tell me you don't

want to do the show,

I want,,,

I wanna go home,

What has been

happening here?

Now, Herbie, now you know

whatever the problem is,

I'll fix it,

Don't you feel well?

Are you too tired?

I feel okay,

It's just,,,

I just can't do it today,

REED: Herbie, we have to do

the show today,

Why hasn't someone

called a doctor?

I don't need a doctor,

It's just that,,,

I gotta go home,

Grandfather,

Then that's just

what we'll do, Come on,

Oh, really?

Just like that,

take a walk, is that it?

What about the crew here?

What about the production

schedule?

What about the time

and effort and money

that I've invested

in this show?

Now let's just

be rational here,

If this child is not ill,

there's no excuse--

The excuse, Mr, Wellman,

is just that Herbie

doesn't want to do it today,

- Come on, Herbie,

- What are we gonna do?

Mr, Godwin,

Herbie,

Herbie boy,

Herbie, now listen,

Herbie, have you thought about

the people that depend on you?

What about your devoted

fans, Herbie?

Fact: Herbie, there are people

who sit by that television set

every week and wait for you

to come on,

They depend on you,

You're very important to them,

Now what's going to happen

when you don't?

It's going to frighten them,

isn't it, Herbie?

You can see that,

can't you?

Maybe,

Maybe you're right,

Herbie, just as soon

as you've finished,

we're going to discuss

a nice, long vacation for you,

Two weeks,

Maybe four weeks,

Any place you like,

Europe, Asia,

And the station

footing the bill, Herbie,

Herbie, right now,

the most important thing

you've got to do

is get back in there

and do that show for us, Herbie,

Just like always,

Just get in there

and go to work,

All right, Mr, Wellman,

- I'll try,

- Good boy,

Good boy, Herbie,

All right, back to work,

It's okay, Grandfather,

It's really okay,

DIRECTOR: Okay,

places, please,

Come on, everybody,

let's go,

One minute to air,

one minute to air,

What do you suppose

the problem is, Mr, Godwin?

I don't know, doctor,

and frankly, I'm not

quite sure I want to know,

DIRECTOR: Camera two, let me

see your close shot,

Gene, you wanna

straighten his tie?

Yeah, yeah, that's it,

Okay,

HERBIE: And that's what

I learned this week in school

about mechanical drawing,

And it's really

very interesting,

Nothing, No predictions,

no nothing,

Dullsville, USA,

REED: Seems like he's

holding back,

Now I wanna,,,

I wanna tell you

about tomorrow,

That's better,

Here it comes,

Tomorrow is gonna be different

from anything in the past,

Tomorrow is gonna be,,,

a start of a new and better

world for all of us,

In the past,

we've had a pretty bad time,

We've had wars

and famines and pestilence,

We've had depressions,

and nobody seems to know

what causes them,

People have starved

when there was food,

they have died of diseases

when there was cures for them,

We've seen the water

and the air

and everything else

get polluted,

And we've seen

so much hatred,

Well, beginning tomorrow,

all of that's

gonna be changed,

There won't be

any more wars,

We're gonna live

side by side like brothers,

We're gonna forget about

killing and breaking

and bombs,

And all over the world,

there's gonna be a,,,

kind of garden growing,

And nobody will be

afraid anymore,

For the first time

since human beings

have lived on this earth,

we're gonna live the way

human beings should,

Tomorrow is gonna be

the beginning of all that,

That's all for now,

Good-bye,

- Good night,

- DIRECTOR: Save it,

( voices clamoring )

( clamoring continues )

( clamoring continues )

Herbie,

Dr, Peterson is here,

We had to have our phone

cut off

because there was

such a commotion

after Herbie's telecast,

But I suppose you've seen

it for yourself,

Herbie,

Herbie, you told me you couldn't

see into the future

for more than 48 hours,

That's right,

Then how could you foresee

all the things

you predicted

this afternoon?

Do you really want me

to tell you?

I certainly do,

I wouldn't have known

if I hadn't read this book,

I'd just have known that

something big was gonna happen,

But now I know,

I read about it

in my astronomy book,

Look over there,

Tomorrow won't

be like that,

What are you

trying to say?

Tomorrow,

The sun'll be different,

I think it's better

this way, doctor,

I wanted 'em to be happy,

so that's why

I lied to them,

Herbie, what is it?

What's going to happen

tomorrow?

Tomorrow,,,

the sun,,,

- Yes?

- ( whimpers )

What?

I forget the word,

It's what they call it

when a star flares up,

Becomes a billion times

hotter than it was before,

A nova?

That's right,

A nova,

What does that mean?

That's when

the sun explodes,

Don't be frightened,

Grandfather,

It'll happen so quickly,

we won't even feel it,

And nobody else

will feel it, either,

They'll just expect it to be

a,,, a better day,

Maybe afterwards,

that's what it will be,

( voices clamoring )

( knocking on door )

( knocking )

Miss Lovecraft sent me,

I'm from the agency,

I'm your babysitter Betsy,

Hi,

( rock music playing

on transistor radio )

( door squeaks loudly )

Oughta have that oiled,

Oh? I rather like it,

Your wife gettin' dressed?

No, She went on ahead,

When there's a full moon,

there's no restraining her,

I told her to start

without me,

Modern marriage,

Best kind,

More staying power

to 'em, ya know?

Yes, ours has lasted

a long time,

A very long time,

When can I meet the kid?

Actually, I was just

getting him ready for bed,

You like a fire?

Sure, but I can get him

ready for bed,

You're probably anxious

to get started,

I am, I am,

But no, it's better

if I prepare him,

He can be rather difficult

with strangers,

Once he's warmed up

to you, though,

I know what,

I'll read him

a bedtime story,

That's a great way

to break the ice,

Good idea,

You will find his favorites

over there on the first shelf

of the bookcase,

Make yourself comfortable,

If you should become hungry,

you will find that we have

an unusually

well-stocked larder,

including some rather

hard-to-get items

you might find interesting,

What time do you expect

to be back?

Dawn,

We are always back

before sun-up,

Always,

Yes, sonny,

Daddy's here,

( growling and panting )

Miss Lovecraft didn't mention

anything about a dog,

Guess what, sonny?

Daddy has a marvelous

surprise in store for you,

You're just going

to eat her alive,

( loud panting )

Vampirycon,

Satan's Invisible World

Discovered,

The Book of the Dead,

Men Into Wolf,

Now let's put on

your slippers, shall we?

You don't want

to catch cold,

Give me your foot,

There's a good boy,

Now the other foot,

That's fine,

And now the other one,

What was that crash?

Did I hear something?

- ( panting )

- Oh, shut up,

The concept of medical

transplants

is exciting indeed,

But the story behind

this painting

takes the concept

a step further,

Or if you will,

a step over

into a different

kind of world--

one in which a gentleman

named Lacland

finds a hand

that is not his own,

and he finds it

at the end of his wrist,

Our painting:

Excuse me,

Would you mind

repeating that?

I said, Dr, Ravdon,

I want you to cut off my hand,

- Peter Lacland,

- Yes,

The card doesn't say

who referred you,

Nobody referred me,

I live down the block,

I see your brass plate

every time I go for the bus,

I see,

May I see the hand?

Other, please,

They seem perfectly normal

to me, both hands,

Nevertheless, doctor,

the right hand must be removed,

If not by you,

then by somebody else,

Would you mind

telling me why?

I have no desire

to be laughed at,

Neither do I, young man,

What do you think

is wrong with the hand?

Look, See for yourself,

doctor,

What did I write?

I'm sorry, Except for

prescription purposes,

- I don't read Latin,

- I don't write it,

And that's not

my handwriting,

It's no longer my hand,

It belongs to

somebody else,

That's why it must

be cut off,

Whose hand do you

consider it to be?

I don't know,

It has taken over my hand,

It makes it do things

I don't want my hand to do,

What sort of things?

It makes it,,,

murder,

You've committed

a murder?

I've attempted it

three times,

This hand has,

Each time, I've been

able to prevent it,

Each time, it's become

harder to do,

The last time has been

the hardest, almost beyond me,

The next time, I know

I will fail,

That's why it must be

cut off,

Otherwise, someone

will be murdered,

Mr, Lacland, I'm writing the

name of an associate of mine,

You're referring me

to a psychiatrist,

As a matter of fact,

yes, I am,

Doctor, I didn't come here

to be told I'm mad,

I,,, I want you

to cut off my hand,

Now why won't you do it?

Because, young man, there's

nothing wrong with your hand,

It is not diseased,

it is not morbid,

it is not tumescent,

It's against

professional ethics--

Cut it off!

Impossible,

Is it?

Is it?

( agonized screaming )

You see, doctor,

it wasn't impossible,

You made it mandatory,

I really didn't

have a choice,

The company

had sent me up here

to manage the new office,

I'd been here

a couple of weeks,

found an apartment,

got to know

my way around,

and was just organizing

the new operation,

I had an appointment

one evening

with a prospective client

at his apartment,

Something distracted me

for a second,

And then,

I pushed the wrong button,

( door buzzing )

I didn't know why

until later,

A lot later,

Almost too much later,

Yes, what is it?

At first,

I thought it was an accident,

the way I met Susan,

I have an appointment with

a Franklin M, Heller,

Oh, well, you have

the wrong apartment,

No, I would've had

the wrong apartment

had I rung

the right bell,

Well,

It was three days later

when I finally got to see

Mr, Franklin Heller,

By that time, Susan and I

were engaged,

Have you told your fiancée

about your surgery?

I made her go away,

to keep from killing her,

You were contemplating,,,

I wasn't,

It was, and it would've

done it, too,

This surgery

saved her life,

When did it

first occur to you

that you were no longer

the proprietor

of your right hand?

I wanted to telephone

one of our suppliers,

I was home,

I had left the office early,

and I didn't have

my telephone book with me,

So I decided to try

to look up his name

in the phone directory,

I was leafing through it,

running my finger

down a column,

when suddenly,

it stopped,

I mean, it stopped,

I didn't stop it,

Then it called the number,

It really called it,

I had absolutely

nothing to do with it,

It was almost as though

I weren't there,

Only my hand,

MAN: Hello? Hello?

Ramsey speaking,

Who is this?

Hello, is anyone there?

Look, I hear

someone breathing,

Now who is this?

Hello! Who is this?!

LACLAND: I don't know why

I said it,

This is Borgus Weems

speaking,

What? What?

- What did you,,,

- ( hangs up phone )

Not a single one of those

actions was performed by me

of my own free will,

Not a single one of them,

It was my hand

that made me do them,

And you think me insane,

I've no doubt that

what you're telling me

you believe to be

the absolute truth,

But you think me insane,

I'm a surgeon,

Mr, Lacland,

and I have no qualifications

in the field of medicine

which deals in

what you've been telling me,

However, if I can

persuade you

to recapitulate

what you've told me,

and then to continue on

with your story

- in the presence of a--

- Psychiatrist,

Precisely,

Well, since the peril

no longer exists,

I'm really indifferent

to how large a group

considers me mad,

Bring your friend in,

And these were not familiar

names to you, Mr, Lacland?

This, um, Brock Ramsey

and Borgus Weems,

I'd never heard

of either of them

until that moment,

However, later

that same evening,,,

( door buzzer buzzing )

,,,one of them

paid me a visit,

Lacland, Is that you?

That was the name on

the mailbox downstairs,

Yes, I'm Peter Lacland,

Ramsey, Brock Ramsey,

Oh?

Um, come in,

You, uh, you live

here alone?

Are you from

the police?

No,

No, I used to know

someone who lived here

a while back,

five, six years ago,

This was his desk,

I rented this place

furnished,

Is there something

I can do for you, Mr, Ramsey?

I don't know,

I got a funny phone call

this afternoon,

I wondered if,,,

I was going

to kill the man,

I knew I was going

to kill him,

I got reason to believe that

you made that phone call,

If you did,

is something the matter,,,

No, please, stop!

You don't understand!

( phone rings )

Get outta here!

( ringing continues )

Hello,

Oh, Susan,

Yes, Yes, my darling,

What?

I sound funny,

I was,,,

I was just, uh,,,

taking a nap,

Yes,

Yes, everything's fine,

Shall we, uh,,,

Shall we have dinner?

Fine,

Some days later, I had to visit

a client in Beardsley,

I rented a car

for the occasion,

About two blocks before

the access drive

opened to the speedway,

the hand took control again,

I felt the now quite horrible,

familiar pulsing,

the heat,

the unmistakable impression

that another force was

causing the hand to function,

unrelated to any desire

on my part,

I meant to turn the wheel

to the left, but,,,

I couldn't,

and then I realized

something else

was happening,

My foot was beginning to

cooperate with that right hand,

I felt helpless, hopeless,

Utterly out of my depth,

And then,

it happened,

I was going

to run over him,

I was deliberately

going to run over him,

I was like a spectator,

outside of myself,

watching myself,

about to commit murder,

( tires screeching )

The next morning,

I read in the paper

that a rented car

driven by a Mr, Peter Lacland

had gone out of control,

and almost struck and killed

a Mr, Everett Winterreich,

attorney at law,

But that wasn't

altogether true, was it?

Mr, Peter Lacland was,,,

was sitting behind the wheel

of that rented car,

but he most certainly

was not driving it,

Mr, Lacland, did it not

occur to you

at about this point

that you might possibly

be suffering from

a condition that ought

to be examined professionally?

It certainly did,

Dr, Innokenti,

It most certainly did,

I also realized the fact

that I would either

be totally disbelieved,

or that I would be hustled off

to some institution

and put behind

locked doors,

So instead of consulting

a physician,

you did what?

I,,, I embarked on

the preparations

to murder my fiancée,

I first accompanied

my right hand

to a shop where

I bought a gun,

INNOKENTI: You cannot

buy a firearm in this state

without first acquiring

a police permit,

LACLAND: My right hand

evidently knew of a place

where such formalities

could be dispensed with,

for a small sum added on

to the price of the weapon,

INNOKENTI: Did you know

you were calling on her

in order to kill her?

No, Such a horrible thought

never entered my head,

I love her deeply

and dearly,

RAVDON: But you'd just

bought a gun,

Didn't you suspect

your purpose?

My brain must've been starting

to cooperate with my hand,

It was concealing

my own thoughts from me,

No!

Peter, what are you doing?

I'm going to kill you,

I'm gonna kill you,

and I don't know why,

I'm trying not to,

but I can't try any longer,

It's getting too strong,

too much,

- Help me!

- What can I do?

All I can think about

is killing,

First the man

on the telephone,

then a man

with a beard,

and now you,

Maybe,,, maybe I can

stop it

by doing this,

No, don't, Don't,

please, Peter, Don't!

Get it away,

Take it away,

Don't,,, don't let

my hand get near it,

Oh, Peter, wait,

Susan, if you love me,

go somewhere,

Go somewhere far away,

far away from here,

- Why?

- So I can't kill you,

- Why would you kill me?

- I wouldn't but this would,

It won't rest until

it's killed you, I know it,

I sense it, and it's gonna

keep trying again and again,

until it does it,

Unless,,,

Unless,,,

I,,, cut it off,

That's a very fascinating

story, Mr, Lacland,

Of which you don't

believe a word,

I'm a psychiatrist,

I believe in only one thing,

Listening,

And I would be very happy

to listen to anything

you might care

to say to me,

Dr, Ravdon will tell you where

you can reach me, Good day,

Doctor,

And now, you will step into

the corridor,

consult with your friend,

and agree, very quietly,

that I'm crazy,

Mr, Lacland,

I've more than one friend,

and as soon as

your arm is healed,

I'd like to persuade you

to see another of my friends,

- Another psychiatrist,

- No,

This one is a policeman,

Yes, Yes, this was

his place, all right,

- Whose?

- Borgus Weems,

RAVDON: I knew that rang

a bell when you mentioned it,

but I wasn't sure,

But who is Borgus Weems?

He was a strange man,

Mr, Lacland,

Scholar, traveler,

man of many parts,

Countless languages,

Thought to be rich,

Dabbled in the occult, too,

it was said,

It was from that window

he was pushed to his death

four years ago,

You said pushed?

And not without

a struggle,

Who knows with what tenacity

he clung on to this ledge,

All I can tell you is

those fingernails of his

were found dug almost an inch

into the wood of the sill,

Wait a minute,

If he was pushed

to his death,

then how could

his fingernails,,,

His right hand

remained here in the room

when he fell,

Someone had lopped it off

at the wrist,

His,,, his right hand?

In this room?

Who did it?

There was never

a conviction,

He had a niece,

she had a boyfriend,

We thought they'd done it,

so we arrested them,

They got a lawyer,

he got them acquitted,

What were their names?

Hers was Douglas,

Susan, I believe,

The boyfriend's name

I don't remember offhand,

- And the lawyer's,

- That name I'll never forget,

Mr, Everett Winterreich,

It's my beautiful Susan,

She did it with this,,,

Brock Ramsey,

That can't be proven,

Not in court,

Don't you see?

He knew,

Borgus Weems, he knew,

He lived here

in these rooms,

He knew, and he used me

as his instrument of revenge,

My beautiful Susan,

I was,,,

I was to love her,

and kill her,

If it's true,

if they did murder him

and they got free,

then how is he ever

to rest?

Mr, Lacland,

you're becoming agitated,

Much too agitated

for your recent trauma,

I'm going to prescribe for you

a slight tranquilizer which,,,

- Good Lord,

- What is it?

What's the matter?

What's the matter, doctor?

You almost sound as though,,,

"Exoriare aliques nostris,"

That's Virgil,

"Arise, my avenger,

out of my bones,"

That's what you're prescribing

for Mr, Lacland?

A dose of Virgil?

Good Lord,

( woman screaming )

MAN: Struggle all you want,

my pretty,

Scream

your lovely lungs out,

It will avail you not,

You think that I who have

confounded the French

am to be thwarted by

a mere slip of a girl?

You are mine,

do you hear, mine,

Now,,,

and forever,

Who are you?

( laughs )

Who am I?

Have you not guessed?

( breathes heavily )

I am the scourge of Paris,

I am the phantom

of the opera!

( gasps )

( laughs )

And you, my beauty,

are my helpless captive,

Do not torment yourself

needlessly

with fraudulent thoughts

of rescue and escape,

This is an impenetrable

fortress,

So, my sweet angel,

relax,

Resign yourself

to the inevitable,

In time, you'll see

that frozen heart of yours

will thaw,

responsive to

my devoted ardor,

I shall serenade you,

Woo and win you,

Kindling in your breast

with impassioned music

that love you now deny me,

For now,

I lay but one

unyielding injunction upon you,

Never, never,

upon pain and punishment

most awful,

ever seek to discover

the face that finds sanctuary

behind this mask of mine,

I can forgive all else,

Not that,

( playing Bach's "Toccata

and Fugue in D Minor" )

When you have restored yourself,

exquisite lady,

perhaps you will contribute

that enchanting soprano voice

of yours to the recital,

Together,,,

( woman shrieking )

Foolish, impetuous girl,

Did I not warn you?

You have sealed your doom,

( shrieks )