Not Rated | 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery,TV Series | Episode aired 20 December 1960
Marianne Darelle finds that she is suddenly and forcefully drawn to a small seaside town that she has never been to before, and there she begins a strange relationship with a married man--and is shocked to discover that he, too, was pulled into the town by a force that he can't explain, either.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus, Howard Rodman
Stars: Norma Crane, Charles Aidman, Barbara Eiler
Marianne Darelle finds that she is suddenly and forcefully drawn to a small seaside town that she has never been to before, and there she begins a strange relationship with a married man--and is shocked to discover that he, too, was pulled into the town by a force that he can't explain, either.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus, Howard Rodman
Stars: Norma Crane, Charles Aidman, Barbara Eiler
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00:00You'll witness things strange, unexpected, mysterious, but not to be denied.
00:19Join me now, and take one step beyond.
00:26Asterius Boudgaris.
00:31The starfish.
00:34Usually he has five points, but sometimes in the fierce struggle for existence beneath the sea, he loses a point, or a limb.
00:45The parent body drifts away, and the lost limb, willing somehow to become a part of that which was once the whole, is left by itself.
00:58Lost forever, by itself.
01:03And then within the billion cells of the seemingly dead member, longing is translated into growth.
01:12Now cell by cell, the limb remembers that of which it was once a part.
01:19And now cell by cell, reconstructs itself into the shape, the function, and the pattern of that to which it once belonged.
01:30Until finally, memory becomes reality.
01:36A new starfish has been created.
01:40This was done, by a very common creature.
01:46Asterius Boudgaris.
01:49The common starfish.
02:04Oh, I'm sorry, you gave me the wrong ticket.
02:07This is for the train to Seaside.
02:11That's what you said.
02:13Oh no, I'm sure I said Woodmere.
02:17All right, lady.
02:24Woodmere.
02:26Thank you, thank you very much.
02:28You're welcome.
02:37Please, miss?
02:50Yes.
02:54You're on the wrong train, miss.
02:57We're going to Seaside.
02:59Oh no, no, I'm going to Woodmere.
03:02Yes, that's the way your ticket reads, but this train goes to Seaside.
03:08Seaside?
03:12Well, I will have to change.
03:15You can't. It's non-stop all the way.
03:18What can I do?
03:20Nothing.
03:31Seaside?
03:38Here.
04:02Let's order Peter a chicken sandwich.
04:07Okay.
04:13Norman.
04:15That girl staring at you with the most peculiar expression on her face.
04:31Norman, what's the matter?
04:38Norman, do you know her?
04:42Norman, do you know her?
04:47No, I don't know her.
04:50I never saw her before.
04:53In my life.
05:08Norman, please, what's the matter?
05:13I don't know.
05:27Hello.
05:29Yes, ma'am.
05:31What time is the next train for Boston, please?
05:33What time is the next train for Boston, please?
05:36There's three tomorrow.
05:38Oh no, tonight. I mean as soon as possible.
05:41There's none tonight.
05:49Oh, thank you.
05:58Need a taxi, lady?
06:00No, thank you.
06:02Oh, yes.
06:04Yes, I want to go to a hotel.
06:06Anyone particular?
06:07No.
06:08No, I've never been here before.
06:11Well, I can make a recommendation.
06:13You can try the Hotel Alton.
06:15It's the newest one here.
06:16It's quiet, comfortable, nice people go there.
06:18I want to go to the Seacliff House.
06:21Those your bags?
06:22Oh, yes.
06:25I thought you said you were never here before.
06:29Taxi's over there, lady.
06:50Taxi, mister?
06:52Yes.
06:53Where'd you like to go?
06:54Seacliff House.
06:55Sure thing.
06:56You're having trouble with me, son.
07:16Well, here we are.
07:17Two fares and both to the same place.
07:20Tell you what I'll do.
07:22I won't charge you two fares or as little as one.
07:25Is that fair enough?
07:27You folks just make yourself comfortable
07:28and I'll take care of your baggage.
07:36It's a pretty town, isn't it?
07:42I imagine it's busier than this ordinarily.
07:45In season it is.
09:42We know each other.
09:44I know.
09:46I don't know how that is, though.
09:48I live in Chicago.
09:50Evanston.
09:51I used to go down to Evanston
09:52two or three times a month on business.
09:55Do you know Newton Falls in Massachusetts?
09:57Just outside Boston.
09:59I lived there all my life.
10:03That was your wife with you and your son.
10:05Yes.
10:10Have you ever been to this place before?
10:14I think so.
10:16When I was a little boy with my father.
10:19I think I was here once before.
10:22As I remember, it was late in the fall.
10:27Why?
10:29Why do you make me feel so...
10:31unsettled?
10:37I've never been to this place before.
10:41I never heard the name of this place before today.
10:43And yet I...
10:45I do know it.
10:48I have a feeling that...
10:51this is second chance.
10:53Yes.
10:55This is the second chance.
11:01Look.
11:04There they are.
11:07They fly south and nest
11:09in far places.
11:10And then something draws them back again.
11:13And the fledglings return
11:15from wherever their parents came.
11:18Did you know that sometimes year after year
11:20without ever having seen it before,
11:22the fledgling returns to the nest
11:24the parents used to nest?
11:30Are you married?
11:33No.
11:35But I will be
11:37in a month.
11:38There's something I want to tell you.
11:41No, no.
11:44No, please don't, please.
11:46I've got to tell you.
11:49My wife and I have been married
11:51for almost 10 years.
11:54I have never looked at another woman.
11:57I have never looked at another woman
12:00before.
12:01I have never looked at another woman
12:04before.
12:10You were what?
12:32Please.
12:36Don't avoid me.
12:40I'm just trying to straighten this thing out.
12:44I'm not a boy.
12:46I don't play games
12:48and I don't flirt.
12:50I feel as if I'm being
12:53torn apart.
12:55And I know you feel that way too.
12:57Please.
12:59Please.
13:01Please leave me alone.
13:32Oh, you cut your cheek.
13:35I'm all right.
13:37I'm all right.
13:39Why did you go riding off by yourself?
13:41Because I had to have time
13:43to think about us.
13:45Because I had to be by myself.
13:47I don't want you to be by yourself.
13:49Why do you always run away from me?
13:51I don't want to let you out of my sight.
13:53How do you think I must feel?
13:55You don't love me.
13:57I don't love you.
13:59I don't love you.
14:01You're another woman's husband
14:03and I've got you in my thoughts all the time.
14:05Whatever I do, wherever I am, I think about you.
14:07Then don't think about me.
14:09Need me, I need you.
14:11Be with me.
14:13No. No, I want to go.
14:15Let me go. Please.
14:25I don't know
14:27what it is
14:29but it's clearer now.
14:33Yes.
14:36Yes.
14:42I'll tell you something else.
14:46The fight ends
14:49and we go walking together
14:52in the woods.
14:53And...
14:55and there's a waterfall
14:58and we sit there hand in hand.
15:03It's the last day.
15:05It's all we have
15:08but it's full.
15:11It's a wonderful day.
15:14It ends sadly
15:16not painfully
15:19but it's full.
15:20Not painfully
15:23it's just emptiness
15:25and sorrow for a while
15:28and then it's forgotten.
15:30This is all we have then.
15:35What?
15:39I think we can find the waterfall that way.
15:50Yes.
16:09Are you ashamed now?
16:11No.
16:13Because it's part of goodbye.
16:16Please.
16:18Please let me persuade you.
16:19Please stay with me.
16:21You're married and I'm engaged.
16:24We're not children.
16:26No.
16:29I'm going home.
16:32I know.
16:34I take the morning train.
16:36I know.
16:39Which of this is real and which is fantasy?
16:42Can you sort it out?
16:47I love you.
16:49I know.
17:20Norman.
17:35I love you.
17:38Have you stopped loving me
17:41or is this something else?
17:45This is something else.
17:47This is something else.
18:02Can you explain it to me?
18:05I don't know.
18:07Would you try?
18:09I'd have to understand it myself first.
18:11I was talking to the manager earlier.
18:13He said in the old days
18:14Japanese people used to dance out here.
18:16That's why the Japanese lanterns are still here.
18:19There were lanterns out here in a band every night.
18:23He said he'd love to see people dancing again.
18:26Japanese lanterns.
18:29And on Thursday nights
18:31fireworks.
18:34Yes.
18:37That's what he said.
18:40Did you talk with him too?
18:45I have to see her once more.
18:59Come on in Harriet.
19:01I'll be down in a minute.
19:14John.
19:22John.
19:33Mother.
19:39I need to tell you something.
19:42I need to tell you.
19:44What is your first name?
19:46Norman Bromley.
19:48Yes of course.
19:51When I was young
19:53before I married your father
19:55I went on vacation to Seaside.
19:59I met a young man there
20:01John Bromley.
20:03He had a very young son with him.
20:05I imagine that was you.
20:09I understood that he was married
20:12just the same I was drawn to him.
20:14And he to me.
20:16We met simply enough on a cliff
20:18overlooking the sea.
20:21There were wild birds flying overhead
20:23and we talked of the strange compulsion
20:26that marvelous impulse
20:28that causes them to migrate so far each year.
20:32His wife was jealous.
20:35She saw him talking to me one morning
20:37and made a scene.
20:39I didn't really blame her.
20:41Out of shame and guilt
20:42and I must confess out of anger
20:44I took one of the horses
20:46and rode out along a road I knew.
20:48Your father rode after me.
20:51We quarreled
20:53and then made up.
20:55We walked in the woods
20:57and found a waterfall
20:59and held hands.
21:01No more.
21:03That evening we danced
21:05and I kissed him.
21:07No more.
21:09The next morning I went home
21:11I loved your father dearly.
21:14I thought little about Mr. Bromley
21:16after that time.
21:18I want you to understand
21:20I never thought of him again
21:23until after your father died last year.
21:27You must believe me.
21:30But lately I've thought about it all again
21:33and again and again.
21:35Shortly after I came back from Seaside
21:37John came to see me.
21:39He said that he was making a good marriage
21:41with his wife.
21:43He brought me a present.
21:45This.
21:47I've always kept it.
21:50Do you remember when you were a little girl
21:52how you used to love to listen to the sound
21:54of the water running?
21:56Yes.
21:58I remember.
22:00I remember.
22:01Do you remember when you were a little girl
22:03how you used to love to listen to the sound
22:05of the ocean captured in this shell?
22:08Mr. Bromley
22:10do you understand why I've told you all this?
22:13Marianne came back from Seaside
22:15and told me what had happened.
22:17I realized that somehow
22:19in some way that I'm not able to explain
22:22you two were living out my dream.
22:27I want to free you.
22:29I want to free you both.
22:34I'm free.
22:39I'm free.
22:46He left his package.
23:01He left his package.
23:32When Marianne
23:34is married
23:36and her daughter is grown
23:39I suppose there'll be three shells.
23:43The wild bird
23:45is drawn to a nest
23:47it has never seen.
23:50The part
23:52remembers the whole
23:54and out of it the limb of a starfish
23:56and out of it the limb of a starfish
23:58and out of it the limb of a starfish
23:59and out of it the limb of a starfish
24:01creates the parent
24:03from which it was torn.
24:06Now do you suppose that we only inherit
24:08the color of our eyes
24:10the shape of our heads
24:12or is there a deeper memory
24:14in every cell?
24:17A genetic memory.
24:21And we don't really know
24:23do we?
24:29No.
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