02x36 - The Cave

[bunniefuu]

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ He was a bold, adventurin' man! ♪

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ Battled for rights with a powerful hand ♪

♪ His blade was tempered and so was he ♪

♪ Indestructible steel was he

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ He was a fighter, fearless and mighty adventurin' man ♪

[suspenseful music]

[people chattering]

- My hat, Rebekah.

My Paris hat.

- Right here, honey.

And you gonna look right pretty in it too!

- I must look pretty.

For him.

[Rebekah chuckles]

- Lord, child, Mr. Sam ain't gonna be looking

at your hat.

- Not him.

It's not for him.

- You're sure you got everything?

- Everything.

Everything but Amy.

What's wrong with her, Jim, what's got into her?

She seems a thousand miles away.

- I wish I could tell you, Sam.

She sure has changed.

- I shouldn't cut my time too fine, Sam, if I were you.

- [Sam] All packed, sir.

- Maybe Dr. Wiley can tell us what's wrong.

- You're speaking of Amy no doubt

Sorry, but I shouldn't care to

venture a professional opinion.

- Uncle Rufus just got back from Europe.

- You see I know nothing of my niece's medical history.

- Medical history?

I don't believe she has any, has she Sam?

- Never sick a day in her life.

- I've known Amy since she was so high.

Used to call me Uncle Jim.

'Til recently.

Always happy, healthy, chipper.

- That's why we didn't give it a second thought

when she began to act so strangely.

Just tried to jolly her out of it.

Uncle Rufus spent hours with her trying to cheer her up.

- Not with any marked success, I must admit.

She just went deeper and deeper into the silences.

- It's not her silence that worries me,

it's what she says when she does speak.

- Such as what?

- Well early this morning she said,

"I must sleep, Father" and "I must go to Father".

- Father?

- Father, but he's--

- Yes, her father's been dead for over a year now.

[suspenseful music]

[somber music]

- All the luck in the world. - Bye Jim.

Bye Uncle Rufus.

- Thank you. - Bye Amy.

- Bye. - Bye.

[all shouting goodbyes]

- Well, leaving us, are ya?

- Yes I am, doctor.

I've got a long ride ahead.

I only wish I could've been more help to Sam and Amy.

- Well, they'll be alright once they're alone together.

You know, Bowie, I shouldn't be at all surprised

if this whole thing were play acting on Amy's part.

- Play acting?

- Mm-hmm - Why would she do that?

- To get attention.

Now, sit down.

You know,

it's not uncommon in children.

And Amy is notably immature.

- Isn't Amy here?

- Amy?

- Why, no.

- [Sam] She's gone.

Amy's gone.

- Gone from where? - Easy, Sam.

- From the boat.

I left her alone just for a moment

and when I got back, she was gone.

You know how she was,

and when we got on the boat, she was even worse.

I went out to see the captain

to see if a doctor was on board.

- You left her alone in that condition?

- She needed help and I had to get it.

- Go on, Sam, go on.

- When I got back, she was gone.

The man at the g*ng plank saw her get off.

I went after her, I looked everywhere.

Then I came here.

- Don't worry, we'll find her.

She can't have gone far.

- [Dr. Wiley] Of course not!

- Dr. Wiley, you stay here in case she turns up.

Sam and I will go look for her.

- Fine. - You do that, Mr. Jim.

You look in the river

cause that's where you're gonna find her.

- What makes you say that, Rebekah?

- Her father was drowned in the river.

[dramatic music]

- Her scarf!

Amy's scarf!

She was wearing it.

- Yeah, well she was alive when they brought her here.

Look at these footprints.

Two men and a girl, going up that way.

- Can we track 'em?

- No, no, it'd be dark before we know it.

Hey, wait a minute.

There's one place I know of two, three miles from here

where they might've taken her.

- What is it, where is it?

- A place called Mud Cat Cave.

Used to be a hangout of river pirates.

If it's anything like it used to be,

I only hope we don't find her there.

[grim music]

- Good day, gentlemen! - Hi Dave.

- Quite glad you came along.

Bout ready to cut somebody's throat

- Oh, you were?

Uh, whose?

- Oh, anybody's, I ain't particular.

Guts awful monotonous here.

Drink?

- Yeah. - I could stand a drink.

- There you are.

- Do you mind if we look around?

- Thank you.

- You been looking around since you came in.

You lookin' for something mister, something special?

- No no, just lookin'.

He knows what we're looking for.

- You got fish?

Oh nice, fix up a couple.

We got company.

- The hat, she's wearing Amy's hat.

- Sit down.

- You gents want a fire?

- No, no thanks.

Look at those ashes in front of the fireplace.

See the two sets of footprints going in?

One big, one small.

Only one set coming out, the big one.

- Amy's up there.

- Don't do anything right now.

We're outnumbered and you've only got your hands.

[hammer banging]

[knife scraping]

- What do we do?

- Nothing, nothing right now.

Just keep him from lighting that fire.

- Wind's coming up.

Take care of those gents' horses.

- Oh yeah, much obliged.

You better go with 'em, otherwise they'll take the horses

and we'll never get out of here.

- I'll go with you and lend a hand.

[suspenseful music]

- You sure you don't want a fire?

- No, no thanks.

- There's nothing like a good roaring fire.

- I don't want one, thanks.

- Why not?

- Why not?

Because I don't believe the young lady

up there would like it.

[ominous music]

[glass tinkles]

[pan clanging]

[bottles rattle]

Amy.

Amy.

- I'm waiting.

I'm waiting for Father.

- This is Uncle Jim, Amy.

Your father's dead.

He's dead.

- He's coming to me.

He's coming to me here.

- This way. - No.

No, let me be please!

Please, please!

[dramatic music]

- Amy, Amy!

- [Jim] We caught a steamboat at Cobb's Landing

to take Amy home.

It was in Sam's cabin that we had the first hint

of what was wrong with her.

- She sleeps now.

- I'm very grateful to you, Dr. Opitz.

We were lucky to find you aboard.

- What's wrong with her, doctor?

- Well, her condition would seem to indicate,

seem myself, seem.

[speaks foreign language]

- We understand, yes.

- Her condition would seem to indicate

that she's under a spell of mesmerism.

- Mesmerism?

- What's that?

- That is a new kind of treatment for the nervous system.

It is named for the man who first practiced it,

Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer.

- Well Dr. Opitz, you said something about a spell.

What's that gotta do with it?

- It just is that Dr. Mesmer's treatment

made his patient more amenable to his will.

- And what'd he do?

- He claimed that he had in him some power, magnetism.

Animal magnetism, he called it

and that he could do out of his fingers flow like this.

Like so, into other people, sick people,

and cure them of the disease.

- And did he?

- Oh yeah, if you can believe it, he did.

- Then what's wrong with it?

- Well it could be used for evil, as well as for good.

Under such influence, the patient becomes a puppet

and he can do only, think only what his doctor tells him.

- Like a witch doctor, huh?

- Oh that's what the other doctor called poor Mesmer.

A quack, a charlatan,

though he was nothing of the kind.

- Where is he now?

- He's dead, but many, many other doctor took up his work.

Ah, not me.

I keep myself out of other people's minds.

It's not nice in there.

Well, I will look in on the young lady a little bit later.

[speaks foreign language]

- Doctor, just a minute. - Yeah?

- This Dr. Mesmer, where did he practice?

- Oh at Vienna first.

Later in Paris.

While in Vienna the medical commission said go,

but in Paris you know,

they were more polite.

They merely said you need not stay.

[speaks foreign language]

- I was just wondering.

- Yes?

- I wonder if Uncle Rufus ever met Dr. Mesmer

when he was in Paris.

[dramatic music]

- Amy baby!

Oh lord be praised.

Dr. Rufus, Dr. Rufus!

Amy's back, she's here!

[eerie music]

- Amy, thank heaven we've got you back again.

- I must go to Father.

- She's just the same.

- I'm afraid she is, doctor.

- Where did you find her?

- We'll tell you about it later.

- Quite right, we'd better get her up to bed.

- Come on honey, ol' Rebekah know how to do for you.

- I'll take her.

- Can I help?

- I think not, Sam.

We'll do better alone.

Come on, dear.

[eerie music]

- Jim, he couldn't be responsible for this.

You saw how gentle he was, her own uncle.

What reason could he have?

- Amy's very rich, Sam.

He stands to profit from her death.

What better reason do you want?

- But we have no proof.

- Yeah, proof's something we gotta get one way or another.

- Whatever you say, Jim.

- Listen, when he comes down,

you tell him everything that happened,

except just add in that one little detail,

that one little thing that didn't happen

just the way we planned it, you understand?

- And then?

- Then we'll see what he does.

If you need me, I'll be in my room.

- I got her asleep. - Good.

- Now if you don't mind, I'd like to know what happened.

[Jim yawns]

- Excuse me, doctor.

I don't think I feel up to it.

Can't remember when I felt so tired.

Sam will tell you all about it.

- Good, you get your rest.

I'll see you later.

[Jim yawns]

How about some coffee Sam?

- All right, sir.

- Then if Bowie had that bald-headed man at his mercy,

why didn't he dispatch him then and there?

- I wasn't there, but Jim said he spared his life

because the fella offered to tell him

who was at the bottom of all this.

- And did he?

- He must have, though Jim didn't let on to me who it was.

He's placing the whole matter in the sheriff's hands.

He'll speak up when the proper time comes.

- I see.

Then as of this moment, only Bowie

knows the identity of the scoundrel.

- That's it.

- If you'll pardon me Sam, I have some letters to finish.

- Go right ahead, I'll have another cup.

- Come in.

- Oh I didn't mean to disturb you if you were sleeping.

- Well, almost.

Just about getting there.

- Matter of fact, I've been worried about you.

You know sometimes we get so tired we can't sleep.

- Yeah that's just about how it is with me.

Yeah I could sleep for,

all I need is one push.

Just one little push.

- Maybe I can help.

Here let me try.

Sometimes just a little manipulation can do wonders.

- That feels good.

- It's a method I learned abroad

to help my patients do what I want them to do.

Sometimes a voice,

just a voice can help us

over the edge when we're tired.

- I'm so tired.

- Just a voice.

Just the effort to pay attention.

To fix our minds on something.

[eerie music] Open your eyes, Bowie.

Just to fix our minds on something.

One point, one little point,

meaningless little words engraved on a little gold box.

From someone, to someone.

Keep your eyes on the box.

Try to read the words.

- I'm, I'm trying.

- That's it, you must keep trying.

You must do what I tell you to.

Sleep.

Sleep.

You're sleeping, Bowie.

You're sleeping.

You hear nothing but my voice.

You can do nothing, but what I tell you to.

Can you hear me Bowie?

- I, I can hear you.

- Then tell me, the name of the man

who had Amy kidnapped.

- His name

is Dr. Rufus Wiley.

- Why did he do it?

- Money.

The money from Amy's father's will.

- [Rufus] How did he do it?

- Mesmerism.

He told her

her father was still alive.

He told her

her father

would come to her in the cave.

- What did he mean to do?

- He meant to have her k*lled.

Let me sleep now.

- Soon, soon.

A long sleep, a deep sleep, no waking.

Stand up.

[eerie music]

Now walk, just a little ways.

To the window.

[eerie music]

Step out onto the balcony.

Don't stop, don't hesitate.

[eerie music]

Sleep, sleep,

everlasting sleep is stretching out her arms to you.

Step up on the kopi.

[suspenseful music]

[pot thuds]

One more step into eternal sleep.

Step out.

Step out!

- Hello doctor, that's about all I needed to know.

That and the fact that you studied mesmerism in Paris.

A fact that can easily be confirmed.

- Clever aren't you?

[intense music]

[Rufus screams]

- [Jim] Mesmerism as a kind of malpractice was rare.

It was used mostly and continues to be used

as Dr. Mesmer intended it should,

as beneficial treatment.

With Dr. Wiley gone, Amy came out of her spell spontaneously

as subjects do.

She and Sam kept me company

on their honeymoon to New Orleans.

Well anyway, they kept me company

when they weren't keeping each other company in their cabin.

[upbeat music]

♪ Jim Bowie Jim Bowie

♪ He was a bold adventurin' man ♪