Audio Post - Backdated to Nov 1st

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Welcome once more, to The Miss Fitz Story Hour. My my, what a bout of excitement we've had this spooky season, hmm? I do hope you're all recovering well. And here's our final installation of our Halloween show, to keep you entertained while you nurse your bruises and revel in our victory. Without further ado...



ANNOUNCER: The thrilling conclusion to our story, The Black Cofagrigus of Death.

DAVID: I had gone into the mausoleum; standing there with a weapon in her hand was the executor of the estate, Karla Sawyer.

SFX: Thunder

MRS. SAWYER: David! What are you doing HERE?

DAVID: I might ask you the same question Mrs. Sawyer.

MRS. SAWYER: I began to wonder. (clears throat) I don't believe in people coming back after they die but...

DAVID: Is that the reason you're armed?

MRS. SAWYER: I didn't know what I'd find. I wanted to be safe, that's all. NOW that I see it's you I will put it back in my pocket. By the way, David, what are you doing out here?

DAVID: I was restless. Harold thinks everything that's happened has some supernatural significance, all his talk made me nervous.

MRS. SAWYER: I see. And do you think that there is something supernatural abut the way Emily died?

DAVID: I, I don't KNOW Mrs. Sawyer. I just don't know.

Music

DAVID: Mrs. Sawyer and I returned to the house. I asked her to spend the remainder of the night with us. Besides I wanted to keep an eye on her. I didn't feel much like sleeping so I went down to the library, found a book and sat down to read.

SFX: footsteps on wooden floor

JOYCE: David?

DAVID: Yes?

JOYCE: Mrs. Sawyer told me you were DOWN here. What's the matter?

DAVID: I can't sleep.

JOYCE:David, I talked to Mrs. Sawyer for almost ten minutes. She said she thinks that you're in back of everything.

DAVID: What did you say to that?

JOYCE: I told her that she was wrong.

DAVID: Thanks FOR YOUR confidence Joyce.

JOYCE: The more that I think about it the more that I think Harold is right with what he said.

DAVID: That uncle Amos has come back to life?

JOYCE: Yes.

SFX: thunder

DAVID: I'd keep an eye on Sawyer if I were you.

JOYCE: You think she's in back of it?

DAVID: I'm not sure.

JOYCE: You must have some REASON for it.

DAVID: I went out to the mausoleum tonight about an hour ago. Sawyer was out there, she was armed.

JOYCE: Perhaps she was just curious.

DAVID: Why should she get curious at three in the morning?

JOYCE: It does seem rather odd but...

MRS. SAWYER: (shouting from distant room) No, no, I warn you, stay away from me.

SFX: gun shots

MRS. SAWYER: (screaming)

DAVID: That's Mrs. Sawyer!

JOYCE: It just couldn't happen AGAIN. It just couldn't!

DAVID: We'll see.

HAROLD: Is that you David?

DAVID: Yes, it's me.

HAROLD: I heard a shot.

JOYCE: So did we.

HAROLD: I thought it was one of you.

JOYCE: It was Mrs. Sawyer.

DAVID: She came out late tonight. I found her out in the mausoleum about an hour ago.

JOYCE: Here's her room.

DAVID: Try the door.

HAROLD: It's open.

JOYCE: (Gasp) On the floor...

HAROLD: Is she?

DAVID: Yes, she's dead.

SFX: Thunder

Music

DAVID: Mrs. Sawyer lay there on the floor sprawled in a grotesque position of death. By one outstretched hand was, broken into three pieces, a little black figurine. Harold called the police, they said they would be out as soon as they could. The three of us went downstairs to the living room.

SFX: Thunder

HAROLD: I was right, it is uncle Amos who is behind all this.

JOYCE: It must be, there is no other explanation.

HAROLD: I told you before there are certain things which can not be explained. The deaths of Emily and Mrs. Sawyer prove that.

JOYCE: You still don't think that Mrs. Sawyer was in back of it all do you David?

DAVID: Hardly.

HAROLD: Will or no will I'm leaving here now. I'm going upstairs to pack. I will be down in a while.

SFX: footsteps upstairs.

JOYCE: I'm going to leave too David, what about you?

DAVID: I don't know, I still can't make myself believe...

HAROLD: (Screams from upstairs.)

JOYCE: David?

DAVID: Stay here.

JOYCE: No, no I'll go with you.

SFX: two sets of footsteps running up stairs.

DAVID: He has to be alright. Harold! Harold!

JOYCE: He doesn't answer! Harold, where are you? Harold, Harold answer us!

DAVID: His door is open.

JOYCE: He'll be dead, dead just like the others.

DAVID: No Joyce, he's not here.

JOYCE: The mausoleum, uncle Amos came and took him back to the mausoleum.

SFX: thunder

DAVID: I decided to go out to the mausoleum to see if Joyce was right. To see if Harold's dead body would be found there.

MUSIC: building tension

DAVID: Joyce wouldn't remain in the house alone so together we started out through the rain filled night.

SFX: Rain, walking on gravel

JOYCE: Why don't we wait until the police come David?

DAVID: If this is something supernatural then they wouldn't be able to help us anyway.

JOYCE: David.

DAVID: What's the matter?

JOYCE: The mausoleum door's open.

DAVID: You can stay here if you want but I'm going in.

JOYCE: No, I'm going with you.

DAVID: Stay close to me Joyce.

JOYCE: I will. I don't like it in here David.

DAVID: Neither do I.

HAROLD: But you're going to STAY here for some time!

DAVID: That's Harold's voice.

HAROLD: That's right, turn the flashlight on, you'll see me then.

JOYCE: We thought you were..

HAROLD: Dead? Hardly. But you two will be very soon.

JOYCE: He's armed, David!

HAROLD: That's right, I took it from the Sawyer woman. I've planned this VERY carefully David, when the police arrive they will find you three dead and I'll be wounded. I'll tell them Mrs. Sawyer was behind it all, that she killed both of you out here and then she came into the house SEARCHING FOR me. There was a fight, she was killed in the struggle.

David: Then you killed Emily and Mrs. Sawyer.

HAROLD: Yes and I'm going to kill both of you too. You don't think I believed all that hokum I fed you about Uncle Amos coming back do you. Of course not, but it served its purpose. Now you'll serve yours.

JOYCE: Harold, Harold LOOK OUT! In back of you!

HAROLD: How stupid do you think I am.

DAVID: Uncle Amos' coffin, its slipping! Get out of the way!

JOYCE: Get out of the way Harold!

DAVID: HAROLD!

HAROLD: (Screams as is crushed to death by coffin)

Music

DAVID: He's dead, Joyce.

JOYCE: Uncle Amos...

DAVID: What did you say?

JOYCE: REMEMBER what uncle Amos said when he was dying, that he'd come back and settle with us. That coffin, I wonder if it was an accident and it slipped out of the crypt or if uncle Amos really did come back. Maybe the man we thought the monster all along...wasn't at all...

Music:

ANNOUNCER: So ends tonight's tale of the unusual, the terrifying, the unknown. Join us again when next we journey down the corridors of the imagination on The Miss Fitz Story Hour. Good night, and Happy Halloween.