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(GENTLE MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

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(HAUNTING PIANO MUSIC)

LUCAS: We tried until we found it cruel.

We tried until we find it cruel.

We tried until we...

VIOLET: Hey. Come back.

No, I'm totally here, I'm just,

you ever get something stuck in your head, but it's blocked?

Where you can feel it, but you can't rationalize

how it's in your head in the first place?

So no, my mind wasn't wandering.

I actually heard every word you said in your little rant.

I was just thinking of that lullaby.

Tried until we find it cruel.

And though you make a good case

against moderate centrist liberalism,

The fact that you can chop off the moral feet

of the left wing doesn't thereby mean

you've solidified the rank.

You lost me.

(CLASSIC JAZZ MUSIC)

Why are they calling themselves

the party of family values?

I'm saying they don't care about half the people

in the equation, which they are saying.

They're saying God doesn't care about half the people

in the equation.

As if God's not gonna provide compassion

to those who deserve it.

Well, who says that everyone deserves compassion?

I think the mistake people make is to think

that everyone deserves compassion.

As if there are no consequences.

But if I'm the creator and I made you,

I'm gonna automatically care about you

because I made you.

You make a batch of muffins.

You like every muffin you make? Ever made a bad muffin?

You're really comparing the human race to a bakery,

are you?

I don't like how our political divide

seems to bleed into our dinner table.

Wow, really?

VIOLET: What?

You just pulled away, twice.

No, I didn't.

LUCAS: You'd crucify me if I did that, just saying.

It's not true.

Why are we always fighting?

VIOLET: We're not.

- Yes. - Not always.

LUCAS: Ever since the thing.

Don't say that.

Ever since the thing?

Can we just be nice to each other for an evening?

Yeah.

Good.

That's exactly my...

'Cause I don't like all this back and forth.

Great.

So?

Will you?

Will I?

(SIGHS) Stop fighting?

Oh my God. I'm not the one who's fighting.

You're, you're fighting. I'm saying we need to calm down...

Luke.

When you say that I need to stop fighting

like I'm the sole perpetrator,

it's like you're dumping all this shit on me.

Why are you so closed minded?

I'm saying that you need to take responsibility,

that we need to stay grounded.

Don't go there.

Why?

At the end of the day, current events aside,

abstract rhetoric aside, that's what I'm wanting to know,

why you did what you did last month.

(GLASS SHATTERS)

(DEEP SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(STOPWATCH TICKING RAPIDLY)

DR. BENEDICT: And this is a recurring problem?

Recurring?

It's to the point where I can't even remember

what normal looked like.

Can't remember if we ever had a normal.

It's like she's been insane since the dawn of man.

When's the last time you told her

that you'd like the two of you to express more love?

I know, I get that you're telling me not to point fingers,

that I should be more self-reflecting,

and there's two sides to every story.

Done.

That I'm projecting childhood trauma or abandonment issues

and a self-fulfilling prophecy of shame.

I'm not here to be that voice.

I'm here to tell you genuinely, yes, it hurts.

Isolation hurts.

When she crawls into bed, stays on her side.

When she doesn't laugh at your cute jokes.

She doesn't use kind words, yeah.

And I'm still unemployed.

Not the sexiest thing to whisper to a woman.

Two minutes, 14 seconds.

But when you emerge into this world

as a human being, you get issued a set of problems.

Now, to deny those problems is to deny your essence.

I'm not here to tell you you're weak for wanting love.

I'm here to tell ya that you're human.

So you'll do it? You'll prescribe hypnosis?

No. What I'm saying is that...

Two minutes, 14 seconds means I'm continuing

to lose cognitive function and aphasia,

and I'm weak, I'm so weak.

You literally know more psychological terms

- than I do. - Women are attracted

to robust men, yet I'm about to suffocate her.

My endocrine system and skeletal structure

are continuing to show quantifiable regression,

- and there's this. - It's a maze.

- It's just a maze. - It's not just a maze.

No, it is literally a maze.

(SLOW SOMBER MUSIC)

It is not proof of psychological decay.

(TENSE SOMBER MUSIC)

Look, Lucas.

What makes you think we're not in the midst

of hypnosis right now?

Um, we're, we're not, but that's my point.

Your brain, by your own admission, is so scrambled

you can't keep track of what's what.

And that's fine in the safety of an office, but at home,

alone with a woman who you think has wronged you.

She didn't wrong me.

I'm about to suffocate her.

It's not the first time you brought that up.

(SLOW SOMBER MUSIC)

Hm.

Yeah, it's a medical condition,

but it's not like polio or cancer.

Can they even ask that though?

Isn't that against employment law or California law?

Yeah, I was down for a couple of weeks feeling feeble

but I'm a whole lot better now, high energy even.

It's a medical condition,

but it's not like medical, medical as in.

Uh-huh.

No, no no no no.

It's, it's nothing like that.

Mentally, I'm alert.

It's just physically I'm not gonna be an inside linebacker

anytime soon.

Right.

Listen, thanks.

I'll send you my updated resume

and if anything's to come up then you, uh-huh.

Yeah, just keep me in the rotation.

Thanks.

(PEN SWISHING EERILY)

(SLOW EERIE MUSIC)

(PHONE KEY BEEPS)

(SLOW EERIE MUSIC)

(PEN SWISHING EERILY)

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

(VACUUM WHIRRING)

(VIOLET SPEAKS MUFFLED)

What?

(VACUUM CLICKS OFF)

What?

I don't think you're being safe.

Not safe. Okay.

It's a book.

About angels and demons here on Earth.

Fighting.

And?

And I'm not thrilled to see this.

What, that I've taken the time

to find a credible reference?

That you're still living in denial.

My eyes are open.

Great.

Are yours? Are your eyes open?

Credible reference, this?

There are testimonials, documentaries, citation.

Okay. I need to make something very clear to you...

You don't believe in hope?

Not in the way that you frame it.

I've firmly regarded, and please listen carefully,

'cause I'm gonna say this over and over until I puke.

I firmly regard what you did last month

as your own conscious and selfish choice.

I'm offering you profound wisdom.

It was your own choice, Violet.

You said that already.

Not a demon, or a demon's manipulation of you.

Fine.

So when you come at me with these allegories

and these schoolyard fables, I just want you to know

that I'm over here, cringing.

Cringing at the disrespect that's being shown

to the institution of logic itself.

As if logic is a sacred shrine,

and you're desecrating that shrine.

Logic is not a shrine.

Logic isn't the enemy of faith.

Logic can be its bodyguard.

You took the heart out of faith.

You took the life out of our child.

No, I didn't.

Lucas, I moved him in another direction.

I used ideals beyond mankind's common understanding.

Can you not dwell on something

you're not willing to study objectively.

There was a life here.

Don't touch me.

LUCAS: And now that life is gone.

It's not in my womb, but that doesn't mean

it ceased to exist.

You didn't even tell me

that you were thinking of doing this.

That was our child, ours.

I told you exactly what you needed to know.

You just didn't listen.

(BOOK THUDS)

(DEEP SPOOKY MUSIC)

Hi, my name's Lucas McDuff, I'm a sales representative

with Fife Nuclear Tech.

How are you today?

Great.

Well, I'm calling to tell you

about our bulk discount program.

If you have two minutes,

I'd love to tell you how you can save 15% on your next bill.

Uh-huh.

Yeah. Totally makes sense.

How 'bout I put you down for two.

(PHONE BEEPS)

(PHONE KEYS BEEPING)

Hi, my name's Lucas McDuff with Fife Nuclear Tech.

How are you?

Great.

I'm calling to tell you about our bulk discount program.

No. No no no, I'm not a telemarketer.

I'm in nuclear shielding material.

(PAGES CRACKLING) (DEEP HAUNTING MUSIC)

Yes. Yes, I was laid off.

But for medical reasons, medical leave.

Well perhaps I can put you down for two...

(SLOW SOMBER MUSIC) (PEN SCRATCHING)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(WATER SPLATTERING)

(DISTANT BOOMING)

What the fuck is that?

(CRUTCHES CLATTERING)

(EERIE SWISHING)

(GHOSTLY WHISPERINGS)

(OBJECT BANGS)

(WOMAN SINGING MUFFLED)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(WOMAN SINGING GENTLY)

(SCARY BANGING)

(SCARY BANGING)

(BANGING AND CREAKING)

(WOMAN SINGING GENTLY)

(SOFT TENSE MUSIC)

(DOOR HANDLE CLICKS)

(LUCAS' FOOTSTEPS CLICKING)

(WINDOW SHUTTER BANGS)

(GHOSTLY WHISPERINGS)

(SCARY BANGING) (VIOLET GASPS)

(VIOLET LAUGHS)

(LUCAS LAUGHS)

Jesus.

You weren't supposed to find that yet.

Find?

That. It was on top of this.

Dear Lucas?

Did you write me a love letter on our first date?

Try to get me into bed? It's the right rose...

Symbolizes purity.

Virginal purity.

Uh, you supply the virginal part.

Am I supposed to read this before sex or during?

Wow, there's literary quotes in this thing.

Yeah, sorry. Kind of prehistoric.

Hey, no no no no.

Listen.

You're unlike any other woman on this planet.

That's what I love about you. No facade.

Just unadulterated words of seductive truth.

By the way, this is not our first date.

We've had brunch twice.

I'm serious.

You're unreal.

Your passion for virtue is killer.

(SOFT HAUNTING MUSIC)

(PEN SCRATCHING RAPIDLY)

Done.

(STOPWATCH TICKING)

(SIGHS) Five minutes, 18 seconds.

DR. BENEDICT: You gotta clear your head.

For this to work, you gotta be completely honest

about where you're at.

Okay. Where am I at?

Well, as of today, you're increasingly unsure

of the events in your life.

You think you're deteriorating.

Sometimes crutches, sometimes not.

You see Violet as grieving the loss of a child.

And your only happy memory is finding an old love letter.

So you're up against a fanatic of a woman

who is no longer warm to you.

And you think she might hurt you.

And you're wondering how much of this is in your head.

So, what we're gonna have to do is chase the dark.

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(LUCAS GASPS)

(LUCAS WINCES)

(PACKAGE CRACKLING)

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

I can show you how to master your body and flesh.

If only you'd let me in.

I have faith, Violet.

Just because I don't subscribe to your specific definition

of spirituality, doesn't mean...

- Don't say that word. - That I'm not devout.

- You don't get it. - Pious.

- The command you seek... - Spirituality is a word

people use when they're cheating on faith.

Wow.

It's not a cafeteria, babe.

You can't walk in, choose some entrees and leave others.

You accept the entirety of the scripture.

Semantics.

You wanna believe that you empower your intellect,

but what you're really doing is you're showing your weakness

before the divinity.

Takes strength to question.

It takes more strength to commit.

Walk away. That's what he does.

You know, I thought I heard something the other day.

And I half believed it until I reminded myself

what you're capable of.

Singing.

Singing?

Coming from the vent in the bedroom.

So you must've been singing it downstairs

near one of the vents,

But the acoustics make it pervasive from up here.

The mantra, nicely done.

I told you about it, Tuesday night.

The lullaby that I heard when I was a kid.

Find it cruel. You sang that...

It wasn't me.

Fuck you.

Luke?

Hey.

Look, tonight why, why don't I dress up a bit?

What, are you in?

No, but, maybe I could be?

I don't know.

Sorry I've been so icy lately. It's not fair to you.

I'm gonna take an early bath.

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

(MATCH SIZZLES)

(LUCAS BLOWS)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Holy.

(LUCAS CHUCKLES)

Um.

Uh, do you want me to walk around or something?

Um.

Maybe we can work up that.

I don't know. Maybe if we had a little music.

- Yeah. - Okay.

♪ When I first met ♪

- LUCAS: Horrendous.

(UPBEAT MUSIC)

Maybe something a little more dancey.

♪ Let's carry on ♪

♪ No reasons to stop, right ♪

♪ I wouldn't do it on my own ♪

♪ I came to my head ♪

♪ Still trying to build, and trying to be ♪

I'm a terrible dancer.

No, no, it's really hot.

- Okay. - Really hot.

♪ When we ♪

(RELAXED POP MUSIC)

Yeah.

No touching.

Right.

This is good, yeah?

Yeah.

Whoa. Sorry.

Be careful.

I'm trying.

(RELAXED POP MUSIC)

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(FOOT KNOCKS) No!

(DRAMATIC BANG)

(POP MUSIC DISTANTLY) (DEEP SCARY MUSIC)

(RADIO CLICKS OFF)

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

(LUCAS GROANING)

My bad.

(TENSE MUSIC)

(LUCAS GROANS)

Is it bad?

No.

Which foot is it?

Is it bad?

Just gonna move it a little.

Wait. Why, why, what's up?

Wait. Shouldn't I see a doctor?

No. They don't understand you.

- On three. - Wait.

- Two. - Wait, shouldn't I?

One.

(FOOT CRACKING) (LUCAS YELLING IN PAIN)

(HAUNTING MUSIC)

(COVERS RUSTLING)

(WATER SPLATTERING)

(TENSE EERIE MUSIC)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(WATER SPLATTERING) (SOFT HAUNTING MUSIC)

(SCARY BANG)

(WATER DRIBBLING)

(HAUNTING MUSIC)

It's not cute.

It's not cute, fun, and plus it's dirty.

I'm sorry, I don't know what you're...

That mask?

I'm open.

I've made myself open to a nice healthy conversation

about this, I really have.

I've even tested the limits of good sportsmanship.

Sorry, I, I don't know what...

I don't give a shit that you believe in things

- that are different than me... - What are you talking about?

But when you start messing with scary masks,

weird-ass fucking masks...

- What happened? - That's when I have

to tell you to stop.

Did something bring that mask to you?

That's wonderful.

No more games, Violet.

Masks are childlike, innocent.

A spirit can be confused and a mask allows them

to roam free anonymously.

Are you seriously gonna deny this?

I don't like it when you come from a place of anger.

Oh, god.

It's a resentment from your past.

I don't know, maybe 'cause you were adopted.

You know what? I need a break.

What does that mean?

Means I'm letting you push too hard.

Where are you going?

LUCAS: Out. Couple days of fresh air, I don't know.

- Starting to... - No.

(VIOLET'S FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING)

(DOOR BANGS SHUT)

(POUNDING AT DOOR)

Open it.

(POUNDING AT DOOR)

Unlock it!

(POUNDS AT DOOR)

So fucking weird.

VIOLET: Open the door.

Did it ever occur to you that little life

growing inside you was the first time

I ever felt a sense of mission?

(POUNDING AT DOOR)

To love, to care for.

Did it ever occur to you that raising a family

is all I had left?

I suck at jobs. Suck at health.

Certainly suck at romance.

Maybe the only thing I didn't suck at was being a father.

Did that ever fucking occur to you?

Did it? (GLASS SHATTERS)

Violet?

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC) (DOOR BANGS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Oh my god, Violet.

(GLASS CLINKING)

Hey hey, hey hey. Hey.

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

I'm not mad.

I'm not anything.

I'm just concerned.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS ON)

DR. BENEDICT: There's something you're afraid of

that you're not telling me,

'cause you're not telling yourself.

Your defense mechanisms are locking it up.

So, let's take those defenses down, shall we?

You think we have a woman who's lost touch with reality,

on the brink of self-mutilation.

I think you're not seeing reality for what it is.

Now, each color triggers a different region

of the visual cortex, which facilitates a different way

of accessing memory.

Now, I'd like you to concentrate on finishing the statement,

"What I refuse to see is," as we change the color.

You ready?

Begin.

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS)

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS)

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS)

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS)

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS)

What I refuse to see is, it's not really.

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS) What I refuse to see is.

What I refuse to see is. (PROJECTOR CLICKS)

What I refuse to see is.

(PROJECTOR CLICKS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

- Go back to red. - Can we go back to red?

I saw a tool.

There is no red.

In the red light, a shadow of a tool.

There is no red.

LUCAS: Yes there was. Can we just go back to red?

DR. BENEDICT: Who has the tool?

I saw a man.

From where?

I don't.

(DEEP SCARY MUSIC)

It's not just an illu...

(MAN YELLS)

(TOOL SWISHING DRAMATICALLY)

(LUCAS GASPING) (SCARY MUSIC)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

That's it. Slow, slow slow.

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GENTLE HAUNTING MUSIC)

I'm sorry.

This isn't about ghosts.

Ghosts aren't real.

This is about something more powerful.

Okay, then what?

Incarnate.

Possession?

Are you willing to discuss it?

I officially believe that you believe what you're saying.

I think it's important that you know

that I'm finally seeing you

for what's going on with you, up here.

You say you don't remember the nursery or the,

the singing, or the mask.

If your conscious self doesn't remember then...

I remember my day.

I don't have lapses.

This is about an incarnation of the flesh on a blank memory.

You're saying you were possessed.

I guess I'm saying, I believe that you think that.

Me?

I'm willing to see it from that perspective,

that you think you were possessed.

No no no.

No, you.

You were possessed.

Didn't you feel it?

(TENSE MUSIC)

Hi Marjorie, this is Lucas McDuff

with Fife Nuclear Installation, how are you?

Hi, this is Lucas.

Hi, this is Lucas McDuff with, no.

(GENTLE HAUNTING MUSIC)

I will go fuck myself. Thank you.

DR. BENEDICT: Do demons exist?

The deprivation of serotonin in the cerebral cortex

clouds judgment in highly distressful situations.

That is a demon.

It's not that religion is an unfortunate

by-product of the mind.

Religion is a, is a necessary one.

Without a disassociation from our

chemically inevitable sense of doom,

none of our cortex activities tolerable, yes?

WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: So you're saying God is...

The only way a human brain can stomach itself? Yes.

We have a dark side.

You do. I do.

Sometimes I wanna drive my car into a random pedestrian.

But I don't.

Sometimes I enjoy reading news articles about shootings.

I have thoughts about killing someone.

But I don't. (BIRD SQUAWKING)

Sometimes I enjoy a novel about nuclear destruction.

Yet, I've not ever been in a fist fight.

If we wanna defeat the demon inside of us,

we can not pretend it does not exist.

(WINGS FLUTTERING) (OBJECT THUDS)

(SHUTTER CREAKS)

(REPETITIVE KNOCKING ON WOOD)

(DOOR HANDLE JIGGLING)

VIOLET: What are you doing?

I thought I heard something.

No, it's locked.

(DOOR HANDLE JIGGLING)

Hey.

I heard something. Listen.

There's nothing down there.

Like a constant knocking, like a feed.

No.

Listen.

(DOOR HANDLE JIGGLING)

Why is this locked again?

The stairs are steep.

Yeah, but why are we locking it?

It's not like I'm gonna accidentally open it

and fall down the steps.

You wanted to be safe while on crutches.

No, you did.

The key's just right up here.

- No. - Jesus.

Well you can't just break a rule.

It's not a fucking rule.

The door's locked, it's not permanently locked.

You locked it a month ago when you...

(TENSE HAUNTING MUSIC)

What happened in the basement?

What?

Did you do it there?

Do what?

The unthinkable.

No.

A month ago. You know, 37 days ago.

I was on the Arizona trip.

It was April, which mean I had the car.

Since you don't have any friends,

you wouldn't be able to leave the house, not alone.

You wouldn't leave.

What are you saying?

I'm saying you did it in the basement, Violet.

No.

Are you better now?

What?

Are you better now? Are you healthy?

Because I'm leaving.

Where? To Lake Tahoe?

For the night?

- Move. - No.

I'm leaving this house, this fucked up reality, okay?

For good.

- No. - Move.

No.

I don't care if you start cutting yourself, okay?

That's your choice, but I'm done...

- No. - For good.

(VIOLET GROANING)

I'll call the cops.

I'll call the cops and tell 'em that you beat on me.

(VIOLET GROANING)

(VIOLET BREATHING HEAVILY)

(SCARY MUSIC)

(VIOLET YELLS)

Hey!

(VIOLET BREATHING HEAVILY)

Hey, no no no. Wait wait wait.

Baby, baby, that's dangerous.

That changes everything.

VIOLET: You leaving changed everything.

I didn't leave.

You're trying.

Put the bleach down.

Repeated use destroys fabric, right?

So what does it do to the inside?

Put the bleach down, Violet.

Will you stay?

I'll stay.

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

You're lying.

(TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(VIOLET GASPING)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(LUCAS GROANING)

(TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(LUCAS AND VIOLET BREATHING HEAVILY)

(VIOLET CRIES OUT)

(VIOLET GROANING AND GASPING)

(LUCAS GROANS)

(TENSE POUNDING MUSIC)

(BONES CRUNCHING) (LUCAS CRIES OUT)

(TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(DRAMATIC BANG)

(SLOW SOLEMN MUSIC)

Baby?

Baby.

Can you hear me?

Baby, are you okay?

(SCARY BANGING)

Baby.

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

Who the fuck is that?

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

We're so loud.

So fucking loud.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Can't be the cops, right?

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

(DOORBELL RINGING REPEATEDLY)

Lucas.

You're even better looking in person.

I?

Gus Archer, Violet's dad.

Oh. (GUS LAUGHS)

Wow, uh, come in.

I'm Charlotte.

Lucas.

We've heard all about you, Lucas.

You didn't know we were coming, did you?

Mm, no.

I, I mean, yeah.

I told you they didn't know.

She hasn't been answering her phone.

Can I use your restroom?

Is she here?

No. I mean, yeah, the restroom.

We are so rude.

LUCAS: Yeah. (CHUCKLES)

CHARLOTTE: What a beautiful home.

LUCAS: Thank you.

GUS: Mm.

You're a physicist.

Yeah. I mean, no, I'm in a nuclear shielding material.

Not now, I'm unemployed.

I have a part-time job that pays nothing ever.

Wow. How smart.

Say something in physics.

Char.

I love hearing physics talk.

Energy E equals mass M times a whole lotta light C,

because seeing is believing?

(CHARLOTTE AND GUS LAUGH)

That's about as charming as I get.

Violet here?

No, she's checked out for a bit, actually.

Well, we're here for a full week, so that's okay.

It's not like this is a one-time attempt.

Uh-huh.

Can we see a recent picture?

LUCAS: A picture?

CHARLOTTE: Of our baby girl.

A lovely couple, huh?

Well um, yeah.

Uh-huh. Yeah.

You know, something a little more recent, you know.

Oh um, we,

well, actually we don't have anything recent,

which is odd, actually.

Uh, I have, maybe something in my cell phone.

Is there a quiet couch

I can lie on?

I just need to rest my head for a nanosecond.

Sure.

Um, is, was this taken in October?

Uh yeah, absolutely. Do you need any...

No, no. Just some ancient bones needing a quick coma.

You boys talk.

She's pretty, isn't she?

Charlotte?

No no, no, no, Violet.

Oh, right.

Yeah. Irresistible.

Well, um, uh, they're, they're both wonderful, actually.

We're lucky. We're lucky guys.

GUS: So wholesome.

Right.

Us, I mean.

(BOTH LAUGH)

I noticed you've got a limp in your leg there.

Is that uh (CLEARS THROAT), is that the knee?

LUCAS: No, no.

Your foot?

Uh yeah, the foot.

Sorry to hear that.

That from jogging or pole dancing?

In all honesty, the doctors don't really know.

Truth is, my body just started deteriorating rather rapidly,

um, outta the blue.

Yeah, um, first it started with my foot.

I had a bone fracture, and turns out my bone density

is not all that high and it came into my ribs

and that's when.

Did she go over to the couch?

(DEEP SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Lucas, there's somethin' I need to tell you.

LUCAS: Where'd she go?

About Viola.

She was just right here.

She's older than you think.

What do you mean?

Where's your wife?

Miss Charlotte?

Charlotte. I don't know.

Probably just wandering around

with that daffy sense of direction she has.

She can get lost in a phone booth.

Yeah um, would you excuse me?

Miss Charlotte?

Miss Charlotte.

Oh, hi. I'm so sorry.

Your sofa was a bit...

No no no, not, not, not a problem.

Why don't we go downstairs?

I can set up the cushions a little better for you.

Directly below?

Yeah the, no that, that's the nursery.

Not much of a nursery.

We started to renovate and then we stopped.

Well I don't need to go in that room.

Right.

(DOOR CLICKS SHUT)

Wait, no.

Charlotte.

(TENSE MUSIC)

(SIGHS) I just needed to drop down for a half a minute.

I'm so exhausted from our flight.

We left our own time zone hours ago.

You know, this was not supposed to be a surprise.

I am so sorry.

I guess Violet didn't tell you, or maybe she didn't know.

She's funny like that.

Or maybe her mindset is a bit muddled.

This is a picture we had from five weeks prior.

(TENSE MUSIC)

He who found no father.

When did?

(TENSE MUSIC)

When did you?

I'll need that back though.

You understand?

Why don't we go back into the living room,

keep Gus company?

(TENSE HAUNTING MUSIC)

I see you got Earl Gray and uh, chamomile,

nothing unrefined.

Wow, this kitchen. I love this kitchen.

I feel like I walked into a magazine. I'm on page 12.

Thank you.

Yeah, because the neighborhood is actually

a whole lot more expensive than we can afford,

which means I have to devote myself to my office hours

more than I'd like to.

We should leave him alone.

Shouldn't just waltz in like this.

Well I wanna see her.

We can come back. Right?

Yes. Coming back is great.

Do you guys have a hotel nearby?

Why don't we have dinner here?

GUS: Char.

I, I can help her cook.

You don't just invite yourself.

- I mean, come on. - No no no, it's fine.

GUS: You don't have to.

No no no, that's great. It really is.

Coming back for dinner is a great idea.

It gives me a chance to rest,

and Violet can be in a better mood.

So she's here?

No no no, figure of speech.

I should write down our hotel address

in case you need anything.

And our room number.

(PEN SCRATCHING) (TENSE MUSIC)

Okay.

Bye, Lucas.

Goodbye.

Uh, talk soon.

Bye.

(DOOR LOCK CLICKS)

(LUCAS SIGHS)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLING)

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

(TENSE MUSIC)

Violet?

Violet.

(LUCAS SIGHS)

Hey.

Hi.

You okay?

Yeah.

How are you?

I'm fine.

Wait.

Is this a closet?

LUCAS: Yeah.

Why are we in the closet?

Hey.

Are you bleeding?

Me?

I'm not, no.

Wait. Am I bleeding?

Oh my god.

- Try not... - What happened?

Who did this to me? Did someone do this to me?

Was it you?

No way it could ever be you, you, you're too gentle.

Did I do this? Did I do this to myself?

For awhile we were laughing and playing around, weren't we?

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

Do you still love me?

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

Oh course.

- Come here. - No, don't touch me.

I'm not good.

I'm not touchable.

Will you help me?

Just if I stay nice?

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING) (DOG BARKING)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Red delicious, are.

I have a question.

VIOLET: Yeah?

How old are you?

What?

Just saying, how old are you?

You know how old I am.

Just tell me.

You forgot my age?

LUCAS: I know you told me 28.

This is so rude.

I know you told me 28.

And?

Let's get past the vanity of it.

It's not a count your wrinkles thing, I'm just asking.

Women are surrounded by vanity on a daily basis.

I'm not saying that you're old.

Just asked you a simple question about age.

It's not a trust thing.

How the hell is it not a trust thing?

Just trust that I'm just asking.

Let's move past the vanity now.

Just tell me.

- I'm 28. - Just tell me.

VIOLET: 28.

You don't have to blow this thing up.

You've seen my license.

Could be forged.

Fuck your mother.

(CHAIR SCRAPES)

I don't understand why you're being so monstrous.

Me?

VIOLET: This stings. What has gotten into you?

Well?

What?

LUCAS: There's something.

What?

What?

What, another girl, what?

Another girl?

LUCAS: No.

Then what?

Tell me.

LUCAS: Your parents.

What about them?

LUCAS: They visited.

That's impossible.

Luke (SIGHS), my parents are dead.

You know this already.

Them?

Yeah, they were the ones.

What?

These are not my parents.

Well then, who are they?

Luke, what did these people tell you?

They were nice.

They said they wanted to come over for dinner.

Why?

Wait, if they're not your parents,

then who just visited?

Nobody.

How do you know them?

Nobody visited.

- Who came over? - Nobody.

Violet, who came over?

Demons.

Ah.

(PICTURES CLATTERS) God!

In your head.

Manifested by the darkest strata of your soul.

They aren't real, they're illusions.

- Illusions? - Yeah.

- Are they? - Mm-hmm.

Okay, perfect. Do you wanna play show and tell?

My turn.

How do you explain this, huh?

(PAPER CRINKLING)

She wrote her fucking address.

Well this is bullshit.

Look at me.

This is bullshit.

It's so important you acknowledge what's going on.

She wrote her address, I saw it, to the hotel.

(PEN SCRATCHING)

It's okay.

No, it's not okay.

(TENSE HAUNTING MUSIC)

These are powerful forces, and you're beginning

to have tangible contact, you're beginning to witness.

Is it nighttime?

(SOFT TENSE MUSIC)

I'm losing my fucking mind.

I don't know what to fucking do.

You wanna know what our next step is?

Play along.

What?

VIOLET: Go along with their dinner plan.

Why?

These people who claim that they're my parents,

they need to be dealt with.

What do you mean?

You need to kill them.

Oh my god.

This is your role.

They have been attacking my work for a very long time.

And our destiny has constructed a rare convergence.

Your place is at my side. You understand?

I'm not killing.

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

I will shepherd you through this journey

as I always have.

(INSECTS CHIRPING)

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

Hallucinations, possible.

I doubt you'd invent people.

And her?

You have a right to be terrified but,

your problem isn't her.

Look, now is the time to be strong.

You gotta trust me when I tell you this.

No.

I don't. I don't trust you.

As of right now, as of today, I don't know who to trust.

All right.

I understand, there's no one around you who seems rational.

And you're walking away, all right, why uh, why?

I thought we had a rapport.

You saw my, you saw my uh, famous speech in Phoenix.

You want me to believe she's not dangerous.

You want me to believe I can't rely on my own perception,

yet how can I rely on you?

It's a decision. Belief is a decision.

No.

Belief it's about what you can prove, facts.

Decay of the outer ligaments, 17%.

Early onset osteoporosis.

2.6 quantitative reduction of the cognitive process.

- It can't be solved... - My body is dying.

What?

- It's not solvable. - What?

- The maze, the, I told you about this.

I talked about, it was a long time ago, but,

we talked about this Lucas, the maze, it's unsolvable, okay?

You see, look.

Every path is, is impeded by a line.

Time and time again, every time it's always the same.

Lucas you need to acknowledge this.

Don't play these head games.

Listen man, you are walking a dangerous path

and I am all you got right now.

Are we even in an office now?

DR. BENEDICT: What?

What can I trust?

DR. BENEDICT: Come on, just...

Are we having this conversation?

DR. BENEDICT: Don't do that.

You know why you're not able to help me,

because you're not here.

(DEEP MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

DR. BENEDICT: If this is the game that you wanna play.

These are all just details in my head.

Then you gotta know that she is already winning.

She has got you thinking than you have imagined logic.

And if this is not real, if this is all made up,

if I'm not real, then you better damn well figure out

that I am your last chance...

(BOX BANGS)

(PAPERS FLUTTERING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

She's gotta be putting something in the food.

(DISHES CLINKING) (TENSE MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

(VIOLET MOANING)

(SCARY MUSIC)

(TENSE PULSATING MUSIC)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(METAL BANGING)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(DEEP OMINOUS MUSIC)

(PAPER CRINKLING)

(SCARY MUSIC SWELLING)

(SOFT BOOM)

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

(DOOR SCRAPES)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLING)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(DOOR RATTLING)

(SCARY BANGING)

(SLOW HAUNTING MUSIC)

(VIOLET SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(GROANS) What did you put in me?

(VIOLET SOFTLY SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(LUCAS GROANING)

There.

I didn't drug you. This is an astral plane.

This is not right.

(VIOLET SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

What the fuck, Violet?

Let me go.

It's not me who's controlling this.

Yes, it is.

You drugged me in this.

It's the drugs.

You gave me something.

I'm drowning, I need to walk.

(VIOLET SOFTLY SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

I can't have you itinerant.

Why?

You agreed to stay by my side.

All right.

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

And this?

That's Xylazine.

That's the tranquilizer that I used this morning.

Quantity for my bone fractures in my foot and hip,

and spasms.

I'm guessing you used a lot, you could stop my heart.

Faith will not let your heart stop.

(LUCAS GROANS)

Holy shit, Violet, you have to stop saying.

We're nearing your completion, I can't have you leave.

LUCAS: Leave?

Outside of the sanctum.

You've tested my trust.

LUCAS: Let me go.

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

Thank you for your gift to me.

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

LUCAS: Let me go.

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC) (VIOLET'S FOOTSTEPS CLICKING)

Let me go.

(DRAMATIC SWISH)

(SOFT TENSE MUSIC)

(DRAMATIC BANGING)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

Stay warm.

(VIOLET'S FOOTSTEPS CLICKING)

(VIOLET SCREAMING VIOLENTLY)

(DOOR RUSTLING)

(VIOLET GROANING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(VIOLET GROANING PAINFULLY)

(VIOLET SCREAMING)

(DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

(DOOR CREAKS)

(VIOLET GROANING) (DEEP PULSATING)

(DRAMATIC BANGING)

(SCARY MUSIC)

(LUCAS GASPING)

(DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

(COVERS RUSTLING)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(SOFT BOOMING)

Why?

Why what?

Why am I drugged?

VIOLET: Drugged?

LUCAS: It's in your fucking hand. You put it in me.

No, I didn't.

It's in your hand.

Even if I did inject you,

it only works because you believe it does.

If you chose to believe otherwise, it wouldn't affect you.

Why are you doing this?

You asked me to.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Okay.

If, if I did this, this is me telling you

that I'm beginning to see your wisdom,

the possibility of demonic activity.

But the key step here is to free me.

I'm asking that.

No. You're not a believer yet, you're being tricky.

Please, free me. (GROANS)

Talk to me.

I'm talking to a higher version of yourself.

(LUCAS BREATHING DEEPLY)

Okay.

Question.

Where's the phone?

VIOLET: Um, on the cabinet.

LUCAS: My cell phone.

I don't think it's best that you have a phone.

I have to see if I got a call from my new job.

My, my boss, a text message.

My work is very important to them.

They could start wondering why I haven't checked in.

(DEEP SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

VIOLET: Where is this phone?

It's uh, it's in the kitchen.

By, maybe in the kitchen counter.

(GRUNTS) I'm dumb like that.

(DEEP TENSE MUSIC) (DISTANT CLATTERING)

(LUCAS GRUNTS)

(DISTANT CLATTERING)

(GROANS) Did you find it?

(DISTANT CLATTERING)

What?

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (DISTANT CLATTERING)

Hey honey bring the charger.

Bring, bring the charger, honey, and bring.

VIOLET: Fine.

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(LUCAS GRUNTS)

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

It wasn't on the counter, it was on the couch.

Your phone.

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

No outside interaction.

So, then...

What messages do you want me to check?

Text? I'll check it.

(LUCAS SIGHS)

Nothing.

I don't give a fuck about the job.

I'm sure this is devastating for you.

I don't give a fuck about sales.

There's only one thing I care about, one thing Vile,

what happened to our kid?

Let me ask you something

before you get all self-righteous on me.

If my child were evil, would you kill it?

What? All souls are valuable.

What if it had no soul?

What if it had to seize someone else's soul

in order to enter this realm?

Would you let it?

Would you let it destroy millions of people?

Would you keep it?

No, you'd terminate it.

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

And the nursery would go unfinished.

(BOX CLATTERS)

I'm leaving.

I'm getting up, walking through the door.

(DRILL WHIRRING) I promise you,

you'll regret it if you touch the natural boundaries

of the house.

(DRILL WHIRRING) (TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

(DEEP EERIE MUSIC)

(DOOR BANGS SHUT)

(CAR IGNITION STARTING)

(CAR ENGINE HUMMING)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(LUCAS CRYING OUT IN PAIN)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(LUCAS GROANING PAINFULLY) (DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(LUCAS GROANING) (DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

Violet?

Violet?

(DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

(LUCAS GRUNTING GROANING)

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC SWELLING)

(LUCAS GRUNTING LOUDLY)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY) (DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

(LUCAS GRUNTS)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(SLOW EERIE MUSIC)

(KEYS JINGLING)

Violet?

(SLOW EERIE MUSIC)

(KEYS JINGLING) (DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

(LOUD CREAKING)

(DOOR CREAKING)

(TENSE HAUNTING MUSIC)

(CHEST BANGING)

(LUCAS GASPING)

(TENSE EERIE MUSIC)

Wait, wait, wait a minute.

(DEEP OMINOUS MUSIC)

Is that you?

Is that, is that?

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

What did she do to you?

What did she do to you?

Tell me what happened!

VIOLET: What are you doing out?

(LUCAS YELLS)

(TENSE SOMBER MUSIC)

Tell me what happened here.

Luke?

Oh, oh my god, Luke.

Luke, I didn't realize it was you. (SIGHS)

Are you insane?

I went grocery shopping.

There isn't much time.

(SLOW OMINOUS MUSIC)

I saw something.

I think someone's down here.

(TENSE OMINOUS MUSIC)

There's someone here.

(TENSE OMINOUS MUSIC)

You, you understand?

I need you to be strong.

LUCAS: I saw.

I need you to be a good boy.

LUCAS: I saw hope.

(LUCAS GRASPS AND GRUNTS)

(TENSE MUSIC)

The last dosage, you'll be easing up in the next,

two hours?

The dinner is tonight with our guests, Gus and Charlotte.

I need you to be up and focused for what you must do.

(DRAMATIC BANGING)

(PAPERS FLUTTERING)

(TENSE HAUNTING MUSIC)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(PEN SCRATCHING)

You're ready, you're ready,

you're ready, you're ready.

(DEEP EERIE MUSIC)

Braised lamb and olives,

paired with a '77 La Padrona.

The salty marinade complements the tortured fruit

of the Baltic.

(KNIFE CLICKING)

And this is a vineyard that believes in repeated filtering,

removing silt and weakness.

For dessert, we have a...

It's not safe here, Violet.

No.

Get in the car.

I'll drive away.

No.

You'll sit down at dinner with our guests,

Gus and Charlotte, and you'll do what needs to be done.

They killed our baby.

They did.

I didn't wanna tell you, because I knew you'd be vengeful.

But they beat the life out of me.

They're not nice people.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Our guests arrive, I'll play along.

UNEARTHY VOICE: You're ready.

(DISTANT STRINGS MUSIC)

Good to see you, Lucas.

(FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING)

(QUICK ORCHESTRAL STRINGS MUSIC)

Hello, Mother and Father.

Violet?

You seem well.

I am. You seem well.

We are.

(QUICK ORCHESTRAL STRINGS MUSIC)

Shall we dine?

Yeah.

(GENTLE PIANO MUSIC)

Lucas, I understand you've had quite the life.

Went to a great school.

PhD in nuclear physics,

pioneered portable nuclear power.

You were adopted, weren't you?

I find that fascinating.

You have no awareness of previous generations,

but you seem to sense them.

(CHAIR SCRAPES)

I think there's another pinot in the cellar.

(GENTLE PIANO MUSIC)

(VIOLET'S FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING)

Have you ever wondered what your parents

were really like?

What they had in mind when they had you?

How disturbingly similar your father might be

to how you are now?

Lucas, I'm interested in something.

Oh yeah?

The problem you were talking about earlier.

What?

Are you sure it's dead?

Charlotte.

Uh, yeah, I mean. Uh.

Did you see it dead?

VIOLET: Luke, can you help for a second?

Would you excuse me?

(CHAIR SCRAPES)

(TENSE MUSIC)

Do it.

No.

Put the blade right in the chest.

No. Look, this isn't a game that you can just do.

You can't stab someone,

pull out and pretend like it didn't happen.

It'll be fine.

Fine? Like you?

Like your fucked up little body?

My body?

Gouged with bottle-size cuts, or have you forgotten?

Forgotten what?

What cutting can do to a...

What?

That's impossible.

You were cut here, and, and here.

I saw it. I, I nursed it with my own hands.

You, you were scarred.

Stop messing around and act like a man.

(DEEP OMINOUS MUSIC)

(KNIFE CLICKING)

You seem uneasy. Maybe age is catching up to you.

(GUS LAUGHS)

Are you okay, dear?

Yeah.

She went to get another '86 Levante.

Filtering things and re-filtering things

doesn't purify them.

Flaws are what make us human.

If someone filtered you, Lucas,

well, you wouldn't be Lucas, you'd be a problem.

Ah but, what I was saying about your adoption,

you don't know your birth date.

You don't know your birth year.

Well the excessive opinion would be that,

well maybe you weren't meant to be.

Maybe, maybe you should just move on.

(HAUNTING MUSIC)

CHARLOTTE: Are you okay, dear?

DR. BENEDICT: Do demons exist?

Lucas? I'm curious about something.

(DRAMATIC BANG) Are you sure it's dead?

Did you see it dead?

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

Oh, my god!

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

(VIOLET BREATHING HEAVILY)

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

Ah!

(LOUD DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(INTENSE CHAOTIC MUSIC)

(VIOLET SHUDDERING)

(TENSE SOMBER MUSIC)

(FLOOR CREAKING)

(CHAIR SCRAPES)

(WATER SPLASHING) (LUCAS RETCHING)

(DEEP OMINOUS MUSIC)

(FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING)

Wonderful. Wonderfully done.

Where is she?

(TENSE HAUNTING MUSIC)

Probably around the corner.

Well, go finish her.

They're not demons, are they?

Finish her.

Do it yourself.

I'm not allowed to.

(TENSE SOMBER MUSIC)

I'm a creator. I create life, I don't end it.

Men end it.

(DEEP OMINOUS MUSIC)

(PHONE KEYS BEEPING)

(TENSE SCARY MUSIC)

(DEEP OMINOUS MUSIC)

Where's my phone?

Where's my phone?

Where's my phone?

Where's my phone?

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(CHARLOTTE GROANING SOFTLY)

(DEEP TENSE MUSIC)

CHARLOTTE: I have to tell you.

What?

It's just,

I need to tell you.

Your son.

What about my son?

I had a son?

Down there.

(TENSE EERIE MUSIC)

Where?

Oh my god.

You came to save my son, you came, you came to save him?

What?

I came to make.

To what?

To make sure he stays dead.

(TENSE EERIE MUSIC)

'Cause it's pure evil.

Born to end us all.

Use the knife.

On yourself.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(LUCAS GRUNTING) (HAMMER BANGING)

(WOOD SPLINTERING)

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

(LUCAS GASPING)

I didn't plan on you meeting like this.

What the hell is in there?

Every time I had the chance I decided that,

that none of you should be in the same room together.

But this version feels different.

(HAUNTING MUSIC)

I've been trying at this for a very long time.

For centuries.

(LUCAS YELLING MUFFLED)

(ROPE STRETCHING)

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

(LUCAS GASPING)

He can't see for now.

Takes a while to adjust to the light.

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

Yes?

Here.

(SLOW TENSE MUSIC)

(LID CREAKING)

(LUCAS GASPING)

(SLOW EERIE MUSIC)

(DEEP HAUNTING MUSIC)

Welcome child. Welcome king.

Of thee as one, your praise I sing.

(SCARY MUSIC) (LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

Your eyesight is still developing.

Who is that?

Who is that?

He's you.

That's an abomination.

An abomination?

LUCAS: Yeah.

And what do you think you are?

(TENSE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

Lucas, there's someone in this room that tried to hurt me.

You are born knowing, whereas the good book spoke of ye

who found no father, the darkest of angels

find a way to return to this world.

(ROPE STRETCHING)

UNEARTHY VOICE: Born of himself.

(SCARY MUSIC)

UNEARTHY VOICE: Repeatedly filtered, like wine.

(SCARY MUSIC)

(LUCAS GROANING)

Over and over.

Until pure.

(LUCAS BREATHING HEAVILY)

We shall go from mother and son, to man and wife.

(DRAMATIC SWISHING)

By the creator, and my sword.

Strike.

(LUCAS CRIES OUT)

And soon, the world shall know your fire.

(HAUNTING MUSIC)

And soon, the end will begin.

(LUCAS GROANING) (INTENSE MUSIC)

(HAMMER THUDS)

(EERIE MUSIC)

I have foreseen purification for all of you.

(CROWD CHEERING)

A race too sick to survive.

A race that fails to know the glory of an unyielding master!

(GENTLE MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

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