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What's wrong?

I had a bad dream.

Ellie for heaven's sake!

Mr. mullins you've got to get this girl out of here.

I've arranged a place for her, nurse.

I didn't ask to come to your crummy hospital.

I'll stay with her nurse, please, thank you,

thank you very much.

Why are you keeping me here, I'm not even sick!

It's the only place we could put you up temporarily.

I should've taken off right after the funeral.

Well, it's not too late!

Ellie, you're still a minor.

I've got a father someplace and I'm going to find him.

Of course you have a father, but you don't know

who he is, no one knows who he is.

Your mother knew, but she's dead.

So as far as the court is concerned, you're an orphan.

Well, as far as I'm concerned I'm free to do

what I wanna do.

Ellie you're under court order,

you can't leave the county.

Are you going to stop me?

I'm a social worker, not a policeman.

But if you try to leave, I'll have to

report it to the sheriff.

Okay Mr. mullins.

If that's the way you're going to be.

Look you're an orphan now, and...

I was an orphan the day I was born.

Or maybe you didn't know my mother.

Yes, I did.

I bet you did.

Every drifter and traveling salesman,

schoolboy over 16 knew my mother.

Yeah, yeah...

Ah!

Hold it, hold it, hold it, don't be afraid,

I'm not going to hurt you.

Ellie my name is Calvin carruthers.

You might know me, I used to work

at the bijoux theater.

I used to see an awful lot of you, every Saturday

for the matinee.

How come you chased me?

How come you ran away?

I thought you were somebody else.

Well I drive this road at night quite a bit

since I changed jobs.

What's that got to do with me?

Well, with the theater closed, I went to work

for the county sheriff.

Ah wait a minute, hold it!

Mullins told you, didn't he?

Mullins told me you were having nightmares

and that you were frightened.

Well, considering what you went through...

Ellie I think I'd better take you back to the hospital.

Come on.

You sure don't look like any sheriff

I ever saw.

Where's your uniform?

I'm a detective.

You sure got a strange way of doing things.

How did a man like you ever get to become a detective?

I was an ordinary sheriff's deputy for a while,

and the detective we had,

died but none of the married men wanted the job

because of the hours.

Well I don't have anybody.

And the pay is $50 a month extra.

Heaven help the county.

Anyway I was going over your mother's case.

I'd like to ask you a couple of questions, Ellie.

If you were any kind of detective, you would've

checked the report at the coroner's inquest.

I told them everything.

All right, now you told the coroner that you were asleep

in your room, and you ran into the hall.

That's right.

That you saw a man running out of your mother's room,

this was all before you noticed that the fire was

in the house.

That's right, Calvin.

Now did you see a hammer in this man's hand?

No I didn't see a hammer.

I only see it in my nightmares.

Ellie.

Ellie did you ever see the man's face?

Yes, it was big and ugly.

A lot like yours.

All right.

This big, ugly face, have you ever seen it before?

He was just another one of mother's clients.

Some drifter she picked up at the bar.

Ellie.

All right Ellie this is important.

Now this man you saw, did he see your face?

Did the killer see your face?

I guess he must've, why?