Friday the 13th

The Series

 

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Season Three

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The Prophecies Pt. I

 

In the quaint, holy village of Marie Mere, France, a fallen angel named Asteroth prepares to fulfill the six prophecies in the Book of Lucifer which will allow Satan to rule the world. Innocent of the horrors waiting to be released, Jack arrives in town to research spiritual phenomena with Marie Mere's most revered inhabitant, Sister Adele. Her religious visions have inspired many to visit the village in search of miraculous healings. However, killing Sister Adele is essential to Asteroth's mission and Jack is soon caught in a fierce battle to save the nun's life. But even his extensive experience with the occult has not prepared Jack for Asteroth's demonic powers, which put him in a life-threatening coma. [Note: Part one and two of this episode aired on this date as a two-hour special, then were rerun as part one and two. It is syndicated in two parts.]

 

 

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The Prophecies Pt. II

 

Ryan's life is changed forever when he becomes possessed by the devil. Desperate to save Jack and Ryan, Micki puts in an emergency call to her friend and associate, Johnny Ventura. He agrees to catch the next flight to Europe to help Micki break Asteroth's grip on her partners. Unbeknownst to Micki, Asteroth has already claimed Ryan's soul. Emotionally vulnerable due to a recent reunion with his estranged mother on the anniversary of his younger brother's tragic death, Ryan is unable to overcome Asteroth's will. Possessed by Satan, Ryan savagely murders Sister Adele, and then kidnaps wheelchair-bound 12-year-old Christina Davis to further Astaroth's plans.

 

 

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Demonhunter

 

After rescuing his daughter Bonnie from a group of demonolators (demon worshippers), Faron Cassidy and his sons Vance and Travis are joined by Bonnie in their crusade to wipe out the remaining members of the satanic cult. They are also determined to kill the demonic beast which was raised from hell by the demonolators. But the cat-and-mouse game turns deadly when the creature claims the lives of Vance and Travis, leaving Faron and Bonnie to fight the beast on their own. Meanwhile, Micki and Jack are at Curious Goods, where they uncover a hidden underground chamber - the bizarre setting of a satanic church, where human sacrifices are performed to raise a demon from hell.

 

 

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Crippled Inside

 

The dreams of teenaged ice skater Rachel Horn are dashed forever when she runs into the path of an oncoming car while fleeing an attempted gang rape. Her injuries confine the embittered young woman to a wheelchair, where she spends her days silently staring out the window. But one spring day, Rachel's mother persuades her to go to a local yard sale. There, Rachel's eye is drawn to an antique wicker wheelchair. Quietly, an old man pushes it towards her and after mysteriously whispering that it could heal her, gives it to Rachel for free. In the privacy of her bedroom, Rachel discovers the chair's secret: she can leave her crippled body behind in the wheelchair, while her transparent astral presence is free to roam and allow Rachel the chance to take revenge against the classmates who tried to rape her.

 

 

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Stick It in Your Ear

 

Adam Cole, a hustler posing as a psychic, realizes that his act is headed for the skids when he's unable to hear his partner's transmitted signals. Although he's too proud to mar his youthful appearance with a hearing aid, Adam appeases his partner and agrees to have his hearing tested. The results of Adam's examination confirm that he has irreparable nerve damage. But as he prepares to leave the audiologist's office, he becomes riveted by the sound of breathing emanating from a drawer of sample hearing aids. Tracing the sound to an antique hearing aid, Adam places it by his ear and is astonished when the device allows him to hear everything clearly - including the thoughts of people around him. Knowing the device could be worth big bucks in his act, Adam steals the hearing aid from the doctor's office, then learns that he must release all the thoughts he'a accumulated from others into someone else or the parasitic device will cause him to die a painful death, but instead he turns the device on others, causing their brains to burn out when they are unable to contain the onslaught.

 

 

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Bad Penny

 

When Briggs and Gorman, two corrupt cops, attempt to rob a drug dealer named Koslow on the former meeting grounds of devil worshippers, they get more than they bargained for. After Koslow shoots Briggs to death, he's cornered by Gorman, who comes in for the kill. Finding a coin nearby, Gorman heartlessly asks Koslow to call "heads or tails" for his life as he tosses it in the air. To Gorman and Koslow's surprise, the coin releases a deadly bolt of energy on Koslow, killing him instantly. Back at Curious Goods, Johnny laments the death of his father, and Jack and Micki attempt to console him - but it is Micki who needs comforting: it appears that the coin of Zaecles, which once killed her, has resurfaced. Jack informs Johnny of the night he, Micki and Ryan went after the cursed coin, how it was used by devil worshippers to kill her and how they were able to restore Micki's life. "It brought people back from the dead," Jack explains, "but only after it had been used to kill someone else." Now Micki fears that, through the coin, Satan will come for her again.

 

 

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Hate On Your Dial

 

Watching the store one afternoon, Johnny sells a 1954 car radio to a retarded man named Archie Pierce. But when Micki later informs Johnny that the radio is listed in the manifest, he knows he must retrieve the cursed item immediately. As Jack and Johnny track down the radio, Archie proudly watches his brother Ray install it in their father's 1954 Chevy. But the scene soon turns ugly when Archie's black friend Elliot stops by and Ray begins making racist remarks, a legacy passed on by his father, who was hung for the brutal murder of a black man in 1954. Archie's indignation over Ray's treatment of Elliot enrages Ray, who later taunts Elliot with a gun and accidentally kills him. Ray panics and takes off in the Chevy. His bloodied fingers nervously fiddle with the radio, which comes on and emits a glow which envelops the car and sends it spinning back in time to Mississippi, 1954. It soon becomes clear why Ray has been transported back in time. After participating in the beating of a black man, Ray in introduced to Ku Klux Klan leader, Steve Pierce, the father he's never known. Ray becomes obsessed with changing the past and saving his father from being executed.

 

 

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Night Prey

 

In 1969, Kurt Blackman's blissful honeymoon with his wife Michele was cut short when she was attacked by a vampire. Knocked unconscious in the incident, Blackman came to just as Evan Van Hellier, his fangs dripping with Michele's blood, whisked her away. Despite the passage of time, Kurt continues to avenge his wife's death by stalking and destroying vampires. After one such encounter, he races into a nearby church, where he steals a silver curcifix to ward off other vampires. Unfortunately, Father McKinnon sees Kurt steal the cross and when he attempts to retrieve it, a needlelike blade erupts from the crucifix and kills McKinnon. His eyes aglow with the cross' power, Kurt flees. At Curious Goods, Jack is devastated by the murder of his old friend Father Mckinnon. Later, Jack learns that the stolen cross is a relic known as the "Cross of Fire," which according to legend, was used to bless those who offered themselves as a sacrifice to save their village from vampires. Following the human sacrifice, the cross is empowered to destroy vampires with fire - which Blackman finds out and puts to use.

 

 

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Femme Fatale

 

Aging movie director Desmond Williams faithfully cares for his invalid wife, former famous actress Lili Lita, while secretly carrying on an affair with Glenda, the sexy character he created for his classic gangster film, A Scandalous Woman. Glenda, played in the movie by the young Lili Lita, comes to life every time Desmond shows a cursed copy of the drama to a young female victim. The film snatches each woman into its plot, forcing her to act out Glenda's role, including her death in the hail of machine gun fire. But as the movie reaches its climax, Glenda must return to the celluloid, awaiting the next screening - and the next death. Glenda, hovwever, is tiring of her one-night stands with Desmond while the film plays. She pushes him to make his invalid wife the next victim, for she believes that if the aging Lili Lita was killed, Glenda could live with Desmond forever.

 

 

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Mightier Than The Sword

 

With the help of a cursed fountain pen, former pulp writer Billy Frazier has transformed himself into Alex Dent, a famed novelist acclaimed for his abilities to get into the minds of serial killers. In truth, every time Dent writes about vicious murders with the pen, it has cursed innocent men to carry out the crimes, thus later assuring Dent a series of chilling best sellers. Having led the police to crazed Clint Fletcher, Dent attends Fletcher's execution and jabs the man with the pen, extracting his evil blood, then injecting it into the neck of a prison chaplain, who then becomes Dent's new mass murrderer.

 

 

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Year of the Monkey

 

Tanaka, the president of Tanaka Enterprises, meets with his three children, and hands each of them a package - each with a test of their honor. Meanwhile, Micki, Johnny and Jack track a cursed antique to a man named Mausashi, who promises to return the item if they find the Saru, three small monkey statues representing the adage, "See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil." He explains that the Saru is in the hands of the Tanaka clan and legend has it that he who masters the statues will be given great powers, while he who fails to master them will die. They agree to Mausashi's terms and arrange meetings with Tanaka's children. Meanwhile, when the children open their presents they discover the statues give them strange powers leading to deadly consequences.

 

 

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Epitaph For a Lonely Soul

 

The life of Glenview Mortuary employee Eli Leonard is changed forever when he stumbles across an antique aspirator, a device used for draining body fluids from corpses. Although rumor has it another mortician killed his wife with the device, Eli is shocked when he uses the aspirator on a dead teen and the boy's eyes open. He then realized that the tool can restore a life once it has taken another. Unbeknownst to Eli, the teen's resurrection is witnessed by Steve Wells, who stopped by to discuss the burial of his recently deceased fiancee, Lisa. No one believes Steve's story about the dead boy until the incident is relayed to Micki and Jack. Their suspicions raised, they hurry to the mortuary where Eli, who has used the aspirator to kill the teen again, dismisses the tale as a case of rigor mortis. After they leave, Eli rushes to resurrect Lisa. The aspirator breathes life into the dead woman, who then struggles to believe Eli's claims that she is his wife. In the meantime, Steve unearths Lisa's casket and finds the suspicions confirmed: the casket is empty. But when Steve continues to try to learn the truth, he dies at the hands of Eli Leonard.

 

 

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Midnight Riders

 

While gazing through a telescope at a convergence of planets, Micki, Jack and Johnny see a motorcycle gang attack a young couple parked nearby. Before the trio can help the teens, a man named Cawley arrives to chase away the bikers. Reaching the site, Jack is stunned when he recognizes Cawley as his long-lost father. Cawley rebuffs Jack's pleas to talk, saying he has important business to deal with first. The group returns the young lovers, Tommy Betz and Penny Galen, to their parents, Reverend Betz and Dr. Cynthia Galen, who recall that they too, were the victims of an identical attack while dating 17 years ago. On that night in 1972, Cawley was passing through town when the news spread that a gang of bikers had attacked Randall and raped Cynthia. Seeking revenge, the townspeople shot the gang to death in an ambush. When the Dragon, the bikers' leader tried to escape, Cawley killed him. Only later did Cawley learn the truth: that Cynthia had lied about the rape because she was pregnant with Penny and wanted to protect Randall, who was entering the ministry. Now due to the planetary convergence, the dead bikers have returned to avenge their murders by killing those whom they hold responsible.

 

 

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Repitition

 

Award-winning columnist Walter Cromwell falls asleep at the wheel after working all night on a story and his car skids into a wooded area, where it strikes and mortally wounds nine-year-old Heather Stevens. Panicking, Walter pushes the girl's body down a nearby well and drives off. Several weeks later, Walter discovers an antique cameo locket tangled beneath his car. When he looks at it, he is shocked to see Heather's face in the cameo and hears her voice plead with Walter to kill another person so that she can live again. Anxious to be cleansed of his guilt, Walter brings his terminally ill mother to the scene of the accident, and at 7:14 AM, the exact moment Heather died, he suffocates his mother with a blanket. Heather then returns to life and skips happily home, while Walter calls the family doctor and asks him to arrange for his mother's funeral. But Walter's troubles are far from over. Now instead of Heather's voice emanating from the locket, Walter hears his mother's fearful pleas to save her.

 

 

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The Long Road Home

 

Returning home from recovering a cursed Chinese charm with the power to transfer one person's mind into another's body, Micki and Johnny stop at a roadside diner. There, they are harassed by Eddie and Mike Hegley, two brothers with an unsettling passion for traps and taxidermy. When Johnny rebuffs Mikes' advances toward Micki, the brothers storm off in their truck, but not before disconnecting Johnny's gas line. As a result, Johnny runs out of fuel and he and Micki seek help at a nearby house, not realizing it is where the Hegley's live. When no one answers the doorbell, Jonny checks out the garage, while Micki heads inside, where she spots the stuffed corpse of an elderly man. But before she can scream for help, Mike grabs her. At the same time, Eddie traps Johnny in the garage, breaking his leg in the process. Despite his injury, Johnny wrestles a knife from Eddie and kills him. Realizing that he can't rescue Micki with a broken leg, he decides to use the cursed charm to transport his mind into Eddie's body, bringing it back to life. Meanwhile, a demented Mike introduces Micki to the members of his family - all of whom he and Eddie have killed and stuffed.

 

 

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My Wife as a Dog

 

Fireman Aubrey Ross is distraught. He's losing the two most important things in his life: his wife Lea, who has left him and is demanding a divorce, and his beloved dog Kelly, who is dying a slow death. Believing that a co-worker is responsible for the break-up of his marriage, Aubrey argues with the man while the two are fighting a fire and strangles him with an elaborate dog leash he finds in the burning house. Returning home, Aubrey attaches the leash to Kelly, who undergoes a miraculous recovery. Realizing that the leash possesses some sort of mystical power, Aubrey kills two more people and learns that with every murder, Kelly becomes more like Lea... and Lea becomes more like Kelly, including suffering the dog's illness. Aubrey concludes that if his devoted pet is going to successfully transform into Lea, Lea must be killed.

 

 

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Jack-in-the-Box

 

After Micki's friend Brock Garrett forcibly ejects three drunks from his health club's pool, the men knock him unconscious and throw Brock into the water. Moments later, his young daughter, Megan finds the body and catches a glimpse of one of the assailants, Mike, as the trio flees. At home, the heartbroken child is comforted by her mother, Helen, who urges Megan to open the special birthday present her father bought before he died. Inside, she finds an antique jack-in-the-box with a nautical motif. Bringing her toy along, Megan returns to the health club, where she runs into Merv, a tipsy poolman. Convinced that he did nothing to prevent her father's death, the bereaved child lashes out at him while playing her jack-in-the-box. When the song ends, and antique sailor doll springs from the box. Simultaneously, two mysterious arms reach from the pool, dragging Merv to his death and causing Brock's ghost to briefly appear poolside - the first in a series of deaths to avenge her father's death.

 

 

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The Spirit of Television

 

When Micki's favorite rock star is reported dead, she feels compelled to investigate and uncovers a crucial piece of evidence: both the singer and another recently deceased actor were clients of Ilsa Van Zandt, a renowned psychic, and both performers died by electrocution. Further digging reveals that Ilsa's late clients were torn by guilt about the death of someone close to them. While other participants in Ilsa's seances with the singer and actor saw nothing, the clients saw a reassuring image of their loved one clearly on an antique TV screen. Later, however, an angry image of the same person appeared on their home TV sets, blaming them for their deaths. Such is the fury of the spirits that they are able to cause the TV sets to explode, electrocuting the hapless victims. Ilsa views each new death on her antique TV set, and anxiously waits for a scene of a graveyard to appear on screen. She watches in relief as, after each murder, the date of death on her tombstone is extended.

 

 

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The Tree of Life

 

Obstetrician Sybil Oakwood, who practices the ancient and practically obsolete all-female Druid religion, has obtained a cursed fertility statue that has given her the power to make sterile couples fertile, and the clinic's offices are filled with anxious couples. The women always bear twins, but are drugged in the final stages of labor, and wake up believing they have borne only a son. The daughters are sequestered by the nurses, and are raised in the clinic's nursery to be Druid priestesses. Every twelfth father is asked to participate in a final pre-birth ceremony near a mighty oak tree. There, the earth opens beneath him, and he is dragged under the tree's roots, with the wives left to believe that their husband's have abandoned them. Johnny becomes involved in the bizarre doings when he accidentally meets one of the mothers who believes her daughter has been stolen, and she pours out her story, begging him to find her missing daughter.

 

 

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The Charnal Pit

 

A flurry of reports on missing young women has the police baffled. One of the missing coeds was a student of Webster Eby's, a charismatic professor who lectures on the writings of the Marquis deSade. When another student, Larissa, threatens to tell the police that she saw Eby with the missing girl, the professor knocks her uncoscious, and takes her to his home. Unbeknonst to Eby, Micki has seen him hauling Larissa's body. Convinced that she has found a murderer, she sneaks into the house and creeps upstairs. But Eby sees her, and sends her reeling into a wall on which a large 18th century pastoral painting is hanging. When blood from her wounds touches the painting, it suddenly sucks her in. When she comes to, she stares at quite a different painting - that of writhing bodies in a flaming cemetery pit, and finds herself in a chateau in France, 1790.

 

 

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