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Helen and Peter are in the house, what's left of it. Cobwebs everywhere, half the floorboards missing a virtual total wreck. Peter shines the torch, nothing to see but debris. H " I want to see everything Peter " P " no one's been here in years." H" help me here Peter " Helen is moving planks of...

At Helen's place the doorbell rings Helen opens it expecting Peter, but is surprised. Ph " Miss Cook, I am Hans Von Piernhaustkant but I see you're about to go out , I can come back" H " no come in , please. I am going out, I'm just about to put this blanket in my car, if you'd follow me" Ph "...

Back in the flat, H " just one nightcap Freddie" F " sure you won't join me" H " I've had enough " Freddie pours himself a whisky. F " you are a fraud Miss Cook, all that business about the handbook, just an excuse for.....well I don't know what...you're a fraud" H " and you are a liar, this...

Helen arrives at the impressive mansion that is home to JP Jacey , she is shown into the drawing room by Hawkins the manservant. Haw " I'll tell Mr Jacey you're here Miss Cook, it may be a few minutes, I don't like to disturb him when he's shooting " H " shooting " Haw " clay pigeons Miss, Mr...

Back home; H " I tried to turn the wheel and it wouldn't, it just kept going " P " the power steering jammed, that's what you mean, why didn't you stop?" H " I couldn't " P " Helen it's just not good enough " H " Peter the car wouldn't let me, before I knew what was happening I was in Reigate...

In the garage Peter is lost for words as he stares at the car. H " well, isn't it beautiful....Peter say something " P " I don't believe it " H " it's real and it's packed with labour saving devices." Helen gets in and sits behind the wheel. P " where did you get it " H " it was outside with a...

At night, a dark and lonely country road, a car is driven, a beautiful white Rolls Royce, registration 3KMH, the car stops , moments later a woman's scream is heard. A little later the car stops a second time, at a deserted ruins of a house, the driver opens the boot, and removes the dead body...

Back in the cellar Robert awakes, chained to the wall. A thick metal belt is around his waist, this connects to a chain, which is connected to a padlock which is locked to a ring in the wall. Next to him on the floor is a candle burning on a saucer. He looks up, Lanceford is staring at him from...

That evening the rain lashes down as Robert enters the manor, the room he was previously in looks very different now. Furniture moved to one side, eerie subdued lighting, spooky shadows cast by various Edgar Allan Poe props displayed. There is a mannequin on a rack with an axe swinging back and...

Early evening, Robert is in his room listening to his brother on the Dictaphone. Jim " I've now met Dominie's gaurdian, Johnathan Lanceford, he seems to be trying to tell me something, about Dominie, warning me" Robert turns the machine off and goes downstairs to the bar. Fred's chair is empty...

D " you're Jim Stone's brother?" R " we had our own business together, Jim was on a sabbatical, but he always kept in touch. Two months ago he came here, that was the last message, and Jim didn't come home. Why did you say you never wanted to hear his voice again?" D " do you think I'm pretty Mr...

Later that day Robert is in the grounds of the manor house, hiding between some trees spying the house. He takes out of his jacket pocket a knife, takes off his jacket, then closes his eyes, steadying himself for the pain he is about to inflict on himself. He draws the knife across his arm...

Back in his room Robert switches on his Dictaphone. Once again the American male voice is heard, the voice of Jim Stone, the prisoner from the first scene. JS " I've found my Snow White, her name is Dominie Lanceford. It is almost as though she was waiting here for me. I might never have found...

A sprawling mansion in the English countryside surrounded by acres of land. Deep, deep down under the building is a sad sight. A young man in his thirties, chained to a wall. He is wearing Elizabethan clothes, next to him on the floor is a single candle, almost burnt down. The man is having...

Lane is at Peterson who is worried about him and he and Margaret would like him to come round for dinner regularly but Lane refuses, as he swigs another whisky. Lane is clearly rattled by what's happened and rages at Peterson when he says," if anything is bothering you Mike, you can confess to...

The next day at university Lane is completing his lecture to his students including Stella and George Newton, the lecture ends and the students file out except Stella, she has a few words with Lane and says she'll see him this evening at his place. After Stella leaves Lane goes back to his seat...

At John Peterson's house, Peterson and Lane discuss the curriculum when the phone rings, Lane says he'll answer it as it's probably Elizabeth just checking that he arrived safely. Lane picks up phone, his plan has worked beautifully, his contraption has dialled this number, he checks his watch...

In the middle of the night while Elizabeth sleeps Lane is in the study playing back the recording of Elizabeth saying greetings to John Peterson, he stops the tape, then using scissors cuts this portion of tape out from the spool. Then on a newspaper Lane has laid out a pane of glass, using a...

Professor Michael Lane teaches at Cambridge University no less, a teacher of engineering and physics. It's Sunday morning and at their Cambridge home his wife Elizabeth is getting ready for her regular church attendance. She hopes Michael will come with her, but he's now an agnostic, though...

The next morning Liza opens her garage door at her place nearby to Sammy's, pulls up the shutter and gets in the car and starts it up. Suddenly the shutter door closes, Liza gets out to reopen door, but it won't open its been locked. " Hello, is anybody there?" No answer, she gets back into car...