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00:05When a man shuts himself off from his neighbors, when he conducts mysterious experiments behind
00:11locked doors, there's bound to be talk. There were those who whispered that old Dirk Van
00:18Prynne was a sorcerer, and worse. He might never have been remembered at all had not
00:24his research led him to the discovery of a most unusual formula for making glass.
00:35Mr Van Prynne, it's Mrs Ames.
00:38What do you want?
00:40The silversmith left a package for you.
00:43Just leave it outside the door, please.
00:46Can I bring up your supper now, Mr Van Prynne?
00:50Never mind. Just leave the house.
00:56Oh, you ought to take something, Mr Van Prynne.
00:59I'll fetch up some nourishing soup before I go.
01:02It's really no trouble. You haven't had a bite all day.
01:07Good night, Mrs Ames.
01:08Yes, sir. Good night.
01:34Good night.
01:35Good night.
01:36Good night.
01:40Good night.
01:44Good night.
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01:48Good night.
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01:54Good night.
01:54Good night.
03:25Her nephew, Percy Dean, played by Mr. Jack Weston.
03:30And finally, a man who discovered the real purpose of the spectacles, Sebastian Grimm, played by Mr. Harry Towns.
03:42What they saw through those yellow gold lenses, they never forgot.
03:48And neither will you, my friends.
03:50Because as sure as my name's Boris Karloff, this is a thriller.
04:23What do you want to load up on more junk for?
04:25The store's full of it now.
04:27You just have a lot of raggedy old clothes and some busted up furniture, that's what you get.
04:32How much you bid?
04:35Not much.
04:36How much, Joe?
04:40A hundred dollars.
04:41A hundred dollars?
04:44You promised me you'd unload this crummy place, get into a decent business.
04:47Maggie, would you take it easy?
04:48The kid's coming.
04:49I don't care who's coming.
04:50How are you ever going to get out of here?
04:51You keep spending every dime of more junk.
04:53No more, Maggie.
04:54Not in front of the kid again, you hear no more.
04:56Hey, Joe.
04:58Hey, how are you, Maggie?
04:59Morning, Charlie.
05:01Here's your mail.
05:08Why don't you admit it, Joe, and get yourself a pair of glasses?
05:12I see what I need to see.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Maybe we ought to leave it that way.
05:20Sit down, Charlie.
05:21I'll pour you some coffee.
05:23Hey, that's great.
05:24I didn't get a chance to get any breakfast.
05:25You wait on your own time.
05:26Go get the truck.
05:28Okay, Joe.
05:29Where are we going?
05:31Joe's bought another blind lot from the city.
05:34Maggie.
05:35Paid a hundred dollars.
05:36And I'll bet no other salvage operator bothered to bid on it.
05:40But my Joe's got sporting blood.
05:42My Joe's a gambler.
05:44Huh, Joe?
05:45Where is the stuff?
05:46The old bleaker house.
05:48The bleaker?
05:49Well, that place is 200 years old.
05:51Why, it's been bad luck since before the first war.
05:53Before you keep your mouth shut, you just do your job and let me run my business.
05:57Wait a minute, Joe.
05:58I didn't say anything.
05:59Did I say anything, Maggie?
06:01You leave Charlie alone.
06:02You want to pick on somebody, pick on me.
06:05I'm warning you, not again in front of the kid.
06:07Hey, hey, you two, knock it off, huh?
06:10Maybe Joe's got a good idea.
06:12Fat chance.
06:13Well, I heard of a salvage at one time that found a half a million dollars in war bonds in
06:17an old house.
06:18Confederate war bonds.
06:20When you get the truck.
06:22Yeah, sure, Joe.
06:23Keep your eye on him, Charlie.
06:25If he finds something in that dump, I want to know about it.
06:33It's fine talk from a wife.
06:39Maggie, will you listen?
06:40I bid that place because Delahanty down at City Hall would tip me off.
06:47Delahanty said up in the attic there was some old furniture.
06:50Maybe there's some real antique pieces.
06:52Charlie's waiting.
06:54Maggie, you've got to take a chance once in a while.
06:57Maybe our luck will change.
06:59From bad to worse.
07:00Look what's happened to you, Maggie.
07:03Ever since I hired the kids, you've been treating me like dirt.
07:06Oh, don't stop that again.
07:09All right.
07:11We'll settle this later.
07:13We'll settle this later.
07:14We'll settle this later.
07:18We'll settle this later.
07:20We'll settle this later.
07:25We'll settle this later.
07:29We'll settle this later.
07:31We'll settle this later.
07:32We'll settle this later.
07:32We'll settle this later.
07:34We'll settle this later.
07:35We'll settle this later.
07:35We'll settle this later.
07:36We'll settle this later.
07:36We'll settle this later.
07:36We'll settle this later.
07:36We'll settle this later.
07:36We'll settle this later.
07:37We'll settle this later.
07:37We'll settle this later.
07:38We'll settle this later.
07:40We'll settle this later.
07:51It's gonna cost you money to haul this stuff to the dump.
07:53Who asked you to worry?
08:24Nothing.
08:38Hey, maybe the valuable stuff's in here.
09:08Joe, look at all these old books.
09:09Maybe there's some rare additions here.
09:17Looks like another load for the dump.
09:22Maybe we can get some for this old desk.
09:32Some deal.
09:33You ought to sue the city, Joe.
09:34Advice from you I don't need.
09:36Well, Maggie's gonna froth and frown when she hears about this.
09:40Why don't you go and tell her?
09:41Go on, get out of here.
09:42I told you, Joe.
09:43Go on, get out!
09:45It's okay, Joe.
09:48It's okay, Joe.
09:55It's okay, Joe.
10:12It's okay, Joe.
10:27We're gonna have to look at these little things.
10:29I'm so happy.
10:29I'm so happy.
10:29I'm so happy.
10:32I'm so happy.
10:33I'm so happy.
10:36I'm so happy.
10:40I'm so happy.
10:44What's all this?
10:46Happy birthday, darling.
10:49But it's not my birthday.
10:51Oh, please don't spoil it, Joe, dear.
10:54I know your birthday was last week and I forgot.
10:57Now I want to make it up to you.
10:59And Joe, I'm sorry for the way I acted this morning.
11:05You're sorry?
11:07What's happened?
11:08Did that kid tell you I found a basket full of diamonds or something new?
11:12Charlie said it was nothing but rubbish.
11:15And all of a sudden I realized how disappointed you must have been.
11:19And how rotten I've been.
11:22Rotten and unselfish, Joe.
11:25And I'm sorry.
11:26Well, you know, maybe I haven't been so easy to live with either.
11:33Go wash up now.
11:35Gonna be ready in a little while.
11:47Where'd you get those funny old cheetahs, Joe?
11:49Uh, the beaker place.
11:51Oh.
11:52You ruin your eyes wearing somebody else's glasses.
11:55What happened to the other letter, Maggie?
11:57There was four here this morning.
12:00It's only a bill from the gas company.
12:02I took care of it for you.
12:08You fool.
12:10If you hadn't been too cheap to buy a pair of glasses,
12:13I'd have lost the pleasure of fleecing you.
12:17Huh?
12:18If you hadn't been too busy to buy a pair of glasses,
12:21I'd have lost the pleasure of spoiling you.
12:26Enjoy it while you can, Joe.
12:28Tomorrow you'll be dead.
12:32What?
12:33Enjoy it while you can, dear.
12:35Tomorrow you'll be dead tired from hauling all that rubbish.
12:41What did you say the other bill was from?
12:44From the gas company.
12:49They want to buy this property, Joe.
12:52For a lot of money.
12:54Happy birthday, Joe!
12:56I brought you a jug of your favorite poison.
13:00And if this doesn't kill you, I will, ape man.
13:03And if this doesn't fill you up, I'll flip, man,
13:06because it cost me a bundle.
13:13What's the matter, Joe?
13:14You sick?
13:15Come on.
13:16What you need's a little drinky.
13:18How about it, Maggie?
13:19Oh, I don't know, Charlie.
13:20The doctor said it.
13:20Hey, come on.
13:21It's his birthday.
13:22Just one, then.
13:31You should have been an actress, baby.
13:33Phil, he's right to the top, honey.
13:35The quicker we get him drunk,
13:36the quicker we get him over to the old house.
13:39Hey, come on, Joe.
13:41Here's pie in your eye.
13:43Many happy returns, darling.
13:49The three of us are going on a midnight treasure hunt, Joe.
13:55And you're going to have a nasty accident, darling.
13:58If I tumble down the stairs, don't kid you,
14:00I'll clobber you with a board.
14:02You'll leave the same kind of marks.
14:05Come on.
14:06Have a nun.
14:07Charlie, I said just one.
14:08Oh, come on.
14:09Don't be a party pooper.
14:12Honey, this is one party I wouldn't spoil for the world.
14:17You're beautiful, Maggie.
14:18In a few hours, you'll be all mine.
14:21I never thought it would be so exciting.
14:24Gee, I love you, Charlie.
14:30Uh, Charlie, you, uh, you've got an education.
14:34Sure.
14:36What does, uh,
14:39V-E-R-I-T-A-S,
14:43what does that mean?
14:45Well, it's very does.
14:46It's, uh,
14:47it's Latin.
14:48It means truth, truth.
14:52Where you going, Joe?
14:54Oh, I'm going to put the truck in the garage.
14:56Oh, wait a minute, Joe.
14:56Look, sit down, will you?
14:57I mean, look,
14:58I ought to get a truck, huh?
15:00No, you, uh,
15:01you got your fancy clothes on.
15:04It's too bad.
15:06I don't know.
15:08I don't know.
15:21Hey, look, what does he mean?
15:22Too bad.
15:23I got my fancy clothes on.
15:24Too bad.
15:25Who knows what that stupid old coot means?
15:31Hey, wait a minute, honey.
15:32Wait a minute.
15:33I'm not sure.
15:34You're losing your nerve?
15:35Oh, no, no.
15:36It's, uh,
15:37it's only that...
15:37It's only what, darling?
15:41Maggie, Maggie,
15:42what's your doo-doo?
15:43Oh, no, no, no.
16:23Joe.
16:25Joe.
16:25Why?
16:32Cheaters.
16:34Cheaters.
16:35You don't do something like this
16:36just because your wife's been cheating on you, Joe.
17:05I'm not imagining it,
17:08Clash
17:08she's put something into my tea I'm not a complete fool no matter what Olive and
17:14Ed would think I know when my tea has been drunk because today's Thursday her
17:21bridge club meets downstairs every Thursday and every Thursday after lunch
17:25I get so sleepy I have to stay in bed oh any simple can see why she doesn't want
17:33me she's afraid I'll meet her friends speak my mind no I'm not ungrateful I'm
17:44completely aware of the sacrifice Olive and Edward gone to to come here and look
17:50after me since mr. Alcott's death but there's no excuse for keeping me a
17:54prisoner in my own home
17:58I'm hungry Clarence diet my heart's perfectly normal it's just that I I
18:08get a little out of breath sometimes if she comes please promise me you'll come
18:15back this evening bless you bless you at least I have one friend left
18:29enjoy your lunch mother Alcott oh I see you drank all your tea wouldn't you be
18:36disappointed if I had Dr. Richards would be disappointed dear you know what he said
18:40about keeping up your liquid intake sleepy no oh well you try closing your eyes for a
18:48little while if you can't nap you just ring and I'll help you downstairs
18:51wouldn't intrude on your rich party Olive oh you'd be an asset to any party Mother Alcott
19:08you the best friend you ask me and you're not my parents you're not my friends
19:28joining my parents you're not mycos结id
19:28you're not my only family lying on the list like that
20:39May I help you?
20:41These are lovely.
20:44I don't see the color I require.
20:47What color are you looking for?
20:49Yellow. Bright yellow.
20:51I'll see if we have any in stock.
21:01Oh, dear.
21:03No.
21:05Those are horrid shades.
21:08I'm afraid I'll have to inquire elsewhere.
21:11I'll see you.
21:15I'll see you later.
21:17I'll see you later.
21:18I'll see you later.
21:32I'll see you later.
21:34I'll see you later.
21:57I'll see you later.
21:59I'll see you later.
22:15I'll see you later.
22:18I'll see you later.
22:27Oh, dear.
22:29See something you like, lady?
22:31Yes. How much of these?
22:36Two bits.
23:06Oh, Mother Alcott, we've been so worried. It's almost 7 o'clock.
23:11You know what the doctor said about you going out alone?
23:13Where have you been?
23:14If you must know, I... I've been fitted for some glasses.
23:20Oh, my. Aren't they attractive?
23:24Don't you think so, Edward?
23:25Yes, yes. Very, very unusual.
23:30The perfect touch for that Halloween costume the old bat's wearing.
23:35Just the perfect touch for the custom look everyone's wearing.
23:40I see you've been shopping again.
23:44You doddering old thief.
23:47Now Edward will have to return all the junk you've stolen.
23:51It'll be the last time you'll make trouble for me, old girl.
23:54Your next trip will be to the morgue.
23:58You look so pale, Mother Alcott. Let me take you up to bed.
24:01No, no. I can manage for myself.
24:06Oh, darling, we're already late.
24:08You won't mind if Clarence brings up your tray to you.
24:10He phoned to say he was on his way.
24:13We'll wait for him if it makes you nervous being alone, Mother Alcott.
24:16I think we should wait.
24:18Oh, she'll be all right. She'll probably make Clarence take her out night clubby.
24:26Goodbye, Mother Alcott. Sweet dreams.
24:29It'll be your last after tonight.
24:55It'll be your last after tonight.
25:03Well, how's my best girl tonight, hmm?
25:07I hear you were out in the town this afternoon.
25:10Clarence, they're going to kill me.
25:12Now, now, now, Miriam, that's no way to talk.
25:13No, it's true.
25:15My, this looks delicious.
25:18Clarence, as trustee of my late husband's estate, it's your duty to listen to me.
25:23Now, where would you like to sit?
25:25Well, what's wrong with right here by the fire, hmm?
25:28I heard them say it. I mean, I, I heard them think it.
25:32I don't know, but I think it had something to do with these spectacles.
25:36And after you've had your supper, we'll go downstairs and watch TV.
25:41Come along now, young lady.
25:46Come, get your last meal.
25:53I know just the thing to wet your palate, a little brandy.
25:58Now, if you promise not to tell on me, I'll go and find Edward's decanter.
26:07I'm going to need a drink before I shove you down the stairs, you senile old scarecrow.
26:17Clarence, who inherits when I'm dead?
26:23What an odd question to ask.
26:25Well, you know, Edward and Olive, provided they maintain you in this house as long as you live.
26:31Which won't be long, Miriam.
26:33And for arranging your fatal accident, they're giving half to me.
26:41Oh, Miriam, you're ill. You do need a stimulant.
26:45I'll be right back.
27:09You know, there's one thing I've always admired about Edward.
27:12He keeps excellent branding.
27:15It's a status symbol for him, I suppose.
27:18I pity he never touches it himself.
27:21If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times.
27:24Unbend a little, Edward. Live, live, live, live.
27:30Well, you're not going to let your generation down, are you, Miriam?
27:33You know how to live.
27:36But you're overdoing it a bit, you old hag.
27:40Well, what's wrong, Miriam? Aren't you going to join me?
27:44Oh, Miriam, you're not going to let an old friend drink by himself?
27:49Take it. I don't want any trouble pushing you down the stairs.
27:52I don't want any trouble pushing you down the stairs.
27:54Miriam?
27:55My friend!
28:02Miriam!
28:36To what is most precious between friends, Clarence, the truth.
29:18Here comes my lord.
29:21Cha-cha.
29:23Here comes my lady, nimble-namble.
29:28He's up to run himself a glass of wine.
29:34Oh, Clarence, you're not saying anything.
29:42Dear sweet Clarence, always ready to listen to an old lady's troubles.
29:51Hmm.
29:54My head's going round and round and round and round and round.
30:00Hmm.
30:03Hmm.
30:03Hmm.
30:05Hmm.
30:13Hmm.
30:14Hmm.
30:32Well, I still think we're rushing things.
30:36Oh, nonsense.
30:37It's been nearly a year since Clarence and the old lady died.
30:41People have found other things to talk about.
30:44I wonder.
30:45Well, they all accepted, didn't they?
30:47Well, they'd come once.
30:49Out of curiosity, if for no other reason.
30:52Well, I couldn't care less.
30:54Well, I couldn't care less.
30:54As long as Thorganson enjoys himself.
30:56He doesn't know it yet, Al, but he's going to sponsor me into the gentry club.
31:00I intend to be somebody in this town, and Thorganson will be my advocate.
31:05That's why I invited Sebastian Grimm and his wife.
31:09Sebastian Grimm?
31:11That writer?
31:12Why, he's nothing but a, a...
31:14A dissident founder.
31:15Yes.
31:16Yes, that's how dear sweet Mother Alcott would have characterized him.
31:20Well, he's a necessary evil to my plan for the evening.
31:23Just bad-mannered enough to get bored with our party and suggest a poker game.
31:29Thorganson's weakness.
31:30But you hate gambling.
31:32Nevertheless, I intend to show Thorganson that I know how to lose like a gentleman.
31:39What?
31:41Why, Edward, you look positively...
31:45Like Benjamin Franklin, the symbol of wisdom and stability?
31:49Why, yes.
31:50Well, that's exactly the impression I wish to create.
31:55Now, don't panic, my dear.
31:58We have more money than most of them have right now.
32:02Won't be long before they'll be courting our favor.
32:07Your servant, madam.
32:18The costume is very impressive, Dean.
32:21Well, thank you very much.
32:24I'd swear I was in the presence of the industrious Benjamin Franklin himself.
32:26Except for one flaw.
32:29What's that, Greer?
32:31Every schoolboy knows that Franklin wore spectacles.
32:37He has you there, Dean.
32:39Ben Franklin without spectacles is like FDR without a cigarette holder.
32:46Why don't we all go someplace where we can indulge in Thorganson's favorite form of larceny?
32:52Edward, why don't you men use the library?
32:55Well, all right.
32:57I think I can find a stack of cars or some chips somewhere.
33:01This way, gentlemen, please.
33:06Sorry, Dean. Ace is full.
33:08Well, well, well.
33:10Well, I was positive I had you beat that time, Thorganson.
33:13You lose your money like it had smallpox.
33:16Oh, it's the contest I enjoy, Grimm.
33:19The give and the take.
33:21Winning and losing, secondary.
33:27Spoken like a gentleman.
33:29I thought you men might like something from the buffet.
33:33Oh, and Edward.
33:34Look what I found among Mother Alcott's things.
33:42Well, I'll be.
33:44What a remarkable.
33:45Does that satisfy your sense of historical accuracy, Mr. Grimm?
33:48Madam, I'm flabbergasted.
33:53Can't see much.
33:55Might improve your game.
33:58Deal the cards, Thorganson.
34:01I think I need more chips, Judge.
34:08Delighted to take your money, you fat little fool.
34:11Eh?
34:14Delighted.
34:17It'll take more than a patriot's costume to cloak your intentions, you tedious little poseur.
34:28Ah, here's a laugh.
34:30The word veritas is engraved across these spectacles.
34:34Eh?
34:36Latin for truth.
34:38Oh.
34:39Probably made with this honor in mind.
34:43It is supposed to be your calling, isn't it, Judge Pflueger?
34:47And what exactly is your calling, Mr. Grimm?
34:51I'm an unpublished author.
34:54Unsung.
34:58Unfulfilled.
35:00A soul in search of the eternal veritas of life.
35:04And a decent hand.
35:07Hmm.
35:07Three nines.
35:09That's more like it.
35:11This time I'll give them a run for their money.
35:15Hmph.
35:17Not even a miserable pair.
35:20I'd better stay in for one bit, though.
35:23To make Thorganson think he's forcing me out.
35:25The jerks.
35:27They're all waiting for me to clobber them.
35:30If they only knew I've held out a pair of aces from the last hand.
35:37Aren't you going to look at your hand, Dean?
35:38Hmm.
35:40Wait till I tell the boys at the club how the stupid little climber
35:45pretended to lose like a gentleman.
35:48I wonder if he really did do away with the old lady.
35:52What's he staring at me for?
35:54Can he see the cards under my arm?
35:58Yes.
35:59Yes, I see the cards under your arm, Thorgason.
36:02Two aces.
36:04What did you say?
36:06You held them out from the last hand.
36:09Are you accusing Mr. Thorganson of cheating?
36:13I am simply stating a fact.
36:16You'd better retract that accusation, Dean.
36:18If you know what's good for you.
36:20It's all right, Judge.
36:21It's the liquor talking.
36:24Let's get on with the hand.
36:25No.
36:27Nobody comes to my house and takes my money and laughs at me.
36:31Oh, no.
36:33Because I see you all for what you really are.
36:35All of you.
36:38Raise your arm, Thorgason.
36:40Go on, raise it.
36:46Two cards under your arm.
36:50They were...
36:52Here they are.
36:55There they are.
36:57He hid them while we weren't looking.
37:02What did you say, Thorgason?
37:07What can I say without becoming a bad guest?
37:12You mean that Dean?
37:14Of course.
37:15He gathered in the cards the last trick.
37:18He hid those two aces because he wanted to embarrass me.
37:23I can't imagine why.
37:25That's not true!
37:26You're lying!
37:27Am I?
37:29Did you see me hide those cards under my arm?
37:33No.
37:35Nobody.
37:36Then how did you know they were aces?
37:41It's...
37:42It's...
37:43It's...
37:44He's spectacled.
37:46I...
37:47I'm not certain what there is about him, but I just knew.
37:52I...
37:55There you are, Judge.
37:56I leave the verdict to you.
37:58I think we all know who the cheater is.
38:02No, he was the one that was holding out the two cards.
38:07He's the cheater!
38:09Well, admit it!
38:11Tell them!
38:12Tell them!
38:13Tell them!
38:17Dean!
38:18Dean, no!
38:20Stop!
38:21Trevor!
38:22Trevor!
38:29I didn't mean to hit him so hard.
38:32Well, do something!
38:33Thorgan said before he breathes to death!
38:38Too late, I'm afraid.
39:07I admit that when I picked the spectacles off the floor, I was merely curious.
39:12And then the inscription Veritas intrigued me.
39:14And the exchange between Dean and Thorganson.
39:17When Thorganson asked,
39:18Did you see me put the cards there?
39:19Dean said no.
39:21Thorganson asked,
39:22Then how did you know that they were aces?
39:24And what did Dean say?
39:26These spectacles.
39:28I'm not certain what there is about them.
39:31But I just knew.
39:34Ellen, I tell you, I'm on to something.
39:38I know.
39:40You'll say it's just another of my harebrained projects.
39:44I'll be bored within a few weeks.
39:47Well, you're wrong.
39:48You're dead wrong.
39:50Look.
39:53A rough draft of my new book.
39:55Complete.
39:56Except for the last chapter.
39:58Sebastian!
39:59Here is the villain.
40:01Or the hero, if you prefer.
40:03The Cheaters.
40:04That's going to be the title of the book, Ellen.
40:07The Cheaters.
40:09A book about a pair of glasses?
40:12Ah.
40:13These are not ordinary glasses.
40:17I'm convinced
40:19that because these spectacles were misused,
40:22five people met violent deaths.
40:25Five people?
40:26And I have them all documented, too.
40:29Do you remember the Henshaw murders?
40:31Yes.
40:33The police officer that shot Henshaw stated
40:35that when Henshaw came at him with the crowbar,
40:37he was screaming,
40:38The Cheaters! The Cheaters!
40:40That was the motive for the murder's infidelity.
40:43No.
40:44I don't think that Henshaw was referring to his wife and her lover.
40:47And I don't think he was attacking the police officer.
40:51He was trying to destroy the Cheaters.
40:56Oh, that's nonsense.
40:59Nonsense.
40:59Nonsense.
41:04Don't be so quick to reject the idea.
41:10I also looked up the inquest in the Olcott murder.
41:13Olive Dean stated on the day the old lady put the hat pin in Clarence Kramer's chest, she'd been downtown.
41:18And among the things she brought back with her was a pair of funny old glasses.
41:22I talked to the man that took over Henshaw's store.
41:24He remembers selling these very glasses to Miriam Olcott for 25 cents.
41:31I still don't see the significance of them, Sebastian.
41:34You don't.
41:36Well, I'll tell you.
41:40I believe that these spectacles enable the wearer to know the naked absolute truth about anything or anybody.
41:52Have you tried them?
41:54No.
41:55Why not?
41:57Because they weren't intended for mind reading.
42:00I think they were intended for seeing the truth about oneself.
42:06That's the real purpose of these glasses, Alan.
42:08And that's what Van Prynne was after when he discovered the secret of this funny yellow glass.
42:14Van Prynne?
42:15According to our local historical society, he built the old house out on Bleecker Road.
42:19His neighbors called him a sorcerer.
42:23What do you suppose they'd have called Edison or Einstein or Fermet?
42:28Know thyself.
42:29Put them away, Sebastian.
42:30What's the matter?
42:32Afraid I'll put them on and see you for what you really are?
42:35No, don't.
42:38Don't worry, darling.
42:40When I put these on, it will be for something important.
42:45Go and get your clothes.
42:47Where are we going?
42:49Going out to the old house on Bleecker Road.
42:51What for?
42:52Atmosphere.
42:54I want the authentic atmosphere.
43:00When I report on Van Prynne's experiment.
43:10By the way, Ellen, that's going to be the title of my last chapter.
43:16Know thyself.
43:39The city was supposed to tear this old place down last year.
43:41Not the thing for me they didn't.
43:43Sebastian.
43:45What happened to Van Prynne after he put on the glasses?
43:49What difference does that make?
43:51I want to know.
44:08Sebastian, you still haven't answered my question.
44:10What happened to Van Prynne?
44:12His old desk is still upstairs.
44:14And the same mirror that he used.
44:16You've been here before?
44:18This morning.
44:26To answer your question, he hanged himself.
44:31Wait here.
44:44Helen, I know you think this is a fool thing for me to do, but I have to.
44:49It's the only way I have of satisfying my twisted sense of the dramatic.
44:54You understand that, don't you?
44:55Sebastian, please.
44:56Let's get out of here.
44:59No, I've come this far.
45:00You don't have to prove yourself to me or to anybody.
45:03Darling, how would it look if I ended my book by saying I lost my nerve?
45:07Oh, Sebastian, please.
45:08Please come home.
45:09This is wrong.
45:11It's unholy.
45:13Imagine that's what Van Prynne's ignorant neighbors said.
45:16It's unholy.
45:18Well, if Satan's waiting up there, so be it.
45:23No.
45:24No!
45:25Oh, please.
45:34Helen.
45:35Yes?
45:37Do you know that the greatest men in every century
45:39have been hated and ridiculed by men like Thorgensen and Judge Pflueger?
45:45Van Prynne knew that.
45:47Oh, Sebastian, please come down.
45:50So he made the cheaters to find out if he was one of the great ones.
45:55Evidently, he was disappointed.
45:59Wish me luck.
46:09Yeah.
46:17Yeah.
46:34Wow.
46:58Who's there?
47:00Who's in this room?
47:02Just you, Sebastian Grimm.
47:06You're not afraid of your own voice, are you?
47:10No.
47:11So you want the truth about yourself, do you?
47:15Yes.
47:16The junk man, the old lady, and Edward Dean read only the minds of others.
47:22Think of the agony they suffered.
47:24They were afraid. They let their emotions get out of control.
47:27But you're different.
47:30You can master your emotions.
47:33You even dare to look into your own mind.
47:37Yes.
47:38Very well, then. Bring the light closer.
47:49Ah!
47:58Ah!
48:00Ah!
48:10Oh, me I'm not standing there.
48:13I have no idea.
48:15I have no idea.
48:17I have no idea.
48:20Oh, my God!
48:22Oh, my God!
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