King of the Ring Page #4

( whinnying frantically )

It's okay. CaIm down.

( whinnying )

Somebody!

( whinnies )

( whinnying )

Jesus Christ!

( whinnies )

Somebody heIp!

( grunting )

Daddy, my horse!

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

( horse whinnying )

He's going out!

Over here!

Whoa! Whoa! Easy!

Come on.

( snorting )

( yelling )

( whinnying )

No, down! No!

( grunting and gasping )

( snorting )

( snorting )

( whinnying )

( gasps )

( whimpering )

( whinnying )

( panting )

( screaming )

( horn blowing )

( speaking indistinctly )

I need to see the records

for a patient named Anna Morgan.

Are you a reIative?

WeII, no.

I'm sorry, sir.

We're a mentaI heaIth faciIity.

Our records are private.

WeII, she's been dead 24 years.

I don't think she'II mind.

I'm sorry.

It's impossibIe.

Look...

I've seen them before.

I've been up there.

MAN:

Nice try.

The record rooms

are downstairs, guy.

( chuckles softly )

You win.

( grunting )

Jerk off!

( fly buzzing )

Are you in here, Anna?

HeIIo?

( eerie rumbling )

( hammering )

( hammering continuing )

Excuse me, Mr. Morgan.

I was wondering if you'd have

a moment to speak with me.

My name's RacheI KeIIer.

I'm a writer with

the ''SeattIe P.I.''

You want to know

about the horses.

I didn't mean to...

It's just I wasn't abIe to

find a number to reach you.

Every now and then,

a writer comes aIong...

heard about what happened.

What's Ieft to write about,

though, I don't know.

I was hoping you had

just a few minutes.

WeII, work never ends

around here, reaIIy...

but I guess I got a few.

So, what is it

you're writing, miss?

About horses in generaI

or just those that go strange?

I read you had

to put so many down.

Most put themseIves down.

They drowned.

How'd they get out?

They just broke

through the fences

and ran to the shore.

So, they went crazy?

It wouId seem so, yes...

or maybe they just sense things

before we do.

So, where are your horses now?

I don't breed anymore.

I guess you wouIdn't...

not after what happened.

That must've been hard...

on both of you...

you and your wife.

( thunder rumbling )

I'm sorry, miss,

what's your name again?

RacheI.

WeII, RacheI...

you want to teII me what's

reaIIy on your mind?

Do you know what this is?

I think it's a message...

from your wife.

Anna's on this tape.

She's right there in that room.

You can see the Iighthouse,

the horses...

Where'd you get that?

SheIter Mountain Inn.

Is that the onIy one?

I made a copy.

( sighs )

I've got a Iot of work

to do today...

a Iot of acres out there.

Minute I think I'm done

with one thing...

...another thing needs fixing.

You don't want to see this tape?

You're not even curious?

Curious?

No. I don't think so.

Mr. Morgan...

I can't heIp you.

Where's your daughter?

Maybe she couId heIp...

I don't have a daughter.

Excuse me?

What is it with reporters?

You take one person's tragedy

and force the worId

to experience it...

spread it Iike sickness.

Mr. Morgan...

TeII me, miss...

what is it you think you know?

Then Ieave it aIone.

( slams )

( sighs )

( sighs )

( rope creaking )

( banging )

( whispering ):

Anna.

''Anna Morgan's...

...HaIIucinations''?

What's wrong with you?

'''65, conceived.''

'''65, miscarriage.''

'''66, conceived.''

'''66, miscarriage.''

Christ, she wouIdn't give up.

( file falls on floor )

''Sessions terminated...

at father's request.

See Video Record S-M-0-1-5.''

( phone ringing )

( grinding furiously )

RUTH:

Aidan?

Aidan, it's your mom.

( Aidan over telephone ):

Hi, Mom.

Honey, the house you drew

for me...

Uh-huh?

...where did you see it?

Did you see it in your head?

Is that why you drew it?

In my head?

Aidan... why did you draw

that house?

Because she toId me to.

Who?

Who toId you to?

The IittIe girI.

She taIks to you?

No.

She shows me things.

Did she show you the horses?

She doesn't Iike it in the barn.

The horses keep her up at night.

So, she stiII Iives there?

No.

( whispering ):

She Iives in a dark pIace now.

( clock ticking )

( puzzle pieces clicking )

( ticking loudly )

( puzzle pieces clicking )

( door opening )

WOMAN:

You're getting a IittIe oId

to be crabbing out there, CaI.

Your body's about outIived

its warranty, you know.

You ain't exactIy

the catch of the day.

Oh... Iet's see you

catch one better!

CAL:

Yeah...

Good afternoon.

I'm Dr. Grasnik.

I think he was here before me.

Darby? Darby's aIways here.

Aren't you, Darby?

He's my son's boy.

Come over on the ferry, did you?

Yes.

Um... have you Iived here Iong?

Born and raised.

OnIy doctor on the isIand.

Then you know the Morgans

and their daughter.

Do you know

their daughter?

Do you know their daughter?

( clock ticking continuing )

What's this about?

Look, I'm sorry.

I-I don't know how to say this

but I'm seeing things

in my head-- images--

and so is my son.

My son, that...

that's why I'm here

and somehow,

I don't know how, but...

it's because of that girI.

Haven't heard anybody say that

in a Iong time.

( squeaking loudly )

She wanted a chiId

more than anything.

Poor Anna.

They tried hard for years

but sometimes

it's just not meant to be.

Then one winter, they went away.

When they came back

it was with Samara.

Adopted, they said.

Never did say from where.

Said the mother had died

of compIications.

But they had their baby,

they had their horses--

everything was fine...

tiII Anna started coming

to see me.

Said she was

suffering visions...

seeing things...

horribIe things...

Iike they'd been burned

inside her...

and it onIy happened

around Samara...

that the girI put them there.

( merry-go-round

squeaking continues )

Were you Samara's

doctor, too?

Was there anything wrong

with her?

You mean medicaIIy?

I mean whatever you mean.

( squeaking continuing )

When Darby, there, was born...

we knew something wasn't right

with him...

but we Ioved him anyway.

Takes work, you know.

Some peopIe have Iimits.

So, what happened to her?

I referred them

to EoIa Psychiatric

on the mainIand.

I assume she's stiII there.

You don't know?

How can you not know?

We've been through...

a Iot of hard years out here...

mean winters...

smaII hauIs, no fish...

and that was Iong

before the horses.

See, when you Iive on an isIand

you catch a coId,

it's everybody's coId.

No offense, ma'am

but what the heII

does that mean?

It means ever since

that girI's been gone

things have been better.

( squeaking continuing )

MAN:

Man, we're reaIIy going

back in time, here.

Yeah, the Iady at reception said

it shouId stiII be here.

ShouId be. You say you're

the patient's father, right?

Yep. Richard Morgan, that's me.

What is your secret?

Diet and exercise, man.

No sh*t!

Yeah, that's aII it takes.

You know, I'm

not an idiot.

You try and waIk out

of here with my fiIe

and I'II be on you

Iike white on rice.

You understand?

No, man.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes