Therese Lyon credited as playing...
Bertha
- Martina Sanders: The strangler got him.
- Joseph Hart: Hah! You'd believe in anything, wouldn't you? Why doesn't he visit me? I live closest to his grave.
- Dark-haired Woman: He will! You, too, are a marked man.
- Joseph Hart: I'd like to see that old drunken card sharp again.
- Dark-haired Woman: He was all that, yes, and a no-good. But was he a murderer?
- [discussing the noose that hung Douglas many years ago]
- Martina Sanders: Joseph, we're going to take that down.
- Joseph Hart: No! It stays there. Since that's been there, there hasn't been any more trouble.
- Martina Sanders: There's been more trouble than ever since it hangs there! Have you forgotten Bill Jenkins who was thrown from his horse and was choked by the reins?
- Anna Jeffers: And Shelton, strangled by the pulley rope as he fell from his hayloft?
- Dark-haired Woman: And Henry Craig, throttled by his fishnet?
- Martina Sanders: And tonight his son, Bill, choked to death by the weeds.
- Joseph Hart: What's Bill Craig got to do with it? He wasn't even at the hanging?
- Martina Sanders: Have you forgotten Douglas' vow that he'll return to strangle all the hangmen and their descendants for generations to come?
- [the noose that hung Douglas drops out of the tree and lands around Joseph's neck]
- Anna Jeffers: It was a sign from heaven - a sign for you to make the sacrifice.
- Dark-haired Woman: And lift the curse and save the others. Yes, Joseph, heed it. Give yourself willingly into the hands of the strangler and the curse will be broken forever.