Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV Series)

The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors (1992)

Suzanna Shebib: Emma Toll

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Quotes 

• Emma Toll : I've figured out what's wrong with the Bruans.

  Dayday Toll : Me too. They have a crazy neighbor: you.

• Betty Ann : Emma started paying close attention to the Brauns. She watched them every chance she got. And the more she watched the more she realized the new neighbors were just a little bit strange. They didn't talk to anyone and no one ever saw them during the day, only at night. Even their kid Lex was never seen during the day.

  Lex Braun : Hi, can I come in and play?

  Emma Toll : It's really late.

  Lex Braun : Maybe some other time.

  Betty Ann : [narrating]  Lex never started school, no one had even heard of him. And the strange disease that hit Mr. Mitchell was spreading through the neighborhood like crazy. People were losing their energy, it was like an epidemic going around, but no one knew what it was, and it started the same night the Brauns moved in. Things seemed very strange indeed. Emma had a great imagination, but this was a little weird, eve for her. Then one night, all the pieces of the puzzle came together.

• Emma Toll : Listen, why is it they're never out during the day? And where are they from?

  [points to map] 

  Emma Toll : Here, Rovno, Ukraine! That's right in the middle of all those 'ia' places: Romania, Bulgaria, TRANSYL-vania. And what about those people? They're all getting sick, weak and pale and they all have Band-Aids on their necks. There's only one explanation.

  Dayday Toll : What?

  Emma Toll : Our neighbors are vampires.

  Dayday Toll : Ugh, I'm dreaming.

  Emma Toll : No you're not! They're vampires alright, they've got to be.

• Emma Toll : That's weird.

  Dayday Toll : What?

  Emma Toll : Their car's here, they gotta be home, why didn't they answer the door? What if they're KGB agents who had to bolt when the Soviet Union crumbled? Or gypsies searching for a new home?