Paranoiac Page #5

I never saw you

before I met you last week.

I'm an imposter, Eleanor.

I'm not your brother.

Where are you going?

I'm leaving.

Why?

You tried to kill your brother

and Eleanor, didn't you?

You're talking nonsense.

Up in my room this afternoon...

you said they wouldn't be here

for long.

You were shocked

when they came back.

Why were you so shocked?

Will you stop talking

like a fool?

Come here.

No, Simon, it's finished.

What makes you think

I'd let you go?

You don't have

any alternative, Simon.

If you try to stop me

or come after me...

I'll start telling people

what I know.

You don't know anything.

Enough.

Enough for what?

You've always known that I

wasn't exactly the blue-eyed boy.

It's never seemed

to worry you before.

No, Simon, please.

I never

pretended to be anything...

that I wasn't.

Not to you, anyway.

Please, Simon.

I don't want you to go,

I need you.

I've waited so long

for you to say that.

It's true, I need you now

more than I ever did before.

I won't leave you,

my darling, I promise.

I know you won't.

I know you won't, my pretty.

Nobody ever leaves me.

Looking for someone?

Yes.

If you're looking

for Francoise, she left.

Left?

Gone, last night.

That was a bit sudden,

wasn't it?

Very sudden.

Did she leave any message?

No message.

I'm sorry.

Are you? Why?

You didn't like her,

did you?

No, I didn't.

However,

if it's your dear brother...

you're looking for,

he left, too.

It's all right. I have

a feeling he'll be back.

Did he say

where he was going?

My dear child,

does he ever confide in me?

My father isn't here today.

You should've made

an appointment.

I know. I've come to see you.

If Tony Ashby, the real

Tony Ashby, turned up...

what then?

That couldn't happen.

But if it did?

We'd both be found out,

wouldn't we?

That's why

I've come to warn you.

I assume you've been dipping

into the family estate.

That's none of your business.

I know it's not.

But you've got about

12 hours to cover up.

Wait a minute,

what have you found out?

I don't think Tony Ashby

jumped off that cliff.

I believe I know where he is.

Good evening, Williams.

Good evening, sir.

Where is everybody?

Tony.

Never mind,

Williams, thank you.

Tony, where have you been?

I've been worried

about you all day.

I'm all right.

Where are the others?

Aunt Harriet is up

in her room, and Simon's out.

Darling, do you trust me?

Of course.

Well, pack your things.

We're leaving.

When?

Tonight.

Where?

I don't know, does it matter?

No.

Go to your room,

I'll pick you up later.

Okay

Get out. Get out of here.

How dare you touch that!

Get out!

No, Miss Ashby,

I'm looking for something.

Won't you leave him anything?

This is Simon's place,

it always has been.

You've no right to interfere.

Why,

has he got something to hide?

It's private.

I'm sorry.

What are you looking for?

Don't you know, Miss Ashby?

No.

No, you can't have,

I won't let you.

Everything here

at High Tor is yours.

It all belongs to you now.

Do you have to end

by destroying everything?

I'm afraid so.

You had to be clever,

didn't you?

I had to find out.

So now you've found out, what

are you going to do about it?

I'll tell you, shall I?

Nothing.

Because Tony

isn't dead, is he?

I'm talking to him now.

How did you fake

that suicide note, Simon?

I didn't.

I got him to write it in a game

some time before. I kept it.

How long before?

A year, maybe two.

You made up your mind to

murder him when you were 13?

About then.

And you did

your best to murder me.

Not my best.

It made no difference to you

that Eleanor was with me.

Two birds with one stone.

That's what I thought.

Where are you going?

Where do you think?

Not to tell. You certainly

can't tell anybody.

Not unless you want to

say goodbye to the money.

I don't want the money.

You expect me

to believe that?

Believe what you like.

I don't want the money.

Why did you come

here in the beginning?

It's a long story.

It's not that important

anymore.

He tried to fool us, Tony.

He tried to pretend

that he was you.

But he couldn't do it.

And we knew it, didn't we?

He had everyone else fooled.

Tony?

It's too late.

Tony and I have had a talk.

We've decided

what's going

to happen to you.

You see, Tony's been alone

for a long time.

But he's going

to have company.

Because you're going

to join him, isn't it?

I told you

you'd destroy everything.

Yourself as well.

Simon.

Hello, Aunt Harriet.

Come away from here, Simon.

No.

I've got to kill him.

You see,

he knows what I did to Tony.

Come away from here.

Leave it to me.

Go back to the house, Simon.

I won't be a moment.

Simon belongs to me.

No one shall hurt him.

You're not going back to the

house, you're coming back with me.

Simon!

Tony!

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