In Fear

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(PHONE LINE RINGS)

MAN:
Come on, Lucy.

Pick up the phone. Pick up.

Pick up. Pick up.

Pick up. Pick up. Pick up.

- Hey, it's Lucy.

- Ah, hello, Lucy.

- (RECORDING BEEPS)

- Er, hello, answering machine.

It's me, Tom. Remember?

We met a couple of weeks ago.

Think you were chatting

me up at the bar.

Yeah, so I was thinking

there was this festival

this weekend in Ireland

that I'm going to,

and I thought maybe...

okay, I'll call later, actually.

- (PHONE TONE RINGS)

- (RECORDING BEEPS)

Hey, it's Lucy.

TOM:
Listen, I didn't...

about this weekend,

I didn't mean just you and I.

It's not like a date or anything.

It's... there's going to be, like,

a whole bunch of us camping.

So, yeah, bring some friends,

if you have any,

just in case we don't get along,

which we would, if you came.

(WATER TRICKLING)

(OBJECTS CLATTER)

(DOOR CREAKING)

Hello?

Quick. Quick. Let's get out of here.

Here, close the door.

That was a nice pub.

I think I counted 12 men,

seven dogs,

no women, and me.

I thought since the festival

doesn't start tonight,

there's no bands playing,

for a special treat...

I've booked a hotel.

- Ah.

- Mm-hmm.

- You cheeky f***.

- Ow.

Fore... okay, we've started

already foreplay.

You said we were going up

to the festival tonight.

- That was the plan.

- Yes...

Now I have friends

up there camping,

thinking we're on our way.

It's our two-week anniversary.

Remember?

Oh, you can't have

a two-week anniversary.

It's a nice hotel.

Look in the glove box.

I printed out some stuff

from the website.

Go on, look at it.

"Your slice of paradise

in the Emerald Isle."

Mm-hmm. That's why I booked it.

Forgot to say

you look really nice today.

(CHUCKLES)

Okay. Let's go.

You mean it?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

We have to wait here until 7:00,

and then someone's gonna come

and show us the way.

That's what I arranged.

What if I said no?

I thought I was being

vaguely romantic.

(HORN HONKS)

Ah.

That's him?

I guess so.

All right, wait. Whew.

LUCY:
You know, I was chatted up

on the way to the toilet.

Oh, yeah?

Barman thought that I was

a "strong, fine-looking

young thing."

That's a good line.

What? You want me to go back?

(CHUCKLES)

You want me to go back

and have words?

I'll have a stern word

in that man's ear.

I'll take him outside, and I'll hit him

right in the middle of the forehead.

(LAUGHS)

Well, whilst you were on the

toilet, some guy bumped into me

and spilt my drink all over me,

on my new jumper.

And then I ended up buying him

and all his friends a drink.

The whole pub? Why?

Well, he bumped into me,

spilt my drink on me,

so I was like, "Excuse me,"

and he said it wasn't his fault,

and I said,

"Well, it wasn't my fault."

And then it got a bit weird,

and then he did offer

to buy me a drink,

but by that point,

I was like, "Well, look,

I'll buy you

and your friends a drink,"

just to keep things calm.

'Cause I'm a lover.

I'm not a fighter.

What?

(HORN HONKS)

Oh, okay.

LUCY:
Yeah, nice to meet you.

(SILENT)

Tom, no! He could have seen you.

- Oh.

- Don't be rude like that.

TOM:
That's really weird.

Do you want some help?

Fine!

(CHAINS CLINK)

(WIND WHISTLING)

Whoo!

Yeah, yeah. Very funny, Lucy.

Ugh.

- Got dirty hands now.

- Ugh.

- Stay away. Ugh.

- Huh?

- Huh? Huh?

- No. Ugh.

Huh? Huh?

(DISTANT HORN HONKING)

TOM:
Idiots.

They're the guys from the pub?

Think so.

(HONKING CONTINUES)

- LUCY:
I need to make a phone call.

- Fine.

I don't know where I am, actually.

Tom booked a hotel,

so I'm not going

to be there tonight.

(CHUCKLES)

I've talked with him.

It's a sad field.

How can a field be sad?

I don't know. Just is.

Oh, look. There's an angry tree.

There's some worried mud.

- (MUFFLED THUMP)

- (LUCY LAUGHS)

- What?

- I just went over a grumpy stone.

LUCY:
Whoa, whoa. Stop.

Map says to go that way.

- The sign says that way.

- Yeah, but if...

you know, if they're different,

we should check.

Or we just follow the signs.

TOM:

We could just throw the map away.

Look, it says Kilairney House

Hotel on the left.

All right, I'm going.

Thought I saw someone.

Oh, yeah?

Was that the end of the story?

You don't have your map out.

Just following the signs now?

- I'm giving you a little bit of time.

- I win.

- LUCY:
Can't see what it says.

- TOM:
It says "Kilairney House."

LUCY:
They're hidden a little bit.

- This way.

- Yeah.

LUCY:
Oh.

That's...

LUCY:
Um... that's wrong.

What does the map say?

I don't know. Can't see

with this f***ing orange blob.

- Well, we followed the signs.

- I'm going to call the hotel.

(BEEPS)

He's going to say follow the signs.

We may as well just turn round

and phone back when we come back.

- Hey...

- (POPS)

- ow... f***.

- Sorry.

- I have... sorry.

- (LAUGHS)

We've got a reservation

for tonight,

but we've been

following the signs...

We've been following the signs

but we've got lost.

LUCY:
Shh! And we don't know

where to go.

We've been trying to find

the way for a little bit.

- Um... well, there's...

- (BIRD SQUAWKS)

they've got two signs, and...

Yeah, no, that's what we've been doing,

but now it's telling us to go back.

Yeah, and I was trying to map

read, but it was saying different

to what the signs were saying.

Hello?

They just hung up.

(BEEPS)

- Hey, I'm going to go...

- It's not ringing back.

- I'm going back, okay?

- Well, no... he was in mid-conversation.

It hung up. I'm just going

to try to call back.

- Um...

- I'm going to go.

- I'm going.

- Come on.

- No, wait. I have to...

- I'm going.

(SIGHS) Sh*t.

(BEEPS)

It's not answering.

I don't have any signal.

LUCY:
The Land Rover.

Wait, wait, wait.

Stop him. Stop him.

(HONKS HORN)

- Hey! Hey!

- Hey! Hey! Hey!

Well, it must be that way.

- What do you mean? Why?

- That's the way he came from.

- So what?

- So it's that way,

'cause he must have come

from the hotel.

Yeah, but no. He left us

before we went into the...

through the gate.

Yeah, well, he's obviously

gone and got someone,

and then he's going back...

he's gone back,

and he's going back

to get someone else.

Ah.

"Kilairney House Hotel" left.

Well, it says the hotel's

meant to be secluded,

so... must be...

How can we be back

at this bit again?

You must have done something wrong.

We haven't done anything wrong.

Followed the signs.

Well, let's just go

back to the pub,

and they can send someone

to meet us there.

Okay. Let's do that.

LUCY:
This isn't the way we came.

We're going back.

We can't be.

We just can't see it yet

'cause of all the trees.

Tom, we're going in circles.

We can't, Lucy. We're nearly there.

- How are we nearly there?

- We are.

We don't know where we're going.

LUCY:
What are you doing?

I'll go ahead and check,

see if I can see it from outside.

(LEAVES RUSTLING)

(RUSTLING CONTINUES)

(RUSTLING STOPS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(GATE CREAKS)

Tom?

Tom?

(SIGHS)

Tom?

(SCREAMS)

Whoa! It's me. It's me.

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