Kolchak: The Night Stalker · Season 1
The Rakshasa have magical powers, Tony. They seduce their victims to death by taking on the image of someone the victim trusts.
And poor Harry Starman - he trusted you? Obviously he never had to depend on you to come up with a cogent story - something that'll turn a profit!
[closing narration] And if you happen to be walking along a lonely country road one night, and you see your favorite aunt coming toward you... good luck to you, too.
[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?
Tell me, do mortuaries give you a weird feeling?
Tony, how many times have you heard that by 1984 the computer will be running us?
Who's the father of modern psychology?
Sigmund Freud is commonly given that appellation, but that is more in terms of classical analysis. In the study of pure behavior both Ivan Pavlov and Wilhelm Wundt would have to qualify as well.
[to Leslie Dwyer] You said he speaks languages, right? [to R.I.N.G] Say that in French.
[R.I.N.G. does]
Okay... what's the difference in right and wrong?
[R.I.N.G. looks to Leslie]
What's the difference in right and wrong?
No one philosopher or tape can answer that. Can you?
[to R.I.N.G] Who had more right to life, you or Dr. Avery Walker?
[dictating into his tape recorder] I don't even know where they took me, now. At least I can't be sure. Maybe it was Tyrell Institute, but it could have just as well been the Black Hills of South Dakota for all I know. Was there a drug? Pentothal? Scopolamine? I can't be sure of that either, but there must have been something. I can't even be sure the events even happened the way I have told them. Perhaps when I am completely back in this world, I'll turn on this tape and not believe any of it myself, but I doubt it. Because I believe that somewhere, some place, they, or someone else, will put some other R.I.N.G. together without the help of Leslie Dwyer. And who... who will program him, then? [He turns off the tape recorder]
During World War Two, close to this very spot, science bore a child that changed the course of human relations and, to this day, threatens to end human history. It was called, innocuously enough, The Manhattan Project, and it grew into the terror we all have come to know as the hydrogen bomb. But this year, only a stone's throw from here, science delivered a new child.
It seems some dangerous animals did escape, including two large apes, a pair of adult African gibbons, as well as a Malayan tiger, a civet cat, and a pie-cost.
What's a pie-cost?
89 cents. [chuckles]
Voila! Nice story, Carl. It's old cabbage. It's already been chewed up by all the other News Services.
Let them have the cabbage. We here at I.N.S. will feast on journalistic Filet Mignon. Where's Ron?
Out to lunch.
Well, it looks like a freezer, but it's so hot and damp and humid in here, you could steam littleneck clams.
Well, it's out of order.
Yeah, it stinks, too. It smells of mildew. Phew!
Maybe it's your undershirt.
Could be your jokes.
Alright. This is Homo Erectus. And, his colleague, here, is Australopithecus.
Ah..
You-see. Early Man. Both of them. Neither has sixteen, double-E Feet.
[laughs Pointing at Advanced Australopithecus on The Evolution of Homo Sapiens Chart] I know that one. I work for him.
Okay, how much is it?
There is no charge. A nominal contribution will be appreciated.
[One bill is put into urn]
Not that nominal.
Who are you, a policeman?
Do I look like a policeman? I'm a reporter.
[about a crime scene] Why do you want to go up there?
Why do I want to go up there? Because it's there.
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