The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.
October 29, 1978 I'm a major loser,
screamed like a girl about 5 times.
More like 10.
But I totally dug the dirty stuff,
does that help my manhood?
I don't know, it just makes you perv.
Hey guys, wait up.
It's not cool to ditch the wheelchair girl.
Oh my god, Vick, I'm so sorry.
In case you haven't noticed, this thing doesn't have turbo on it.
We were gonna wait.
So, anybody want to go grab a beer or something?
I can't, I gotta work tommorrow.
Craig, don't be a jerk.
How does having a job make me a jerk?
Hey, Vick!
Pop, you didn't have to pick me up.
Well, here I am anyway.
How are you, sir?
It's good to see you.
Sorry to break up the party,
I just want to get my girl home safe.
Well, I guess I'll catch you later, guys.
Love you, Vick.
Hey, thanks for coming.
Thanks for asking.
It was really great to see everybody.
The only reason that I came was because Vicky asked me to.
It's never going to be the way it was. You understand?
Let's get out of here.
What if I started a regular poker game? You interested?
Maybe. Yeah.
Geez, don't do me any favors.
Something wrong with the way I play cards?
You get a little heated up is all,
when things don't go your way.
Yeah? Forget the whole thing.
Hey Jo, do you play cards?
Sure. I'm a Texas holdum girl.
There you go.
It's for the best, trust me.
Who's Lil talking to?
Woman who's son was killed back in '78,
supposedly a copycat murder off the movie Halloween.
I'm moving and I found this when I was boxing up Angus's things.
What is it?
It's a letter to Angus from his friend Vicky,
written the day he died.
'You say you want to marry me
but you don't know what that means.'
Angus was over the moon for Vicky,
but I never knew he'd proposed.
She's asking for more time.
'Don't tell anybody, it's too dangerous for you.'
Angus and Vicky were in a terrible accident, 6 months before he died.
What happened?
Angus was driving too fast.
He was lucky but Vicky,
she was paralized.
And people blamed Angus.
You think he was killed because someone found out about this proposal?
Yes, I do.
The man they arrested back then, it just never felt right to me.
I'm afraid that's not much to go on, Mrs. Bistrong.
You would have liked Angus, detective, he would have made you smile.
I'm sure you're right.
I'm moving from the house where I raised that little boy on my own.
All I want is to leave his spirit with some kind of peace.
It's where good karma comes from, you know.
Acts of kindness.
I don't really go in for that kind of thing.
Do you go in for finding the truth?
All signs pointed to Eddie Foster,
the nut job who dressed like the killer from Halloween.
Stabs a girl in Grey's Ferry the night before.
I remember the press loved this story.
And Angus was found in the same area as the first victim,
less than 24 hours later.
Fibers from Foster's trunk
matched the ones found on the girl.
No fibers were recovered on Angus.
- That's something. - Not much.
Come on, I got karma on the line here.
Foster's not going to be very helpful,
he killed himself a week before his trial.
Autopsy says Angus's body was moved post mortem to the movie theater.
We'll run his clothes again, see if the new scan picks up trace fibers.
They talked to the friends Angus was with that night, trying to retrace his steps.
The car accident's probably the reason he was killed.
That was 6 months before he died.
Believe me, it's motive enough.
Well for now let's focus on the secret proposal.
A tight group of friends like that,
hard to keep anything secret.
Well, we'll follow the grapevine, start at the roots.
Vicky, the girl from the accident.
You have small children?
Well, not of our own, that wasn't in the cards.
I'm a kindergarten teacher.
The kids go nuts for her.
And I love the kids.
The pain in the ass parents, I can do without.
But you wanted to talk about Angus.
Yeah, we're taking another look at the case.
After all this time?
Did something new come up?
It looks like it, yeah.
Vicky, we heard Angus proposed to you,
right before he died.
How did you know about that?
His mom found your letter.
You seemed very worried for Angus.
Didn't want him telling anybody.
Well, after the accident,
our friends couldn't forgive him for what happened, they were...
brutal.
Who rode him the hardest?
- Craig. - Why?
He was my boyfriend before the accident.
Needed to blame somebody for what happened.
We heard Angus was driving pretty fast.
Yeah, and you've never done that?
Vick, they're just trying to help.
Yeah, I know, I know.
It was an accident, detective.
And Craig saw it all go down.
We should rent a house together this summer.
And we don't have school.
Get a totally decent place.
Yeah, and we can all go in on a big color TV, get Atari.
What are you, 12?
What are you, 40?
I could dig living with chicks,
always someone around to do the housework, right?
You know, it's a little cold for the bike.
Can I go with you?
Yeah, sure.
You're gonna pick Angus's beater over this beautiful ride?
Hey, ease up on my wheels, man.
I'm not too cold.
All right.
This is not a beater, this is a classic.
Come on, let's blow this taco stand.
Show Craig what a beater can do.
You're awsome, you know that?
Later, dude.
Angus!
Oh, my god.
Hang on, we'll get you out of there.
It's jammed tight!
You OK?
I was looking to get Craig riled up.
Remind him that I had ...........options.
So, the way you figure it,
the accident was.... part your fault.
I was the one who egged him on.
If I hadn't....
She found a way to forgive Angus but she's never forgiven herself.
Well, after that, everything changed.
It was Life, Part 2.
Your friends ever threaten Angus direct?
Craig did. A few times.
Told Angus to stay away from me or he's regret it.
Any chance Craig found out somehow about Angus proposing?
Angus had this fantasy that things would go back to normal.
That Craig would be his best bud again.
He might have reached out to Craig.
Ask for his support.
It would have been a really bad move.
I respect the police.
You guys do stellar work,
laying your ass on the line for us average Joe's.
Laying the butter pretty thick there, Craig.
I'm just speaking the truth.
Why don't we get back to Angus.
We heard you were pretty rough on your old pal.
Hey, he brought it on himself.
Bad enough what he did, then
he wouldn't take responsibility for it.
Meaning he blamed someone else?
Well for a while it was the car flipped too easy,
you know, then the brakes were bad.
Said he was gonna sue,
but nothing ever came of it, of course.
You know Angus popped the question at Vicky
the day he was killed?
No, I didn't.
Where'd you go that night, after the movie?
Out with Donna, got some beers.
Crashed at her place.
Donna who we hear is in Europe, somewhere?
I had no idea Angus proposed, OK?
Thought you and Vicky were an item.
OK, I know how this sounds,
but after the accidents my feelings changed.
Changed how?
I still cared about her.
She wasn't exactly girlfriend material anymore.
Wow. That kind of loyalty must have
really helped her through the hard times.
Give me a break here, I was a kid.
Besides everything had changed between us.
All of us.
I was just dropping something off I got for her, OK?
Just go, Angus.
You gotta forgive me sometime, Craig.
You're my best friend, man.
I'm nothing to you anymore.
Let's go in. See Vicky.
Hey, Vick. Couple of losers here to see you.
I'm not feeling so great today, guys. Sorry.
- That's cool. - Oh, it's totally understandable.
So we were thinking we could throw a major bash when you get better.
We'll do it at my parent's place,
get a band, have a dance floor,
make it decent.
Yeah, do my classic frozen margaritas,
get everybody wasted.
Hey, obviously she doesn't care about some party right now.
Let her rest.
God I was, we were just trying to...
She's not in the mood for that kind of stuff.
Stop hollering at her.
Hey, we really respect that you did save her,
but she's our friend, OK?
We'll be back later, Vick.
So who was the guy hanging around Vicky's room?
The fireman who pulled her out of the car, saved her life.
What was he doing there?
He was always there.
So he fell for her?
I thought he was just basking in the hero glow at first but
it turned out, yeah, he fell for her.
Maybe he would of had something to say if he found out Angus proposed.
I'd put money on it.
So whatever happened to this guy?
Vicky married him. That's what.
The fireman's her husband.
Women love firemen.
It's like a disease or something.
Yeah. Give a lady a choice between a nice looking detective and a mutt fireman.
They'll go for the dog, every time.
This fireman was a big hero.
Pulled Vicky from the burning car.
And neither of them mentioned it when you talked to her? / Nope.
The ex, Craig said the fireman was a real possessive type.
Might get really worked up about a proposal coming Vicky's way.
If he knew about it.
The ex point at anyone else?
That Angus was looking in to that the car was faulty.
Drives like a maniac, blames the car.
The accident report says he wasn't driving more than 45.
- Just didn't seem that...... - The limit there is 30.
Do you know how many pedestriansget mowed down by
idiots speeding down that road?
Hey, I'm just saying what's in the AID report.
Will, let's talk to Angus's mother, see what he was looking in to.
And we'll find out why we didn't get the full story on our hero fireman.
- Wanna grab some coffee Jo? - Yeah, sure.
So, did I say something wrong up there? / Well...
I got an attitude too quick, huh? / Sutton...
- Cause I'm woring on that. - Hey. (Time out)
I wanted you to know Will's wife was killed about 10 years ago, hit and run.
Now this case, the accident, it seems it's on his mind. / Crap.
- And I was mouthing off. - You didn't know.
- One black coffee, what can I get you? - Coffee, regular.
I could wear a dunce cap.
Oh, he's probably sold out of those.
- You'll get to know these guys, Jo. - Yeah, I know.
I'll meet you back at... Thanks, boss.
All I have is green tea, is that all right?
That'll be fine.
You think I get too heated up when I play cards? / Yeah.
I'm so grateful to you for looking in to this case.
Mrs. Bistrong, we heard that Angus thought something
might have gone wrong with his car, causing it to flip.
He talked about it constantly at first.
I told him to stop thinking like that.
Good of you.
A few days before he died,
I talked to him about it.
And he surprised me.
Angus?
I got the Drexel course list for you.
Maybe it's time to finish up that last semester and get your degree.
I have enough in the savings account.
Thanks mom but I'm kind of swamped right now.
Oh, Angus, please stop torturing yourself,
none of this can change what happened.
If it wasn't all my fault,
people might not hate me so much. / Angus...
And Vicky might look at me differently.
She's forgiven you.
All I want is that one second back.
So I can hit the brakes sooner and move around the truck.
Gussy, from the time you were a tiny boy,
you have been the sweetest spirit on this earth,the most gentle.
You didn't mean to hurt anybody, it was an accident.
Forgive yourself. Try to move forward.
I am moving forward, mom.
[Firefighting : Vehicles And Equipment]
I'll be OK. You'll see.
I think he wanted to become a fireman.
Save people.
Like that fireman who saved Vicky.
Did he ever take the test?
Never got to.
He was killed a few days later.
Do you still have those manuals of his?
I'm sure I do, I don't throw anything of his away.
- I'll find them for you. - Appreciate it.
Angus was a good boy, detective.
Even if accepting what he had done was too much for him to bear.
Pretty big piece of information you two left out, Ian.
With all due respect, I never really knew Angus.
Or any of that group.
They were college kids, I was a working guy.
We heard you boxed people out.
Didn't want anyone else hanging around.
That's crap.
I wasn't the reason those friends busted up.
Meaning what?
The sad truth is, it happens a lot after accidents like that.
People can't handle it, don't know how to be.
You know about Angus proposing?
Not back then.
But it's not something I would have been concerned about.
Why is that?
Angus was always gonna be the reason she's in that chair, simple as that.
A letter we got says she was seriously considering marrying the guy.
This might sound terrible,
but Vicky told me the only reason she didn't say no right off
is she thought Angus is the only guy to ever want her.
Where were you?
The night he was killed, Ian?
Vicky asked me to the movie but I had an early shift the next day so I stayed in.
Not much of an alibi but it's God's honest truth.
- We'll look in to it. - Of course.
You have any thoughts about who killed Angus?
We thought it was that Foster guy.
- All the news said so. - You don't sound so 100%.
Something happened a few weeks before Angus died.
- Hey, Mr. Leoni, - Tony / Devin.
Where's Vicky?
The therapist said a friend took her for a walk.
So Vicky tells me you play football, huh?
Yeah, he's been missing a lot of practices and comes here.
It's no big deal.
Well, you're a good little bro, kid.
You know, she could walk again. If she keeps working at it.
Devin, we've talked about this.
It's possible. That's all I'm saying.
Possible. Right?
Well we can pray for her. That's for sure.
She's totally evil. She yells at me after every exercise.
Hi, guys.
- Oh, god...Sorry. - Are you retarded?
Can't you do anything without hurting somebody? / Pop!
Mr. Leoni. / You walk in with a stupid grin on your face like something's funny.
- I should just knock it right off! - Easy there.
Get out! / Easy.
- I was just trying to help. - It's a little too late for that.
Too late?
God, can't you see you're making it worse?
Acting like somebody died?
She didn't die.
She's right here.
Vicky didn't tell us about that.
I shouldn't have said anything.
The guy lost his wife early,
those kids were all he had, of course he was messed up.
The father, a violent guy?
Never knew him that way.
But Vick and him stopped talking as soon as she moved out.
Why is that?
All she said about it was the accident made him a different guy.
Mrs. McAllen.
I heard the messages on the machine that they were looking for you.
We're just asking him some questions. That's all.
Babe, I'm fine, you didn't need to come down here.
Yes, I did. My husband didn't hurt Angus.
- And I can prove it. - Yeah, how?
I should have done this a long time ago, I just couldn't face it. I'm sorry.
Vick, what's going on?
Where did you get that, Vicky?
I found it hidden in my father's hall closet.
The day after Angus was murdered.
Vicky gave us the knife, Mr. Leoni.
Someone tried to wipe it clean but there was residue, looked like blood.
What are you talking about?
The knife she found hidden in your hall closet
the day after Angus's murder.
So that's why she kicked me out of her life.
So the knife was yours?
Yeah, it was mine. Blood's mine too.
I remember I cut myself making a salad.
So, why'd you hide it in the closet?
I put it aside, I was going to take it in to get sharpened.
And you remember that all these years later? / Yeah, I do.
You must have been pretty angry at Angus.
What he did to Vicky.
It's just human.
Well I was furious at first.
We heard about the hospital, how you got up in his face. Threatened him.
I lost my temper, that's all.
Now, I don't blame you.
I know you loved that girl with everything you had. / Of course I did.
I bet your whole life all you thought about was keeping her safe.
Making sure she never even so much as scraped her knee.
Then look what this stupid reckless boy does without a moments thought.
- But I forgave the kid. - That's a damn lie.
You never forgive something like that.
Hey.
I'm Detective Jeffries, they radioed my wife was in an accident.
Detective. I'm sorry, sir.
Where's my wife, officer?
Name on the ID was Mary Jeffries.
She was gonna change her tire?
Yes, sir.
rucker must not have seen her get out of the vehicle.
No that's just not right, Mary would wait for me.
I should have been with her tonight,
if I had just been with her.
Can I call someone for you?
They ever find that trucker?
No. But if they had, I might have killed him.
- I don't think so. - Why is that?
Because you would have looked at him.
And you would have seen some poor stiff who was driving the night shift
just trying to get home to his family.
Too scared to stop and face what he did.
You defending what he did?
No, I'm just saying that you probably would have seen right off,
what it took me a long time to see in Angus.
It was just an accident.
The truth is, on a bad night
it could've been you or me driving.
Well maybe you forgave Angus.
But someone else in your house didn't.
If forensics find that knife killed him,
there's only one other person who had access to it.
Your son.
So the knife was yours, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was mine. So what?
I was a kid, I got it for part of a costume.
You need a 10 inch steak knife for a Halloween costume?
I wanted it to look real, I got the Michael Myers mask,
- the gray jumper... - Why did you hide the knife?
I threw it there as soon as I heard about the murder.
I didn't want my pop to see it in the trash and flip out.
I was gonna ditch the knife in a dumpster later but it was gone.
And you don't ask Vicky or your pop about it going missing?
You don't understand what my house was like after that accident.
I was just trying to disappear.
Not upset anybody, ever.
You must have hated Angus for doing that to your life.
I hated the world after what happened to Vick.
She always looked out for me.
That's the hand life dealt her.
- That Angus dealt her. - Yeah. That's right.
And then he's psycho enough to ask her to marry him.
I just saw you an hour ago Angus.
That's not exactly giving me time.
I said all of this in the letter.
I didn't read your letter.
Look, Angus, I know you're just doing this out of guilt.
I love you, Vicky Leoni.
It hasn't changed since 9th grade and it's not gonna now.
Quit it. Stand up.
I am messed up, all right?
Things don't work right anymore.
You get it? / Do you think that I care about that stuff?
I know I'm a geek and you deserve way better,
I mean look at you, you take my freaking breath away.
Maybe this is right. You and me.
Angus. / What are you doing?
Are you psycho? Acting like this?
- Devin, it's OK. - Look what he did to you.
How can you say that's OK, that's not OK to me.
I'm gonna wake up my pop if you....
All right, all right Devin, I'm going man.
Craig was outside your house?
Yeah. He was out there all the time back then.
Doing what?
Just sat on his bike.
Watching the place, night after night.
So Craig lied. He still had a soft spot for Vicky, even after the crash.
But Devin was telling the truth.
Knife doesn't match the wounds.
The bloodstains on the handle, corn starch.
- Costume blood? - Yep.
Here's something.
Chemical tests on Angus's clothes came back, it picked up traces of elk skin.
What's elk skin used for?
Most common use? Motorcycle gloves.
And it's our boy Craig who had that beautiful ride.
Devin told us about your stalker routine outside Vicky's place.
You still in love means you have a motive to get rid of the competition.
You don't understand.
We're a little dim.
Why don't you explain it to us?
I just wanted to talk to her.
Beg her to forgive me.
Forgive you? For what?
What I did.
You talking about the night of the murder?
No, I'm talking about the crash.
What happened there?
You're on the hook for murder Craig and we're losing our patience here.
I was right there when it happened.
I could have helped her but I froze.
Oh, my god, please, someone get help! Call for help!
My leg hurts. Oh, god it hurts.
Oh, my god.
Craig, are you.... Craig help me.
Craig, oh Craig help me
Craig, help me.
Craig, help
Oh, man.
Hang on, we're gonna get you out of there.
Help me. Craig,
are you there? Craig.
It's jammed tight!
Craig, oh help me. Craig.
Easy there. / I gotta get her out of here before it catches.
Easy, easy.
Please help me, Craig.
Are you there?
Are you there? Craig?
I couldn't move.
I was a pathetic coward.
I blamed Angus for all of it.
But I didn't kill him.
So you were hanging around her house to apologize?
Night after night.
Trying to get up the nerve.
But I never did.
Craig, you heard Vicky say her leg hurt.
You sure about that? / Yeah.
And you saw her try and kick off the seat belt? / Yeah. So?
Angus wasn't studying to be a fireman.
Did you find something out?
Yeah, we did.
Was it...did my father kill Angus?
No. But you knew that.
What?
What are you talking about?
Ian couldn't have put the knife there.
That knife didn't kill Angus.
It's part of your brothers Halloween costume.
We talked to your old partner.
The one who covered for you way back then.
We know things went wrong when you used the jaws of life.
"A terrible mistake," Your partner said.
"Made by an eager,real talented rookie."
And Angus figured it out.
Started reading up.
Ian? What's going on?
I had to get you out.
Smoke was coming out of that engine.
You saved me.
He was trying to save you.
He saw the car was about to catch fire.
I moved too fast, the last push knocked you forward...
And that's what broke my spine.
Ian. What did you do to Angus?
No, not that sweet kid.
Residue on Angus's body was elk skin.
One of the uses besides motorcycle gloves is firemmens gloves.
He came to me.
I didn't go to him, he came to me.
Coming up, we'll bring you full coverage on the investigation
in to the real Halloween killer,
including a live update from the Gray's Ferry neighborhood
where the killer struck just last night.
Angus. How was the movie?
I figured it out Ian.
After the car flipped over, Vicky was crying out,
she said her leg hurt. Her leg hurt!
She was dellusional Angus,
didn't know what was going on.
Yes, she did. She felt it, man.
And I know all about the jaws of life and how you messed up.
You're nuts Angus now I've been as nice to you as I can but
I'm getting sick of it.
Yeah, you are nice.
Right off the bat and you didn't even know me.
No, it was like you didn't blame me at all.
Time to go home, sleep it off butthead.
You just went there out of guilt.
I just want to be near her
but you want to ease your consciense.
Vicky and I can be happy together.
Just tell them what you did.
Ian, she won't believe me if I do it.
I didn't do anything.
You're a total fraud.
Everyone thinks you're some big hero
but I'm gonna tell them the truth.
Look you little pissant,
you crashed a car and when you were crawling away
on your hands and knees I was saving a life.
But you lied.
And I'm gonna tell everybody what you did.
And then you're gonna know what it feels like to be hate for one stupid mistake.
The real Halloween killer is still on the loose tonight.
Police have launched a massive search to find the man
who stabbed and killed a Grey's Ferry girl late last night.
The witnesses reported that the man was dressed as the main character
in the slasher picture The Halloween.
Local groups have begun to call on theaters to stop showing the film.
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