Premonition Page #4

We waited a year for this interview.

Besides, it could be good for us, you know?

Take a break from each other.

Well, it might be a bigger break

than you bargained for.

What if something happens to you?

Something could happen to me

on my way home from work.

- Should I stop working?

- Jim, I'm begging. You want me to beg?

I will beg. Please, just don't go.

You have children and you have a family.

Why are you saying that?

You think I've forgotten that?

- No, I haven't...

- Because I haven't!

I realize that.

I didn't say that you've forgotten.

- All right. Good.

- Just listen to me.

- I need for you to listen to me.

- No, just stop it.

- No, just listen to me.

- Stop it. Stop it.

Just do me one favor.

If tomorrow's Wednesday,

just please wake me up before you leave.

- Lf tomorrow's Wednesday?

- Just... I know it sounds crazy.

Just please wake me up, okay?

Jesus.

Promise me.

I promise.

Okay.

Oh, that guest bed is just awful.

Mom.

That's right. You stayed over.

- Did you forget I was here?

- No, no, no. No, I remember.

I remember, now.

So that would have to be Friday.

Friday morning. Friday morning.

All right. All right.

Okay. There's two days left.

This is Sunday and there's Friday.

How do we know that? Sh*t! Sh*t!

- Are you all right?

- Sh*t!

Claire. Claire Francis. Who's Claire Francis?

Who's Claire? Who's Claire?

Who's Claire Francis?

- We talked?

- Well, yeah, yesterday. You don't remember?

Claire. Claire. Yeah.

Mom, I have to go.

What? You need to be with the girls.

You had the shock of your life yesterday.

Tell me about it.

Is there something

we should be talking about?

Something involving my husband?

Who told you?

I think you just did.

He was gonna cheat on me.

He what?

Well, wait a minute.

How do you know? How did you find out?

Because I talked to her.

She told me everything.

- When?

- Today.

Oh, hon, I'm sorry.

- Are you still in shock?

- No.

No, I passed up shock a couple days ago.

The whole thing is bad.

The accident, the other woman, it's a mess.

I don't know if it's so bad.

You know,

maybe it was supposed to happen.

What do you mean?

Even though he didn't do anything yet.

The damage that it would have caused us,

the girls.

Maybe it was enough that he was going to.

Are you listening to what you're saying?

We were roommates, Annie.

We were roommates with two girls,

and my roommate was a liar.

Well, as far as your mortgage

and your daughters' education,

it should all be taken care of.

And with the annuity Jim left you,

you should be pretty much set

income-wise, so...

You know, Linda, I have to tell you,

the timing on all this...

Timing? What do you mean, timing?

Jim stopped in to see me

Wednesday morning, right before his trip.

- Wednesday?

- Yeah.

And he seemed very anxious,

like he wasn't quite sure of things,

and he kept talking about you

and the girls, and he said that,

no matter what happened,

he wanted to make sure you're all okay.

And then he tripled his death benefits.

I mean, it's not a problem.

The police reports

all confirm it was an accident.

So, I'll just get this cleared

through the main office

and I should have a check for you

fairly soon.

Nice view, huh?

Yes, very.

You have a family?

I have two daughters but...

It's no big deal.

Happens to a lot of people.

They drive by here just like you did.

See the houses by this beautiful lake

and suddenly say to themselves,

"What a great place to start over. "

I moved here after my divorce.

Really?

Yeah, it's great.

It's like a whole new life.

This moss pink velvet is very nice.

I believe I would like that

for the showroom. And...

Miss Dwight, I'll have to call you back.

Thank you.

Hello.

I'm Dorothy Quinn.

I know.

Got it?

- Hi, honey.

- Hi, Mom.

Hey, you.

- One for you.

- Cool.

- Thanks.

- And one for you.

- Thank you, Mommy.

- You're welcome.

You know how much I love you, right?

- Linda?

- Yeah.

I don't want to upset you.

What is it, Mom?

I know this is very difficult,

but I really do think we need to

drive out to the funeral home, dear.

- I'll go with you.

- Oh, it's done.

- What?

- I already made all the arrangements.

Oh.

Well, when were you thinking

of having the...

The funeral is tomorrow.

It's all set.

- Saturday?

- Saturday.

- That soon?

- Yes, that soon.

You okay, hon?

Hey, Mom?

If I let Jim die,

is that the same thing as killing him?

Honey, Jim's already dead.

Good night, dear.

With silver buttons, buttons, buttons

all down her shoe, shoe, shoe.

She asked her grandma, grandma, grandma

for a hundred dollars, dollars, dollars

to see the bunnies, bunnies, bunnies

jump over the house, house, house.

They jumped so high, high, high

they reached the sky, sky, sky.

Girls, can you keep it down, please?

It's Sunday.

All day long.

Hey, why don't you take the girls

out for a while? You know?

You guys should spend some time together.

You can go have some fun.

Yeah. Okay. That's a good idea.

You girls want Daddy to make you

some pancakes for breakfast?

Yeah!

Hello, Father.

Linda.

It's been a long time.

I'm scared, Father.

I want another piece of bread!

Come on, green head! Get it!

off the coast of Carolina.

An hysterical midwife claimed to have

walked through the aftermath

of a terrible hurricane

that hadn't happened yet.

- So, what happened?

- They hung her for being a witch.

Two days later,

the entire town was wiped out

by a gale force hurricane.

That's awful.

I'll skip ahead to the 20th century.

Boston. 1918.

At the height of the influenza epidemic,

a father told friends he'd been to the future

and seen the graves

of his two small children.

He went insane and shot them both

to spare them the disease.

Oh, my God.

The autopsy showed

the children were never infected.

He shot himself a week later.

Who are these people? Why did it happen?

You see,

history's full of unexplained phenomena.

Nobody knows why.

Some people thought they suffered

from what the ancients called

Blasphemare absens fides.

The dangers of the faithless.

The faithless?

It's the notion that nature abhors

a vacuum, even a spiritual one.

People who've lost their beliefs,

they're like empty vessels,

more susceptible to having their lives

taken over

by forces bigger than themselves.

Almost like a curse.

Or a miracle.

Yeah, well, I don't believe in miracles.

Every day we're alive

can be a miracle, Linda.

Well, it doesn't feel that way.

Not for me.

Father, something bad is going to happen.

I need your... I need your help.

I need your direction. I need faith.

Faith is just

believing in something beyond yourself,

something you can't feel, or smell, or touch,

like hope or love.

I believe I've let that all go.

Maybe you should try

and get it back again, huh?

But if it's too late...

It's never too late

to realize what's important in your life,

to fight for it.

I don't know what to fight for.

He was on the highway,

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