The Ray Bradbury Theatre S1E5
Episode 5 "The Screaming Woman"
Intro: Ray Bradbury is hiking with his binoculers bird watching I think but unbeknownst to him is an old creepy dude who sneaks up behind him. Spooking Mr. Bradbury. The old man goes "HEYYY I KNOWS YOU! YOUS A WRITER! LOOKING FOR A NEW IDEA?" He then shows him his handy dandy stick that acts like a dousing rod. Ray follows the vibrations in which he is gravitated towards a cave. "Feeling a new story coming along?" Yesssss he says. Yes, indeed.
A mini Drew Barrymore is a guest star in this episode. She plays a little girl named Heather being too busy having fun with her dolls and comics. Well that is an interesting choice of literature right there.
Her mother enters her room doing her mother lecture telling her to clean up after herself. She scoffs at her comic book before she gives her an errand to pick up some ice cream for dinner.
Away Heather goes in her bicycle and all is normal. On her way back, she has enough time to read her comic where out and about. It is evident that she is completely drowning in her comic. While she is reading the comic aloud, she hears a woman wailing. She tries to ignore it until she just can't anymore. So she stops what she is doing and tries to follow that wail.
She reaches the woods where the woman's sobs seems to grow louder and louder. She is able to pinpoint a location but gets spooked as fuck so she runs home in terror.
Her dad is finally home from work and her mother is serving dinner. Heather rushes to tell her parents about the screaming woman but both of her parents dismiss her claims as just a wild imagination. They both chuck it down to her scary comic.
While the mother is passive about it, the father uses this to his advantage and makes a deal with his daughter that if she finishes all her food then he will check it out for himself. She happily obliges. Now that she is busy stuffing her face, mom and dad talk about the neighbors, one in particular that seem to fight all the time. She makes it a point to notice that they finally stopped. Good, right?
Dad gets all carried away and randomly is like UHHH lets go check out the woods now. Heather doesn't hesitate to zoom the fuck out of there despite not finishing her dinner. Her mom is left confused as heck but oh well.
They both reach the woods where Heather shows the site where she claimed to have heard the wailing. After a few moments of silence go by, he rage quits just as quickly. That was hella brief but whatever. He wants some of that ice cream now.
Heather goes to a friend's house, his name is . She recruits him and appears with shovels. They both go back into the woods to dig the hole. The friend is skeptical and says he won't shovel unless he hears these so-called screams. Heather slams the shovel on the ground is when the screaming woman finally screams. He thinks it's a good trick but he's finallly persuaded to dig. When she says she is going to die he is like "Yeahh suuuure maybe the batter on your tape recorder hurrr hurrr."
A man appears out of nowhere and tells them to stop that shit because he owns that lands and they're fucking it up so he tells them to GTFO.
On the walk back, shovel-less Heather, says she has an idea to the skill skeptical friend. She thinks that dude is hella mad because he killed his wife so lets do some intel on that.
Night time now. They both end up having a top secret stakeout to their neighbor across the street who owns those woods. When they both see the guy is occupied with company knocking at his door, they both sneak around the house and try to PEEK INSIDE HIS WINDOWS like peeping toms.
This neighbor is actually reporting the kids behavior to a police officer. On the 2nd floor, is when his wife makes her grand appearance. Nope not dead as she originally thought. "She's not dead, you dummy!" Says the friends. LOfuckingL.
Heather then remembers the conversation her parents had earlier about the Nesbit family and the fighting. So that is their next target. Except the friend had enough of her crazy shenanigans and goes home.
Frustrated but determined to get to the bottom of it, she takes it upon herself and knocks on the Nesbit residence. Heather knocks on the door to a very confused looking Mr. Nesbit. She asks if his wife is home because she asked her to come by to pick up a pie recipe. Obviously pulling that fake AF story out of her ass.
Needless to say, he lets her in to wait until his wife comes back.
Heather sits on the couch while Mr. Nesbit tries to have some conversation with her but her being such a little kid she spills the beans on the wailing woman sounds from the woods. He laughs it off and excuses himself to another room. Heather is starting to ge the heebie jeebies and looks around the front room.
When Mr. Nesbit comes back to the front room ready to inquire more on her outlandish theories with the screaming woman, he finds her: GONE!
Where is she, you may ask? Back at the woods. She is just standing there at the sight of the woman's sounds and sobs with her that nobody seems to believe her.
She arrives back at home in bed and the thought of a helpless lady being trapped in there keeps her up at night. Her dad walks in her room to kiss her goodnight. All the while she is humming the same tune as the woman.
The dad is humming the same tune too. It turns out that Mrs. Nesbit wrote that song for Mr. Nesbit. All everyone is just humming along to that song. Dad's spidey senses be tingling the more he is humming when he realizes she was humming the same tune. She rushes to her room to find her GONE.
Heather slowly approaches the woods one last time. Unbeknownst to her is that this time there is someone else there with her too not too far off in the distance. He rushes behind her and holy shit it's Mr. Nesbit!!! She screams and in just the nick of time Heather's dad comes to her rescues and knocks him TF out!
Now, she is finally believed!
She is back at home with her mother hoping she is alive.
A group of people are now armed with shovels along with police presence to dig the fuck out of that site. Lo and behold. Heather's assertions is finally confirmed and Mrs. Nesbit is indeed the woman found in a coffin. Barely alive but...not dead. That's the most important part. Job well done, bois.
The next day, Heather and her friend walk along the green grass away from the woods. She tells him yet another conspiracy theory about this kid who grows mushrooms in the basement, people being abducted by aliens. WTF is she talking about? Well you are going to have to continue tuning in to The Ray Bradbury Theatre next season or two.
