6. Dead Wait — Episode — Tales from the Crypt

6. Dead Wait

Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that it's on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaire's mistress to steal the pearl but she turns on him. Fortunately a voodoo priestess comes to the rescue but she has something special for him that he'll never forget.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Red Buckley ( James Remar ), a thug with naturally red hair, offers to work for Duvall ( John Rhys-Davies ), a plantation owner on a tropical island gripped in civil war. Red teams up with Duvall's mistress, Katherine ( Vanity ), in order to steal Duvall's prized possession: a highly valuable black pearl. Red later double-crosses Katherine, only to be double-crossed himself by a mysterious priestess. Also starring Whoopi Goldberg as the mysterious priestess, who also appears as herself in the outro, being interviewed by the Cryptkeeper.

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