Michael Myers is a killer shark in baggy-ass overalls that gets his kicks off of killing everything and everyone that he comes across.In a droning voice-over, he narrates cynically from the tattered journal he keeps in a school composition book purchased at a dimestore.Next door, paralyzed invalid sister Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford), the former movie star who had suffered a mysterious, career-ending car accident (for which guilt-ridden Jane was blamed but never charged), was a recluse -- wheelchair-bound, semi-imprisoned and secluded in the sparsely-furnished upstairs bedroom.Smith: Tim! You""re just a lost ball in the high weeds.I told you a long time ago, nothing happened for you to worry about.Sheriff: Thing is, I do worry.Maybe I ain""t much else, but I""m sure a worrier.And I""m still the law.Smith: Then do your job, Tim.Sheriff: Whatismy job, Mr.Smith? Maybe I""d better find out before Macreedy does it for me.Smith: Macreedy""ll do nothing - and neither will you, Tim.Sheriff: Suppose I decide to try?Smith: That might be dangerous.Tim, you got the body of a hippo but the brain of a rabbit.Now don""t overtax it.Sheriff: (He lowers his eyes and looks away) Yes, Mr.Smith.The telegraph agent receives a transmitted message in his office and frantically runs from the shack with the message on a sheet of paper to Reno.