Alfred Hitchcock Presents s05e17 Episode Script

Good evening.
No, we're not preparing a barbeque.
I consider outdoor cooking rather uncivilized.
Tonight we hope to revive one of the truly inspiring ceremonies of ancient times, the Aztec human sacrifice.
I think it's regrettable that in the hustle and bustle of this modern age, we've lost sight of some of the fundamental values, and neglected some of the beauties of ancient times.
For this event, we thought it would be only fair to become an audience participation program.
And choose the victim from our own loyal viewers.
The winner will receive many prizes, including a free trip to Hollywood, one way.
Our story begins in a moment.
But first, we present, what I'm certain will someday be shown as an example of the folk art of the 1950s, used to drive evil spirits out of the home.
Marie.
Honey.
Help me.
Luiz.
Luiz.
Luiz.
Luiz, no! Senor? Thanks, Luiz.
That's enough.
What's going on here? It's Marie.
What's happened? She flipped her wig.
Came at me with a knife.
Hey, Jeff, you all right? I'm okay.
Thanks to Luiz.
Oh! If not for him, she'd have got me.
I had no strength she came at me like a wildcat.
Must be fever.
She must have caught the fever.
Fever, yeah.
That's it.
She's really out.
Come on Luiz, we better get her back to her room.
I'll tie her up.
Tie her? Yeah.
Okay, I guess so, but, be gentle with her.
Yeah.
I come back quick, senor.
For arm.
Never mind the arm.
How, how is she? She talk.
What did she say? She say, "I no kill him.
" Why you not let me kill her? Because, she's sick.
She's sick.
It does things to your head, I know.
I got it and I lay here thinking all sorts of things.
She no good.
Better I kill her.
You, Indians.
We don't kill people who are sick in the head.
We cure them, see.
We cure them, in the head.
She hurt you.
I no let anyone hurt the senor.
You'd make a wonderful mother, if I was looking for one.
Senor, where you go? You go bed.
You mind your own business.
Are you comfortable? Fine.
How long do you expect to keep me like this? The rest of my life? Hi, honey.
You better? Marie, what was it? Was it a dream? Did you wake from a bad dream or something? I'm sick.
Sure, I know.
It's this place, it's the jungle.
I shouldn't have brought you here.
You'll be all right in a week or so.
Do I Do I have to stay like this a week? No, baby.
You don't have to stay like this if you feel Baby, you do remember what you done to me? I was sick.
I didn't know what I was doing.
Sure, I know.
I'm not blaming you.
I wouldn't be sitting here if I thought you wanted to carve me up like that.
I'll tell you what we'll do.
I'll untie your hands.
And we'll get Chita, she'll sit with you until you're better.
Sure, that's it.
The best thing.
You're looking better already.
That look in your eye is gone.
You should've seen yourself.
I never thought I'd live to be scared by a woman, but you sure scared me.
That's better, huh? All right.
You go to sleep, we'll talk in the morning.
Everything will seem better then.
You want something? Some water, a cold drink or something? Chita.
Come here.
Oh, don't worry about it, honey.
In a couple of days we'll forget all about it.
Chita! Oh, don't cry, baby.
Sit with her.
And don't sleep.
Mike! Sit down.
Jeff, you shouldn't be drinking with that fever.
Why don't you go back to bed? I got to talk to someone before I flip, too.
Sit down.
Sit down.
Well, how was she? Quiet.
I untied her.
Why'd you do that? Chita's with her.
She'll watch her.
Mike, you got to help me.
I can't work things out for myself.
Why me? Why me of all people? All right, so she's got a fever.
All right, maybe.
But, there must be something else than that.
What do you mean? Well, Mike She wanted to kill me, Mike, why? I'm not a doctor.
Did she say anything to you when you took her back to her room? Yeah.
She said she was sick.
That's all, huh? Nothing about me? Well, she asked me how you were.
Oh, she was worried then? Yeah, I guess so.
But she was in a state of shock.
That makes the two of us.
Didn't she talk to you? Not a lot.
There's gotta be a reason.
Even a dopey one, why a dame would wanna kill a guy that she loves.
Well, one reason might be, she doesn't love him.
Mike, you gotta help me.
What could I do? Maybe you should have let Luiz put his knife into her.
Don't talk like that.
I'm sorry.
If that's all the help you can be, then get out of here.
I said I'm sorry.
You always hated her, haven't you? No, I don't hate her.
Maybe that's the cause of it.
It's this god-forsaken place, and you always treating her like she was some dirty little From the very start you was against her.
I was against you marrying her.
That's right.
You asked me if you should and I said no.
Well, if you didn't want my opinion you shouldn't have asked for it.
You never even gave her a chance.
What kind of a chance did she give you tonight, huh? Where would you be now, if it weren't for Luiz? What are you, a saint or something? You don't have to be a saint to know when someone is sick and needs help.
There's only one thing to do.
Yeah? Now what's that? She needs to see a doctor.
A doctor? That's 200 miles down the river.
I don't care if it's 1,000 miles, I don't care about anything except that she gets well again.
That doctor in Salona's so drunk all the time, he couldn't cure a cough.
Yeah, I know, but he can put us onto somebody in Belem.
She needs help in her mind.
That's a psychiatrist you're talking about.
Yeah.
She's been acting kinda strange lately, it's this place.
Mike.
I want you to take her there.
Why me? I'd go myself, Mike, but in my condition, I could never make it.
Oh no.
You hired me to find oil, not act as a nurse.
Mike.
Mike.
I'm asking you a favor.
Why not Luiz? He can take her.
Luiz will go too, but you gotta take her.
Why both of us? One's enough.
Luiz knows the river and the people.
You can't risk anything with these natives.
Imagine him, he'd be lost in a city.
Looking for a psychiatrist.
What about Marie? How's she going to react? What are you going to say to her? "We've decided you're outta your mind and you've gotta see a headshrinker.
" Huh? Nah, she'd never go.
You don't have to mention that.
Just say she's going to a doctor.
So I got to break the news to her, too? Please, Mike.
If I told her, she'd think that I was trying to get rid of her.
Did it ever occur to you, if she went downriver, she might never come back? Oh, no, she'll come back.
I know what you think of her.
And I know what she was.
But I pulled her out of that place and I married her.
If I strike oil, she'll have money to burn.
Why shouldn't she come back? She's got no place better to go back to.
You don't know much about women, do you, Jeff? I only know that she's the first one that ever made me feel like I wasn't something that crawled out from under a stone.
She made me feel like somebody.
Yeah, I know.
You told me.
Yeah.
You'll never know what it's like when all you gotta do is smile at a dame, to get a look of disgust.
Or, if you're lucky, a laugh.
Marie was different.
I know.
She was paid to smile, but there was lots of others like her that I met and they ain't never got get around to it with me.
You may not think much of her, Mike, but she's all I got.
If I lost her, I'd want to die.
Come on, Jeff, you better get some sleep.
Look, in the morning, after I've talked to her and she uh If she feels better.
You know, sorry.
Yeah.
Maybe we can forget about the headshrinker and give her another chance, huh? Sure.
Sure.
You talk to her and see.
Goodnight, Jeff.
Goodnight.
Goodnight, senor Mike.
Goodnight.
Hey, Luiz.
What are you doing here? Go get some sleep.
No, senor.
Luiz stay here.
Sleep well here.
Are you all right? Why wouldn't I be? How's the ape-man? He's still asleep.
I had a talk with him last night.
Hmm? Must have been fun.
Marie, what made you do it? He loves you, don't you know that? Mmm-hmm.
Apes are very affectionate animals, especially to other apes.
I just don't happen to be one.
That's all.
Yeah, well you should have thought of that before you married him.
What got into you all of a sudden? Just feel sorry for him, that's all.
Why'd he have to pick a girl like you to fall in love with? You tell me.
He was right.
What about? I do hate you, I know.
But you haven't shown me yet this morning.
Jeff.
No.
Relax, darling.
Oh, sweetheart, do you feel better? Darling, Mike told me about the doctor.
And I'll leave today.
Baby.
Not if you don't want to No, sweetheart, you're right.
It's the only way.
Oh, Jeff, honey, I'm so sorry.
I don't know what came over me.
The last thing I remember, Luiz was holding me.
It all seems like such a bad dream.
Oh Don't think about it.
Just come back soon I will, darling.
Don't talk too much, cause you have to get well, too.
I want you to know how thankful I am, Jeff, for you sending me away.
Take care of yourself, will you, sweetheart? And thank you, too, Luiz.
For what you did.
I won't forget.
And I'll make it up to you, soon.
Luiz.
Si, senor.
Take good care of her.
Si, senor.
I watch her well.
We safe here for one night, I think.
You wait.
I look.
Luiz.
How long to get to Salona in the morning? Three, four hours, maybe.
Is easy river from now.
We'll lose him here.
How? The same way he nearly lost me.
But why, Marie? Why kill him? We can lose him in Belem.
Don't kid yourself.
He's like a leech.
We can get rid of him in Belem.
It's a big city.
He knows what we're trying to do, and he's gonna stop it.
What are you talking about? How could he know? How could he know? In two days he hasn't taken his eyes off us.
If it'll make you feel any better, he'd just as soon kill us as look at us.
No.
I don't like it.
If you don't, I will.
Okay, we stay.
No! No! Luiz! Please, Luiz! Luiz, I have money in the boat, you take it.
But, let me go! No, Luiz no kill you.
I take you like senor says.
You lucky I do what senor wants.
Into boat.
Quick, walk.
Senor! Come boat.
Come Luiz.
Oh, thanks, Chita.
And Marie? Luiz alone.
Huh? That can't be.
Luiz.
What happened? Bad thing, senor.
Where's Mike? Senor Mike dead.
Dead? How? I kill him.
He try kill me, so I kill him.
He did? What happened? Senor Mike no bad man.
Foolish man.
He listen to bad woman.
Poor man.
He weak for women.
Weak for fight, too.
What are you trying to say? She bad woman.
She want to go away with senor Mike.
That's a lie.
I do what you tell me.
I take her to my people.
Best headshrinkers in the world.
Better than Belem, senor.
Best job in the world.
Of course, there was a bright side to all this.
For it was the beginning of a marvelous new invention.
Instant girl.
All you do is add water.
And now, in just one minute, I shall announce the winner of our contest, to select the human sacrifice.
I'm very pleased to announce that we have chosen our human sacrifice.
She's Mrs.
Stanley K.
Ladowski of Wentfield, New Jersey.
And of course, we are already shipping the freezer, the automobile and the other prizes to our contest winner, Mr.
Stanley K.
Ladowski, who submitted Mrs.
Ladowski's name.
Our thanks to both of you.
Now, until next week, at the same time, good night.