All language subtitles for One.Step.Beyond.s2.2..Ordeal.on.Locust.Street

- The amazing drama
you are about to see

is a matter of human record.

You may believe it or
not but the real people

who lived this story
they believe it,

they know they took
that one step beyond.

(dramatic orchestral music)

The curtains on the
window are always drawn.

Inside the main house
tonight is quite an occasion.

In the year the Parish
family has lived in Boston,

this is the first time anyone
outside the immediate family

has been invited to the house.

- Danny won't believe the story

about the servants
leaving just this morning.

- Well goodness Anna
why shouldn't he?

It would hardly enter his head

that we've never
had servants here.

- We're all so good at
telling lies aren't we?

- Well at least they are
lies that hurt no one.

And you'll be free
of them very soon.

You'll be married and
in New york with Danny.

- Oh Mama, to have somewhere
that's really, really home

after all these years of
moving one place to another,

always being frightened.

Mama, did I tell you
what Danny said to me?

He said he wanted six children.

Of course I just sat there
and stammered and blushed.

What's that?

- It's nothing, it's a recipe.

- You know Danny even
has names for them.

Michael and Eric and
David for the boys.

- Margaret we'll have the
beaujolais with dinner.

- Yes Papa.

Darling you better run along
upstairs and get ready.

Danny seems to be the
kind who is never late.

- Not a second.

Life must run like clockwork.

That's why I love him.

And I love you too Mama.

And I love you too Papa.

Oh tonight, tonight
I love the world.

(man shouting)

Mama.

- There seems to be
someone in the garden.

George go and see
what's happened.

- You know what has happened.

- Mama please please.

- Stop it!

No one can see into that room.

Wash your hands.

- Yeah that'll
help, wash my hands.

Will that wash away Jason?

I hate him, I hate
him, I hate him!

- Enough!

- What is it?

- [George] Come inside.

(gasping)

- Danny.

- Tell me, what is it?

- Danny there is nothing
for you to be afraid of.

- I'd heard stories about a,
but I didn't believe them.

And then just now
I saw for myself.

Sitting in a red velvet chair,
that's what was so horrible.

In a red velvet chair with
a high back reading a book

for all the world
like a, like a.

- Like a human being.

- Oh no.

What I saw didn't
belong inside a house.

What I saw belonged in the sea.

- Danny you're very young.

I hope you will have the
compassion to understand.

- Mama no!

- He has to know.

He is my son.

He's Anna's brother.

- Anna's brother.

- Danny, I.

- It happened
before he was born.

- He was born that way.

- Danny.

- It is a disease that is not
contagious nor hereditary.

- Danny what Mama says is true.

- Anna I can't.

- Before God what
Mama says is true.

- Anna stop.

- All the doctors swore
it, it's not hereditary.

- I'm sorry Anna, I'm sorry.

- Please don't leave me,
please don't leave me.

- I can't!

- Danny!

Danny!

(sobbing)

- Give him.

- Go away.

- Give him time to think.

If he really loves
you, he will come back.

- No, no, no he won't!

You saw the way he looked at me!

He was looking at our babies

and the babies I'll never
have because of Jason.

I hate him and I
wish he were dead!

(loud slapping)

(dramatic music)

- George I,

I think I shall send
Anna away someplace.

Someplace pleasant.

- It's Jason who must
be sent away Margaret.

- No George, not again, not now.

- Yes now.

- George.

- How long can you be selfish?

Each time we've had to move,
whenever I've had to look

for a new job, you know what
agony it's been for him.

He'd be happier away from us,

there are hospitals
that would take him.

- You don't mean hospitals.

- He's my son too Margaret.

For the love of God, have
some pity for the boy.

- Pity!?

- Yes pity!

How do you think he feels
locked up in the room!?

- I have told you 100 times,
I will not let him go.

- And that's always finished

the argument hasn't it Margaret?

But not tonight, no not tonight.

- Hush George.

He will hear you.

You cannot ask me
to give up my life

- At last you said it Margaret.

He is your whole life.

Not me, not Anna, Jason.

You've no love left
for the rest of us.

- He needs me more.

- Margaret!

I mean what I say, if you
don't agree with me now,

if you don't agree with me
this moment to send Jason away,

then I shall leave you.

(dramatic music)

(serene orchestral music)

- Mrs. Parish, I'm Edward Brown.

- It was very kind
of you to see me.

- Who could resist
such a letter?

I'm surprised Madam,

you'd confide these
intimacies to a stranger.

- As a stranger you could be
of no help to me Dr. Brown.

- Madam let's be
clear on this point,

I am no longer a doctor.

My name has been
officially struck

from the British
Medical Association.

- I'm not interested in that.

All I care about
is your knowledge

and your talent, Dr. Brown.

- Sit down Madam.

- Thank you.

- I remember hearing of a
few such cases as your son's.

- Well other doctors
have told me that almost

every 100 years a child is
born with this affliction.

Jason says that he's read
a theory that all mankind

is evolved from the
sea, the cradle of life.

But Jason says that perhaps
the seed of our beginnings

is still with us and that this
is God's way of reminding us

that we have not come as far
as we would like to think.

- Cradle of life?

Jason sound's a remarkable boy.

Madam, why have you come to me?

- I read of your lecture.

- Lecture?

Lecture indeed.

The papers turned it a riot.

The police had to be called.

- Here, this is
what interested me.

The jeering began
when Brown made claims

that his so called mind
force could be efficacious

in the treatment of
certain illnesses.

- Yeah I read the
account Madam I read it.

- Particularly ailments
of unknown origin.

That's why I came Dr. Brown.

Please will you
be honest with me?

Have you been successful?

- There have been a few cures
and many, many failures.

- What is this mind force?

- Madam if I could
explain it satisfactorily

I would hardly be in
my present position.

All I can tell ya is that I seem

to have developed
a kind of power.

What it is, I cannot tell ya.

I'm not the first,
there have been others.

I think perhaps Dr.
Mesmer was the first.

- This power sounds
supernatural.

- And that would frighten ya?

- I want my son to be well.

The means do not concern me.

Will you dine with us
tonight and see Jason?

- Madam do I look in
such bad need of a meal?

- I am in such bad need of help.

- I'm sorry.

- I thought perhaps another

chance of success
was vital to you.

- Madam I don't believe
either one of us

could stand another failure.

I haven't had a roast like that

in more months
than I care to say.

- Anna did you hear that?

Dr. Brown was complimenting
you on your cooking.

- Mama, Papa wrote that
he'd seen Danny in New York.

It was just by
accident on the street.

They didn't even speak,
Danny crossed the street.

- Aye what can be worse
than the loss of love?

Except perhaps the loss of
belief that it can happen again.

- If you have finished
your coffee Doctor,

I will take you to see Jason.

- Miss Parish.

You remember at dinner
my talking about
my life in England?

What of my beliefs, I
was made to look a fool.

Many people turned
their backs on me

including someone I
loved most dearly.

But now I'm glad it happened.

Now I know there was no
real love between us.

Someone who loves ya
will not desert ya

no matter how severe the test.

Do you believe that?

- I don't know.

- Perhaps I could
help ya to believe.

Come lass, come and sit down.

Aye perhaps I could
help ya to believe.

Madam have I your permission
to play a game with Anna?

- You have.

- Anna you know I want
to be your friend?

- Yes.

- Give me your hands.

Anna fix your gaze on a
point of light in your ring.

Stare at it, never
take your eyes from it.

I want you to imagine that I
tied a balloon to your wrist.

Imagine that your hand
has no weight in it.

The balloon is pulling
it into the air.

Your hand has no weight in it,

it can float in the
air like a feather.

The balloon is
tugging up, up, up.

That's it.

Now as your hand rises higher
it will come toward your face.

Keep staring at that
one point of light.

Keep staring as your hand
comes toward your face.

You're becoming more
and more sleepy.

Your poor eyes ache for sleep.

But you cannot close them until
your hand touches your face.

Only then will you sleep.

Sleep.

(deep sighing)

It's easy with someone
so eager to escape.

- Does she hear us?

- Only me.

- What sort of sleep is this?

Where is she?

- I warned ya, somewhere
beyond our understanding.

You remember what I told ya

about the power the
mind has over the body?

Let me show ya.

Anna now you're even
more deeply asleep.

You hear nothing but my voice.

Yesterday you had an
accident in the kitchen.

You scalded the back of your
hand with boiling water.

The skin is still raw and
sensitive from the burn.

(whimpering)

Touch the back of her hand.

Go on, touch it.

(yelping)

The burn has healed,
the pain is all gone.

In fact you have no feeling
in your hand whatsoever.

The nerves are all
dead, the hand is numb.

Have you a pin?

(gasping)

It will not bleed.

Now the hand just as it was,
as if the burn had never been.

Anna listen carefully to me.

When you wake up
you'll be as happy

as you were before
Danny went away.

You will not forget him,

you will only forget the
pain of his going away.

You will feel the hurt no more.

When I count three you
will open your eyes

and be wide awake,
feeling happier

and more rested than you
ever have in your life.

One,

two,

three.

- What happened?

I was listening to
the doctor and then I,

well I guess I
must've dozed off.

Oh I'm sorry, you must
think I'm terribly rude.

- We'd be a deal healthier

if we all took a bit
of a nap after dinner.

And now Mrs. Parish,
if you'd be so good

as to let me have the
key to Jason's room.

- Yes of course.

- Doctor, I think if anyone
can help Jason it's you.

- Thank you.

(sighing)

- Shouldn't I come with you?

- You said he was expecting me.

(dramatic orchestral music)

(knocking on door)

Jason, it's Edward Brown.

My name is Edward Brown.

Your mother's kind enough
to still call me Dr. Brown.

But then I expect
you've heard that story.

Jason I feel very
much an outcast too.

Will you remember that?

I need your cooperation
if I'm to be of help.

Remember this too, we'll be
dealing with the unknown.

How long it will
take and to what end,

I know no more than you.

It may be frightening,
even dangerous.

What is worse, futile.

Jason I've failed many times.

The decision must be yours.

Good.

Let's waste no more time.

Jason give me your hands.

(ominous music)

(cheerful Christmas music)

- Not even on Christmas Eve.

I think I must've been insane

to let that doctor
talk me into this.

Absolutely insane.

Doctor, Dr. Brown, I wonder
if he ever was a doctor.

- [Anna] Mama.

- Not even on Christmas Eve am
I allowed to see my own son.

- [Anna] Now Mama.

- He could be dead
for all I know.

- [Anna] Now that's silly.

- Do you know the last
time that I saw him?

It was September the second.

And Dr. Brown since that moment

has had nothing to say at all.

- Now that is not true.

Why only last week.

- Last week, what
did he say last week?

- He seemed very hopeful.

- Then why doesn't
he let me see him?

- You must trust him.

- Well I don't, I
don't trust him.

I think it's all
some kind of a hoax.

Jason isn't any different.

There isn't any change at all!

Well there's one thing
that's change, I've lost him.

Jason isn't mine anymore.

- Well that's it.

Oh that's what's
upsetting you, is it Mama?

Papa!

Oh Papa!

Oh Papa, oh thank
God you're home.

Oh we need you so much.

- Hello baby.

Hello Margaret.

- George.

I'm glad you're home.

- Papa, you're in
time for Christmas.

Oh let me take
your hat and coat.

- George I am glad you're home

and not just because
it's Christmas.

I've been so foolish.

- Margaret did you
actually think our son

could be cured by this
charlatan's black magic?

- Papa, Dr. Brown
isn't a charlatan.

Why, why you only have
to meet him to see that.

- Meet him?

I want him out of
this house right now.

- Papa.

- Where is he?

- He's with Jason.

- Get him.

- But Papa.

- Get him!

- I was desperate, George.

- I know Margaret.

Margaret I've brought
someone with me.

He's waiting outside.

- Why?

- He's from a
hospital in New York.

- No!

- Margaret listen to me.

- No!

- I've seen the place.

- No, no, I've lost him once,
never again, never again.

- Margaret we'll go
down there together,

you can see it for yourself.

- No!

I have seen those
places, I know.

I would rather have
Jason dead first.

- Margaret all the
papers have been signed.

- No!

- There's nothing
you can do Margaret.

- [Margaret] There is.

Yes there is.

There is something I can do,
you will never take him, never.

Never.

I would rather see him dead.

There is something I can do.

- Mama!

Oh mama.

(gasping)

- It was Jason's wish
to wait 'til Christmas.

(upbeat orchestral music)

- Despite his triumph, Dr.
Edward Brown didn't live to see

his mind force recognized
as a powerful weapon

against disease and pain.

Only recently has hypnosis
been official admitted to

the operating theater or to
the office of the psychiatrist.

Today we accept
hypnosis as fact.

Who knows, perhaps tomorrow
telepathy may be fact.

(dramatic orchestral music)