Ghost House Page #3

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The beginning or the end?

Are you sure about this, Jules?

- Yeah.

- Are you okay?

What?

Should I get a doctor?

Are you okay?

- No, I just

need an aspirin.

- Okay.

Sure, I'll, I'll

go to the pharmacy.

Is there a pharmacy around here?

- You will find

everything marked.

- Okay great, thanks.

You know I, I was supposed to

meet a couple friends of mine

but I, I forgot

their room number.

- What are their names?

- Robert and Billy somethin'.

Look, I don't know

their last names.

They're English, two

guys stayin' together.

- We have three British guests.

They checked out this morning.

- Three?

No, two, it was two guys.

- Two guys, and a one lady.

- You sure?

- Oh yes, they were stay

with us for a long time.

- Okay great, thanks.

- Jim?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Jim?

Hello?

Anyone?

- Julie!

Julie.

Move.

Julie.

Julie.

It's me, it's me, it's Jim.

- I'm sorry for the delay.

We had to restrain

and sedate her.

- Have you found out

what's wrong with her?

- Yes and no.

There's nothing wrong with

her, clinically speaking.

You're okay.

Listen, it's okay.

Her condition, we've seen it

with folks in the country,

but it's a battle to

even get them here.

I had a patient with

a similar ailment

just recovered this morning.

Listen, it's okay, calm down.

You'll be just fine.

- Another American?

- No, British, I believe.

- British?

Do you have any

idea where she went?

It's very important

that I speak with her.

- I imagine she's

on a plane by now.

She and her two friends are

very anxious to get home.

- Can I, can I see Julie?

- Sure.

- Thank you.

- Mm hmm.

- Gogo?

I need you at the hospital.

Yeah, right away.

- Hey, where you go?

- The airport.

- It's okay, we

almost there now.

Okay, I come and find you.

- Wait here as long as you can.

Whatever you do, don't leave.

Fancy meetin' you here.

- Hello, mate.

Glad you got back all right.

We found ourselves in a

bit of a rush, you see.

No hard feelings.

- Julie's in the hospital.

- Who is this?

- I'm sorry about that.

These tropical climates

are not to be trifled with.

Never know what

you might pick up.

- I don't know what you

did or how you did it,

but I know it was you.

- You're f***ing

losin' it, mate.

- You're gonna tell

me how to fix it.

- What you want, an apology?

Yeah, sure.

I'm sorry.

What's done is done.

Get the f***in' bags.

- Wait, you know he's,

you know he's not,

you know he's not gonna

do this willfully.

It doesn't have to be over,

it doesn't have

to be over, okay?

Go to this address,

ask for Reno.

Say that I sent you,

he will help you.

If you're lucky, you've

got 36 hours at best.

But don't waste any more time.

Look, go, f***ing go, go!

- Gogo!

Get in the car.

You know this address?

Sure we're in the right place?

- Of course you are.

Go and ask.

- What you want?

- I'm here to see Reno.

Tell him Billy sent me.

- Reno?

- Who's askin'?

- I'm a friend of Billy's.

- Oh, Billy.

- How is he, Billy?

And his magnificent

friend, Robert?

- They're fine.

- Mm.

Who's this, your little toy boy?

It wouldn't be an

exotic vacation

without a little

extracurricular activity, eh?

- Gogo heard about you, Reno.

Gogo heard you dead.

- Well the night

isn't over, is it?

- My name's Jim.

I'm here with my

girlfriend, Julie, she's,

she's in the hospital.

Billy said I should

ask for your help.

- And what could I do

to help a man like you?

- Robert and Billy, they

did somethin' to her,

to Julie.

The doctors don't know

what's wrong with her.

Either she's,

she's crazy or, she's

possessed by a ghost

which is even crazier.

- Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Do you believe in the

spirit world, Jimmy?

- I didn't, but,

now I, I don't know.

- Of course you don't,

you're a man of the west.

You don't find ghosts

running up and down

the aisles of the Walmart.

But here, the spirit world

is a whole nother matter.

- So can you help her?

- I don't know.

I'm more of a sham

than a shaman,

although I might've picked up

a few things here or there.

- That's fine,

I'll try anything.

- Well, believe it or not,

your woman's been cursed.

The only way you can help her

is a kind of sympathetic magic.

You have to find another person

to transfer that spirit to.

Or otherwise, it

will eat her soul.

- You want me to

do to someone else

what they did to Julie?

- You're an unlucky man.

You have a conscience.

Manny, Manny!

Get me another drink.

- Hello?

Leave me alone!

Leave me alone!

- Julie!

Julie, Julie, Julie, it's me.

Nurse!

It's okay, it's okay.

Baby, the doctors

are here to help.

- Oh god.

Oh!

- Here you go.

Nothing to worry, ma'am.

Okay with her?

She be fine.

- Help me.

Help me.

- Okay, okay.

- Congrats, man.

- Aww, thanks.

- Now it's a party.

- That's right, this

next one's on us.

Waiter!

- You, you don't

have to do that.

- Oh come on, if

you can't toast love

what can you toast?

- By the way, where

is the bride to be?

- She's back at the hotel.

She actually came down

with a little bug.

- Oh, bummer.

Bad timing.

- Traveling is both

an art and science.

Sometimes you just gotta

roll with the punches.

She'll be fine.

- To new friends.

- Cheers, man.

- To love.

- Oh oh, hey, hey,

party this way.

- Woah.

- I'm damn glad we met you, man.

You're one of the good ones.

- Don't worry, he says

that to all the guys.

- No, seriously.

- I, um,

I can't, I can't do this.

- Can't what?

- What, was it something I said?

- I gotta go.

No, no, I should

probably check on Julie.

- What about

the ghost houses, man?

- Cal, you're drunk, come on.

You tell Julie that we

said she is a lucky girl.

- Goodnight, captain.

- Hey, time to go.

Shh.

Gogo!

Let's go.

- Okay.

You do not like hospital?

- Those people

can't help us here.

We gotta find another way.

- Hey, this a bad idea.

- I know.

- Oh Jesus, come on.

- There's another

way, there has to be.

- Yeah well, it's

probably way beyond

my limited abilities, man.

You'd need a true believer.

- Then take me to one.

- It'll come at a great price.

- I'll do anything.

- I believe you would.

- Whoa,

easy.

- When did she desecrate

the ghost house?

- Desecrate?

She didn't desecrate

anything, they tricked her--

- when?

- Two days ago.

- Well then you

have exactly one day

to free her from

that spirit's embrace

before she tumbles

into the abyss,

'cause there ain't no comin'

back from that, Jimmy boy,

no matter how much you love her.

Plain enough for you?

- Yeah, that's plain enough.

Let's go.

Let's go!

Let's go, Reno.

Move, move!

- All right.

- She's getting worse.

Tell him where.

- Just drive.

- Julie?

- Where are you taking me?

- Well little lady, you

need to get some rest.

You have a very

accomplished guide

for today's little safari.

- Don't talk to her, okay?

- Just put the gun down.

You look ridiculous.

- What are you doing?

- Shoot me.

- What?

- Kill me.

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