Ghostwatch Page #9

Where's my mum?

MICHAEL:
Suzanne,

I'd like to talk to you.

Did you put the writing

in your schoolbook?

SUZANNE:
(TEARFULLY)

I don't want to talk about it.

MICHAEL:
What about the noises

in the wall?

SUZANNE:
I don't want to talk

about it!

MICHAEL:

What about the scratches

on your face, Suzanne?

-(SOBS) Mum.

-It's all right, child.

Your mum's here.

Doesn't matter.

Can you look at me?

DR PASCOE:
Why, Suzie?

You can tell me.

SUZANNE:
To show them.

DR PASCOE:
Well, you didn't

have to show them.

Not like this.

Hmm? Why?

Tell them

you don't tell lies, Suzie.

It's all a mistake.

She doesn't know what...

She doesn't know anything.

Do you, love?

I thought you'd leave us.

DR PASCOE:

You thought I'd leave you?

All we were,

were noises to you.

DR PASCOE:
And you lied

to make us stay?

Sometimes.

MICHAEL:
Only sometimes?

It was what you wanted,

wasn't it?

We just gave you

what you wanted!

KIM:
Stop it!

MICHAEL:
Mrs Early,

you've heard your daughter.

She's admitted the entire

thing was a deliberate fraud.

No, I'm sorry,

I don't accept that.

Dr Pascoe has seen in her

things, same as me.

-You can't just...

-MICHAEL:
But...

Well, she's afraid,

she's frightened.

-She doesn't know anything.

-MICHAEL:
But, Suzanne herself

explained, Mrs Early.

My family are telling

the truth.

We're all telling the truth.

Well, fortunately,

after this turn of events,

we're able to return

to Dr Emilio Sylvestri.

Dr Sylvestri, who's in

New York, joins us again now.

Dr Sylvestri, I imagine

you're about to say,

"I told you so."

Well... (CHUCKLES)

I... I don't get any

vicarious thrill

out of seeing parapsychology

crucified in public.

But it does...

Validate my hypothesis.

Hmm, what hypothesis?

These are disturbed

attention-seekers...

Oh, rubbish.

We... (SNICKERS).

You played into their hands.

Primetime TV

Alice in Wonderland, couldn't

take it any more, they...

-End of illusion...

-This is not the end,

please believe me.

I almost... I almost feel,

whatever is in there, it's

deliberately muddying

the waters.

Well, Dr Pascoe, thank you.

And Dr Sylvestri,

thank you, too, for joining us

from New York. Thank you

and... And good night to you.

A lot of activity

in our phone room.

You won't be amazed to

hear that after what we've

just seen in Foxhill Drive.

Er, Mike Smith, what's

happening? What's the story?

(HESITATINGLY) Well,

the strange thing is

that we're still getting calls

about that shadowy figure,

that was seen

in the haunted bedroom

or people think they've

seen in the haunted bedroom.

Now...

What's really weird is that

these are all tallying

with the description.

These are all

different phone calls.

They're, generally, all saying

that it's an old man

or a woman.

Er, bald with

a skull-like head,

dark eyes,

or some are just saying,

"Holes for eyes."

Wearing a black robe

or a dress which is

buttoned up to the neck.

So, if anybody's seen this

gentleman tonight...

Michael, I'm sorry

to interrupt,

but this is important.

Er, can somebody

in the gallery,

tell me if it's possible

to access the tape interviews

I've shot at the university,

please.

I'm sure, I'm sure

it will be, yes, erm...

In view of what's happened

there's a sequence

I need to find, urgently.

Yeah, they're saying

they can... They can get to it

sometime further

on the programme.

Yes, okay.

We can do that for you.

Erm, in the meantime

we'll have another

Ghostwatch story.

And then after that, I'd like

to hear your opinion

on what we saw,

a moment ago,

in Foxhill Drive.

Is all of this,

all of this, a hoax

or as Dr Pascoe believes,

are things just about

beginning to happen?

Well, call me after this true

ghost story, coming up now.

When I was about

eleven or twelve,

we moved to this large,

old Devonshire house.

And part of the house is

a lot older than the other

part of the house.

And it had a nasty feeling.

It was cold.

Erm, things...

Doors opened,

things fell off the wall,

ornaments shattered,

and generally, it didn't have

a nice feeling.

Erm, my bedroom

was in part of that house.

Part of that, old part of the

house. And, er...

Shadows would move

at the end of my bed.

So, I asked for a night light.

I asked a grown-up,

I think it was my grandmother.

Erm... Which made

the situation worse

in a way, because...

(AUDIO SLOWING DOWN)

-(TAPE REWINDING)

-...in a way.

Wait, wait. Can we

just clear the set? (SNICKERS)

Yeah, well something's

gone very wrong

with that ghost story,

probably a poltergeist.

What do you think, Dr Pascoe?

Anyway, erm, we'll try

to get back to that, er...

Before the end

of the programme.

Er, meanwhile, what do we do?

We go back to your calls,

that's what we'll do.

Erm, Mike Smith?

(HESITATING) Erm, the only one

I got for you at the moment,

is this woman, try... Try her.

She wants to remain anonymous.

Wants to take part in

the programme, but insists

on anonymity. Try her.

Okay, Mike, thanks.

Doctor, pick the phone up.

-Hello?

-WOMAN:
(ON PHONE) Hello.

-Yes.

-WOMAN:
Hello, am I on?

Yes, You're, er... You're on

BBC One's Ghostwatch.

Now, what do you want

to tell me about?

WOMAN:
(SIGHS) We've got this

big glass table.

My husband just rested one

finger on it and it exploded.

Glass everywhere,

his face and hands were cut.

There's blood

on the wallpaper.

The ambulance is just gone.

My children are frightened.

Why are you doing this?

Now look, I am sure your

children are in shock. Er...

Also want to say, I think,

it's high time, probably,

that your kids are in bed.

I mean, it is past

the 9:
00 watershed, isn't it?

WOMAN:
That's it.

That's just it.

They won't go to bed.

I can't drag them

away from the TV.

I tell them to look

at what time it is

but the clock

still shows 9:
30.

Excuse me, have all

your clocks stopped?

WOMAN:
I don't know

what's going on.

They won't take their eyes,

off the set.

(CRYING) And there's blood...

There's blood

all over the wallpaper.

Look, love, it's Halloween.

They're overexcited.

Er, you've had

a terrible accident. Now...

Now, please, would you switch

off the TV and please,

send your kids to bed.

Thanks for calling us,

but we've got to move on.

Thank you, love.

No, don't let her...

I'm sorry, she's gone.

Erm, listen, please...

If you're still there.

Don't touch anything,

and if you can,

take a photograph.

Now, this is very

valuable evidence.

I've got to say to everyone

watching.

Please, please, we don't want

to give anybody

sleepless nights.

We don't want to start panic.

Don't let your imaginations

run riot.

These things we're talking

about are very,

very rare, indeed.

And the chance of them

happening to you are

exceedingly remote.

Er, please, believe us.

Right, now I think that

Dr Pascoe, that

that tape you wanted,

that interview you did some

months ago with Kim Early,

I think that's ready now.

I think we can go to it.

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