"Gina, come to the door." "Gina, it's almost morning." "Oh!" "is Harrington in there with you?" "Nicolas just called for the car." "He'll be home in a few hours." "You don't want him to find Mr. Harrington here." "Mr. Harrington, can you hear me?" "You have to leave now." "Mr. Casavin will be here soon." "Tyler?" "Tyler!" "Gina, what's wrong?" "Oh, my God!" "Open the door." "I killed him!" "Oh, God, it's the blood." "It's cursed." "Not again." "Take me away." "I killed him." "I'm cursed." "You're not being much help, Mrs. Dean." "I'm sorry, Lieutenant." "I positively didn't hear anything at all." "Lieutenant Wright." "Oh, hi, Doc." "Good to see you." "Hey, I got a real pretty mess" "I'd like you to handle for me." "That doesn't even begin to describe her." "You think so?" "That happens to be Gina Casavin you've been eyeballing-- the millionaire heiress." "And in here, we have her friend." "Prepare yourself." "This isn't very pleasant." "The late Tyler Harrington of the Wall Street Harringtons." "What happened to him?" "He died." "Young lady out there said she killed him." "Take a look at this." "Strangled." "Now these cuts here were administered after death." "Now can you picture those pretty little hands choking the life out of this hunk of beef?" "Then setting him up here and going at him with a butcher knife?" "Of course not." "It would be physically impossible." "I mean, look at her." "Everybody looks like that coming out of a drug haze." "What?" "We found enough narcotics here to knock over an elephant." "Maybe that's what she means by a curse or somebody forcing her to kill her boyfriend." "Yeah, yeah, drug-induced paranoia." "Complicated by waking up and seeing this." "Are you going to make a big deal of it?" "Well, she's got a cousin-- has half the city in his hip pocket." "He has a lot of influence." "I sometimes overlook a little dope, but you got to get something out of her." "I'm ready to go now." "I've killed Tyler and I have to be punished." "I'm not a policeman." "I'm a psychiatrist." "I'm here to help you." "Nobody thinks you killed Tyler." "You're safe now." "No, I'll never be safe from the blood in my veins." "It's cursed." "I killed before, and I killed Tyler this time." "It's the curse that makes me do it." "See, I can't ever love anybody." "Gina, what's wrong?" "Who is this?" "Oh, Nicholas." "It's Tyler-- he's dead." "You warned me." "I wish I could die." "This is not the time." "Mr. Casayvin." ""Ca-sa-vin."" "Casavin." "Lieutenant Wright, Homicide." "This is Dr. Webster." "Tyler Harrington's body is in the next room." "You know of any enemies he might have had?" "Tyler was well-liked by everyone." "You don't have any clues at all?" "Well, other than the fact that the guy who did it was built like a gorilla, nothing." "Miss Casavin is having trouble remembering anything, and Mrs. Dean said she didn't hear anything unusual." "My room is in the west wing." "What finally woke you up?" "Mr. Casavin's telephone call." "Nicholas didn't approve of Gina's closeness to Mr. Harrington." "I'd come here to warn them that he'd be home soon." "It's all my fault." "I shouldn't have loved him." "Oh, boy." "I want statements from all three of you." "Try to get some sense out of her, please." "Surely you don't intend to question my cousin." "A written statement will have to be enough." "Mr. Casavin, I mean, there's something you should understand." "Tyler Harrington's murder has pushed Gina" "Miss Casavin-- into a psychosis." "I mean, whatever happened in there, she's blocked from her mind entirely, and replaced with a delusion." "She actually believes that someone put a curse on her that forces her to murder people." "She'll come out of it." "She's suffering." "I can help her." "Now you hear me, Doctor." "I will not permit you to interfere with my cousin." "She's a material witness in a murder case." "It's my job to help her remember what she saw." "You're going to find that I'm a very difficult man to oppose." "When I fight I win." "Now, you're meddling in things outside your sphere, Doctor." "Don't." "It's always dangerous." "When will he be here?" "In half an hour." "I'm going to meet him in the rock garden beside the caretaker's cabin." "I figure I'll show him where I spent all my time playing as a child." "And it's safe." "Nicholas isn't likely to wander over there by accident." "Don't be so afraid of Nicholas, Gina." "It's right for you to be close to others besides him." "Just a minute." "Oh, lovely." "Lovely, Gina." "Do you realize we're expecting guests any moment?" "Nicholas, I'm afraid I'm going to be a little late." "I have an appointment that I must keep." "Nonsense." "What could be so important?" "Well, it's not that important." "I suppose it could be delayed." "Miranda, if you don't mind calling for me, please." "I'm sure he's already left his office." "Are you expecting a guest?" "Dr. Webster is coming at 11:30." "He's been seeing Gina every morning since we lost Tyler." "After I expressly forbid it?" "But it's doing her a world of good." "At the very least, it's taking her mind off what happened." "When I want your opinion on family matters," "I'll ask for it." "Now, if you'd be so kind as to step downstairs and make sure the other servants are setting the tables properly." "Really, Nicholas." "I'm old enough to choose my own friends." "Don't be ridiculous." "He could never be your friend." "Now, how much of our family history have you told him?" "Nothing." "Despite your association with the police you can keep information about your patients confidential?" "Absolutely." "Then I'm going to share a little family secret with you." "Once you've heard it, you'll understand why you can't possibly be of any service to my cousin." "You see, a hundred years or so ago, our great-great-grandfather Anton had the opportunity to marry into a royal Corsican family." "It should have been a perfect match, except for one small impediment." "You see, Anton was married to a beautiful gypsy girl-- Maribelle." "Now, he went to Maribelle and asked her for a divorce." "Maribelle refused." "It was a violent row." "Anton grabbed for a dagger." "And Anton stabbed Maribelle to death with that dagger." "And she cursed him with her last breath." "She told him:" ""You and your children" ""and the children of your children" ""will always destroy those who you love." ""till the name of Casavin disappears from the Earth forever."" "Since then, love and murder have haunted our family." "Gina herself has been through two lovers." "Tell him." "We were in Rome late at night, and Paolo stopped to kiss me beside the bridge." "Suddenly, we were attacked." "I must have fainted because all I can remember is the blood everywhere." "Casavins cannot have relationships like common people." "Gina allowed herself to love Tyler Harrington." "Yes, I've given her drugs to keep her calm and passionless because it's my obligation." "You see..." "Gina and I are the last of the Casavins." "Now, you can't cure a curse, Doctor." "So if you'd like to help Gina, you would tell the police that she'll never remember the night Tyler Harrington died." "And then you go and you leave Gina to me." "Well, I must see to my guest." "He's got you so you don't know which way is up." "No, it's the curse." "Now you know it all." "Listen to me." "There's no such thing as a curse." "He wants you all to himself." "He's playing on your fear to get you." "What about Paolo and Tyler?" "More than your share of trouble." "I could make it easier for you." "You got to fight him." "You're not cursed." "You're strong and lovely." "Nicholas wants you in the pavilion." "They're about to serve the champagne." "Doctor... thank you for the support you're giving Gina." "She desperately needs it." "You mustn't let Nicholas keep you away from her." "You see what he wants." "Sometimes, I'm so afraid for her." "I don't know what lengths" "Nicholas will go to to have his way." "Mrs. Dean, do you know something about Tyler's death you're not telling the police?" "I..." "I think so, but I'm afraid." "Meet me tonight at this address." "We can't talk here." "Okay." "Thank you for coming." "I can't tell the police this." "Nicholas owed Mr. Harrington more than $200,000." "He had no intention of paying him back." "Mr. Harrington was furious." "Then he offered to cancel the debt when he became involved with Gina." "That's when they had their big fight, two days before Mr. Harrington's murder." "Nicholas is insanely jealous of Gina." "He threatened to kill Mr. Harrington." "You heard him?" "He said, "You will die if you are ever alone with my cousin again."" "Mrs. Dean, you've got to tell this to Lieutenant Wright... for Gina's sake." "All right." "You know, I was 20 years old when you were born, and now you're such a lovely woman." "We're a perfect match." "I mean, we could go back to Corsica where it all began, and we could marry; it's legal for cousins there." "Oh, Nicholas, I don't want to marry you." "I don't love you, and you don't love me." "But that's what makes it possible, Gina." "We don't love each other." "We wouldn't destroy each other." "Don't you see we're made for each other?" "You've grown to be my ideal woman." "You're beautiful, and yet you're damned." "I mean, the possibilities are so much more interesting than love." "No, I won't listen to you." "Jeffrey says it's all a lie." "Oh, are we falling in love with Dr. Jeffrey?" "I mean, have we already forgotten about Paolo and Tyler?" "How many men do you think they're gonna let you kill before they lock you up?" "No!" "You're cursed." "No!" "You're cursed, Gina." "I didn't kill them!" "I didn't' kill them!" "I won't listen to you!" "What's going on in there?" "Police!" "Ow!" "I'm taking you down to the station." "What?" "Are you all right?" "Yes." "You arranged this." "The doctor knew nothing of this." "I have testimony that you tried to kill Tyler Harrington." "Gina, don't forget who you are." "Don't let yourself be alone with him!" "Let me go!" "I'm sorry." "Nicholas killed Tyler." "Tyler was taking you away from him." "He couldn't face that, so he killed him and used the story of the curse to make you think you did it." "It's... it's been a long nightmare for you, but I think it's finished." "Jeffrey, everyone I've ever loved has died." "Oh, that's the past." "You've got to learn to trust again." "I brought you some wine." "It will calm your nerves, Gina." "You're safe now." "So beautiful." "I love you." "I love you." "Ah!" "Help-help me!" "Don't leave me!" "Gina?" "Gina!" "Gina!" "Gina!" "Gina?" "I killed her." "But it wasn't her." "It was some... thing." "It was the curse, you fool." "Did you really think you could wash away a century of blood with your silly theories?" "I should have had more faith." "All I had to do was wait." "Blood will have blood." "Now the Casavins are gone from the face of the Earth forever." "What, what are you talking about?" "Who are you?" "I am Miranda great-great granddaughter of the gypsy Mirabelle." "And now the curse is fulfilled." "We are avenged."