658 - December 31, 1968

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[narrating] - On this night,

not far away from the great house at Collinwood,

one man will live through the most hideous terror that exists;

the terror of madness.

He has witnessed something so monstrous

that he may dwell forever in the dark

and frightening realm of insanity.

[telephone ringing]

- Hello.

- Chris, it's Julia Hoffman.

[Chris] - Hello Dr. Hoffman, what is it?

- Well, I'm at the Collinsport jail with Sheriff Patterson.

- What are you doing there?

- Well, the Sheriff picked up Joe Haskell about an hour ago.

He has him locked in a cell.

I think you'd better come down here right away.

- You want me to come down to the jail?

[Julia] - Well, Joe - Joe keeps talking about you.

You may be the only one who can quiet him down.

He's - he has been hysterical since they brought him in.

[Chris] - What has he been saying?

- Well nothing coherent,

but, the only name he has mentioned so far is yours.

That's why I - I think you'd better get down here

as soon as you can. - All right.

All right, I'll be there as soon as I can.

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪

- Why am I here?

I can't stay here.

I have to go.

I have to tell everyone.

- Tell everyone what, Joe?

- Chris.

I left him in his room.

I don't know where he is.

You've got to find him.

- I - I did find him, Joe.

I called him in his room and he's on his way here now.

- I - I've got to go to Collinwood

and get Amy out of there.

- Why, Joe?

- She must never see it.

- See what?

- She mustn't ever see it! Do you understand?

- Joe,

Joe, we are trying to understand what you're saying,

but it is very difficult.

- Amy's not - not the only one who's in danger.

Everyone is.

- Well, what - what kind of danger, Joe?

- No.

No.

No one should know.

No one should ever see it.

- Joe.

Joe, what - whatever it is you're talking about,

it - it isn't here now, you're with friends,

there is no danger here, Joe.

Joe.

Now, Joe, look at me.

Look at me, Joe. Do you know who I am?

Are you afraid of me?

Well, then tell me, Joe, what it is that you saw.

Joe!

- Where is Maggie?

- You don't have to worry about Maggie now.

- I want to know where she is!

- Well, she's at Collinwood.

- I'll take her away, too.

With Amy.

Far away.

Where they'll both be safe.

Why aren't they safe here, Joe?

- Chris! Where is Chris?

- I told you Joe that I called -- - Where is Chris?

Where is Chris?

He knows they are there. He knows they are at Collinwood.

He will go up there and get them.

- Well, of course he will. - No!

- I've got to save them. - Joe!

I've got to get them away from there.

I've got to get them away from there! - Come on. Come on.

Take it easy.

- I tried, I tried, I tried to get Amy away from there.

I had her in my arms,

but somebody stopped me.

They wouldn't let me.

It was you!

You wouldn't let me take her.

Why did you stop me?

- I didn't stop you, Joe.

Amy didn't want to go with you.

- Because she doesn't know, that's why!

- She doesn't know what?

- Sheriff, Sheriff, let him keep on talking.

- Everything has happened to her.

She's such a sweet little kid.

She's innocent.

Good.

She loves everybody.

Oh, why doesn't anything good happen to her, huh?

Why?

- Doctor, we're not getting anywhere,

we don't know any more now than when we started.

Why don't we just leave him alone?

- Wait.

Wait a minute.

Joe, Joe what is it?

What's the matter Joe?

- No! No!

It isn't you!

You are not the one!

I know who it is! I know who it is!

You thought you could fool me,

but you can't,

you can't because I know.

- You're - you're right, Sheriff.

I don't see any point of this going on.

- Back this way? Thank you.

- That's his cousin, Chris.

- He won't get any more out of him then we did.

- Would you let him in, please?

- Yes, of course.

- I came as soon as I could, Doctor.

- Shall we leave them alone?

- No. Not yet.

Try and talk to him, will you, Chris.

- Hey, Joe.

Joe, it's Chris.

- No, no, keep him away.

Keep him away from me.

Keep him away from me!

- Joe-- Joe, it's your cousin.

- Don't come any closer!

Stay away from me I'm warning you!

- Stay away! I've still got the g*n!

I've still got the g*n. I'll use it.

Don't come any closer to me.

I'll k*ll you.

I warn you. I'll k*ll you.

- I'll k*ll you! - Joe!

I'll k*ll you! I'll k*ll you!

I'll k*ll you...

I'll k*ll him! - Now, hold him as steady as you can.

- What are you going to do to me?

- Don't be afraid Joe, I'm going to help you sleep.

- No! I don't want to sleep.

I don't want the dreams. The dreams are awful.

I don't want to sleep. - Now steady.

- Please Doctor, don't put me to sleep.

I can't take the dreams.

k*ll me, do anything, don't put me to sleep.

I can't take the dreams.

No! No.

I can't take the dreams.

- Chris, step outside, please,

I want to ask you some questions.

- I'll - I'll be back in a moment, Sheriff.

- Okay.

Do you have any idea what could have happened to him?

- No.

No, I'm afraid I don't.

- Make any sense out of what he's been saying?

- Why, what's he been saying?

- Well, as near as we can make out,

Joe saw something that was so frightening

that it just sent him off the deep end.

- You think he's crazy?

- Well, he's certainly not himself.

I have known Joe Haskell for a long time.

He has always been a normal, easy-going young man.

I never saw him carry on like this.

Somehow, he's convinced himself

that this whole town is in danger.

- Did he say what kind of danger?

- No. I don't know why.

I thought maybe you could tell me.

- Well, no, why would I know why?

- Well, he mentioned a lot of names.

Yours was the one that came up most often.

He seemed terribly anxious to see you.

- Well, obviously he wasn't!

- Well, in the state he was in,

I'm not sure even recognized you when you came in.

[Chris] - Yeah, I guess you're right, he --

he didn't know who I was.

[Sheriff] - What was he talking about when he said,

"I've still got the g*n."

[Chris] - I don't know.

It didn't make any sense to me.

[Sheriff] - Me either.

He wasn't carrying any g*n when he was brought in here.

- Joe, no matter what happens, you have got to get out of here!

- When what happens? - Never mind.

You'll know soon enough.

- Chris -- - Don't talk.

I tried to get you out of here and you had to stay!

All right, stay.

- What's the matter?

- It's the pain.

It will go away in a minute.

I won't even know it until the next time that it happens.

The next time!

Joe, don't forget the g*n!

- The g*n? - Pick it up.

Pick it up!

Now keep it, don't drop it.

Point it right at me!

- It's loaded! - Yes, it's loaded all right.

Don't worry about that.

You've got to use it, Joe, listen to me.

- No. No, I don't want to listen.

- Listen! Shut up and listen!

You've got to use it!

You've got to do what I can't do myself during the day.

Joe, please!

Please promise me you will!

Joe, promise me!

[screaming]

- No!

I don't want to see it again!

It won't happen this time, Chris.

You will be all right.

You'll be all right.

[dog growling]

No.

No!

[g*n shots]

Amy. Amy.

I got to keep her away from him!

Get her to safety.

She must never know.

[dog growling]

Lookout, Doctor!

- It's all right Joe, you're very tired.

- No, get out of here!

He'll k*ll you.

No, Joe, no one will k*ll you.

- No, don't you understand?

He's here, he'll k*ll both of us.

Oh, I don't understand.

He was right here.

He jumped down from the balcony.

- Joe, what was it that you thought that you saw?

- I did see it.

I was there when it happened to Chris.

- Do you think Chris wants to k*ll us?

- Yes.

No, no, not Chris, not Chris, it's the thing --

the thing he becomes, the monster.

- Monster?

- Oh, you don't believe me?

- Sleep Joe, you're very tired.

- Keep that thing away from me. - You need sleep, Joe.

Joe, you can't ran away.

- I don't want to go to sleep.

I won't do it. I won't!

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- Weren't you gonna say hello, Joe?

- I - I don't understand.

How did you get in?

- Well, the same way you did. I walked through the door.

- No, no, that's not possible.

- What are you talking about?

- I just saw you change.

- Change?

- In your room. Don't you remember?

- Joe, why don't you come in here and sit down.

- I don't want to sit down!

I just want to know how you could be in here

when I just saw you at Collinwood?

- Well, Joe, is anything the matter?

- No!

Nothing is the matter with me.

I know what I saw.

- What you saw?

What do you mean, you know what you saw?

- Chris, what happened at Collinwood?

You know what I'm talking about.

You know what I saw.

- Well, if you think you saw me at Collinwood Joe,

you're just wrong.

I really haven't been there in a long time.

Really, I haven't, no, honestly.

- Don't you remember my coming to your room?

You giving me the g*n, asking me to sh**t you?

- sh**t me?

Oh, come on, Joe.

I wouldn't forget something like that!

- You mean -- - I mean, it never happened.

- Oh, my God.

Maybe - maybe none of it ever happened.

Maybe it was just all a nightmare.

- Well, I don't know, I don't know what it was,

but whatever it was,

it was sure a frightening experience.

- Yes, it was.

- Oh, it must have started that night at Maggie's house

when I was attacked.

- Joe, you were attacked?

- Oh, yes.

Well, yeah, that part of it wasn't a dream.

That really happened.

- Well, who attacked you?

- It was this animal.

An animal that walked like a man.

I had to struggle with it.

I ripped off part of the shirt it was wearing.

See, it matched one of yours.

When I took it to your room, to show it to you,

you turned into a wolf.

- Oh, Joe, that was a bad dream.

Well, you can see I'm - I'm just the same as I ever was.

- No, you - you haven't changed.

- No, not a bit. Of course not.

- What are you - what are you doing here in the mausoleum?

- Oh Joe, you're still trembling.

- You didn't answer my question.

I want to know what you're doing at this place,

so late at night.

- Well, I'm surprised you have to ask that.

- What do you mean?

Oh, I mean, I'm always out at night,

you know that.

- No, I don't know that.

You were in your room last night, the night before.

- My room? - Yes!

At the Collinsport Inn.

- Oh!

Oh, I see.

Yes, I see. Joe, I think --

I think you didn't have a nightmare after all.

- What - what are you saying?

- Well, that's it, oh, of course.

I don't know why I didn't think of that.

This is just a - just a simple case of mistaken identity.

- Chris, you're not making any sense.

- You always did have trouble

telling us brothers apart didn't you, Joe?

- Telling - telling you apart?

- That's right.

I'm not Chris, I'm Tom.

- Tom!

Oh no. Oh no.

You can't be. You can't be.

You're dead. - Not at night, Joe.

Only during the day.

- Oh, no.

Oh, no, no, no. Stay away from me.

Stay away from me.

No, no, no!

No! No! Oh!

[dog growling]

Oh, God --

Oh, my God!

Oh, my... Oh, my God!

No! No! No!

No! No!

No! No! No!

- All right, he won't get our of that.

- I don't understand it.

But the shot I gave him should have kept him sleep

until morning.

- Why didn't it work?

- Obviously, the dream he had, frightened him so

nothing could have kept him asleep.

- Well, what are we going to do with him now?

- I called Wyndcliffe.

I'll take him there in the morning.

Chris - Chris, there is no reason for you to stay now,

why don't you go home?

- No, I'll - I'll just stay here with him

until you have to take him away.

- Chris, don't take it so hard.

There is nothing that you could have done.

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪