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- BFI identifier472783
- Date1996 (Television)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisIn an attempt to get rid of the spirit of Merlyn and consign her to oblivion, Lucas summons back Albert de Salvo, the Boston Strangler, and then leaves town to go to an annual Sherriff's convention. However Albert begins to follow his nature whilst waiting for an opportunity to encounter Merlyn and strangles one of the nurses from the hospital. Meanwhile he befriends Caleb, posing as an electrican fixing the fridge at the Boarding House. Gail is almost his next victim, since being dead he can appear through locked doors, but Ben arrives just in time. He believes the perpetrator is a copycat killer, and another nurse is killed when Albert is thwarted by Merlyn who appears to him and finds out his intentions, but disappears before he can reach her. Gail stays with Caleb at the Boarding House, but Albert materialises in Caleb's room and threatens him. Merlyn appears and offers herself to the strangler in order to save Caleb. However, on seeing his sister begin to vanish into oblivion, Caleb's anger and frustration cause him to use psychic powers he was unaware of to destroy the strangler. When Lucas returns with his Sherriff of the Year award he finds a confident and more authoritative Ben who has coped admirably with the investigation into the homicides. (Synopsis)
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Strangler (Original)
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- American Gothic
Series Work - 784183
USA - TV - Fiction
- Strangler
Work - 472783 - 1996 (Television)
USA - TV - Fiction
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