Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)

Payment Overdue (1988)

Wanda De Jesus: Telephone

Quotes 

• Jeanette Simpson : [on tape]  Miss Valdez, it has been 3 months.

  Telephone : Please, I so sick.

  Jeanette Simpson : Your payment is overdue, you must make your payment.

  Telephone : My head, it hurts so bad.

  Jeanette Simpson : I'm afraid I have to put your case up for litigation.

  Telephone : Please, the word is too big.

  Jeanette Simpson : [to Michael]  We never actually sue.

  Jeanette Simpson : [on tape]  It means you have to go to court, see the judge.

  Telephone : No no no, judge kills!

  Jeanette Simpson : Someone from a court of law will call you soon.

  Telephone : The courts they kill him, my head...

  [ringtone] 

  Jeanette Simpson : Call to Valdez, July 10, 4:15.

  Jeanette Simpson : [to Michael]  Now how was I supposed to know she was really sick? Or what a judge meant to her? How?

  Telephone : You could've asked. At 4:15 she dropped the receiver and jumped.

  Jeanette Simpson : Are you saying that I...

  Michael Nelson : No, you just didn't listen. Not a great sin, not normally.

  Jeanette Simpson : Now wait a minute, you are not my judge or jury.

  Michael Nelson : I'm sorry, but I am. Things must be balanced so the dead can rest, Rita must rest.

• Jeanette Simpson : Yes, hello?

  Telephone : Hello? Hello?

  Jeanette Simpson : Who is this?

  Telephone : My payment overdue.

  Jeanette Simpson : What payment?

  Telephone : Is Rita Valdez, Miss Simpson.

• Jeanette Simpson : I don't believe that the dead can talk, but I do believe that there are some among the living who can be very cruel.

  Michael Nelson : Why would anyone want to be cruel to you?

  Jeanette Simpson : Well if they thought I had something to do with someone's bad luck, like this Rita's dying or something, I don't know.

  Michael Nelson : But you didn't, right?

  Jeanette Simpson : I didn't bring that Rita anymore problems than she had created on her own.

  Michael Nelson : Good. Then let's get this settled once and for all. Your last call to Rita, when was it?

  Jeanette Simpson : I don't know.

  Michael Nelson : Won't your computer have it?

  Jeanette Simpson : No.

  Michael Nelson : Sure it will, come on, let's get the information, come on. You'll rest much easier when you see you're not responsible. Ah, Rita Valdez, last call, July 10th.

  Jeanette Simpson : I sometimes record my calls.

  Michael Nelson : And you recorded you last call to Rita, perfect, where's the tape?

  Jeanette Simpson : I'm not sure.

  Michael Nelson : [takes a tape out of the drawer]  Is this the one?

  Jeanette Simpson : I cut the wires.

  Michael Nelson : Well, I'm pretty handy with these things.

  [reconnects the wires] 

  Telephone : [on tape]  Hello?

  Jeanette Simpson : It's Jeanette at Sentinel. Do you have a payment for me yet?

  Telephone : No tiendo, uh, sorry, my English.

  Jeanette Simpson : [to Michael]  They sometimes say they don't speak English, but they all do, really.

  Michael Nelson : Really?

• Jeanette Simpson : [after finding out Rita Valdez is deceased, answering phone]  Yes?

  Telephone : It's so lonely and cold here, so dark and alone, payment overdue. I must make my payment.