:13:01
I'll be right out.
:13:02
The police say that
Professor Harrington was electrocuted.
:13:05
Somehow, his car ran into
a power line outside his house.
:13:08
It was a terrible accident.
:13:11
He must've died instantly.
:13:14
- The services will be held tomorrow.
- I'll be there.
:13:17
This is Mark O'Brien. He's been
working with Professor Harrington.
:13:20
- He'll continue to do so with you.
- Fine.
:13:22
You'll have to forgive me.
I had a little sleep to catch up on.
:13:24
- Of course.
- Sit down. I won't be very long.
:13:28
- What is this?
- Part of O'Brien's research...
:13:31
which is tied up with
the Karswell Devil Cult investigation.
:13:34
I see.
Let me get some clothes on.
:13:39
I wrote Professor Harrington recently
that if he wanted to fiind the key...
:13:42
to Karswell's phony supernatural power,
all he had to do...
:13:46
was check the psychological makeup
of some of his followers.
:13:49
I know,
but we ran into diffiiculty.
:13:51
The one cult member
we persuaded to speak up...
:13:54
a farmer named Rand Hobart...
:13:56
was arrested several weeks ago
as an alleged murderer.
:14:00
He can still be useful.
:14:01
I'm afraid not.
His mind is in total collapse.
:14:04
He's in a state of catatonic shock
and in a home for the criminally insane.
:14:08
Why do you say "alleged murderer"?
:14:10
That's just my personal view.
:14:13
A short while ago at the asylum,
I succeeded in rousing Hobart.
:14:16
Under hypnosis,
he produced this drawing.
:14:19
It's crude, but remarkably similar
to these copies...
:14:22
of old woodcuts
and medieval drawings...
:14:24
of a fiire demon invoked
by witchcraft to destroy an enemy.
:14:28
You mean you think that thing
committed the murder?
:14:32
I thought the purpose of our convention
was to disprove that type of thinking.
:14:36
- Yes, but Mark says...
- I'll speak for myself, Llyod.
:14:40
I'm a scientist also, Dr. Holden.
:14:43
I know the value
of the cold light of reason.
:14:46
But I also know the deep shadows
that light can cast.
:14:50
The shadows that can
blind men to truth.
:14:52
What truth? Myths.
:14:54
Demonology and witchcraft
have been discredited...
:14:56
since the Middle Ages.
:14:58
I wrote a book about it.
That's why I'm here.