Death in Your Hands an episode of The Creaking Door

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doctor talk in hushed tones. Theriver noises drift into the room. Doctor
Elliot is anxious to leave. Hiswife waits for him in their car parked
outside the squadid house. The boywill walk again. Doctor, there's nothing

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affair. His leg will mend perfectly. Oh, thank you doctor, thank
you. Well. I think Ibetter go, and my wife is waiting
for me in the car outside.Oh doctor, may I perhaps I might
read your palm. Such fine,strong hands, if mended my grandson's bones,

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Let me speak the future written inyour hands? Well all right,
let she ho is here? Finestrong life tells a rich story for you.
The surgery was natural. Yes,when you were young, you men

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died a bird broken wing. Yougrew happy in the strength you gave to
others. You were content in thestrength of your young hands and your work.
For a time. Oh yes,you'll met someone you love, your

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marriage mh. And a great cloudshuckled over you. This cloud is in
your life now. It fills youwith fear, something that you scarcely admit
to yourself. Wait, I donot understand it clearly. Oh no,

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no, I see it it isOh no, no, what is it
to me? Why? Oh?You see something terrible? What you say?
Tell me what is put in myhead? I must know? Oh
and goo, I tell you youknow too well what I see in your

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hand. Go and never come hereagain. Here's guessing your hands. John,

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hurry and waiting for it at theparty, John, what's the matter?
What did you mean? What couldshe have seen? What could you
have seen? Madam? I musthave some air are expecting as John Carl
Jurney and all his free madam?Please just for a few minutes, let's

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go over to the water there.John, you haven't been listening to me.
If anything wrong? Was everything allright? I can't understand what she
meant? What did you see?You will see where job in my hand?
She saw something horrible written in mypalm. She spoke of my childhood,

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about meeting you, my love ofsurgery. Everything she saw was the
truth. And then suddenly she shescreamed. She refused to go on talk
to death. Oh charm didn't thinkabout it. N was heart crazed with
fear for her grandchild. John listenedto me. Let's go to the party.

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Our journey there. I know hecan help. He's just back after
years of study abroad, working inthe occult silences, black magic, palmistry.
That's he can look at the watermanus, how tranquil and it is,
how black it is down there?Lean out here? Is he there?

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John? Are you see those lightsflashing on and off down there in
the water? Loneliness eat with ashining batter, See anything, John,
it must be imagine lords me.I didn't write. I can't he your

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line. You might try to pushme into drive me. You will want
you. I don't know. Idon't understand what's happened. I felt an
irresistible urge suddenly, and then youscream. I realized how nearly I pushed
you over the edge. You toldme you had no control over yourself.
And if you were enough, telligenttoo. In so I land someone's heads,

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perhaps my own, Marion. Perhapsthat's what what the gypsy saw.
What you wouldn't tell me? Hestep dosn't eat how Mariam, and just
try to understand it. I don'tknow what, but just I can't even
try to excrete it. You saidbefore that carle turn. He was at
the party. He's returned here andafter years and study abroad, perhaps he

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could tell me. Perhaps he mightknow the answer, tell you what you
said. He was a student ofpalmistry. Perhaps then he can tell me
what is written in my hands.I see the brilliant hands of a great

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search, and I see skill certainlya quick, decisive mind. And I
see what else? Do you say? And I see also something tragic?
Tell me what it is? Isee also death in your hands. Death,

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That's what it is. Death atmy hands. That's what she saw
too. How did you say?That's why she feared for her grandson's life?
Is vised burnt into my hands?Death? To see the water?
Is it? I nearly pushed marianin. She said, I's autumaton,

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a toll in someone's vast scheme,greater than all of us, driving me,
forcing me to fulfill the prophecy writtenhere in these hands. Oh please,

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John, such a terrible Nay?All right, married, Thank you
John. I'm glad you left theparty earlier. Yes, sit down in
his chair. You're tired. I'llget something for you from my cabinet.
You share. You can find itin the dark. No, there's no
need to put on a life.I'll find them. Did you need the

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cars? Am I? John?Yes? I spoke to him. What
did you say? Nothing? Iam nothing at all. It was very
charming tonight, wasn't he He wasreading everyone's palm. He's really very brilliant,
John. Yes, I know.Do you know what he told me
what madam. He took my handand read my palms, and he told
me my meeting you, of ourmarriage problems, we've heard joys. And

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then he said something I didn't quiteunderstand. He said he saw your name,
John, your name written at theend of my lifeline. My name.
Yes, what do you think hemeant your name written at the end
of my lifeline? My name?That means it could No, No,

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it means nothing. Nothing. Ididn't know what it could mean. Someone
did have meant life together, John, you and I together until the end?
Yes, yes, yes, thatmust be it. Here, madam,
take this pillow now, don't thinkabout it. Take this. It'll
kill your headache. And is it, John, I'm just an aspirin.
Let me have that bottle. Yeah, put the light on. It isn't

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the aspiring battle, John, lookat it. It's poison you were trying
to give me cos No, Marian, no, you are. I'll getting
away from me. You're trying tokill me. That's it. You are
trying to kill me. You mustbe mad. John. Twice the night
you've tried to kill me. Firsttime it before you try to push me
in the water. And no,here, Marian, I spress you.

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I didn't know you. No,I'm going getting out of here because it
was away from you. Anywhere Igo away would calm. He asked me
to go with him, but Irefuse, saying I left you wanted to
be with you, be with you. You wouldn't marry me. Don't come
here me wasn't there, Marian wayhas don't go Marian oh verest? No.

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Was I trying to kill her?No? Not Mariam? My wife
isn't. Then may be away.I love her. Maybe it doesn't have
to be her. Perhaps my nameat the end of her lifeline does mean
life together. My hands say death, but that's her death death. Perhaps

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there is another way out, Perhapssomeone else will serve to fulfill the prophecy.
Perhaps if I kill someone else,someone anyone, then maybe I shall
obtain release. Yes, that ismy answer. I must kill some Get

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is seated alone in his client officein the hospital. He has had no
sleep. A thought keeps burning itselfinto his brain, torturing him. Can
I kill someone else but not married? Can I? Who will notice what

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I'm about? The door? BecauseI'm much death here in the hospital.
All that is needed is a simpleerror and this calculation, and bear a
slip of the scalpel, and I'mfree release from the faith that it's written
here in his hands. But Iam a doctor, a physician. I

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have sworn I share by a fellowof the position, and he's Gladius and
Hidia and all the gods and goddesses. That's according to my ability and judgment
as a physician. I will keepthis oath forever, and this stimulation hypocratic

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nose the over physician to his prolifithe oath I swadp hold. But I
cannotless, I cannot ms get thiswritten in my hand. This I swear
into whatsoever enter, I will goup to them for the benefit of the
sick and will abstained from every voluntaryact of mischiefs and corruption. This I

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swear into whatsoever house I enter,I will go unto them for the benefit
of the sick, and will abstainfrom every voluntary active mischief and corruption.
This I swear, I swear,Nurse, nurse, this is Elliott.

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Prepare the patient in century A immediatelyfor operation. Yes, brilliantly, don
dot wilias I congratulate you. Thatwas the most magnificent operator, Thank you

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lowel. Yes, it was abrilliant and magnificent operation. But with that
success, I know I cannot killanother person. I could not bring myself
to kill the patient. To try, as hard as I would, now,

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I know now that I must thatit must be a man who dies
in my hand. There could beno one else, There could be no
other answer. I must my nameat the end of her life. Flying
accidents, emergency death all around me, and yet hers is the death that

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must come at my ends. Thisis what must be calling God, Jesus,
calling on the please concern me,A calling U calling on please go
Acy, calling You'll make me alone? Noth again? No God here falling,

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I don't insertainly see Hello, operatoryes, get me surgery cy thank
you doctor. Hello, doctor Elliotspeaking. I can't be disturbed. I've
just completed the most difficult operation.I'm quite retired for serious I don't care
how serious it is. The doctor, it's your wife, my wife.

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What's happened? She was brought inthe hospital just as you were leaving the
operating room. She and mister CarlJourney were in a terrible automobile accident,
some of them at the emergency ward. Now what was the diagnosis? Personally
severe internal injuries. Immediate surgery hasbeen ordered. Doctor Peters has already begun
operating, mister Journey. Doctor Laws, is imperative that you operate on your

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wife. I can't. Don't youunderstand my hands? My name at the
end? What are you saying?Doctor? Uh? Oh, all right,
prepare the patience. I will operate. I must, doctor, Is

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it all right? Here's doctor Darwsgoing to be in a moment. But
does he realize that this patient's statusis most critical? When I told him
what you said? Doctor, wherein Heaven's dab is here? Doesn't he
know his wife is dying? Thispatient needs instant operation, doctor, this
patient recorded her is my wife.I know that, doctor, That's why

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I couldn't under Sorry, doctor,would you begin that? Yes, I
will operate, No, you willstay in this disputsteps can of the vessels

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level wait, wait for themistet waithm hmm, dot hear this? I
breeding is produced? No, Isaid, wait, I tell you what
to do. Don't heard this?The patients post thinking in the whole rapid
least dot k yet quiet, I'min charge. Here is at your heads,

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doctor Lilliot and your stoct earlier.The patient's blood pressure is taking a
seerious pole. At the end ofmy life life you only job you only
at the end of my last life, doctor erlious? Doctor, had you
better use the literatures? This pasionwill require transfusionalist leading stopped. No,

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lo, no ligature is yet.It's all right, all right, it's
me John. You're written to theend of my life. I understand what
it means. The patient's pulses,very faint acts are almost imperceptible. I
did in your hands. Day atyour hands. Don't tell me idiots,

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day at your head? Doctor AliOS, doctor iliots, what are you doing
standing that I can't take over?Like I can't go on with this operation?
But you must. You can't stopnow. Dr Her look at me.
I'm ming. My hands are shaking. I can't control. You've got
to pull yourself together. It's impossible. No, I can't do it.

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I tell you, you've got tocomplete this operation. If I go and
I'll kill you, I'll kill her. Do you understand You've got to take
her alone. You've got to thisthe doctors. There's only one sudgeon in
the world who can successfully complete thisoperation, and that manage you. Well,
I can't. I won't touch heragain. Doctor Elier, Look at

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me. I've seen your mark before. I know what you're made of.
I understand the tension that drips yourboath, that tightens your fingers. Remember
doctor, this woman is not onlyyour wife, says also your patient.
Yes, yes, all right,yes she is my patient. Remember doctor,
a woman is bleeding to death underyour hands. You and you alone

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can save this patient. So Icramp off the vessels. Doctor Earliest,
Yes, yes, came up thebusiness that beating must be stopped us sutureess
Spanish kind of the embassies, suturedoctor earlies. What is it love pairs

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or something? I have had theprivilege of working with many great surges.
But so that operation in your behaviorin that problem with the most magnificent I've
ever witness. Thank you. Ididn't know how true it was that you
were the early surgeon in the world. It could have pulled through there,
But after that daring operation earlier thisafternoon, with a tremendous strain of carrying
your wife's accident, there's no wonderyou were overwrought during the operation on your

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wife. It was absolutely let's notspeak of it anymore. You might know,
sorry, doctor Elious, Doctor reallythe doctor Eliot? What is it?
Love? It's the patient, misterJorney. What about Kenny? He
was crushed horribly in the accident.Doctor Peters performed the emergency operation. I'm
afraid without success. He was toofar gone for man's aid. Is he

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dead, Love, No, he'sstill conscious. He's got a few minutes
left. He said he had totalk to you. I know it's asking
a lot, but would you mind, doctor? It's all right, Low,
I'll be glad to see him.Where is he? You wanted to

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see me? Chary, I haven'tmuch time or much strength to speak.
You know that I love Marian,I have Ald's loved at and last night
when I spoke to you, whenI read your palm, I said,
I saw death at your hands.I hoped that would drive you to murder.

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I wanted you to kill that Marianwould be free to come to me,
to be mine. But you saidyou saw my name at the end
of Marian's lifeline. You knew Iwould understand that made her death at my
hands. Why I knew you wouldunderstand. I spoke to Marian after you

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left, after I'd read your PAM. I told her I loved her,
asked her to come away with me. She refused, she loves you.
Will it you alone. I knewthen that even if you yield and Marian

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were free, she would still beyours. I would never have her,
and been mad, insanely jealous.I determined that if I could not have
her, nice cold you, noranyone else. And when I saw your

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name at the end of her lifeline, I told her so I knew you
must understand the meaning of those words, that you would kill her. Then
you did see my name at theend of her lifeline. It is true
then that I must kill her.Am I to have no peace and life?

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Killed her? No, illiot,your name is written at the end
of her lifeline. But her lifeline is very long, as long as
yours. Both of you have along life ahead of you together. But
the death that is written in myhands you right, the gypsy sight,

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Death is written in my hands.You said so, Yes, death is
written in your hands. Death,the constant companion of the great searcheon.
Death is with you always, Deathat your elbow at every operation, Death

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stands by at every stroke of thesurgeon's knife. Death is in every line
of your hands. But you triumph, doctor Elliott. You triumph over death.
Yours are the hands of a greatsearcheon, a great heath waning victory

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after victory over what it is yourdestiny to struggle against, victoried off death,

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will will So she was right.After all, what was written doctor
Eliot's hand came true. His destinywas a struggle against death, the battle
of all great doctors. But whatabout you? What about your head?

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