Monkey Shines Page #5

- At school.

- Where have you been all weekend?

I tried to call you at least a dozen times.

We decided not to answer the phone.

Mel, don't come in.

I just don't want any bullshit.

- OK. I'll see you tomorrow.

- Mel, don't.

I don't want any bullshit either.

Hi, Mrs Mann. How are you today?

Burbage.

Jesus. He's got it.

He's got the serum.

Motherf***er!

Burbage won't learn anything.

Not from you, you simple bastards.

He won't learn diddly sh*t.

Maybe...

Maybe I still can from you, sugar.

One bottle of beer on the wall.

One last dose. Not for you this time.

This time, it's for me.

If this sh*t can plug you into Allan's head,

maybe it can plug me into yours.

All right, Ella.

Come on. Let's tune in.

Let's make contact, Ella.

- (growling)

- It's only you and me now.

Let me know what's on your mind.

Come on, Ella. Show me.

Show me what you can do.

- You didn't hear from Geoffrey?

- Why would I?

- He... He has Ella.

- He can keep her for all I care.

I told him to keep her, Mother. I told him

not to bring her back. She's gone.

She did something to that girl, didn't she?

She did something to that Melanie

and she asked you to get rid of her.

You'd do anything she asks in a minute.

Mother, let's try and bury the hatchet.

Look, I know I haven't been

very pleasant to be around lately.

I'm gonna try and fix that.

Do you think you could do the same?

What am I supposed to fix, Allan?

What have I done?

What have I ever done

except worry about you?

Mother, this business about Melanie.

I need your support, not discouragement.

However things turn out medically,

with or without the use of my body,

I'm gonna try to make it work between us.

- Whatever you want is fine with me.

- Oh, bullshit!

You're so f***ed up, you can't even!

Mother, she's here.

Ella's here. She's in the house.

I think you've got a serious problem.

I think you're going crazy on me.

She's here. I can feel her.

Filling me up with...

- For God's sakes...

- There's danger.

The way I've been acting, these rages -

Ella pulls them out of me.

She pulls them to the surface.

What is this? Is this some sort of game

that you're playing?

If you can't stand having me here,

just tell me, I'll go.

- You don't have to put me through this.

- Mother, please stop.

Please don't make me angry.

I can't control it. It's Ella. She...

If that's Melanie,

tell her the monkey's here.

Tell her to come here right away.

- Hello?

- Hi, Mrs Mann. It's Melanie Parker.

- Can Allan come to the phone?

- No. He's in the bath.

OK. Would you ask him

to call me when he gets out?

He's going to bed.

Call him tomorrow in the daytime.

Mother, I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have shouted at you. I'm afraid.

I'm afraid for you, Mother.

If you ever tried to understand anything,

try to understand this.

I understand. I understand the truth.

You've made it plain.

I just was never willing to accept it.

Mother...

Do you have any idea

how much you've made me cry?

Do you have any idea how worthless

you've made me feel? How alone?

- I've given up everything for you!

- Who asked you to give up anything?

You don't give a sh*t

about me or anybody else.

You're too wrapped up in yourself.

Your life is nothing

but an empty, greedy, black hole

and you've been trying to suck me into it

for as long as I can remember.

Well, I cannot stand it any more.

I cannot stand your bullshit.

You're a conniving,

clinging, bloodsucking b*tch.

Mother...

You deserve whatever you get.

I hate you.

I hate you.

Did you hear that?

Mother. Mother!

Mother!

Mother?

Can you hear me?

Mother, can you hear me?

Mother, close your door! Lock it shut!

Mother!

Mother!

Mother, can you hear me?

- Ella?

- (tapping)

Geoff, she's here. Ella's here.

- What's with the lights?

- Check the breakers.

Something happened to Mother.

- What the hell?

- Geoff?

- Geoff, what is it?

- I don't know.

- Must be a short somewhere. You OK?

- Mother. Upstairs.

I'll be right back.

- Ella's not in here, is she?

- No.

I don't think so.

Oh, God.

It's me... I killed them.

- All of them.

- You couldn't kill anyone, Allan.

No. I got 5,000 years

of civilised behaviour bred into me.

But what if I wasn't civilised any more?

What if I was an animal?

Free to follow my instincts.

That's what the devil is, Geoff. It's instinct.

Animal instinct.

Lives in us all.

Lives by its own set of laws.

Laws of the jungle.

You didn't do any of this, Allan. I did.

Ella has been genetically altered.

I've had her on a new drug.

- Don't tell me this...

- I lost track, Allan.

- I lost track of everything but my work.

- Geoff, don't tell me this.

You said she was normal -

even after I told you what was happening.

I was just part of some experiment,

wasn't I? A guinea pig, this whole time.

No. At the beginning

I was really trying to help.

What kind of experiment was it? What did

you do to Ella? What did you do to me?

Allan...

- You see her?

- She didn't come back here.

- The attic.

- Maybe we should wait or get help.

- I can handle her.

- We should get help.

Geoffrey?

Ella, answer the telephone.

Answer the telephone, Ella.

No. Answer.

Ella, no. Stop it.

Don't! Do not... Don't do it!

- (cuts off)

- Goddamn you, you!

Geoff! She's here. She's down here!

Allan?

Allan?

Allan!

Geoff, no. Just get away. Get help!

Jesus.

She got me.

You know me and needles.

I put enough in there

to bring down King Kong!

- Geoff. The telephone. Get the phone.

- Ace...

Untangle the phone. We'll call for help.

Ace, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry.

- The telephone. We'll call the hospital.

- Hospital.

I gotta go there.

There's no time to make a round trip.

You can't possibly drive.

Unhook this phone, goddamnit!

- I gotta go...

- Geoff! Unhook the f***ing phone!

Geoffrey!

Geoffrey!

d If one of those bottles

should happen to fall...

Geoff!

Seven.

Eleven! Eleven! Eleven!

Eleven!

No! God damn you!

Eleven!

Eleven!

What did you do?

Knock the breaker off? You little...

Stop it, Ella. I said, stop it! Stop it!

You can't fool me. Not with that bullshit.

You're not gonna hurt me. I'm part of you.

Oh. You wanna be the boss now. Is that it?

You wanna be the brains

as well as the brawn?

No, no. I'm the brains in this outfit.

I can beat you at this game, Ella.

Know why? Cos I'm human.

I'm the one who can cheat and lie...

and be devious.

Whatever it takes, fuckface.

Whatever it takes

to get us through the night.

Hey, Ella. Ella, I got an idea.

Let's have music. Music, Ella.

Atta girl. Music.

Oh. The lights, Ella.

You need lights to have music.

Kitchen. The switch is in the kitchen,

baby. Go ahead.

Oh, you're too savvy for that one,

aren't you? It's OK.

We'll try it again later.

How about food? Food. Mmm.

Yeah. I'm hungry. Eat, Ella. Eat.

Atta girl. Go ahead.

Hey! Hey, over here!

Hey! Over here!

Help me! Help me!

- Help me, please!

- (growling)

All right.

All right. No more tricks.

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