Beneath Still Waters Page #3

What the hell do you know?

You're just a f***ing cop.

It was an accident.

He got caught up

in the boat's propeller.

Let's not file this until tomorrow

after the celebration. Okay?

Wrap those things up

and take it to forensics.

Okay, let's finish up the statements

and move everybody out of here.

Okay. You heard the captain.

Let's move on out.

What did this is no animal.

And it's no goddamn propeller.

Some very powerful

currents down there.

Nobody makes a fool out of me.

And the next time

I see you in this town,

I'm gonna lock you up and

make sure you stay locked up.

Not a problem. L'm out of here.

I just need my camera back.

Ah, yes. Your camera.

Thanks.

You want your camera.

Here's your f***ing camera!

Now, get the hell out of here.

What was that all about?

He's lost the plot.

Thinks I'm the bad guy.

He thinks you had

something to do with it?

I just think it's time

to get out of Dodge.

What about your story?

I was never really

close to a story.

Listen, when they flooded the town,

two boys were there.

One of them never came back.

So, what happened to the other kid?

He doesn't live

too far away from here.

Samantha, where's David?

He's playing.

David?

Oh, God.

David?

Okay. Yes.

Well, where have you gone?

David!

Don't hide from me.

There you are.

- Wait, please.

- Oh, David.

What are you doing?

Why are you...

Okay. Come on.

Let's go. Let's go.

Okay. Okay.

But, Clara, we were going to play.

Who? Wh-Who were you

playing with, David?

We... We have to go now, honey.

- I want Mommy.

- Hey, you've got me now, okay?

- And I'II never leave you.

- You promise?

I promise. I promise.

Come on, sweetheart.

When you dive,

you usually see fish,

algae, or something.

But down there in the old town,

there was nothing

but that black muck...

a feeling of the total

absence of life.

L've felt it before...

in a frozen lake,

when I lost my son.

L'm so sorry.

One crack, and he fell

under the ice.

When I got to him down there,

there was only death.

Nothing else.

I handed his lifeless body

to his mother.

And our marriage...

what was left of it anyway... was over.

L'm sure you did

what you could.

Well...

You think your lungs

are gonna burst.

Your body's startin' to pass out.

So you go up for air.

I know. L'm a trained diver.

I know.

You got 30 seconds

before your body passes out.

Long enough to save

your son's life.

Clara?

Is anything wrong?

Yeah. Just through there.

Why? What is it?

Oh, my God.

Did anything happen to him?

L'II be there as soon as I can, okay?

Okay. Bye. Bye-bye.

Clara?

Yeah.

She's a little scared.

Do you want to go?

No, no.

Let's do this first.

It's just that

I've never been able to...

to give her a real family.

Maybe because I never

knew one myself.

You know, when I was 12,

my mother dragged me

off to London.

She said she couldn't live

with my father in this town anymore,

so... when she died...

I was so alone and scared.

Oh, God.

We will all die.

When the dam breaks,

it will wash us all away...

all the way to hell.

What are you doing here?

Whoa, soldier. Calm down.

Luis, I'm Teresa Borgia.

- Mayor Borgia's daughter?

- Yeah.

You came to help me?

To vanquish him?

Well...

Luis, we want to talk

to you about... about Teo.

Oh. Teo. No.

No, no, no.

No Teo. No Teo. No.

If I tell you, you'II help me?

Damn.

What the hell?

There's something I'd like you

to do for me, Captain.

Who are you?

It's all here.

L've kept everything.

Forty years ago,

there was a huge scandal.

He didn't do it.

He was my father.

He didn't do it.

Oh, he did it, all right.

But not for the reasons they say.

So it wasn't

a corrupt deal, was it?

Borgia and his gang

owned the land below the dam,

all the land that

the barrier is built on.

So it was a real estate scam.

That's how he did it.

But why he did it,

that's a different story.

Borgia spent his whole life

fighting them.

And he's probably still fighting

from beyond the grave.

Clara.

Clara!

Granddad?

Clara?

Come to me.

When I die, he'II come for you.

Clara, don't submit.

You have the power to resist.

Inat genesis, semen mortis est...

Granddad?

Granddad, don't die.

Granddad. Granddad.

Somebody's at the door.

Oh, God.

Susana.

What do you do

when you never got the chance

to say 'I love you'?

What's the matter, Susana?

How can I let him know I care?

L'm sure he knew it.

Poor, cold Clara.

Good-bye.

It's me and Teo.

L've spent my whole life

trying to understand it.

It's in front of your nose,

if you want to look.

Times were bad in Marienbad

except for a privileged few,

like Mordecai Salas and his club.

Salas met a disciple

of Aleister Crowley

who initiated him

in the practices of dark magic.

During one of these rituals,

the disciple died.

No one knows what happened.

But when Salas came back,

he brought a book with him,

and he seemed like

a different person.

He wrote the spell in blood

and sealed it in the book.

It gave him a power.

An occult power.

The power to call forth

the hideous flame.

After that, the club

prospered even more.

They owned the town.

First, they helped many people.

But then things went sour.

For every benefit,

there was the devil to pay.

No! No!

A black slime started to spread

that infected the townspeople.

They stopped going to church

to join the new cult.

Lust, madness, and murder

took over the town.

The atrocities multiplied.

Even the dead crawled

out of their graves.

Cannibalism and self-mutilation

had become common practices.

Come on, little girl.

The crimes of the club

were inhuman.

Come on. L'm not

going to hurt you.

No one was spared

by the evil flame.

No!

L'm home!

Clara?

David?

Clara?

Hey, sweetie.

David!

Clara! Where is he?

I don't know.

We fell asleep and...

I told him not to go out.

You stay right there

with Samantha!

Don't leave the house.

And don't let her out of your sight.

David?

What? What is it?

Help! Help!

Where is Mommy?

David, where have you been?

Oh, God.

Mrs. Martin!

Mom! Mom!

It was a purely evil entity

that Mordecai Salas

called up from the beyond

that infected the whole town.

That's why your father built the dam:

To drown the evil town

in the water

in order to extinguish

the flame forever.

Get out!

No! No!

Borgia did what he had to do

in order to save

the people of the town.

Get thee behind me, Satan!

He trapped the members

of the club and chained them.

Borgia buried the book

in holy ground

to weaken Salas

and the power of the flame.

If only Teo and I

hadn't gone that day,

the running water would have

sealed it, stopped it.

Salas got away.

All my life, I hid and lay in fear,

looking for signs

to protect myself!

To keep him away!

I knew Salas would come back

as soon as your father died.

And the dam will break...

and Marienbad will rise again

and consume us all...

unless we stop him!

- We have to be going.

- Yeah, we have to go.

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