Ghost Storm Page #5

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What about you?

I'm gonna go try to save Father Telmo.

Go. Go!

[PEOPLE MURMURING]

Stop!

It won't work.

How do you know, Hal?

Besides, the priest

is the only hand we have to play.

Isn't that right, Father?

He may be right.

I may be able to stop this.

It's suicide.

I have to try.

[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]

[SCREAMS]

[PEOPLE CLAMORING]

Come on, everybody out of here! Out!

Everybody out, come on!

[ALL SCREAMING]

WILL:

Dad.

Will?

It's me.

Hey.

[DEEP VOICE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

WOMAN:

Go, go, go.

Go, go, go.

Let's go.

[GRUNTING]

[PANTING]

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

[SCREAMS]

[PANTING]

[WHISPERS]

All right, listen up.

I want you to seal this up.

Whatever you do, don't go outside.

All right?

Okay. Seal that up.

Daisy?

Daisy!

Daisy!

DAISY:
Mom!

Daisy.

So happy to see you.

Thank God you're okay.

It's coming through the bottom

of the door!

It repels the mist.

Okay.

We need to seal up the door.

I got it. Go.

I thought you were dead.

Me too.

I found this.

Saved my life.

What is it?

It's a talisman.

A what?

A talisman. It's a ritual object.

It's what kept the souls trapped

in that tomb.

Can it stop this?

The storm isn't one entity.

It's multiple souls.

Not all of them are evil.

Some of them are trapped.

Some are confused.

I'm just looking for a way to stop this.

I know. That's my point.

There's a pure soul trapped

in the storm, an innocent.

The altar boy.

What?

Look, I found out a few things too.

That memorial, it wasn't a suicide.

It was a massacre.

There was a cult led by this priest,

Father Barrett.

They were gonna sacrifice

a young altar boy.

The rest of the town tried to

stop him. It became violent.

The boy got caught

in the crossfire, was killed.

That's the pure soul.

The altar boy.

Yeah, if we can identify

the frequency of the pure soul,

if we can amplify it,

it'll weaken the storm.

We can trap it again

with the talisman.

Amplify.

Would...? A weather balloon,

would that work?

A radiosonde, sure.

Okay, that I can help you with.

This thing run?

Battery's dead.

Great.

What about that, uh, talisman thing?

Is that gonna protect us out there?

I have no idea.

I guess we'll find out.

Come on.

We gotta get going.

Let's go.

[GRUNTING AND GROANING]

I can't.

Yes, you can.

I can't.

Just keep moving.

I can't.

Go. Just go.

No.

I can't.

[GROANING]

You gotta go on.

You gotta leave me.

No.

You're gonna be all right.

If we both die, everybody dies.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

You have a wife and a little girl.

Get up.

Come on.

What are you doing?

Find the light in the darkness.

[OVERLAPPING VOICES SCREAMING]

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

[DOORKNOB RATTLING]

It's gonna get in.

[GRUNTS]

DAISY:
Oh, my God. Dad, are you okay?

Hal.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

You guys are all right.

What are you doing with that thing?

I don't know. It repels it.

Let me see it.

It's class C.

It's used to put out electrical fires.

That means it's not immune

to the laws of physics.

That's right.

We can kill it.

Okay.

What is that?

That is our other weapon.

And this is gonna protect us?

That is the only reason I'm still alive.

Even if this works,

this data still could be destroyed.

HAL:
Well, if that's the case, then

we all need to start saying a prayer.

That's our only shot

at finding the frequency.

You mean the altar boy.

That's right.

[STATIC CRACKLING]

Okay.

I'm getting something.

Is the data still there?

Yeah, the data seems to be here.

Thank you, Brett.

Okay.

So I've stripped everything

except the electrical signatures.

I don't see it.

Hold on, I'm not done.

Okay. So far, the frequency seems to be

pretty consistent, 300 megahertz.

[BEEPING]

What's that right there?

That's only 80.

That's gotta be it.

Son of a gun. Greg was right.

Okay, so now what?

Well, now we have to get in there

and amplify that frequency.

How are we gonna do that?

Use the weather balloon.

We tried that. It lasted two seconds.

Trojan horse.

Huh?

Trojan horse. We send up

the balloon transmitting

the same frequency as the spirits.

They'll think it's one of their own.

And then once it's in, we can switch it

to 80 and then amplify the signal.

Exactly. Theory being

that it weakens the spirits

and gives us a chance to trap them.

When did you come up with that?

Just now.

I mean, the Trojan horse part.

Trap them?

Well, look, I'm kind of

winging it here, but think about it.

Where do those spirits

come from? The ground.

What kept them in the ground?

The talisman.

Well, we have the talisman.

All we need to do

is get the spirits back in the ground.

Daisy, I need you to put together

a wire. A long wire.

Uh, make it out of cable,

whatever you can find.

What is this for?

The spirits are electrical.

So we can ground them with the wire.

Exactly.

Okay, I'm ready.

Dad, will this work?

Oh, that's great, Daisy. That's great.

All right, so attach one end

to the radiosonde

and this end to the tower.

And then...

Hope that it works better

than salt and water.

Don't change the frequency

till I tell you to.

Wait.

I still love you.

I love you too.

Hey, come here.

I'm proud of you.

I love you, Daddy.

All right.

I'll be back.

You better be.

Mom?

Oh, my God.

Change the frequency!

Change the frequency!

[GRUNTS]

[THUNDER CRASHING]

Oh, come on. Come on.

[GRUNTS]

I got it.

Great.

Oh, my God.

DAISY:

Oh... What is that?

Mom!

ASHLEY:
Oh, my God.

DAISY:

It's gone.

[SPIRIT GRUNTING]

[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]

DAISY:

Mom, you got it?

Go to hell.

[SPIRIT SHRIEKS]

Hal!

[GRUNTING]

[OVERLAPPING VOICES SCREAMING]

[GROANING]

[BOTH GASP]

Oh, dear God.

Hal!

Dad!

Don't you leave me.

[COUGHING]

Does this mean you want me back?

Mm-hm.

Really?

You're grounded.

Do you think it's over?

Yeah, I do.

Can we go home now?

I don't know. Can we?

Well, I got a bunch of paperwork to do

back at the office.

Dad.

Yeah, let's go home.

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