Pretty Dead Girl Page #6

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Paranoia.

Paranoia?

How am i paranoid?

Because i... i don't want

to be some lab rat?

Because i'm hurting people,

so i stay away from them?

That's not paranoia.

That's common sense.

Patients with schizophrenia

often experience losses of time.

Where they black out

and they come to,

And they don't know

how they got.

To where they are

or what they've done.

Or where they've been.

And you've explained to me

that you have blacked out.

Half the kids on campus

have drank too much.

And blacked out

at one point or another.

Does that make all of them

schizophrenic?

Were you drinking before

your loss of time, regina?

Look, i wish i was

schizophrenic.

You know, give me a pill...

poof... all this goes away,

But that's not

what's going on here.

It...

the mind is a very,

very powerful thing, regina.

Do you remember what happened

after, regina...

between the time

when you pulled the trigger.

And woke up?

Hey, dad.

Remember when mom told me that

monsters were just in my head?

That the world didn't need.

Vampires and werewolves

and zombies,

Because people were capable

of doing.

All the dark things

the world had room for?

I know what it's like.

To have something eat you alive

from the inside,

And i know that if i don't eat,

i'll be eaten,

Or worse, it'll spore, and...

this is the last chapter

of this investigation.

The big medical breakthrough

i thought this was.

Turned out to be a lot simpler

than i thought.

You know, murder,

i-I get it.

I can come up

with a thousand reasons...

i didn't mean to do...

to do it.

I don't want to be a monster.

And i don't want to be

experimented on.

I'm already dead already.

I just need a little help

lying down.

I just...

[ sighs ]

i can't explain it.

You're not gonna believe me

anyway.

Try me.

It couldn't hurt,

right?

[ Sighs ]

okay.

If i don't ingest

human tissue,

The symbiotic fungal parasite

in my body.

Will spore and infect.

Who knows

how many other people.

[ Door unlocks ]

Sh*t.

Ryan, don't you f***ing

come in here.

I just want to talk,

okay?

Just want to talk.

Thought maybe you'd

have checked yourself in.

Look at me.

I can't go out like this.

I don't trust myself to be

around people.

That's why you need

to turn yourself in.

You can't... just keep

hiding in here.

And hope that this is gonna go

away, 'cause it's not.

Let me look here.

Honey, you've got to get...

yeah, it hasn't spored yet,

If that's

what you're worried about.

It isn't.

When it finally spores,

i doubt you'll still be...

yeah, well, that's why i'm not

gonna let it get that far.

Good, then let me take you

somewhere right now.

And he... he didn't...

this?

Why would you do this?

[ Sighs ]

Of course not.

I was dead.

[ Sniffs ]

Plus, i'm sure he didn't want

to implicate himself.

[ Sighs ]

[ Sniffles ]

Ryan.

You know, with the pizza guy,

that wasn't me.

[ Sighs ]

When i came to,

he was there.

And... i mean, i didn't know

what happened.

Well, i knew

what happened, but...

and i think i blacked out.

When i didn't respond

to the hunger cues,

But it's not me.

It's what's inside me.

You know that, right?

[ Scoffs ]

doesn't even matter.

You checked out

of this relationship.

As soon as this crap starts

showing up on my face.

That's not true.

Really?

I'm afraid of you,

regina.

You killed somebody.

Please, you stopped coming home

long before that happened.

What did you

want me to do?

Help you steal body parts

and blend them up.

And write you poetry about how

you have a fungus inside you...

a fungus that can be contagious

at any second?

I'm not a bad person for being

weirded out by this.

No, you are a bad person.

For ditching me

when i needed you most.

You're out of control, and i get

that you're pissed off.

But let me get you help.

I'm gonna go

in the bedroom,

And i'm gonna pack you

a bag.

And i'm gonna take you.

To the police station

or the hospital...

but you can choose.

It's too late for that.

Whoa, whoa.

So, you killed and ate

the pizza-Delivery guy?

That's not...

that's not what ryan

told you?

[ Door closes ]

Sorry, dad.

This isn't your fault.

[ Sniffles ]

[ Voice breaking ]

i want to see ryan.

I get a phone call.

I want to see ryan.

Ryan:
reggie?!

Jesus christ.

[ Telephone beeping ]

[ Telephone ringing ]

Oh, babe, what did you do?

What did you do?

Oh, please.

Just hold on.

Just hold on.

Come on.

Man:
911,

what's your emergency?

I'm am emt.

I have a 24-Year-Old female.

With a self-Inflicted gsw

to the head.

She's in full arrest.

I'm at 1915 maple street.

Is that an apartment

or a house?

It's an apartment.

I have you

at 1915 west maple...

no, it's north maple street.

It's in westwood.

1915 maple street

in westwood. Got it.

She's not breathing and you

confirmed she has no pulse?

Yes, correct.

Go ahead and start cpr

if you haven't already.

Police are en route, but

paramedics will have to stage.

Please, just...

just hurry.

What the...

[ grunting ]

no!

Wait.

Okay,

we've got regina stevens.

Caucasian female, 24 years old.

Cause of death

still undetermined,

Though it's probably not

from this apparent gunshot wound.

Just over the left mandible.

It's 8:
07 p.M.,

And i'm gonna go ahead

and make the first incision.

[ Gasps ]

F***!

[ Panting ]

Are... are you okay?

Don't say

anything else, honey.

John's on his way.

[ Voice breaking ]

no, i-I don't need a lawyer.

I don't need anything, okay?

I just... i don't...

i don't want

to do anything.

Is this bruising?

What the hell's wrong

with you people?

Okay, before you go off the deep

end there, mr. Stevens,

You should know

that your daughter.

Has just confessed to two

extremely brutal murders.

I can't explain it.

This is a mistake.

It's not a mistake.

[ Sobbing ]

i'm so sorry.

Don't, please.

I'm dangerous, okay?

You have to stay away

from me.

I don't want

to hurt you, too.

Dad. I'm sorry.

What's the truth,

regina?

What happened

the night you say you died?

but got me back.

Sh*t. Yeah, sh*t. You all right?

when summer's.

Hey, whoa, whoa, hey.

You okay?

Joe:
you do not look

so good, sweetie.

Shonda:
oh, sh*t. All right, you

need to go to the bathroom.

Go to the bathroom.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

Regina:
it had to be something

in the cocaine.

I-I don't know what else

it could've been.

But it could've easily been

contaminated.

Dr. Romera:
why didn't any

of your friends get infected?

You were the only one

who got sick.

I don't know.

Maybe i'm unique somehow.

Cordyceps bond

to genetically specific hosts.

Maybe my immune system was off

while my heart was stopped.

I mean,

maybe when ryan continued.

To pump the infected blood

through my system.

While doing cpr...

yeah, maybe that's what

allowed it to take hold.

I mean, i was the only one

who died that night,

With it

still in my bloodstream.

You know, that's why it

would only affect me.

And not anybody else.

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