The Wyvern Mystery

Plot Summary: The fatherly old squire, played by Derek Jacobi, isn't what he appears to be. He all but wrestles his innocent ward into marriage before his dashing elder son Charles spirits her away and weds her himself. Charles is played by young Richard Chamberlain look-alike Iain Glen, and he and Naomi Watts are convincingly ardent in the bedroom scenes in their secluded manor house. Viewers may be relieved and even cheered by this rescue early in tonight's program, but I wager they won't make much sense of the many horrors that follow the happy couple's athletic honeymoon. The real mystery of the two progressively confused and contorted hours of "The Wyvern Mystery" is the stark absence of almost any dramatic logic or explanatory details. A stranger or two seem to be living in a dark wing of Charles's estate. Alice strays into the off-limits rooms, encountering revolting bugs, and once, spying through a keyhole, sees her dour housekeeper injecting drugs into the withered arm of . . . well, we don't know at the time. Alice becomes pregnant and suffers "Rosemary's Baby"-like nightmares. In reality, a mad woman in black with terrible burn scars and a Transylvanian-sounding accent will soon break through her bedroom wall... from IMDB

with... Naomi Watts: Alice Fairfield Derek Jacobi: Squire Fairfield Iain Glen: Charles Fairfield Jack Davenport: Harry Fairfield Aisling O'Sullivan: Vrau Elaine Collins: Dulcie Ellie Haddington: Mrs. Tarnley Marston Bloom: Alice's father Tim Preece: Jim Raymond Sawyer: Doctor Anita Carey: Mrs. Carew John Peters: Reverend Cray