The Medium

About the show

Monica, daughter of the medium Madame Flora, and Toby, a mute servant boy, help stage fake seances for paying guests. Monica impersonates the dead behind a screen while Flora pretends to communicate with them. After one seance, Flora feels a phantom hand at her throat and becomes convinced that Toby knows something about it. When the guests return, Flora exposes the tricks but they refuse to believe that the seances were false. She sends Toby away. Later, he sneaks back into the house to retrieve his tambourine. Hearing a noise, Flora takes a revolver and fires at the puppet theater where Toby is hiding. He is killed, and Monica runs for help. Flora asks whether Monica was the one who made the noise.