Nails Page #3

I have to do it myself.

There.

You see him?

You see?

- I'm sorry, honey, but...

what am I supposed to be seeing?

- It's, it's there.

Nails.

Eric Nilsson.

That horrible thing.

Why can't you see him?

- I wish I could see something.

Anything.

All I can see is

Trevor running in.

- Listen, it's gonna be okay.

Look...

I'll go and talk to Trevor.

Maybe he did see something.

- Trevor is my friend.

He's the only one I can trust.

- I'm glad you feel

you can trust him.

- He saved my life.

- Great.

What a guy.

You know, I'm not sure

these cameras

were such a good idea.

- What do you mean?

- They're just

reinforcing your fears.

- No, they're my

only protection.

- They're just

making you paranoid.

- No.

No, please.

Please don't take

them away, Steve.

Please.

Steve.

Steve!

- Maybe you should go and

keep your mother company.

I don't know what to think.

She's absolutely certain

there's something

in the surveillance video.

- You hear the knocking sound?

- A knocking sound?

Yeah, maybe there's

some kind of noise.

- Ellie.

Next door.

She tried to wake me up.

She tried to warn me.

She knows...

All about nails.

You go and ask her.

She'll tell you.

- Okay.

I'll talk to her.

- We have many other

patients at this facility...

And none of them

are reporting people

creeping into their rooms.

Only your wife.

- It's not uncommon for

patients who've suffered

severe brain injury

to have paranoid visions.

- Oh yeah?

Well, it's only after

she came here to recover

that she started seeing things.

- Hello?

Ellie?

My name is Gemma Milgrom.

My mother Dana

is in the room next door.

My mom...

She said you were knocking

on the wall.

Trying to warn her

about something.

She thinks there's

something trying to hurt her.

A nurse who used to work here

named Eric Nilsson.

I'm sorry.

- Dad.

- Gemma, what were

you doing in there?

- That woman.

She had some kind of attack.

- Right.

No-one's getting

in or out of there.

No way, no how.

- It's no good.

Won't help.

- Sure it will.

You'd need a fire axe

to get through there.

- It's not a person.

It's an evil thing.

- Come on now.

- Trevor, you saw it.

I know you saw it.

- I didn't see anything.

- I talked to Stengel.

He told me nails

killed children.

Then nails killed himself.

In this room.

- In here?

I didn't know that.

- Have there been

others who saw nails?

- No and I sure as hell haven't.

- Yes, you have.

- Look, you need to stop

talking about this.

Spending all your time

looking at that computer

and those cameras.

It's putting a hex on your

brain all that radiation.

Didn't your mother

ever tell you not to sit

too close to the television?

- Trevor, you have to

help me get out of here.

I have to go home.

- You will, but not yet.

You're not ready.

- No, please, you have

to help me get out.

- Look, I've got other

patients I've gotta see.

I've gotta go.

- Please.

Trevor...

Nobody believes me.

- Look, I locked the

damn door, didn't I?!

I'm not your husband.

Get him to get you out of here.

- He... he doesn't listen.

- People ask me:

Why can I see ghosts?

The answer is:

I am gifted with a third eye

that allows me to perceive

multi-dimensional beings

on many different plains.

- Do you wanna talk about it:

The second sight, your gift?

- Gift?

Yeah, well, I just wish

I could give this gift to you

for a little while

and you see what it's like.

I started seeing her, the...

Spirit, the...

The vapors,

whatever you wanna call it.

- The gray woman?

- Yeah.

I started seeing her a couple

weeks after my accident.

I work for the power company.

I touched a live cable with...

This hand, the crippled one.

They say I was dead

for two or three minutes.

I think maybe

that's why I see her.

The gray woman.

Cos I was dead, like her.

- Is she...

Here now with us?

The gray woman?

- Ms. Leaming, I need

to talk to you about Dana.

I mean, Mrs. Milgrom.

- What is it now?

- The other night,

when I came into her room,

when she pressed the buzzer...

I thought I saw something.

- Are you telling me

that you saw the same

evil spirit as Mrs. Milgrom?

- Not, not head on.

- More felt it.

It's, it's hard

to put it into words.

- Have you talked to

anybody about this?

- No, just Mrs. Milgrom.

It's not me.

It's that doctor Stengel.

He told her about

the children that died

and about that nurse,

Eric Nilsson.

Did you know about him?

- Eric Nilsson was devoted

to those children.

I don't believe he would ever

consciously harm any of them.

- He stabbed five little girls

with a hypodermic.

That's pretty f***ed up,

even for a psychopath.

- It has taken this

institution many years

to put that behind us.

Now I don't want people

dredging up old history.

You have other patients

to look after.

- Look, Ms. Leaming, I really

think Dana is in trouble.

- This conversation is over!

- Now I understand

why I can see it.

Because I was dead myself.

I know there is something here.

I still don't know

why it wants me.

But I know its name is nails.

I can say it without fear.

There is power in that.

I have survived

two attempts to kill me.

Three if I count

the car accident.

I am a survivor.

- Nothing can, nothing...

- You will die,

you will die in here...

You will die in here.

- Nobody here...

will free you.

Rip your skull.

Tear your flesh.

Steve f***ing Ashley

in your bed.

- F***.

What...

Do...

You want...

from me?

- Yeah, have that, f***er!

Dana?

- I suppose you're gonna tell me

it's her imagination now, huh?

You see her legs.

You see how he tortured her.

- I assure you,

we're doing everything

possible to find out

who did this to your wife.

- I think it's pretty damn

obvious who did it!

It's that tattooed weirdo

you've had in here

pawing her up.

- No, it wasn't Trevor.

It wasn't Trevor.

- I brought her as soon

as I got your call, Steve.

- You called the police, right?

- Well, I wanted

to reach you first.

You don't really think we

need to involve the authorities?

- Christ, is that

all you care about?

You've got a maniac roaming

the halls torturing people!

- Steve, please,

it wasn't Trevor.

He didn't hurt me.

- I'm sorry.

Ms. Leaming found this

downstairs in Trevor's room.

It's your file

from thirty years ago,

under your maiden name Breiman.

You were here as a child

when you had meningitis.

And you were here

when Eric Nilsson

killed those five girls.

- No.

- Trevor is some kind

of deranged copy-cat.

- It's a lie!

- Hello?

- Yes, this is Elizabeth

Leaming at Hopewell hospital.

- Please state the nature

of your emergency.

- One of our female patients

has been attacked.

- No, it was nails.

Nails hurt me!

- Jesus Christ, Dana.

Stop it!

There is no nails!

- You're a f***ing idiot.

And I'm sorry I married you.

Nails is gonna kill us all.

- Please state the nature

of your emergency.

- I already told you!

One of our patients has

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