03x03 - The Babysitter

[bunniefuu]

[birds chirping]

[flies buzzing]

[Mrs. Gein] Get up.

[Mr. Gein] Leave me alone.

-[groans]
-[Mrs. Gein] Get up!

-[Mr. Gein] Quit it.
-Get out of this house.

[Mr. Gein breathing heavily]

[fly buzzing]

What's that smell?

You messed yourself again.
You drank yourself senseless again.

[Mr. Gein] I'm sorry.

Don't say you're sorry when you ain't.
You ain't sorry for the drinking.

You're sorry you messed yourself
on the kitchen floor.

[sighs]

Hiya, Pop.

You can't make it to the outhouse? Huh?

Well, then you don't deserve
to be indoors no more.

From this day forth, you will never
set foot in this house again.

You will go sleep out in the barn.

Mess yourself out there
with the cloven-hoofed.

You can't kick me out.

This is my house, woman!

You ain't never earned
a dime for this house.

Never lifted a finger for it.

-[grunts]
-No!

[Mr. Gein gasps]

Uh-uh.

I'm… I'm sorry, Augusta.

I'm sorry. [groans]

[panting]

[groaning]

You darken this doorway again,
George Gein…

and that'll be the last thing you ever do.

[breathes heavily]

Eddie, you must never touch a woman.

You hear me?

This is what happens.

You must never inflict upon a woman
the burden of a child.

[emotional music playing]

I should castrate you.

[sniffles]

[sobs]

Let's go clean that up.

[laughing]

Eddie!

It's the last time
we're ever going to have to do it.

Oh! [laughs]

Eddie!

[laughing]

I'll put on some music.

[jaunty jazz music playing]

[music continues]

[sweeping in rhythm]

[knocking on door]

[knocking continues]

[Ed] Yes?

[man] Eddie Gein?

[Ed] Yes, sir?

It's the sheriff.

Oh. Okay.

[sheriff] You want to come to the door?

Of course.

Uh…

Just a moment.

-[man blowing]
-[bird cawing]

Hey, Sheriff.

Oh! Brisk out.

What can I do for you?

Well, Eddie,
we want to ask you about Mary Hogan.

When's the last time you seen her?

Oh, um…

Mother!

She's not going to remember.

So you seen Mary lately?

Yeah. Yeah, probably a week ago.

So you weren't at the bar last night?

No. No, I was here with Mother.

'Cuz somebody who was there
said they saw a truck like yours.

No, mine ain't, uh…

I couldn't get mine
to turn over yesterday.

So you weren't
at Mary's Tavern last night?

No. Would you like to talk to Mother?

I… I could wake her.
She'll tell you the same.

No. No, no. Don't wake her.

She ain't been well, has she?

Oh, it's day-to-day with her now.

Never know who she's going to be
any given morning.

[crows cawing]

Yeah. Um, alright. Thanks for your time.

You bet.

Oh, Sheriff.

What happened?

Is Mary in trouble?

We think somebody shot her last night, Ed.

Shot her and took her body somewhere.
We've yet to find it.

-No. No.
-[eerie music playing]

-[man] We know she was a friend of yours.
-Oh. Mary.

Yeah, sorry to have to break the news.

[Ed] Yeah.

She had a past, you know.

In Chicago.

Shady element
she might have still been involved with.

Yeah. Yeah, that's what we're thinking.

I sure am sorry to hear that.

Well, you take care of yourself now, Ed.

You betcha.

-[bell dings]
-[eerie music continues]

[music becomes uplifting]

[music distorts]

[bubbling continues]

What are you doing? Get up.

[dings]

[Adeline] I thought I recognized
that truck out there.

You're alive?

-What?
-[Ed] I just…

I thought I'd never see you again.

I know.

I felt badly leaving the way I did,

but I just…

I just got a little spooked, Ed.
I was scared.

It was my fault. I was moving too fast.

I mean, your house is a real mess.

And your mother?

She wouldn't even turn to look at me.

Believe me,
I gave her a real talking to about that.

She said she was sorry.

She did?

She did. Promised to be
on her best behavior next time.

Okay, good.

She's not well, you know.

I mean, that's part of it.

-It makes her real cantankerous.
-Mmm.

Thank you, Eddie.

I feel better just talking about it.

Me too.

I really thought
I'd lost you there for a minute.

No. It's gonna be a lot harder
than that to get rid of me.

Oh, look.

[Ed] Who's she?

Christine Jorgensen. Now look at this.

[Ed] Oh.

-And who's that?
-It's the same person.

What?

I don't understand.

[eerie music playing]

Wait.

He dresses up like a lady.

No, he's a…

They call it a transsexual.

He went to Denmark and they…

[voice fades] cut off his genitals.

-And they gave him full breasts.
-[Ed panting]

You're joking.

-No, it's real.
-[Christine] No, it's real.

-What?
-[Christine] What?

I got an idea. Okay.

Friday. I'm gonna surprise you.

[Adeline] Okay. [giggles]

Bye.

[Ed] Friday.

[intense foreboding music playing]

[bangs on wood]

[wood splintering]

[grunting]

[casket creaking]

[bone snaps]

[cracks]

-[bone snapping]
-[grunts]

[foreboding music continues]

Oh yeah.

She'll love that.

-Fancy.
-That's right.

[Italian song playing in the background]

-Thank you, sir.
-[chuckles]

I've never had wine before.

Me neither.

-Oh my gosh.
-[both giggle]

To us.

To us.

-Oh. It's nice.
-[Ed] Mmm.

[Adeline] They wouldn't actually use
their bare feet to stomp on the grapes.

Yeah. At least I think so.

Let's find out.

-I mean, it smells like feet.
-A little bit.

Does it taste like feet?

-I wouldn't know.
-[Ed chuckles]

[foreboding music playing]

I hope that setup's still there.

Oh, Eddie. Is this a graveyard?

It sure is. Come.
Come on. You're gonna like it.

-Ooh. [chuckling]
-[Adeline giggles]

Oh, Eddie.

What is this?

Well, I, uh…

I wanted to take you someplace special
so's that I could ask you something.

[Adeline chuckles nervously]

Come on, sit.

[Adeline] Eddie, you're making me nervous.

[Ed] Well, because I'm nervous is why.

You're making me nervous if you don't sit.

Now, I…

I know we haven't been
going together long and…

You know when you asked me
what I wanted out of my life?

Well, I… I think I know now.

Will you marry me?

Oh…

Oh no, I shouldn't have done this.

No, no, no. I… I was just surprised.

I… I had no idea.

Well, I told you
I was fixing to surprise you.

Oh, Eddie. [giggles]
I don't know what to say.

Yes, yes. Of course I'll marry you.

I'm shaking.

Okay. Hold still now.

[Adeline's breath trembles]

Oh, it's beautiful.

-[Ed] Yeah.
-It's too big.

Yeah, the lady's fingers
were a lot fatter than yours.

Whose?

The lady that sold it to me.

It's a diamond.
And what are those? Emeralds?

Hmm. I don't know.

Oh, Eddie.

[panting]

[Adeline breathing heavily]

[Ed] Oh…

[Ed moaning softly]

[Ed whimpers]

[panting]

[belt unbuckling]

[eerie music playing]

No. Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

I'm sorry.

What happened?

I just can't, you know, fornicate.

Because Mother always says
you shouldn't fornicate

less'n you trying to make a little one.

I'm just real worried
about being a father is all. 'Cause,

you know, us going at it like we were.

And I sure do wanna, I just,
I got distracted thinking about it.

And, you know, my father was…

-Eddie. Eddie, stop. It's okay.
-It's just…

I understand.

You're nervous to have children because
like most men who don't have big families,

you've never been around them.

I have an idea.

[doorbell rings]

Hello.

Hi, Mrs. Heller. This is Eddie.

Hello.

Come on in.

[upbeat jazz music playing]

Have you babysat before?

No, I wouldn't say babysat,
but I do get along with kids.

I think on account of sometimes
I feel like I still am one.

I like doing things that kids like to do,

like chasing things through the woods
and digging things up and whatnot.

So you're young at heart.

Aren't you available to sit?

Last year I was, but not now.

I got a part-time job
down at the corner store

just helping with accounting.

So I'm unavailable.

Well, look, Frank Jr. and Enid,

they love their babysitter, Miss Evelyn.

They cry when she leaves.

But like Adeline might have told you,
she's been in the hospital with polio.

Oh no.

Oh, they think she'll pull through.

[chuckling] She won't be paralyzed.

But she is going to walk with a cane.
Poor thing.

Mother has trouble getting around now.
I actually have to carry her.

Well, Mrs. Heller, I can vouch for Eddie.

He's definitely your man.
And he's cheap, too.

Just ten cents an hour,
which is good value,

what with all the frivolity I provide.

-[chuckles]
-[Ed] Hm.

[clock ticking]

[Ed] So…

Which one of you is Enid?

See, that was a joke.

Because Enid's a girl's name,
so it'd have to be yours.

M'kay.

Any games you like to play?

-Miss Evelyn's funner than you.
-[Ed] Well, can she do magic tricks?

No.

Okay, well, then,
I'm funner than her then.

So do a trick.

I didn't bring none.

[car rumbling]

Where are you taking us?

Someplace that dummy Miss Evelyn
were never gonna take you.

Just kidding. It'll be fun.

[upbeat music playing softly]

[Enid] It's cold.

Let's get a fire going.

[Frank Jr.] It smells in here.

Lots of complaining out of you two.

You ought to tell it to Mother.
See where she tells you to shove it.

You're rude.

Come on, sit down.

You ready for the show?

Well, don't both answer at once.

Let's go.

You want to see a trick?

Wait there.

[clattering]

Okay, prepare to be dazzled.

Three bowls. Right?

Nothing in 'em.

-Three.
-[music turns disturbing]

Now, see this?

What is it?

Bone.

What kind of bone?

Finger bone.

No, it isn't.

[Ed] Let's find out.

Now, you follow the finger, all right?

Don't let it out of your sight.

Where is it?

You sure?

Positive?

Let's have a look.

See? That was easy.

Ta-da!

[chilling sound effect]

Told you it was a finger.

How'd you do that?

That's not real.

[Ed] Sure is.

Wouldn't matter if it weren't.

Still a good trick anyhow.

[Frank Jr.] So that's a real finger?

Yes, sir.

-[Frank Jr.] Where'd you get it?
-Doesn't matter where I got it.

Fell off an old lady I was walking behind.

These tricks are terrible.

I want to go home, please.

Just hold your horses.

Did I mention
that I could turn into a lady?

Yep.

I can turn into a lady, and…

pull my head off.

-That's impossible.
-[Ed] Yeah?

I'll prove it.

Okay,

I'm turning into a lady.

-[whispers] What's he doing?
-I don't know.

[Ed] I'm turning into her.

Oooh.

[muffled] Don't be afraid now.

Oh. Hi.

My name's Mildred.

It's so nice to meet you.

But oh, I have such a headache.

What should I do?

Oh, I know.

I could pull my head off.

Yes, that's what I'll do.

Oh, that's so much better.

This is dumb. That's not even real.

Of course it's real.

[screaming]

[upbeat music playing]

I mean, that's the mark
of a good magic show.

When it moves you.

Even if it moves you to tears.

[tense music playing]

[Mrs. Heller] What on earth
is wrong with you?

Where were you? Where did you take them?

Oh Enid, honey.

I just took 'em to my house
for a magic show.

What's the big deal?

[Frank Jr.] It was scary. He had a mask on
and pulled his head off.

-Oh, so now it's scary.
-[Mrs. Heller] Come. Into the house.

[man] Is it him? Is it him?

[Mrs. Heller] Yes!

I was about to call the police.
I ought to knock your block off!

They was bored! I was just trying
to keep them entertained. I'm sorry.

Sheesh.

I mean, you said you weren't
going to be home until 9:30.

-If I ever…
-[Ed yelps]

ever see you again,
I'm going to make you regret it!

-You hear me?
-[Ed whimpers]

Well, you're not gonna!

[man] Get out of here.
And don't come back!

I'm going!

[eerie string music playing]

And you owe me 40 cents!

[engine starts]

[tense music playing]

[music intensifies]

[music fades]

[soft clarinet music playing]

[music turns dramatic]

You were just following me, weren't you?

You followed me last night too.

You took my job.

What?

-I'm just a babysitter.
-[Ed] That's what I mean.

That was my job.

Helping me with my family plans.

[music crescendos]

-[doorbell rings]
-[music fades]

[door opens]

[Mrs. Heller] Hello!

-Kids, guess who it is!
-[Enid] Miss Evelyn!

-[kids] We missed you!
-Hi, Frank! Hi, Enid!

Oh, boy, did I miss you!

Oh!

[soft piano music playing]

Can I touch it?

Of course you can.

You're not going to catch polio
from touching my cane.

Touch my leg even.

[faint bang]

[loud bang]

Who's doing that?

-[intense music playing]
-[Enid screams]

-[Frank] It's him!
-[Evelyn] Who?

-The one with the head.
-[Evelyn] Let me take a look.

[music fades]

[soft clarinet music playing]

Come on now. It's just your imagination.

Go get out your Lincoln Logs.

[music grows tense]

[music reaches cl*max and slows]

[eerie music playing on the radio]

[man on radio] …what evil lurks
in the hearts of men.

The Shadow knows. [laughs evilly]

[announcer] Once again,
your neighborhood Blue Coal dealer

brings you the thrilling adventures
of The Shadow.

The hard and relentless fight
of one man against the forces of evil.

These dramatizations are designed
to demonstrate forcefully

to young and old alike
that crime does not pay.

The Shadow, who A*DS the forces of…

[door bangs]

…is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy…

Hello?

Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned
a strange and mysterious secret,

the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
so they cannot see him.

[radio show continues indistinctly]

[tense music playing]

[loud banging]

[banging]

[eerie music continues]

[door creaks]

[music intensifies]

[screams]

[knocking on door]

[music stops]

It worked.

What did?

[Ed] Babysitting.

I'm ready.
I know I'm going to be a good dad.

-I'm ready to get married, Adeline.
-[soft orchestral music playing]

[Adeline giggles]

[woman] It's just ridiculous!

You're delusional!

You're not serious!

And it would be
out of the question anyway!

We don't know these people!

Nobody likes that mother of his!

[Adeline] She's ill.

[woman] Well, fine, but people
disliked her when she was well.

Where are you going?

-Where are you going?
-[music fades]

[steps approaching quickly]

[door opens]

-Hey!
-[upbeat music playing]

[both laughing]

I was hoping you'd be coming,
so I straightened up a little.

Well, I'm going to make this place
spick and span so you don't need to worry.

Okay.

[music turns eerie]

Let me, uh…

[music fades]

I'd better check on Mother.

Let her know you're here.

[water dripping]

[tense string music playing]

[humming]

[dramatic sound effect]

[Adeline] Is she all right?

Yeah. She fell asleep in her chair.

I didn't want to wake her.

Where are you going?

I seen a brace of rabbits
up by the tree line.

Going to see if I can nab one.

Price up our first dinner as a family.

Okay.

You're just so darling, I could eat you.

[chuckles self-consciously]

[music crescendos, stops]

[crows cawing]

[dramatic stinger]

[door closes]

[thud from upstairs]

[thuds continue]

Mother?

[thud]

-Are you all right?
-[eerie music playing]

[music intensifies]

It's me, Adeline. Mother?

Eddie's friend?

Mrs. Gein?

[knocks on door]

[intense music crescendos]

[music stops]

[chair creaking]

Mrs. Gein?

[breathing heavily]

-[screams]
-[audience screams]

-[Psycho theme playing]
-[voices murmuring]

[audience gasps]

[whispering excitingly]

It's like this everywhere.

Congratulations.

I can do whatever I like now.

[cars honking]

[thunder rumbling]

[car honks]

Hi. Two for Psycho.

That'll be 20 cents.

Thank you.

-[film music playing]
-[projector whirring]

[Norman] Of course,
I've suggested it myself.

But I hate to even think about it.

She needs me.

it's not as if she were a maniac,
a raving thing.

She goes a little mad sometimes.

[gasping softly]

We all go a little mad sometimes.

[buckle clattering faintly]

Haven't you?

[gasping]

I gotta say, pretty far out,

giving Norman Bates head
while he watches Norman Bates.

-I'm not Norman Bates.
-[man] Hm.

Look, I brought you up here
because I wanted to tell you that I…

This is going to be the last time. See?

There's not going to be any more us
the moment you walk out that door.

-It's over, you get it? It's over.
-Okay. Wait.

[sighs] What…
What are you talking about?

I brought you up here to tell you that…

Well,

that I've been seeing a woman.

[soft music playing]

[woman whispers] Touch me, Norman.

[steady clicking]

[therapist] And were you aroused?
When you touched her breast?

[Anthony] I was aroused, yes, but also…

What?

[sighs, chuckles]

I was relieved… too.

Like, maybe all the hard work
I put in here wasn't in vain.

It's been a long road, as you know.

[therapist] Very much has been.

So I felt relieved too.

Like maybe I was…

[therapist] What?

Cured.

That this horrible thing that I just hate.

That if I stayed at it
and I kept vigilant,

then maybe it would be gone.

Maybe I wasn't a monster anymore.

[laughs]

It's been years, Gary.
All I get offered are Norman Bates types.

[Gary] I'm as frustrated as you are, Tony.

But really, you're a victim
of your own success.

Really? Because nothing
about this feels like success.

Sometimes a performance is so iconic,

so indelible, so ingrained
in the collective consciousness

that it becomes the thing
the audience sees you as.

Oh, come on. Vivien Leigh
was indelible as Scarlett O'Hara.

She goes on to win another Oscar.

Yes, but Norman Bates was strange.

Ed Gein is strange.

So now to the audience, you're strange.

[scoffs]

I'm Norman Bates forever, is that it?

I'm Ed Gein for the rest of my life.

There's talk of a sequel, Tony.

[tense music playing]

You've got to be kidding me.

Look, I say we embrace it.

It's something to be proud of
when you think about it.

You really made your mark.

This is something to be thankful for.

Yeah, thanks a million, Ed Gein.

[hangs up]

[bell rings]

Mary Rose will be next.

J. M. Barrie's delightful, whimsical tale
of a melancholy ghost

set in the Outer Hebrides.

He liked it more than Peter Pan,
and so do I.

Grace Kelly liked it very much,
sure she still does.

There's, um, there's not
a lot of interest in Mary Rose.

Tippi Hedren then?

Not from talent, Alfred. From the studio.

It's… not what they want right now.

And what is it they do want?

[woman clears throat] Well, um…

Universal want to capitalize
on the success of Psycho.

A movie I have already made
several years ago.

Alfred, they very much like the idea
of you going further, further into…

They're calling it a new genre.

I don't like what they're calling it,
but they are calling it…

What? What are they calling it?

"Sex horror" is what they're calling it.

They don't want Dracula anymore.
They want The r*pe of the Vampire.

They want the Bloody Pit of Horror.

I hate that. I don't want to do that.

What about No Bail for the Judge?

Audrey liked the rewrite, didn't she?

She did.

Alfred, they don't want to do it.

-Well, let me talk to Lew.
-I just got off the phone with Lew.

Lew's the one who k*lled it.

Slow, please, Max.

What is it?

It's the Bloody Pit of Horror picture.

There's a bloody line
around the bloody block.

Shall we go and see
what all the fuss is about?

[chuckling]

[announcer] And now,
a warning from William Castle,

producer of The Night Walker.

[Castle] Do you know
that a dream can k*ll you?

Cheeky bugger.

A gruesome thought, isn't it?

[announcer] What are dreams?

Think I'll go and get more… popcorn.

[announcer] …another world where
everything is strange and terrifying.

When you dream you become a night walker.

[crowd cheering]

-Now it's your turn.
-Travis! [grunting]

You'll pay too.

[audience applauding, cheering]

[woman] No! No!

[indistinct chattering]

[woman] Let me go! Oh!

Stop! Let me go!

[audience whistling]

[laughing]

Alfred, I've had enough. I'm going.

Excuse me. Sorry.

-[woman] It's not true.
-Sorry.

[woman] No. It's impossible!

No!

[woman screaming on screen]

No! I can't stand it.

[chilling theremin music playing]

[Alfred] I wish you'd just
come out and say it, Mother.

Why don't you tell me
what you want me to say?

And I'll say it.

"You brought it on yourself, Alfred."

"You knew what your picture would unleash,
but you did it anyway."

Hmm?

You have other stories to tell, Alfred.

But who would I tell them to?

The audience has changed,

and I'm the one who changed them.

[emotional theremin music playing]

And they'll want more and more and more.

Like hogs who've tasted blood.

There's no going back.

Not now.

[music intensifies]

[woman whimpering]

[music turns foreboding]

[woman sobbing]

[continues sobbing]

I said stop!

Stop your crying!

It should be me making
those crocodile tears, not you.

I mean, you really did it, didn't you?

What? What did I do?

You took my job, my babysittin' job!

I was going to pay
for my wedding with that job.

Now what? Hmm?

No nice suit, no fancy cake,

just a reception with pork and beans.

Adeline deserves more than that.

[sobbing] Please, please, please.

Please don't do this to me, please.

Stop it!

Everybody's talking.

[Ed panting]

You know…

Sometimes I don't understand the voices.

[tense music playing]

I'm just trying to think,
I'm trying to think now.

Think about what?

About what to do with them.

-Enid and Frank Jr…
-No!

…and the Frank Sr. fella.

No! No, they're just kids!
You can't hurt them. Please.

-Please. You can't hurt them.
-Shh.

[Evelyn sobs]

Hello, Mother.

Are you sure?

No, I'm not doubtin' you.

[ropes creaking]

[Ed] All right.

Yes, Mother.

You've really done it now.

[music intensifies]

[Evelyn whimpering, sobbing]

[screaming]

[Evelyn sobbing hysterically]

[hyperventilating]

[whimpering]

[panting]

[music softens]

[chair scraping]

[scraping continues]

[softly] No. No.

[scraping stops]

[whimpering, sobs]

[bucket clatters]

What's that for?

What's that for?

Mother doesn't wanna make a mess.

She'd k*ll us
if we're dishonoring our family.

Please, please, no.

[shakily] Please.

No. No, please.

[whimpering] No.

[intense music playing]

Nice and tight.

[Evelyn] Please…

No…

Please, please.

No, no, no, no, no!

No, no, no, no, no.

No, no!

[screaming]

[hammer clangs]

[gasping]

[Ed screaming] You upset Mother!

-No, no, no!
-Here.

[screaming] No! No!

-[hammer clangs]
-Ah! [gasping]

Here we go.

[Evelyn sobbing] No. Please, no.

-Shut up!
-No!

[screams]

[thuds loudly]

-[woman screaming]
-Hit the b*tch!

Hit the b*tch!

-Get upstairs!
-[laughing]

-[man 2] Do it again.
-[hammer clangs]

[woman screaming] No!

[sound distorting]

[engine whirring]

[man 1] Bigger.

-Hit the b*tch!
-[woman] No!

Come on! Hit her! Get her!

[screaming]

No!

Oh, hit her, Grandpa!

Let's go! Come here!

[dull thud]

-Yeah!
-Get down!

No! [screams]

[man 3] Cut. Let's go again.

["Texas [When I Die]" playing]

♪ When I die
I may not go to heaven ♪

♪ I don't know if they let cowboys in ♪

♪ If they don't
Just let me go to Texas ♪

♪ 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been ♪

♪ When I die
I may not go to heaven ♪

♪ I don't know if they let cowboys in ♪

♪ If they don't
Just let me go to Texas

♪ 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been ♪

♪ When I die
I may not go to heaven ♪

♪ I don't know if they let cowboys in ♪

♪ If they don't
Just let me go to Texas ♪

♪ 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been ♪

[song fades]

[eerie string music playing]

[music fades]