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From: sas@leadsv.UUCP (Scott Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1/5
Message-ID: <752@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 17:59:28 EST
Article-I.D.: leadsv.752
Posted: Tue Jan  7 17:59:28 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jan-86 06:18:07 EST
References: <2454@ukma.UUCP> <11365@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
Lines: 62
Keywords: You sure missed it, didn't you!!!
Summary: No Answer

In article <11365@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, cc-30@cory.BERKELEY.EDU (Sean "Yoda" Rouse) writes:
> In article <2454@ukma.UUCP> edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
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> >Huh? I don't get it. What was the twist? Did she imagine it? Was the
> >reporter involved? (I have a knack for missing the key 5 seconds of
> >mystery shows.)
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> ***** SPOILER WARNING *****
> If you haven't seen this episode, and you don't want to know what
> happened, don't read on.
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> Samantha imagined the FIRST attack to gain attention. After that, another 
> girl who lived across the street said that she was attacked snd that she 
> stabbed the attacker, who was wearing a ski mask, in the neck with a hair 
> buret (or something). Samantha thought that Debbie was lying about the 
> attack for the same reason that she did. Anyway, later Debbie comes over 
> during a storm claiming that the attacker is after her, but Samantha doesn't
> believe her, and reveals to her that she lied. Debbie leaves the house, 
> pounds on the door, and Samantha finally opens it only to find Debbie dead.
> She then gets scared and grabs a knife. She opens the back door to find the
> reporter saying that he's here to protect her. He goes upstairs, Samantha
> follows. He grabs her & she pulls at his shirt, revealing the stab wound. He
> then tells her that she shouldn't have lied and that she forced him to make
> her a part of the story, and then he kills her.
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> How's that? We (my family) had it figured out when she spoke with the 
> reporter.
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> -Sean "Yoda" Rouse
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> ARPA: cc-30@cory.berkeley.edu.arpa
> UUCP: ucbvax!cory!cc-30

I don't think the above was the answer to question asked. I too figured out
that the reporter was the killer. But I was confused about the very ending,
which may be what the original author was asking. At the end, they show
another girl watching the news report. After the story is over, she is shown
in close up and smiles. Why? 

						Scott A. Stewart
						LMSC - Sunnyvale

P.S. Does anyone think that Samantha made up the story of being attacked
     just to gain attention. The way it was filmed, I thought she actually
     believed, while she was running, that she was attacked. Later she
     realized that it didn't happen but had already told the police. When
     the reporter showed interest, she then realized how much attention
     she could gain by talking to him.