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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
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NARRATOR: You unlock this
door with the key of imagination.
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Beyond it is another dimension…
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A dimension of sound,
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A dimension of sight,
a dimension of mind.
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You're moving into a land of
both shadow and substance,
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of things and ideas.
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You've just crossed over
into the Twilight Zone.
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Children, your father
and I are going to divorce.
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MOM: Now if you don't
know what that means,
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it means that he's
gonna live in one place
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and, well, I'm going to live in another
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just as far apart as we can get.
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What we want to know from you kids
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is do you want to live
with me… or with her?
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Now, it's going to be up to you two.
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You've got to make up your minds.
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We want it the way it was.
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Oh, you better forget that.
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Amen.
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This time we'll be good.
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We won't fight, or cry or make noise.
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We'll be good, won't we, Jeb?
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What do you mean, Sport?
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Y'all hate each other 'cause you got us.
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I'll tell you one thing…
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If it hadn't been for you two,
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we wouldn't have stuck
together as long as we have.
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So show us a little consideration.
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We don't have to stay
with neither one of you.
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Come on, Jeb.
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Come back here!
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We're not through with you.
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What do you kids think you're doing?
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We can't get back.
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We've got to.
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What are they doing?
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Come out!
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Jeb, get out of there.
You hear your daddy?
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BOTH CHILDREN: Aunt T, help us, please!
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Aunt T?
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Come out of there!
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Kids! Jeb?
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What do they mean, "Aunt T"?
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What do you kids think you're doing?
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You're really gonna get it this time.
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Sport, do you hear me?
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Are you coming out of there,
or I'm coming after you?!
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They're down there an awful long time.
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Yeah, I know.
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Do something… They're drowning!
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Hurry!
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Oh! Please don't let them drown.
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Don't let them drown.
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They're not down there.
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They've got to be.
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They're not down there.
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[SOBS]
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A swimming
pool not unlike any other pool…
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A structure built of tile
and cement and money,
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a backyard toy for the affluent,
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wet entertainment for the well-to-do.
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But to Jeb and Sport Sharewood,
this pool holds mysteries
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not dreamed of by
the building contractor,
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not guaranteed in any sales brochure.
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For this pool has a secret exit
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that leads to a never-never land,
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a place designed for junior citizens
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who need a long voyage away from reality
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into the bottomless
regions of the Twilight Zone.
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NARRATOR: Introduction
to a perfect setting:
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Colonial mansion, spacious
grounds, heated swimming pool…
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All the luxuries money can buy.
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Introduction to two
children: brother and sister,
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names Jeb and Sport,
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healthy, happy, normal youngsters.
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Introduction to a mother:
Gloria Sharewood by name,
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glamorous by nature.
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Introduction to a father: Gil Sharewood,
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handsome, prosperous,
the picture of success.
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A man who has achieved
every man's ambition…
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Beautiful children, beautiful
home, beautiful wife.
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Idyllic? Obviously.
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But don't look too carefully,
don't peek behind the façade.
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The idyll may have feet of clay.
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GLORIA: You're home early, darling.
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Just what were you doing in town today?
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So now I'm being followed.
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[LAUGHTER]
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GLORIA: Darn you loud mouthed kids!
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Pipe down out there.
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Jeb?
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You're still holding your breath?
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You're gonna suffocate yourself.
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It's the only way I can keep quiet.
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Mama didn't mean we couldn't breathe.
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It was the yelling and the hollering
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that was making her head ache.
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I'm just a natural born screamer.
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Can't play unless I holler.
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I saw your car in the parking
lot next to the TV station.
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I had an interview…
Anything wrong with that?
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I'm sick and tired of
my talent going to waste.
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Your what?
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My talent.
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Now what high-fashion
model can hold a candle to me?
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Oh, is that what you are this week?
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A high-fashion model?
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Seems to me that last
week you were an artist.
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If they call me, I'm going
to take the job. So there.
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You've got a job here…
Taking care of those kids.
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What's the maid for, sugar?
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What are you for, sugar?
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[ARGUING CONTINUES]
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Look… What do you see?
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A swimming pool.
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A pretend game, stupid.
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What do you see?
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Well… a river, and you and me
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floating down on a raft like Tom Sawyer.
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See, Jeb?
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Mm-hmm.
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We're coming to an island
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[ARGUING CONTINUES]
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Full of caves and rattlesnakes…
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And pirates.
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And witches.
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Well, you can have one witch, just one.
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A fat one.
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Whoever heard of a fat witch?
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Well, I don't like skinny ones.
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They don't make fat ones.
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Look, it's my witch.
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I can make them fat if I want to.
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It's my game!
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Darn you loud-mouth kids.
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Now pipe down out there.
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I love you, Sport.
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You're silly.
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I'll have my supper now.
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Cook for you after the
way you talked to me?
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Baby, you drink your supper.
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Oh, you witch.
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[ARGUMENT CONTINUES]
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In the yard is a big, old
swing made out of a car tire.
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There's a little boy swinging.
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He gets tired of swinging
and goes into the kitchen.
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Smells like chocolate cake.
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There's a lady there.
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She picks the little boy up and hugs him.
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The little boy is happy.
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The lady gives the little
boy chocolate cake and…
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Have we been bad?
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Heck, no.
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Maybe I was bad and I didn't know it.
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Aw, fishhooks, they'll
stop after a while.
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Hey! Want to have some fun?
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Where'd you come from?
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What mischief you brats in now?
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Talking to this boy.
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What boy?
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He's gone!
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Darn fool kids.
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Your supper's going to be ready soon.
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You better be there on time.
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Now do you hear me?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Come on, you guys.
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Where?
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A secret place. Come on!
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Who are you, where'd you come from?
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Follow me!
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Come on, let's go with that boy.
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She said not to leave.
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They don't care what we do.
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Come on.
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[CONTINUE ARGUING]
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They're going to hurt each other.
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Listen, boy, I'm older than you
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and I'm ordering you what to do.
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Now, follow me.
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Howdy.
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We weren't sure you was coming.
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Aunt T sent these just in case.
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Aunt T?
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Where are we?
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At Aunt T's.
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Where's that?
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Secret place.
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Sure got here funny.
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Just dived in our pool and came out here.
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Sport, how did we get here?
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I figure there's a hole in our
pool nobody knows about.
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Maybe we got caught in the tide.
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[LAUGHING]
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Don't you laugh at my brother.
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Don't you laugh at me, either.
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I'll chew you up and spit you out.
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Let's see you!
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I'll get you.
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[LAUGHING]
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Come and get me!
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Aunt T, she's going
to beat me up, Aunt T!
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Are you really, child?
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Yes, ma'am, I aim to.
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I'll have to ask you to fight outside.
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You're liable to break
up something in here.
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And I guess… fight fair, fight fair.
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No hitting a man when he's down,
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no hitting below the belt.
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You know the rules.
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Now, while they're
settling their difficulties
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you can finish icing the cake.
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Thank you, ma'am.
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AUNT T: And when the two comeback,
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if they have any teeth left,
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they can help us eat it.
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My, you are very accomplished.
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Have you had much experience with cakes?
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No, ma'am, this is my first one.
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One would never guess it.
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Oh, what, back already?
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We didn't go yet.
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May I do that too?
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Me, too?
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I thought you were going
to beat each other up.
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We'd rather do that.
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All right, you come round
here and be the boss.
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Sit down right there.
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You're such solemn children.
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Don't you know how to laugh?
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What's there to laugh at?
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Well, I'm rather a ridiculous old party.
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You could laugh at me.
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You're not funny, you're nice.
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Oh, thank you.
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Riddles, then… Who knows a riddle?
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What do you call somebody
who crosses the ocean twice
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and doesn't take a bath either way?
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What would you call him, Whitt?
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A dirty double-crosser.
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[ALL LAUGH]
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Aunt T, all of the frosting's gone.
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Well, you've made a
handsome job of the cake.
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Now, while it's cooling,
I'll assign you new children
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to your chores
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and I'll show you where
your rooms will be.
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Why, what's the matter?
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We didn't come here to stay.
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My dear, children
always come here to stay.
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[WHISPERS]
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No.
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But I want to.
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Jeb Sharewood, come back here.
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I want to stay with Aunt T.
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She's a kidnapper.
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No! I've seen children
I would have stolen
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to get away from unworthy parents,
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but I always resisted the temptation.
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GLORIA: Sport? Jeb?
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They're calling us.
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But I want to stay, Sport.
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You darn kids, where are you?
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We better go home.
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Those voices you hear
calling at first seem quite strong,
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but after a while, they'll fade
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and one day, you simply
can't hear 'em anymore.
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00:12:44,265 --> 00:12:45,348
GLORIA: Sport?
269
00:12:45,432 --> 00:12:47,182
We've got to go home.
270
00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:48,933
Can you tell me why?
271
00:12:49,017 --> 00:12:50,559
Because we're their children,
272
00:12:50,643 --> 00:12:53,227
we love them and they love us.
273
00:12:53,311 --> 00:12:55,520
Then you must go back.
274
00:12:55,604 --> 00:12:57,146
And you, too.
275
00:12:57,230 --> 00:12:59,479
Your sister's reasons are quite valid.
276
00:12:59,563 --> 00:13:01,439
How do we get home?
277
00:13:01,523 --> 00:13:03,064
Same way you got here.
278
00:13:03,148 --> 00:13:05,149
We'll come see you again soon.
279
00:13:05,233 --> 00:13:07,442
Oh, no, my darlings.
280
00:13:07,526 --> 00:13:10,276
I expect this is our goodbye.
281
00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,445
Finding your way here
again would be quite difficult,
282
00:13:13,529 --> 00:13:14,862
if not impossible.
283
00:13:14,946 --> 00:13:16,779
BOTH: Goodbye, Aunt T.
284
00:13:16,863 --> 00:13:19,489
BOY: I'll race you back
to the swimming hole!
285
00:13:49,753 --> 00:13:50,794
Have you found them?
286
00:13:50,878 --> 00:13:52,378
Not a sign.
287
00:13:52,462 --> 00:13:54,171
I told them not to leave this yard.
288
00:13:54,255 --> 00:13:55,921
They have no respect for you.
289
00:13:56,005 --> 00:13:57,630
You're not firm enough.
290
00:13:57,714 --> 00:13:59,049
You don't spend enough time with them.
291
00:13:59,133 --> 00:14:00,924
You try putting up
292
00:14:01,008 --> 00:14:02,175
with their whining 24 hours a day.
293
00:14:02,259 --> 00:14:05,092
Mama?
294
00:14:05,176 --> 00:14:08,178
GLORIA: Sport! Jeb!
295
00:14:08,262 --> 00:14:10,137
Where have you two been?
296
00:14:10,221 --> 00:14:13,847
[ANGRILY] We've been
calling you for an hour.
297
00:14:13,931 --> 00:14:16,890
Get out of that pool.
298
00:14:16,974 --> 00:14:18,557
Sport, where have you been?
299
00:14:18,641 --> 00:14:20,641
In the pool.
300
00:14:20,725 --> 00:14:22,976
You're lying, I looked in the pool.
301
00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:24,727
We really were, Daddy.
302
00:14:24,811 --> 00:14:26,561
We came up on the other side
303
00:14:26,645 --> 00:14:29,479
and made a chocolate cake with Aunt T.
304
00:14:29,563 --> 00:14:31,813
Cake with… What's he talking about?
305
00:14:31,897 --> 00:14:33,314
We caught a fish.
306
00:14:33,398 --> 00:14:35,565
He's just making things up, Daddy.
307
00:14:35,649 --> 00:14:36,815
He's lying to cover up
308
00:14:36,899 --> 00:14:38,357
whatever you been in.
309
00:14:38,441 --> 00:14:40,734
I want the truth, boy, no more lies.
310
00:14:40,818 --> 00:14:42,651
I wasn't lying, I wasn't.
311
00:14:42,735 --> 00:14:44,360
Listen to me.
312
00:14:44,444 --> 00:14:46,570
Get to your room and stand in the corner
313
00:14:46,654 --> 00:14:48,779
until you're ready to tell the truth.
314
00:14:48,863 --> 00:14:50,738
It was just a game, Daddy.
315
00:14:50,822 --> 00:14:52,906
We were just pretending.
There isn't any Aunt T.
316
00:14:52,990 --> 00:14:58,116
You go along too, Sport.
317
00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,993
Those darn kids.
318
00:15:01,077 --> 00:15:04,745
GLORIA: Sport? Jeb?
319
00:15:04,829 --> 00:15:05,995
Sport?
320
00:15:06,079 --> 00:15:07,704
Here, Mama.
321
00:15:07,788 --> 00:15:09,580
What are you out doing here, Sport?
322
00:15:09,664 --> 00:15:10,914
I got up early.
323
00:15:10,998 --> 00:15:12,414
I couldn't sleep.
324
00:15:12,498 --> 00:15:15,500
Well, where's your brother Jeb?
325
00:15:15,584 --> 00:15:17,167
In his room.
326
00:15:17,251 --> 00:15:18,584
He's not in the house anyplace.
327
00:15:18,668 --> 00:15:20,627
I haven't seen him.
328
00:15:20,711 --> 00:15:22,336
Is breakfast ready?
329
00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:24,670
No. Now, your father's waiting.
330
00:15:24,754 --> 00:15:26,838
Want to have a talk with you kids.
331
00:15:26,922 --> 00:15:28,672
What about?
332
00:15:28,756 --> 00:15:30,423
There's gonna be some
changes around here.
333
00:15:30,507 --> 00:15:32,174
Things going to be better, Mama?
334
00:15:32,258 --> 00:15:34,841
You bet your sweet life they are.
335
00:15:34,925 --> 00:15:36,217
Now you go find Jeb.
336
00:16:03,355 --> 00:16:05,688
And another one of your chores, Jeb,
337
00:16:05,772 --> 00:16:08,649
will be to help Whitt
bring in the stovewood.
338
00:16:08,733 --> 00:16:11,691
Why do there have to be chores?
339
00:16:11,775 --> 00:16:14,651
Oh, every child must have chores to do.
340
00:16:14,735 --> 00:16:19,112
It teaches him dignity of
work and the joy of labor.
341
00:16:19,196 --> 00:16:21,279
Makes big muscles, too, like mine.
342
00:16:21,363 --> 00:16:23,072
Let's see.
343
00:16:23,156 --> 00:16:24,739
Big, ain't it?
344
00:16:24,823 --> 00:16:26,240
Wow.
345
00:16:26,324 --> 00:16:28,533
Oh, come along, boys, keep working.
346
00:16:28,617 --> 00:16:31,617
Aunt T, what are all the shoes for?
347
00:16:31,701 --> 00:16:33,701
For the children.
348
00:16:33,785 --> 00:16:37,370
You mean all the children got
holes in their swimming pools?
349
00:16:37,454 --> 00:16:38,829
Oh, my dear, no.
350
00:16:38,913 --> 00:16:40,955
Some of them come down chimneys
351
00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:43,789
or you open a door and there they are.
352
00:16:43,873 --> 00:16:47,958
Sometimes you find them
on street corners or doorsteps
353
00:16:48,042 --> 00:16:49,542
like Whitt there.
354
00:16:49,626 --> 00:16:50,668
[KNOCKING]
355
00:16:53,711 --> 00:16:57,003
Oh, Sport, dear, come in!
356
00:16:57,087 --> 00:16:59,797
I can't, I'm dripping wet.
357
00:16:59,881 --> 00:17:05,632
Oh, one minute.
358
00:17:05,716 --> 00:17:07,716
There you are, my dear.
359
00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:08,925
Thank you, ma'am.
360
00:17:09,009 --> 00:17:11,552
I told you she'd come.
361
00:17:11,636 --> 00:17:15,053
Well, I'm surprised that
either one of you made it.
362
00:17:15,137 --> 00:17:22,137
It's very rare that anybody
comes back here the second time.
363
00:17:22,390 --> 00:17:24,432
Sorry to bother you, ma'am.
364
00:17:24,516 --> 00:17:26,475
AUNTIE T: You're not
bothering me in the least.
365
00:17:26,559 --> 00:17:30,310
I'm glad to have somebody
to help me do my needlepoint.
366
00:17:30,394 --> 00:17:31,686
You do sew?
367
00:17:31,770 --> 00:17:33,687
No, ma'am.
368
00:17:33,771 --> 00:17:37,647
Well, you'll be surprised
how quickly you'll learn how.
369
00:17:37,731 --> 00:17:40,148
I can't stay.
370
00:17:40,232 --> 00:17:41,731
Oh.
371
00:17:41,815 --> 00:17:43,732
I only came to get Jeb.
372
00:17:43,816 --> 00:17:45,650
I ain't going.
373
00:17:45,734 --> 00:17:49,652
Things are going to be
different at home now, Jeb.
374
00:17:49,736 --> 00:17:50,902
Mama told me.
375
00:17:50,986 --> 00:17:52,778
Told you what?
376
00:17:52,862 --> 00:17:55,655
They aren't going to yell
at each other anymore.
377
00:17:55,739 --> 00:17:57,281
Is that all?
378
00:17:57,365 --> 00:18:00,574
No. We're going to take trips together.
379
00:18:00,658 --> 00:18:02,116
Where?
380
00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,660
Oh, everywhere… Disneyland, Ohio…
381
00:18:06,744 --> 00:18:09,494
Australia, the North Pole.
382
00:18:09,578 --> 00:18:11,245
Anywhere we want to go.
383
00:18:11,329 --> 00:18:14,247
I don't want to go to them places.
384
00:18:14,331 --> 00:18:16,497
Are you coming or do I throw you
385
00:18:16,581 --> 00:18:19,666
over my shoulder like a sack
of potatoes and carry you home?
386
00:18:19,750 --> 00:18:23,084
Sport, has something changed at home?
387
00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:24,626
Yes, ma'am.
388
00:18:24,710 --> 00:18:26,419
Everything is gonna be different now.
389
00:18:26,503 --> 00:18:27,711
In what way?
390
00:18:27,795 --> 00:18:30,004
They're gonna love us.
391
00:18:30,088 --> 00:18:31,754
Really?
392
00:18:31,838 --> 00:18:33,839
Yes, ma'am, my mama told me.
393
00:18:33,923 --> 00:18:36,340
She wants to tell Jeb, too.
394
00:18:36,424 --> 00:18:39,508
Jeb, you'd look undignified
if Sport threw you
395
00:18:39,592 --> 00:18:41,801
across her shoulder
like a bag of potatoes.
396
00:18:41,885 --> 00:18:43,677
If I was you, I'd go willingly.
397
00:18:43,761 --> 00:18:46,344
I'm staying right here.
398
00:18:46,428 --> 00:18:50,847
If we leave this time, we
won't never get to come back.
399
00:18:50,931 --> 00:18:53,014
If what Sport tells us is true,
400
00:18:53,098 --> 00:18:55,515
you weren't meant to be here at all
401
00:18:55,599 --> 00:18:57,683
but at home with your mother and father.
402
00:18:57,767 --> 00:19:00,225
Do I have to go?
403
00:19:00,309 --> 00:19:01,811
I strongly advise it.
404
00:19:07,771 --> 00:19:11,606
There's only one truly
precious thing in the world
405
00:19:11,690 --> 00:19:13,940
that one human being can give to another
406
00:19:14,024 --> 00:19:15,733
and that's love.
407
00:19:15,817 --> 00:19:17,859
If I was a young person
408
00:19:17,943 --> 00:19:21,777
on my way to receive that wondrous gift,
409
00:19:21,861 --> 00:19:24,945
I'd go with a smile on my face.
410
00:19:25,029 --> 00:19:26,863
Oh, much better.
411
00:19:26,947 --> 00:19:30,531
And I do think if love was
waiting somewhere for me,
412
00:19:30,615 --> 00:19:33,949
well, I'd run to it just
swiftly as the wind.
413
00:19:34,033 --> 00:19:35,325
You ain't kidding me?
414
00:19:35,409 --> 00:19:37,034
I ain't kidding.
415
00:19:37,118 --> 00:19:38,534
Bye, Whitt.
416
00:19:38,618 --> 00:19:40,493
Bye.
417
00:19:40,577 --> 00:19:42,453
Don't worry, everything
is gonna be all right.
418
00:19:42,537 --> 00:19:43,830
Goodbye, love.
419
00:19:49,957 --> 00:19:54,125
Maybe, um, we ought to wait till tonight.
420
00:19:54,209 --> 00:19:57,543
No, no, let's get it over with now.
421
00:19:57,627 --> 00:19:59,586
I've got people waiting at the office.
422
00:19:59,670 --> 00:20:02,503
For once put your family
ahead of your office.
423
00:20:02,587 --> 00:20:05,464
-Why, you miserable…
-Is breakfast ready?
424
00:20:05,548 --> 00:20:08,298
I told you to find Jeb,
not play in the pool.
425
00:20:08,382 --> 00:20:10,132
He was in the pool.
426
00:20:10,216 --> 00:20:12,717
Don't you know what
happens to children who lie?
427
00:20:12,801 --> 00:20:15,384
They go to hell and get burned up.
428
00:20:15,468 --> 00:20:17,677
Sit down, your father's
got some good news.
429
00:20:17,761 --> 00:20:19,720
Sport told me.
430
00:20:19,804 --> 00:20:21,721
We're going to be a happy family
431
00:20:21,805 --> 00:20:23,347
and go on trips.
432
00:20:23,431 --> 00:20:28,891
Jeb, uh… uh… you tell them.
433
00:20:28,975 --> 00:20:32,893
Children, your father
and I are going to divorce.
434
00:20:32,977 --> 00:20:36,144
Now if you don't know what that means,
435
00:20:36,228 --> 00:20:38,145
it means that he's
gonna live in one place
436
00:20:38,229 --> 00:20:39,854
and, well, I'm going to live in another
437
00:20:39,938 --> 00:20:41,355
just as far apart as we can get.
438
00:20:41,439 --> 00:20:43,606
What we want to know from you kids
439
00:20:43,690 --> 00:20:48,149
is do you want to live
with me or with her?
440
00:20:48,233 --> 00:20:49,691
Now, it's going to be up to you two.
441
00:20:49,775 --> 00:20:51,425
You've got to make up your minds.
442
00:20:55,653 --> 00:20:58,238
We want it the way it was.
443
00:20:58,322 --> 00:20:59,905
Oh, you better forget that.
444
00:20:59,989 --> 00:21:01,739
Amen.
445
00:21:01,823 --> 00:21:04,490
This time we'll be good.
446
00:21:04,574 --> 00:21:06,991
We won't fight or cry or make noise.
447
00:21:07,075 --> 00:21:09,243
We'll be good, won't we, Jeb?
448
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,494
What do you mean, Sport?
449
00:21:13,578 --> 00:21:16,954
Y'all hate each other 'cause you got us.
450
00:21:17,038 --> 00:21:19,163
Well, I'll tell you one thing…
451
00:21:19,247 --> 00:21:21,081
If it hadn't been for you two,
452
00:21:21,165 --> 00:21:23,207
we wouldn't have stuck
together as long as we have.
453
00:21:23,291 --> 00:21:25,166
So show us a little consideration.
454
00:21:25,250 --> 00:21:27,959
We don't have to stay
with neither one of you.
455
00:21:28,043 --> 00:21:31,169
Come on, Jeb.
456
00:21:31,253 --> 00:21:32,503
Come back here!
457
00:21:32,587 --> 00:21:36,421
We're not through with you.
458
00:21:36,505 --> 00:21:38,589
What do you kids think you're doing?
459
00:21:38,673 --> 00:21:39,714
We can't get back.
460
00:21:39,798 --> 00:21:41,049
We've got to.
461
00:21:44,342 --> 00:21:45,926
What are they doing?
462
00:21:46,010 --> 00:21:47,176
Come out!
463
00:21:47,260 --> 00:21:48,843
Jeb, get out of there.
464
00:21:48,927 --> 00:21:51,011
BOTH CHILDREN: Aunt T, help us, please!
465
00:21:51,095 --> 00:21:52,136
Aunt T?
466
00:21:52,220 --> 00:21:53,762
Come out of there!
467
00:21:53,846 --> 00:21:55,471
Kids! Jeb?
468
00:21:55,555 --> 00:21:57,055
What's the matter with them?
469
00:21:57,139 --> 00:21:58,889
Are you coming out of there?
470
00:21:58,973 --> 00:22:02,933
Aunt T, please! Aunt T, Aunt T, help us!
471
00:22:03,017 --> 00:22:04,226
Aunt T, please take us.
472
00:22:07,561 --> 00:22:09,019
What do they mean, "Aunt T"?
473
00:22:09,103 --> 00:22:10,937
What do you kids think you're doing?
474
00:22:11,021 --> 00:22:13,604
You're really going to get it this time.
475
00:22:13,688 --> 00:22:15,605
Sport, do you hear me?
476
00:22:15,689 --> 00:22:19,357
Are you coming out of there,
or I'm coming after you?!
477
00:22:19,441 --> 00:22:21,692
They're down there an awful long time.
478
00:22:21,776 --> 00:22:24,859
Yeah, I know.
479
00:22:24,943 --> 00:22:28,194
Do something… They're drowning!
480
00:22:28,278 --> 00:22:30,737
Hurry.
481
00:22:30,821 --> 00:22:32,196
Hurry!
482
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,197
Oh! Please don't let them drown.
483
00:22:35,281 --> 00:22:36,616
Don't let them drown.
484
00:22:42,285 --> 00:22:43,952
They're not down there.
485
00:22:44,036 --> 00:22:45,869
They've got to be.
486
00:22:45,953 --> 00:22:47,787
They've got to be!
487
00:22:47,871 --> 00:22:49,954
They're not down there.
488
00:22:50,038 --> 00:22:51,456
[SOBS]
489
00:23:05,879 --> 00:23:07,421
Howdy!
490
00:23:21,177 --> 00:23:25,721
[CHILDREN LAUGHING]
491
00:23:25,805 --> 00:23:30,806
GLORIA [FAINTLY]: Jeb? Sport?
492
00:23:30,890 --> 00:23:35,391
Isn't this good, Jeb?
493
00:23:35,475 --> 00:23:37,392
What's the matter, Sport?
494
00:23:37,476 --> 00:23:39,893
Thought I heard something.
495
00:23:39,977 --> 00:23:44,313
GLORIA [FAINTER]:
Children, where are you?
496
00:23:44,397 --> 00:23:46,980
Please come back.
497
00:23:47,064 --> 00:23:48,647
Aunt T…
498
00:23:48,731 --> 00:23:51,649
May I have another piece of cake, please?
499
00:23:51,733 --> 00:23:52,983
Me, too.
500
00:23:53,067 --> 00:23:54,025
Indeed.
501
00:23:54,109 --> 00:23:55,817
Isn't it good?
502
00:23:55,901 --> 00:23:57,985
Oh, this is fine.
503
00:23:58,069 --> 00:23:58,985
Good cake.
504
00:23:59,069 --> 00:24:00,069
Mm-hmm.
505
00:24:00,153 --> 00:24:02,321
[LAUGHS]
506
00:24:02,405 --> 00:24:04,155
NARRATOR: A brief
epilogue for concerned parents:
507
00:24:04,239 --> 00:24:05,822
Of course there isn't any such place
508
00:24:05,906 --> 00:24:07,406
as the gingerbread house of Aunt T
509
00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:09,490
and we grown-ups know
510
00:24:09,574 --> 00:24:10,907
there's no door at the
bottom of a swimming pool
511
00:24:10,991 --> 00:24:12,241
that leads to a secret place.
512
00:24:12,325 --> 00:24:14,326
But who can say how real
513
00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:16,577
the fantasy world of lonely
children can become?
514
00:24:16,661 --> 00:24:18,619
For Jeb and Sport Sharewood,
515
00:24:18,703 --> 00:24:20,995
the need for love
turned fantasy into reality.
516
00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:24,747
They found a secret
place in the Twilight Zone.