one ring , two ringshis knot had returned full force on the way to the hospital for if there was any truth at all to the videotape , and he had began to suspect that there just might be , then there was only one answer , only one thing that would save him : he had to eradicate the evidencethree ringseradicate it before anything could be verifiedfour ringseradicate it and then things would be back to normal , the kid restored , everything would work out , had to work out , his paper , the tv people , mortimerthe fifth ring was cut short .