Haunted Echoes Page #6

out there, predators.

You know what I mean?

I hope you're just as blunt if you

ever have to tell on one of them.

So, uh, how's, how's the house?

Is, uh, you're remodeling? Just--

No. Not really.

We've been very pre-occupied,

you know?

Turns out, there's a lot

of unanswered questions

about Kimberly's death.

Oh? Oh, yeah, I thought they caught

the person that did it.

Yeah, so did we.

We thought so, too,

but we have reason to believe

that the person who did it

may still be out there.

You don't happen to know anything,

do you?

Me?

Well, I mean, you were

the director of the recital,

maybe you saw someone

or noticed something...

-...or maybe she confided in you.

-No, no, no, no, no.

No, l, I taught her music

once a week, you know.

That's it.

Really.

I barely knew her.

Thought I'd ask.

Did you see him?

Yeah.

He's guilty as sin.

NURSE:
Oh, Mr. Monk.

There you are.

Did you receive my message?

MONK:
Message?

Well, your mother had

a slight heart attack.

Oh?

But don't worry.

She pulled through as always.

Good.

MRS. GITCHELL:
Who is it?

Is that you, Ralph?

Hm?

It's not Ralph, Mom.

It's me, Kenneth.

MRS. GITCHELL:
It's my baby.

Ohh.

Oh, I don't feel so good.

MONK:
I know.

MRS. GITCHELL:
Ohh.

MONK:
I know.

[Groans]

Oh, I wish I was dead.

I feel so bad.

Those nurses, they're so mean.

Oh... that's because they're Mexican.

Oh, that's all there is anymore.

Mom.

MRS. GITCHELL:
Hmm?

Uh, Mrs. Dykstra,

she came by the school today.

You know,

the woman who bought the house.

MRS. GITCHELL:
Mrs. Dykstra.

Yeah. You remember,

she came by a few days ago. Okay?

You remember you had

some strange visitors.

[Laughing]

I get them all the time.

Okay. But this was...

This was a woman and her husband,

and I think, I think it was

another woman, too. Okay?

-MRS. GITCHELL:
Mm.

-MONK:
You remember?

You know, Ralph came by,

and he brought

some of his whores with him.

The nerve of that man. Oh.

MONK:
Ralph's dead, Mom. Okay?

These were the people

who bought your house.

Mom, Mom.

Mom, what did you say to them?

Did they ask about me?

Uh-uh. Wait, she does,

she always asks about you.

She's dead, Mom. Okay?

I hope you didn't say anything

to the Dykstras about them.

You didn't, did you?

She comes in the night,

and she sits at the foot of my bed,

and she tries to hurt me.

And then she wants me

to hurt you, too,

but no way am I gonna hurt my baby.

No way am I gonna hurt my baby.

MONK:
I know you must have said

something to the Dykstras, Mom.

Mrs. Dykstra, she was asking

the strangest questions.

I tell you not to chase

the girls around?

No, Lord, oh, no, there's she is,

she's right behind you.

Oh. Oh. Oh.

Mom.

-MRS. GITCHELL:
What?

-MONK:
There's nobody there.

Oh, yes, yes.

Oh, she comes back and back,

and she hurts my kitties,

and she hits me, and, oh,

I swear to God she's just about

driven me out of my mind.

She has, Mom.

Make her go away.

I don't want to see her no more.

Please make her go away.

I don't want to see Ralph either.

Okay, Mom.

-MRS. GITCHELL:
Okay?

-I'll make them go away.

MRS. GITCHELL:

Okay. Okay. Okay.

I love you, Mom.

MRS. GITCHELL:

Oh, I love you, too, baby.

I love you.

MRS. GITCHELL:

[Cries]

No, no!

My mom! My mom, I think

she had another heart attack!

-NURSE:
Okay.

-Go, go!

Molly? Hi. You want a ride?

No, thanks.

Ah, come on.

It's not like we're strangers.

Besides, we got a present for you.

Oh, yeah?

So, how's school?

How's Mr. Monk?

He's been absent lately.

His mom died,

so he's been going to the funeral,

and, you know, stuff like that.

LAURA:
Well, that's not good.

Yeah.

We've got a really mean substitute.

She's really dumb, too.

Like the other day,

she was showing us

this math problem,

and she got it wrong.

So, what'd you get for me?

I hope it's nothing Kimberly owned.

I mean, she had real nice stuff

and everything,

but, you know, it'd feel real funny

owning something

that used to belong

to a murdered person.

LAURA:
So, in your opinion,

Mr. Monk likes girls better than boys?

Well, he yells at them more.

But they really deserve it.

And he'll talk to us at recess

about really cool stuff.

He's not like most teachers.

He's sorta like a kid himself.

LAURA:
And what does he talk

to you about?

MOLLY:
What's this?

It's a DVD of you singing

at the pageant last Christmas.

And that's my present?

Yeah.

We figured you didn't have one.

Thanks.

So, Molly, what I was trying

to get at before is does Mr. Monk

ever talk about anything that's

inappropriate for a girl your age?

What do you mean?

Well, she means adult type stuff,

uh, things that might be personal.

Well, he talks about Michigan.

He used to live there.

And he saw a bear one time

when he was walking in the woods,

and he pretended like he was dead.

Does he ever keep you after school

or give you rides home or, or--?

Well, he's a real friendly guy.

Well, except with the boys.

I don't know.

Jenna says he's a fag,

but he's a really nice fag.

Uh-huh.

So, has he ever tried to touch you

or ask you to sit on his lap

or anything?

Why do you guys keep asking me

about Mr. Monk?

He's a real friendly guy.

Even my mom thinks he's nice,

and she's never liked

any of my teachers.

We just want to know some things

about your life, that's all.

We used to see you a lot, and now

we don't see you so much anymore.

Yeah. You must feel kind of sad

without Kimberly.

We do.

Well, you too, right?

Well, you know, I thought I would,

and sometimes I think about her,

but my mom told me I shouldn't

'cause it's morbid.

And you know,

she wasn't always that nice to me.

She used to brag about

all the nice things she had,

and how her dad was a doctor

and everything.

She thought she was all that.

Can I use the bathroom?

Sure.

FEMALE VOICE:

She wasn't always that nice to me.

She thought she was all that.

Who is that?

[Scream]

[Meows]

[Screams]

GUY:
Molly! Molly!

I mean, the whole story was so crazy

her mother didn't really believe her,

but she kept asking why

we took Molly back to the house,

and Molly kept saying we were asking

questions about Mr. Monk,

and, boy, we had a hell of a time

explaining that.

LAURA:
We don't want this guy

to get skittish.

GUY:
He might skip town

or something, I mean--

LAURA:
Something like that.

JASON:
You know,

it doesn't even sound like Kimberly

to attack another child.

-GUY:
Yeah.

-LAURA:
No, it doesn't.

JASON:
And to put a cat

in a microwave?

GUY:
I know,

that is really strange, right?

She's mad about it, that's all.

The least of the problems.

She just wants, she, I mean, the guy

who did it is running around free,

and she's angry about it,

and who can blame her?

I mean, the police won't even

re-open the case

unless they get some hard evidence,

quote, unquote.

But don't worry, we'll get some.

We've got a private detective

poking around in his background.

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