Cort Benson (who played the good neighbor "Paul" in the episode two entries above and did an excellent turn as the title role in "The captain of the polestar" (both two of the very most memorable episodes of the RMT, IMHO)) is the head of a victorian-era British family (not far removed in time from the younger American professor and his wife in "Pie in the sky"). Like the aforementioned professor's wife, this is a proper, aristocratic family in which the women, while dealing with certain changes in social structures, know and ultimately respect their place and their men of the household.

However, the supernatural visitor in this episode is a bit less benign. He's said by Benson's father character to be the son of a fellow military officer who saved the father's life in a war. The ladies of the family (the wife and their two daughters) seem quite affected by the handsome son as he arrives in a carriage. He's described by the girls as like "a fawn", and "Roman" looking. He seems both well-mannered yet slightly smarmy. The older of the two daughters (who earlier had divorced her husband) says that for all his looks and charm she doesn't trust him.

Wise decision on her part...he's a satyr.

He laughs when one of the family's maids seems uncomfortable by his lecherous suggestions. Later that night, after the maid has said goodbye to her paramour in the court garden, she's confronted by the son/satyr, who assaults then kills her. Unfortunately for the mother of the family, she drops by the garden for a late night walk right after he's done it, though the satyr doesn't kill her. She (and the rest of the family) come to learn that he's got a special power...he can kill any living creature any where, just by wishing it to die. He says he was taught how to do so by his gypsy mother. He also is bitter because he "had no father".

And there's another big secret that the family doesn't know about waiting to rear its ugly head later...

Interesting listen. 