Agoraphobia Page #4

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I'm not imagining things.

Look...

you're going to be alone

for a couple of hours

until Aunt Margie gets here,

but you're gonna be okay.

No, Tom, please!

It's been a long day.

What do we do?

Where are you going? Stay here.

I have to go see

if somebody's out there.

The alarm company

will call the police.

Stop.

I'm sure the alarm

already scared 'em away.

Which the police can verify

when they get here.

Stop it, Tom.

Huh! That's weird.

What?

The laser sensors

got tripped up.

The ones on the inside

of the house?

How can the sensors inside

the house get triggered

before the outside sensors did?

No, Tom! Please, please,

don't go out there. Please.

Did you call the police?

I think we've had enough

police here for one day.

No, I'd feel better

if they searched the house.

Don't be afraid, baby.

You got me!

Okay, I know, but I'd prefer a

couple of policemen with guns.

I got a gun I can show you.

I've already seen your gun.

Maybe you need to see it again.

So you believe me?

Of course.

I've always believed

in those things.

But why are you so sure

that it's your father?

Well, first of all,

he died here.

Your father died here?

In this house?

Well, I'd heard that

he hardly came here anymore.

Elizabeth always complained to a

mutual friend of ours at the club

that he never wanted

to come down here.

Why didn't he just sell it?

I don't know.

He and I never talked

after your mother left.

Why won't you talk to me

about her?

I don't want to cause you

any more pain.

I'm so tired of everyone

treating me like I'm

some sort of emotional cripple.

Fine, what do you want to know?

What happened between them?

I've already told you

how she suffered from

depression for many years.

Your father worked long hours

and stayed away.

That just drove her deeper

and deeper into her depression.

What happened

on the day that she left?

She showed up at my house

and asked me to watch you

for a couple of hours.

What for?

She said that she had

something important to do.

But she never came back.

But I can't blame her.

I'd stayed away from her, too.

Being around her was just

so hard for me.

I guess that must be what

it's like to be around me.

Don't say that.

Now...

why do you think

that it's your father

that's haunting this house?

The other day, the record

player just went off by itself

and it was playing this.

My father used to play that record

all the time when I was little.

It was his favorite.

No... this wasn't

your father's favorite.

It was your mother's.

My mother's?

Are you sure?

Yes.

I'll go get that.

Then he arrived around six.

- Mm-hmm.

- Hello.

Hey. What brings you back?

Well...

We found this in Nina's pocket.

This belong to you?

It wasn't Nina's?

It's a big rock.

Kind of expensive.

- Does it look familiar?

- Should it?

I guess not.

It could always be Elizabeth's.

That's your father's

second wife?

Girlfriend.

He never married the b*tch.

Okay, I guess I better

go see her next.

Thank you, see you soon.

Yeah, you too.

So about that record...

That ring definitely

didn't seem familiar to you?

No.

What are you looking for?

The keys to the storage.

What for?

Tom took my dad's stuff

to the storage, and...

I need a photo album

from there.

What photo album?

It's this old, green one

from when I was little.

There's lots of

pictures of mom in it.

But whatever for?

Would you mind going down to the

storage place and getting it for me?

No, I guess-I guess not.

Thank you so much, Aunt Margie.

I think I'm finally gonna be

able to prove to everyone

that I'm not imagining things.

Faye.

Faye, It's me!

I'm in the office!

I am so sorry.

I came as fast as I could.

You look so pretty.

Yeah?

I was going to meet someone

on a date,

when Tom called

and told me what happened.

You canceled your date for me?

Considering what happened?

Absolutely.

You shouldn't have.

Aunt Margie came

to stay with me.

I couldn't not come.

Where is she anyways?

She went to the storage place

to get something for me.

You seem to be doing okay,

considering.

Are you finally working

on your dissertation?

No, I'm trying

to find the footage

of whatever triggered the alarm

last night.

Someone broke into your house

last night?

That's the thing.

There was no break in.

Only the inside sensors

went off.

I don't get it.

Oh my God!

What is it?

Come here. Look at this.

Who is that?

More like, what is that?

Have you ever seen anyone

move that quickly?

It's the recording that makes

it look that fast, right?

The timer says that thing moved

across the room in three seconds.

That thing?

The ghost.

Right.

Tom told me.

Your father's ghost.

I'm back!

Hello, sweetheart.

Hi, Margie,

pleasure to see you.

- Special delivery!

- Thank you so much.

I knew it!

The ring was my mother's.

You're right!

It's been so long

since I've seen it

I forgot what it looked like.

What is going on?

The ghost isn't my father.

- It's my mother.

- You think so?

You don't even know

if your mother is dead.

- Nina found this ring in this house.

- So?

Why else would it be here?

She must have come here after she

dropped you off at my house.

Probably to confront my father

about Elizabeth.

You have never known for a fact

that your father and Elizabeth

were together

before your mother left.

Except that conveniently

three months later

they were already

living together.

My father killed her.

You're thinking your father

killed your mother?

So she's the one

haunting this house?

Where's my vodka?

I can't believe that you

are encouraging this insanity.

You saw the video.

What else do you need

to believe me?

What video?

Okay, so you're thinking

your father killed your mother

because you found her ring.

That's why he never wanted

to come back here.

That's why he wouldn't

sell the house.

Because he was afraid that somebody

was gonna find her body here.

Okay, maybe she left the ring

at the condo,

and your father

brought it here.

- Why would he do that?

- Why would he kill her?

Can you say for sure

that she was wearing the ring

the day she dropped off Faye?

Not really.

Then my explanation

is as likely as any.

What about everything else

that's been happening?

I'm not imagining things.

Has anyone else seen or heard

anything besides you?

- No, but...

- What about Tom?

All the nights he slept over,

he hasn't seen anything?

No.

What about Nina?

Did she ever say that

she had seen anything?

No, but she was screaming in the

laundry room before she died.

So she screamed out

when the window crushed her.

That could've happened.

I thought you were on my side.

I am.

If she says she saw something,

I believe her.

Let's see what Dr. Murphy

and Tom believe.

Doc, is it possible

that one of the medications

that you prescribed Faye

is causing her to have

these hallucinations?

Hallucinations are not

a side effect of that drug.

However, paranoia is

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