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!!The 1980 film
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Did Senator Carmichael know that his father murdered the real son and was trying to cover it up? Or was he simply assuming that John was trying to blackmail him like others had tried to do to him prior? Or was he covering the fact that he was actually adopted and that the Carmichael fortune would be in some serious legal jeopardy if it were ever to be revealed to the public?]]

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[[spoiler: Did Senator Carmichael know that his father murdered the real son and was trying to cover it up? Or was he simply assuming that John was trying to blackmail him like others had tried to do to him prior? Or was he covering the fact that he was actually adopted and that the Carmichael fortune would be in some serious legal jeopardy if it were ever to be revealed to the public?]]
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* OneSceneWonder: Captain [=DeWitt=], played by John Colicos, aka [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Klingon Commander]]/[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Dahar Master Kor]], [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Count Baltar]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries Apocalypse]].

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* OneSceneWonder: Captain [=DeWitt=], played by John Colicos, Creator/JohnColicos, aka [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Klingon Commander]]/[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Dahar Master Kor]], [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Count Baltar]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries Apocalypse]].
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* OneSceneWonder: Captain [=DeWitt=], played by John Colicos, aka [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Klingon Commander]]/[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Dahar Master Kor]], [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Count Baltar]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMen Apocalypse]].
* StoicWoobie: John Russell.

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* OneSceneWonder: Captain [=DeWitt=], played by John Colicos, aka [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Klingon Commander]]/[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Dahar Master Kor]], [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Count Baltar]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMen [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries Apocalypse]].
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** Captain [=DeWitt=] crossed it when he threatened John with falseful incarceration in a psychiatric asylum and even used his wife's and daughter's deaths to justify his supposed eroding sanity.

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** Captain [=DeWitt=] crossed it when he threatened John with falseful false incarceration in a psychiatric asylum and even used his wife's and daughter's deaths to justify his supposed eroding sanity.
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** Carmichael's final scene strongly implies (but doesn't prove) the latter scenario: he may have suspected all along that something shady was involved with his too good to be true adoption and inheritance, but he probably didn't know about the murder.
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!!The 1980 film

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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The whole reason for the haunting is one: Richard Carmichael drowned ''his own son'' in order to replace him and make sure that he will not lose the huge inheritance in case Joseph was known to have died.]]

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[[spoiler: The whole reason for the haunting is one: Richard Carmichael drowned ''his own son'' in order to replace him and make sure that he will not lose the huge inheritance in case Joseph was known to have died.]]



* StoicWoobie: John Russell.

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* StoicWoobie: John Russell.Russell.

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** Captain De Witt crossed it when he threatened John with falseful incarceration in a psychiatric asylum and even used his wife's and daughter's deaths to justify his supposed eroding sanity.

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** Captain De Witt [=DeWitt=] crossed it when he threatened John with falseful incarceration in a psychiatric asylum and even used his wife's and daughter's deaths to justify his supposed eroding sanity.sanity.
* OneSceneWonder: Captain [=DeWitt=], played by John Colicos, aka [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Klingon Commander]]/[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Dahar Master Kor]], [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Count Baltar]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMen Apocalypse]].
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The whole reason for the haunting is one: Richard Carmichael drowned ''his own son'' in order to replace him and make sure that he will not lose the huge inheritance in case Joseph was known to have died.]]
** Captain De Witt crossed it when he threatened John with falseful incarceration in a psychiatric asylum and even used his wife's and daughter's deaths to justify his supposed eroding sanity.
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* StoicWoobie: John Russell.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Did Senator Carmichael know that his father murdered the real son and was trying to cover it up? Or was he simply assuming that John was trying to blackmail him like others had tried to do to him prior? Or was he covering the fact that he was actually adopted and that the Carmichael fortune would be in some serious legal jeopardy if it were ever to be revealed to the public?]]

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* StoicWoobie: John Russell.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Did Senator Carmichael know that his father murdered the real son and was trying to cover it up? Or was he simply assuming that John was trying to blackmail him like others had tried to do to him prior? Or was he covering the fact that he was actually adopted and that the Carmichael fortune would be in some serious legal jeopardy if it were ever to be revealed to the public?]]public?]]
* StoicWoobie: John Russell.
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* StoicWoobie: John Russell.

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* StoicWoobie: John Russell.Russell.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Did Senator Carmichael know that his father murdered the real son and was trying to cover it up? Or was he simply assuming that John was trying to blackmail him like others had tried to do to him prior? Or was he covering the fact that he was actually adopted and that the Carmichael fortune would be in some serious legal jeopardy if it were ever to be revealed to the public?]]
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* FridgeHorror: The newspaper notice on Cora's death specifies that the driver wasn't blamed for the incident. Why? Because [[spoiler: it's {{implied}} she ran out of the house into the coal cart's path because Joseph had frightened her somehow.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel

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* StoicWoobie: John Russell.
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* FridgeHorror: The newspaper notice on [[spoiler: Cora's]] death specifies that the driver wasn't blamed for the incident. Why? Because [[spoiler: it's {{implied}} she ran out of the house into the coal cart's path because Joseph had frightened her somehow.]]

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* FridgeHorror: The newspaper notice on [[spoiler: Cora's]] Cora's death specifies that the driver wasn't blamed for the incident. Why? Because [[spoiler: it's {{implied}} she ran out of the house into the coal cart's path because Joseph had frightened her somehow.]]
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* FridgeHorror: The newspaper notice on [[spoiler: Cora's]] death specifies that the driver wasn't blamed for the incident. Why? Because [[spoiler: it's {{implied}} she ran out of the house into the coal cart's path because Joseph had frightened her somehow.]]

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