- With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.—L. Hamre
- The episode opens in 1953 as a murder commences in an isolated, rural home. Mostly unseen, a man uses a kitchen knife to murder a woman. Afterward, we hear him whistling "Greensleeves" and snapping his fingers in an affected manner.
The action flashes foward to the early 1970s, when a couple named Ray and Penny Burns (John Carson, Joanna Dunham) purchase the empty home from a realtor. After moving in and redecorating the stately home, Penny begins to experience bizarre manifestations that she considers to be otherworldly. One night she hears someone whistling "Greensleeves" and assumes it was Ray, but he denies this. Another night, she hears a scream, but when Ray investigates he finds a rabbit that was about to be devoured by an owl. The Burns hire a handyman to fix their problem with the water pipes, and after he discovers he must tear up the cement basement floor, he discovers the body of the murder victim from 1953. Penny becomes convinced her spirit is haunting the house. Ray is skeptical, but they call in a medium named Cecily Rafting (Hillary Hardiman) to hold a seance. Cecily channels the spirit of the murder victim, and then that of another being: the murderer. Cecily gets the impression of the murderer deciding to forget the murder and create a new identity for himself. She also deduces that the killer committed his crime for profit. She tries to cleanse the house of the spirits, but something goes wrong and she loses touch before she can.
Afterwards, it seems as if Ray has taken on the characteristics of the murderer. He whistles "Greensleeves" and snaps his fingers in the manner of the killer. Penny becomes unnerved when Ray purchases a set of sharp kitchen knives. Even worse, another murder happens within 20 miles of their home. Cecily returns to talk to Penny and tells her the spirit of the murderer has gone, but Ray returns home and Cecily immediately senses the evil spirit once more. She becomes convinced that Ray is possessed by the killer's spirit, and she connects him to the murder nearby. Penny herself is suspicious, especially when she discovers a piece of jewelry hidden among Ray's clothes. Penny assumes the ring is a birthday gift for her, but when Ray gives her a brooch, Penny thinks the jewelry could belong to the murdered woman.
When Penny goes to visit her sister, Cecily returns to the house to confront Ray. She reveals that she even knows the location of Ray's next planned murder. Cecily attempts to drive out the evil spirit of the murderer, but Ray kills her instead, putting her body where the previous one was and covering it with wet cement. When Penny returns, she sees the damp cement and a clue materializes, written in Cecily's handwriting; it reveals where Ray has gone in order to murder someone. Using this information, Penny becomes convinced of what happened. However, she makes a vital connection that Cecily overlooked. The next night, Penny confronts Ray, telling him that Cecily has disappeared and is presumed dead. She then tells Ray her suspicions; Ray is not possessed by the spirit of the murderer. Ray himself is the murderer, and has been all along. Penny connects the murders to times in Ray's life when he suddenly acquired a lot of money; Ray commits crimes for profit, and then buries the memories of them until he doesn't even remember. When Ray realizes that Penny has brought the authorities with her, he rushes into the basement and falls down the stairs, dying of his injuries on the cellar floor.
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