No, Daddy, no!
Run, Daddy, run!
Run!
There is nothing wrong with your television set.
Do not attempt to adjust the picture.
We are controlling transmission.
We will control the horizontal.
We will control the vertical.
We can change the focus to a soft blur
or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly,
and we will control all that you see and hear.
You are about to participate in a great adventure.
You are about to experience the awe and mystery
which reaches from the inner mind to...
The greatness of evil lies in its awful accuracy.
Without that deadly talent for being
in the right place at the right time,
evil must suffer defeat,
for unlike its opposite, good,
evil is allowed no human failings,
no miscalculations.
Evil must be perfect
or depend upon the imperfections of others.
For the newlyweds.
Um...
Don't tell anybody I'm up here, Jusman.
My bride and I are going to escape.
OK?
Aah!
Aah! Aah!
Aah! Aah! Aah!
Anything wrong, sir?
With what, Mr. Hayden?
Our marriage license.
Oh, I... I guess not.
I just can't believe
you're as old as it says here.
Well, I'll get myself set.
While papa's getting set,
I'm just going to steal a tiny minute
to make a call I should've made
hours and hours ago.
Mrs. Kry?
What do you want?
It's me. Listen.
Very young, frightened...
But he's big, strong.
She's moneyed folk.
Come on, Mother.
Folks here need a reliable witness.
I'll get you two stood in the right places.
You took so long, I've run out of time.
I'll call you back, doctor.
Well, where to now?
Honeymoon or home?
There are no decent hotels
here in Winterfield,
and those disreputable motels on the highway...
Do you have a room here?
Maybe we could...
Say, why don't you
go out to old Mrs. Kry's place?
She's all alone and...
Mother!
She told me just yesterday
that she's finally decided to rent
that big, empty bridal suite
on the top floor.
Ha ha ha!
Heaven itself couldn't find you there.
Afraid?
No.
Of what?
Of being married.
Oh, I thought you meant of coming here.
I feel crummy, Vivia.
Why?
For coming to a place like this...
Like a hideout for criminals,
like we're doing something illegal.
We are, Gard.
Well, we're married.
But it's illegal to get married...
Before you reach the age of consent, I mean.
Do you wish we'd have listened to your father
all of a sudden?
You getting that let's-go-home feeling?
No, I'm not, Gard.
I know you expect me to,
but I'm not.
Oh, look, Gard. We love each other,
and we have every beautiful feeling we can have.
We have everything...
But beggars can't be choosers.
So don't go turning that funny little nose of yours
up at this...
Well, this hideout...
Just as long as my father can't find us.
He will... Even here.
No. She said, even heaven itself couldn't find us here.
Come right in.
Ain't nobody here but us chickens.
Ha ha ha!
I'm Mrs. Kry.
Now, watch your step.
I never use this floor,
so my light bulbs expire.
Careful now.
Stairs are the most treacherous things.
That's the only reason I've started to rent
my bridal suite.
So afraid, living alone and all,
I might fall down these stairs
and slowly die there like a long-stemmed Rose
with the stem snapped.
So when Mrs. Justice of the Peace
started plaguing me about renting rooms.
"Couples are forever asking me
"to recommend a nice hotel,
"and there's not a decent hotel
in Winterfield."
Oh. She's thinking of her commission,
of course.
"10%," she said.
10% on whatever I charge
for my bridal suite.
My unused bridal suite.
Nobody's been up there since 1929.
More than a quarter of a century
to some people.
How much?
$35.
One for each year.
35 a day?
Just $35...
Till any time you're ready to leave.
And payable when you leave.
Oh, please.
Don't let my petrified memories frighten you.
It was there to keep trespassers out
of my graveyard.
I want those rooms to remain inviolate.
You see, I've only recently stopped
expecting my young groom to return.
C'est la mort.
Now, there's a light switch
at the top of the stairs.
Oh, the door is stuck.
Time does that to a door.
Use your broad, groomy shoulders, Mr...
Uh, Smith.
You love her, Mr. Smith?
You must do whatever you can for her.
You must do whatever you must.
We can drive all night,
be in another state tomorrow.
No. If father finds us...
Will I have to spend my life
keeping trespassers out of my graveyard?
Yeah. hey!
Remember that Thanksgiving day game
when Scotty what's-his-name
deliberately broke your nose in two places?
Hmm. I stole you from Scotty what's-his-name.
It was Smith, wasn't it?
Uh-uh. I'm Smith.
Well, what can I do for you, Mr. Smith?
Kiss my nose in two places.
Deliberately? deliberately.
Also intentionally,
also with purposefulness,
premeditation...
Looks like a movie theater
somebody forgot to tear down.
Makes me kind of sad.
Look. She didn't even open her wedding gifts.
Oh, would you?
Open her gifts?
Yours. If something happened to me tonight.
Oh.
Know why I'm smiling?
Are you?
Yeah. You know why?
Hmm. No.
I'm suddenly feeling strong and important,
dependable and mature...
And virile.
Why?
Because, suddenly, I'm married.
Do you feel all those things?
Except virile.
Well, your father said we couldn't get married
until we felt all those things.
I guess he forgot that most people
don't feel them until they're married.
Gard...
I'm only going down to the car.
Well, why, huh?
To get the suitcases
and to put the car somewhere
where it won't be seen.
Look...
I'll be right back, Vivia.
Will you hurry, huh?
Mm-hmm.
Just...
Gard?
Aah!
Where is he?
Where did he go?
Your husband!
Uh, to the car.
He wanted to see about the suitcases.
Is he coming back?
Oh, yes, of course he's coming back.
A moment ago, I heard a car in the driveway
below my window.
Could he have gone away?
Oh, no. Uh...
He, uh, he didn't want the car
to be in the driveway,
so, well, he must have taken it where...
No one could see it.
No.
I don't care what you've done
or what you're going to do.
I see love coiled all about you and him,
and where there is love, there is no evil.
Ohh...
Tres nouveau, isn't it?
Harvey Kry Sr. Spent thousands on it...
A wedding present
for Harvey Kry Jr. And his flaming new bride.
He wanted us under his own roof,
where he could keep
his cold, scientific eye on us.
I didn't like the idea,
but Harvey did.
My Harvey did.
Oh, he said, "we could be happy here."
Even Daddy Kry couldn't make us unhappy here."
Daddy Kry liked to make people unhappy.
He tried to drum me out of his son's life...
Like he drummed this poor old fool
out of his mind,
but Harvey fought for me, and we won.
Hmm... we won.
Ah, for a moment... We won.
We were in the ballroom that night...
Our wedding ball...
Our marriage only 4 hours old...
Still unused.
We promised Daddy Kry
we wouldn't go away,
we'd honeymoon here,
but my Harvey and I conspired like naughty children.
The car was ready in the driveway
to take us to a cabin on some distant mountain...
A stolen honeymoon!
He was to steal up here, change his clothes.
I was to lock myself in the powder room.
My street clothes were hidden there.
We would be quick. No one would miss us.
I saw Harvey signal.
I saw him steal up the stairs.
And then...
I never saw him again.
No one ever saw him again.
Daddy Kry died from it,
but I refused to.
I am going someday to that distant mountain,
and I am going with Harvey.
Oh, when he comes back,
he'll find that nothing has changed...
Not the bridal suite,
not the car in the driveway,
not I.
We are all just as he left us.
No! Stay away!
Heaven help you! Don't!
No! Go away!
Mr. Smith!
Mr. Smith...
You come right in here
this very old minute.
I told Vivia, my wife,
I'd be back fast.
Well, who do you think
I want to talk to you about?
Ha ha ha!
You said you wanted to talk about Vivia.
I've changed my mind.
I've decided I'd rather talk to Vivia
than about her.
Would you ask her to come down here?
Well, she's... she's probably tired.
Her name was Balfour, wasn't it,
Mr. Smith?
Her Daddy know she's out?
The Emmett Balfour I've read about
would sizzle his sunspots
if he knew his little girl
had run away...
What do you want, Mrs. Kry?
I want Vivia to come down here
for a few small minutes,
that's all.
Why?
To smile at me...
A few small smiles
to remind me how brides smile.
Mr. Smith?
Will you persuade her to come and smile at me?
Hmm...
Vivia?
Ohhh...
Vivia?
Huh?
Ohh...
Nothing like being on the wrong side
of a stuck door on your wedding night.
Vivia?
Help me!
Help me! Please!
Please, somebody help me!
Vivia?
Gard!
Gard! Please! Please help me!
Gard!
You didn't see her go, did you?
Go? Has she gone?
She didn't say anything...
Good-bye or anything.
You know, all along, I kept expecting her to...
Oh, no. No, don't go. Wait.
She's coming back.
She'll come back.
Don't go away. Please.
Don't go.
Please, somebody!
Please! Please!
Aah!
Mrs. Kry?
What do you want?
It's me, Mrs. Kry. Gard.
Where are you?
I wondered if I could trouble you
to send my things with my suitcase.
No. Come back.
She's here.
Is she?
She came back.
She's waiting for you.
Don't you believe me?
Call her to the phone, will you?
I've been just driving around all night.
I'm going home now.
I figure that's where she's gone.
Kids are supposed to go home and grow up, aren't they?
Please... come back.
She'll come back.
You won't bend, will you, Harvey?
Not even to pick up
one piece of my broken, shattered heart.
You bloodless soul!
You heartless mountain of good!
I sent someone to free you, and he got away!
Now we're back where we started!
Oh, Harvey!
Sweet husband!
More than a quarter of a century, I've waited.
Each day, I wait a little longer...
Die a little faster.
Oh, please.
Please, Harvey, do what he wants you to do.
Help him here.
What do you care if he destroys the world?
Let him annihilate a million worlds!
What are worlds to people...
Who live in hell?
Oh, Harvey.
Oh...
Ohhh...
Oh, he's gone Harvey.
Our main chance is gone.
He thought she'd ran home to her papa.
He thought all those sharp, young, heartbreaking things.
Oh, it's going to be a long, lonesome time
before I get us another man.
Like I said, Mr. Balfour,
we keep hearing as how the young marrieds
are getting married younger and younger,
but I never yet recited the sweet words
at anybody below the age of consent.
Couldn't be held against you if you did, sir.
If my daughter and her companion
presented you with false documents,
well, you can't prosecute a man
for being tricked and lied to, can you?
Well, you can answer that
better than I could, Mr. Balfour,
I mean, you being the district attorney...
Oh, that was a long time ago.
I've moved on to private enterprise...
Much more lucrative.
As district attorney, I hardly ever carried
any real cash on my person.
Excuse me, Mr. Balfour,
but mother's blanket just came loose.
He's making big lawyer talk, mother.
We better tell him the truth.
You're no good at all
when it comes to arranging blankets,
are you, sir?
Yeah. Uh-huh.
Wait! Don't go! Wait!
Who's there?
Vivia?
Are you up there?
Is that you, Mr. Balfour?
Yes, it is. I was told...
Vivia! Your father's come to see you!
Please come up, Mr. Balfour.
Ooh, careful now!
Stairs are the most treacherous things.
Go on, Mr. Balfour.
She's alone up there,
weeping over her little mistake,
but she'll weep with joy when she sees
her Daddy's come to take her home.
Ah.
Oh!
No, Daddy, no!
Run, Daddy, run!
Run!
Ahh.
Daddy!
Daddy! Daddy?
Daddy!
Wait a minute.
Her father.
Yeah, I know.
No one answers the door.
She said Vivia had come back.
I didn't believe her.
I still don't,
but I can't leave without making sure.
Give this back to him.
No. I don't want to see him.
He's not a nice person.
Face up to him, son.
Don't let him hurt you or your sweetheart.
Where are we?
Oh, heaven, where are we?
You are no place.
You do not want to stay here?
No.
How can I get out?
How can we get out?
I will transport you.
As you came, you will go, if...
You will help me.
What do you want me to do?
We came into your universe, each of us in his own ship,
each ship containing
the nonelements of the void from which we came.
Our first target was this planet, earth.
We were to rejoin here to blend our frequencies,
but I had no experience with time or space.
I lost my way,
I became separated from the others.
You must take me to them.
That is what you must do.
They are useless without me.
I am the fundamental component.
Mine is the lowest frequency in the complex vibration.
The annihilating vibration.
Their plan was
to, first of all, blow up the earth
and then the entire universe.
He wouldn't do it,
but you will, won't you?
Why didn't you ask her?
He did.
He asked my wife, too...
Years ago.
I told her, if she did what he asked,
I would stop loving her,
but she promised, if he freed me
and if he didn't tell me
what she was doing,
she would send him someone
less stubborn than I.
Has she succeeded?
You may take your daughter with you.
Get out!
You'll spoil everything!
Ah!
Ohh.
Yeah.
Vivia!
Vivia, come with me.
I'm not going to do it.
No!
I only wanted to save us.
You will do it!
Get her out of here!
You will! You will! You will!
Please.
You stupid monster!
You bloody fool!
You stupid blackness!
Ohh!
Daddy!
If I cannot annihilate the world,
then I must uncreate myself...
And you.
Without that deadly talent
for being in the right place at the right time,
evil must suffer defeat,
and with each defeat, doomsday is postponed
for at least one more day.
We now return control of your television set to you
until next week at this same time
when the control voice will take you to...