Shadows Of Fear (1970) Episode 4 The Death Watcher
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01:00I bet you thought you'd pack that. thank you darling. what the hell's a passport for?
01:20you're not fleeing the country are you? he asked me to take it. I imagine it's
01:24for some variation of the Shalabach test. well some people seem to think you need
01:29them to get over to the other world. but you don't. of course not darling.
01:34it sounds like an out and out quack. I don't know why he's asked you an unbeliever. I think
01:40you're mad to go. I'm not an unbeliever. I'm a non-believer. I have an open mind.
01:44oh darling let me enjoy it. I've never been a well-known author before.
01:50and besides he's paying me 25 pounds for the weekend. Guinness. we might blow some of
01:55it on a few days in Wales. I don't have to lecture for a fortnight. oh we could
01:59look up the Hamiltons. you're sure the University doesn't mind? well of course
02:02not. it's my subject. I think I'll take the tape recorder as well.
02:06well you never know. there might be some things that go bump in the night. do you
02:11really think it's fair to take his money? I mean I bet his theories are quite
02:15potty. where are those new cassettes? oh he wants me to observe what he calls some
02:21psychic phenomena. well he's read Frontier so he knows where I stand. I
02:25have an open mind. I wish we knew more about him. Sarah put her toys away.
02:34well it's time for some coffee. shall I make some? it's obviously no use my
02:40saying anything. you'll do what you want in the end anyway. I wish you were coming
02:44with me. so do I darling.
02:50she looks quite harmless but then they all do. would you like me to wear my
02:56hospital whites doctor? I've brought them with me. no I think not. you should be as
03:00unobtrusive as possible. she's an extremely brilliant woman except for
03:05this lack of balance. you'll have to keep your wits about you. no need to worry
03:09doctor. we had all types at Broadhurst. I should relax if I were you. you're not
03:16likely to get much peace in the next few nights. by the way if you make a
03:27success of this I shan't fail to mention it to the Mental Health Foundation. it
03:31could lead you to some lucrative work. they're frequently in touch with wealthy
03:35parents who have non-volitional patients. thank you doctor. thank you very much.
04:16Mrs. Erickson. yes? I'm dr. Pickering. oh thank heavens I found you. we were meant
04:33to be meeting at Harwich. yes. there's been a mix-up I'm afraid. you see I had
04:39been to be coming back from the continent today and I plan to meet you
04:42at Harwich and take you back. but in fact I got back last night. the car is waiting
04:51at Ipswich by the way. where are we going? oh didn't I say in my letter? no. I have
04:58this place at Bassett. it's rather out in the wilds. the suffocating in Suffolk as
05:05some of the wits put it.
05:42tell me dr. Pickering. do you have a ghost here? not really. not yet.
05:51oh there you are Dawson. this is mrs. Erickson. good evening. good evening miss.
06:13Dawson looks after us. it's certainly isolated. that's the reason I bought the
06:18place. when mother died, oh years ago now, I felt the need to get away from
06:23everyone. no intrusive factors. the village is nothing to speak of. just a
06:28sub post office and store. half the cottages are empty now. no industry and
06:33the land isn't much good. oh you might take the things up Dawson. now sir? yes I
06:40think so. we'll be all right for the moment. can I take this miss? thank you.
06:52shall we go in?
06:55is Dawson local? no he isn't actually. sit down let me get you a drink.
07:12now what will it be? do you have a scotch? nothing with it. of course. he's a
07:20wiry little fellow isn't he? it gives me a sense of security. by the way there's
07:27another security arrangement I should warn you about. we leave Caesar loose in
07:31the house at night. he's a Rhodesian Ridgeback. vicious
07:35brutes. there have been several break-ins in the neighborhood recently. that's why
07:40I got him. you're quite self-contained up there with your own bath. no need to
07:44stir until I call you. I've never seen a Ridgeback. well they're quite noiseless
07:49you know. that's why they're so dangerous. on you before you know it.
07:54don't worry I won't stir. good health. cheers.
08:04helps to relax you after that filthy journey. I should rather like to know why
08:12you've invited me here doctor. may I say how great an admirer I am of yours. I
08:16thought the unknown frontier was a fascinating book. thank you but a lot of
08:20the credit should really go to my department. perhaps I should be frank and
08:25explain that I am NOT an authority on psychic phenomena. we have continuing
08:29studies on ESP and telepathy of course at the University but I'm afraid I'm one
08:34of the skeptics. that makes you the perfect witness. your work has equipped
08:38you to understand the nature of psychic experiment. anyone can persuade someone
08:42who wants to believe. I hope I won't disappoint you. you see I believe we can
08:47communicate with the dead in a completely new way. it sounds an
08:51out-and-out quack. oh really? please hear me out. the words you used in your letter were
08:56scientific experiment. I don't mean the orthodox quackery that goes on. voices
09:01from the past, ectoplasms, that kind of thing. I mean something completely
09:06original. it was your book that first gave me the idea that communication
09:10could exist other than by speech and visual method. oh but I've never suggested
09:14that communicating with the dead is possible. and then you were on that
09:17commission that examined the behavior of football crowds where one of your
09:20findings was that there was a possible chemical means of communicating hysteria.
09:24in any case I'm an empiricist. that sort of stuff has no place in my work. well
09:30would you accept the premise that methods of communication could exist?
09:33after all you have that in your book. mood transmission in rats you gave as
09:42an example. and then let us assume that there is in fact an afterlife. after all
09:48half the world believes in this. one could safely assume that half the
09:52scientists do too. I want you to acknowledge the possibility of dualism.
09:57I can't. I don't believe that mind and matter are divisible. many leading
10:02psychologists do. you're being arrogant mrs. Erickson. let us assume for the sake
10:10of my theory that they are right. that we have a mental span of existence
10:13separate from our physical span. and if we end a physical life by an act of
10:18violence which is abnormal then the possibility of death... I'm sorry dr.
10:22Pickering. the whole business is completely outside my sphere of interest.
10:25I can't even go a little way with it. you've really got hold of the wrong
10:28person. why don't you get in touch with the
10:31committee for psychical studies or publish a paper perhaps. but I'm a
10:34scientist like you. most of their experience is hallucinatory. they're only
10:38interested in mediums and the like a lot of whom are fraudulent. they're mixed up
10:42don't you see. please let me go on. I have five scientific points to make. one
10:49we have the possibility of a chemical means of communication. two we have
10:53dualism. separate lifespans for body and soul. now I want you to consider my third
10:58premise. I bet his theories are quite potty. is there a train back to Liverpool
11:06Street tonight? no I'm afraid there isn't. nothing till the morning. all I want to
11:13do is to substitute method for madness. I had hope. another drink. no thank you. a
11:22nightcap perhaps. I won't if you don't mind. I'm rather tired. could we leave it
11:28now? yes of course. I'll show you your room. thank you.
11:45you might ponder on what I said in the morning perhaps. perhaps. you could stay
11:50on. I'd pay you of course. I'm afraid pressure of work. but you have no
11:54lectures for a fortnight. no but how did you know that? didn't you say so on the
12:00train? up here. that's Dawson's room. this used to be the nursery. in fact Dawson
12:14has the old nanny's quarters. he's there if you need anything. there we are.
12:21plenty of hot water if you feel like a bath. I see Dawson's brought your case up.
12:29this is what remains of the nursery. it was here when I bought the place. become
12:37quite attached to it. do you like tea or coffee in the morning? well tea if
12:42there's any going. I don't mind. no there's always tea. I'm sorry I can't be
12:47of any help to you. I know what it is to get obsessed with a theory but it would
12:50be completely pointless. please don't worry about it. sleep well. good night.
13:02dr. Pickering what are you doing? it's all right mrs. Erickson. I'm just going
13:09to let Caesar off you see. well if you don't mind I'd rather have it unlocked.
13:13please don't worry. it's a precaution we take with all our guests. oh please if
13:20you don't mind.
13:51I wish we knew more about him.
13:55she's quite calm at the moment. I've been trying to interest her in something.
14:21tomorrow will be the testing time. she'll be up early I expect. she's having a
14:28bath. yes that's right she's having a bath.
14:34you might as well turn in I think. thank you doctor.
16:51if things go very badly and I have to use narcosis then there'll be no problem
17:13about your day off. you better wait in the living room. I'm in here mrs. Erickson.
17:38good morning. I hope you slept well. there's bacon here and an egg if you'd
17:44like it. I'd rather like to ring my husband if I may. I'm afraid you can't do
17:48that. the lines have been down since the storm. they usually take a day or two. oh
17:52well never mind I'll walk down to the village. it's not far is it? do have some
17:56breakfast. well I'm not really hungry but I would like to phone my family and
18:00check on a train. it's left at the bottom of the drive isn't it? I'm afraid I can't
18:06allow you to do that. what do you mean? there is a parallel you know in
18:11pathology. for example the necessity of sterilization in the operating theater.
18:17if we're to explore some means of extra-sensory communication it's best
18:22that our mind should be immune. do you see the point? I'm sorry dr. Bickering. I
18:26thought I made myself clear last night. I'm really not interested in what you're
18:30trying to prove I'm going home this morning. in fact I'll say goodbye now and
18:34pick up a taxi from the village. I can't allow you to go.
18:52will you open the door for me please Dawson? what the bloody hell is going on
18:58here? open the door.
19:05will you tell your servant to let me out? I can't do that mrs. Erickson. in the
19:15interests of science. I beg you not to get excited. I had hoped that you'd be
19:23interested in my work mrs. Erickson for its interest alone. that's why I asked
19:28you down here. I'm completely dedicated you see.
19:59do come and have some breakfast mrs. Erickson.
20:08surely we'd better if we try to discuss the situation rationally. you'd better do
20:14as he says miss. please mrs. Erickson.
20:23you'll only get hurt mrs. Erickson. I'd rather you stayed out of this doctor.
20:27please put it down mrs. Erickson.
20:34you see there's absolutely no point in getting aggressive. now will you
20:37promise to behave? I'm sorry miss. let go of my arm. you're hurting me. I think she'd
20:44better go up to her room until she's calmed down. will you let go?
20:57you'd better do as he says miss. lie down for a while.
21:57it's all right Dawson. I'll go. it's only mrs. Tindall. help! help! please go to the
22:06police. please don't stop her Dawson. let her make as much noise as she likes.
22:18good morning mrs. Tindall. your order doctor. thank you.
22:23you didn't say about the cheese doctor. I put in New Zealand. thank you mrs. Tindall.
22:30go to the police. my name is Erickson. tell the police I'm being kept here.
22:37I'm afraid we have a rather difficult patient mrs. Tindall. don't half make a fuss
22:42don't they? anyone like that in my husband's family had to be put away.
22:49all to do away with folk when they get that bad really. I mean it'd be a
22:53mercy for the poor souls. we must never give up hope mrs. Tindall. oh right well
22:59cheery-bye then doctor. goodbye.
23:07please help me. my name is Erickson. I'm being kept here against my will. please go to the police.
23:23I'm afraid we have a rather difficult patient. my name is Erickson. I'm being kept here against my will. please go to the police.
23:53music
24:17when the police find me you'll face charges. my husband knows where I've gone.
24:20he knows that you went to Harwich and that you took your passport. when I don't
24:28get back he'll call the police. I don't think he will mrs. Erickson. you see he'll
24:33have this cable from Amsterdam saying that you've gone on to a conference and
24:36telling him not to worry. one of my correspondents is sending it. he thinks
24:41it's part of a transastral experiment. well there's one thing wrong with your
24:45elaborate plan. if ever I'm away from home for more than a day I always ring
24:48my daughter in the evening to say good night. they'll think you're busy and even
24:54if it's true you could be anywhere don't you see? they won't know where to look.
24:58well they will soon. whoever came in that car will have heard me. I shouldn't count
25:02on that mrs. Erickson. well someone will remember me from the train. can you
25:08remember the faces of the people who traveled with you a week ago? I think
25:12you're mad to go. why are you so arrogant mrs. Erickson? I'm not arrogant. I'm
25:21bloody furious. you're arrogant because you won't even consider my theory
25:25seriously. you won't even listen to me. there are hundreds of psychologists with
25:28expensively trained minds throughout the world's universities who are consistently
25:31exploring telepathy and psychic matter and you expect me to take your
25:34half-baked ideas seriously? they're probably as arrogant as you. people from the
25:39leading universities of Europe thought that the Sun went round the earth until
25:42Copernicus proved it otherwise. many leading scientists didn't know why the
25:46tide went in and out until Galileo... all right you've made your point. now what I
25:55plan to do is to explain each step in my theory and then to test the hypothesis
26:00with a scientific experiment. what we lack of course is any tradition of
26:05observation but even from lay experience we can make a few premises. I told you
26:09the first last night. one, extrasensory communication. two, dualism. now I want
26:17you to consider my third point which is this. throughout history and mythology
26:21the ghost has always been represented as a figure of tragedy. there are no happy
26:26ghosts because they are spirits whose lifespan has been brutally ended.
26:32ah hmm is it recent? last summer. we went to Devon. please take it.
26:49I suppose the press will have to be brought in. oh not at this point. we'll
26:54alert all districts to begin with and check the accident boards and of course
26:57we'll follow up the cable from Amsterdam. then if we still have no luck we'll
27:02review the situation. let me give you some comfort mr. Erikson. in my
27:10experience and I've been in the force now for nearly 40 years eight out of ten
27:16persons reported missing invariably turn up again during the first week. it's five
27:21days now.
27:32you've hardly eaten anything for two days miss.
27:41Dawson he's told you I'm mad hasn't he? what do I have to do to convince you I'm
27:49quite sane? he's keeping me here to prove some crazy theory. well do I look mad
27:57Dawson? you're not mad miss. you're just not very well at the moment that's all.
28:01but suppose you're wrong and I'm right. you'll go to prison as an accessory. well
28:09do you realize that? everything will be all right mrs. Erikson. you see I've
28:14looked after lots of patients. you can always tell the ones that are going to
28:17get well. I've worked at Broadhurst. I've seen the worst. Broadhurst? but they know
28:23me there. I did three months postgraduate work there before I went up to London. I
28:27know them all. well Copeland and Wallace and mrs. Chambers. well ask any of them.
28:35they'll tell you who I am. I know you were there.
28:39dr. Pickering's got the papers. what papers? well that's where they put you
28:43when you did away with your child.
28:51I don't know what papers you're talking about.
28:57if there are any papers he must have forged them. he's planned everything. the
29:04whole thing. well don't you see that? please lie down miss. try and get some rest.
29:12Dawson?
29:17Dawson? he's a liar Dawson. he forged those papers. well I'll ask him to show
29:26you the committal certificate. oh god.
29:32I asked to see you because I've been thinking about what you've said so far.
29:55I think that could be something in your theory after all. that's splendid mrs.
30:02Erickson. so I'll stay another week as you suggested and I'll give you all the
30:07help I can as long as you let me telephone my family and explain I'm all
30:12right. well they'll be terrified. don't you see that? my daughter is only eight.
30:18they got your cable. well they won't believe it. they'll know something is
30:23wrong. you can write a letter tonight and Dawson can post it tomorrow. well if I
30:28could just speak now. I'm afraid that's quite out of the question. I don't want
30:33you to speak to anyone. for the purpose of our work I want your mind to be
30:38isolated. that is only in contact with mine. have you writing materials with you?
30:45good. that's settled then. now I want to proceed to my next premise which is the
30:51most important. you would agree that people have always shivered when they've
30:56seen a ghost. their knees not. they've said afterwards they were shaking. others
31:01have been more specific. they've mentioned that when spirits were present
31:04it was distinctly colder. the temperature was lowered. clammy is a word
31:09frequently used. you agree so far? it's obviously no use my saying anything.
31:15you'll do what you want in the end anyway. do you agree? well it's not
31:23scientific but I agree that's what people say. so now this is important
31:29mrs. Erickson. because cold is a constant factor on almost every reported
31:34occasion I submit that a spirit needs energy to manifest itself. it requires
31:38the heat in a room. it's quite logical don't you see? we require energy for
31:45thought which is a purely mental process. a scholar can be exhausted at the end of
31:50the day. he hasn't moved but he's used energy. I don't see where the
31:53communication comes in. it never has before. that is why my theory is
31:57original. putting it simply a ghostly mind a mind removed from a body with no
32:04heat of its own needs the heat of a room or someone in the room before it can
32:08manifest itself. the trouble is I've spent months with dictionaries of
32:12national biography and I've been unable to find one scientist who studied ESP
32:16and telepathy who's yet died by violent means. that's my great problem. a violent
32:21death is necessary before there is a need to communicate. if that is the case
32:25which I doubt you can hardly put your hypothesis to the test dr. Bickering.
32:28quite so but if on the other hand one of us was to die by violent means we could
32:32verify the theory immediately. it's hardly worth your committing suicide.
32:38oh
32:53no
32:58you're going to kill me aren't you? that's why you tricked me into coming.
33:05why I can't tell my family where I am. what you're saying is quite ridiculous.
33:11you're lying. please sit down mrs. Erickson. you're getting hysterical. but it won't work.
33:16the police will be looking for me now. Dawson he wants to kill me Dawson.
33:22now don't take on this. I tell you he does Dawson to prove some potty theory.
33:26well can't you see he's the one that's mad. Dawson help me.
33:35oh what has happened? what have you done Dawson? she's fainted doctor.
34:06is she settled? yes doctor. I gave her two cc's of sodium amytol. you know how
34:15to give intramuscular injections. yes of course. it's a distressing case. if I find
34:22it impossible to continue the present treatment you won't lose financially. no
34:26need to worry about that. yes doctor. incidentally you can have your day off
34:31tomorrow. I'll continue the present treatment. I'd rather stay with her
34:35doctor if you don't mind while she's so upset. but I'm continuing the narcosis
34:40so there's nothing to see to. you can go after breakfast. there's a bus at 9 15.
34:46very well doctor if you feel you can manage. of course I can Dawson. that's
34:50settled then. good night.
35:05you know miss this will never do. you've got to keep your strength up.
35:34Dawson?
35:37Dawson? you have a nice long rest then you'll feel better.
35:45it's my day off today. if you're a good girl I'll bring you back a present.
35:52it's her. Dawson. don't go. he wants to kill me. calm down miss. you know that's nonsense.
36:08don't leave me. you'll be quite safe with the doctor. he's not a doctor. he wants to murder me.
36:17you mustn't leave me. don't go. calm down miss. have a nice rest. I'll be back before you know it.
37:17I'll be back.
37:47I'll be back.
38:17I'll be back.
38:47I'll be back.
39:17I'll be back.
39:47I'll be back.
39:49thank you. oh yes lot goes on in the village in the summer but you won't be
40:17here to see it I dare say. I don't know. it depends. depends on what?
40:24mystery man aren't you? just like him. I can't see the sense in having that great
40:30partner of a place can you? funny sort of nursing home only seems to use it once
40:34or twice a year. but I thought it was his home. oh it is. but he seems to be abroad
40:42most of the time. cos they do say he has a private income. he was only here three
40:47weeks last year. had a girl with him then. September time it was. I remember cos we
40:53were picking fruit in the field across from the house. always waving a towel or
40:58something from the window she was. oh I suspect she was lonely. I would be too.
41:03not a house to be seen.
41:05I'm sorry it's important.
41:35are you awake? Dawson's gone you see. he's going to the cinema in Halesburg.
42:01please don't struggle. I should like to have danced with you first. it may sound
42:14frivolous but I mean it. there's a certain communication involved there.
42:19have you noticed how some couples have a much more highly developed intuition?
42:23they dance as one. there is instinctive anticipation. I used to be very good at
42:33ballroom dancing. these are my trophies. once I reached the county finals with a
42:42girl. her name was Beryl Harcourt. we were completely in sympathy you see. that's
42:53why I made her the subject of my first experiment. after she'd gone I used to
43:01play the gramophone in my bedroom for hours on end. we used to do speciality
43:09tango. there's a lot of jealousy and backbiting in those competitions you
43:15know.
43:23operator I want long distance Broadhurst three five double seven. you do see the
43:44point about the dancing. it's a kind of aptitude test. it shows which people are
43:51most sensitive to another's influence. in one night as I danced alone I suddenly
44:02felt barrels in my arms. it was colder as if someone had opened a window. she
44:12seemed to be leading. I had no control. was moving like a puppet. it was as if
44:20she was trying to tell me something with the steps. then the record came to
44:27an end. I was afraid to move. I let the needle run on but nothing happened. I
44:37remember standing there in the intense cold for almost an hour while the record
44:43rasped on and on. I tried again of course. week after week. it never happened again.
44:53you see although she was there she couldn't communicate with me. she
45:00couldn't experiment because she had an untrained mind. not like you.
45:13the police didn't even come to see me. it was sometime since we danced
45:33professionally. there were 746 people reported missing that year. she was one
45:41of them. Dawson will be gone in the morning. when he gets back I'll tell him
45:47that I've had to send you to a home. that our facilities here were not adequate
45:52for your treatment. you know all about imprinting. I believe that just as we can
46:05imprint parenthood in the first few weeks of life in the same way we can
46:11imprint just before death. my image is the last thing you'll see. and I'll be
46:22here in that chair every night.
46:35ah
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46:51ah
46:53ah
46:55it's all right. it's only Mrs. Tindall's lost.
47:05get help anywhere you like. get to the hospital. someone round here quick.
47:19I realize this is possibly the greatest scientific experiment in its field
47:37that's ever been made. if we are successful we change the whole concept of
47:42the psyche as such.
47:44ah
47:46ah
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48:22what are you up to? you've been having me on.
48:24no violence. no violence. please.
48:26ah
48:28ah
48:30ah
48:32ah
48:34ah
48:36ah
48:38ah
48:40he was gonna drown me.
48:42no no
48:44he showed me those papers.
48:46you don't realize what you've done. you keep your distance.
48:48your stupidity
48:50has ruined a piece of unique research.
48:52I shall
48:54have to start again.
48:56all over again.
48:58it's criminal.
49:06ah
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49:12she's asleep.
49:14poor Sarah.
49:16ah
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49:24ah
49:26that was the CID man on the phone before.
49:28ah
49:30Pickering's dead.
49:32ah
49:34dead?
49:36killed himself in the ambulance apparently.
49:38seems he had a
49:40hat pin hidden on him somewhere.
49:42Spencer said it wasn't very nice.
49:44almost
49:46as if he was trying to torture himself.
49:48ah
49:50ah
49:52ah
49:54he was holding your photograph when he did it apparently.
49:56ah
49:58ah
50:00ah
50:02ah
50:04ah
50:06well at least it'll save all that ghastly business of a trial.
50:10you sure you're all right?
50:14it's terribly hot in here.
50:16do you mind if I open a window?
50:20I'm cold.
50:22I'm very cold.
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