What happened in the end of those episodes? I always remember being really confused when I watched them. I remember The Tune ended with the girl screaming and I had no idea what she had seen. Still creepy nonetheless. I forget how Question ended but I remember I was perplexed. Maybe I'll watch them again and see if they make sense.
share"A QUESTION OF FEAR": We learn that Leslie Nielsen's character is a macho jerk and had killed the father of Fritz Weaver's character. Weaver had rigged all of the things to make Nielsen think the house was haunted. Through the video link, Weaver tells Nielsen that he put a drug in his coffee that will turn him into a slug and that there is another man in the basement who is in the same shape. Nielsen, not wanting to give Weaver the satisfaction of seeing him turn into the slug, kills himself. At which point, Weaver says there is no slug in the basement. He just wanted Nielsen to kill himself for revenge for killing his father.
"THE TUNE IN DAN'S CAFE": From the story that Dan tells the couple, the redhead's boyfriend was killed at the diner after betraying him. While he's being killed, that song is playing on the jukebox. As the couple are leaving, they realize that the woman pulling into the parking lot is the dead man's girlfriend. When the girlfriend goes into the diner, the song from the night the boyfriend was killed starts playing. The redhead recognizes it and starts screaming.
"There will be blood. Oh, yes, there WILL be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
Pretty good episodes.
shareSo I just saw both of them. Question of Fear was pretty self explanatory. I saw it a long time ago and didn't get it but it's not a complicated plot of anything (great episode) creepy ending.
After just seeing it again, I think The Tune in Dan's Cafe is one of my favorite episodes, it's so creepy and eerie and really resonates with me. Unforgettable. The ending is a little ambiguous but I finally have a good theory. Yours is good but if you'll recall Red (the red headed girl) sets the guy up because he's a dick and he hit her. She's not at the cafe, she just had to make a call to the cops and to Dan and make sure he was there and the cops would show up. They kill him. There's no way she would've known what song was playing. Later, the couple at the cafe leave and notice Red going in with a man. She goes in and screams as soon as the song plays that unbelievably creepy "till death" part. My theory is the man she was with killed her and finally the jukebox can play something else because "till death" has finally become true and the couple are finally reunited in death. The jukebox was just waiting for her to return so she could join her lover. Creepy.
Actually maybe it makes more sense that the ghost of the lover who was shot was waiting for her and killed her when she walked in. I think that makes much more sense. So she could finally be with him. And obviously he was haunting the jukebox waiting for her. And there would be no reason for the man she was with to kill her.
shareI think Red may have been there with the police when the boyfriend was killed or maybe they brought her there after the deed had been done and the jukebox was still playing for a while until they pulled the plug or turned it off.
"There will be blood. Oh, yes, there WILL be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
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Another take on Dan's Cafe:
It's an 'afterlife waystation'.. Dan and the customers and Red are dead.
Though they died at different times, these souls can encounter each other
at the cafe (outside of time). (Roughly compare the church at the end of LOST,
but here there's no surety of positive resolution for these troubled souls.)