Carl Kolchak in “Mr. R.I.N.G.”

[Voiceover of a groggy Kolchak, who has been doped by the Feds] I don't know when I was in this office last. In some ways it feels like I never left. [pause] No, that's not right. For a while I was away, far away, in the hands of men with no faces. They broke me down, broke my story down, and convinced me it hadn't happened the way I remembered. [Gropes for his tape recorder] Memories fade fast enough without chemical help. But if I don't tell this story now, I'm afraid I never will. Now... what was that date?