The Howling

Jeff, give me a two-shot.

Here's a bulletin from Washington.

I just feel as if everything

is out of my control.

I've got an animal head right there.

Do you know what did it?

We say it's the only way to look terrific.

- He understands all about the gifts.

...recent string of fatal attacks.

This next one coming up is in the park.

It's the second victim.

She's ours.

Now with this film out,

the public is dying to see her.

It's for real.

... Dr. George Waggner explains

on a special edition of Perspective.

You can take it out.

We saw pictures

just like we saw in his room.

It is, after all, what we are.

... TV, Channel 6, Los Angeles.

Repression.

Repression is the father of neurosis...

of self-hatred.

Stress results

when we fight against our impulses.

We've all heard people talk about

animal magnetism...

the natural man...

the noble savage...

as if we'd lost something valuable...

in our long evolution

into civilized human beings.

There's a good reason for this.

Man is a combination...

of the learned and the instinctual,

of the sophisticated and the primitive.

We should never try to deny the beast...

the animal within us.

- The minute anything breaks, cut to Chris.

- Before Doc pitches his book?

Hell, he's been coaching Karen on

how to talk to this psycho. He won't mind.

How much?

How much for a half and half?

Sorry, but excuse me.

Excuse me.

- You're that TV lady, ain't you?

- Yeah, buzz off.

Jesus.

- Did Karen see this?

- Yeah.

Oh, sh*t.

She never even mentioned

seeing the victims.

She didn't want you to worry.

I'm worried.

Okay, guys, this is the jackpot.

I'm on Western between...

I'll transmit as soon as Eddie calls.

- I don't like the interference.

- It's the best rig we got.

No, it's all that neon out there.

It messes up the signal.

I'll get our people to cruise Western.

Boy, there's a lot of

flotsam and jetsam out tonight, ain't there?

Seems like there's more of them

every time I get out here.

I wonder where they come from,

where they're going to.

I don't know where they're from,

but they got to where they're going.

... six, David Jail, 1455.

Contact lost with Fox 1.

Vicinity:
Western and DeLongpre.

Report any sighting.

Repeat, report any sighting.

She's wearing a purple and lavender outfit.

We'll be able to spot her pretty easy.

Yeah, I've seen her on the news.

"Weeks ago,

when Update News reporter Karen White...

"began receiving calls from a mysterious

stranger, identifying himself only as Eddie...

"the KDHB News team..." No.

"The KDHB News team began working...

"The KDHB News team

began working with local police...

"to link Eddie with a recent string of..."

Hi, Bill.

That's a brave li'I ol' girl you've got there.

"Tonight, in an act of courage,

we here at KDHB...

"are all very proud of..."

Good evening.

- Terry, how are you?

- Good. How's it going?

I'll need a few more minutes.

Jesus, there's a guy standing

right outside the booth now.

I don't know if it's him or not.

Lieutenant Shantz, Detective Kline...

this is Karen's husband.

You've got quite a brave young lady there,

Mr. White.

Neill, Bill Neill.

My wife uses her maiden name.

Bill Neill. Stanford, right?

So how is it going?

I have not got a clean word from Karen

in the last 15 minutes.

15 minutes?

Hello.

Hold it. She's transmitting.

Come on, Eddie. I know that it's you.

Yeah, I'm alone.

Are you wearing what I asked you to?

Good.

Where's the sound?

- That's it.

- What?

I'm afraid we might've lost her.

Lost her?

What the hell kind of

half-assed operation is this?

Okay, Eddie, I'll be there

in just a little while.

Okay, mister, it's all yours.

You said you'd never be out of contact.

What kind of operation are you running?

- They have people in the area...

- What does that mean, "in the area"?

They will find her!

Okay, guys, this is it.

I'll keep the transmitter open.

- Hello, Eddie.

- I knew you'd come, Karen.

We have a lot to talk about, you and me.

- Can I turn around and see you?

- Not yet, Karen.

Just watch.

- Yeah, she asked me directions to it.

- How long ago?

A couple of minutes.

The struggle between mind and body...

is not a necessary one.

It produces anger, frustration,

the strain of modern-day living...

in a world that is moving too quickly.

Three minutes to commercial.

Two, push in to a single on the doctor.

All of us have a great

untapped potential for living.

Waiting is tough.

... depends as much on our attitudes

toward our physical lives...

Ready 1. Take 1.

... as it does on the social programming

of our minds.

When we are born, each of us is given a gift.

The gift of life.

Camera 2, give me a two-shot.

She didn't feel a thing, Karen.

None of them do.

They're not real, the people here.

They're dead.

They could never be like me.

But you're different, Karen.

I watch you on TV.

And I know how good I can make you feel.

I'm going to light up your whole body.

Turn around now, Karen.

I want to give you something.

There's a broad that came in here.

She emptied the place out.

She's watching movies.

Please!

My God, Jesus Christ!

Put your piece away!

I knew I shouldn't have let

that broad back here.

Go to remote. Take it.

A reign of urban terror ended early tonight...

in a bizarre shoot-out

at a Western Avenue...

No knife, no gun, no nothing.

The freak was clean.

What happened back there?

Don't ask me, Lieutenant.

Ask Quick Draw McGraw.

... died in an attempted assault

of KDHB anchorwoman Karen White...

who'd been receiving calls from him...

in connection with the recent series

of brutal murders in the downtown area.

It's me. Are you all right?

It's okay. We can go home in a few minutes.

I talked the old man

out of putting you on camera tonight.

That was big of you.

We'll tape something later on,

when you feel up to it.

I don't know...

Whatever happened, in your own words.

Nothing newsy.

I don't know what happened in there.

I don't remember.

Please, don't do it!

It's me, Bill. It's all right.

I didn't even see him.

I turned around, but I didn't see him.

- It's Number 27, down the hall.

- Thank you.

Did the guy say anything else?

He just said he worked with a kid

named Eddie, that he thought lived here.

- He did say the kid hated washing dishes.

- Who doesn't?

Here we go.

Charming.

Oh, God.

It's just your average, red-blooded,

all-American boy.

Get out of here!

Boy, Doc's gonna have a field day

with these.

Karen.

Look at this.

Not bad. The kid had talent.

He could've designed

the Marquis de Sade coloring book.

I think we better call the cops.

Eventually.

Look at this.

I wonder if this is a real place.

So what's the story

on our next Norman Rockwell?

This sort of person is controlled

by the right hemisphere of the brain.

That dominates the non-rational...

the artistic, the creative impulses.

It's not unusual

for a killer to draw as well as that.

It's not a bad angle, Doc.

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