Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season #3

ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR

SEASON #3

💎💎EPISODE #29: OFF SEASON💎💎 – A trigger happy cop gets fired from his job in the city and takes another in a small town. A trigger-happy ex-cop gets a job as an unarmed Deputy, but still has some very violent tendencies. After shooting an unarmed bum, Johnny Kendall is asked to resign from the police force, due to an excessive display of anger and an itchy trigger finger. Deciding to leave town for a while, his girlfriend Sandy tags along faithfully. In a new town, Johnny is assigned as a Deputy watching over vacant summer vacation homes. Johnny soon meets up with Milt Woodman, the former Deputy, who was apparently fired for fooling around with a girl in one of the vacant homes. Milt expresses a dislike towards Johnny and in retaliation, starts showing an interest in Sandy. Directed by William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”). The last show of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” TV series. Fired from the law enforcement, a trigger-happy ex-policeman takes a job in a small-town Sheriff’s office. Johnny Kendall is a trigger-happy cop who is fired from the police and is forced to take a job checking vacant summer homes during the off-season. His girlfriend Sandy gets a job as a waitress to try to help them make ends meet. At work, Johnny discovers that the previous Deputy was fired from the job for having an affair with an unidentified woman in one of the vacant summer homes. Later, when Johnny sees the ex-Deputy hanging around Sandy, he becomes jealous and paranoid. One night, when he believes the two are together, he takes his gun and begins to look for them. He heads for the empty summer houses and finds one broken into. Inside he hears the former Deputy and a woman. He shoots them both in the dark and kills them. He turns on the lights and discovers that the woman was not Sandy, but the Sheriff’s wife.

💎💎EPISODE #28: NIGHT FEVER💎💎 – An injured criminal gets a sympathetic nurse to help him escape from the hospital. An injured criminal uses a compassionate nurse to run away from a hospital. Jerry Walsh is a criminal cop killer who is hospitalized after a shootout with the police. He convinces a kind nurse named Ellen Hatch to help him escape. Ellen’s true motives come to light when, however, she leads Jerry to an escape route that leads to a dead end. A handsome, young defendant severely wounded by police in a robbery which left a rookie cop dead, is hospitalized under tight guard. When older, plain Nurse Hatch takes charge of his care, he sincerely maintains his innocence and paints the police as victimizing him, pleading he won’t make it to trial alive. Her no-nonsense patient care demeanor backs off the police and the young man builds a personal relationship with her. As she melts, the strengthening prisoner works to gain her help in escaping.

💎💎EPISODE #27: THE SECOND WIFE💎💎 – A mail order bride begins to believe her husband killed his first wife and wants to kill her as well. A newlywed wife comes to believe that hubby killed his first wife and is planning to do the same to her. Just wed, Martha Hunter, compulsively believes that her spouse killed his former wife and plans the same fortune for her. Martha Hunter is a mail order bride who has just moved into the rundown and not well-heated home of her new husband Luke. Martha is Luke’s second wife and she becomes worried when she discovers that Luke’s previous wife, who was also a mail order bride, died under mysterious circumstances on a vacation to Luke’s relatives. Martha grows more fearful when she finds a coffin like box and sees her husband digging in the cellar. When Luke suggests they go on vacation she grows even more nervous. Prior to their departure, Luke insists that Martha go down to the cellar. Martha becomes terrified. She pulls a gun and kills Luke. After he is dead, she takes a look into the cellar and discovers that her husband installed a new furnace as a belated wedding gift.

💎💎EPISODE #26: THE MONKEY’S PAW – A RETELLING💎💎- Classic horror tale about a monkey’s paw that grants a man three wishes which come true but not the way he expects. A businessman desperate for a change in his fortunes tests the power of a gypsy woman’s monkey paw charm which is said to grant its holder three wishes. His son suffers the consequences. I recall the couple’s son (Lee Majors) was a race car driver and was to race one evening. The couple had made their first wish for money (who wouldn’t). Soon after, the father was called to the racetrack after word of their son’s involvement in a car crash. The father came home with sad eyes to tell the mother that their son had been killed in the accident at the track. The mother began to weep, but then excitement came to her face as she exclaimed, “I can wish him back to life!!!” She then grasped the monkey’s paw and wished for her son to be brought back from the dead. At that moment, the doorbell rang and the mother (believing it to be her son) ran for the door. Before the woman had a chance to open it, the father quickly wished for his son to be sent back to the grave. The woman opened the door only to find her son’s bloodied scarf he had received from her for good luck on the doorstep. The father told his distraught wife he wished their son back to the grave because he had seen his body after death and did not want her to see what was left of him come back to life. In all of the Hitchcock series, this was perhaps the creepiest and darkest of all. Eeeeech! In a retelling of the classic chiller, The Monkey’s Paw, a man realizes too late the evil powers of a monkey’s paw that grants its owner three wishes. Paul and Anne White visit the Bahamas when their son Howard is scheduled to race in the local Grand Prix. Before the race a Gypsy woman gives Paul a monkey’s paw which according to legend can grant its bearer three wishes. Paul is desperate for money and makes a wish for money. Unfortunately, he gets the money in the form of an insurance settlement when his son is killed in a fiery crash during the race. Anne is struck with grief and forces Paul to wish his son back to life. Paul does so, but soon regrets it when he realizes what condition his son will be in. He uses the third wish to send his son back to his grave.

💎💎EPISODE #23: POWER OF ATTORNEY💎💎 – A con man fleeces women and finds hell to pay when he fleeces the wrong one. A clever con man makes a living preying on women by having them invest their life savings into non-existent stocks. Wilford James, who met Sarah Norton on a plane from Jamaica, promises to love and marry her, convinces her into investing $10,000, says that it was a total loss and disappears. Next, calling himself James Jarvis in the first-class compartment of another plane, where he meets elderly Mary Caulfield and her spinster companion, Agatha, on their way from Salzburg. At the airport terminal, Mary tells him that they live at the Golden Angel Hotel and he claims coincidentally that he will be staying there. He sends a dozen roses to Mary and Agatha each. He charms Mary while tepidly romancing the initially distrustful and reluctant Agatha and tells them that has “the deal of five lifetimes,” an opportunity to buy stock at $30 and sell it for $50. Before investing, at Agatha’s suggestion, Mary sets up a lunch appointment for the following day so that Jarvis can meet her learned attorney Barton. That night, Jarvis is seen sneaking into the aged Barton’s home wearing black leather gloves; the next morning Agatha tells him that Barton died of a stroke or suffocation. Becoming Mary’s new financial advisor, Jarvis gets her to sign a power of attorney, to which the smitten Agatha gives her approval. He allegedly converts Mary’s entire estate into shares in the Arlo Trust Company and tells her that her wealth has increased by 21%. A day later, Jarvis laments that Arlo, into which he invested every penny, has gone bankrupt. Initially believing him, Agatha offers him $1000 of her own money to help him get back on his feet. She leaves to do the marketing. While Agatha is out, Mary calls her great-niece Eileen, to inform her she will not be able to help pay for the young woman’s planned trip to Germany. Mary then plays a gramophone on her Victrola, writes a brief suicide note (“Forgive me”), ignores the ringing telephone (Eileen calling) and shoots herself with a pistol. Agatha returns and discovers Mary’s corpse, piecing together what happened. She takes the gun and wipes it clean and burns the suicide note. Jarvis comes back to his room, makes a first-class flight reservation as Jarvis Smith, then calls Agatha, who tells him that the morning mail brought great news of a windfall inheritance. Mary, from a (fictional) dead brother in Texas and persuades him to cover over, telling him Mary harbors no ill will and that the fictional windfall is far larger than what was lost in the Arlo Trust Company. He rushes over and Agatha shows him Mary’s revolver, which she claims she just found in a living room drawer. She tells him she is afraid of guns and begs him to take it away. After he pockets the firearm, fatefully covering it with his own fingerprints, Agatha invites him to visit with Mary, who had been “resting”. She locks him in Mary’s room and immediately calls the front desk to summon the police. As the panicky Jarvis, who had found Mary’s body, tries shooting his way out of the room, the hotel security and police arrive and the pistol-wielding Jarvis is gunned down. While being interviewed, Agatha tells the police that she heard Jarvis and Mary arguing over investments and something called the Arlo Trust Company. A smooth con man uses his appeal to rip off rich women. James Jarvis is a con man that is posing as a expert in the stock market. Things begin to look good for James when he gets in good with the wealthy Mary Crawford and her friend Agatha. He begins to control all of Mary’s money and claims that he lost it all in bad investments. When she hears the news, Mary is shocked and commits suicide. Agatha, however, wants revenge. She conceals any evidence of suicide and invites James over. She gets James’s fingerprints on the suicide weapon and locks him in the room with Mary’s body. She then calls the police and tells them that James killed Mary. When James is killed in a shootout with police, Agatha gets her revenge.

💎💎EPISODE #23: COMPLETELY FOOLPROOF💎💎 – A wife wants to divorce her husband. Hubby wants to get rid of her completely. Joe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle. Foyle says he was hired by Joe’s wife Lisa. Joe visits his girlfriend Anna and discovers a bug in her telephone and that their love letters were seized. Lisa wants a divorce, but also wants a disproportionate settlement, including 75% of the Brisson Land Development Company. Lisa’s young boyfriend, racetrack gambler Bobby Davenport, will lose his inherited property if Joe calls in Bobby’s debt. Joe couldn’t hire Foyle to murder his wife, but he convinces Bobby to do it while Joe is on a sea cruise to London. Joe calls Lisa from the ship and listens as Bobby plugs her. Then Joe has a guest. It is Foyle, whom Lisa paid to murder Joe. Counterplots flourish in this story of an insatiable woman’s plot to divorce her rich, two-timing husband. Joe Brisson is a crooked land developer who is shocked when his wife Lisa informs him that she wants a divorce. Lisa tells him that she wants three-fourths of his extensive holdings or she will go to the police with evidence of his shady land deals. Joe refuses to pay and convinces his wife’s boyfriend, Bobby Davenport, to kill her in return for the cancellation of a large debt. Joe heads off to Europe on a cruise ship. Before leaving he tells Bobby that he will call Lisa from the ship at a certain time. When Lisa goes to answer the phone, Bobby will kill her. Everything goes according to plan, but when Joe is hanging up the phone a man enters his cabin. He shoots and kills Joe after telling him that he was hired by Lisa.

💎💎EPISODE #22: THOU STILL UNRAVISHED BRIDE💎💎- A detective fears that his missing fiancée might have fallen prey to a serial killer. Tommy Bonn returns to London amidst a pleasure cruise, during which he met his American fiancée Sally Benner. On the Soho riverfront, his Scotland Yard colleague, Stephen, shows him the latest victim in a series of four silk stocking strangulations, all of whom were thirtyish women roaming the streets alone. The wedding guests begin to arrive, beginning with the Setlins, shipboard acquaintances of the Benners, including Elliot Benner, the best man. Although matrimony is only four hours away, Sally insists upon taking a walk to assuage her premarital jitters. First, she visits Guerney and Son Chemists to pick up some cosmetics and a candy bar. Guerney Jr. follows her when she leaves the pharmacy and watches as she passes an antique shop followed by a hi-fi store, briefly chats with a streetwalker, then enters Sutherland’s Book Shop. Sutherland recites some Keats to her, the first time a customer has asked for a reading in years; then she buys a rare poetry edition. She then goes to a pub named Whoop and Whine, where she is met by Edward Clarke. Myrna, the cruise social director and maid of honor, arrives for the wedding ceremony, followed belatedly by Tommy. Tommy is concerned by Sally’s disappearance and takes a snapshot of her, along with a description of her wardrobe and searches for her, eventually encountering Clarke. Clarke acts suspiciously and soon leads Tommy and Stephen to the banks of the Thames and shows them where he dumped her body. Stephen dredges the river, while Tommy returns to the wedding party to console the family, but finds Sally waiting for him, anxious to get married. A thirtyish woman is trawled from the water. A police officer fears that his lost fiancée has fallen prey to an assassin who is horrifying the city. On a transatlantic cruise Sally Benner falls in love with a London policeman named Tommy Bonn. On the eve of their wedding, Sally gets cold feet and takes a walk in the London fog. Tommy grows worried because there has recently been a number of stranglings in London. He and his partner Stephen Leslie go looking for her. They find a man named Clarke and suspect that he is the strangler. Clarke tells them that he has just murdered a woman that matches Sally’s descriptions. He tells them that he dumped the body into a river. Tommy returns to tell his family but is shocked when he finds Sally alive and well. Sally tells him that the wedding is back on. Clarke, however, was the strangler and the body of his victim is dredged out of the water.

💎💎EPISODE #21: THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE UNDERTAKER💎💎- A photographer begins blackmailing an undertaker. Two professional killers with the same employer find out that each has the other as his next target. Arthur Mannix is a photographer and Hiram Price is an undertaker. Both hide behind their respective professions to conceal another profession: Hired killer. Each man has the same boss who gives each an order to eliminate the other.

💎💎EPISODE #20: DEATH SCENE💎💎- An ambitious actor begins seeing the daughter of a director in order to advance his career. Auto mechanic Leo Manfred fixes a limousine owned by Gavin Revere, a famed, retired and wheelchair-bound Hollywood director. Gavin’s beautiful daughter Nicky catches Leo’s eye, so he offers to drive her home where he meets Gavin. Gavin, distrusting, warns Leo to stay away from Nicky. Leo is persistent and eventually Nicky falls in love with him. But when Gavin learns about their marriage plans, he fears Leo only wants her for their money. To convince the director of his true intentions, Leo takes out a life insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars with the payoff going Nicky. Gavin agrees and the marriage plans continue. Shortly before the wedding, however, Leo makes the fatal mistake of insulting one of Gavin’s movies entitled “Death Scene,” and the old man changes his mind about the wedding. Not willing to give up Nicky over a quarrel, Leo wheels Gavin to an empty swimming pool to stage an “accidental” death, but his plan goes awry. A mechanic with performing ambitions writes a play for the daughter of a once-famous director. Leo Manfred is an ambitious car mechanic who is fixing the limousine of a once famous movie director named Gavin Revere. Leo ingratiates himself to Gavin’s daughter Nicky and the two are soon engaged to be married. Gavin is suspicious of Leo. He insists that he take out a life insurance policy naming Nicky as the beneficiary. Leo does so and the two prepare to get married. On the eve of the wedding, Leo insults Gavin by panning his famous silent film Death Scene. Gavin threatens to cancel the wedding. Leo responds by planning murder. He manipulates Gavin and Nicky to the edge of a cliff. Nicky, however, turns the tables and tosses Leo over the edge. Nicky removes her makeup and reveals herself to be Gavin’s actress wife. She and Gavin manipulated Leo so that the couple could get their hands on his insurance money.

💎💎EPISODE #19: WALLY THE BEARD💎💎- A man begins wearing a false beard and ends up getting into trouble. After work, Lucy, a keypunch operator, meets Walter, short, balding, bespectacled computer technician who is her supervisor. She tells him that he is a forgettable bore and hands back her ring, breaking their six-week engagement. Walter walks past a custom wig shop and enters. Soon, he is persuaded to buy a $250 human hair toupee and beard. He stops at a bar and overhears Noreen and Curly talking about sailing. He tells them that he is Philip Marshall, an expert yachtsman who has sailed the Caribbean and around the world several times. Noreen tells Curly that it is 5:15 and he is late for an appointment. When Philip and Noreen are alone, he offers to teach her how to sail. He then goes home to his room and board walk-up, where the manager, Mrs. Adams, confronts him. He identifies himself as Philip and says that he is a friend of Walter’s. In his room, he looks out the window and sees Curly watching him. He removes his wig and beard. The next morning, Mrs. Adams tells Walter that she has a letter for Philip from Curly. She demands back rent for Philip, whom she thinks has been freeloading. Walter tells her that he was just a visitor and he will move rather than pay any more rent. As Philip, he moves into Mrs. Jones’ rooming house. He then sets up a date with Noreen at Keefer’s Marina. He confides in Keefer that he knows nothing about ships, but wants to impress the girl, so Keefer sells him a $3000 boat on credit. Noreen, who is legally separated from a rich husband, has a luxury apartment. As Philip leaves the apartment, he is approached by Curly, who calls him Walter. Curly coerces Philip into stashing a $50,000 booty of silver and jewelry at his boat’s mooring, or else Curly will tell Noreen about the masquerade. Mrs. Adams runs a personal ad seeking the whereabouts of Walter Mills or Philip Marshall and gets a response from Mrs. Jones. She meets with Jones and they suspect that Mills and Marshall are avoiding rent by doubling up, or that Marshall has killed Mills, so they call the police. When Philip gets home, he is confronted by a Lieutenant, who asks him to prove that he did not murder Mills. In front of everyone, including Adams and Jones, he removes his wig and beard. Nevertheless, the Lieutenant suspects that only a criminal would use such a disguise and plans to contact everyone Walter knows. Walter then goes to Noreen’s apartment to explain why Philip will not appear. Once inside, the drab little man puts his wig and beard on and chides himself over his Halloweenish behavior. To his surprise, Noreen kisses him. He tells her about Curly and she convinces him to remove the loot from his dock. He enters the marina that night and must reveal his wig and beard in order to get past Keefer. When he finishes pulling up the rope to which the bag of stolen goods is attached, a police boat shines a light on him. As they begin to take Walter away, a dead body is spotted on the pier. It is identified as Joseph Kimberly, Noreen’s husband. After receiving a wig and a beard, shy Wally Mills acquires a fresh personality, a girlfriend and abundance of problems. Walter Mills is shocked when his fiancée dumps him. When she tells him he is too dull, Walter decides to change his image. He buys a wig and a beard and pretends to be Philip Marshall. As Philip he meets Noreen Kimberly. He promises to teach her how to sail. Noreen’s boyfriend Curly, however, becomes angry and does some digging. He finds out that Philip is really Walter and he threatens to tell Noreen unless Walter hides some stolen jewels for him. Walter accepts and hides the jewels in a sack inside his boat. Feeling guilty, Walter tells Noreen everything. She tells him that she really is in love with him. Noreen tells Walter to get rid of the jewels. As he heads to the boat the police arrive. They open the sack and find the remains of Noreen’s husband. The police inform Walter that they were tipped off by Noreen and Curly. Walter realizes that it was all a set up as a he is being taken away by the police.

💎💎EPISODE #18: THE TRAP💎💎- A cheating wife plots to murder her husband so she can be with one of his employees. Toy manufacturer’s assistant has an affair with the child-like toy-man’s enchanting young wife. After enduring a humiliating interview, the bright, college grad aide proves valuable to the middle-aged manufacturer through his hard work. But the young man is impatient for advancement. Anne Francis stars as Peg Beale, the wife of Ted Beale (Robert Strauss), a boorish executive of a toy company. When Ted hires new personal secretary John “Harvard” Cochran (Donnelly Rhodes) Peg and John begin plotting against Ted’s life, with results that take the unexpectedly macabre turns that one would expect from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. An adulterous spouse plots to slay her rich husband and wed one of his employees. Peg is bored with her marriage to Ted Beal, a wealthy toy manufacturer. She decides to have an affair with his young assistant John. She tells her lover to kill her husband. When John drags his feet on the murder, she decides to take matters into her own hands. She commits her crime and discovers that she was only being toyed with.

💎💎EPISODE #17: AN UNLOCKED WINDOW💎💎- Nurses who go to an old mansion to care for a patient keep disappearing. A frightening exercise in the unexpected finds three nurses caring for a patient in a squeaky old manor where more than a few other nurses have been killed. Glendon Baker is an invalid who is being taken care of by a nurse named Stella Crosson. Stella is pleased when another nurse named Betty Ames arrives to assist her in the work. The only other people in the house are a housekeeper named Maude and her handyman husband Sam. Stella becomes worried when she hears that a nurse killer is in the area. She grows more uneasy when the lights go out. When a patient’s oxygen begins to run low, Stella sends the handyman out to get some. Growing paranoid, Stella locks all the windows in the house but neglects to lock the one in the basement. Later, Stella sees a man outside and panics when there is knocking at the door. She fails to notice that it is the handyman trying to get back in. She heads for the phone but stops and heads into the lounge to help Nurse Ames who has apparently been attacked. Once in the lounge, however, Nurse Ames attacks her. Stella pulls at the nurse’s hair and reveals that Nurse Ames is really a man and a murderer who sees Stella as his next victim. A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window. A third murder in the last two weeks is reported over the television and police confess they have a psychotic madman on the loose, preying only on live-in nurses. One dark stormy night, Nurse Stella Crosson (Dana Wynter) and Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are tending to their employer, a man with a heart condition who resides in a creepy old mansion just outside of town and needs constant attention. A phone call from the murderer informs the women that he knows they’re alone and intends to pay them a visit before the night is over. Checking to make sure all the doors and windows are locked, Stella finds that she overlooked a basement window, a mistake that might prove all too costly. A young female visiting nurse named Frieda (Cathie Merchant) is seen leaving the home of one of her clients for the night. He offers to walk her to her car, but she insists she will be fine. But as she walks down the dark street, she is stalked by a large male figure in a dark raincoat and hat. The man follows her until she is isolated and then he confronts her, calling her by her name. Startled, she looks up at him and he says, “You’re such a pretty nurse.” Then he strangles her to death. Sometime later, two homecare nurses are watching television in a large, isolated house. Stella (Dana Wynter) and Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are watching a news report on the serial killer; Frieda’s body has just been discovered in a park. Stella is a younger, shapely woman, while Betty is a middle-aged matronly woman. Stella and Betty seem to be unfamiliar with one another, with the nurses assigned to the house changing every so often. Their patient, a young man named Glendon Baker (John Kerr) has an unnamed affliction that requires him to sleep in an oxygen tent. After the broadcast, the two nurses talk nervously about the murders, spooked by the fact that the serial killer is not only believed to be in the immediate vicinity, but that he also targets homecare nurses such as themselves. Stella begins to go around the house and makes sure all of the doors and windows are locked. Along the way she encounters the housekeeper Maude (Louise Latham) and a handyman named Sam (E.J. Andre) who are in the kitchen. Betty appears and tells Stella that Mr. Baker’s oxygen tank is running low, chiding her for being forgetful. Sam must go into the village for more oxygen, requiring him to leave the three women alone with the incapacitated Mr. Baker. Stella goes into the basement and checks the windows down there; several of the low windows are unlocked and flapping and one of them in particular is located right next to a ladder, as if someone could have used it to gain entry to the house. Before Stella can lock it, she sees a mouse and runs screaming from the basement, leaving the window unfastened. Maude is similarly excited by the incident and begins to take sips of whiskey from a bottle to calm her nerves. Maude begins to talk excitedly about various murders she’s heard of and she reacts ominously to the approaching storm, which covers the house in a torrential downpour. Maude comments that with all of the rain, the dirt road turns to mud and Sam may not be able to get back up to the house, adding to their feeling of isolation.

One of the doctors from Stella’s clinic calls to check on the house and he reveals that there has been another victim found strangled in the area. Stella assures him that they are secure in the house and Betty asks her again if she has locked all of the windows. Stella seems to almost remember the unlocked window in the basement, but she says that yes, she’s locked everything. Meanwhile, the cat that Maude put in the basement to catch the roaming mouse has escaped through the open window. Mr. Baker awakens and seems very lively for someone who should be sick. He is young and wealthy and has purchased the house in the last year. Stella is surprised when he asks her to marry him; he says he feels very at easy with her and conversely, feels uneasy when Nurse Ames is around. Stella doesn’t say whether she will or won’t marry Mr. Baker, although she does say she would never live in the spooky house. Baker then goes back under the oxygen tent to sleep some more. Meanwhile, Maude is still drinking herself silly in the kitchen and she hears a man’s insane laughter. The voice tells her, “You have such a pretty neck!” Maude stalks through the house with a board looking for the psycho, whom she is certain is now in the house. Betty and Stella try to subdue her and finally she swoons from all the booze she’s had. They put her to bed, but she disrupts them again later by screaming; she is sure she’s heard the maniacal laughter again. Betty suggests they give her a sedative and soon she is unconscious. After Maude is asleep, Betty remarks “Now there are only two of us!” She asks Stella if she’s ever seen anybody that’s been strangled; the phone rings and Betty answers it. Her face becomes frightened it seems to be the maniac on the line with her. Betty hangs up and says the man told her that he knows they are alone and that he saw Betty when she arrived by taxi the evening before. Betty makes a phone call and Stella hears her talking to the police, summoning them to the house. After the phone call, Betty tells Stella that the police said it would take them about an hour to reach the house. Stella is terrified and together they find the cat outside Mr. Baker’s window’ this forces Stella to admit that she left a window unlocked. She rushes down into the basement to lock it and is terrified when she sees a man approaching the house. She locks the window and screams, summoning Betty. When she tells Betty there is a man outside, they try the telephone, but the line is dead. Betty sends Stella to Mr. Baker’s room. Stella is unable to rouse Mr. Baker from sleep and she hears Betty screaming from downstairs. Terrified, she finds Betty hiding under the stairs, saying that the man is in the house. Betty points to a figure lurking behind the open front door, a man in a dark raincoat and hat. Stella hurls a fire poker at him and the stiff figure falls over. Stella realizes that it is Sam, having returned from the village with the oxygen, already dead when Stella hit him. Stella rushes over to him and hears the voice of the murderer behind her. She turns to see Nurse Ames coming toward her, speaking in a man’s voice. Ames grab her and tells her she is such a pretty nurse; as Stella struggles with her, she pulls off the wig and the front of the blouse comes open to reveal a man’s chest underneath; the murderer was in the house all along, dressed as another nurse, toying with Stella  before murdering her.