:23:02
I apologize for bothering you
on the plane.
:23:04
What was all
that writing about anyway?
:23:06
Letters to my pupils
about my trip to America.
:23:09
I'm a kindergarten teacher.
:23:11
I'm sorry it ended
so tragically for you.
:23:13
- Thank you.
- Sit down, won't you?
:23:16
- Would you like a drink?
- No, thanks.
:23:18
You don't mind if I have one, do you?
I need it.
:23:20
It's cold tonight, isn't it?
:23:22
No, it's hot.
Quite hot.
:23:25
Do you think so?
:23:28
I heard you're continuing
my uncle's project.
:23:30
- And?
- I think you ought to drop it.
:23:33
You're the second person
to suggest that in one day.
:23:36
- What's your reason?
- I believe you're in danger.
:23:40
I found my uncle's diary.
It's all in here.
:23:43
- You make it sound very menacing.
- It is.
:23:45
I think it had something to do
with my uncle's death.
:23:48
Something horrible happened to him.
:23:50
Something unexplainably horrible.
:23:52
- I'd like to read it to you.
- Go ahead.
:23:58
"Met Karswell at Albert Hall concert."
:24:01
He puts three exclamation marks
after that sentence.
:24:03
Karswell can be
a pretty startling character.
:24:05
- You've met him?
- This morning.
:24:07
Listen to this.
"Karswell most pleasant.
:24:10
Lost my program during concert,
and Karswell gave me his.
:24:13
A nice gesture,
since I save them."
:24:15
That doesn't sound
particularly menacing.
:24:17
Wait.
:24:20
"Today I found the parchment...
:24:22
in the concert program
Karswell gave me.
:24:24
It had runic symbols drawn on it."
:24:27
That's not mysterious.
:24:29
Runic symbols are the oldest form
of an alphabet.
:24:32
They're found carved on ancient stones,
like hieroglyphics.
:24:36
They're supposed to have magic powers.
They don't.
:24:41
"The parchment acted
as if it were alive.
:24:43
It pulled from my hand
and Flew into the fiire and burned.
:24:47
I think I can guess
what Karswell has done to me."
:24:49
- Cigarette?
- No, thanks. There's a lot more...
:24:51
about seeing visions
of a monstrous, smoky shape...
:24:54
and feeling cold,
like you said you were.
:24:57
"I'm under some kind of witch's spell.
My mind is in the balance.