HALLOWEEN EVE.One Year Later.[1989] CHILDREN""S CLINIC, Haddonfield, Illinois.During a thunder and lightning storm, nine year-old Jamie was undergoing monitoring-testing as she tossed and turned.[Note: There were four TV movies: (1) Hallmark Hall of Fame""sDial M For Murder (1958)starring Maurice Evans, Anthony Dawson, John Williams and Rosemary Harris, (2) BBC-TV""s remakeDial M For Murder (1962, UK), (3) ABC-TV""sDial M for Murder (1967)starring Laurence Harvey, Diane Cilento, and Hugh O""Brian, and (4)Dial ""M"" For Murder (1981)starring Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer and Michael Parks.Buck falls from his horse, revealing that his face is hideously covered with blood.Blinded by blood (both figuratively and literally), Buck begs Pike to kill him, and Pike perfunctorily and coldly complies with his request o put him out of his misery:Pike, is that you? I can ride, Pike.The occasion is its annual banquet and presentation of the highest honor our theater knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement.]It was based on James Jones"" hefty, 859-page smoldering 1951 novel of the same name, taking its title from Rudyard Kipling""s poem "Gentlemen Rankers" - "damned from here to eternity.