Now I must hurry into the theater, for I don't want to miss the beginning. Despite the fact this has been introduced with my usual flippancy, it concerns a very serious subject and I would be doing it a disservice if I led you to regard it lightly. I wish to dramatize the title of tonight's play.Īlfred Hitchcock - Host: Tonight's story is called "Bang! You're Dead". Please don't be a no-show.Īlfred Hitchcock - Host: This is not a holdup. As usual, all we ask is that on those occasions when you can't view our show, that you let us know so that we can send it to someone else. When he opens the coffin, he is startled at the sight.Alfred Hitchcock - Host: Good evening and welcome to "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". He asks the Indian employees to help find the grave of his wife, which was hidden to prevent the spread of cholera, because he suspects that she was not a cholera victim. He rushes back, but the Fitzgibbons have gone down-river for several days. A messenger is sent to inform John of his wife's sudden death from cholera. Early in the morning, she grabs a scalpel and enters Lucy's bedroom. Mary sees them together, and becomes jealous. When John leaves to attend to a cholera outbreak, Thomas takes Lucy for an evening canoe ride on the river. Thomas Fitzgibbons is not medically competent, and Mary must perform difficult procedures for him. Mary Fitzgibbons suspects that they were sent to check up on them, and that they want the mission for themselves. John Sprague is a physician and Lucy a nurse. Two new missionaries, the Spragues, arrive at the Fitzgibbons' medical mission in the Indian jungle. When Nell finds a doll in Numa's box that looks exactly like Eva, she tearfully realizes what has happened. Nell finds Eva in the backyard with a black-girl playmate, and Nell chases the girl away, warning her to never return. Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will trade places with Numa and go to the idyllic place "Where the Woodbine Twineth." When Nell puts Numa on top of the player piano, Eva steals Numa away, and the piano mysteriously plays by itself. Nell hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, but suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood. When the Captain returns, he presents Eva with a gift-a black doll named Numa. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell finds it difficult to govern Eva, who constantly talks to imaginary friends whom Eva believes are real, including Mingo and her father Mr. When she and the author begin to plan her husband's murder, the publisher calls in another of his mystery novelists to determine: are these tapes just an unorthodox pitch of a new novel - or the bizarre confession of a deranged killer?Īfter Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old-maid daughter Nell. The tapes relate how the author eventually ran into Janet, and though she's still married, dived into an affair. The author says he fell into a severe depression, declined a needed brain operation, moved from France to San Francisco where he changed his name, then became a mystery writer. Janet made a pass at the author, who immediately cut the evening short. They were kissing, making up after an argument over his wife's staying out all night with a rich old man, the same evening the author was briefly with the man's alluring, young wife Janet. The author tells of his brief marriage ending when his wife was killed after he lost control of their car. On the first tape, the author boasts that the publisher won't be able to discern if the story he narrates is the history of an imminent murder - or a mere fantasy. A mystery novelist sends a series of weird audiotapes to his publisher.
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