The Ray Bradbury Theatre S1E6
Episode 6 "Banshee"
A chauffeur is driving around with a man in the backseat in the outskirts of Dublin. He is telling the obviously timid man how awesome of an opportunity to be working with the famed yet eccentric John Hampton. As he drops the man, Douglas, off, he departs with the words "God be with you."
Uh huh.
Before he can even knock, Mr. Hampton whips the front door open and invites his fine ass inside. But not before he pauses and stares into the void of the outside of the distant howling. Asking if he realizes that that is? No? Okay close the door now. With his screenplay in one hand, John Hampton is hasty it free it from his hands and reads some snippets of it...boy didn't even get a chance to close the front door yet! He has a spooky 'ol howl outside and he looks scared for a hot second but plays it off and closes the front door.
He continues to read Douglas' screenplay as he is walking through room to room. This wack ass just drops the paper to the ground all sloppily rather than properly keeping it in the same pile. Brotha wasn't lying when he said he was eccentric.
Douglas follows him in yet another room trying to gauge his reaction while continuing to flop paper after paper to the floor while he is having a sippy sippy from his cup. As he finishes, he looks hella mad. He tells Douglas that he hates him. HATES HIM. For being such a good screenwriter. Despite continuing to appear condescending, he continues to compliment him. Then walks out of the room retrieving some of those papers.
Following his lead, Douglas does the same for the ones that he missed. Once he reaches the front room, John Hampton is standing right in front of the fireplace lookin' like he was about to toss the papers in the fire. Throwin' them in, he did not.
He turns his attention towards "the banshee". The sound of this banshee is back. He explains to a clueless Douglass that the banshee is a spirit of a woman that only appears in the woods to foreshadow a nigh death. Douglass being skeptical AF humors him into more information on this lady spirit. John looks dreary out the window asking if it means...THEM?!
John Hamptom walks over and whips out a book and reads an excerpt.
Resuming back to his chair while reading his script. He switches the subject back to him. He also takes a newspaper article to read a scathing review on his stuff. Douglass is like WTF but before he can read it for himself, he yeets the newpaper in the fireplace.
He admits he was just trolling him.
Howling continues to make itself known and John Hampton says it will not go away until he heads out and see what the heck she wants. After a little taunting, he decides to humor him some more despite making it clear he doesn't believing in this spoopy scary tales.
Armed with a jacket, he heads out, expecting to be trolled yet again. To his surprised he notices that John Hampton locks the door behind him and even pulls down all the blinds in the windows.
With no choice, Douglas heads out, ponder ways to troll him back attempting to come up with a story of his own to "get back" at him. In the cold deadness of night, he pushes forward and walks further and further out in the woods. Thinking he has come far enough he decides to head back.
At that exact moment is when he heard the questionable howl. Intrigued, he goes to follow the voice, deeper in the woods. He approaches a young woman with a ghostly appearance in all white.
She stares at the house with a sullen look on her face. She finally speaks asking if that "animal on 2 legs" that resides in that house. She continues to say she is a former lover calling him William. Douglass corrects her that she got the wrong guy because this chap over there is named Jawn.
The woman in white is adamant that this is the same dude and that he somehow changed his name. She requests that he will come out so that she may lay with him. She writhes in sadness and commands that he goes to fetch John for her. In her ghostly voice and appearance, he bids her adieu and heads back to the house.
Douglass approaches the house and knocks and knocks until John gets the door. He feels like he almost believed it for a hot second. Before he fully steps inside and begins to doubt himself that he is a victim of yet another joke but whatevs.
He asks him of that newspaper article was real or not. John claims that he was actually the one who wrote that review. Well, dang.
Douglass then remembers the woman and describes her appearance and asks if that rings a bell. John is like ehhhh literally thousands of women he knows matches that description. In fact, he feels that both of them should have a little chat with each other.
To his surprise, John Hampton actually agrees! He puts on his jacket. Right when he is about to step outside the door, Douglass has second thoughts and tries to persuade him to come back inside. John now thinks that he is the one being trolled this time so he doesn't want to be protrayed as a scardey cat so he continues forward.
As soon as the door closes, it locks. The woman's howl's echoes William's name quickly followed by John desparetley trying to get back in the house. All Douglass seems to do is just retreat back and away from the front door. His bangs on the door are left unanswered.
The End.