Sabato pomeriggio stoneroso da queste parti. In Heavy Rotation (heavy in tutti i sensi) abbiamo gli inglesi Dunes, scoperti grazie a @ArtBandini, e i greci Nightstalker.

Dunes – One Eyed Dog
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/track/one-eyed-dog

Nightstalker – Flying Mode
https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/flying-mode

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The adventures of the Night Stalker come to an end with a bizarre kidnapping.  The victim:  Carl Kolchak.

Simon and Eugene discuss.

Episode synopsis:

A man is chained to a wheelchair in a filthy room, filled with stacks of newspapers.  Another man pushes the wheelchair over a yellow line and down a long hallway and into a room.  Later, the second man pulls the blood-soaked wheelchair back across the line with a rope.

Perri Reed is having a birthday and a surprise party which she knows about because “…[she’s] a good reporter.”  Carl Kolchak is working late that night on a series of missing person’s cases.  There’s nothing connecting them, but he’s got a gut feeling about it.  Perri tries to get him to call it a night and come to her party.

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She leaves, but before Kolchak can follow her a stranger arrives acting as if he knows Kolchak and asking him for his answer.  When Kolchak doesn’t understand, the man, Paul, kidnaps him.

Now chained to the same wheelchair we saw earlier, Paul demands that Kolchak give him his answer that he promised.  Paul is clearly deranged, but Kolchak is eventually able to ascertain that this man was two doors down from him at the insane asylum and that they talked a lot.  Kolchak remembers none of it.

Paul believes that Kolchak has been sending him secret, coded messages in the articles he’s been writing about the missing persons.  The most recent message promises an answer to his problem with the Old Man.

The Old Man is, for all intents and purposes, the Devil.  He first appeared to Paul when he was having shock treatment and he has been both inside Paul’s body and in the back bedroom ever since.  The Old Man wants Paul to cross the yellow line, but instead, to keep him quiet, Paul sends people he’s kidnapped down there to appease the Old Man.

Meanwhile, Jain is getting worried that Kolchak didn’t show up for the party and eventually convinces Perri that something might be wrong.

When Paul’s social worker arrives, Kolchak tries to engineer an escape attempt.  Instead, Paul sends the social work over the yellow line to die.

Kolchak plays along and starts to write Paul’s story – the idea being that if he’s writing codes, it’s unconscious and by writing Paul’s story, he’ll reveal the answer.  It is, of course, just a stall technique.

Kolchak tries to prove to Paul that it’s all in his head and that he is the killer.  He has Paul use the thermal camera to prove there’s nothing in the room, but there is something.  Just then, the badly wounded social worker comes out of the room, he pleads for help, but Paul insists it is the Old Man in disguise.  The social worker does seem to know an awful lot about Carl Kolchak, his wife, her murder and even casts suspicion on Paul by claiming he was temporarily released and in Vegas the night Kolchak’s wife was killed.

While Paul “deals” with the social worker, Kolchak is locked in a room.  He sees Perri arrive and signals her over.  She comes in to help Kolchak.  They have a touching moment were Kolchak reveals that he’s afraid to let people get close to him.  She helps Kolchak free of the wheelchair, but Paul comes for him before they can get away.  Paul is enraged.  He has decoded the message in Kolchak’s latest work, which tells him to “Cross the yellow line” and he thinks Kolchak is trying to kill him.

He sees Perri and insists that she’s the Old Man and she’s tricking Kolchak.  He shoots and kills her.  Blinded with anger, Kolchak beats the crap out of Paul and drags him across the line and throws him in the room.  The door mysteriously slams shut and locks.  Kolchak then sees Perri alive and not wounded and then she disappears.   The door opens again and Kolchak investigates.  It’s filled with the bloody bodies of the missing people and the dead body of Paul – nothing more.

Later, it is apparent Perri was never there and Kolchak now believes that something was talking to Paul through him.

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https://fusionpatrol.com/2019/03/04/2029/

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What’s old is new again as a cyclical plot rears its head for a new generation.

Simon and Eugene discuss the Night Stalker episode, Timeless.

Episode Synopsis: 

In a park, a man finds a decomposing body, the coroner, Aaron Shields, rules it accidental death.  Alex Nyby calls in Kolchak because he thinks the coroner is wrong.  The face of the dead woman was bitten by an unidentifiable animal clean through to her brain.  Question, the coroner dismisses this as the cause of death because of the lack of defensive wounds on the body.  The victim didn’t fight back, therefore these wounds were post-death.  It all seems perfectly plausible.

At home,  Dr. Shields seems visibly upset when his mother, Marlene, is getting all dolled up to go out with a gentleman caller.

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Nyby, on his own time, does a thorough body examination of the corpse and finds something – a small hypodermic injection mark hidden in a mole.  He reports to Dr. Shields who contacts both the police, to report it as a homicide, and to Kolchak.  Shields takes the credit for the discovery.

Marlene’s gentleman caller catches a glimpse of Marlene without her “face on” and she really needs a lot of work.  She’s a lot older than she appears.   Ahh, vanity, eh?

Jain has a lead.  He introduces Kolchak and Perri to Titus, the morgue attendant – that it, the Beacon’s newspaper morgue.  There in the dusty tomes of history, they’ve found another set of 3 murders, in 1970, that match the dead woman.  Three bodies, found in parks, with their face bitten into the brain.

Kolchak contacts the retired detective on the case and learns that the women were alive when their brains were eaten.  Anesthetized and helpless, those poor women were conscious as the watched the killer chomp into their faces.  The murders stopped when the trail led to a Doctor Russel with access to the anesthetic used.  The doctor killed himself.

Meanwhile, Perri tracks down the dead woman’s supervisor.  The dead woman was a realtor and often showed houses, all alone, to strangers.  It’s almost a perfect setup for someone to go missing.  Perri meets the supervisor and it’s Marlene.  They meet, all alone, at one of the houses.  Marlene has nothing to offer, but she pervs on Perri’s beautiful, young skin and reveals to the audience that she’s about to inject Perri with a hypodermic, just as clients arrive to see the house.  Perri escapes, but never knew she was in jeopardy.  She gives Marlene her card before she leaves.

Back at the newspaper morgue, three more murders, in 1935 are discovered and three more in 1900.  Kolchak realizes the killer must be incredibly long-lived.  Maybe the murders stopped in 1970 because three was enough and maybe the killer wasn’t really dead.

Kolchak gets the corpse of Dr. Russell exhumed to see if he’s really dead.  He’s dead. Dr. Shields confirms that and points out the bullet damage to the face.  Nyby points out that the pattern of the wound isn’t consistent with a short-range suicide and, Shields, in front of Kolchak and a police detective, is force to concede that this was murder, not suicide.

Meanwhile, Marlene’s gentleman caller tells her he knows her secret, and that she doesn’t need to “cover up” for him.  She, ominously tells he she never wants him to leave.

Shields confronts his mother.  He tells her he had to perform an autopsy on Dr. Russell.  “You told me he killed himself!  You murdered him, just like you’re going to murder me!” he weeps.

“No, no, he wasn’t strong like you, but it was necessary.  The police were asking questions and when I killed him, they stopped asking questions.  Don’t worry, I’ve got this all under control.”

Perri, having dinner with her parents, has been disturbed by this case.  It’s made her question her choices and she discusses the case with her father, a doctor.  He latches onto the weirdness of it and suggests that maybe the killer was after the pituitary gland at the front of the brain.  In some cultures the pituitary gland eaten while still alive is believed to prolong life.

At that moment, Marlene calls Perri and says she has more info.  Can you come to my home right away?  Of course she can.

Nyby, doing more digging, discovers and earlier victim from a month ago.  Her death had been accidentally misclassified as natural causes by none other than Dr. Shields.  When Kolchak can’t repack Perri, he rushes to Shields home.

Marlene injects Perri while Shields, in a panic, watches.  Perri tries to flee but finds herself in the room with the dead gentleman caller.  Marlene has set up that she’s going to kill Perri, eat her pituitary gland while she watches, and then blame the crimes on the dead gentleman caller.  As she is about to bite into Perri’s face, Shields shoots and kills her, just as Kolchak and the police arrive.

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https://fusionpatrol.com/2019/01/21/404-night-stalker-timeless/

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