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You are a complete

and utter beast.

"Beast"? I got it!

Look at that. It's worse

than Mike Smith, isn't it?

I don't know though.

Is it your idea, this, Smithy?

You set this up?

Well, I had a bet

with your husband,

I could get a four-letter-word

uttered on television,

I nearly did, as well. It was

"beast". B-E-A-S-T. Beast.

You're a class act.

I think that is such

a cheap shot, I have to say.

I mean, you know, I can take a

joke with the best of them,

but we're all holed up

in here...

Well, I'm sorry if

I'm being insensitive,

but it is my brief.

They said, "Craig, come along,

be insensitive."

Can you just get out

of the way a minute?

-You're in the middle

of my close-up.

-Oh, with pleasure.

They were in on it.

They were in on it.

-Give me an apple.

Give me an apple.

-You were?

Sorry, chaps, I love you all,

if there's any ghosts,

keep them to yourselves.

-SARAH:
Love us

and leave us, go on.

-I love you.

You needn't smirk, Mike Smith,

you were in on this.

I think you're in a certain

amount of trouble

with her indoors

for that little situation.

I'm sorry there, Doctor.

Our producer, in fact, created

a happening in the house

just in case we were on a wild

ghost hunt, so to speak.

-DR PASCOE:
We aren't,

I promise you.

-All right.

Well, let's go back to

Sarah now.

Sarah, when you're ready

let's hear the real story,

the strange happenings

at Foxhill Drive.

And by the way, have you

got over your shock yet?

Yes, I have recovered now,

thank you, Michael.

Let me fill you in on what's

been happening here so far.

Let's face it,

there's violence

at some time or another

in every part of London,

and this estate

is no exception.

But there are some days,

and certainly nights

when Mrs Early

and her two daughters

would rather be

out on the street

than right here,

within their own four walls.

Let's go upstairs

for a moment.

It all began in here

on December the 28th, 1991.

Who was the first person

to experience something?

Suzanne.

We had a bit of an argument

because Suzanne wanted

to stay up and watch some film

and I wouldn't let her.

-Go on, Suze,

you say what happened.

-No, you say.

She went to bed about,

-Erm...

-I was in bed.

Mum came in to tuck me in,

instead she just stood

by the bed, looking at me.

At least I thought it was her.

And then she just turned

and went.

The thing is, I didn't

tuck them in that night.

I always do,

but that night I fell asleep

in front of the television.

I told her

she must have been dreaming.

Then a few days later,

it was my room.

SARAH:
Should we go and

have a look?

A few days later,

these terrible noises woke me

coming from the walls

like a bat, like a thudding.

All around you?

Yes, like the whole room

was going to come apart.

Did anybody else hear it?

Yes, Suzanne and Kim heard it.

Kimmy, if you heard it too,

what sort of a noise was it?

(HITTING THE FLOOR)

We were screaming,

I was shouting,

"What is it? What is it?"

Well, I didn't know

what to say,

they were that terrified.

So, I said it was pipes.

You know, the central heating.

So, afterwards,

whenever Kim heard something

she'd say, "It's Pipes.

Pipes is here."

SARAH:
So by this time, Kim,

you could actually feel

something as well, could you?

Whereabouts was it

coming from?

There.

SARAH:
What is it

that's over there?

Pipes, that's where he hides.

SARAH:
Does he live there?

Where does he live then?

Anywhere?

On the stairs.

SARAH:
Kim, how do you know

he lives down there?

Because I saw him

through the crack.

He was there.

He was staring at me.

SARAH:
What happened

after you saw him?

I drew a picture of him.

-SARAH:
Have you kept it?

-Yeah.

-SARAH:
Can we have a look?

-Yeah.

Let's have a look.

Was that exactly how he looked

when you saw him?

KIM:
Yeah, he was disgusting.

Really disgusting.

It's a good picture. Yeah.

No. (WHISPERING)

Keep it. It's a present.

Oh, thank you very much.

I'll tell you what, why don't

we put it up somewhere

where everyone can see it?

-Yeah.

-Where's a good place?

On the fridge in the kitchen.

-On the fridge?

-KIM:
Yeah.

SARAH:
There we go.

Will it be all right putting

him up there, do you think?

Yeah, because

he likes everything freezing

and really cold.

Pam, there was something else,

wasn't there?

Yes, there's also this.

Once I looked in Suzie's

exercise book from school.

SARAH:
Oh.

PAMELA:
I was so shocked,

I said to her,

"Did you write this?"

I was going to hit her,

I was so mad.

But it wasn't me.

I don't even write like that.

Then I said to her,

"Who was it, then?

-"Who was it?"

-SARAH:
Yeah.

Who or what?

Michael.

Lots of questions there

that need answering,

perhaps we'll have a chance to

answer some of them tonight.

Just actually hearing

in my earpiece that

Mike Smith has some news.

Mike, what's happening?

Thanks very much. Thank you.

I've got eight or nine

phone calls here

which are like

Emma Stableford's

we had earlier on.

They too have seen

a mysterious dark figure

in the background of that shot

in the children's bedroom.

Michael?

"Dark, mysterious figure,"

Doctor.

Have we got that

sequence ready yet?

-Yes.

-Can we see that tape?

Yeah, I think we can.

I think we can see it

right now.

Let's roll the tape.

There you are,

up there on the screen,

that's the tape you wanted,

isn't it?

I can't sleep.

Turn the light off.

Mum said if you don't...

All right. All right.

MICHAEL:
Now, this is

the point where

Emma Stableford,

our caller,

said she could identify

that dark mysterious figure

in the corner of the room.

I don't see anything myself,

do you?

DR PASCOE:
Can we rewind it?

MICHAEL:
Sure.

-Let's rewind it.

-Can we play it again?

Can we play it back, BTL?

There you are.

Back a bit more.

-Yeah. Is that all right?

-Yeah.

-Can we go forward slowly?

-Sure, sure.

MICHAEL:
All right.

I'm doing that now.

-That's slow enough?

-Uh-huh.

I can't see anything now

myself. False alarm?

Yeah, I think

I can see what's happened.

Do you see the shadow

cast by the curtain there?

-See on the curtain,

on the left-hand side.

-MICHAEL:
Not really.

I tell you what we'll do.

We've got a piece of,

I don't know... Wheel

that piece of sophisticated

technology in here.

You can actually use a light

pencil on the screen there

just to identify exactly

the area that

you're talking about.

-Is this it?

-Yes, that's right.

Just draw on it as you would

a normal pencil.

DR PASCOE:
All right,

I think...

There's a sort of shape there

a face maybe,

and a human form

I think the shadow's caused.

I wonder if it's that thing,

you know,

where you put your...

Your dressing gown on

the back of the bedroom door.

At a certain light,

you look at it

in the middle of the night

and it looks like

a human form or face.

I mean, it's easily done,

isn't it?

I think that's it. Exactly.

-"Faces in the fire."

-Yes.

Human perception is such that

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