" Jones was instructed to report on straight news, not as a correspondent but as a true news reporter.He gave her a "prize" present -- a gold bracelet-wristwatch, and lovingly reminded her what he had told her long ago: "You're never gettin' rid of me," before he kissed her.[Note: She was the first in a notorious line of Hitchcock's female stars that later included Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren.When John Strode returned home, he found everyone gone.Suddenly, the lights inexplicably extinguished, and he laughingly pondered: "It must be the boogeyman.The sacrifice of one family meant sparing the lives of the entire tribe."Tommy believed that might be the contaminating force or reason that compelled Michael Myers, marked with Thorn, to commit evil - the method behind his madness.