Amazing Stories (1985) s01e13 Episode Script
The Sitter
Okay.
One of you guys find the silverware.
It's in a box marked "kitchen stuff," I think.
There's a hundred boxes marked "kitchen stuff.
" I hate Sun Country.
It makes my eyes sting! You know there's no kids in this neighborhood? I don't believe that.
You guys are gonna grow to love this place.
You might find someone with a swimming pool.
In Sun Country? Right.
It's too hot.
Why couldn't we get a house with air-conditioning? Because we can't afford a house with air-conditioning.
- Dad's house has air-conditioning.
- You can go move up on the hill with him then.
You are such a geek.
I mean, learn how to handle women.
Well, it's true.
Sun Country bites.
I think this stuff is alive.
Cut it out! Make me! Ha, ha! Oh! Have either of you kids seen my briefcase? Earth to Dennis! Would you guys help me find my briefcase? - Damn it, Dennis.
- Don't you like it? Fight like a man! There's nothing to do here.
I really hate this place.
If you're bored, I can think of plenty of stuff for you to do.
Like what? Like pick up your stuff.
That's what! Oh, Mom! Should've expected that.
Uh-huh.
All right.
That must be the sitter.
Oh! You guys be nice to her.
You hear me? Hi.
Mrs.
Paxton? Yes.
I'm Patty.
Come in.
Thank you.
All right, you boys.
Don't give Patty a hard time.
Don't worry, Mrs.
Paxton.
I get along great with little kids.
Then I'm sure you'll enjoy Lance and Dennis.
I'm sure.
Oh, well, bye.
Bye.
Hi, guys.
Hi.
That's an awesome sports car.
Thanks! Beautiful hair.
Is it real? Of course it is.
Thank you.
You're really sweet.
Ha, ha.
I fought to get custody.
You guys remember our bargain.
You give Mrs.
Abbott any trouble, no Magic Kingdom, understand? Okay, Mom.
- Mrs.
Abbott? - Yes.
Come in.
Oh, thank you.
I should tell you that the boys are a little rambunctious- Oh, my dear, I know all about small boys.
Rambunctious is what they're all about.
My late husband, Mr.
Abbott, was a prizefighter.
Oh.
And he gave me a few of his little tricks, so if these fellas- ah, ha, ha- plan to give me a healthy helping of guff, then Mr.
Ouija and I will simply knock 'em into the middle of next week, won't we, Mr.
Ouija? Well, you have my permission, Mrs.
Abbott.
Thank you, my dear.
Now, you just hustle along to work.
Don't worry about a thing.
Okay.
Thank you, Mrs.
Abbott.
Have a good day.
Good-bye.
Good luck.
I really have to thank you, Shane.
Thank me for what? No, off.
Forget it.
I'd be crazy not to put up with your craziness.
- Who says so? - Put that back.
- We wanna watch the cartoons.
- And I wanna see the soap.
- It's our house.
- When I'm in your house, I make the rules.
Go outside and get some fresh air.
There is no fresh air in Sun Country, only smog.
Well, then, go find some.
It's a cute puppy.
Pretty little boy.
You know, there's a puppy next door who would love Mr.
Ouij.
Really? We have a small dog in our neighborhood who gives Mr.
Ouija horseyback rides.
Would it be okay if we brought this puppy over to play? Well, of course.
Oh! Aah! Sorry about Shortcake, Mrs.
Abbott.
Guess he's not a puppy anymore, huh? I guess not.
Honest, we're real sorry.
We're making you some cocoa.
That's very nice.
But isn't it a little hot out for cocoa? That's the best time to drink it- when your body feels cooler and you drink something hot.
Mmm.
Here you are, Mrs.
Abbott.
I thank you.
Mmm.
You perfect gentlemen.
Oh, my God, they've killed the babysitter.
You'll hear from my lawyer.
Hi, this is Gloria Paxton.
Oh.
Lance! Fine.
I need a babysitter.
I have two little boys.
Mrs.
Paxton.
You can? You will? Well, let me give you my address! Wait, wait.
Um, where's my address? Would one of you answer the door? Oh! Hi! Hello, little missy.
I am Jennifer.
The agency sent me.
Come in, Jennifer.
I should tell you that the boys are a little rambunctious.
They're just being boys.
They've just got the imaginaries.
That's all.
They just need to occupy their noodles.
Lance, Dennis, come here and meetJennifer! They're doing boy stuff, missy.
You just go ahead and go to work.
I'll find your little fellas okay.
Uh, m-my number is on the telephone where I work.
No problem.
Don't you even worry a teeny little bit, eh? Uh, the police and the fire are just below the fudge- No problem, eh? Bye.
Right.
Oh.
Oh.
You little mens like to play a little games, don't you? We didn't mean anything.
Oh, I like games.
It's just hard for little boys to fool old Jennifer.
Jokes on old Jennifer sometime loop the loop, eh? - You talk funny.
- Yeah, where are you from? I'm from a very faraway place in the islands.
Like, uh, Hawaii.
Mmm, something like that.
A special place with magic in the winds.
'Tis a place where everybody's happy and dancing and singing! A place little boys would love to see.
There ain't no place like that.
It's just in books.
Little boys got a lot to learn about the world past their backyard.
- Let's play hide-and-go-seek.
- Yeah.
Don't know that plaything.
You hide, and we'll try to find you.
It's easy.
We'll close our eyes and count to 50, and you hide somewhere.
Little crocodiles ain't going to be playing some fun on old Jennifer, are you? Come on.
Let's go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11- 17, 18, 19, 20- She's in the closet! Our specialty! Ha! Let's go! I don't know.
I don't think we should do this, Lance.
- Excuse me? - I saw that water.
Mom's always saying we've got too much imagination, right? Well, nothing happened! See, it just got stuck, and when we stood under it, it unstuck.
Yeah, but it got stuck in midair! - Well, haven't you ever heard of gravity? - No.
What's that? I'll explain it to you later, all right? Come on.
Let's go.
Trust me.
Twenty-four, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32- Come on.
Fire! Fire! What's going on? Let us out! Help! Help! Let us out! Let us out! Help! Help! Help! Fire! Fire! She was in the closet, and we're in the hallway! Then we're in the closet, and she's in the hallway! - Shut up.
- How does she do that? And don't give me none of that gravity business.
No.
No, it wasn't gravity, stupid.
It was- It was the smoke! - The smoke? - Yeah.
It was smoky.
We got all mixed up, didn't know what we were doing and couldn't see.
She pulled the old switcheroo on us! I don't think it was old switcheroo, Lance.
How would you know? Your glasses got fogged up.
You couldn't see.
And you could? Look, there isn't a sitter in this world who has gotten out of here alive.
Would you like her to be the first? N-No.
All right, then.
- But she's creepy.
- She's not creepy.
She's crazy.
She's gone.
Totally bypassed.
Let's get her.
Come on.
I got an idea.
Okay.
Ew, how slimy! Come to Papa.
BetJennifer will love those.
Oh, yeah! Like? Love.
I like.
- Horny toads! Look out! - Horny toads! Horny toads! Look out! Look out! Look out for horny toads! Seem to me, two little boys won't be scared of no horny toads.
Sweet little crawlies is all they are.
You boys have been pulling some dangerous shenanigans in here.
- What's the matter? - I seen little boys on the island act this way.
- And what happened? - They never sing nor dance again.
- What is it? - I don't wanna put a scare in you boys, 'cause you seem like big men in little boys' bodies, and there's no reason in God's earth to be scared of nothing, but there be a duppy in the closet.
Uh-uh.
Mom won't let us have any fish.
A duppy not be a fish.
Don't you know? A duppy be a spirit.
Like a ghost or something, huh? Come on down here and sit next toJennifer, eh? Back on the island, when somebody dies and that body lose his soul, that soul go flying up to heaven or go digging down to the bad place.
There be good duppies, and there be bad duppies.
And them duppies, hmph, they be a spirit who has no place to go.
They can't go up, and they can't go down.
And that make the duppy mean! And he frighten little boys! Sometimes he hide under the bed.
And sometimes he hide in the closet.
That duppy be a hider and a monster.
Some of them look so bad, until one little boy looked at one in a mirror, and he turned to a pillar of salt! - And all the little animals lick him away until he was nothing.
- Wow.
But there ain't no such thing as ghosts.
Besides, I never heard of a duppy before.
There's lots of things little boys ain't heard of before.
That's why they little boys.
But bad little boys, the duppies like best.
They raise some hooch.
And they be getting another place ready for the bad kids to become duppies too.
So if I were you, I'd be saying me prayers and doing what me elders tell me to do.
'Cause them bad duppies are bad news.
Bad boys.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I better mix up some lunch.
Don't be such a wuss.
There ain't no such thing as a duppy.
She's just trying to scare us so we'll be good.
But what if there is? Don't be such a little kid.
There ain't no duppy.
Oh, yeah? Show me.
What is that supposed to mean? Open the closet and show me.
I ain't gotta show you nothing! Let's play.
You chicken? I ain't chicken! Afraid so! Afraid not! Then open the closet.
You open the closet.
I already know I'm scared.
Come on.
Let's play.
Ah! Ha.
Dart gun.
Check, sir.
Ammunition.
Check.
MK-47.
It's broken.
What do you mean, it's broken? That's my gun! I know.
It fell off my bike.
I'll deal with your insubordination later.
Glare reflectors.
What do we need that for? Don't be stupid.
What happens if he sends up a flare? You'd be blinded.
I'm sure you wouldn't like it.
Not really.
Beret.
Check.
Right.
Remember, we take no prisoners.
And if we're captured? Name, address, telephone number.
Okay, Bennett.
Let's party.
Yeah! Make my day! Charge! Aah! Aah, the duppy! Aah! Help, Jennifer, help! Help! Let us go! We'll never be bad again! Please, Jennifer, make them let us go! We'll never be bad again! I swear to God! Make them let us go! But little gentlemens, I have nothing to do with this.
You must be having the imaginaries, huh? I swear to God! Please, let us go! Hi, Mom.
Hi, Mom.
All right.
Who's being punished? Nobody, missy.
They weren't any trouble? Oh, my, no.
These are two good little gentlemens.
- Are we talking about my Lance and Dennis? - Oh, my, yes.
Will you come back tomorrow, Jennifer? Please? Well, that's up to your mama.
Please, Mom? Come on.
- Of course.
- Can we play some more games? Yeah, some more imaginaries? Ah, now, just remember, you don't need old Jennifer to play those imaginaries.
Hmm? All those things be right up here in the noodles.
Now giveJennifer a big kiss bye-bye, okay? Oh, that was so good.
Oh.
Now, you go back to your work, okay?
One of you guys find the silverware.
It's in a box marked "kitchen stuff," I think.
There's a hundred boxes marked "kitchen stuff.
" I hate Sun Country.
It makes my eyes sting! You know there's no kids in this neighborhood? I don't believe that.
You guys are gonna grow to love this place.
You might find someone with a swimming pool.
In Sun Country? Right.
It's too hot.
Why couldn't we get a house with air-conditioning? Because we can't afford a house with air-conditioning.
- Dad's house has air-conditioning.
- You can go move up on the hill with him then.
You are such a geek.
I mean, learn how to handle women.
Well, it's true.
Sun Country bites.
I think this stuff is alive.
Cut it out! Make me! Ha, ha! Oh! Have either of you kids seen my briefcase? Earth to Dennis! Would you guys help me find my briefcase? - Damn it, Dennis.
- Don't you like it? Fight like a man! There's nothing to do here.
I really hate this place.
If you're bored, I can think of plenty of stuff for you to do.
Like what? Like pick up your stuff.
That's what! Oh, Mom! Should've expected that.
Uh-huh.
All right.
That must be the sitter.
Oh! You guys be nice to her.
You hear me? Hi.
Mrs.
Paxton? Yes.
I'm Patty.
Come in.
Thank you.
All right, you boys.
Don't give Patty a hard time.
Don't worry, Mrs.
Paxton.
I get along great with little kids.
Then I'm sure you'll enjoy Lance and Dennis.
I'm sure.
Oh, well, bye.
Bye.
Hi, guys.
Hi.
That's an awesome sports car.
Thanks! Beautiful hair.
Is it real? Of course it is.
Thank you.
You're really sweet.
Ha, ha.
I fought to get custody.
You guys remember our bargain.
You give Mrs.
Abbott any trouble, no Magic Kingdom, understand? Okay, Mom.
- Mrs.
Abbott? - Yes.
Come in.
Oh, thank you.
I should tell you that the boys are a little rambunctious- Oh, my dear, I know all about small boys.
Rambunctious is what they're all about.
My late husband, Mr.
Abbott, was a prizefighter.
Oh.
And he gave me a few of his little tricks, so if these fellas- ah, ha, ha- plan to give me a healthy helping of guff, then Mr.
Ouija and I will simply knock 'em into the middle of next week, won't we, Mr.
Ouija? Well, you have my permission, Mrs.
Abbott.
Thank you, my dear.
Now, you just hustle along to work.
Don't worry about a thing.
Okay.
Thank you, Mrs.
Abbott.
Have a good day.
Good-bye.
Good luck.
I really have to thank you, Shane.
Thank me for what? No, off.
Forget it.
I'd be crazy not to put up with your craziness.
- Who says so? - Put that back.
- We wanna watch the cartoons.
- And I wanna see the soap.
- It's our house.
- When I'm in your house, I make the rules.
Go outside and get some fresh air.
There is no fresh air in Sun Country, only smog.
Well, then, go find some.
It's a cute puppy.
Pretty little boy.
You know, there's a puppy next door who would love Mr.
Ouij.
Really? We have a small dog in our neighborhood who gives Mr.
Ouija horseyback rides.
Would it be okay if we brought this puppy over to play? Well, of course.
Oh! Aah! Sorry about Shortcake, Mrs.
Abbott.
Guess he's not a puppy anymore, huh? I guess not.
Honest, we're real sorry.
We're making you some cocoa.
That's very nice.
But isn't it a little hot out for cocoa? That's the best time to drink it- when your body feels cooler and you drink something hot.
Mmm.
Here you are, Mrs.
Abbott.
I thank you.
Mmm.
You perfect gentlemen.
Oh, my God, they've killed the babysitter.
You'll hear from my lawyer.
Hi, this is Gloria Paxton.
Oh.
Lance! Fine.
I need a babysitter.
I have two little boys.
Mrs.
Paxton.
You can? You will? Well, let me give you my address! Wait, wait.
Um, where's my address? Would one of you answer the door? Oh! Hi! Hello, little missy.
I am Jennifer.
The agency sent me.
Come in, Jennifer.
I should tell you that the boys are a little rambunctious.
They're just being boys.
They've just got the imaginaries.
That's all.
They just need to occupy their noodles.
Lance, Dennis, come here and meetJennifer! They're doing boy stuff, missy.
You just go ahead and go to work.
I'll find your little fellas okay.
Uh, m-my number is on the telephone where I work.
No problem.
Don't you even worry a teeny little bit, eh? Uh, the police and the fire are just below the fudge- No problem, eh? Bye.
Right.
Oh.
Oh.
You little mens like to play a little games, don't you? We didn't mean anything.
Oh, I like games.
It's just hard for little boys to fool old Jennifer.
Jokes on old Jennifer sometime loop the loop, eh? - You talk funny.
- Yeah, where are you from? I'm from a very faraway place in the islands.
Like, uh, Hawaii.
Mmm, something like that.
A special place with magic in the winds.
'Tis a place where everybody's happy and dancing and singing! A place little boys would love to see.
There ain't no place like that.
It's just in books.
Little boys got a lot to learn about the world past their backyard.
- Let's play hide-and-go-seek.
- Yeah.
Don't know that plaything.
You hide, and we'll try to find you.
It's easy.
We'll close our eyes and count to 50, and you hide somewhere.
Little crocodiles ain't going to be playing some fun on old Jennifer, are you? Come on.
Let's go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11- 17, 18, 19, 20- She's in the closet! Our specialty! Ha! Let's go! I don't know.
I don't think we should do this, Lance.
- Excuse me? - I saw that water.
Mom's always saying we've got too much imagination, right? Well, nothing happened! See, it just got stuck, and when we stood under it, it unstuck.
Yeah, but it got stuck in midair! - Well, haven't you ever heard of gravity? - No.
What's that? I'll explain it to you later, all right? Come on.
Let's go.
Trust me.
Twenty-four, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32- Come on.
Fire! Fire! What's going on? Let us out! Help! Help! Let us out! Let us out! Help! Help! Help! Fire! Fire! She was in the closet, and we're in the hallway! Then we're in the closet, and she's in the hallway! - Shut up.
- How does she do that? And don't give me none of that gravity business.
No.
No, it wasn't gravity, stupid.
It was- It was the smoke! - The smoke? - Yeah.
It was smoky.
We got all mixed up, didn't know what we were doing and couldn't see.
She pulled the old switcheroo on us! I don't think it was old switcheroo, Lance.
How would you know? Your glasses got fogged up.
You couldn't see.
And you could? Look, there isn't a sitter in this world who has gotten out of here alive.
Would you like her to be the first? N-No.
All right, then.
- But she's creepy.
- She's not creepy.
She's crazy.
She's gone.
Totally bypassed.
Let's get her.
Come on.
I got an idea.
Okay.
Ew, how slimy! Come to Papa.
BetJennifer will love those.
Oh, yeah! Like? Love.
I like.
- Horny toads! Look out! - Horny toads! Horny toads! Look out! Look out! Look out for horny toads! Seem to me, two little boys won't be scared of no horny toads.
Sweet little crawlies is all they are.
You boys have been pulling some dangerous shenanigans in here.
- What's the matter? - I seen little boys on the island act this way.
- And what happened? - They never sing nor dance again.
- What is it? - I don't wanna put a scare in you boys, 'cause you seem like big men in little boys' bodies, and there's no reason in God's earth to be scared of nothing, but there be a duppy in the closet.
Uh-uh.
Mom won't let us have any fish.
A duppy not be a fish.
Don't you know? A duppy be a spirit.
Like a ghost or something, huh? Come on down here and sit next toJennifer, eh? Back on the island, when somebody dies and that body lose his soul, that soul go flying up to heaven or go digging down to the bad place.
There be good duppies, and there be bad duppies.
And them duppies, hmph, they be a spirit who has no place to go.
They can't go up, and they can't go down.
And that make the duppy mean! And he frighten little boys! Sometimes he hide under the bed.
And sometimes he hide in the closet.
That duppy be a hider and a monster.
Some of them look so bad, until one little boy looked at one in a mirror, and he turned to a pillar of salt! - And all the little animals lick him away until he was nothing.
- Wow.
But there ain't no such thing as ghosts.
Besides, I never heard of a duppy before.
There's lots of things little boys ain't heard of before.
That's why they little boys.
But bad little boys, the duppies like best.
They raise some hooch.
And they be getting another place ready for the bad kids to become duppies too.
So if I were you, I'd be saying me prayers and doing what me elders tell me to do.
'Cause them bad duppies are bad news.
Bad boys.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I better mix up some lunch.
Don't be such a wuss.
There ain't no such thing as a duppy.
She's just trying to scare us so we'll be good.
But what if there is? Don't be such a little kid.
There ain't no duppy.
Oh, yeah? Show me.
What is that supposed to mean? Open the closet and show me.
I ain't gotta show you nothing! Let's play.
You chicken? I ain't chicken! Afraid so! Afraid not! Then open the closet.
You open the closet.
I already know I'm scared.
Come on.
Let's play.
Ah! Ha.
Dart gun.
Check, sir.
Ammunition.
Check.
MK-47.
It's broken.
What do you mean, it's broken? That's my gun! I know.
It fell off my bike.
I'll deal with your insubordination later.
Glare reflectors.
What do we need that for? Don't be stupid.
What happens if he sends up a flare? You'd be blinded.
I'm sure you wouldn't like it.
Not really.
Beret.
Check.
Right.
Remember, we take no prisoners.
And if we're captured? Name, address, telephone number.
Okay, Bennett.
Let's party.
Yeah! Make my day! Charge! Aah! Aah, the duppy! Aah! Help, Jennifer, help! Help! Let us go! We'll never be bad again! Please, Jennifer, make them let us go! We'll never be bad again! I swear to God! Make them let us go! But little gentlemens, I have nothing to do with this.
You must be having the imaginaries, huh? I swear to God! Please, let us go! Hi, Mom.
Hi, Mom.
All right.
Who's being punished? Nobody, missy.
They weren't any trouble? Oh, my, no.
These are two good little gentlemens.
- Are we talking about my Lance and Dennis? - Oh, my, yes.
Will you come back tomorrow, Jennifer? Please? Well, that's up to your mama.
Please, Mom? Come on.
- Of course.
- Can we play some more games? Yeah, some more imaginaries? Ah, now, just remember, you don't need old Jennifer to play those imaginaries.
Hmm? All those things be right up here in the noodles.
Now giveJennifer a big kiss bye-bye, okay? Oh, that was so good.
Oh.
Now, you go back to your work, okay?