Digging Up the Marrow Page #9

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asked you point blank. Didn't I?

I asked him point blank,

I said "Have you said this to

other directors in Hollywood?"

And you said, "No, just you".

"Just you". Just me,

that's what you said.

And it's not adding up

at this point.

It's never going to add up.

If they move away

because of your meddling

- Our meddling?

- Yes, your meddling.

No, we're trying to tell

a story here because,

you know what, like what if,

what if it was real?

I want to believe in it.

He wants to believe in it.

And I've sunk a lot of my time,

and a lot of his money

into this so far, and honestly,

it feels like Linus

waiting for the great pumpkin

to arrive or something.

- No...

- For all we know,

this is just

a bunch of your buddies

running around in Halloween

costumes for our cameras.

Well, maybe I don't need

the two of you

involved in this anymore,

all right?

But let's take this conversation

over to the road

so we don't make the situation

any worse than it is.

No. We're not taking

one more step until you admit

that you've been lying.

About?

About... what haven't you lied

about? About everything.

Monsters, The Marrow, your name.

I don't even know

who you really are.

My personal life is my business.

Do you understand?

It's my business.

We have been upfront with you

since day one.

You know exactly who we are...

- Get down...

- What the hell was that?

I don't know what it was

but it brushed against my feet.

It went over there.

They're watching us.

What was that?

Guys?

Come back... come back...

Did you get it?

Yeah, I got it. I got it.

It came right at me.

Will, Will... come on...

- I'm coming, I'm coming

- Let's go.

Give me one second.

I want to see it,

I want to see it.

Come on man,

let's go, we gotta go now.

They're coming, they're coming.

I'm coming...

- Come on, Adam.

- Shut off those lights.

Shut it off.

Come on, go...

What is that? What?

Drive around it,

drive around it.

What the hell?

It's got him! It's got him!

Let go! Let go!

Drive, drive,

drive, drive drive!

Has that ever happened before?

No, never to that extent.

I mean, I've been followed once.

I been chased a couple of times

but an outright attack

like that...

You see what you've done!

What I've done? OK, hold

the phone here.

First of all, you have not been

straight with us

since day one.

OK, starting with the fact

that you never worked for

the Boston Police Department.

What?

- You never...

- Yes, I did!

We went and met with them

and they never even

heard of you.

I was a private detective.

Private, you, imbecile.

Don't' you understand English,

huh?

Do you speak English?

I understand it enough

to know that you would at least

have been affiliated

with their division

in one way or another. But no,

they've never even heard of you.

You know, I trusted you Adam.

I brought you into one of the

greatest discoveries of all ti...

- Don't point your finger at me.

- ...you go and screw me!

- I'm not...

- Why are you screwing me?

Because I don't know

if it's bullshit or not!

Why couldn't you listen to me?

Because I didn't want to spend

five more months

running around,

looking at sketches,

and looking at drawings,

and listening

to your psycho babble.

Well, listen to you, man.

You sound like all those

other a**holes.

You're too blind to see

what's going on around you.

Oh, I saw, I saw

something today.

I don't know what it was.

Do you know what it was, Will?

- No.

- So, what was it?

Back me up here.

For once, back me up!

I'm going to go,

I'm going to go inside.

Yeah, OK, you...

No, no, no, no...

They know we found out

about them, Adam.

They know we found them.

They're going to move.

They're going to close up

that entrance.

And I'm going to lose him,

and I'm not going to lose him.

Who? Who's "him"?

This is my last chance

and I'm not going to blow it.

Who is "him"? Just tell me the

truth about one single thing.

OK, how about this, Mr. Dekker?

If that's even your name.

What about the fact

that you went

to every director in Hollywood

before you came

to us with this project, right?

What... well... I was like

the absolute last choice,

and I asked you

point blank, when we had coffee,

and you lied to me

- about that too!

- Bullshit, bullshit,

bullshit, bullshit.

OK, it's 1:
30 in the morning.

I think the best thing

to do right now,

we were just attacked,

let's call the police.

How about that?

- No!

- Call...

No police, no police.

No police, if they've moved,

then I'll dig.

I'll dig down. That tunnel's

still there, I'll dig.

Then you can call

anybody you want.

You call the whole goddamn

world, I don't care.

Just get out of here.

Now go on.

Do we even have lights

in the car if we go down there?

I got to plan this.

I got to plan it.

Well... I...

Get out! Go on, get out!

If you're going down there

I'm going with you and

I'm seeing this through.

We need lights

from the office...

- Adam!

- We need two more cameras.

Listen, listen to me

for a second.

I'll meet with you here at

sunrise, you and Will.

All right?

Sunrise. Then you can shoot

any goddamn thing you want.

You can shoot

as much as you want,

all right, I don't care.

Shoot whatever you want.

OK. Sunrise here.

We've two cameras

at the office...

Now go, please.

You're coming with me.

I got to work.

I got to plan this.

Don't puss out on me on this.

Get out... Get out!

- I'm going to get out...

- Get out, Will!

Where do we meet you exactly?

Here, here! At sunrise.

Right here at sunrise.

- Right here at sunrise.

- We will be back...

Get out of here, goddamn it!

I can't think!

Maybe we should just go.

I find it hard

to believe he overslept.

Mr. Dekker.

Oh, wait a minute...

Hold on.

Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse

me. Hello. Hello. Sorry.

I'm trying to reach the guy that

lives there, your neighbor.

No one lives there.

No, no the guy, uh...

the old guy, William Dekker.

The guy lives there.

No one lives there.

That place has been

empty for a year.

OK, I am sorry, I'm sorry...

- So...

- What?

According to Dekker's neighbor,

this place has been empty

for a year.

Wait, so nobody lives here?

No-one is supposed to live here.

- No, no, no...

- Oh, what do you know.

- No, no...

- Come on, come one.

Mr. Dekker?

Are you kidding me?

What, he just skipped town?

- What?

- Look, look, look.

Oh, man...

You know what?

No, we should...

We should just go.

We shouldn't do this.

No, no, come here, come here.

Man... Urgh.

Urgh...

Is that sh*t?

- Urgh.

- What he...

It smells so bad.

What the...

What did he have?

Urgh... can we go?

Yeah, did you get all this?

- Did you see all this?

- Oh man, let's go.

- Please, can we just go?

- OK, OK, OK.

Dude, where we going?

Where do you think?

We're going after him.

Oh, hell, no.

I'm not going down that hole.

We're not going in the hole.

- Will you just come with me?

- No,

We're not going back there!

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