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I'm coming, I'm coming.

What on earth do you want at this hour?

I'm a doctor. I got an urgent call from Wildford's cottage.

but I'm afraid I Iost my way.

If you mean the farm of those madmen you took the wrong way.

It's on the other side of the hill.

You'll have to go all round it now.

I advise you not to. It might be dangerous in this weather.

UnfortunateIy... -The road is no good either.

Thank you, but I have to go. It's urgent. Good-bye.

Miss, miss! Wake up. Come on!

What happened? -Nothing. Nothing happened.

Nothing serious. CaIm down. -but who are you?

I'm a doctor. My name is benson, William Harry benson.

I beIieve there's an accident. I don't really know.

Anyway, everything is all right. Miss!

Good evening.

Good evening.

Excuse me, sir, but there's been an accident.

I'd be gratefuI if you wouId heIp me.

There's been an accident, a woman is hurt.

I can't move. My orders are not to move from here.

And then, even if I wanted to...

Maybe they can heIp you in the castIe.

Maybe.

Do you beIieve...?

Open up, I need heIp!

Anybody home? Open up!

Anybody home? Open up!

I need heIp!

What do you wish for, sir?

The Iight is twofoId, the way is onIy one.

The essence of Iife is not in time.

He who has made a pact with Him,

beIongs to Him.

It is written: You will see through the darkness.

The being...

Sir...

...who do I have the pIeasure?

but, miss...

How did you manage to get here? -Oh, Peter!

Finally! -I remember I Ieft you...

Peter!

You had fainted because of an accident.

You came at Iast. -What?

I have waited for you forever. -but...

What is going on? I don't understand.

And yet...

Oh, Peter.

I can't beIieve it's true.

You're back.

Or perhaps you never went away.

Such happiness!

This worId is wonderfuI.

It still exists,

beyond our thoughts,

beyond our feeIings, beyond Iife.

but, what are you taIking about?

I am not dead.

Neither are you.

I think that perhaps you owe me an expIanation for all this.

Why...are you dressed Iike this?

What is this pIace? Who are you?

And that painting there on the wall?

What does that mean?

How can you possibIy not remember?

The accident, your car!

To remember... What is the memory...

...but a fraction of time in the parentheses of the past?

And the past is not in time anymore.

And time is silence.

There is no space here...

...for memories.

Think, neither past...

...nor present.

but it's aIways now.

Come...come.

Let's go. Come.

With joy I will announce the arrivaI of my Iove.

Come, Peter, come.

Good morning.

Can I be of any heIp, madam?

CertainIy. At Ieast, I hope so.

Forgive me, I had an accident with my car Iast night.

I beIieve somebody came to heIp me.

When I recovered consciousness, there was nobody there.

I don't know. Maybe... -I'd be deIighted to heIp you.

WouId you Iike to come in?

It's beautifuI here. -Thank you.

PIease, sit down. -Thank you.

Consider yourseIf at home. -You're very kind.

Do you Iike it?

I thought it was...

but this is...

Interesting, isn't it?

Yes, I wanted to say that...

...it Iooks Iike the portrait of...I'd swear it's him.

If it weren't for the cIothes.

So he couId be who heIped you and that you're Iooking for now?

Oh, no, not at all. The one I'm Iooking for is from today,

someone Iike me. -Meaning?

but...it's useIess to expIain to you. You wouIdn't understand.

Later, maybe.

I suppose you'll want to refresh yourseIf, maybe take a bath?

If you'd do me the honour of accepting my hospitaIity?

but of course. Thank you, but...

There's no need to thank me. I'll provide for it immediateIy.

You mustn't worry about your friend.

We'll find him, you'll see.

What a strange man.

He seems to have stepped out of an oId painting.

Enough. -I'm happy.

Are you happy too? Smile! -Miss, pIease.

This joke has gone on too Iong now.

It's the comedy of our Iife. Or not. Maybe it is a joke.

Come!

Joke... -Enough, I've had it.

Comedy... What does it matter?

Love me, Peter, Iove me.

Oh, poor girI, she's Iost her mind.

The shock has been too much for her.

Listen to me.

You...are not well.

I understand, after that accident...

We have to go away from here.

Miss, you need to be Iooked after.

I don't beIieve that's possibIe here.

Here it's as if we were shipwrecked.

Shipwrecked? Oh, yes, shipwrecked.

Of Iove, stranded here from endIess shores.

In this dimension, where time doesn't exist anymore.

Where I have been waiting for you aIways,

and I aIways find you again.

To obey the command.

I don't understand you.

Who are you?

Who commands you?

He does.

He?

He who has made a pact with Him, beIongs to Him.

No!

Susan! Wait! Where do you run to?

EveIyn!

EveIyn!

I'm so happy to find you again.

DarIing! -I've waited for you for hours!

You heIped me Iast night, right? -My darIing, my sweet EveIyn.

Instead of Ieaving me in the car,

if you wanted to heIp, why didn't you bring me here?

Time, time is ours again.

You will be mine, mine! My beIoved EveIyn.

That's enough. Stop it.

This is no time for jokes.

UnIess you've gone mad after the accident.

Yes, EveIyn, I've gone mad.

I've been mad since I've known you.

In this worId where your thought is my sin, EveIyn.

We never met before.

Your heIp doesn't entitIe you to take Iiberties with me.

Why do you say that? -Don't call me EveIyn!

I am Susan Smith.

I am not amused that you make fun of me.

Wait.

Everything has been prepared.

If you wouId Iike to follow me. I'll show you to your room.

but where did he go? I was here together with...

So you have aIready found your man. Good, I'm gIad.

As you see, he couIdn't have gone far away. PIease.

but is it really...? -Follow me.

but he was with me.

What I don't understand is... It seemed to me that...

Seemed? So many things seem to exist but don't.

And so many things do exist and seem not to exist at all.

An illusion. Like Iife.

We deIude ourseIves we Iive, that we Iove. That we die.

When we see our mistake,

we prefer to ignore it.

Then everything becomes a nightmare.

Have you ever thought about that?

Good night.

Good night.

Good night?

How can it be " good night" ?

but what kind of pIace is this?

Maybe I'm too tired to think straight.

Or maybe I'm going mad.

What are you doing here?

Are you reaI?

Or are you a hallucination, too?

How on earth did you get in here?

Are you going to frighten me, too?

What a horribIe day.

It's a miracIe I'm aIive.

AIive?

Or maybe...I'm dead.

Yes!

That's why this seems Iike a castIe of ghosts.

That doctor... dressed in that way.

What a cIown's act.

What a disgusting joke.

And then that gentIeman.

So kind, but...

Oh, it's the cat. If I don't Iet it in again,

that damned animaI won't Iet me sIeep anymore.

Doctor...

Doctor!

Doctor benson!

William !

Yes!

Now I see...

...the shadows. I'm confused.

A dog is barking far away.

I hear sobbing. -I don't want details.

I'm going through the kingdom of death.

It's difficuIt.

They don't want to Iet me in. I can't, I can't.

You must, I'm your master.

Ashtharoth says... -Ashtharoth!

Ashtharoth, you must not.

The shadows do not beIong to you.

WaIk on, go on. The journey will be short.

Now I see him cIearIy. He waIks aIong the paths of sin.

but his will rebeIs.

He is strong, very strong. I can't penetrate him.

You must. I order you.

I am trying. but his will pushes me back.

His will enters me.

I can't.

You must. You can do it. -I can't.

You must. I order you.

William !

but who are you?

This is not possibIe, no.

It is possibIe.

William !

HeIp!

How will you get out of here, Peter?

but you are not...

You are not...It's terribIe.

Yes, terribIe but true.

I am her and yet I am not.

Not her, but the other one.

William !

HeIp!

Don't move!

Come on!

What's going on?

Poor you. Where are you running to?

Time is not yours anymore. Time is gone.

You are your own prisoners.

I never had such noisy visitors as you.

I'm sorry, sirs, but it's Iate.

In this pIace there are ruIes to obey.

I ask you to withdraw to your rooms.

Good night.

Don't Ieave me aIone, I beg you. -Quick, Iet's go in.

Susan, reIax. Try to get some rest.

I'll be here to keep you company.

Come, Iie down.

Come on.

I think I'm going mad.

Or eIse I am aIready.

And I Iive in an aIienated worId where reason is Iost.

I had thought the same thing.

but I didn't want to give up.

I thought Iast night's accident had caused me a nervous shock,

and in prey of deIirium I Iived an existence outside reaIity.

In controI of powers that...

I dare not say it.

That painting on the wall with your picture,

that man, you, dressed Iike that.

I thought it was a bad joke.

It's not possibIe.

It's not possibIe.

I'm scared, William.

I'm scared, William.

I want to go away.

I want...

I'm tired of being afraid.

Tell me, who are you? What do you want?

I am you.

Therefore I can onIy want what you want.

You can't be me, since I am the onIy William benson.

The one and onIy one.

Well,

then Iet's say that I am

the one you don't want to confess to be.

The forbidden truth.

You can't get rid of me.

Oh, no.

because I,

in spite of yourseIf

am part of you.

I am the tension

that by virtue of an uncontrollabIe cosmic force,

affirms and denies at the same time.

between the possibIe and the impossibIe.

I can't beIieve all that. I'm sure it's my imagination.

AIienated in a Iost dimension you at Iast recognised yourseIf.

See this medaI?

Let's say I am the other side.

The one you can't see at the same time as the first one.

but I onIy have to do this...

...and now you can see. For ever.

You can, if you stay here with me.

United by the same ring.

Outside of time, outside of human thought that Iimits you.

Here is the kingdom of knowIedge.

but this is absurd, a contradiction.

It seems a contradiction.

It seems.

And maybe it is.

Like the tragedy suffered by all men, until the Iast.

Without a possibIe soIution.

The willpower.

Nothing and nobody can ever destroy my willpower.

I want to get out of this damned nightmare.

I will go away from here.

You won't be abIe to stop me. You are my negative part.

Therefore I reject you. Now that I know you,

I know that I can't want you. I'd rather kill myseIf,

if I were unabIe to destroy you.

Think about it.

A worId you won't have the chance to find again.

A worId where you can Iive your Iove and your hate.

At the same time.

You'd be a fooI...

...to Iive onIy what you think exists.

That means defeat.

Resignation.

And death. -I toId you. I'd rather die.

benson!

benson, why did you go away?

For heaven's sake, I can't stay aIone.

Susan, you don't have to fear anymore. We will Ieave at dawn.

You Iike the girI. What are you waiting for?

Leave me aIone! -Why do you treat me Iike that?

I was afraid and I came... -No, stay here.

Don't fear. This is something I must settIe at once.

Are you OK? before I came in you were taIking to yourseIf.

but I am not by myseIf.

In that chair, there!

There sits a man who says he is me.

How can you possibIy not see him?

He's sitting in that chair! The one you saw in the painting!

I see nobody!

Do you see me, dear?

Don't you Iike it?

Maybe I'm not your best side.

but certainIy your most attractive side.

Wait.

Now I understand.

At first...

...at first I couId onIy see the other you.

but now, if I see you, Susan,

I can't see the other one.

The same happens to you in my case.

I know you're dying for it.

Come, come.

No, Susan.

You mustn't.

Susan! Susan!

You mustn't.

Susan!

Susan!

No! No! Susan!

Susan! Susan!

You mustn't!

He who made a pact with Him, beIongs to Him.

The book! Maybe in that book. I must finish reading it.

He who made a pact with Him, beIongs to Him.

The being who is, who has been, will be.

Fire...

...will destroy all evil.

Fire will destroy!

You've won.

Damned Ashtharoth!