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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