Ghostwatch Page #8

anything at all.

DR PASCOE:
No. Can you take

a sample for us?

Have you got anything

that you could...

Yeah, er, what can we use

for a sample?

Something to swipe it up.

CHRIS:
I got a lens duster.

DR PASCOE:
All right,

that would do.

Yeah, we're gonna

use this to...

Can I give you this hanky?

Great. There.

See if we can suck some of

whatever it is up with this.

Here we are.

DR PASCOE:
You see, look,

it's typical.

It's typical poltergeist.

If you pour water from a jug,

it's almost impossible to...

To avoid getting

an erratic outline.

Now these pools are perfectly

oval, they're unbroken.

-SARAH:
Good.

-(SUZANNE COUGHS)

SARAH:
Oh, Suzanne.

MICHAEL:
Is she all right?

SARAH:
You okay?

Yeah, I've just got

a bit of a nippy tummy.

SARAH:
Oh, let me get you some

Eno or something, hang on.

Doctor, when they've got

those samples that we saw them

taking there,

er, what do you do with them

when you get the sample?

Well, we'll test it to see

if the calcium

and the magnesium salts

match the hardness

of the local tap water.

And where does it come from?

Don't know.

Can't get any water out.

(BANGING)

(SCREAMS)

(LAUGHS)

(SIGHS) Can't get it off now.

There we are, soaked.

There you are, Suzanne.

Sorry I'm all wet.

Let's go upstairs, shall we?

Can I ask you now,

Dr Pascoe...

We've had a look at

what's been happening there

in the house.

What, in fact, do you make

of what we see?

Well, poltergeist activity has

a pattern...

A menu if you like, erm...

First, there are the noises,

the sounds and then water.

And then the third stage is

physical phenomenon,

moving objects.

And did you think that in fact

what we're seeing there

is something starting

to happen in Foxhill Drive?

Well, who knows.

MICHAEL:
Well, we shall all

find out. No doubt.

Things have been happening

in our phone rooms.

We've got another caller

on the line now.

He's Kevin Trip, from Neath.

Pick up your phone there,

please, Doctor,

let's talk to Kevin.

-Hello, Kevin.

-KEVIN:
Hello.

MICHAEL:
Yeah, hello.

KEVIN:
Hello.

MICHAEL:

Do you have a story for us?

KEVIN:
Yeah, can you hear me?

Yes, yes. I can hear you fine.

KEVIN:
Yeah, I was just

sitting here and stuff, er...

You ain't gonna believe this,

I'm telling you.

Well, you try us, Kevin.

KEVIN:
Well, my mates were

round to watch the videos

and we put on the programmes

about ten minutes ago.

Erm, I had this sandwich,

cheese and pickle sandwich

it was.

-Oh, yes.

-KEVIN:
And it frightened me

to buggery, it did.

I was minding my own business

and this dirty grey plate

sitting on the arm of my chair

-just dived off.

-MICHAEL:
Sure, Kevin.

None of us nowhere near it

or nothing, mind.

It just leapt off with a mind

of its bloody own, it did.

Kevin, erm... How close

were you to the plate?

KEVIN:
Miles away.

My mates, er,

they went white, they went.

Yes, yes. All right, Kevin,

I think I get the picture,

certainly.

Thank you very much,

indeed for calling.

I suppose in fact we should

have been prepared for that.

I mean, it's Halloween night,

home brew time and all that.

I can see you're not as

sceptical as I am,

Doctor, that's all right.

But really,

serious calls, please.

The lines are still open

and we've got time for

just one other call, I think.

No, in fact, we haven't.

I'm sorry, apparently

we've got to go straight back

to Foxhill Drive, where...

Things are happening, so...

...from here wasn't it?

Did you hear?

Yes, this way.

Are you picking this up too?

Just put the light on.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

You're going to have to be...

Get it out here.

MIKE A:
Move the bed.

SARAH:
I'll get that.

Are you all right?

Listen, I'll crawl down there,

all right?

(SCRATCHING NOISES)

Some scratching down here.

(SCRATCHING STOPS)

(MUFFLED FOOTSTEPS)

It's moved.

MIKE A:
It's in the wardrobe.

Let's just get this

out of the way.

Can you hear this?

-I can't get it open.

-(BANGING)

(KIDS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

We can hear him

in the kitchen!

(ALL YELLING SIMULTANEOUSLY)

You just go back to bed.

(BANGING)

Back into bed.

It's downstairs. Come on.

(BANGING)

It stopped. I can't

hear anything now.

What are these?

(PANTING)

It's all kids' pictures.

They weren't here before.

-(CAT MEOWS)

-(EXCLAIMS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

I didn't know they had a cat.

Did you?

-I don't know what to do.

Should we go back upstairs...

-MIKE A:
Shh!

Shh!

(LOUD BANGING)

Upstairs. Children. Come on.

MICHAEL:
Er, Sarah,

stay where you are, please.

Sarah, stay there.

Please, don't go upstairs.

Why?

MICHAEL:
Because we hear that

Suzanne's got out of bed

but she's not yet...

Stay here? I don't know why.

MICHAEL:
She's not appeared

on the landing.

SARAH:
Suzanne.

Where... Where is she?

(BANGING CONTINUES)

DR PASCOE:
It could be a piece

of its usual misdirection.

I just...

Trust me, Sarah.

Stay there.

(BANGING CONTINUES)

Suzanne must still be in

the bedroom.

MICHAEL:
But where?

DR PASCOE:
Perhaps out of

camera range, right in

the corner of the room.

Can we cut to the wall camera?

No, sorry.

Sorry, the landing camera.

No, the landing on the door.

-(BANGING CONTINUES)

-The other landing.

That's it, and zoom in.

Can we pan?

Can we pan left?

And down.

(BANGING CONTINUES)

MICHAEL:
Okay.

-(SCREAMING)

-SARAH:
Kimmy!

Come on.

Kimmy.

Suzanne, are you okay?

Are you all right? Come on.

-It wasn't me.

-It doesn't matter.

-It wasn't me!

-It doesn't matter!

MICHAEL:
Oh, that's,

that's quite extraordinary.

We set out to catch

a ghost and...

And sadly, very sadly, what we

witnessed was a remarkable

exposure of a hoax.

Let's not be too hasty.

Oh, come on, Doctor.

Please,

-we've surely got to accept

we saw it there.

-DR PASCOE:
No, I don't.

Look, this is an

established pan.

Genuine phenomena

followed by the fakery stage

when the children feel obliged

to come up with the goods.

Doctor, really?

I'm sorry, because...

Well, I mean, after

eight months of commitment

and connected work

like you've been through,

I can understand you feel

upset because you've

been duped.

I'd be the first to admit it

if it was absolutely sure

I had been duped.

Oh, Doctor, really...

Please don't be simplistic.

This is one incident

amongst many.

Many dozens.

I was there. I've seen them.

I've seen inexplicable things.

One-hundred percent,

no question.

And this?

Let's not get sidetracked,

please.

Let... Let's not lose

the scent.

Maybe there's a kind of...

Ritualistic reason,

it's like sympathetic magic.

Acting out what they want

to happen.

The invoking process

that proceeds

the genuine appearance.

Doctor, before we get

too involved in that

kind of jargon,

let's see what Suzanne has

to say about this.

She might... Sarah, is Suzanne

able to speak to us?

Suzanne needs a glass of water

right now.

DR PASCOE:
Can I talk to her?

MICHAEL:
Well, I think

I'd like to talk to her

first of all

if you don't mind.

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