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00:00Well, hello there. How are you?
00:28You're new here, aren't you?
00:30Are you just visiting? Is that it? Just visiting someone in the building?
00:35You're a quiet one, aren't you?
00:39Not much to say, is that it?
00:43I'm kind of an expert on children. Quiet ones, noisy ones, all kinds.
00:48I teach school.
00:50I know. I know all about you.
00:53You do?
00:55Well, how about a cup of nice hot chocolate?
00:58That's the first thing I usually make when I come home from school. A cup of nice hot chocolate.
01:03I know. But you don't like marshmallows, do you?
01:09You're right, I don't.
01:12I don't either.
01:17Here we are.
01:21Oh, don't you think we ought to tell your mother where you are?
01:24We wouldn't want her to be worried.
01:25That won't be necessary.
01:34Well, I'll just put the milk on.
01:36I'm in no hurry.
01:37I'm in no hurry.
01:44Month of November.
01:45Hot chocolate.
01:47And a small cameo of a child's face.
01:50Imperfect only in its solemnity.
01:53And these are the improbable ingredients to a human emotion.
01:57An emotion, say, like fear.
02:00But in a moment, this woman, Helen Foley, will realize fear.
02:04She will understand what are the properties of terror.
02:08A little girl will lead her by the hand and walk with her into a nightmare.
02:12Here you are.
02:31Hope it isn't too rich.
02:35No, it's fine.
02:37I'm glad it isn't too hot.
02:39I don't much like very hot things.
02:41I don't blame you.
02:45Of course you don't.
02:47You got burnt once.
02:48That scar right below your elbow.
02:52You remember?
02:54Of course I remember.
02:57How did it happen?
03:03Well...
03:05Actually, I don't remember.
03:06A lot of things I don't recall at a certain age.
03:16Something happened to me then and...
03:19I'm not...
03:20...sure exactly what it was.
03:22There are some things I'm rather vague about.
03:26I know that.
03:28I know that very well.
03:30I know all about you.
03:31Don't you remember?
03:35Yes.
03:37I remember that you said that.
03:39Do people look familiar to you sometimes?
03:43What do you mean?
03:45I mean...
03:47...when you pass people on the streets...
03:50...or see them in a bank...
03:52...or they walk by you.
03:54Do they look familiar to you?
03:56Sometimes.
03:59Today?
04:02Today?
04:04Yes, today.
04:06Did someone go by you today...
04:08...who looked familiar?
04:12No.
04:16Really?
04:17It's not polite to contradict people.
04:21I told you that I didn't.
04:27Did you remember?
04:35Yes.
04:38Yes, there was someone.
04:40Outside the school...
04:42...when you were crossing the street...
04:44...there was a man in a car.
04:45There was a man in a car.
04:50There was a man in a car.
04:52He stopped for a red light.
04:54I looked at him through the windshield.
04:57And you recognized him?
04:59No.
05:03No, I didn't recognize him.
05:05But...
05:07He...
05:09He looked so...
05:11So familiar to you.
05:13He made you frightened, didn't he?
05:16Of course he did.
05:21What are you talking about?
05:23I know he looks familiar.
05:25And I know he frightens me.
05:27Just like he frightens you.
05:32Who are you?
05:34What's your name? Where are you from?
05:36I live around here.
05:38And I have a nickname.
05:40People call me...
05:41Marky.
05:43That's not my real name.
05:45But that's what people call me.
05:49Marky. Did you hear?
05:51Yes, I heard Marky.
05:54It's a very pretty name.
05:55Is that all you've got to say?
05:59It's a very cute name.
06:01What more did you want me to say?
06:03Nothing.
06:05I just thought...
06:09Feeling warm.
06:10Is it warm?
06:15Yes.
06:17It is a bit warm, don't you think?
06:19I don't think so.
06:21I think it's very comfortable.
06:26Someone's coming!
06:27We're not the only people on the floor.
06:28There are four other apartments.
06:30I know that, but...
06:31Whoever's coming is coming here.
06:33I'm going out the back door.
06:34I don't want to be here.
06:36Look, honey, there's nothing to be afraid of.
06:38Yes, there is.
06:39Goodbye.
06:40I'll come back later.
06:46Yes?
06:48Miss Foley?
06:49Miss Helen Foley?
06:50Yes, who is it?
06:58It's Peter Seldon, Miss Foley.
06:59I don't know whether you remember me or not, but I knew your mother very well.
07:14Do you remember me?
07:17You do look familiar.
07:21Didn't I see you...
07:23In front of the school?
07:24Yes, that's right.
07:25I was stopped for a red light.
07:28I thought you looked at me a little oddly.
07:33Do you mind if I come in for a moment?
07:35No, please do.
07:37It's been a lot of years, Miss Foley.
07:4018 or 19, to be exact.
07:44Won't you sit down?
07:51I've got you stumped, huh?
07:52Well, it's no wonder.
07:53You were just a little girl at the time.
07:55Couldn't have been more than 10 or 11.
07:58I used to work for your mother.
08:01Selden.
08:03Any bells yet, Peter Selden?
08:07I do seem to recall.
08:10I'd heard that you...
08:12Well, after the tragic thing happened, you were ill for a long time.
08:22Were you ever able to recall exactly what it was that...
08:26Well, what I mean is, Miss Foley, you drew a blank after that evening.
08:35I wonder if it ever came back to you.
08:38Uh...
08:40Oh...
08:42Only vague, disjointed things.
08:44That's all.
08:46You were in the room when it happened.
08:48When what happened?
08:49I...
08:54I...
08:55suffered a...
08:56kind of a shock.
08:57A trauma, the doctors called it.
09:00And then after I recuperated, I...
09:03moved to Chicago and I lived with an aunt.
09:06I've only been back here a year or so.
09:07I teach school now.
09:09Yes, I heard that.
09:11Well, I was just passing through town on business and someone pointed you out to me and...
09:15I wanted to stop and just say hello.
09:20You say you worked for my mother?
09:22Yes, I worked for her almost a year.
09:26I don't seem to recall.
09:28I handled some of her investments for her at the time.
09:33Selden, you say.
09:35That's right, Selden.
09:38Well, it's wonderful to see you grown up the way you have.
09:41Just as beautiful as you were when you were a little girl.
09:44I had quite a crush on you.
09:45I...
09:46lived in the same apartment building.
09:51I heard you screaming that night.
09:55I was the first one to...
09:57to find her.
10:01Tragic, terrible thing, your mother being killed like that.
10:05And they never found the man who did it, did they?
10:08Did they?
10:13Uh...
10:14No, I don't think they did.
10:18Though I can't be sure.
10:21There are so many things I don't remember that happened at that time.
10:25All I remember is...
10:28a kind of vague, nightmarish thing.
10:31waking up in my bed,
10:35hearing my mother scream and...
10:39and...
10:42and seeing...
10:44this person.
10:46This person.
10:48Did you see his face?
10:50Oh...
10:54No, I...
10:55I...
10:56I don't really...
10:58I don't really know.
10:59I'm not sure.
11:01It's one of the things I've forgotten,
11:03or at least pushed out of my mind.
11:08Are you here for a while, Mr. Selden?
11:10No, I...
11:11I was just passing through.
11:13I guess you said that.
11:14I forgot.
11:18Would you like a cup of coffee or cocoa?
11:21No, thank you.
11:29What's the matter, Miss Foley?
11:34That's odd.
11:36I thought she'd finished her cocoa, and...
11:40here it is, untouched.
11:44Here's odd.
11:46She's an odd little thing herself.
11:48Who?
11:50The little girl who was here.
11:52The strangest little thing.
11:55So...
11:57solemn and wise and...
12:01It's the only way I can describe her.
12:05Well, I guess I'd better be going.
12:12I have to ask her how she does the trick.
12:14Sit there sipping cocoa and leave a full cup.
12:17Little Marky.
12:20Marky?
12:23Well, that's her nickname.
12:25She wouldn't tell me her real name.
12:27Little Marky, that's what she calls herself.
12:30That was your nickname, Miss Foley, when you were a little girl.
12:33They called you Marky.
12:36Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
12:39How I wonder what you are.
12:41Up above the world so high.
12:44Like a diamond in the sky.
12:47Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
12:50How I wonder what you are.
12:54Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
12:57How I wonder what you are.
13:00Up above the world so high.
13:01Something wrong.
13:03Oh.
13:05No, nothing's wrong.
13:07Except it's quite coincidental.
13:11This little thing camping on my doorstep and...
13:16having the same name I did.
13:17That's odd too.
13:18Things are coming back to me.
13:21I was called Marky.
13:23I haven't thought of that in years.
13:25That's what people called me, wasn't it?
13:27I was called Marky.
13:29I haven't thought of that in years.
13:31That's what people called me, wasn't it?
13:35I'm sure that given time you'll remember a lot of things.
13:41Didn't the doctors tell you that memory of things would come back?
13:44I didn't know.
13:49Full of talents, our little Marky.
13:52How do you mean?
13:54I mean her singing.
13:58I don't hear anything.
13:59Is she stopped?
14:01I mean that.
14:03What?
14:05Her singing. Can't you hear her singing?
14:07No.
14:09I guess your ears are better than mine.
14:17She's stopped now.
14:20Look, there's something I want to show you.
14:23I can't understand you're not hearing her.
14:25It was so plain.
14:27It's a snapshot your mother gave me of you when you were a little girl.
14:30See?
14:32You were an exceptionally beautiful child.
14:34And you look so like your mother.
14:38Especially now.
14:40So much like your mother.
14:43I don't understand.
14:45What, Miss Foley? What don't you understand?
14:48Don't you understand?
15:18No, no, no.
15:48No, no, no.
16:18How I wonder what you are
16:19Up above the world so high
16:22Like a diamond in the sky
16:25Twinkle, twinkle, little star
16:27How I wonder what you are
16:30Has that man left?
16:38He left some time ago, Marky
16:40It's rather late, you know
16:43It's past your bedtime
16:44Don't you think you ought to go home?
16:45Your mother will be worried
16:46No
16:48She won't be worried
16:50I don't have a mother
16:52Not anymore
16:54Do you remember now
16:58About Marky?
17:01Do you, Helen?
17:05Yes, I remember
17:06And the time you burnt your arm?
17:10Do you?
17:11You got a nasty burn
17:14Right below the elbow
17:17Who are you?
17:25What's your name?
17:26Listen, I want you to tell me
17:29Who you are
17:29I want you to tell me
17:30Who you are
17:30And where you're from
17:31And what your name is
17:32And I want you to tell me now
17:33Do you understand?
17:34I want you to tell me
17:35Who you are
17:36You don't know
17:37You don't have any idea
17:40And you are doing so well, Helen
17:43You are starting to remember things
17:46Remember what things?
18:00Familiar
18:01It's supposed to be me
18:08When I was your age
18:09But it's not me, Marky
18:11It's a snapshot of you
18:12You still don't understand, do you?
18:20Understand what?
18:21That I'm you, Helen
18:23Understand now
18:24I'm you
18:25I am you
18:27I'm you when you were ten years old
18:29When you were called Marky
18:30I'm you, Helen
18:31I'm you when you lived with your mother
18:33In the apartment house
18:35I'm you when you were asleep
18:36In your bed that night
18:38And the man came into the house
18:39And he was arguing with mother downstairs
18:42And she tried to get away
18:44And she ran into your room
18:46And the man caught her
18:47And he choked her
18:48Helen, remember?
18:50He choked her
18:51Then he picked up something heavy
18:53And he hit her on the head
18:55Then she fell
18:56And then you screamed
18:58And the man looked at you
18:59And the man looked at you
19:01And then you screamed so loud, Helen
19:04You screamed so loud
19:06I want to bring you up to date, Miss Foley
19:15You've been living with ignorance too long
19:17Please
19:19I want to impart some information
19:22Because it's obviously coming back to you anyway
19:24And I want to be the first
19:25I want to be the very first
19:27That night it was me in your bedroom
19:31I killed your mother
19:33There was some trouble with the books
19:35And I was pleading with her to cover for me
19:37But your mother, rest her soul
19:39Was a particularly rigid, straight-laced woman
19:43Who was going to inform on me
19:45When she ran into your bedroom
19:50I had to follow her
19:51Oddly enough, Helen
19:55I'd have had to come after you next
19:57But your screams brought people there
20:01And I had to get out in a hurry
20:03It wasn't until later that I learned
20:07That you had no recollection
20:08Of who was in the bedroom
20:10You blacked out the whole incident
20:12But you haven't been neglected, Helen
20:18I've been keeping tabs on you
20:20Chicago College here
20:24I've been keeping tabs on you
20:27Because I knew that one day
20:29The pieces would start to fit together
20:31That you'd start to remember things
20:32That's why I came back
20:34I had to come back, Helen
20:37To take care of the unfinished business
20:39You're the only person who knows
20:40How your mother died
20:41Is that a little bit of a lie?
20:59What have you beenمكن?
21:01How have you been studying?
21:02is she gonna be all right doc i've given her a sedative uh do you have everything you need
21:27lieutenant yeah i think so it all ties in together
21:30she's a fortunate woman she'd be a homicide victim if she were less fortunate
21:37what about that child she keeps talking about the child is her at least she conjured up the child
21:45it was a part of her very deep inside a memory a recollection that finally had to come out
21:52and when it did it took the form of herself as a child
21:55weird really weird the human imagination is often weird sometimes it means salvation
22:04twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what you are
22:18up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky
22:24twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what you are
22:29hello hello little one
22:35you want to know something what you've got a lovely smile don't ever lose it thank you
22:46my dolly has a smile too you both have lovely smiles
22:51miss helen foley who has lived in night and who will wake up to morning
23:07miss helen foley who took a dark spot from the tapestry of her life
23:11and rubbed it clean
23:13then stepped back a few paces and got a good look
23:16at the twilight zone
23:18torn back a twilight zone
23:29ooh
23:29the twilight zone
23:31you
23:35you
23:36the twilight zone
23:38you
23:38the twilight zone
23:41you
23:42the twilight zone
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