Directed by Gary Fleder (Kiss the Girls) and written by Harry Anderson (yes, Judge Harry Stone), “Seance” has Benny Polosky (Ben Cross) and Alison Peters (Cathy Moriarty) try to take the money of Presco Chalmers (John Vernon) by telling him that Benny is the lawyer of Chalmers’ uncle Albert, who robbed a bank and invested the money, which made him $3 million dollars before he died. Now, they can help Chalmers get the money if he pays off Benny. Then again, this Tales from the Crypt, so things don’t work out.

“It was another one of those hot LA days. Things were about to get interesting when she walked in. Her name was Samantha and she was beautiful. A regular corpus delecti with a great chest…cavity, that is. Something in her socket said beware. Must’ve been the way she said hello to me. So, sweetheart. You say your husband’s been cheating on you with another ghoul? That it? Well, I’ll be glad to hear your story but first I’ve got a tawdry tale of my own to tell. It’s about a couple of scam artists who want to make a killing, providing they don’t kill each other first. I call it “Seance.””

The problem is that Benny feels bad about this and as he and Alison fight, Chalmers is killed by an elevator. Alison thinks that they can get the money of they now con his blind widow, Dorothy (Ellen Crawford), with a seance. This brings out Chalmers ghost, which kills both of the criminals, yanking Alison’s heart right out of her chest. Turns out that Madame Leona (Lupe Ontiveros) isn’t the carnie that everyone took her as.

This episode is based on “Seance!” which was in The Vault of Horror #25 and was written and drawn by Johnny Craig. The original story has two con men working with Chalmers, but has a similar seance ending.