As Edna sat knitting, a TV newscaster (voice of director Steve Miner) reported on a "grisly mass murder scene" in the quiet community of Crystal Lake - the discovery of 8 corpses ("the most brutal and heinous crime in local history").When he turns up the Queen of Diamonds during the eerie card game, it unlocks or activates the key to his brainwashed mind and opens him to obey any suggestion.He said that if the piano didn""t keep me off the streets, maybe the clarinet would.To appease and convince Mr.Sargis of his true love for Holly, Kit drives out to a billboard in a deserted field where he sign-painter is working: "You know Holly, well, she means an awful lot to me, sir.She is a mercenary counterspy from the continent [not identified, but presumably Nazi Germany] working with the British against her own country.