Friday the 13th/The Inheritance

The Inheritance
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	October 3, 1987
Written by	William Taub
Directed by	William Fruet
— N/A	1x02 → The Poison Pen
Friday the 13th — Season One

The Inheritance is the first episode of the first season of Friday the 13th.

Starring: John D. Le May (Ryan Dallion), Robey (Micki Foster)

and Chris Wiggins (Jack Marshak)

Guest Stars: R.G. Armstrong (Uncle Lewis)

and Sarah Polley (Mary)

with Lynne Cormack (Mrs. Simms), Michael Fletcher (Mr. Simms), Esther Hockin (Babysitter), Sean Fagan (Boy #1), Gordon Woolvett (Boy #2), Robyn Sheppard (Nurse), Barclay Hope (Lloyd)

Plot Overview

After Lewis Vendredi backs out of his deal with the Devil, he's killed and his niece and nephew inherit his antique store. After meeting their uncle's business partner, they soon learn that many of the items are cursed and set out to recover them before they can do more damage. Their first task is getting a doll that has a grave influence on a little girl.

Notes

Manifest

• Metal weather vane

• 17 century ball gown

• Doll (recovered)

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Lewis Vendredi made a pact with Satan to sell cursed antiques in exchange for immortality. Lewis has a change of conscious and is taken to Hell.

• Ryan and Micki learn of Lewis's manifest, which details all the items that were cursed, some of which Ryan and Micki sold themselves.

• The cursed items are kept in a vault underneath the store.

Characters

• Ryan Dallion and Micki Foster inherit the store following Uncle Lewis's death. They agree to sell off everything in the store and go their separate ways.

• They soon after meet Jack Marshak, an old partner who was responsible for selling him many items for the antique store.

• Ryan is shown to have some attraction to Micki. However, she's engaged to a man named Lloyd.

Quotes

• Ryan: You knew Uncle Lewis?

Jack: Uncle Lewis?

Micki: That's right. He was our uncle.

Jack: You look too normal to be relatives of Vendredi.