Norma (Brooke Shields) is stuck with a broken down truck when she’s picked up by Roger (Perry King), who is on his way to his cabin in the woods. Roger is a dream man, a lover of fine food, opera and antiques. However, he tells her that he hopes to get back with Joanna, who just so happens to get back sooner than our thieving woman — oh yes, Norma may not even be her real name — expected.

“Good evening, creeps. And welcome aboard Tales from the Crypt Scare-lines Flight 666, offering direct service from your living room straight to Hell. As we will be experiencing some tur-boo-lence, we recommend that you keep your seat belts fastened and your vomit bags handy. So slip on your dead-set and get ready for tonight’s in-fright entertainment. It’s a nasty tale about my favorite kind of ghouls: dread-heads. I call it: “Came the Dawn.””

Norma may be a killer who murdered her husband and his lover. Yet she’s come up against someone — maybe more than just a single person — instead of getting to steal everything in the house. Michael J. Pollard also shows up and Valerie Wildman appears as the first victim. This has a big twist that I will let you find out for yourself.

This episode was directed by Uli Edel, who made Christiane F.  How insane that he made his way to America — where he also directed Last Exit to Brooklyn and Body of Evidence — before working on TV shows like Twin Peaks, Oz and this episode. He also did The Little Vampire! What a strange career! Ron Finley, who wrote this, made five scripts for the series.

This is based on the story “Came the Dawn” from Shock SuspenStories #9, which was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Wally Wood. The description of that story is a little different: “A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.”