08x02 - Don't Look Behind You

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good evening ladies
and gentlemen

and welcome to the
alfred hitchcock hour

i trust you will excuse
my startled expression

but this is what i just
pulled out of my hat

it's rather a shock when
one is expecting a rabbit

however i suppose
it isn't as traumatic

if i were expecting her
and got the rabbit

since my hand is not
quicker than the eye

i think she will be quite useful
in diverting your attention

this evening i shall attempt
several feats of legitimate

one is to make an hour disappear
without you realizing

without you realizing it that will not

be easy considering this first minute

so

uh oh daphne did i startle you my dear

yes where's your young man harold oh

he had a a department meeting i waited then i came

on you walked from the campus through the wood yes

you must have pretty good nerves yeah dr mcfarland

i i think somebody followed me oh you sure yes i

saw branches and and bushes moving that must have

been the wind my dear come on in oh please don't

say anything inside my wife gets hysterical

there's been too much talk already come on yes

of course you'll very soon learn to take these

department meetings with greater patience after

you've married harold and become a faculty wife

definitely how nice oh hello how lovely you look

well thank you hello wanda hello where's paul

well my husband deserted me on the way over here

he's a great bird lover yes he jumped out

of the car and ran after a hermit thrush

you mean he's in the woods chasing a bird yes oh

that's all it was oh what was oh nothing nothing

at all oh edwin come in edwin you know edwin vogue

don't you we've never had anyone so brilliant in

the music department have we edwin oh i wouldn't

say that definitely it's so nice to see you

again how do you do wanda oh i do very well thank

you all right when i have a cocktail thank you

oh thank you thank you cheer cheers

harold

good evening doctor well that girl deserves a

good spanking this is your girl spanking what

have she done she walked over here alone took

the shortcut through the wood i waited half an

hour for you i left your nose yes i know you

did darling but i was still anxious about you

why in the heavens named it to take a

shortcut did you come through the wood

oh wild horses couldn't get me through

there you had me worried i uh apologize

for charging in like that with the way things

are around please don't have to talk about it

may i sorry to be late you're not late

paul help yourself your drink thank you

how are you fine

i think we almost met a little earlier this

evening when hmm weren't you chasing a bird oh a

hermit thrush people don't realize how beautifully

that bird sings angelic i thought someone was

chasing me through the woods i took the shortcut

over from the campus i guess it was you i heard my

thresh was in the trees by the symmetry nowhere

near the shortcut oh well so it couldn't have

been me no i suppose not well probably just

something running through the undergrowth

probably

so

so

so

good evening

i'm dave fulton i've noticed you quite often on

the campus you're in uh med school aren't you yes

i uh asked dr mcfarland to invite

me here when you were coming

i was warned you're more or

less engaged to harold but uh

you are allowed to talk to other men aren't you

as a matter of fact harold is cross with me now i

walked here through the woods alone were you being

brave or something oh well it's such a long way

the other way around and anyway it wasn't really

dark it wasn't really wise either may i tell you

you're much too attractive to take such chances

one of those girls was

k*lled in that wood you know

i doubt if they'll ever get him

there's nothing to go on there maybe

next time cookie you're so sure there's going to

be a next time thank you harold believes that the

k*ller is deranged a status maybe somebody's

not found yet why should it be deranged

it could have been a thief perhaps a girl screamed

and he lost his head edwin thieves don't use a

Kn*fe the way he did if you'd only seen the body

we found terence please will you not discuss the

details when my husband and harold get together

it's all very horrible but that's what makes it

fascinating i once knew an awful old man who had

a couple of books on t*rture covered in human skin

this k*ller might have cleared out

he isn't necessarily a local man

or but i think he is edwin you may remember the

jack the ripper stuck to one section of london

and the french bluebeard landrieu

stayed in paris fritz harmon who's he

i never heard of him a foul creature in hanover

he m*rder*d more than men in his butcher's shop

harold you can't make me believe that a college

town like woodside would even be likely to

harbor a mass m*rder*r on the contrary

college community is an ideal place for one

i agree yes you see there are a

lot of high-strung individuals here

many are frustrated some very curious easily

apt to be well up on the literature of m*rder

don't you couple that with the power of

suggestion and well now you uh take uh

take an intelligent man who's even slightly

off balance for example say that uh he's

dissatisfied he's building up grudges i suppose

he's been reading about these multiple K*llers

harman or writes in the beth smith julia it

was a man who's very artistic yeah a scholar

you're pretty well up on m*rder yourself aren't

you or he may be a specialized kind of madman who

is only occasionally seized by these compulsions

he uh he could be someone

in the university atmosphere

he could easily be one of us

oh no really how surely that doesn't include us

girls i hope no i i'm inclined to think it's a man

if you ask why he does this i think it's a

pathological distortion of something normal

something that's already there waiting in all

of us sane insane it's all a matter of balance

haven't any of you ever felt that when you were

terribly tired or worried sick about something

that keeping your sanity was like walking a

tightrope stretched across a great chasm and that

if the slightest thing went wrong you'd

topple off it never stopped falling have you

ever felt like that harold i think

anyone who hasn't is extremely fortunate

you have surgery early tomorrow

morning don't you oh yes

and he likes to take a walk before he goes

to bed i think it's time we all went home hmm

what a marvelous moon it's lighter

than when i came through earlier

you know i could have sworn something

was following me when i came through

here before dinner i don't know

exactly how to explain it except that

it stopped when i stopped and went on when i

went on when it finally made a rush towards

me you should have seen me i practically ran the

rest of the way it wasn't some mischievous child

wasn't oh no no children would be in here

that time of night it was dark and spooky

well maybe it was a dog maybe probably was

oh you are on edge aren't you

why in the world didn't you tell me we

needn't have come back this way no i

wanted to come through i wanted to come through

with you and feel safe do you know what i mean

i know

where are you

where are you

he was trying really hard give me

your time quickly right she's fainted

we hadn't frightened him he might have k*lled her

maybe it was you he was after

if she was only a substitute he may try again

if the woman hadn't had any attention she'd have

led to death but you were doing very well when i

came along i'm lucky you heard her scream

well i usually take a walk the last thing

i thought the man might still be there what has

she said about the att*ck it seems she went out

to mail a letter and he sprang on her she was

on that back road no not actually in the womb

he seemed terribly strong she said

and dragged her in among the trees

she couldn't describe him she doesn't remember

much really oh hello harold police say anything

well no just that uh she may remember more a

little later ah i doubt if she will looking

at the hospital daphne she'd like to thank

you yes of course i will bye goodbye doctor

the police still think that it isn't necessarily

the same man who did the other k*lling but i said

that it had to be a particular kind of man in a

particular state of mind and that they might need

the help of a psychologist and running him down

anyway i told him i'd do anything i could to help

oh don't get mixed up with this herald darling

you know how interested i am in these things these

strange twists of the mind that's why i

went into psychology in the first place

it's a wonderful opportunity for me to test

out some theories i've had in abnormal behavior

the only problem is i'm i'm gonna have to work

alone because the police don't go along with me

i i think you should stay out of it

daphna you want this man caught don't you

you know i can't forget that it

might have been you he was following

why would he try to get me i don't know but

i'm going to make sure that he never does

oh hello dave well you're always

creeping up behind me aren't you

i stopped by to see how you came

through all the excitement well

i have a lecture together i'll

call you later for dinner darling

that was a terrible thing last night if i'd

walked home that way i might have caught him i

thought you rode home with paul no i stayed

talking with mrs mcfarland then i walked

home the long way around alone at that time of

night now why should he walk when he could ride

do you want me to tell you well remember

how you felt listening to edwin at the piano

that's how i felt after you're gone i

just wanted to walk and think about you

you pay the most curious compliments first you

asked dr mcfarland to invite you to dinner and

then you tell me i'm too beautiful

to be married and now the moonlight

daphne

i didn't know you were out there

edwin that was beautiful stay there

i'll join you oh no i can't stay

that was the moonlight sonata you were playing

yes i'll play you some of those french melodies

you seem to like if you'd care to come in for

a while no i'm expecting harold to call they're

all danced to us really do i make them sound sad

yes there is a sort of sorrow in them not in them

it's in me music always gives away

one's feelings especially loneliness

that's the universal human

predicament doesn't it loneliness

i think in very talented people

like yourself it helps to create

well i must go goodbye

um oh my glad you're still awake i thought you

were going to call no i know it honey i'm sorry

but i had such a hectic day i forgot have you

had any dinner no i didn't even have time to eat

but you know something yeah i think i'm finally

making some progress of course the police think

i'm just another crazy professor but

they don't understand what's going on

you remember last night i said that the k*ller

might be sitting there at the table with us

well i was right he was you know how i know the

police went out there and i searched that whole

area where they found the girl nothing i went

out on my own i found a cocktail napkin with the

mcfarland's name on it oh well that doesn't mean

anything people are at the mcfarlands all the time

somebody could have dropped it or it could have

blown it well that's what the police said but i

disagree they say that this as*ault isn't like

the rest of them darling we know everybody at

the mcfarland but whether we know them or

not hasn't got the slightest bearing on this

now this k*ller gets a great satisfaction out of

terror and destruction and as children we have

much the same impulses but we grow out of them

now either he hasn't or they've reoccurred in him

how horrible yes it is horrible we're moving in

a region of her now the police have got everybody

pinned down they're pretty good at that you

know dr mcfarlane was out last night on his

nightcap stroll edwin walked home alone i know

it and so did dave i had lunch with him today

oh he did paul however was not he jumped out of

the car to look at a screech owl or something i

don't know what it was besides i don't think

it would be dave because he's much too normal

he'd rather have it anybody than dave wouldn't

you i'd sooner he never got caught than have it

be somebody we know but honey it is someone we

know now you heard the way that girl screamed

i want this fellow caught before he

makes you scream he isn't after me

daphne i know this man's secret mind i've

studied these people i know how they think

it's frightening sometimes how you know people

he watches you to him you're like a living jewel

or your perfection you're irreplaceable and to

destroy you would be a triumph now he followed

you but he didn't get you the other woman was just

a substitute but he didn't succeed with her either

so he's going to come back to his first choice

we can catch him through you and only through you

i want you to be a decoy i want you to walk

through the woods again alone no i'll be there

but i'll be out of sight i have a g*n well how do

you know you can catch him even with a g*n use a

police decoy they have people who do that sort of

thing but it's you he words don't you understand

it's not going to be any more of a risk than

you're running right now every day every minute

to walk through that woods again i don't

know how you can ask me to do such a thing

daphne besides protecting you we may save the

lives of others now how would you feel if some

morning you woke up and there was another girl

had been strangled and slashed when we could have

stopped it this has to be done at once darling

while this periodic excitement is still with him

we could drop into the mcfarlands tomorrow night

i'll let it be known that we'll be over there

but not what we're going to do nobody would ever

believe i'd go through that woods again not now

yes he will because that's what he wants to

believe and he'll wait until you do he'll

never stop watching you i know this kind of

mind i can't harold don't ask me again i can't

all right all right talk about

it tomorrow i won't change my

mind

uh

so hello harold yes i'm sorry to call you this

time of night but somebody tried to break in here

no no he climbed the tree now i only got a

glimpse of him didn't look like anybody i knew

no no please come over when it's light

when you you can see for yourself

yes and harold i'll go through

that woods again whenever you say

i shall begin my act immediately following

the station break so please hurry back

i warned you not to stay so long you can

hardly expect rabbits to simply sit around

waiting for a station break to end now it

is time for the second half of our story

perhaps after that there

will be time for a few tricks

well it's been a lovely evening doctor i'm afraid

we've stayed too late not at all delighted to have

you and thank you for the reports can't i drive

you back oh no thank you we'd rather walk well

there's no need to tell you stay clear of the

wood ah the police haven't got a thing on the

k*ller yet paul but if they get onto you a bird

lover who's seen at all times in odd places you

who'd be a hot suspect well if i were the m*rder*r

i think i could guarantee that i'd never be caught

when this one's caught you may

find that it's only the beginning

whatever you mean by that good night good

night daphne and harold look after her

good night my dear good night it's

always a delight to see good night harold

all you have to do is keep walking in a natural

pace like you are now do you mind if i hope he's

not there ah but he will be i told you he watches

you he knows you're out here he'll be waiting

for you maybe he'll guess it's a trap nobody

won't believe that because he wants you so much

and then when he sees you he won't be able

to hold back because it's a compulsion

i'm going to slip away in a

moment oh darling i'm frightened

shouldn't we get the help of the police i

tried to but they don't go along with my theory

you'll keep me in sight won't you

darling you won't be able to see

me but i'll be near you all the time

i'm glad there's a moon clouds though

my heart is pounding you come

immediately if i call won't you harold

harold

so

so

who is it who is it did i frighten you yes

you did a little only a little that's good

it seemed to me that i frightened

you quite badly the other evening

the other evening on your way to dinner

at the macfarlanes you began running

why did you follow me then it's a habit of

mine there was nothing to be afraid of not then

but i only wanted you to

know that you were not alone

you certainly must feel that you're not alone now

this will be different i'm glad you like my music

that's not all there is you know it's not the best

no no no now

come on

it worked daphne and it worked

is he dead

no no he's not dead

yeah you know edwin reads music

like you and i might read a book

he hears the sounds in his head

having his music there at the home

should be some consolation to him

why don't you come in darling no i i

don't like being here but i wanted you

here i know it's a little untidy but the

police have searched it edwin's apartment

is exactly the place for something i have

to tell you yes i think i know what it is

you want to tell me that you don't think the

att*cks are over and that they may be after me

who told you that dave dave is always

popping up isn't he on the campus in the wood

he said you told him the night you caught edwin

i reminded them all that some crimes

come in waves as if they're contagious

a ceremonial Kn*fe blood sacrifices that

appeals to some mentalities but this may

have spread already in the town on the campus

you mean you think he may have associates

or imitators men with the same ideas as edwin

the same objectives who do you think i don't know

i i wouldn't want to point a finger at

anyone but daphne look around this room

you remember how you felt about edwin his music

his charm and yet in his heart he hated all women

he would have strangled you

and sliced you with that Kn*fe

but daphne you mustn't trust

anybody dave not anyone

well i'll take the music to edwin he and i

were very close friends you know poor soul

hello edwin

how are you

i brought you most of your music i thought

maybe you'd like to play it when you feel better

there's a piano in the lounge tell me

that time with the girl in the wood

when daphne and i interrupted you that was all

for nothing wasn't it we came too soon and you

began it wrong you tried to take the life without

the ceremonial so the compulsion stayed with you

then you had to try again with daphne

well i must be going now edwin

i'll come and see you again

i know you will

i'm looking forward to it

are you going to be roaming around again tonight

i have some more clues i want to follow up

harold why don't you leave this up to

the police i have to continue on my own

i've been studying edwin's analysis

digging into his mind and here is the

smell of blood still it's fascinating

his ideas go far back into time they run deep

and he's not so non-sane as one might think

will you have dinner with me darling no

i can't i have a special class tonight

added biochemistry oh yes uh that's the uh

one that dave teaches isn't a small class

and afterwards i suppose he'll ask

you to have dinner with him my supper

but don't go daddy don't go darling what's gotten

into you what's gotten into everyone me you dave

what got into edwin we'll never know you poor dear

you're worn out

it's this terrible business with edwin

guard over me and working half the day and

hunting heaven knows what half the night

what if i were to go away i'd be sure nobody

ever found out no no don't do that no don't go

and especially don't go now darling

why don't you lie down and risk

i have some things i better do

harold i'm sorry about dinner

that's all right you have a good time with dave

so

did you have dinner this evening no not really

how about coffee and something with me hell thank

you i'm i'm going straight home harold waiting

i begin to wonder whether all his talk

about you being in danger is imagination

he was right about edwin he was wasn't he

you know a man like edwin never realizes

he's committing an abominable crime

he's merely yielding to an urge such

men worship dark and nameless gods

they act out the fantasies that

obsess their unbalanced minds

hmm you really can't blame somebody like edwin

that doesn't make them any less dangerous

that's exactly why harold is so absorbed in this

yes deeply it absorbs him when he should be

absorbed in you harold has been working night

and day trying to prevent anything else

from happening to me or to anyone else

daphne i'm going to say this i think there's

a lot of pretense about you and harold

there always has been hasn't there you're not

really in love that's what i mean by pretense

oh harold may be in love with

you in his way but you're not

how dare you say such a thing to me you're ducking

away from the truth i'm very fond of harold i

think i may owe him my life he certainly deserves

my loyalty that's a poor substitute for love

are you jealous of harold no

but he is of me good night dave

so

what happened hello darling i saw your light

oh you know i i never realized

how beautiful you're looking white

you look like a bride you must have come straight

down here yes i did sit down here and sit down

i want to celebrate i

i made my mind up about something

oh this is uh wine that i keep for very

special occasions faculty birthdays

it's wonderful the way you just

walked in here i i never expected that

yes i i just been talking with dave

i'll always remember you as you are this moment

darling smiling at me across a glass of wine

cheer cheers you came from dave to me i like that

because i have something to tell you about dave

no no i know how you feel about

him i'm not blind you know

harold if you're jealous of dave i can assure you

it's quite without reason without reason you said

without reason

no that isn't what i wanted to talk to you about

there's something else and this

is the perfect place to do it

you said you'd made up your mind about something

yes my darling i have and

we won't be interrupted here

now i don't want you to be

frightened by what i have to say

and run away as you did with edwin but he intended

to edwin k*ll those women in hatred and revenge

but i've decided tonight to make you completely

my own for love in the full aesthetic moment

a final sacrifice

come on pain is only a secret name for pleasure

and there can be no true sacrifice

no complete feeling of love

unless the victim dies

dave dave

your mind daphne no one else's

just mine

he really caught this contagion

this spirit of k*lling from edwin

a strange and ancient illusion that by blood

sacrifice you can reach a more intense communion

jealousy unbalanced his mind

but you're safe now harold is here i knew

it would be i've been looking forward to it

next week we should be back with another story

now there is just time enough for my escape act

good night