Voyagers! s01e04 Episode Script
Agents of Satan
Speak to us.
Spirits of darkness.
(PLUMMETING) What? Do something, get me out of here! I'm Harry Houdini.
You are from the other side.
(GIRLS SCREAMING) Behold the power of God, Satan.
I really think this is just a misunderstanding.
Today we stand trial and tomorrow we shall meet our maker.
What have we done? JUDGE: You are found guilty of the charge of practicing witch craft.
BOGG: We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it's needed.
Bogg! BOGG: : When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong.
Our job's to get everything back on track.
(OMNI dings) Green light, kid! We did it! MAN 1: Do not let her escape! (SCREAMING) Catch the devil witch! (BARKING) MAN 2: Let the dogs lead, follow the dogs.
There is no running from the lord, Abiah Folger.
Over there! The witch runs toward the rocks! There she is.
Get her! (SCREAMS) GIRL: The witch.
She chokes me.
She possesses my soul.
(GIRLS SCREAMING) You see what the witch does? She is an instrument of Satan! Be these accusations true, Abiah Folger? I'm as innocent as an unborn child.
You are a witch! I am a victim.
I am a victim of thy daughter's imagination, Reverend Parris.
The witch stabs me with her eyes.
Seize her! No, I'm innocent.
Please.
Please, I'm innocent.
Oh, good Lord, help me.
(PLUMMETING) (GROANS) Bat's breath! It's bad enough we landed in the dark, but I got to introduce my rear end to this rock that looks like the Matterhorn.
Bogg.
Look at that, will you? Forget it, Bogg.
Look at that.
Oh, no.
Behold the power of God, Satan! You are impotent in the face of our Lord.
Look, I really think this is just a misunderstanding.
Please help me! They'll kill me! Take them! Come on, kid! Run! The devils head for the rocks! After them.
JEFFREY: Where're we going, Bogg? BOGG: Up.
BOGG: Hurry, around the back.
This cave leads somewhere? I'm not sure.
Bogg? So she's not sure.
You got a better idea? Burn, devils! Burn! JEFFREY: Be careful, Bogg.
Not bad.
I'll give him a 5.
7.
Will you can the diving jokes? Let's get out of here.
Hey, it looks like a passageway around the Surrender to the Lord, Satan.
JEFFREY: This is perfect.
Just perfect.
BOGG: Look, I said I was sorry.
Yeah, but I can't believe this.
What an entrance.
Right in the middle of a Salem witch hunt.
Can't you control that thing? Doesn't come with a steering wheel.
What's the date? (BEEPING) November 13th, 1692.
Friday? It is.
Figures.
November? Bogg, we studied this last year in school.
The last Salem witches were hung in September 1692.
That was the end of it.
ABIAH: The end? I do not know what school you attend, but believe me, this is just the beginning.
Today we stand trial and tomorrow we shall meet our maker.
That is the pattern.
What have we done? I cannot speak for you.
But in my case, I did publicly denounce these trials and those wicked little girls who started them.
You mean, those screaming kids from last night? Yes.
My teacher said it was like rock and roll.
A way the kids rebelled against their parents and the strict way the Puritans lived.
Only this version's a lot deadlier.
(ABIAH SOBBING) I cannot believe this is happening.
Abby, we'll help you.
How can you? Unless it's true.
What's true? Before you came from the sky, I asked for help from heaven.
Your clothing, your speech, your objects.
Art thou from heaven? Or are you from hell? NOYES: And from whence did these two beings come? From the darkness you say.
I say, from hell.
CROWD: Yeah! Yeah! These agents of Satan came.
Dropped from the sky by the witch, Folger beckoned.
The witch hurt me! (ALL SCREAMING) You know it's not true.
You know it! The witch hurt me! Do you really believe we came from hell? This is ridiculous.
Are you denying that you fell from the sky? It seems to me that angels fall from the sky.
And do angels wear such immodest clothing? Oh, you got to be kidding! NOYES: And they speak with such strange tongues? CROWD: No! Give me a break.
If this is not the work of Satan, then God is not in his heaven above.
(BEEPING) Agents of Satan! Agents of Satan! And they should be punished as such! (SCREAMING) (GAVEL POUNDING) That guy's a regular Clarence Darrow.
What're they gonna do to us, Bogg? Nothing, if we can get that Omni back.
(GAVEL POUNDING) The accused will step down and approach the bench for sentencing.
Aren't we allowed a defense? CROWD: No! No! There is no defense for crimes against the Lord.
Step down! (CROWD MURMURING) Abiah Folger, you are found guilty of the charge of practicing witchcraft in the town of Salem.
And you are hereby sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, at noon on the morrow.
JEFFREY: You can't do this to us.
(CROWD CHATTERING) (GAVEL POUNDING) As to your two agents I'll confess to anything.
Just spare the woman and the boy.
CROWD: No! No! The devil comes in many shapes and sizes.
The witch summoned both of you and you both shall pay the price.
He's just a kid.
(CROWD YELLING) This court is not without mercy.
The boy is hereby ordered to Duxbury Prison, where he is sentenced to spend the remainder of his days on earth.
No! He is additionally sentenced, as is the witch, to watch your death, agent of Satan, and that death is to be without precedent in these colonies.
(CROWD CLAMORING) I hereby decree that at the stroke of midnight this night, you shall be burned to death at the stake.
Fire shall fight fire! (THUNDER RUMBLING) JEFFREY: Will I just die, Bogg? I mean, really? BOGG: We're regular flesh and blood, kid.
Only thing that makes us special is that Omni.
ABIAH: Do you mean your device could save us? If I could get my hands on it.
But I'm not holding my breath.
I think I'll never see Josiah again.
Josiah? Josiah Franklin, my betrothed.
He's a candle maker from Boston.
Franklin? I wonder when he'll hear of this.
Benjamin Franklin, Bogg.
Josiah.
Josiah Franklin was a candle maker in Boston.
He and his wife Abiah had a son.
Benjamin.
Benjamin Franklin? You mean the guy with the granny glasses and the long, wavy hair? I do not understand.
Benjamin? Signed the Declaration of Independence, was ambassador to France.
That's where I met him.
You know, for being a dumpy kind of guy, he sure had a way with the women.
Yeah, well, you're looking at his mother.
Mother? Are you saying I have a child? You would've if we could've gotten you out of here.
And right now that seems like the most unlikely thing in the world.
JEFFREY: Bogg.
They can't do it, Bogg.
I don't think we can stop them.
But we didn't do anything.
That's right, kid.
Just like all the other witches.
Bring him forward.
(SOBBING) Bring the devil to his end now! Bogg! We'll see each other sometime.
Bogg, you can't.
You can't.
Don't let them do it.
Just know you're the best thing that ever happened to me, kid.
Out of all the people in time, the best.
Take care of him for me, will you? At least, as long as you can.
Tie him! No! JEFFREY: No, don't! Don't! No! No! No! No! Stop it! Any final words? How can you people be so blind? Blind? Murdering innocent people in the name of God.
This is not murder, devil! We are merely returning you from whence you came.
Light the fire! No! Don't! Stop! ABIAH: You can't be doing this.
You can't burn people like this! You can't! It's not right! We're not witches.
No! Stop it! Will Satan help you, devil? Or do you need this talisman to set you free? (LAUGHING) Burn, devil.
Burn! ALL: Burn, devil, burn! Burn, devil, burn! (GIRLS SCREAMING) He vanished! MAN: The devils have vanished.
Such is the power of Satan! We are seeking contact with the other side.
Come to us.
Speak to us.
Speak through me to these people.
Who are you? I am Harry Houdini.
And I don't believe any of this.
Then what do you want of me? I want you to give me a sign.
Something to prove you are from the other side.
Give me a sign, or I'm going to get up and leave.
A sign! (PLUMMETING) (SCREAMING) WOMAN: He's not from here! Where the heck are we? Out, get me out! Do something, get me out of here! Where did they come from? Please! Get me out of here! I lost the Omni! Boston, 1924.
Green light.
Let's get out of here.
I'm Harry Houdini.
You are from the other side.
You are the sign.
(BEEPING) BOGG: Jeffrey, get over here with that.
Let's go.
Come on.
Come on, kid.
(PLUMMETING) (GRUNTING) (SIGHS) Nice.
Kid, you were wonderful back there.
The way you jumped into the fire like that.
I'm really proud.
Yeah, well, I think we got a problem, Bogg.
No, we don't.
Believe me.
To smell like a rotten halibut's a lot better than to smell like a charbroiled t-bone.
(BEEPING) Just fine with me.
Red light and all.
Yeah, well, take a good long look and kiss it goodbye.
That was Harry Houdini back there.
Who? Harry Houdini.
The greatest escape artist who ever lived.
We got to go back.
Go back? To that dark room with all those screaming maniacs? You think I'm crazy? It was a séance.
Whatever it was, it was a waste of time.
We got to go back to Salem and Abby.
After we fix Houdini.
I don't think I'm getting through to you.
Look, the Omni had a green light when we landed.
So we landed in a green zone.
We sure didn't have time to set it in the fire.
It turned red before we left.
It did? That's what I'm trying to tell you.
When Houdini saw us, he thought we were ghosts.
I'm not following this, kid.
Look, when he wasn't performing, Houdini used to go around the country exposing phony séances.
What we did when we dropped in was make him believe the séance was real.
So what? We made one guy believe in ghosts.
Don't you see? It could change his whole life.
What if he gives up magic? What if he makes millions of people believe that the phony séances are real? I'm sorry, kid.
I just don't think it's that big a deal.
What is it? Just a poem.
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed" At the twilight's last gleaming.
How'd you know? Mr.
Key! Mr.
Key! Good morning, my enthusiastic young man.
Good morning, sir.
You dropped this.
(EXCLAIMS) I wrote this when the British were rowing me ashore this morning.
It was a proud sight, son.
Those stars and stripes still flying over McHenry.
I wrote this to help me remember.
To help us all remember.
Pardon me? Have a nice day, sir.
I will.
And thank you.
What was that all about? Oh, that poem you were going to throw away? Yeah? Those were the lyrics to our national anthem.
That was Francis Scott Key.
Oh.
It's no big deal, Bogg.
Right.
Well, I I guess we'd better crack this little Houdini problem, huh? Yeah.
(PLUMMETING) Bat's breath! Ow! Can't you get that thing to come up with a better place to land? You're lucky it wasn't the roof.
This the same room? Gives me the creeps.
See if you can go find some lights.
Why me? I'm just a kid.
Come on.
We'll do it together.
Stay where you are.
Who are you? Jeffrey Jones and Phineas Bogg.
What do you want? We want to see Harry Houdini.
Stay where you are.
I don't think that's necessary.
Look, a secret passageway.
And the ghost was a reflection on the glass.
I've shown you my secret.
Now you show me yours.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ON PHONOGRAPH) I love your costumes.
So realistic.
Houdini's absolutely convinced.
He's holding a press conference here tomorrow morning to announce to the world that he is giving up magic.
Houdini's giving up magic? And his escape tricks and his illusions.
The fool actually believes that I can conjure up ghosts.
He says his magic is nothing next to the reality of what I can do.
What we can do.
I don't drink.
Then neither will I.
There's going to be a rebirth of mentalism because of this.
And I'm going to be the richest and most famous one of all.
To think that just a few hours ago I was on the brink of destruction.
Houdini would have ruined me if it hadn't been for you.
Thank you.
(CLEARING THROAT) Excuse me.
Where is he? Houdini? He's at his hotel back in town.
But we can't let him see either one of you now, can we? Wouldn't think of it.
Good.
We'll discuss your price after the press conference.
In the meantime, I'm leaving a couple of my men outside your door.
I wouldn't want you to disappear.
Oh, I don't know what this is, but I'll hold onto it for a while until I find out.
Great kisser.
(CHUCKLES) (DOOR CLOSES) Great kisser.
You're really having a tough time hanging onto that thing, aren't you? Will you knock it off? How was I supposed to know she was a pickpocket? What happens if she presses the button? It's set to this time and place.
She won't go anywhere as long as she doesn't touch the dials.
Monkey suit still out there? (SIGHING) Yep! (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) Hey, I think that's him.
Houdini? Where? All he'd have to do is just see one of us and he'd know we weren't really ghosts.
You know something? What? We've been locked up in here a pretty long time.
All right.
One at a time.
Kid first.
Okay, kid.
Bogg! The kid! Get the kid! My cake! Reality.
You've completely altered my understanding of the word.
Next to last night's experience, this rose, life.
Simply nothing.
(CHUCKLING) I hope you don't mind if I'm telling the press that I'll be studying with you.
I mean, if you'll accept me, that is.
I am truly awed by your achievement.
And I am truly flattered, Mr.
Houdini.
Please.
Harry.
Harry.
JEFFREY: Mr.
Houdini! Mr.
Houdini! Mr.
Houdini! Mr.
Houdini! It's the boy.
It's me.
The kid from last night.
I'm not a ghost.
So you aren't, and I'm certainly a fool.
How fortunate that you're holding a press conference.
By this time tomorrow the whole country will know you for the fraud that you are.
I seriously doubt that, Harry.
By this time tomorrow, you and your little ghost here will be gone.
You really think the press is gonna buy this? Oh, come on, Harry.
They'll love it.
It's already on the front page of the evening edition.
"Houdini's Mysterious Disappearance.
" A trip to the netherworld.
We're holding a séance for you as soon as we get back.
Ready, Margaret.
Gentlemen.
It is customary for magicians to pass on their tricks before they die.
Now, do you want to tell me about this? I pushed the button and nothing happens.
I thought you were more sophisticated than that.
It's just a prop.
Just part of the illusion.
I'll keep it as a souvenir.
Phineas.
(CLICKING TONGUE) You really are a great kisser.
Oh, Harry.
This is to help you appreciate the drama.
You were always big on drama.
When the flame goes out, so do you.
(OWL HOOTING) Think of it as a challenge, gentlemen.
Let's see you get out of this one.
(HAMMERING) Double-jointed.
I can get out of any shackle made.
Can you get us out of this? Do you know how many times I've been buried alive? How many death-defying situations I've put myself in? (KNOCKING) I know, I've read about them all.
This is a piece of cake, right? With a steam shovel and a crowbar it's a piece of cake.
See, all of my buried alive acts, they were illusions, son.
This is real.
I'm sorry.
(LAUGHING) What's so funny? Now we'll never get back to Abby.
The man said we're gonna check out.
This is it.
(LAUGHING) He's crazy.
No, he's not.
What he is, is a great kisser.
Yeah, I guess.
We seek Harry Houdini.
Oh, spirits of darkness is he with you? Speak to us.
Speak to us! Where is Houdini? (PLUMMETING) (MONKEY SCREECHING) (PEOPLE CLAMORING) The blindfold stays on! Stay down.
BOGG: These natives sure are restless.
What was that? What's happening? (BEEPING) You don't want to know.
Can't you set that thing any faster? I'm trying.
You want us to miss again? Come to us, spirit of darkness.
Speak to us.
Speak to us! MAN: What do you want of me? MARGARET: We are trying to find someone.
Are you able to help us? Who are you seeking? Give me a name.
(PLUMMETING) Houdini.
Where is Harry Houdini? WOMAN: Not again! Houdini.
How? There was yelling.
It was bright.
An illusion? It was an illusion.
Yes.
A brilliant illusion.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Harry Houdini.
(ALL CLAPPING) Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, thank you.
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than exposing a fraud.
But tonight, I have the added distinction of exposing both a fraud and a criminal.
This very evening this woman attempted to bury me and my companions alive.
Oh, you wretched woman.
HARRY: My friends were ghosts, she held them against their will.
Despite the fact that they wanted to reveal this We're not gonna go now are we? Green light, kid.
I don't want Houdini asking any embarrassing questions.
But No buts.
You and I are needed back in Salem.
But how did you do it? How did you get out, Harry? My dear friend, a good magician never reveals his secrets.
Did we not see what Satan did when faced with justice from our Lord? CROWD: Yes! Have we anything to fear? CROWD: No! Then I think we should eliminate that which brought Satan to Salem.
Hang this woman.
Hang this witch now.
At once.
No, no! ALL: Hang her! Hang her! Where are your devils now, witch? Why aren't they here to save you? (ALL LAUGHING) (PLUMMETING) They're here! Come on, kid! The devils head for the rocks! After them! Get them! Some of you men come with me.
ABIAH: I cannot understand how you can be in the fire one moment and gone from sight the next.
(SCREAMS) Don't leave me.
I don't think we've time to talk about it right now.
Why are we going up here anyway? Didn't this get us caught before? You got a better idea and I'll stop to listen.
In the meantime, climb.
They're making for the cave! Go around the other side.
In there! Come on, we got to do it before they get around the rock.
Do what? It'll take us forever Oh, no.
One, two Surely you aren't going to Geronimo! They can't get away.
MAN: Where'd they go? Where Where did they go? Do you have them? It appears the devils are gone.
Okay, come on up.
Are they gone? For the time being.
That was a good trick, kid.
Thanks.
I saw it once in a movie.
What's a movie? Yeah, see, these guys, they're escaping from prison.
It's really great Jeff.
Oh, right.
Sorry.
I don't think you'd understand.
I don't understand anything that has transpired.
(BEEPING) Green? Still red.
Now I don't understand.
We may have saved Ben Franklin's mother, but we haven't stopped the witch trials.
There's no telling how many innocent people are gonna die if this goes on.
Too bad you could not bring back those who have already died.
You know something, Abby, maybe we can.
(BELL RINGING) Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! The Honorable Justice Samuel Sewell hath declared that on this day, the 14 of November in the year of our Lord, 1692 a search of all homes and property shall take place.
The object being to find the witch, Abiah Folger, and her agents of Satan.
The good and right Reverends Noyes and Parris shall lead such search and conduct a meeting of the town upon its completion.
Said meeting shall commence at 8:00 by the clock this evening.
And end in good time.
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! MAN: The Honorable Justice Samuel Sewell hath declared that on this day, the 14 of November in the year of our Lord, 1692 a search of all homes and property shall take place.
The object being to find the witch Okay.
and her agents of Satan.
Are you certain we're safe here? Believe me.
This is the last place on earth they'd look.
Where do you want these, Bogg? Up by the altar.
Relax.
It's all going to be over soon.
That is not what bothers me.
It is the glass.
The glass? Thou shalt not steal.
Mr.
Owen was planning to install these panes this very week.
We're only borrowing them.
Trust me.
Mr.
Owens's gonna have these back before he knows they're missing.
Where do you want them? Line them up in the alcoves.
We should be able to hide in there.
BOGG: That's it, kid.
Right there.
And these will create the illusion? With enough candles and the right costumes.
That's the easy part.
What then is difficult? The performance.
Getting Parris and Noyes and all those little girls to give up the witch hunts all depends on how well we play our parts.
My very daughter says the devils were aided by yet another witch in this town.
And that be the reason for not finding them.
Be that true, young Betty? And the witch, be it in this room now? Where, Betty? Name the witch! Who desecrates this House of the Lord? You, Reverend Noyes! You are the one who desecrates this House of the Lord.
That child knows no witches.
Only in her imagination.
Who are you, vision? Goody Esty.
The vision is Mary Esty killed this June past.
I recognize her cloak.
No.
You be not Goody Esty.
You be the devil, vision! Would the devil make himself present in the House of the Lord, Reverend Parris? This vision is the work of Abiah Folger and her devils.
The witch has infected the very church.
(ALL SCREAMING) BOGG: Silence children! It is the imaginations of these children that have infected the church, Parris.
Giles Cory.
The farmer Cory.
How much longer will you listen to their screaming voices instead of the voice of reason? How many more innocent people will you allow to be murdered? Innocent? Cory, you gave no evidence.
Was I given a chance, Reverend Noyes? Or I? What chance does an old woman stand against a pew of young girls? Your ears were deaf to all but their screams.
WOMAN: There are no witches in Salem.
There never were.
Suzanne Martin? Tell them, Betty.
Abigail.
Did you have any real evidence against me? On your souls, answer me.
Betty? Answer.
On your souls.
No.
No! (CRYING) NOYES: For all those we have hurt, all those we have killed, dear Lord, forgive us.
Well, that about does it kid.
Terrific.
I gotta tell you, all this ghost and séance stuff is really giving me the creeps.
You aren't alone.
All I want to do is get those back to Mr.
Owen and move on.
I think you should change your costume first.
Bogg, remember Josiah in Boston.
Right.
Can't forget little Ben.
I think you're wonderful, Phineas.
Must you go? I'm afraid so.
And you'll never tell me the secrets of your disappearance? Or who you are? It's a sworn secret.
Abby, there's something I'd like to know.
Yes? How'd you do that lady ghost over there in the corner? I thought you were in the alcove with me.
I was in the alcove with you.
JEFFREY: If you wanna know more about the Salem witch trials or the great Houdini take a voyage down to your public library.
It's all in books!
Spirits of darkness.
(PLUMMETING) What? Do something, get me out of here! I'm Harry Houdini.
You are from the other side.
(GIRLS SCREAMING) Behold the power of God, Satan.
I really think this is just a misunderstanding.
Today we stand trial and tomorrow we shall meet our maker.
What have we done? JUDGE: You are found guilty of the charge of practicing witch craft.
BOGG: We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it's needed.
Bogg! BOGG: : When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong.
Our job's to get everything back on track.
(OMNI dings) Green light, kid! We did it! MAN 1: Do not let her escape! (SCREAMING) Catch the devil witch! (BARKING) MAN 2: Let the dogs lead, follow the dogs.
There is no running from the lord, Abiah Folger.
Over there! The witch runs toward the rocks! There she is.
Get her! (SCREAMS) GIRL: The witch.
She chokes me.
She possesses my soul.
(GIRLS SCREAMING) You see what the witch does? She is an instrument of Satan! Be these accusations true, Abiah Folger? I'm as innocent as an unborn child.
You are a witch! I am a victim.
I am a victim of thy daughter's imagination, Reverend Parris.
The witch stabs me with her eyes.
Seize her! No, I'm innocent.
Please.
Please, I'm innocent.
Oh, good Lord, help me.
(PLUMMETING) (GROANS) Bat's breath! It's bad enough we landed in the dark, but I got to introduce my rear end to this rock that looks like the Matterhorn.
Bogg.
Look at that, will you? Forget it, Bogg.
Look at that.
Oh, no.
Behold the power of God, Satan! You are impotent in the face of our Lord.
Look, I really think this is just a misunderstanding.
Please help me! They'll kill me! Take them! Come on, kid! Run! The devils head for the rocks! After them.
JEFFREY: Where're we going, Bogg? BOGG: Up.
BOGG: Hurry, around the back.
This cave leads somewhere? I'm not sure.
Bogg? So she's not sure.
You got a better idea? Burn, devils! Burn! JEFFREY: Be careful, Bogg.
Not bad.
I'll give him a 5.
7.
Will you can the diving jokes? Let's get out of here.
Hey, it looks like a passageway around the Surrender to the Lord, Satan.
JEFFREY: This is perfect.
Just perfect.
BOGG: Look, I said I was sorry.
Yeah, but I can't believe this.
What an entrance.
Right in the middle of a Salem witch hunt.
Can't you control that thing? Doesn't come with a steering wheel.
What's the date? (BEEPING) November 13th, 1692.
Friday? It is.
Figures.
November? Bogg, we studied this last year in school.
The last Salem witches were hung in September 1692.
That was the end of it.
ABIAH: The end? I do not know what school you attend, but believe me, this is just the beginning.
Today we stand trial and tomorrow we shall meet our maker.
That is the pattern.
What have we done? I cannot speak for you.
But in my case, I did publicly denounce these trials and those wicked little girls who started them.
You mean, those screaming kids from last night? Yes.
My teacher said it was like rock and roll.
A way the kids rebelled against their parents and the strict way the Puritans lived.
Only this version's a lot deadlier.
(ABIAH SOBBING) I cannot believe this is happening.
Abby, we'll help you.
How can you? Unless it's true.
What's true? Before you came from the sky, I asked for help from heaven.
Your clothing, your speech, your objects.
Art thou from heaven? Or are you from hell? NOYES: And from whence did these two beings come? From the darkness you say.
I say, from hell.
CROWD: Yeah! Yeah! These agents of Satan came.
Dropped from the sky by the witch, Folger beckoned.
The witch hurt me! (ALL SCREAMING) You know it's not true.
You know it! The witch hurt me! Do you really believe we came from hell? This is ridiculous.
Are you denying that you fell from the sky? It seems to me that angels fall from the sky.
And do angels wear such immodest clothing? Oh, you got to be kidding! NOYES: And they speak with such strange tongues? CROWD: No! Give me a break.
If this is not the work of Satan, then God is not in his heaven above.
(BEEPING) Agents of Satan! Agents of Satan! And they should be punished as such! (SCREAMING) (GAVEL POUNDING) That guy's a regular Clarence Darrow.
What're they gonna do to us, Bogg? Nothing, if we can get that Omni back.
(GAVEL POUNDING) The accused will step down and approach the bench for sentencing.
Aren't we allowed a defense? CROWD: No! No! There is no defense for crimes against the Lord.
Step down! (CROWD MURMURING) Abiah Folger, you are found guilty of the charge of practicing witchcraft in the town of Salem.
And you are hereby sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, at noon on the morrow.
JEFFREY: You can't do this to us.
(CROWD CHATTERING) (GAVEL POUNDING) As to your two agents I'll confess to anything.
Just spare the woman and the boy.
CROWD: No! No! The devil comes in many shapes and sizes.
The witch summoned both of you and you both shall pay the price.
He's just a kid.
(CROWD YELLING) This court is not without mercy.
The boy is hereby ordered to Duxbury Prison, where he is sentenced to spend the remainder of his days on earth.
No! He is additionally sentenced, as is the witch, to watch your death, agent of Satan, and that death is to be without precedent in these colonies.
(CROWD CLAMORING) I hereby decree that at the stroke of midnight this night, you shall be burned to death at the stake.
Fire shall fight fire! (THUNDER RUMBLING) JEFFREY: Will I just die, Bogg? I mean, really? BOGG: We're regular flesh and blood, kid.
Only thing that makes us special is that Omni.
ABIAH: Do you mean your device could save us? If I could get my hands on it.
But I'm not holding my breath.
I think I'll never see Josiah again.
Josiah? Josiah Franklin, my betrothed.
He's a candle maker from Boston.
Franklin? I wonder when he'll hear of this.
Benjamin Franklin, Bogg.
Josiah.
Josiah Franklin was a candle maker in Boston.
He and his wife Abiah had a son.
Benjamin.
Benjamin Franklin? You mean the guy with the granny glasses and the long, wavy hair? I do not understand.
Benjamin? Signed the Declaration of Independence, was ambassador to France.
That's where I met him.
You know, for being a dumpy kind of guy, he sure had a way with the women.
Yeah, well, you're looking at his mother.
Mother? Are you saying I have a child? You would've if we could've gotten you out of here.
And right now that seems like the most unlikely thing in the world.
JEFFREY: Bogg.
They can't do it, Bogg.
I don't think we can stop them.
But we didn't do anything.
That's right, kid.
Just like all the other witches.
Bring him forward.
(SOBBING) Bring the devil to his end now! Bogg! We'll see each other sometime.
Bogg, you can't.
You can't.
Don't let them do it.
Just know you're the best thing that ever happened to me, kid.
Out of all the people in time, the best.
Take care of him for me, will you? At least, as long as you can.
Tie him! No! JEFFREY: No, don't! Don't! No! No! No! No! Stop it! Any final words? How can you people be so blind? Blind? Murdering innocent people in the name of God.
This is not murder, devil! We are merely returning you from whence you came.
Light the fire! No! Don't! Stop! ABIAH: You can't be doing this.
You can't burn people like this! You can't! It's not right! We're not witches.
No! Stop it! Will Satan help you, devil? Or do you need this talisman to set you free? (LAUGHING) Burn, devil.
Burn! ALL: Burn, devil, burn! Burn, devil, burn! (GIRLS SCREAMING) He vanished! MAN: The devils have vanished.
Such is the power of Satan! We are seeking contact with the other side.
Come to us.
Speak to us.
Speak through me to these people.
Who are you? I am Harry Houdini.
And I don't believe any of this.
Then what do you want of me? I want you to give me a sign.
Something to prove you are from the other side.
Give me a sign, or I'm going to get up and leave.
A sign! (PLUMMETING) (SCREAMING) WOMAN: He's not from here! Where the heck are we? Out, get me out! Do something, get me out of here! Where did they come from? Please! Get me out of here! I lost the Omni! Boston, 1924.
Green light.
Let's get out of here.
I'm Harry Houdini.
You are from the other side.
You are the sign.
(BEEPING) BOGG: Jeffrey, get over here with that.
Let's go.
Come on.
Come on, kid.
(PLUMMETING) (GRUNTING) (SIGHS) Nice.
Kid, you were wonderful back there.
The way you jumped into the fire like that.
I'm really proud.
Yeah, well, I think we got a problem, Bogg.
No, we don't.
Believe me.
To smell like a rotten halibut's a lot better than to smell like a charbroiled t-bone.
(BEEPING) Just fine with me.
Red light and all.
Yeah, well, take a good long look and kiss it goodbye.
That was Harry Houdini back there.
Who? Harry Houdini.
The greatest escape artist who ever lived.
We got to go back.
Go back? To that dark room with all those screaming maniacs? You think I'm crazy? It was a séance.
Whatever it was, it was a waste of time.
We got to go back to Salem and Abby.
After we fix Houdini.
I don't think I'm getting through to you.
Look, the Omni had a green light when we landed.
So we landed in a green zone.
We sure didn't have time to set it in the fire.
It turned red before we left.
It did? That's what I'm trying to tell you.
When Houdini saw us, he thought we were ghosts.
I'm not following this, kid.
Look, when he wasn't performing, Houdini used to go around the country exposing phony séances.
What we did when we dropped in was make him believe the séance was real.
So what? We made one guy believe in ghosts.
Don't you see? It could change his whole life.
What if he gives up magic? What if he makes millions of people believe that the phony séances are real? I'm sorry, kid.
I just don't think it's that big a deal.
What is it? Just a poem.
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed" At the twilight's last gleaming.
How'd you know? Mr.
Key! Mr.
Key! Good morning, my enthusiastic young man.
Good morning, sir.
You dropped this.
(EXCLAIMS) I wrote this when the British were rowing me ashore this morning.
It was a proud sight, son.
Those stars and stripes still flying over McHenry.
I wrote this to help me remember.
To help us all remember.
Pardon me? Have a nice day, sir.
I will.
And thank you.
What was that all about? Oh, that poem you were going to throw away? Yeah? Those were the lyrics to our national anthem.
That was Francis Scott Key.
Oh.
It's no big deal, Bogg.
Right.
Well, I I guess we'd better crack this little Houdini problem, huh? Yeah.
(PLUMMETING) Bat's breath! Ow! Can't you get that thing to come up with a better place to land? You're lucky it wasn't the roof.
This the same room? Gives me the creeps.
See if you can go find some lights.
Why me? I'm just a kid.
Come on.
We'll do it together.
Stay where you are.
Who are you? Jeffrey Jones and Phineas Bogg.
What do you want? We want to see Harry Houdini.
Stay where you are.
I don't think that's necessary.
Look, a secret passageway.
And the ghost was a reflection on the glass.
I've shown you my secret.
Now you show me yours.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ON PHONOGRAPH) I love your costumes.
So realistic.
Houdini's absolutely convinced.
He's holding a press conference here tomorrow morning to announce to the world that he is giving up magic.
Houdini's giving up magic? And his escape tricks and his illusions.
The fool actually believes that I can conjure up ghosts.
He says his magic is nothing next to the reality of what I can do.
What we can do.
I don't drink.
Then neither will I.
There's going to be a rebirth of mentalism because of this.
And I'm going to be the richest and most famous one of all.
To think that just a few hours ago I was on the brink of destruction.
Houdini would have ruined me if it hadn't been for you.
Thank you.
(CLEARING THROAT) Excuse me.
Where is he? Houdini? He's at his hotel back in town.
But we can't let him see either one of you now, can we? Wouldn't think of it.
Good.
We'll discuss your price after the press conference.
In the meantime, I'm leaving a couple of my men outside your door.
I wouldn't want you to disappear.
Oh, I don't know what this is, but I'll hold onto it for a while until I find out.
Great kisser.
(CHUCKLES) (DOOR CLOSES) Great kisser.
You're really having a tough time hanging onto that thing, aren't you? Will you knock it off? How was I supposed to know she was a pickpocket? What happens if she presses the button? It's set to this time and place.
She won't go anywhere as long as she doesn't touch the dials.
Monkey suit still out there? (SIGHING) Yep! (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) Hey, I think that's him.
Houdini? Where? All he'd have to do is just see one of us and he'd know we weren't really ghosts.
You know something? What? We've been locked up in here a pretty long time.
All right.
One at a time.
Kid first.
Okay, kid.
Bogg! The kid! Get the kid! My cake! Reality.
You've completely altered my understanding of the word.
Next to last night's experience, this rose, life.
Simply nothing.
(CHUCKLING) I hope you don't mind if I'm telling the press that I'll be studying with you.
I mean, if you'll accept me, that is.
I am truly awed by your achievement.
And I am truly flattered, Mr.
Houdini.
Please.
Harry.
Harry.
JEFFREY: Mr.
Houdini! Mr.
Houdini! Mr.
Houdini! Mr.
Houdini! It's the boy.
It's me.
The kid from last night.
I'm not a ghost.
So you aren't, and I'm certainly a fool.
How fortunate that you're holding a press conference.
By this time tomorrow the whole country will know you for the fraud that you are.
I seriously doubt that, Harry.
By this time tomorrow, you and your little ghost here will be gone.
You really think the press is gonna buy this? Oh, come on, Harry.
They'll love it.
It's already on the front page of the evening edition.
"Houdini's Mysterious Disappearance.
" A trip to the netherworld.
We're holding a séance for you as soon as we get back.
Ready, Margaret.
Gentlemen.
It is customary for magicians to pass on their tricks before they die.
Now, do you want to tell me about this? I pushed the button and nothing happens.
I thought you were more sophisticated than that.
It's just a prop.
Just part of the illusion.
I'll keep it as a souvenir.
Phineas.
(CLICKING TONGUE) You really are a great kisser.
Oh, Harry.
This is to help you appreciate the drama.
You were always big on drama.
When the flame goes out, so do you.
(OWL HOOTING) Think of it as a challenge, gentlemen.
Let's see you get out of this one.
(HAMMERING) Double-jointed.
I can get out of any shackle made.
Can you get us out of this? Do you know how many times I've been buried alive? How many death-defying situations I've put myself in? (KNOCKING) I know, I've read about them all.
This is a piece of cake, right? With a steam shovel and a crowbar it's a piece of cake.
See, all of my buried alive acts, they were illusions, son.
This is real.
I'm sorry.
(LAUGHING) What's so funny? Now we'll never get back to Abby.
The man said we're gonna check out.
This is it.
(LAUGHING) He's crazy.
No, he's not.
What he is, is a great kisser.
Yeah, I guess.
We seek Harry Houdini.
Oh, spirits of darkness is he with you? Speak to us.
Speak to us! Where is Houdini? (PLUMMETING) (MONKEY SCREECHING) (PEOPLE CLAMORING) The blindfold stays on! Stay down.
BOGG: These natives sure are restless.
What was that? What's happening? (BEEPING) You don't want to know.
Can't you set that thing any faster? I'm trying.
You want us to miss again? Come to us, spirit of darkness.
Speak to us.
Speak to us! MAN: What do you want of me? MARGARET: We are trying to find someone.
Are you able to help us? Who are you seeking? Give me a name.
(PLUMMETING) Houdini.
Where is Harry Houdini? WOMAN: Not again! Houdini.
How? There was yelling.
It was bright.
An illusion? It was an illusion.
Yes.
A brilliant illusion.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Harry Houdini.
(ALL CLAPPING) Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, thank you.
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than exposing a fraud.
But tonight, I have the added distinction of exposing both a fraud and a criminal.
This very evening this woman attempted to bury me and my companions alive.
Oh, you wretched woman.
HARRY: My friends were ghosts, she held them against their will.
Despite the fact that they wanted to reveal this We're not gonna go now are we? Green light, kid.
I don't want Houdini asking any embarrassing questions.
But No buts.
You and I are needed back in Salem.
But how did you do it? How did you get out, Harry? My dear friend, a good magician never reveals his secrets.
Did we not see what Satan did when faced with justice from our Lord? CROWD: Yes! Have we anything to fear? CROWD: No! Then I think we should eliminate that which brought Satan to Salem.
Hang this woman.
Hang this witch now.
At once.
No, no! ALL: Hang her! Hang her! Where are your devils now, witch? Why aren't they here to save you? (ALL LAUGHING) (PLUMMETING) They're here! Come on, kid! The devils head for the rocks! After them! Get them! Some of you men come with me.
ABIAH: I cannot understand how you can be in the fire one moment and gone from sight the next.
(SCREAMS) Don't leave me.
I don't think we've time to talk about it right now.
Why are we going up here anyway? Didn't this get us caught before? You got a better idea and I'll stop to listen.
In the meantime, climb.
They're making for the cave! Go around the other side.
In there! Come on, we got to do it before they get around the rock.
Do what? It'll take us forever Oh, no.
One, two Surely you aren't going to Geronimo! They can't get away.
MAN: Where'd they go? Where Where did they go? Do you have them? It appears the devils are gone.
Okay, come on up.
Are they gone? For the time being.
That was a good trick, kid.
Thanks.
I saw it once in a movie.
What's a movie? Yeah, see, these guys, they're escaping from prison.
It's really great Jeff.
Oh, right.
Sorry.
I don't think you'd understand.
I don't understand anything that has transpired.
(BEEPING) Green? Still red.
Now I don't understand.
We may have saved Ben Franklin's mother, but we haven't stopped the witch trials.
There's no telling how many innocent people are gonna die if this goes on.
Too bad you could not bring back those who have already died.
You know something, Abby, maybe we can.
(BELL RINGING) Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! The Honorable Justice Samuel Sewell hath declared that on this day, the 14 of November in the year of our Lord, 1692 a search of all homes and property shall take place.
The object being to find the witch, Abiah Folger, and her agents of Satan.
The good and right Reverends Noyes and Parris shall lead such search and conduct a meeting of the town upon its completion.
Said meeting shall commence at 8:00 by the clock this evening.
And end in good time.
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! MAN: The Honorable Justice Samuel Sewell hath declared that on this day, the 14 of November in the year of our Lord, 1692 a search of all homes and property shall take place.
The object being to find the witch Okay.
and her agents of Satan.
Are you certain we're safe here? Believe me.
This is the last place on earth they'd look.
Where do you want these, Bogg? Up by the altar.
Relax.
It's all going to be over soon.
That is not what bothers me.
It is the glass.
The glass? Thou shalt not steal.
Mr.
Owen was planning to install these panes this very week.
We're only borrowing them.
Trust me.
Mr.
Owens's gonna have these back before he knows they're missing.
Where do you want them? Line them up in the alcoves.
We should be able to hide in there.
BOGG: That's it, kid.
Right there.
And these will create the illusion? With enough candles and the right costumes.
That's the easy part.
What then is difficult? The performance.
Getting Parris and Noyes and all those little girls to give up the witch hunts all depends on how well we play our parts.
My very daughter says the devils were aided by yet another witch in this town.
And that be the reason for not finding them.
Be that true, young Betty? And the witch, be it in this room now? Where, Betty? Name the witch! Who desecrates this House of the Lord? You, Reverend Noyes! You are the one who desecrates this House of the Lord.
That child knows no witches.
Only in her imagination.
Who are you, vision? Goody Esty.
The vision is Mary Esty killed this June past.
I recognize her cloak.
No.
You be not Goody Esty.
You be the devil, vision! Would the devil make himself present in the House of the Lord, Reverend Parris? This vision is the work of Abiah Folger and her devils.
The witch has infected the very church.
(ALL SCREAMING) BOGG: Silence children! It is the imaginations of these children that have infected the church, Parris.
Giles Cory.
The farmer Cory.
How much longer will you listen to their screaming voices instead of the voice of reason? How many more innocent people will you allow to be murdered? Innocent? Cory, you gave no evidence.
Was I given a chance, Reverend Noyes? Or I? What chance does an old woman stand against a pew of young girls? Your ears were deaf to all but their screams.
WOMAN: There are no witches in Salem.
There never were.
Suzanne Martin? Tell them, Betty.
Abigail.
Did you have any real evidence against me? On your souls, answer me.
Betty? Answer.
On your souls.
No.
No! (CRYING) NOYES: For all those we have hurt, all those we have killed, dear Lord, forgive us.
Well, that about does it kid.
Terrific.
I gotta tell you, all this ghost and séance stuff is really giving me the creeps.
You aren't alone.
All I want to do is get those back to Mr.
Owen and move on.
I think you should change your costume first.
Bogg, remember Josiah in Boston.
Right.
Can't forget little Ben.
I think you're wonderful, Phineas.
Must you go? I'm afraid so.
And you'll never tell me the secrets of your disappearance? Or who you are? It's a sworn secret.
Abby, there's something I'd like to know.
Yes? How'd you do that lady ghost over there in the corner? I thought you were in the alcove with me.
I was in the alcove with you.
JEFFREY: If you wanna know more about the Salem witch trials or the great Houdini take a voyage down to your public library.
It's all in books!