who went insane and was committed for fighting and nearly killing a few recent Vietnam War P.O.W.s out of anger and frustration. They include Hawkes, a former World War II P.O.W. The next day, Dan arrives back at the hospital to meet with Bain again where Bain introduces Dan to his patients kept on the maximum security third floor, whom Bain calls "voyagers". That night at the hospital, one of the patients, Frank Hawkes (Jack Palance) gets out up of bed, places his hands near a window, causing a gate to shut and an alarm to go off. At home later, Dan is moving things into his new house with his wife Nell (Deborah Hedwall) and their 11-year-old daughter Lyla (Elizabeth Ward). Bain is apparently just as crazy as most of the patients at the hospital. Leo Bain, and Bain hugs him even though they have never met. Dan Potter (Dwight Schultz) arrives at the hospital to see the clinic director Dr. It was all a nightmare he is having while residing in a insane asylum. Preacher is hoisted up on chains and Bain swings a cane knife as Preacher sits up in his bed and screams. It starts to rain right inside the diner. An unattractive fish on a platter is brought to him and Leo Bain (Donald Pleasence) the chef, comes out from the back and begins talking to him. A man named Preacher (Martin Landau) walks into Mom's Diner on a snowy evening, sits at the counter, and orders "the usual".The synopsis below may give away important plot points. But soon they hear strange noises around the house and they have a night of panic. Potter invites also Detective Burnett to have dinner with them. Tony invites Tom to have dinner with the family and Dr. When they are released, they learn that Fatty was in the house and played with Lyla, and Dr. They befriend Tom Smith in the cell and he lets Nell call her husband to ask the babysitter Bunky to go to her house. Tony convinces Nell to go to a protest against the nuclear power plant in Springfield, and they are arrested. The other three inmates drive the van to escape from the havoc. When they leave the store, Bleeder kills the driver of a van and flees by foot. They find the town being looted by the residents, and they rob weapons and clothes from a department store. When there is a blackout in the town, Frank, Byron, Fatty and Bleeder escape from the facility. Potter welcomes his sister Toni Potter, who had a nervous breakdown, to spend a week with his family and him. The calm inmate Ray Curtis supervises the quartet on the floor, and warns Dr. Soon he learns that on the third floor, live the dangerous inmates Frank Hawkes, who was a former military that has become paranoid after being POW the arson Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliff the fat pedophile Ronald 'Fatty' Elster and the shy serial-killer John "the Bleeder" Skaggs, who never shows his face and bleeds when he kills. He moves with his wife Nell Potter and daughter Lyla Potter to an isolated old house and begins to work in the institution. Harry Merton moves to Philadelphia to another hospital, Dr. Leo Bain runs an experimental mental institution where the inmates have a relative freedom inside.
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