Theatre Macabre: Season 1 Episode 9 The Rajah's Diamond
A journalist investigates an asylum after an escape attempt.
Series Index
Characters/Groups
General Vandalur - Wladyslaw Hancza
Lady Vandalur - Ewa Wisniewska
Charley Pendragon - Tadeusz Plucinski
Harry Hartley - Krzysztof Wakulinski
Priest - Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Otto Vandalur - Janusz Klosinski
Doctor's Assistant - Pawel Unrug
they are in India, Harry designs hats and is the secretary of the general's wife. Charley is the "brother of lad. General's brother was recently kicked out of Bolivia, where he had been a dictator for 2 years.
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Detailed Synopsis
The Host introduces Robert Louis Stevenson's story, The Rajah's Diamond.
Lady Vandalur walks down the hall at night and enters a bedroom. At about the same time Charley Pendragon is walking down the hall and enters the bedroom. Lady Vandalur walks over to the sleeping General Vandalur and finds a hidden safe. As she opens the safe, Charley grabs her hand and they take something out of it. The next day, Lady Vandalur buys a hat from Harry Hartley. The General angrily walks into the room and complains about how much money Lady Vandalur is spending. The General kicks Harry out of the room and throws him down the stairs. Charley enters the home and after the General stomps out of the house, Lady Vandalur gives Harry a hatbox and tells him to deliver it to a certain address. As Harry is walking, the General stops him and demands to know where he is taking the hatbox. Harry pushes him aside and the General tries to grab it from him. Charley tells the General to stop and then tells Harry to run. While Harry is running, he throws the hatbox over a wall and then jumps over into Henry's rose bed. Henry grabs Harry and they both see that the hatbox was full of diamonds. Harry tries to keep the diamonds so he can fulfill the job Lady Vandalur gave him, but Henry thinks he wants to keep them for himself. The Priest greets Henry and as Harry tries to talk to him, Henry drags him away and kicks him off the property. ? grabs Harry and pushes him away and then starts grabbing the diamonds. As the Priest is walking the grounds where the hatbox fell, he sees a case with a large diamond inside. The Priest sees Henry running from the police and helps them catch him. The General runs over to the police and they hand him a bag of diamonds, but he notices the best one, which he calls the Rajah's Diamond, is missing. The Priest asks a police officer about the diamond and he tells him the best thing a thief could do would be to break it into three separate pieces to be able to sell it. The Priest has dinner with another Priest and orders lamb from Jeff