Half Light Page #4

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(Ringing)

Hi, it's Sharon.

Leave a message after the beep.

(Beeps)

She's not there.

Yes, but that doesn't

mean she came up here.

Wherever she is, Im sure

she's absolutely fine.

I want you to spend tonight

with Mary and me.

I don't think

you should be alone.

What do you think,

Im making this up?

Nobody's out to get you.

Listen,

if this was one of your books,

which would you believe?

That the heroine fell in love

with a ghost who

then murdered her best friend,

or...

that she imagined it

and she needs some help?

I'm not crazy.

Weli...

the offer's there.

I'm at the other end of the phone.

Hi, it's Sharon.

Leave a message after the beep.

- (Beeps)

- Hi, it's me.

I don't know where you are.

I don't know if you came out here.

I don't know what's going on,

but if you could call me

when you get this...

okay?

(Rings)

Hi, it's Sharon.

Leave a message after...

hi, it's Sharon.

Leave a message a...

leave a message

after the beep.

Leave a mes...

(Dialing)

(Ringing)

- Dr. Freedman, table for four.

- (Cell phone ringing)

This way, sir.

- Hello.

- RACHEL:
Robert, it's me.

Rachel, listen,

Im just in a restaurant,

- can I call you back?

- No no no.

Listen, I don't know

how to explain this,

but I think that Sharon

came out here

and that she may have been hurt.

What?

What are you talking about?

I need you to do me a favor,

okay?

Rachel, slow down.

What's happening?

I don't know what's happening.

That's just it.

Can you please just

go to Sharon's?

She's not answering

her phone or her cell.

What for?

I just need you

to go there, okay?

And then call me, okay?

Well, why shouldn't she be there?

Look, I just need you to

go there and then call me.

Listen, Rachel,

can't this wait?

- I've got friends here.

We're about to... - no.

Please, can you just

do this for me? Okay?

Okay. I'll go there,

and Ill call you.

Okay, Im gonna

be waiting.

Okay.

All right, sorry about that.

Thanks very much.

Thank you. Okay.

(Toy jeep whirring)

(Thuds)

I need to talk to you.

Come in.

The Scots call it

"da-shealladh."

"Second sight."

It's been my ruin.

You think the living

are full of regrets?

You ought to hear the dead

endlessly lamenting.

"Never made up with my children."

"Ignored my parents."

"Never told anyone I love them."

This isn't some kind

of game, is it?

I mean, you just

wouldn't make this up.

My son drowned.

I just want to

know that you...

that this isn't something

you would take lightly.

He follows you everywhere.

He's trying to warn you.

About what? What?

Angus?

What are you saying?

- Are you saying he's not dead?

- Oh, he's dead.

His ghost's out there

wandering the island.

Suicides are

forever trapped

between our world and the next.

When I cross, I don't want

anything on my conscience.

Don't go back to the island.

Leave Ingonish cove tonight.

Your life's in danger.

That's what Thomas has

come back to tell you.

I have to go back to

get Thomas's things.

Well, do it quickly.

(Phone beeps)

- Would you like some of mine?

- (Cell phone rings)

Yeah, one second. Hello.

- Have you gone to Sharon's?

- I called her.

She's not answering.

What's this

all about?

- Would you excuse me a second?

- Yeah, sure.

Can I try a bit?

Are you awake?

Robert.

What a surprise.

I'm sorry to call you so late.

Do you have a second?

Yes, Im just doing a little

late-night editing.

- What's going on?

- Something strange is

going on with Rachel.

She's called me twice.

She's going on about Sharon

being hurt somehow.

She's not

making sense.

I knew she shouldn't have

gone out there by herself.

You don't think she's gonna

do anything stupid, do you?

The way she sounded,

nothing would surprise me.

Christ.

I-I was worried about this.

Well, listen,

Im gonna call her now.

I think you should,

and get Sharon to also.

Yes, of course, of course.

Well, thanks for calling.

Okay, tell me how it goes.

I hope everything's okay.

Yes, I will.

Back from the dead?

You look good for a corpse.

Where's the rest

of it?

- You get it when we get it.

- Well, my price just doubled.

Four million,

slightly more than you told me.

Do you know what the funny

thing about you and Brian is?

You always talk about him.

All the ways the two

of you are going to...

enjoy the money.

But Brian,

he never talks about the money,

and he never talks about you.

He always talks about her.

Her books, her success,

her imagination.

It's envy of her... isn't it?

That brought you two together?

You both just want to be her.

The ghost has a heart, huh?

Is that why you were

on the balcony?

You were meant to be downstairs.

Tonight?

I wasn't on the balcony.

I was downstairs the whole time.

And besides,

you're the ones who

have been improvising.

What's with all the messages

from her dead kid?

We never did that.

Good idea, though.

But we never did it.

How do you get your

hands on the money?

I thought you were

the guy who never asked.

"I do the job. They pay me.

I go home."

You did the job, so go home.

You didn't fall for her,

did you, Patrick,

while you were pretending to

fall for her?

Your whole life may

have just collapsed.

Do you remember

what I was doing

when we first met?

Yeah.

I thought you might.

I want the rest of the money.

I won't tell you again.

Sharon.

It was a pleasure killing you.

MAN:
All aboard!

Sir!

All aboard!

(Whistle blows)

(Tapping)

(Wind blows)

(Tapping continues)

(Tapping continues)

(Tapping continues)

(Wind blowing)

(Tapping continues)

(Tapping continues)

RACHEL:
I love these.

Do you know the old

Celtic legend about them?

First, we have

to bury it together.

Together.

And then if one

of us ever returns

and digs it up, then...

ANGUS:
Then we

were meant for each other?

Well, actually, I don't know

because I just made it up.

Rachel.

(Celtic ballad playing)

(Gears clicking)

(Screaming)

Just room for one more inside.

MARY:
So there was nothing at all

out there on the island?

FINLAY:
No,

poor girl must be crazy.

She's got "ghosts

in the attic."

Hey, I love this bit.

It's great.

This is where Hugo

the dummy comes alive.

- (Knock on door)

- It's nearly midnight.

- Finlay, I need your help

out on the island.

- For god's sake.

Rachel's in danger.

It might be too late already.

It's very late tonight.

You come back in the morning.

Finlay, please,

I need your help...

Finlay. The last time she tried

to warn us about something,

we all ignored her.

And we had three funerals

the next Sunday.

- SHARON:
Brian, wait.

- Look, relax.

Everything's gone perfectly.

Everyone thinks she's crazy...

the whole village,

even her own shrink.

She's in love with a ghost.

She sees murders

that don't happen.

No one...

no one's gonna blink an

eye when she kills herself.

Then her grieving

husband inherits 4 million.

And you thought

I had no imagination.

BRIAN:
Just in case

she loses courage,

just in case she wants to save

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