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[gentle dramatic music]

[fire crackling]

[suspenseful music]

[man coughing]

[fire roaring]

- Help me! Help me!

Help me, please!

Help, help! [coughs]

- Allan, Allan, Father.

Father, Father!

- Uh, the 988 University, uh, Avenue.

Yeah, uh, Professor Colleigh's house, Colleigh, hurry!

[suspenseful music continues]

[fire crackling]

[chatter drowned out by music]

Allan, Allan, please, Mr.Colleigh, Allan?

Are you all right?

- Father's dead. Olive, it's my fault.

- Come with me. Where is Katherine, Allan?

Allan, are you all right?

[people chattering]

[woman screams]

- Good lord, her, her face is burnt!

[woman gasps] [siren blares]

- Olive, I can't see. I can't see.

I'm blind.

[gentle dramatic music]

[gentle dramatic music continues]

[fire crackles]

- You know the story, Allan?

- By heart. There is nothing organically wrong with my eyes.

The blindness is all in my head.

- I just wanted to re-emphasize that before you leave us.

You know the fire was accidental.

You didn't leave the paint cans and thinner next

to the heater deliberately that night.

You've recognized your resentment of your father

and his close relationship with your sister.

Which accounts for your partial recovery.

A full recovery depends on conquering guilt feelings

about your father's death, your sister's disfigurement.

Perhaps, perhaps this return home will help.

I hope so.

- I've been here for eight months now.

- Here, just in case.

Oh, it's the name of a colleague in your town,

Dr. Herbert Greenlow.

I'll forward him a copy of your history.

And, um, try using a tape recorder.

Verbalize the small problems.

Listen to your own words.

It help more than you think.

Well, good luck, Allan.

[phone buzzes]

Yes? Oh, yes, very good.

He's just leaving.

Your sister's waiting for you.

Right on time.

- Some day, somewhere, Katherine will be late.

And the world will shudder.

- You're still tense about seeing her.

- It's not your ordinary family reunion.

- She doesn't blame you for her disfigurement.

- Scar is there.

- But hidden, the plastic device she wears

is very successful.

It's barely noticeable.

You mustn't make it worse than it really is.

- Thank you, Doctor.

- Are you the one getting out today?

- Yes, that's right.

- You're scared. I can smell it on you plain.

You'll be back.

Oh, yes you will!

Look at you run.

You'll be back all right, soon!

No, no, no, no.

[gentle music]

- Well, here it is, the old street.

How does it- - Look?

It feels better than the state hospital. What wouldn't?

[dramatic music]

What's that?

- Oh, it's a stick. The kids must have left it.

- Katherine, oh, Katherine, Katherine, Katherine!

Hiya, how, how is Allan? [door slams]

- Oh, why, he's fine, dear.

Olive, why don't you wait and come back tomorrow?

- Okay, fine, sure.

Uh, bye, say hello for me.

[door slams]

- She's hurt, Allan. You were nearly engaged.

- I don't want to see anyone for a while.

- I'm sorry the house is so cold.

But I just can't afford to heat it.

There's a heater in your room. I'll show you.

[curious music]

It's been boarded over.

[dramatic music]

- How is Olive?

- Oh, oh, well enough.

She's look alone now since her mother died.

She does research for Professor Schiller.

She, uh, just to keep busy.

She works at home.

Oh, you asked about your, uh, tape recorder.

It's right where you left it.

Well, I'll go change and start dinner, okay?

- You're standing there worrying about me being here.

It's true, blindness does make you more sensitive to things.

I can take care of myself.

Katherine, all these months I've been waiting

to tell you how sorry I am.

- Well, I'm, I'm making something festive

for dinner, for homecoming.

I'll call up when it's ready.

[dramatic music]

[door slams]

[dramatic music continues]

- [sighs] There used to be a lamp over there.

- I've changed things around.

Were you looking for something?

- No, just, uh, trying to get the feel

of the house again, I suppose.

- Well, dinner's nearly ready.

- I don't remember that.

- It's father's desk.

I'm storing his things here for the foundation.

The Raymond Colleigh Foundation.

We're raising money for a memorial wing in the new library.

- Your labors in his behalf are never done, are they?

Um, this is mother?

- Yes.

- And, uh, who's this?

- Oh, that's Eric.

I don't know why I keep it.

I haven't heard from him in months.

He went to Australia just after the fire.

To make his fortunate, he said.

[sighs] I suppose he married someone over there.

- Well, I guess it's safe to say it then, [sighs]

I never really did like him much.

- I know. It's warm in the kitchen.

- I'm gonna be all right here.

I just want to be by myself for a while.

[ominous music]

[doors rumbling]

[doors slamming]

[match strikes]

Good morning.

- Oh, oh, uh.

- What are you doing?

- Good morning, uh, I, well, uh,

I'll tell you all about it at breakfast.

Uh, you go ahead and wash.

Don't be long. I have to be at work early today.

I've been renting to students ever since you left.

So we could keep the house.

- Mm-hmm.

- My salary at the university, well, you know what that is.

I know your first day home having someone come,

I'd have arranged it differently if I could.

- This boy, what's he like?

- Well, he's new this semester.

His name is Harold Dennis.

And he's quiet, really quiet.

He's got some sort of injury to his throat.

He barely speaks above a whisper.

- Then we'll have our afflictions in common, won't we?

- He's going to be here during the lunch hour.

I can come home so you won't have to be alone with him.

- No, no, he sounds harmless. I'll be all right.

- I'm going to be late.

- Perhaps my apprehensions are unfounded.

What do I care how he looks at me

or what he thinks of me, this student?

This is a house, it's not a courtroom.

I'm not on trial here.

[clock chimes]

[doorbell buzzes]

- I came about the room.

- It's upstairs.

First door on the left.

[doors thudding]

[throat clears]

- I'm sorry. I thought I'd be back in the front hall.

- It's that way.

- Thank you very much.

[dramatic music]

Goodbye.

[suspenseful music] [door clacks]

[door thuds]

[door clacks]

[door slams]

- What do you want now?

- It's me, Allan.

I decided to come back after all.

I'm sorry I didn't get back soon enough,

but he's going to take it!

I ran into him outside and he's going to take it.

He even gave me the first month's rent.

Where's that draft coming from?

There's something open.

[dramatic music]

[window slams]

Will it bother you so much having him here?

- Well, I do wish- - Wish what?

- That we could wait just a little bit.

It's difficult with strangers.

I thought it would be just us.

I'm going up.

- He won't be in the house that much.

He has a job in the cafeteria and his classes.

He'll only be here to sleep.

- I'll be all right.

[phone ringing]

- Yes, what? Oh, yes, of course.

How are you? What?

Oh, oh, I'm sorry.

Yes, yes, I know.

What? Oh, yes, of course I will.

No, no, it won't upset things that much.

What? Yes, I will.

I'm expecting to hear from him.

Yes, goodbye.

[dramatic music]

- Is anything wrong?

- No, no, it was, uh, it was Harold Dennis.

He wants to move in tomorrow instead of Saturday.

I said he could.

- You sounded upset.

[dramatic music] [clock ticking]

- Allan? [glass clatters]

Oh, why, it's just me, Olive.

Did I make you do that?

I should have phoned first.

Why, uh, Katherine gave me a key, you know?

To keep an eye on things over here.

Didn't she tell you? - No, no. [chuckles]

[glass crackles]

- Well, I made a welcome-home present for you.

Look, it's a coffee cake right out of the oven.

I hope it's still hot.

- Mm, I can smell it. It smells good.

- Well, just I'll just fix us some then.

And we can have a cup of coffee.

- I'll, I'll, actually I've just,

I just had breakfast, Olive.

- Oh, well, then I'll just leave it

right there until later.

- Thank you, Olive.

Thank you very much.

[gentle music]

- If you want someone to do things for you,

why, I'd be glad to, um, type up your lecture notes for you.

- I'm not lecturing just now.

I'm blind. Remember?

- Yes, perhaps you'd like me to drive you somewhere.

- Hmm, no, no, I don't think so.

- All right, if you, uh,

if you change your mind though,

I'm, I'm home almost all the time.

Maybe I should wash the dishes.

- Oh, I can do them.

Actually, it's, uh, it's very good for me to, to do things.

- Oh, all right,

but if you need anything you, you, you'll call me, okay?

- All right.

- Bye. - Bye.

[door clacks]

[door slams]

[upbeat music]

[knuckles rapping]

Come in.

- Anything you want before I go to bed?

- No, thank you.

- You remember our roomer will be arriving.

Don't be alarmed if you hear him.

[wind whooshes]

[checkers clattering]

[door slams] [wind whooshes]

[feet thumping]

[door thuds]

[lock clicks]

[water hissing]

[feet thumping]

[door thuds]

[lock clicks]

[door slams]

[door slams]

[items clattering]

[cabinet thuds]

[door slams]

- Allan, uh, what, what's wrong?

- What do you know about him, anything?

He must have brought everything he owns under one arm.

What did you tell him about me?

- About you? Just that you can't see too well.

I didn't elaborate.

- He probably knows it all anyway.

- Well, I, I doubt it.

He has his own problems.

I doubt he'd be interested.

- Why did he sneak down the back stairs

and scare me the other day?

He's quiet all right. He's too quiet.

I don't want him here.

- I can't put him out now.

He's paid in advance. Well, Allen?

Breakfast is almost ready whenever you want to come down.

You'll get used to him.

[suspenseful music] [clock ticking]

[door slams]

[feet thumping]

[suspenseful music continues] [lock clicks]

[ominous music]

- Allan.

Allan.

Allan, Allan.

Allan.

- Is anybody there?

- Allan.

[ominous music continues]

[dramatic music]

[door slams]

- I was washing my hair or I would have been over sooner.

Oh, are you going to make lunch?

I'm so glad you called me, Allan.

I thought maybe you didn't want to see me anymore.

Oh, it's chicken noodle, okay?

- Okay, it's not that I didn't want to see, Olive.

It's just, well, it takes time to,

to get adjusted, you know, with everything changed.

- Oh, I'm not changed.

- Well, I am.

I'm blind and coming back here living like this,

taking in roomers as if we were destitute, which we are.

Have you, uh, have you seen this roomer of ours?

- No, no I haven't.

- Try to get a look at him, will you?

Uh, talk to him, tell me what he's like.

- Why? Haven't you- - I don't like him.

There's something wrong about it.

- Wrong, well, what do you mean?

- I don't know.

Uh, I don't know, I,

he wants to trick me into something.

- [chuckles] Oh, Allan, I really.

You know, Allan, you haven't been out of this old house

since you've come home.

And you really should get out and-

- No.

- Look, Allan.

I'm, I'm, um, I'm an interested party

around here whether you like it or not.

And I'm not gonna let you get all closed up inside

of yourself, inside of this house.

You've got to get out into the world.

Show Katherine she's wrong.

- Wrong, wrong about what?

- You know, eh, Allan,

Katherine has, uh, had to make adjustments, too.

She was devoted to your father. She really worshiped him.

- And slaved for him.

And gave up a chance to get married for him.

- Yes, well, he was a great man.

- Great in his accomplishments.

Katherine thinks I should've stayed

in the hospital, doesn't she?

- She thinks, um, maybe you came home too soon,

but I don't.

Let's show her that she's wrong, all right, Allan?

I've got to go downtown and get some things.

Just ride along with me, please?

[gentle music]

You, you've really got to, you know? You must.

- No, it's too soon.

- What are you afraid of?

Allan, why don't you have, uh, some soup?

And, uh, then you can bundle up.

It's cold outside, you know, but it's very bright and sunny.

[car horn beeps] [wind whooshing]

[horn blaring]

Well, it's hard to believe it was freezing last night.

I have to, uh, stop by campus.

Just for a minute, to return some books.

[door slams]

You want to come with me? I'll be right back.

- [laughs] You want to see something crazy?

- Yeah.

[dramatic music] [people laughing]

- Allan, Allan.

Allan.

[suspenseful music]

[tires screeching]

[brakes squeaking]

[tires screeching]

[vehicle crunching]

[tires screeching]

[tires screeching]

[horn beeping]

[tires screeching]

[horn blaring]

[tires screeching] [suspenseful music continues]

[tires screeching]

[horns blaring]

[tires screeching]

[vehicle crashes]

[dramatic music]

- Is he hurt? - Are you all right?

[people chattering]

- Allan, Al, may I?

Don't crowd around, please. May I get through?

Allan, Allan, are you all right?

Allan, are you all right?

[people chattering]

[eerie music]

[man faintly speaking]

- You've got to eat something.

Wouldn't it be better if you told me what happened?

Wouldn't you feel better?

- It was him. He saw me in the car.

- Who, Harold Dennis?

- He called me by name.

Olive told me you said I shouldn't have come home.

- Allan, I'm not going to listen

to any childish recrimination.

I haven't, I'm sorry,

but nerves get a little worn too, you know.

Look, maybe we should talk

to that doctor here in town, Dr. Greenlow.

It can't do any harm to talk to someone professional.

- Someone who could send me back to the hospital?

- [sighs] Allan, I'm trying to be calm about this

and I warned you. [plates clattering]

- Oh, I'm sorry.

[Katherine sighs]

- I'll clean it up.

[door squeaks]

[door clacking]

- Hi, I brought you, uh, a new Beethoven.

It's a peace offering, Allan.

Would you forgive me for yesterday?

I was stupid to insist.

I didn't realize what you were going through.

- Well, I, I, I panicked, that's all.

- Oh, it was my fault.

Don't blame yourself.

May I join you for coffee?

- Sure.

- I wonder, has, uh, Katherine seen Eric Walters yet?

- Eric's in Australia.

- No, he's back.

I, I saw him yesterday at the garage.

He was looking for work.

Oh, Katherine must have seen him.

- No, well, I, wait a minute,

there was a call.

Katherine said it was the roomer, but it wasn't.

And she sounded upset.

And the next day, he moved in.

[dramatic music]

You haven't seen our mysterious guest yet, have you?

He leaves before daybreak, returns after dark.

You'd think he didn't want to be seen, wouldn't you?

- What are you talking about?

- Maybe a secret living arrangement

in a narrow-minded university town.

I wonder.

[dramatic music]

Just for the record,

in case anybody thinks I'm only imagining things,

I believe there is no Harold Dennis.

No student roomer.

I believe that Eric Walters

is living here pretending to be Harold Dennis.

And just in case, I think Eric wants to do me harm.

This house and this property are valuable.

And they're half mine.

[dramatic music] [button clicks]

[door clattering]

[door thuds]

[suspenseful music] [door slams]

Who is it? Who's down there?

- Allan, what's wrong?

- Uh, nothing, nothing's wrong.

[door slams]

This, um, Harold Dennis,

what department did you say he was majoring in?

- I, um, I think he said biology.

- I imagine he looks like Eric.

- Eric, why should you think that?

- Well, he's blonde, you said, like Eric.

Why didn't you tell me that Eric's back in town?

- He's not.

- Olive must be seeing things again.

- Olive saw Eric when?

- Yesterday, just for a moment.

You mean, he hasn't gotten in touch with you?

That's hard to believe.

So Harold Dennis,

doesn't he mind living in the same house

with a crazy, blind man?

Especially after yesterday's incident on campus.

- I doubt he knows of it.

- Maybe I should have a little talk with him.

Try to get to know him.

What do you think?

- Hmm.

[dramatic music]

[thunder rumbling] [wind whooshing]

[wind whistling] [feet thumping]

[lock clicks]

[door thuds]

[wind whooshing]

- Allan.

[thunder rumbling] [wind whistling]

Allan.

[intense music]

[intense music continues] [wind roaring]

Allan!

[thunder rumbles]

[wind whistling]

- Allan?

[suspenseful music]

[door slams]

[dramatic music] [thunder rumbling]

[knuckles rapping]

- Allan? [knuckles rapping]

Allan, are you awake?

[knuckles rapping] Allan?

[door clattering]

Why is the door locked?

- Because I locked it.

- I have to go.

Everything's ready for breakfast.

You can manage by yourself all right?

- I manage best that way.

- I'll see you this evening.

[door thuds]

[lock clicks]

- For the record,

he tried to pull me down the stairs last night.

It would have looked like an accident.

But I need proof.

[eerie music]

[intense music]

[knuckles rapping]

- I'll go get Olive!

- Olive, I need proof that he's trying to hurt me.

Sometimes it takes a lie to get people to see the truth.

He tried to pull me down those stairs last night. He did.

I'm not trying to kill myself.

- Look, Allan, Eric is not staying in this house.

Katherine would have told me. I would have seen him.

There's nobody here, but that student.

- You mean, you would have seen Eric,

but you haven't seen the student?

Isn't that unlikely?

Why won't you believe me?

Olive, this student, he keeps his door locked.

And looks after his room himself.

He's hiding something in there. He's got to be.

Olive, there's a spare key

in Katherine's room, in the chest.

Go get it.

Olive, you've got to help me!

You've got to help me prove that I'm right.

You said you'd do anything to help me, remember?

[key scrapes]

[door clunks]

[object thuds]

What is that?

- Oh, it's just a book.

Oh, it's one of your father's, "Roots of Philosophy."

Oh, and it's inscribed.

No, no, no it isn't.

It's just a, uh, it's just a signature.

- Who, whose name is it?

Whose is it, Olive?

- Harold Dennis, that's all it says, Harold Dennis.

[curious music]

[thunder rumbles]

- I believe there is no Harold Dennis.

No student roomer.

I believe that Eric Walters is living here-

- Allan? [knocking] - pretending to be.

Come in. [wind whooshing]

- It's freezing tonight.

I thought you sounded a little stuffy at dinner.

I don't want you coming down with the flu.

Here, take this.

[thunder rumbles] [rain pattering]

Aren't you going to tell me about your hand?

- Hasn't Olive told you about it already?

- Shouldn't she? Allan.

- I know, I'm always creating monsters in my mind.

Okay, I, I understand that now, and I'm going to stop it.

I'm going to get back to my music.

- Allan, I called Dr. Greenlow.

[wind whooshing]

Well, there was the accident and now this.

I felt I had to.

It does rather fall to me.

I didn't want to.

- Katherine, I didn't force you

to go into that room that night.

I tried to stop you.

If your face got burned.

- When did I ever blame you?

- Why didn't you want me to get out of the hospital?

Why are you so anxious to get me back?

- Oh, I'm anxious for you to get well.

And you're not getting well here in this house.

Look, at least talk to Dr. Greenlow.

If he says you should go back-

- I'd rather go to hell.

- Don't be melodramatic.

I can't be here to look after you.

And plainly you, you can't look after yourself.

- You're right, Katherine.

You're always right.

I can't stay here. That's clear.

- Then you'll see Dr. Greenlow?

- Mm-hmm. [wind whooshing]

[rain pattering] [thunder booms]

- We can talk about it in the morning, all right?

- All right.

[thunder rumbles]

[door thuds]

[thunder rumbles]

[wind roaring] [thunder rumbling]

[dramatic music]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder rumbling] [dramatic music continues]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder rumbling]

[gentle music]

- Allan?

- He can't hear you.

He must've been out there for several hours.

The important thing now is rest.

I don't think we should try moving him

to the hospital in this storm.

[thunder rumbles] [wind whooshes]

- Allan, come forward.

This is your handiwork, I believe.

Show me your hands.

[curious music]

[ruler slapping]

Allan, Allan, Allan!

Allan, Allan, Allan.

Allan, Allan?

[door rattling] [fist pounding]

[father faintly speaking]

[door rattling] [fist thudding]

[dramatic music]

[upbeat music]

[people laughing] [dramatic music]

[door slams]

[gentle music]

[dramatic music]

- [throat clears] You're awake.

Here. - What?

- The pills.

- I don't want them. They make me feel so dopey.

- They also make you better.

I want you well as soon as possible.

- Sooner well, sooner away?

- Oh, Olive will be over shortly.

I'll try to be back early today.

[spoon clacking]

[upbeat music]

[record player clattering]

[door slams]

[feet thumping]

[door clatters]

[door slams]

- Allan? [knocking]

- Come in.

How's our roomer tonight?

Oh, didn't you see him? He just came in.

- Oh, I missed him.

- Hmm.

- You seem much better tonight.

- I was just thinking, um,

when I go back to the hospital,

oh, I'm resigned to it, not reconciled,

but resigned, won't it seem a little odd to the neighbors?

The two of you living alone here together?

- Perhaps you won't go back and the problem won't arise.

Good night, I'm glad you're better.

[suspenseful music]

- Allan. [wind whooshing]

Allan, Allan!

Allan.

Allan.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music continues]

[wood cracking]

[knuckles knocking]

- Allan, [knocking] Allan?

[knocking] Allan?

[door clatters]

I'm late again.

Do you mind waiting for Olive to come get your breakfast?

- Uh, Katherine, last night,

did anything happen?

- Happen, what do you mean?

- I guess I was just riding my nightmares again.

- I've got to go.

[screen clacks]

[eerie music]

[drawer rattles]

[eerie music continues]

- Uh, hello? I want the State Hospital in Baker, please.

Dr. Robert Ellins in the Psychiatric Division.

[woman faintly speaking]

Yes, ma'am, hurry, please.

It's urgent. Hello?

Oh, yes, yes, Ms. Steele?

Dr. Ellins' office, please.

Hello, hello, this is Alan Colleigh,

may I speak to the doctor, please?

[woman faintly speaking]

I have to speak to him. It's very urgent.

I'm in, oh, oh, he's not? [woman faintly speaking]

Oh, uh, well, when, when do you expect him?

Oh, not until then?

[woman faintly speaking]

Uh, well, oh, I could make the trip up there myself.

[woman faintly speaking] Yes, yes.

Are you sure that he'll be there then?

[woman faintly speaking]

All right, uh, thank you.

Good, uh, yes, goodbye.

[phone whirring]

Uh, Campus Cab Company, please.

[person faintly speaking] Yes, hello?

Uh, will you send a cab to 988 University Avenue, please?

[person faintly speaking]

[suspenseful music]

- I'm here.

[doors thudding]

Allan, Allan, where are you?

Allan, where are you?

Allan, answer me.

Allan, answer me!

[doors thudding]

Allan, please answer me.

[suspenseful music continues]

Allan?

[lock clicks]

[door thuds] [children laughing]

[children giggling]

[powerful music]

[car door slams]

Allan, I was so frightened!

Oh, why, Eric, I thought you'd left town?

- Hi, Allan, I would have come by

to see you and Katherine sooner,

but, uh, I just got this new job,

and I've had this lousy cold.

[powerful music continues]

- Why, uh, this piece of wood

could have been lying there for months.

- The room was open, and Eric?

Why did he lie about leaving town?

- Well, he explained. He changed his mind.

- [sighs] I'm not imagining this and I'm not dreaming.

Olive, you're the only person I have to trust.

You've got to believe me.

That voice I heard-

- Was in a dream.

- Sometimes it was, not last night.

I was in that.

Uh, the voice is on tape.

It's on the machine.

Olive, turn it on.

Olive, please turn it on.

[wind whooshing]

- I'll turn it off.

- No, no, leave it on.

Our mysterious roomer, how do you know it isn't Eric?

- Oh, because I know because.

- How do you know? - Because.

- How do you know? Tell me.

- Because, um, he isn't, uh

anybody, there never was a roomer.

You just thought there was a roomer.

And I promised Katherine I wouldn't discuss it with you.

Allan, you must go back.

You know that yourself, don't you?

- You're lying, Olive.

Why are you.

[dramatic music] [Olive sighs]

He was here. He was in this house.

I showed him the room. I talked to him.

- Yes, yes, uh, that's true.

Somebody did come to the house, but, but he didn't,

he never came back.

He never rented the room.

Katherine decided not to rent the room-

- The book, the book with his name in it!

- Well, Allan that was an old, old book

that has been lying around this house.

And you must have seen that name on-

- Why are you lying to me?

What are you trying to do to me?

Get out, get out of this!

Get out of this house, get out!

Get out, get out!

Get out!

[door slams]

[door clatters]

[suspenseful music]

[knobs jiggling]

[drawer banging]

[gentle dramatic music]

[door thuds]

- Allan, Allan!

Allan, Allan!

[powerful music]

[mellow music]

- It's so quiet.

- Katherine, you should have seen him.

I hope he hasn't hurt himself.

- [knocking] Allan, Allan, unlock this door.

Oh! - Allan?

Allan, please tell us if you're all right.

- Yes.

- Well, he's alive.

[Katherine sighs]

- Well, what are we going to do?

- [sighs] Leave him alone for now.

I've had all I can stand of this.

It's too late to call the hospital now,

but first thing in the morning,

I'm going to have them come for him.

It's all I can do, Olive.

[suspenseful music]

[clock ticking]

- Allan.

Allan.

- Who is it?

[suspenseful music continues]

- Allan.

[door slams]

[eerie music]

Allan.

[light clattering]

[suspenseful music]

[door banging]

[suspenseful music continues]

[dramatic music]

- No, don't, don't!

You can see.

- Yes, you would have killed me.

You wanted to kill me! Why?

Because of your face?

[Katherine groans]

[Katherine grunts]

- I had the scar taken away, but it was a mistake.

The mark of your crime should have been left

for you and for everyone to see.

- And there was no scar, no roomer.

You wanted me back in that terrible place or dead!

- You killed one of the greatest men that ever lived,

one of the greatest minds.

Deliberately, you murdered him! [sobs]

You murdered him!

You murdered him!

You murdered him!

Murdered him, murdered him! [sobs]

[gentle dramatic music]

[door slams]

- "Dear Allan, I have made sufficient progress

that I can write this to you now.

First, I must tell you, there really was a Harold Dennis.

He did come to the house that day and rented the room,

but he called that night to say his mother had died

and he wouldn't be moving in after all.

It was then that I conceived the idea of impersonating him.

I knew you were disturbed at the prospect

of having a stranger in the house."

- Hi. - Hi.

- I thought I heard you come in.

How did the new class go?

- Well, Music Appreciation isn't the most challenging course

in the curriculum, but it's a start.

[couple kisses]

- And it's a very good one.

- Dinner be ready soon?

- Just about.

- "I ask you and Olive to forgive me

so that I can begin to forgive myself.

And for another selfish reason, if my progress continues

at it's present rate, I should be able to leave here soon.

If, of course, you consent to take the proper steps

in my behalf, knowing your generous nature

and how unhappy you were here yourself."

[dramatic music]

[eerie music]

[gentle music]

[dramatic music]