Phillip Pine

            On Monday morning my left arm hurt a lot more than usual but still not as bad as after I wrenched it last month. 

            I worked out the chords for the third line of the fourth verse of “L'araignée du soir” (The Spider of Night) by Boris Vian. There’s one more line and then another verse. The last one should have the same chords as the third. 

            I worked on memorizing the fourth verse of “Paris d’papa” (Papa’s Paris) by Serge Gainsbourg. I should have it nailed down tomorrow and then there’ll just be one more verse to learn. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune quite a bit but not as much as the Gibson did yesterday. 

            I weighed 87.1 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I called Family Dentistry and booked an appointment for tomorrow to get my front fillings fixed. 

            I uploaded my Batgirl 18 video, which I edited from season 3, episode 18 of Batman, but this one was blocked. I think about four of my Batgirl videos have been blocked over copyrighted material.

            I weighed 87.6 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 87.15 kilos at 17:40. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:40. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” I continued replacing the partitioned sections of the concert video with parts of the exact same duration from my August 22 video. So far it’s working out quite well. I’m 40 seconds into the song. There are 6 minutes left in the August 22 video. 

            I imported my October 5, 2024 song practice video and also the audio into Movie Maker and started a “2024-10-05 Song Practice” Movie Maker project. I had the audio from the external microphones within a few seconds of synchronization with that of the camera mic when it was time to stop and make supper. 

            I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching episode 9 of Checkmate.

            In the parking lot of a nightclub a sexy and self assured woman gets out of the driver’s seat of a convertible and walks to a phone booth. She calls Edith Hinton but addresses her as “Warden”, tells her it’s Nikki calling and asks for Margie. Edith says her niece has never heard of her. Nikki says to tell Margie she took her car and in a few days she’ll take her life. She walks back to the car as two men with a briefcase run to the car from the club and a man in the doorway fires a gun at them as they drive away. One of the men dies and Vince has to bury him as Nikki drives away. She puts the briefcase in a locker. Edith calls Checkmate and Don comes to hear about the problem. He also meets Edith’s niece Margaret and at that point it should be obvious to the viewer that this is one of those split personality stories because Margaret is identical to Nikki although she displays an opposite personality and dresses conservatively. Margaret says she was at a concert last night. They don’t know Nikki or why she keeps calling. There’s a bullet hole in the car. Don wants to borrow the car to check that out. Jed finds a bowling scorecard in the car with Nikki’s name on it. He goes to the bowling alley to look for Nikki while Nikki is watching from outside. Jed goes to the bar and asks for Nikki but the bartender is uncooperative. Vince is there at a table and he is confronted by some henchmen of the mobster that he and Nikki robbed. They want the money back and Vince is given 48 hours. They found Vince because a woman called to tell them where he was. Edith tells Don she has a joint account with Margaret and now $1000 has been taken out with someone having put Margaret’s signature on the withdrawal slips. While they are talking Nikki calls Don and says Edith and Margie are crowding her so tell them to say their prayers. Edith calls Margaret and she answers. Dr. Hyatt analyzes Nikki’s and Margaret’s handwriting and they are different but the forged signature is excellent. Jed goes to a club and asks for Nikki. Nikki is a bar girl but says she’s not Nikki as she sits to chat with Jed. She says she’ll call someone to ask about Nikki. She calls Vince and tells him she’ll give him the money back if he kills Margaret. Nikki tells Jed she’s going to the powder room but leaves out the back way. Vince calls back and the waiter answers. He learns Nikki was with Jed. Hyatt goes with Don to talk with Margaret because he has a theory. Don tells her that she’s missed meetings on her regular schedule but she’s sure she didn’t. She says she’s been having headaches and one time she rented a room in a cheap hotel and looked in the mirror where someone had written “How do you like it?” and she saw in the mirror that there was makeup on her face. She goes back to the hotel with Hyatt and Don. Don sees the name “Vince” in the register. Vince goes to a bar where Jed is and says he’ll take him to Nikki. He takes him to a room, slugs him and ties him up. Hyatt gets Margaret to agree to being hypnotized and Nikki emerges. She tells him she’s having Margie killed and doesn’t seem to realize that would be the death of her as well. She turns back to Margaret but when Hyatt has his back turned she becomes Nikki again and knocks him out. Vince has been beating Jed up to find out where Nikki is. Then Nikki calls him. Don finds Nikki’s clothes in Margaret’s locked closet. Don goes back to the hotel and finds Vince’s room where Jed has just freed himself. Margaret goes to the locker and gets the briefcase. She goes back to the parking lot where it began and Vince demands the money. He realizes she is Nikki, then she becomes Nikki, hits him and runs. He fires at her but the guys from Checkmate pull up and stop him. Nikki turns back to Margaret and starts crying for help. A psychiatrist later explains to Edith that most people have access to disassociative reaction through alcohol and other means but Margaret’s inhibitions forced her to develop a split persona. He says there may be only six cases that extreme. There are of course a lot more than that but many psychologists still think the disorder doesn’t fit and that it’s actually caused by people imitating psychological studies of people faking split personalities. 

            Vince was played by Phillip Pine, who started acting in high school. He made his film debut in The Sailor takes a Wife in 1945. He co-starred in Desert Hell. He made his TV debut on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1958. He had various guest roles on several TV series. He played Colonel Green in the Star Trek episode “The Savage Curtain”. He starred in The Cat Ate the Parakeet.