Not Rated | 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TV Series | Episode aired 22 December 1959
A farm girl's parents are terrified when their daughter reveals that she can read minds. But a priest knows that her gifts can save two young lives.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Gail Ingram, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: John Newland, Patty McCormack, Robert Emhardt
A farm girl's parents are terrified when their daughter reveals that she can read minds. But a priest knows that her gifts can save two young lives.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Gail Ingram, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: John Newland, Patty McCormack, Robert Emhardt
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00:00Have you ever been certain your telephone would ring in the next 10 seconds?
00:05Or have you ever walked down a strange street and had the feeling that you knew what lay beyond the unturned corner?
00:11Yes? Then you've had a brief encounter with the world of the unknown.
00:15You are ready for the actual human experience that follows.
00:30Amy, time to set the table.
00:42I was just coming, Ma.
00:53Amy Horvath, age 12. Farm girl, helping her mother with the chores.
00:58How perfectly normal.
01:00Certainly a most unlikely channel for the supernormal.
01:06The psychic, isn't she?
01:09Well, don't you believe it.
01:17The table.
01:19Hi.
01:22I was talking to Miss Palmer this morning.
01:24She says there's all kinds of excitement over in town.
01:27Some children belonging to someone at that army camp over by the shorefront got themselves lost.
01:31Don't tell you much to get people excited.
01:33Miss Palmer says...
01:34Never you mind what Miss Palmer says.
01:36We got nothing to do with them army folk.
01:39We mind our own business.
01:41You let them mind theirs.
01:43Yes, Ma.
01:52He didn't say.
01:55He didn't say.
01:57What?
01:58Pa, he didn't say.
02:00Say what?
02:01If he was fixing on Butcher and the pig.
02:18Well, it ain't no later than last year.
02:22What ain't no later?
02:24Butcher and the pig.
02:25Pa waited even later last year.
02:27Now, that's twice you've done that.
02:29I didn't say nothing about Pa and the pig, but you answered.
02:33And then about it being late, I didn't say nothing about that neither.
02:36I was thinking it, but I didn't say nothing.
02:38But I heard you.
02:40How?
02:41When I didn't say nothing?
02:43I don't know.
02:46I just heard you.
02:49Well, I don't know, Ma.
02:51Emmy, what's got into you?
03:00What's got into you?
03:02You try and make out like you can read my mind.
03:05Ma, please.
03:07It was a mistake.
03:09Go on.
03:10Say it.
03:11It was a mistake.
03:13Why are you scared?
03:15I'm not scared.
03:18You sound scared.
03:21You sound scared.
03:29How...
03:31How'd you know what I was thinking?
03:36Emmy, is it just me?
03:38Or can you do it with others?
03:40I don't know, Ma.
03:41I just started.
03:43What about Pa?
03:45You mean about what he's thinking?
03:51He's mad.
03:53The cow's commencing to dry up already, and he's mad.
03:56You're making it up.
03:57No, Ma.
03:58I'm going to tell your Pa I knew you.
04:00No, you're not.
04:01I'm not making it up.
04:02Honest, I'm not.
04:03Oh, hey.
04:04Too much noise in there.
04:06Squealing like a couple of stuck pigs, both of you.
04:12No more than four quarts.
04:14That calf ain't due for months, and she's commencing to dry up already.
04:18Oh, yeah.
04:19Another thing.
04:20That young pasture apple you sets her store by, Emmy,
04:24that's just dead.
04:25Rabbit's got her.
04:29Well, I'm ready.
04:32Where's supper?
04:39A couple of minutes ago, you two couldn't start talking.
04:43Well, what's got into you two, anyway?
04:45Go on.
04:47Go on, you tell him.
04:49Tell me what?
04:51Jed, is the cow really commencing to dry up?
04:54Well, I just said that, didn't I?
04:57You tell Emmy before?
04:59How could I when I just finished milking?
05:01Now, wait up, Jed.
05:03Don't be getting mad.
05:07Listen.
05:10Listen.
05:12I think she can read folks' minds.
05:16Are you gone crazy?
05:18She can't even read what they teach her in school.
05:21Jed, I mean it.
05:26All right.
05:28What is it?
05:29Nothing.
05:31Well, what am I thinking?
05:33Can you tell that?
05:35She don't know.
05:36Yeah, she knows.
05:37If she knows, why don't you say it?
05:40Why don't you say it?
05:42Pa.
05:43Come on, Emmy.
05:44What am I thinking?
05:48The apple tree.
05:50The pasture apple.
05:51That's why you're mad at me.
05:53You tethered the cow to it.
05:55She pulled it out.
05:56That's how it got killed, not rabbits.
05:58You see?
06:00She knows.
06:03She's seen me.
06:05You done it this morning while I was fetching kindling.
06:08You know that.
06:10You're thinking it yourself.
06:12You shut your mouth.
06:15You.
06:17It ain't bad enough you give me no sons.
06:20You give me a female with a devil inside her.
06:23Pa, what'd I do?
06:25They got a name for one like her, witch.
06:28Don't say that, Jed.
06:30Don't say that, Jed.
06:32Ma.
06:33That's what they said about old lady Cole, remember?
06:35They come up here, they took her away,
06:37they sent her away upstate.
06:39They said she was crazy.
06:41Crazy, witch.
06:42It's the same thing.
06:44They wouldn't come take Emmy away.
06:46No, Ma.
06:47Don't let them take me away.
06:50What are we going to do?
06:52We are going to keep our mouths shut.
06:54Ma, don't let them take me away.
06:56You keep your mouth shut.
06:59Don't you tell nobody about what you can do.
07:02Nobody.
07:03Understand?
07:04I won't tell no one, I swear.
07:06Only don't let them call me a witch.
07:08All right, all right.
07:09Stop blubbering.
07:11Car drying up months early.
07:14You going to sit there and tell me
07:16we even got a witch in this house?
07:18Pa, I ain't.
07:20I ain't a witch, Pa.
07:21Don't call me one.
07:22I ain't.
07:23I ain't.
07:24I ain't.
07:28I ain't.
07:44Make me not a witch.
07:46Make me not a witch.
07:50Please, make me not a witch.
07:53Don't go.
08:04I don't belong here.
08:06We don't go here.
08:07That doesn't matter.
08:09I didn't hurt nothing.
08:10Of course you didn't.
08:14What's your name?
08:15Emmy.
08:16Would you like to tell me what it is you're afraid of?
08:24I can't.
08:25It helps sometimes to tell.
08:28No, I can't.
08:31Sit down, Emmy.
08:38I wonder if you know that anything you tell me, I won't tell anyone else unless you say
08:48so.
08:49That's a promise.
08:50Do you believe me?
08:51Yes.
08:52All right, then.
08:53Am I turned into a witch?
08:54What?
08:55Am I turned into a witch?
08:56Because I can tell what folks are thinking about.
08:57Well, you're a witch.
08:58You're a witch.
08:59You're a witch.
09:00You're a witch.
09:01You're a witch.
09:02You're a witch.
09:03You're a witch.
09:04You're a witch.
09:05You're a witch.
09:06You're a witch.
09:07You're a witch.
09:08I'm not sure I understand all that, but no, you're not turned into a witch.
09:18But I can read people's minds.
09:20I can...
09:21You don't believe me.
09:24Should I?
09:25You're thinking of taking me into your housekeeper.
09:31You're thinking how she got Coco.
09:38Now you're thinking Heavenly Father.
09:45What an incredible coincidence.
09:52Now you believe me.
09:55Am I turned into a witch?
09:57No, Emmy.
10:00I don't know what you are.
10:03Perhaps you're a miracle.
10:05You are certainly not a witch.
10:07You ain't gonna tell nobody.
10:10Perhaps there's a God-given reason that you can do what you can do.
10:17This is a tremendous thing, this gift of yours.
10:24Perhaps it's better not to keep it a secret.
10:27But you promised.
10:28Pod beat me if he knew I told anybody.
10:30You promised.
10:32If folks found out I was a witch, they'd come and lock me up.
10:36Oh, they wouldn't do that.
10:38But perhaps a doctor, someone who understands the incredible power...
10:42No, you promised me.
10:43You promised.
10:44All right, Emmy.
10:45All right.
10:46We'll say nothing.
10:51But you will remember that I'm your friend.
10:55I won't let anyone harm you.
10:59I won't let anyone harm you.
11:03Do you believe me?
11:06I have to go now.
11:14I don't think so.
11:15Hmm?
11:16He was thinking if I come and see you again.
11:20I don't think so.
11:29Father, the hospital just telephoned.
11:47They want you to come over right away.
11:49Who is it?
11:50Juan Uribe, the old fisherman father.
11:53An accident?
11:54No, they found him on the beach almost unconscious.
11:58Father, the man at the hospital said that you'd hurry right over.
12:07Amen.
12:10I absolve thee of thy sins in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
12:20Amen.
12:21Isn't there something you can give him?
12:23Something so we can hear what he's trying to tell us?
12:26Captain Ryder, he's an old man.
12:27He's driven himself badly.
12:28It's a paralytic stroke.
12:29There's no way to predict when or if he'll ever regain his powers of speech or motion.
12:34He's got to.
12:35It's the only chance.
12:38Captain Ryder, are you sure he saw the children?
12:43He must have.
12:44When they found him on the beach, he could just barely talk.
12:47They heard him say something about children, just that one word over and over, children.
12:54You must have seen them near the beach or water, perhaps on one of the islands.
12:59There must be over a hundred islands out there.
13:02I've got a search party and a powerboat, but in this weather, it's impossible.
13:07If he can't tell us, we'll never find them.
13:12Try.
13:13Please, try to talk.
13:16Where are my children?
13:19Tell me where my children are.
13:24Oh, if only I could get inside his mind.
13:48Help!
13:49Help!
13:50Help!
13:52Help!
13:53Help!
13:55Come on, Jill, quit it.
13:57The line is coming out.
13:58The water's getting higher.
14:00I know it's getting higher.
14:02Sure it is.
14:03Remember that old fisherman called over to us?
14:06The whole place was underwater at high tide.
14:08Then what do we do?
14:10What do we do when it's underwater?
14:17Miss Palmer says they haven't found those children yet.
14:21She thinks maybe if they don't find them soon, it may be too late.
14:24Well, how do you know what she's thinking?
14:26Listen, you trying your witch work on her now?
14:28No, Pa, we was just talking.
14:29Talking?
14:30Next thing, Lou Palmer will be talking.
14:32They'll be coming up here to get you.
14:34Pa, I didn't tell her nothing.
14:35She doesn't know anything.
14:43Mr. Harvath.
14:44Well?
14:45Emmy.
14:48You wasn't to come here.
14:49You...
14:50I gave you my word.
14:52Now I've come to ask you.
14:54You've got to let me out of my word.
14:56Wait a minute now.
14:57What's...
14:58What's all this about?
15:00I told him about the mine reading, Pa.
15:02Emmy, I told you.
15:04Pa, when you called me a witch, I was so afraid.
15:07You want them to take you away?
15:08You want to be locked up?
15:11That won't happen, Mr. Harvath.
15:14It happened with old Lady Cole.
15:20Mrs. Harvath, two children are lost.
15:25There's an old man, a fisherman, who's seen them.
15:29But he's sick now.
15:30He can't talk.
15:32Well, now that's none of our business.
15:35Emmy, you can save those children.
15:41All you have to do is go with me to the hospital
15:44and tell me what this old man is thinking.
15:47No.
15:50Now listen to me, child.
15:52Remember what I told you.
15:55That this power, this gift, must have been given to you for a reason.
16:02Emmy, this is the reason.
16:05I'm sure this is the reason.
16:07Now don't you listen to him, Emmy.
16:09It's a trick.
16:10He just wants to make you admit you've got the devil inside you.
16:13That is not true, Emmy.
16:15Look into my mind.
16:16You know that's not true.
16:18Pa says they'll hurt me.
16:19Says they'll do to me like they did to Miss Cole.
16:21Trust me.
16:22At least trust me.
16:23There's so little time.
16:25Emmy, you keep your mouth shut.
16:29Emmy, you listen to your pa.
16:31Ma, what should I do?
16:35Pa's right.
16:37It's a trick.
16:39They really needed you for those children.
16:41He'd tell people about you anyway.
16:43He'd get someone to make you go.
16:47Mrs. Horvath, I am bound by oath under God never to reveal a confidence.
16:55I can't tell about Emmy without her permission.
16:58And that's why you've got to tell her that it is right to release me from my word.
17:03We ain't buying none of your tricks, father.
17:05You best get on out of here.
17:07Emmy.
17:09Emmy, it's not a trick.
17:11It's not a trick.
17:14Emmy, it's not a trick.
17:19If I could just reach you and tell you how important this is.
17:26It's not a trick.
17:27I can't.
17:28I can't.
17:29Mama, help me.
17:30Help me.
17:31Tell me what to do.
17:33Just go to your room.
17:36Now you get.
17:46God have mercy on you all.
17:54I can't.
18:09They don't know I snuck out.
18:18We better go.
18:20It's a long drive to the hospital.
18:34Nothing.
18:36All right, then let's try the child.
18:38Well, that's ridiculous.
18:39Mind reading is something found in a vaudeville act.
18:46Come in, please.
18:53Juan, you know little Emmy Horvath.
19:00You know where the children are.
19:06I believe it is God's will that Emmy can read some people's minds.
19:15I want her to try to read yours.
19:22Do you think he understands?
19:24Ask the child.
19:26She's supposed to be able to know, isn't she?
19:30He...
19:33He understands.
19:35How do you know?
19:36Look at his eyes.
19:37You can tell from his eyes he understands.
19:40Juan, please.
19:42Where are my children?
19:44What did you see?
19:50I can't.
19:51Emmy, please try.
19:54You said you could.
19:56I can't, ordinary.
19:58But he's different.
20:01He keeps thinking, but it's different.
20:03How different?
20:06Funny.
20:07Just words I don't know.
20:10Spanish.
20:11What?
20:12He's thinking in Spanish.
20:14He must be.
20:19Yes.
20:21He says yes.
20:26Juan, listen.
20:31Emmy doesn't speak Spanish.
20:37No comprende.
20:41I want you to think words in Spanish.
20:50Important words.
20:54Slowly.
20:59Emmy.
21:03Try to say the words.
21:06I speak a little Spanish.
21:09Just try to say the sound.
21:23Children.
21:27Children.
21:28She's getting it.
21:30Island.
21:32Island?
21:33What island?
21:34There are a dozen islands.
21:35How could they get to an island without a boat?
21:38He says they walked.
21:43Walked to an island?
21:51They walked to an island when the tide was low.
21:55It could only be strip island.
21:57It isn't really an island.
21:59When the tide is low, you can walk to it from the beach.
22:02When the tide is high...
22:04At what?
22:05At high tide.
22:06Submerged.
22:10What time is high tide?
22:15He says...
22:258.30.
22:278.15 now.
22:34Goodbye.
22:43Pa.
22:45Ma.
22:52They rescued the children in time and they're all right.
22:56You still mad at me, Pa?
23:00Can't you tell anymore, Emmy?
23:04Can't you read my mind?
23:06You think...
23:10I don't know.
23:12I can't.
23:14I can't do it no more.
23:16It's gone.
23:17It went clean away.
23:21Can't tell if you're mad, Pa.
23:23Oh, Emmy, I was never mad at you.
23:28Well, mostly I was just scared.
23:47Scared?
23:49Of what?
23:51Of a strange gift that was given for just a little while?
23:56Of a gift that saved the lives of two children?
24:00A man frightened of a miracle.
24:04How much more frightening.
24:06How really terrifying.
24:09If there were no miracles.
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