Not Rated | 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TV Series | Episode aired 10 November 1959
A student taking night classes falls in love with his beautiful teacher. However, he begins to suspect that his dead ex-girlfriend may be using the teacher to try to communicate with him.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: John Newland, Barbara Baxley, Robert Ellenstein
A student taking night classes falls in love with his beautiful teacher. However, he begins to suspect that his dead ex-girlfriend may be using the teacher to try to communicate with him.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: John Newland, Barbara Baxley, Robert Ellenstein
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00:01Have you ever had the feeling that you knew what someone was going to say just before he said it?
00:07Or have you ever walked into a strange room and had the sensation that you'd been there before?
00:12Well, if you have, you've taken a small step beyond.
00:17Now watch a giant, sir.
00:19This is Jefferson High School.
00:30By day, its corridors are noisy with kids.
00:33At night, it's quieter.
00:35There's only one class, English, for the foreign-born.
00:40This is their teacher, Lois Morrison.
00:44Practical, efficient, down to earth.
00:47Barely ten feet away from an experience.
00:51There's absolutely nothing to do with earth.
00:54Miss Morrison.
00:56Jack.
00:58Wait, wait, wait.
01:00I have a surprise.
01:03Oh?
01:05Because I speak English so good with the customers.
01:09The boss at the butcher shop, he gives Tomaszek five buck raise.
01:15Wow.
01:17Well, congratulations.
01:19No, wait, please.
01:25To you should go congratulations.
01:29To a lovely lady who teaches me.
01:35Wait, please.
01:39For you.
01:40For you.
01:43Because you teach me English so good.
01:46A small appreciate.
01:52Appreciate is not the right word.
01:59Well, I couldn't possibly accept this.
02:02It's very thoughtful of you, but...
02:05But what?
02:07Well, it's just not proper.
02:11Because Tomaszek is so ugly.
02:29Good evening.
02:31Good evening.
02:41Thank you very much, Mr. Tomaszek.
02:44It's very beautiful.
02:48Did you give her that, huh?
02:51You want to be a teacher's pet or something?
02:54Now, tomorrow, you know, a nice red apple on the desk.
02:58Compliments, Mr. Tomaszek.
03:01Instead of an apple, Tomaszek should bring the teacher pork chops and roast beef from the butcher shop.
03:07So she will look so skinny.
03:11Shut up!
03:13Please.
03:15What's the matter? I only tried to make a joke.
03:18What's the matter? You don't like to be a butcher, huh?
03:21Shall we go to work?
03:24Words that sound the same, that have absolutely opposite meanings.
03:28Do you have any words?
03:30I know a bunch. I wrote them down.
03:34Sense, like brain.
03:36And sense, like pennies.
03:39Bear, like animal in zoo.
03:41And bear, like...
03:44Excuse me.
03:46You know, no clothes.
03:49That's very good.
03:51Two, like one two.
03:54And two, like me also.
04:06Like me also.
04:26Excuse me, what kind of English is that?
04:30I bet Miss Morrison will stop talking so much in Dutch.
04:34No, this isn't Dutch.
04:40What happened?
04:46I don't understand.
05:03I don't understand.
05:33I don't understand.
06:04No.
06:06No.
06:08No.
06:11It can't be.
06:13It can't be.
06:15It can't be.
06:25What can't be?
06:26What cannot be?
06:32How can you write like her?
06:35It's not possible.
06:39Like who? What are you talking about?
06:41It is a trick.
06:43Oh, Mr. Tomachek.
06:45No, no. It is a joke to make me crazy.
06:56What is happening here?
06:59What is happening to me?
07:01That is Clara's writing.
07:03How could I possibly write like that?
07:08Yes.
07:11How could you write like my Clara?
07:14She's dead.
07:16Five years.
07:20Five years.
07:22In January.
07:23In January.
07:26In the old country.
07:28What are you talking about?
07:30I have letters from her in my room.
07:34It is the same writing.
07:36Have you gone out of your mind?
07:39I showed it to you.
07:41No.
07:44You must be mistaken about the writing, Mr. Tomachek.
07:54Are you sure?
07:56I said I didn't speak it.
07:58But you wrote it perfect.
08:00What did I write about?
08:04Nothing.
08:06There must have been something.
08:08Foolishness.
08:10What a young girl in love would write.
08:15Like what my Clara wrote to me.
08:21Where did you say those letters were?
08:23I told you.
08:25In my room.
08:28I must see them.
08:33Will you turn off the lights, Mr. Tomachek?
08:54Mr. Tomachek?
08:56What is it?
08:59In the darkness.
09:02It reminds me of Clara.
09:12You go and steal more.
09:14I'll tell you when to turn.
09:17And when I see the letters,
09:19my heart will stop.
09:20And when I see the letters,
09:22and I convince myself that it is the same writing,
09:25what then?
09:27I don't know.
09:30And even if it isn't the same writing,
09:33how could I possibly write in a language I don't know?
09:40Go through that light.
09:41Go through that light.
09:50You have seven days to report in unless it's room 102 in the courthouse.
09:55Just sign your name and address right there on the bottom.
09:59Miss Morrison?
10:05I'm very nervous tonight.
10:08I can see that.
10:09I honestly don't think I could
10:11hold my hand steady enough to sign my name.
10:14Well, you just do the best you can.
10:16Couldn't I just accept the ticket
10:18and just let it go at that?
10:21No, ma'am.
10:23Why?
10:24It's the law.
10:25Well, I just can't do it.
10:27Why not?
10:30I told you, I can't.
10:33Well, I'm afraid you'll have to, Miss Morrison.
10:35Right there at the bottom, your full name and address.
10:39Oh, God.
10:42I can't.
10:44I can't.
10:46Oh, God.
11:01Well, you look a lot better.
11:05I feel a lot better.
11:06I told you, the hypo in a couple of hours' rest
11:08and you'd be as good as new.
11:14Can I go home?
11:16Well, let's just have a little look-see.
11:27That sounds more like a heart.
11:31You must have thought I'd gone quite mad.
11:34I've seen a lot worse.
11:37It's true, though.
11:39Mm-hmm.
11:41About the writing.
11:43I know it must sound absolutely crazy, but it's true.
11:48Yes, Miss Morrison.
11:51Don't say yes, Miss Morrison, like that.
11:54Eight other people saw it, too.
11:56Well, I'm sure it's something your own doctor
11:58can explain quite satisfactorily.
12:00I'd see him first thing tomorrow.
12:07How could he explain it?
12:10They're telling me it's perfectly normal
12:12I should start writing in a language I don't know.
12:19Like a woman who's been dead for five years.
12:37The man who was in the car with me.
12:39Mr. Tomachek.
12:41Ask him.
12:43I sent him on home an hour ago.
12:45He would have told you.
12:48We talked a little.
12:50Well?
12:52What did he tell you?
12:54Look, you just go home, take two of these
12:57and doctor to give me a ring.
13:00What did Mr. Tomachek say?
13:03Miss Morrison, there's a four-year-old kid
13:04in the next room who swallowed
13:06about a pound of bird seed.
13:08What did Mr. Tomachek say?
13:10Didn't he tell you about the writing?
13:12Well, yes.
13:14He said you wrote something on a blackboard
13:16and it upset you very much.
13:23Is that all he said?
13:25He spoke very highly of you as a teacher.
13:35Didn't he tell you the writing
13:37was the handwriting of a dead woman?
13:41No.
13:43Look, these things happen when a person's overtired.
13:46Nothing to worry about
13:48if you take care of it right away.
13:57I mean that.
13:59About seeing your doctor.
14:05Where's my car?
14:07In the parking lot.
14:22Sit down, please.
14:24Sit down.
14:26That's all I hear.
14:28Breakfast, supper.
14:30Teacher, teacher, teacher.
14:33You would think you are, anyhow,
14:35the queen of some place.
14:39Well, see.
14:41It's late.
14:43He's usually home studying.
14:45He'll be back in an hour or two.
14:47He'll be back in an hour or two.
14:49He'll be back in an hour or two.
14:51He'll be back in an hour or two.
14:53He'll be back in an hour or two.
14:55He's always studying.
14:57You would think he's a college professor
14:59instead of a butcher,
15:01the way he studies.
15:03Oh.
15:05Somebody should really take care of him.
15:20That's his Clara.
15:22She died.
15:23He cries like a baby at the mention of her name, a grown man.
15:29That's incredible.
15:32Writing is the same.
15:36What?
15:41The inscription.
15:42Oh, you mean what she wrote?
15:44Yes, very lovely.
15:46Do you read the language?
15:54Yes, Mr. Tomacek and I are from the same province.
15:59She was lovely.
16:01Sit down, sit down.
16:03He will be here soon now, it's very late.
16:07He will be so proud.
16:10His famous teacher is here.
16:14He will want to put up a sign.
16:17Just between us.
16:19He is a little sweet on you.
16:27Excuse me.
16:30I don't think I will wait.
16:32Oh, you've got to.
16:34He would be so disappointed.
16:36Would you ask him to telephone me as soon as he comes in, no matter how late?
16:40Sure.
16:42Just write down your number on the pen.
16:44I'm in the book.
17:16Mr. Tomacek.
17:46Mr. Tomacek.
18:17Hello?
18:19No, he isn't in yet, Miss Morrison.
18:22And I'm starting to worry.
18:24Well, will you be sure to tell him to call me when he does come in?
18:31Is that...
18:32Wait a minute.
18:35Wait a minute.
18:36Maybe you can help me.
18:40Well, I think I could.
18:43But it's been a long time.
18:44I'm out of practice.
18:46It's just a few words.
18:48I just want to know what they mean.
18:51That's...
18:53He.
18:55Or him.
18:58That's...
19:00Is.
19:02That's...
19:05Let's see.
19:07Oh...
19:09You know, like...
19:11Like...
19:13Like...
19:14Outside.
19:18Who is it?
19:19Me.
19:20Tomacek.
19:22Hold on.
19:23Just a minute.
19:30Mr. Tomacek.
19:31It happened again.
19:32Just on the phone with your landlady.
19:33She's translating for me.
19:43You should have listened to Clara.
19:47He is out there.
19:50Do not let him in.
19:52He will kill.
20:01You want to know what Clara wrote on the blackboard?
20:06Watch out.
20:09Watch out or he will kill you.
20:13Just like he killed me.
20:17Watch out.
20:25You killed her.
20:30She laughed at me.
20:36It was a field.
20:39Near a village.
20:40Outside.
20:42It was winter.
20:44Quiet.
20:47I mean, out.
20:51Same like Clara.
20:55Why did you laugh at me when I gave you a present?
20:59But I didn't.
21:01You did.
21:02You did.
21:03But I took it.
21:05Out of pity.
21:06Yes.
21:07Out of pity.
21:08Yes.
21:11You think Tomacek is ugly.
21:14No.
21:15Inside Tomacek is good.
21:19Fine.
21:21Like a prince.
21:24You don't know.
21:28You laugh.
21:31You hurt.
21:34He likes to poison.
21:38He killed Tomacek.
21:49Clara.
21:53Clara.
21:56Clara.
22:00Clara.
22:03Clara.
22:05Clara.
22:08Clara.
22:10Clara.
22:13Clara.
22:15Clara.
22:19Clara.
22:31Clara.
22:33Hello?
22:35We got disconnected.
22:37Listen.
22:38I changed this to English, but it don't make any sense.
22:42Police.
22:43Miss Morrison?
22:45Something wrong?
22:47Call the police.
22:50Clara.
22:55The history test paper on which Clara wrote her final message
23:00is now in the private collection of a respected student of psychic phenomena.
23:05It is the most dramatic example of automatic or psychic writing.
23:12There are other, less lurid, but equally puzzling examples,
23:15such as these books.
23:19Sorry Tale, Hope Trueblood, A Light from Beyond.
23:25All apparently dictated in the 1920s
23:29to a Mississippi Valley housewife and English author,
23:32dead for 300 years.
23:35Now, after decades of investigations by the most skeptical scientists,
23:40no one has been able to disprove this psychic miracle.
23:44Automatic writing cannot be explained.
23:48Certainly not on any rational level.
23:51One can only wonder about the persistent evidence of its existence
23:55and perhaps hope that someday it may furnish still another clue
24:00to that unknown world beyond our five senses.
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