She waffles away to her uninterested husband while the uninterested viewer watches on, just praying for the episode to wrap up soon. Blanchard's secret is and gets on her typewriter. When Babs realises the silver lighter has been stolen she declares that she knows what Mr. Blanchard steals a silver cigarette lighter. This time they get to sit down and talk for a while, getting acquainted but before she leaves Mrs. Blanchard shows up (she actually rings the doorbell as opposed to just walking in - a first!) Babs is surprised to see her and invites her in for coffee (again). The police don't take her seriously and her husband just humours her. She telephones the police when her husband seems more interested in reading in bed ("The Case Of The Slippery Spouse" in case you missed it!) Babs tells the police "I believe a woman has just been murdered". That night Babs once again lets her mind run away with her when she sees Blanchard leaving his house and carrying a large sack into his car. Blanchard (who has also somehow managed to let HIMSELF into the house as well - I mean, come ON!!!) steps in and escorts his wife back to their own house forcibly. Relieved to finally see her neighbour, Babs invites Mrs. Blanchard walks into the house (what is it with everybody just letting themselves into each other's houses?!) Babs is snapped out of her fantasy when Mrs. Blanchard is an alcoholic being kept as a prisoner in the house by her controlling husband who won't allow her to leave their home. Blanchard and putting forth her theories. John leaves for work and Babs gets back to her typewriter, forming the story in her head about the mystery of never-seen Mrs. The next morning over breakfast Babs tells John about the night before but he doesn't offer her much sympathy or support over her seemingly bizarre actions. She sees Blanchard's face at the window looking in from outside and so she goes round to his house and just lets herself in (seriously? - even walking upstairs and into their bedroom and going through their closet! The cheek.) There, Blanchard finds her and removes her from the house. Blanchard next door may have killed his wife - or that there was never a wife to begin with. In the kitchen Babs (through voice over) continues to think that Mr. When she jumps up and leaves the room to make a sandwich John suddenly shows that he was faking sleep and sits up abruptly and begins reading. Her husband John, a lawyer, is asleep in bed but that doesn't stop her expressing the thought from her wild imagination about the couple from next door - the Blanchard's who apparently like to leave just one light on during the night. Series 2, Episode 13 Alfred Hitchcock Robert Horton, Meg Mundy, Mary Scott 23 December 1956 24m 37s 4/10īabs Fenton is a writer of mystery stories, finishing off her latest work at the typewriter late one night.
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