08x03 - Night of the Owl

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good evening television consumers

you will be very much interested in

these latest

products of the scientific mind

they will be placed on street corners

drug stores

hotel lobbies etc these are not

telephone booths television booths

no matter where you are you can slip

into one of these

and by depositing a dime can view three

minutes

of this wondrous art form how often have

you had to go to the corner drugstore

on an errand and then never learned how

a play ended

now you need no longer be chained to

your home set

in one city where the television booth

was introduced

a gentleman ventured from his home for

the first time

since . his wife reports that he

walked out of the house

with fifty dollars worth of dimes and

has not been seen since

because so many people are used to

seeing television

from a horizontal position either

slumped down

feet on the coffee table or while lying

in bed

every other booth is constructed with a

tv screen in the floor

so you can look at the picture through

your feet but we must begin our show

if you have paid a dime and one of your

three minutes

turns out to be this next one

you have my sympathy but we shall keep

the dime

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oh darling that will be enough for that

dear

good morning it is mrs mallon isn't it

i'm afraid you don't know me i'm the

reverend george locke i wonder if i

might speak your husband

well i'm expecting back any moment won't

you come in thank you

dear that will be enough now please

won't you sit down reverend this uh

this isn't ann is it no

this is our younger daughter barbara

barbie this is

reverend locke pleased to meet you

reverend delighted

now why don't you go upstairs and put

your dress on dear because daddy's gonna

be home anymore hurry up

yes mommy no no how stupid of me ann

ann would be almost by now wouldn't

she

is that why you're here reverend is it

about anne as a matter of fact it is

is there some problem no no it's purely

a personal matter which

if you don't mind i should prefer to

discuss with your husband

yes of course you see i was chaplain at

the seabrook state

prison in the smokies many years ago and

i had occasion to know your adopted

daughter's real father

before that wretched man's unhappy death

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and you're late

you know the stores close early on

saturday dear i'm sorry your dress is on

your bed

oh why can't i go like this ann all

right mother don't shout your father has

a visitor in his office who is it

no one you know go in hurry up

what block my office your visitor is a

reverent lock

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i cannot tell you how pleased i am both

to meet you

and to find out that the daughter of

that uh unfortunate man is in such

loving hands

all right sh**t him

she's upstairs right now and she's going

out a few minutes i think my wife

explains why yes yes yes and uh

since the child remembers nothing of the

past i uh

i can see how important it is to both of

you that she continue to believe your

your little fabrication that she was

adopted by you at the age of three after

the uh peaceful and entirely normal

demise of her

mother and her father i tell you it's

remarkable that a

child of such a tragedy should be so

happy and so

normal why well your wife did mention a

few visits to a dr holt

well that had to do with her school work

like my wife explained that too yes but

psychiatrist

just because of some minor anxiety or a

future scholarship

or perhaps there was something more look

reverend this is a kind of a personal

matter was it mine

no anne is a perfectly normal child she

has a brilliant mind very brilliant

she has a desire to excel in everything

she does

uh but she she blames herself that she's

not perfect in everything

yeah she demands too much of herself but

dr holt says that

that these are symptoms of things that

are essentially good

your vehemence in her defense is very

touchy mr mallory

still it must be a source of great worry

to you

the thought that this child might turn

out to be like her father

well it's a stupid thing to say

perhaps but then you see i happen to

know a good deal about psychiatry it's

very useful in my work and i'm sure dr

holt

must have warned you the extreme danger

to a child especially such an emotional

child

if she were to learn the truth about her

real parents

and how they d*ed look

reverend i i don't like your your

manner of her clergyman you ah but then

you see

i am not really a clergyman

no actually i am a businessman

and i am here on a matter of business

what business

blackmail

i don't know what stupid idea you've got

in your head

i think the state police will know what

to do with you please don't make the

mistake of thinking i am stupid mr

mallory

blackmail is my profession you surely

don't think i would have come here like

this unless i've

taken some precautions first i think

perhaps i'd better introduce you to my

associate before you do anything

rash you're so [ __ ] there is as you know

a telephone booth in the picnic area at

lookout point which is visible from this

window

i shall now dial that booth when it

rings

and my associate mr parker will emerge

from the

signal trace toward us and then

disappear into the fast

there you see

you having the faintest idea what he

looks like know where to find him

and he has his instructions now if

anything should happen to me

then he will do very quietly and

anonymously

he will do what i shall be forced to do

unless you and i can come to an

understanding now

should we have our little chat

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do you want six thousand dollars

by monday night

six thousand rub away realize you're a

little shocked but

it's really not so terrible as all that

see i happen to know that you have a

savings account for the children and any

small difference in the amount can be

made up for the bank loan

using this house as security

what can you do you can either call the

police

or you could k*ll me but either way

you will utterly destroy your precious

little anne

because there's always mr parker

he's unhappy young man he's almost

vicious

afraid he might take a certain pleasure

in telling the child that

her real father bludgeoned her mother to

death in a drunken rage

and then hanged himself

i can hear him now little girl

your father was a m*rder*r and a su1c1de

to maybe there's some of him in you

all her life she'll wonder am i insane

like my real daddy one

shut up will i commit su1c1de like my

real

shock daddy

can i come in honey

what do you want i'm sorry daddy

i thought no i'm still here my dear but

i very much wanted to meet you now

this is anne isn't it yes your father

and i have been having a little chat

about uh

old times

i didn't mean to barge in daddy

but i'm i'm looking for my tray of test

tubes you didn't see them all around any

i haven't seen them

uh and we're go laid baby your mother's

waiting

hurry next time when you're not in such

a hurry perhaps we can have a little

talk about uh

what about science i hear you're a very

brilliant student

goodbye daddy bye baby

goodbye reverend goodbye my dear

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charming she adores you

and you quite obviously adore her you'd

move heaven and earth to save her from

pain

surely six thousand dollars is a very

small amount to pay for her future

happiness

surely but it wouldn't stop there would

it

you'd be this again year after year no

no no that kind

of blackmailer invariably winds up in

prison

it's against my principles mr mallory

once i receive the money mr parker and i

will move on to fresher fields

out of your life forever see

i take your word for that huh

unfortunately

well i'm not going to

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i'm not going to take your word for

anything and i'm going to see she's

protected from you

and you're associate forever don't be

naive mr mallory what about her school

friends of playmates and neighbors

you know it doesn't take very much just

one or two anonymous telephone calls or

letters

you know what gossips these small town

people are

how long do you think it'd be before the

poor child knew the whole

morbid story now

monday night eight o'clock you will walk

slowly

from this house to the picnic ground you

will wait there by the telephone booth

when it rings

a voice will tell you exactly where in

the forest to meet me

now you'll have the money in and

bills wrapped in brown paper

now no marked bills and no futile

efforts to contact the police

i work this out very carefully mr

mallory and if you deviate from my

instructions in any way

i shall know it immediately

i'll be there you'll be there

with the money good day mr mallory

oh dear darling

oh a great dinner we're gonna have daddy

let the chickens burn

mother if you'd let me fix the timer on

the oven it never would have happened

yes no at all where's my tray of test

tubes you little thief

jim you let the chickens burn what

happened did you fall asleep

no but went off you didn't even hear it

i'm sorry daddy

guess this just isn't my day

listen oh well i'll take some steaks out

of the freezer that'll solve it

hey hey something you tell me where they

are

mommy mommy she twisted my arm

she hid my test tubes and you i told you

not to touch her

if you think she's done something wrong

to you you're supposed to come to me or

your father you

understand yes mother

barbie did you take her test tubes she

can't take a joke

what did you do with them barbie

they're in the freezer the freezer

oh it's ruined now the whole experiment

is ruined

you dumb little anne don't talk to your

sister like that

now i want you to apologize to her right

now

i'm sorry my aunt still hurts

will you stop it all of you please just

stop it

now you see you've upset your father

with your fighting

i want you to apologize to each other

i'm sorry barbie

i'm sorry mother

i'm sorry daddy i'm sorry

i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry

and baby barbie go put some baked

potatoes in the oven for mommy please

yes mommy go to a gym

you're the only one she'll talk to when

she gets like this all right

linda yes i have to talk to you when we

can

oh i'll tell you when dinners ready

hydrogen plus water react to yield

sodium hydroxide plus hydrogen gas

i looked at it for the first time just

now

and i already know it

just like that

aren't you proud of me

i know all that

and i don't know anything

i don't know how to be good or kind

or how to make people happy

i don't want to hurt barbie ever i love

her and mother but

but something inside of me just

i don't know and

and i made you angry too daddy yes yes

yes this afternoon when you were talking

to the reverend

i didn't mean to but i did

it just seems that nothing i do or

i don't know it's just not simple like

like this

i love you daddy

i love you too

all right now i'm starving to death too

let's go help your mother huh come on

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yeah

six thousand dollars

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that's the most ridiculous thing i ever

heard

you mean he actually sat there and said

this to you

what did you do i didn't do anything

that's the horrible part of it it seemed

so

weirdly just sat there calm and smiling

jim jim you don't you don't really think

he'd tell him do you

i think he would i'm sure

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did you call the police how could i have

to worry it to do a hand

but jim we have to we can't cope with

this ourselves

i've been hammering at this thing in my

mind for hours of course i want to go to

the police but we can't

they can help us they can they can tell

us what to do

jim they handle hundreds of these

blackmail cases every week like this one

jim i know how you feel about anne but

i've never handled anybody like lucky's

thought of everything

can at least advise us that it can't do

any harm can it

once we tell anybody about ann who knows

where to land

please gossip a tip to the newspapers

but we wouldn't have to tell them about

ann's father we could just say that

some stranger named black is

blackmailing a sin

and leave it at that well you can't just

i don't know maybe you're right maybe

that's all we can do not right now

tomorrow in the morning but jimmy he

said monday night we don't have that

much time

i know that i've gotta think

look jim don't take it out on me

i'm sorry you're right

about the police i don't want to be

right or wrong jim

i i just want us to

find some way out of this nightmare

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now um as close as i can come to lock's

appearance but

it's he's got a long thin face

i'm sorry to bore you with all this

identification here team jim

at least you know our man has no

previous arrests for blackmail in this

area

you have no idea what his accomplice

parker looks like

you know there's a chance if we pick

lockup that parker will give up as a bad

job and hightail it out of the state

chance hank i can't take any chances

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well then we'll have to pick them both

up together

pretty kind of tough this guy's smart

he's clever

jen money's involved they'll have a

rendezvous set up somewhere for tomorrow

night or soon afterwards

now if you're willing to keep that

appointment give him a packet of

counterfeit bills

i'm sure that we can zero in on lock

follow him until he joins parker and

pick them both up together

sure i'm willing to do anything but

well what if he suspects he's being

followed we're not exactly amateurs at

this job

i know that hank but have you ever tried

to track anybody in a forest

we have quite an effective field

communication system similar to your

walkie-talkie but less conspicuous

environment will move into your forest

area early in the afternoon except for

one of your fire crews

they'll fade off into the brush one at a

time wait for night

when one of them spots lock radio the

others each one will pick him up and

turn

buy radio without moving until he leaves

the force then he'll put a normal tail

on him

it's also complicated it'd be so easy

for something to go wrong

oh jim we've taken your story and faith

you won't even tell us why you're being

blackmailed we've accepted that up until

now

now the least you can do in return is

let us handle our job our way

but how can you be sure

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we can't be sure about anything we'll do

our best that's all i

promise

keep looking back toward the phone booth

are you sure you didn't make a mistake

in the time eight o'clock sharp hank i

couldn't forget that

say now any other outdoor phone booth

in this area

no mile and a half from here long creek

camping area

this is the one he meant you're sure

yeah i'm sure look how much of men maybe

you could have spotted one of them

take it easy jim give him a few more

minutes

you're a hello get rid of your state

police friend

go home wait there you'll hear from me

this is your last chance mr mallory wait

a minute

was it him

he hung up

i'm happy to

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he didn't go he saw her right through

the police trap mommy

oh barbie has an earache i'll be right

down dear where's that

she's reading to barbie

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uh

i'm gonna pay him off police can't

protect us

jim the six thousand dollars won't be

the end of it

there isn't any other way

without even consulting me i don't get

selling you now

i'm so confused you you make me feel so

guilty

i'm sorry if there was just some other

way

jim why don't we tell her ourselves no

then it wouldn't matter what locke did

and we destroy her can't you see that

look jim i love anne too but will

destroy us as a family if we pay that

terrible man

jim why don't we try the police just

once more and tell him about anne's

father it will at least give them a

lead on parker and lock we've been all

through

that we can protect her how

block her in her room she has to live

doesn't she go to school see the other

kids

you know cruel children can be i know i

know jim remember what dr holt said this

is a particularly vulnerable time for

now maybe if she was a little bit older

we could risk it but not now

stop hammering at me can't you

understand what a thing like this would

do to her why do you always put her

first

hello mallory did you enjoy your little

wait

we are very silent tonight is that

because you finally learned the state

police can't help you

all right tell me where and when to meet

you

the money

you're late where's the package

the bank won't let me out of my until

tomorrow

you're lying i'm not lying i just don't

hand you six thousand dollars

i've got more time i want the money now

i'll have it for you in the morning i'll

pr i promise you know it's the best i

can do

every extra second means more danger for

me

i ought to tell that stupid gorky little

brat if you was just out of spite

no no no one more chance for our phone

instructions so mallory

we got an agreement tomorrow morning

then i'll be out of your life forever

you say one word to her i'll k*ll you

yeah

i'll k*ll you

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where you jump boys like somebody's

fixing to k*ll you

oh you're drinking again you fool i told

you to stay at the motel

what if the police were to find out you

know something boy i don't give a soft

yawn about no pulleys you're my man

and i ain't about to let you skip out of

me now where is it

can't get the money out of the bank

tomorrow morning boy you ain't very good

liar now where you hadn't it

i'm not hiding it all right just for

that

old odie's liable to keep all the money

i mean after all i'm the one to stick

you onto mallory and that little anna

girl

you i tell you he didn't bring the money

you know something boy i'm getting

mighty tired of you called me that

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where is it boy car where is it

i'm waiting boy i'm waiting

huh bar where is it

wake up

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hmm

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our story will continue in a few moments

just now we must observe the quasi-folk

ritual of the station break

actually the station break was designed

for a very useful purpose

it keeps the two halves of a show from

bumping into one another

i hate to break this to you but the

opinions expressed during the past

two minutes do not represent those of

our sponsor we have yet to hear from him

however following that we shall have the

second half of

night of the owl

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we'll need the smoke jumpers you better

leave kevin's up there

b*mb that crown fire south of the tower

look on the gym now i'll get back to you

ben gotta

well we got a line hacked out southwest

of the cliff she got a holder

air control's got the whole first slope

the windshields were in trouble

now when we went down the south break

huh i'm going back in with these fellas

as soon as i get their breath

i'll be right with you

well this is where she started there's

the poor devil that started

b*rned himself up most likely lord

preserve us from careless people

what's the matter jim you know him

yeah i know

you must be dog tired with no sleep on

it

then i guess you fellows are used to it

there's fire weather yeah

have a tough time getting this one under

control nah

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mind if we ask you a few more questions

uh mallory was nice enough to come down

here and give his complete statement

right away

i don't think we should keep him from

his bed anymore all right

i just talked to the coroner captain

you're right and assuming it was m*rder

jim locke was strangled

the concussions evidence of a struggle

all point to an act born of great anger

must've been quite a shock to you and a

relief when you saw that body

what makes you think that parker k*lled

lock who else

too bad you don't know more about it

i told you all i could

not much to go on is it

you say that you saw him on saturday

you say the lock talked about him this

seems to be about all we know about the

man

so far he's just a name sort of will of

the wisp

it might help if you told us now why

you're being blackmailed hank

i told you i can't i'm sorry

jim a man's been m*rder*d you're

withholding relevant information

i think we've had enough for one night

lieutenant now look

let's just get it over with now huh

this eight o'clock meeting you had how

long were you with luck

a couple of minutes that saw no more

where'd you go after leaving him

straight

home no i was

i was upset i wanted to think

where'd you go set up my hill and back

of the house

and after that i went inside and on the

phone rang about the fire

what time was that well you know what

time that was it was around nine

what were you so upset about look what

do you want me to say i was upset

because i k*lled locke

huh did you k*ll him yes in my mind

a hundred times i wanted to

but i didn't are you trying to tell me

this is what disturbs you

the thought that you might have been a

m*rder*r

that's all memory sorry we've tried your

patience you've been very cooperative

still after we've done a little looking

around we may want to talk to you again

sinus

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i don't

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why aren't you in school i'm home

already

you slept all day

want me to rub your foot witch hazel no

you take care of me when i have a bad

dream now i can take care of you

i'm fine now

you're worried

it has something to do with me hasn't it

oh it doesn't have anything to do with

you

and did you wake your father up i was

awake already

darling why don't you go finish your

homework i'm finished

hello yes but daddy wants some privacy

go on dear

oh sorry

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who it's od parker boy that's who

now listen boy and listen good i need a

thousand quick

that's all it's gonna cost you now one

thousand green ones and i'm gonna keep

my big mouth shut

here what do you want me to do

put the money in a envelope as soon as

it gets dark

bring it around to the picnic ground big

old trash can chained to a tree

and stash the cash under the trash huh

and then get

all right and no hijinks boy i'm picking

it up in my own

sweet time if i smell a cop that's it i

mean your little anna girl's gonna wish

she'd never been born

yeah yes

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you've cut the price to a thousand he

wants it tonight oh

well all we'll have to do is tell the

police and and they'll set a trap for

him he's not that much of a fool there's

no telling money to pick up the money

might be days

well they they can wait him out they

don't even think there is a parker

i've got to prove him wrong in the guard

on thinking i k*lled locke

i'll have to do it myself go it alone

i'll wait him out and bring him in

but jim you can't he's desperate he's

k*lled a man already

oh there isn't any other way

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um

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me

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hey

i'll move mallory drop that

come on drop it i'm pointing a right

at

i'll you down here come on

hey what you gonna do if i don't come

down huh

you gonna sh**t me out of this tree

uh-huh might just call that

m*rder boy hey i know you're gonna come

up here

after me huh yeah just me and you

all by our own selves in this big bad

forest

you better get along home ranger by far

it's too late

all right down make me ranger boy just

try and make me

gonna be a long wait hey

how long you figure that flashlight's

gonna hold here

daddy stay back y'all honey stay there

don't move daddy i tried to follow you

but i got lost

don't move you honey you run home tell

your mother to call the state police

ever say i'm up here with parker you

understand

yes daddy here we go you make one little

move

i'm gonna k*ll your daddy don't believe

him honey i'm putting a g*n right at him

now run

she don't want to see your little old

daddy laying dead on the ground do

yanagura shut up

go on annie don't you see she came over

she's too scared of what our old cousin

odie might do that's right

i'm your second cousin twice removed

anna girl

daddy what's he honey will you get out

of here please yeah

i was just little old teenager and the

smokers when a terrible thing happened

to your real pawn mom

shut up shut up you will k*ll you you

ain't gonna k*ll me in front of her boy

i mean that

four old gal's got enough to live down

daddy what's he talking about

danny i told you to get out of here now

go on daddy your real papa k*lled your

real mama

he k*lled her dead with a kindling axe

then he hug yourself in prison

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yes

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oh

jim i couldn't get lieutenant names but

i did speak to the sergeant

jim what happened i k*lled him

i think i k*lled both of them now lock

aunt parker

jim what are we going to do

but wait or zan

she's upstairs she knows doesn't she

i tried to explain to about the black

male and those

two awful men she didn't even cry

and she finally told me about calling

the state police

you go up to her i can't talk to her now

please

she needs you more now than she ever

needed you before

if i were and this had happened to me

i'd want you to be with me

because you're the gentlest man in the

world

daddy

oh daddy you're all right oh daddy i was

so afraid

oh daddy listen

what happened out there i don't want to

talk about it

you got away from that terrible man and

that's all that matters

honey what he said about

your real mother and father

that i'm sorry daddy

i i just feel

so sad for them

i wish they could have had a happy life

like us

and i've been thinking daddy

about how much you and mother must love

me

and how much you loved me then i mean

to want to take into your home

a little girl whose

parents d*ed like he said

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when you first told me i was adopted

you said how special i was

because you and mother chose me

i never felt special

until now daddy

jim lieutenant ames is downstairs

i found parker where you left him jim

had a man watching your house i thought

us to phone in for help rather than

falling into the forest

got there as soon as we could but i'm

afraid we're a little bit late

yeah i k*lled him hank and i k*lled him

man like parker takes a lot of k*lling

jim

it's a little worse for wow when he

found him right now he's alive and

kicking

he knows he's going to have to stand

trial for m*rder

it wasn't too hard to get a confession

once he found a locked cigarette case on

him

so about all we need from you is a

statement about what went on out there

tonight

stop by the office someday

hey

thanks i knew it would have been easier

for you if i thought you're away from

the start

linda i i gotta tell my wife

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you remember my mentioning the gentleman

who disappeared with fifty dollars in

dimes it saddens me to relate that he

became

stuck in a television booth where he

eventually

succumbed fortunately he had deposited

all his money so that the set will be on

for the next

hours i know he would have wanted it

that way

next week i shall return with another

story scenes of which will be visible

after the following

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