1 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,079 Good evening. 2 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,559 Have you ever had a premonition? 3 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,520 A feeling that something dreadful was about to happen? 4 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,359 I mentioned that, obviously, because tonight's play is about a young man... 5 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:39,799 named Kim Stanger. 6 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,679 About his strange homecoming... 7 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:46,399 and of the mystery he found when he arrived. 8 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:50,799 Follow him if you will, as he attempts to unravel this mystery... 9 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,520 hindered at every step by his friends... 10 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,320 and haunted always by a vague sense of foreboding. 11 00:00:57,719 --> 00:01:02,039 This story is appropriately entitled Premonition. 12 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:06,200 I defy you to guess the nature of Kim Stanger's premonition... 13 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:09,799 although we shall give you numerous clues in the prologue... 14 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,040 which we now present immediately. 15 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:27,079 (Kim) At first, I didn't know... 16 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,840 what it was that brought me home. 17 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:32,280 A sudden impulse, a hunch. 18 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,640 A restless feeling that wouldn't leave me... 19 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,560 until I gave in and got on the plane. 20 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:39,480 I'd been so far away for so long. 21 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:43,799 It seemed incredible that in such a very few hours... 22 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,040 I was home again. 23 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:47,599 Welcome home, Mr. Stanger. 24 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,640 Have a pleasant visit, sir. Good day. 25 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:55,480 (Kim) Bryant's drug store. 26 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,640 Charlie the barber. 27 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,200 The Wilson real estate office. 28 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:06,120 Everything exactly as it was when I had left over four years ago. 29 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,639 Nothing ever changes in Stangerford. 30 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,240 Kim? (Kim) Doug? 31 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:11,599 Doug Irwin. 32 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,319 When did you get home? Just arrived from Paris. 33 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:16,280 Paris? 34 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:20,199 How are you? Fine. Working hard. 35 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,599 Working? Yes. My music. 36 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,520 Advanced composition at the Sorbonne. 37 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,039 Been doing a little conducting on the side. 38 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,840 Been there two years, and two in Rome before that. 39 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:32,199 [creaking] 40 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,240 What brought you home? I don't know. 41 00:02:36,759 --> 00:02:38,719 I suddenly felt homesick... 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,520 and I grabbed a plane. 43 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,680 [sighing] 44 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:46,719 Does a man have to have a reason for coming home? 45 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:50,159 Family know you're here? No, I thought I'd surprise them. 46 00:02:50,199 --> 00:02:52,800 I'm on my way to the office. Wanna come along? 47 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,599 We'll phone them from there. 48 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:55,840 [birds chirping] 49 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,199 Where's your baggage? 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,240 [chuckling] 51 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,240 So you just felt like coming home? 52 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,039 Yes. And I wanted to see my father. 53 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,400 Does he still hate me, Doug? 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,199 Never quite fit the pattern, did I? 55 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,759 Greg never understood that. 56 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,400 Kim, your father never hated you. 57 00:03:18,439 --> 00:03:21,039 Then why doesn't he answer my letters? 58 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,840 I don't know exactly what to say. 59 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,719 I got to be getting home, see the family. I'll probably see you tonight. 60 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:30,680 Kim, you won't find anybody home. 61 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:33,080 They're all out this afternoon. Where? 62 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,360 Perry is playing in a tennis tournament. 63 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,080 How is my brother? Oh, he's great. 64 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:41,800 Well, Kim, I.... 65 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,360 I don't think this is a good idea. What? 66 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,400 Coming home like this without warning. 67 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:47,639 Why? 68 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,520 Well, the family will be disappointed... 69 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,159 if you don't give them a chance to stage a little welcome. 70 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:55,199 Why not come up to the office, clean up a bit? 71 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,599 We'll phone them you're coming. 72 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:00,599 Doug, what's wrong? Nothing, Kim. 73 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:03,120 You sure? Yes, Kim, I'm sure. 74 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:05,639 Come on. 75 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,039 Doug, I said I'm going home. See you tomorrow. 76 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:10,719 All right. 77 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:15,759 (Kim) Something was wrong. I could feel it. 78 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:20,199 I'd felt it before, miles away in Paris. 79 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,439 A premonition. 80 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,439 A sense of dread that came from nowhere... 81 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:29,160 like thunder on a clear day. 82 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:35,439 I knew now that it was this that brought me home. 83 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:47,519 Hello. 84 00:04:56,079 --> 00:04:57,240 Anybody home? 85 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,839 (Kim) There he was... 86 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:24,600 still holding court from his throne over the fireplace. 87 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:31,680 Looking at him, I could see white sails and blue water. 88 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,120 Hear the crack of the canvas as he slammed the wheel over... 89 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,839 and we came around on a tack. 90 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:38,800 The rest came back, too. 91 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,279 The tennis games. 92 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:44,639 The singing of the reel under 750 pounds of Nova Scotia bluefin. 93 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,199 The skiing and polo... 94 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,199 and deer hunts in Maine. 95 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:53,240 But something was wrong. 96 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:17,680 [clicking] 97 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,040 *[playing] 98 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:35,120 [car door closing] 99 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,279 [stops playing] 100 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:45,279 *[piano playing] 101 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:52,680 [footsteps approaching] 102 00:06:55,439 --> 00:06:56,439 Susan. 103 00:06:57,519 --> 00:06:58,439 Kim. 104 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,680 How are you, Su? All right. 105 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,120 I wasn't here for the festivities. 106 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,360 Mind if I kiss my sister-in-law? 107 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:12,240 Oh, Kim. 108 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:17,199 Why did you come back like this without telling us? 109 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:18,560 [chuckling] 110 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,680 Your father just asked me the same question. 111 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,040 Is it a crime to come home to your family? 112 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,319 Greg hasn't written me in four years. 113 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,800 I thought if he knew I was coming, he might walk out. 114 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:34,839 Is that why you came back? Why didn't he answer my letters? 115 00:07:34,879 --> 00:07:39,079 Why does he make me choose between him and my music? 116 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,439 Won't he ever understand that music is born into a man... 117 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,079 like a heartbeat and you can't rip it out without killing him? 118 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,319 Kim, there's something you-- A man can't hate his son... 119 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,720 to the end of his days. Time's running out, Susan. 120 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:52,319 We've got to get together before it's too late. 121 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,079 Greg understands. Then why doesn't he say so? 122 00:07:57,319 --> 00:07:58,519 Why doesn't.... 123 00:07:59,839 --> 00:08:00,839 Susan. 124 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,800 There's rust on his guns. 125 00:08:05,839 --> 00:08:08,040 He never would have stood for that in the old days. 126 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:10,240 Where is he, Su? 127 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:13,160 Tell me. Where is he? 128 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,319 Where's Greg? 129 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:18,720 Kim? Perry, where's Greg? 130 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:26,199 I don't know any way to soften this for you, Kim. 131 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,600 It's all over and done with. Greg is dead. 132 00:08:32,519 --> 00:08:34,639 When? (Perry) Some time ago. 133 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:44,840 What do you mean, "some time ago"? 134 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,200 Kim, he.... 135 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,679 He died of a heart attack on the tennis court. 136 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:53,480 How long ago? 137 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,480 Four years. October 10. 138 00:08:58,399 --> 00:09:00,519 Four years? 139 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,600 I was in Rome. Why didn't you cable me? 140 00:09:03,639 --> 00:09:06,480 Why did you let me go on believing-- Look, it's a long story, Kim. 141 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,120 There was this feud between you two. 142 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,440 We were afraid you might feel responsible. 143 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:19,200 It did upset Greg. He was awfully fond of-- 144 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,799 Good Lord, Perry. What are you saying? 145 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,399 You let me believe that he's been alive for four long years? 146 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,080 And all the time I've been planning... 147 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,519 to come back and make it up to him. 148 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,639 So we were wrong. 149 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,440 It seemed like the only thing to do at the time. 150 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,799 Try to understand, Kim. I wish I could understand. 151 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,240 Look, Kim, we should have told you. We didn't. 152 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,639 And once we got started on this thing, we couldn't stop. 153 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,840 It was a bad mistake. Mistake? 154 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:48,600 Perry.... Look, Kim. 155 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,120 A heart attack? (Susan) It was very sudden. 156 00:09:55,159 --> 00:09:58,399 Yes, it must have been. He applied for his life insurance only five years ago. 157 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,519 His heart was fine then. A coronary can hit anybody, any time. 158 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:03,120 Yes, and I suppose you and Doug Irwin... 159 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:06,159 handled all the details of the estate? 160 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,399 I don't like the way you said that. 161 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,200 I don't like what I'm thinking. 162 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,799 If you're wondering about the will... 163 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,679 he changed it just after you.... 164 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,120 After you left. 165 00:10:17,159 --> 00:10:20,480 He left everything to me. Congratulations. 166 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:22,679 Kim. Good work. You've got it all. 167 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,039 Greg's love, Greg's money, and my girl. 168 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:26,519 Kim. 169 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,039 I'm so worried about him. 170 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,320 What are we going to do? 171 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,519 I don't know. Well, he can't stay here. 172 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,120 Take it easy, darling. We'll get him away from here, somehow. 173 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,440 He's up in Greg's bedroom. 174 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,440 He mustn't be in there. See what you can do. 175 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:02,320 [knocking at door] 176 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:03,039 (Susan) Kim? 177 00:11:17,759 --> 00:11:18,639 Kim. 178 00:11:19,879 --> 00:11:22,600 It's 7:00. Would you like some food? 179 00:11:25,399 --> 00:11:28,200 Please tell Perry I'm sorry. 180 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,519 I was just dreadfully shocked and upset. I know. 181 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,799 You look so tired. Would you like something to eat? 182 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,360 No. I'm not hungry. 183 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:44,240 Why don't you take your old room down the hall? It's just like it used to be. 184 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,840 Nothing's like it used to be. 185 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:50,600 Please leave me alone. 186 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:52,639 I've got to think. 187 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:11,720 (Kim) Everything was here. 188 00:12:12,639 --> 00:12:14,320 Greg's hunting prints... 189 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,159 his books... 190 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:18,600 his pipes... 191 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:20,639 his papers... 192 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:24,120 his hunting cap. 193 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,799 Everything was here except Greg. 194 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:32,279 There was an eternity between us now. 195 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:45,519 His hunting license... 196 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,399 filled out in his strange, careless handwriting. 197 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,120 Date: October 11, four years ago. 198 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:02,080 October 11? 199 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:07,799 He went on a hunting trip on the 11th. 200 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,519 Why had Perry told me he died on the tennis court on the 10th? 201 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,320 (Kim) Doug Irwin. Hello! 202 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,799 [sighing] 203 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,080 [continues knocking] 204 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,720 I went by your house. They told me you were here working late. 205 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,080 Join me? 206 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,360 You know I didn't come here for a drink, don't you? 207 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:48,919 Yes. 208 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:55,879 So you heard about Greg? 209 00:13:55,919 --> 00:13:58,720 I heard he dropped dead after a hot set of tennis. 210 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,440 Yes. Coronary. 211 00:14:02,799 --> 00:14:04,879 I warned him, but he wouldn't listen. 212 00:14:04,919 --> 00:14:06,279 Little unusual, isn't it... 213 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,120 seeing you curled up with a bottle of Scotch? 214 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:11,080 Yeah. Got a special reason tonight? 215 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,720 You look just like your father. 216 00:14:17,519 --> 00:14:19,720 He never had heart trouble before, Doug. 217 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,480 At his age, you don't have to. 218 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:25,360 You don't play tennis, period. 219 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:28,120 He wasn't. 220 00:14:31,519 --> 00:14:33,080 You'd better have a drink. 221 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,159 He took out this hunting license... 222 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,879 the day after Perry said he dropped dead on the tennis court. 223 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:42,279 Perry got his dates mixed. He said the 10th. 224 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,720 It was the 12th. A day after he filled this out? 225 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:47,480 Yes. 226 00:14:47,519 --> 00:14:49,279 [scoffing] 227 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,080 He took out a hunting license to play a set of tennis? 228 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,240 We were going hunting. We called it off. 229 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,240 Why? Bum weather. 230 00:14:59,279 --> 00:15:01,320 Rained like the devil. But you played tennis? 231 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,480 It let up after a while. 232 00:15:04,519 --> 00:15:06,759 Astonishing how the courts dried off. 233 00:15:06,799 --> 00:15:08,960 Doug-- The death certificate is on file, my boy. 234 00:15:10,039 --> 00:15:11,919 Gregory Stanger, age 64. 235 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,879 Died October 12. 236 00:15:14,919 --> 00:15:18,039 Cause: coronary thrombosis, acute. 237 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,039 You can check with the constable at Stangerford... 238 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,720 you can check with the newspapers of that date. 239 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,039 And you can check with the most critical authorities of all... 240 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,759 Greg's life insurance underwriters. 241 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:33,120 You can buy a lot of affidavits for $3 million. 242 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:36,759 Where did you go on that hunting trip? 243 00:15:38,799 --> 00:15:41,120 Kim, won't you take some advice from me? 244 00:15:42,559 --> 00:15:44,919 Not as the family lawyer, but as your friend? 245 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:48,080 Forget it. Let Greg sleep. 246 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,720 Who killed him, Doug? 247 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,879 Nobody killed him. 248 00:15:56,919 --> 00:15:58,519 He died on his own tennis court. 249 00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:02,919 I'll be back. Where are you going? 250 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,440 To find who killed him. 251 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,840 [sighing] 252 00:16:09,879 --> 00:16:11,840 Hamlet and the ghost on the battlements. 253 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,399 Mr. Stanger, there's nothing more to tell. 254 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,240 It's getting late. There's a great deal more you can tell me. 255 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:28,080 Was my father's casket open or closed during the services? 256 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,519 I don't remember. 257 00:16:31,559 --> 00:16:33,240 Think, Mr. Eaton. Think. 258 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:35,919 Closed. Why? 259 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,879 Family's instructions. 260 00:16:38,919 --> 00:16:40,799 Did you see the death certificate? 261 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,279 Yes. Did you see the body? 262 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,039 You can always check-- You did see the body, didn't you? 263 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:48,480 Do you think.... 264 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:51,480 Do you think my father died of a heart attack? 265 00:16:51,519 --> 00:16:53,320 As I said before, you can always check. 266 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,440 I know very well whom I might check with. 267 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,440 There's only one witness I'll believe. Who? 268 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,279 My father. 269 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,080 Mr. Stanger, I-- You run the cemetery, don't you? 270 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,279 You have the key to the family crypt. Are you suggesting I-- 271 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,480 I must have that key. Get it for me. 272 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:08,839 Get it! 273 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,200 I can't permit you to violate a grave, no matter what the reason! 274 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,440 Stop it! Why? 275 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,960 Does it offend your taste? 276 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Or are you afraid of something else? Like perjury. How much did they pay you? 277 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:24,400 How much, Mr. Eaton? 278 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,839 I can't tell you anything about your father because I never saw him. 279 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,079 Why? 280 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,079 We held services over an empty coffin. 281 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,720 [coughing] 282 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:40,480 [panting] 283 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,160 There's no body in the grave. Why? 284 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,519 (Eaton) I don't know where the body is. 285 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:49,920 I simply did as I was told. 286 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,160 As for the flowers, I was requested to send them to a place in Sheridan Falls. 287 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,720 Some place up in Maine. 288 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:01,079 I know where it is. 289 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,480 Please don't tell your brother. I don't know what he'd.... 290 00:18:04,519 --> 00:18:06,920 Going somewhere, Kim? Yes. 291 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:10,759 I want you to change your mind. 292 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,720 I want you to come home with me. 293 00:18:17,319 --> 00:18:19,799 I don't want to argue, Kim. Come on now, please. 294 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:22,319 Want to save me a trip? Want to tell me about Greg? 295 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,880 There's nothing to tell. You know the story. All right. 296 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,440 Better gather up the clan now and make up a better story. 297 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,279 I'll call you from Sheridan Falls. 298 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,160 Stanger, you say? Gregory Stanger. 299 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,799 He was here about four years ago... 300 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:50,880 on a hunting trip with a lawyer named Irwin. 301 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:52,880 Were you coroner then, Mr. Dobbs? 302 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,400 No. Who was? 303 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,720 George Rutherford. What happened to him? 304 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,240 Retired. 305 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,759 What were you doing here then? 306 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:04,400 Helping Rutherford. I was the assistant here. 307 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,079 You can't remember anything about a party of deer hunters... 308 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,480 that checked in here around October 13 or 14? 309 00:19:10,519 --> 00:19:12,319 Don't know. What do you mean, you don't know? 310 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,200 Long time ago. 311 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,480 We get a passel of hunters through here in season. 312 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:20,759 My memory's not as good as it used to be. 313 00:19:20,799 --> 00:19:22,720 It might need a little help. 314 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,079 Anything I can do to help? 315 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:27,839 Hell, no, I.... 316 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,519 I can't cross your palm like my brother does... 317 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:31,759 but I've got something just as good. 318 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:34,400 What happened to Rutherford? What did he retire on? Legacy from an uncle? 319 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,519 Let me go. I don't know anything about-- 320 00:19:36,559 --> 00:19:38,200 You know about Gregory Stanger. Now talk! 321 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,480 We... 322 00:19:40,519 --> 00:19:44,200 We had a call that Mr. Stanger had a sick spell... 323 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,799 and they hauled him back in his private plane. 324 00:19:46,839 --> 00:19:48,960 Back to Stangerford. 325 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,960 There was some talk and George Rutherford went up there to look into it... 326 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,279 but nothing come of it. That's all I know. 327 00:19:57,319 --> 00:19:59,240 Three went in, and two of them came out. 328 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:03,960 Three went in. 329 00:20:05,039 --> 00:20:07,200 I only heard. I wasn't there. 330 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,920 There was Stanger and Irwin. 331 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,039 Who else? Stanger's son. 332 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:14,920 They went into Tamarack Lake. 333 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,200 (Kim) Thirteen miles of rough mountain trail... 334 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,880 between me and Tamarack Lake. 335 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,200 I was exhausted, but something drove me on... 336 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,200 10 miles, 12. 337 00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:38,880 It was ahead of me. 338 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,920 Somewhere in the wilderness, the answer to everything. 339 00:20:42,839 --> 00:20:44,119 Then I was there. 340 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,440 [birds chirping] 341 00:21:31,519 --> 00:21:33,519 Kim... 342 00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:35,720 I've been waiting for you since noon. 343 00:21:35,759 --> 00:21:37,720 My dad's plane is down on the lake. 344 00:21:37,759 --> 00:21:40,200 Let's go home. You won't stop me now. 345 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,000 Kim, for heaven's sake, listen to me. You've got to stop. 346 00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:45,480 Please believe me. I've got to know. 347 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:47,839 I came all the way from Paris to settle this. I've got to know! 348 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,039 Listen to me. You've never been in Paris. 349 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:53,119 You've been in a hospital in Arizona. 350 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,119 What? 351 00:21:58,319 --> 00:22:00,079 You made it all up. 352 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,039 All this about Paris and Rome... 353 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:05,319 you believed it because you wanted to. 354 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,960 When was I discharged from the hospital? 355 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:15,119 You weren't. You ran away. 356 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,920 Greg was murdered. 357 00:22:28,559 --> 00:22:31,319 After it happened, Perry and I arranged everything... 358 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,920 so that it would appear that he died naturally. 359 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:36,039 We bribed the undertaker. 360 00:22:37,559 --> 00:22:39,359 My dad helped with the death certificate. 361 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,319 No one has any idea of the truth. 362 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:50,400 We thought it was the only thing to do at the time. 363 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:53,039 Now I'm not so sure. 364 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,519 Susan, who killed him? 365 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,720 You did, Kim. 366 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,720 It was an argument. 367 00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:08,799 A loaded hunting rifle. An accident. 368 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:12,799 And after it happened... 369 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:16,920 you went all to pieces. 370 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:19,400 I thought so. 371 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,720 I had a premonition. 372 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,160 And as the cold New England sun... 373 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,720 slowly sinks behind the coroner's office... 374 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:40,720 we take leave of mysterious, far-off Sheridan Falls... 375 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:44,319 land of enchantment. 376 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,519 And as the night breeze carries our little craft away... 377 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:51,319 from these beautiful wooded shores... 378 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,599 we slowly turn our eyes back to the charms of television advertising... 379 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,599 and the lyrical chant of our sponsor's message... 380 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,160 after which I'll float back. 381 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:10,000 I see it's time for our intermission. 382 00:24:10,039 --> 00:24:13,599 You may leave your seats if you wish... 383 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,640 and have some light refreshment, chat with your friends... 384 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,160 but please hurry back for our next play. That will be in just.... 385 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,880 One week. Good night.