Thriller. 33. Won't Write Home Mom, I'm Dead.

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First broadcast 26th April 1975.  Young American Abby Stevens is searching for her fiancé Doug.  Ian Bannen - Frank Pamela Franklin - Abigail Suzanne Neve - Beryl Oliver Tobias - Alan Smerdon Dallas Adams - Douglas Sadler Lesley North - Janet Sadler Norman Scace - Cashier Christopher Malcolm - Hank Anabel Littledale - Helen Diana Patrick - Jody Sarah Porter - Emma

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00:18:50I got this message. It was confused. Maybe distance affects that kind of thing. I don't know.

00:18:56But it was about you and it was about this place. As soon as I saw it, I knew.

00:19:00He must have been here.

00:19:02No, he's coming here. Did you consider that?

00:19:06No. No, I didn't. And of course, you're right. That has to be it.

00:19:11Maybe he's coming and he wants me to be here to meet him.

00:19:14It's a possibility.

00:19:15It's junk. What's gotten into you, Frank, subscribing to a wild idea like that?

00:19:20Every idea is wild at first. The world is round. The stars aren't just holes in the sky.

00:19:25A man will stand on the moon.

00:19:29I was right about you.

00:19:33St. Joan.

00:19:36Voices.

00:19:58What do you think of anything you are going to do with the spark?

00:20:00Rory!

00:20:01Rory!

00:20:03Rory!

00:20:06Rory!

00:20:08Rory!

00:21:12Abby...

00:22:18No!

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00:26:42good morning

00:26:47I'd like to cash and travel as checks please

00:26:51certainly madam

00:26:52sorry for a moment I thought you were one of the

00:26:55I'm sorry it was the accent I mistook you for one of the artistic community a

00:27:01village a few miles away rather an odd group of people actually sorry I don't

00:27:07think I understand what he means is he thinks they're sponges

00:27:11bloodsuckers leeches parasites living off their folks back home isn't that

00:27:15right would you please sign this one too madam how would you like this like it

00:27:22quickly thank you madam

00:27:27cute little place this isn't it

00:27:29mm-hmm has its charms there we are

00:27:32oh yeah yeah that's fine thank you been a pleasure good day

00:27:48thank you

00:27:49people do get you awful mad don't they yeah it's kind

00:27:53now life moves just too fast for people around here well let them fall off you want the shops

00:27:58oh yeah that before

00:28:00oh yeah that before

00:28:04oh yeah that before

00:28:05oh yeah that before

00:28:06oh yeah that before

00:28:08oh yeah that before

00:28:09oh yeah that before

00:28:14oh yeah that before

00:28:16oh yeah that before

00:28:18oh yeah that before

00:28:53Could we take a look over there?

00:28:58Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:29:52What's wrong?

00:29:55I don't know.

00:29:56Something about those trees.

00:29:59They're elm trees.

00:30:01All doomed, I'm afraid.

00:30:03Why?

00:30:04Dutch elm disease.

00:30:06It's a sort of virus.

00:30:07They'll all die.

00:30:11You coming?

00:30:19Abby.

00:30:23Abby.

00:30:27Now what's wrong?

00:30:30Nothing.

00:30:31I just thought I heard somebody.

00:30:45Five trees.

00:30:47And I'd imagine there'd be six.

00:30:51There were six.

00:30:54Until about a year ago, there were six trees.

00:30:58They took one down.

00:30:59It was dead.

00:31:00They said it was dangerous.

00:31:03But there were six trees.

00:31:31No叫我跟你.

00:31:33I can't believe them right if you deg visual upon the tree.

00:31:35Don't go to the tree.

00:31:35Thanks a lot, Brad.

00:31:36Just a moment. I think she's back.

00:31:38Abby?

00:31:39Yeah?

00:31:39Telephone call.

00:31:41Oh.

00:31:44Who is it?

00:31:45An old friend. Janet.

00:31:49Jan?

00:31:50You've just given the game away.

00:31:52How did I do that?

00:31:53Because he answered the phone.

00:31:55Al.

00:31:55Look, I still don't know if I can make it on Thursday.

00:31:58I won't know to the last minute.

00:31:59But if I am coming, I'll be on the 5.30 train, okay?

00:32:03Uh-huh.

00:32:03Now, don't meet me. I'll get a cab.

00:32:05Okay, fine.

00:32:06Hey, you sure that was Al on the phone?

00:32:08It didn't sound like his voice.

00:32:10Well, it was him.

00:32:12And you've ruined our big surprise.

00:32:14Sorry, Abby.

00:32:15I'll see you Thursday, then.

00:32:16Mm-hmm.

00:32:17I should be there about 6 o'clock, okay?

00:32:19Okay, fine. Bye.

00:32:22It was supposed to be a surprise.

00:32:24Just bad luck you had to answer.

00:32:26How come?

00:32:27Well, it was Janet.

00:32:28You remember Doug's sister.

00:32:29She's here in England.

00:32:31And I think you might be seeing her soon.

00:32:32Oh, that's great.

00:32:34When?

00:32:35Well, Thursday, of course.

00:32:36It would have to be Thursday, if she can make it.

00:32:38Thursday.

00:32:39And I think that Doug might be here, too.

00:32:41Oh, that's great.

00:32:53Abby.

00:32:56It's my birthday, Thursday.

00:32:58You thought I'd forgotten.

00:33:00It's my birthday.

00:33:04What's wrong?

00:33:06Yes, it's your birthday on Thursday.

00:33:10There really is something wrong, isn't there?

00:33:16What is it?

00:33:19For a moment, I had the strongest feeling that Doug was here.

00:33:23Here?

00:33:27Here in the house.

00:33:40Here in the house.

00:33:41Here in the house.

00:33:42Here in the house.

00:33:45Here in the house.

00:33:48Here in the house.

00:33:49Here in the house.

00:33:50Here in the house.

00:33:52Here in the house.

00:33:53Here in the house.

00:33:57Here in the house.

00:33:58Oh, my God.

00:34:29I'll be.

00:34:44I'll be.

00:35:03Dove?

00:35:11Dove?

00:35:13I'll be.

00:35:16I'll be.

00:35:17I'll be.

00:35:40I'll be.

00:35:47I'll be.

00:36:09I'll be.

00:36:15I'll be.

00:36:25I'll be.

00:36:28I'll be.

00:36:55I'll be.

00:36:58Abby.

00:36:59Abby.

00:37:00What on earth are you doing down here?

00:37:05Abby.

00:37:29Abby.

00:37:34Abby.

00:37:36Abby.

00:37:54Abbie!

00:38:02We've been looking all over for you.

00:38:08You're okay?

00:38:12Why do you run off?

00:38:13Why here?

00:38:14He needs me.

00:38:17Doug needs me.

00:38:38How are you feeling now, Abbie?

00:38:40Fine.

00:38:41That was a crazy thing to do.

00:38:43You know, you were lucky you didn't get pneumonia.

00:38:45Any idea why?

00:38:47I just needed to be alone for a while.

00:38:50Oh.

00:38:50I know that feeling.

00:38:52You know, sometimes I just take off anywhere to be alone.

00:38:57Girl.

00:38:57Mm-hmm.

00:38:58How long have you known now?

00:39:00Well, since I came here.

00:39:02And how well do you?

00:39:04What time did you say, Janet?

00:39:05Was it riding?

00:39:06Oh, the 5.30 train.

00:39:07If she can make it.

00:39:08Where's Frank?

00:39:09I don't know.

00:39:10Why?

00:39:10I asked him to rustle up some champagne.

00:39:12Oh, that's mine!

00:39:13I know, I know bourgeois taste, but it's my birthday.

00:39:16And what's a birthday without champagne?

00:39:18Bourgeois or not?

00:39:19I like it.

00:39:20Oh, I like it too.

00:40:06I like it too.

00:40:06Or a little spice?

00:40:06Butter a mess, frog is sweet, too.

00:40:11And freeze a party for a long time,

00:40:14then enter the door.

00:40:16Oh, my dear, dog,

00:40:19I don't know.

00:40:54I don't know.

00:41:27I don't know.

00:42:00I almost had a haircut for this occasion.

00:42:03Hey, Alan!

00:42:04It's my birthday.

00:42:05No champagne?

00:42:06Ah, yes, there is.

00:42:08I'm sorry I'm late.

00:42:10What, that truck of yours break down again?

00:42:13That truck of mine never breaks down.

00:42:15May not look much from the outside,

00:42:16but the mechanic's perfect.

00:42:18I tend them every week.

00:42:19Loving care.

00:42:20Loving is right.

00:42:21If ever Frank has a wild affair, it'll be with an engine.

00:42:24He's the only man I know who can make oil and grease suit centuries.

00:42:27He's not the only man I know, though.

00:42:33I was marking out my carving.

00:42:37St. Joan.

00:42:39It's coming along fine.

00:42:42Do you want me to carve you out a birthday party face, eh?

00:42:45Mouth all turned up at the corners, laughing eyes.

00:42:48Hello, Frank.

00:42:49You look as though you're waiting for a funeral.

00:42:51Well, it could be the happiest day of your life.

00:42:53Well, it's in the horoscope, written in the wind.

00:42:56You said so yourself.

00:42:58Dougie, whatever his name is, will probably turn up the day.

00:43:04Doug isn't going to turn up.

00:43:05Not ever.

00:43:07Oh, come on now.

00:43:09How can you possibly know that for sure?

00:43:11I just do.

00:43:12I know.

00:43:13That's all.

00:43:14How do you know?

00:43:15I can feel it.

00:43:17Feelings.

00:43:18I can see it.

00:43:21I see Doug on fire.

00:43:23Fire?

00:43:24I'll brainwash you.

00:43:25My Joan of Arc stuff is getting to you.

00:43:28Flames.

00:43:29Flames leaping higher and higher.

00:43:31Ooh.

00:43:33I won't need so much wood, then.

00:43:35To carve you into St. Joan.

00:43:37A sliver this big will do,

00:43:39unless you perk up and start taking an interest again.

00:43:42Well, Jan hasn't arrived, or Doug.

00:43:47Dougie isn't ever going to arrive.

00:43:49That's the hard, brutal truth,

00:43:50and the sooner you face up to it, the better.

00:43:52You aren't the first girl a man run out on.

00:43:54Now, why should do that to you?

00:43:56He didn't run out on me.

00:43:59Abby, you're deluding, making it harder.

00:44:01You have to accept.

00:44:02Doug was here, or he's coming here.

00:44:04I've accepted that.

00:44:06Okay, can't be the first, so it has to be the latter.

00:44:08So when is he coming here,

00:44:09like young lock and var,

00:44:11ready to sweep you up on his white charger?

00:44:13I mean, how long do you intend staying around like this?

00:44:15I don't know.

00:44:20I must go home soon, but I can't.

00:44:23I can't leave him.

00:44:27Hey, let's have a party!

00:44:29Happy birthday!

00:44:31Happy birthday!

00:44:32Happy birthday!

00:44:32Champagne!

00:44:33Thank you, man!

00:44:35Thank you, Dad!

00:44:35Hey, here, here's your present.

00:44:36Here's your present, man.

00:44:37How's your hand?

00:44:41Happy birthday.

00:44:42The other guests are going to not hear you yet, then?

00:44:45Janet Sadler?

00:44:46No, you're ahead of the game.

00:44:47She won't arrive.

00:44:50Is that another psychic feeling,

00:44:52or just a wild guess?

00:44:56Janet isn't going to arrive.

00:44:58Explain yourself.

00:45:00Did I say that?

00:45:01You certainly did.

00:45:02What do you mean by it?

00:45:03I don't know.

00:45:04I didn't even know that I said it.

00:45:05Why wouldn't she arrive?

00:45:08Well, one reason, it's after seven now.

00:45:10She said she was arriving on the 5.30 train

00:45:12if she was coming at all.

00:45:13Isn't that right?

00:45:14So, the 5.30 was late.

00:45:16It's a clear evening.

00:45:17No fog, no rail strikes.

00:45:18I doubt that.

00:45:19She caught a later one, for God's sakes.

00:45:21Maybe.

00:45:22Well, the point is, how long do we wait?

00:45:23Right.

00:45:24Now, let's ask Abby.

00:45:26She's the psychic one, hmm?

00:45:28Come on, Abby.

00:45:30Concentrate hard on Janet Sadler

00:45:32and tell us when she's going to turn up.

00:45:34Come on, Abby.

00:45:37Concentrate.

00:45:37Come on, Abby.

00:45:38Come on.

00:45:39Come on.

00:45:39Come on, Abby.

00:45:40Come on.

00:45:41Come on.

00:45:42Come on, Abby.

00:45:43Tell us what's happening to you today.

00:45:45Concentrate, Abby.

00:45:47No!

00:45:48No!

00:45:49Jody.

00:45:51No!

00:46:05Jody.

00:46:09well it proves the point about the sweet and simple life and they say we're the ones that freak

00:46:21is she here is she feeling any better now she's all right she's asleep i think i'm

00:46:27gonna turn in for the night well come on still a party have a drink

00:46:34right sonny just turned 10. how is she oh she's gonna be fine frank

00:46:43i love you still got work today come on sure hey you want some help no you just enjoy yourself

00:46:51okay okay who's for cake oh yeah can you bring me a chicken leg as well

00:46:57okay

00:46:59yeah

00:47:00yeah

00:47:01yeah

00:47:01No, I can't believe it.

00:47:42I can't believe it.

00:48:14I can't believe it.

00:49:00I can't believe it.

00:49:01I can't believe it.

00:49:53I can't believe it.

00:49:57I can't believe it.

00:50:22I can't believe it.

00:50:56I can't believe it.

00:51:24I can't believe it.

00:51:39I can't believe it.

00:52:09I can't believe it.

00:52:18I can't believe it.

00:52:27I can't believe it.

00:52:48I can't believe it.

00:53:33I can't believe it.

00:53:54I can't believe it.

00:54:18I can't believe it.

00:54:45I can't believe it.

00:55:02I can't believe it.

00:55:05I can't believe it.

00:55:12I can't believe it.

00:55:13I can't believe it.

00:55:20I can't believe it.

00:55:24I can't believe it.

00:56:04ORGAN PLAYS

00:56:31ORGAN PLAYS

00:56:48ORGAN PLAYS

00:56:50ORGAN PLAYS

00:56:56ORGAN PLAYS

00:57:06Look.

00:57:16Where'd you get these?

00:57:17In Al's room.

00:57:19A dream, isn't that what you said, that I dreamt it?

00:57:21Well, that's not all I found.

00:57:26Frank?

00:57:28Frank, where are you going?

00:57:32Abby.

00:58:03Abby.

00:58:20Abby.

00:58:23Abby.

00:58:24Abby.

00:58:28Abby.

00:58:35Abby.

00:58:47Abby.

00:58:54Abby.

00:58:55Abby.

00:58:56Abby.

00:58:57Abby.

00:58:59Abby.

00:59:03Abby.

00:59:04Abby.

00:59:05Abby.

00:59:08Abby.

00:59:09Abby.

00:59:10Abby.

00:59:14Abby.

01:01:21Abby!

01:01:22What are you doing down here?

01:01:23I thought you were packing.

01:01:25I was right.

01:01:27My feelings were right.

01:01:30Doug was here.

01:01:31What are you talking about?

01:01:37That's why I kept seeing that view.

01:01:40Six trees, six.

01:01:44Doug hid this and he wanted me to find it.

01:01:47He made me find it.

01:01:49What is it?

01:01:51It's a photograph from a university magazine.

01:01:56A clear, sharp photograph.

01:02:00Alan Smerton, fraternity president.

01:02:05Are you saying that Alan is an imposter?

01:02:10But why?

01:02:14$10,000 a month.

01:02:17His allowance, $10,000 a month, every month.

01:02:24That's a life pension sound mode of the world.

01:02:27Oh, you're mad.

01:02:27No, I'm not.

01:02:29It fits.

01:02:31It fits with Doug, don't you see?

01:02:37Doug did come here.

01:02:40Unexpectedly, and he saw the man that was posing as Alan.

01:02:45So, well, I had to get rid of him.

01:02:52Doug's dead.

01:02:55And Janet.

01:02:57Abby, this is absurd.

01:02:58No, it isn't.

01:03:00That man is Alan Smerton.

01:03:02The man that you know is...

01:03:02Oh, girl!

01:03:04Down here, Alan.

01:03:14I'm afraid she knows.

01:03:18That's a pity.

01:03:21Just one more day, and you would be on your way.

01:03:40Be very quick.

01:03:44Very.

01:03:50Earl?

01:03:58No!

01:04:01No!

01:04:06Frank!

01:04:08Frank!

01:04:10Frank!

01:04:16Abby!

01:04:22Abby!

01:04:34Abby!

01:04:45Frank, keep out.

01:04:46You wanna try? I never hit a woman before,

01:04:50but then I never met a woman with murder in her before.

01:05:04Ah!

01:05:05Oh, no! No!

01:05:28The police... the police are coming.

01:05:31I need to turn this place over.

01:05:33The police will be crawling with them.

01:05:37There you are.

01:05:39I didn't mean to scare you.

01:06:02You didn't mean to scare me.

01:06:04I don't see it.

01:06:05I don't know.

01:06:06I don't know.

01:06:16I don't know.

01:06:20I won't do that.

01:06:26You didn't know.

01:06:26What's the matter?

01:06:28You didn't know.

01:06:29I don't know.

01:06:30You didn't know.

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01:08:03Oh, my God.

01:08:06Oh, my God.

01:08:36Oh, my God.

01:09:05Oh, my God.

01:09:38Oh, my God.

01:10:10Oh, my God.

01:10:30Oh, my God.

01:11:07Oh, my God.

01:11:10Oh, my God.

01:11:40Oh, my God.

01:12:16Oh, my God.

01:12:46Oh, my God.

01:13:11Oh, my God.

01:13:45Oh, my God.

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