The Witch

what happens

While working as a handyman in a backwater community in Missouri, Kimble has a few run-ins with a young girl named Jenny Ammory who is a pathological liar who speaks to a rag doll she calls 'Nyet' which she keeps at a nearby pond. Jenny uses Kimble as an excuse when she's late for school when she claims that a man attacked her. When Kimble shows up making a routine delivery of supplies to the school, Jenny identifies him as the man who attacked her. As Jenny's teacher, Emily Norton, speaks to Kimble about Jenny's compulsive lying, Jenny runs home and tells her mother she saw her teacher and the local handyman making out in the barn. Kimble gets roughed up by his co-workers while Emily gets fired and both are advised to leave town. Kimble goes to a school hearing on Emily and tries to clear her by catching Jenny in a lie. But his plan backfires when the skeptic townspeople believe Jenny and decide to form a lynching party to track Kimble down.

who made it

directed

Andrew McCullough

written

William D. Gordon

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Pat Crowley as Emily Norton
• George Mitchell as John Petri Alsup
• Gina Gillespie as Jenny Ammory
• Ray Teal as Sheriff McNary
• Elisha Cook Jr. as Sailor
• Madeleine Sherwood as Mrs. Ammory
• Arch Johnson as Ty Tyson
• Crahan Denton as H.R. Ammory