Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy Page #2

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Come on, chop-chop.

Sarah?

Come on, let's go.

Where are you?

Sarah? Let's go.

Sa... Sarah?

Sarah, come out now, it's not funny.

Sarah?

Sarah! James!

James!

James, help us!

Jay.

James!

Adelle!

Sarah?

Sarah!

Sarah!

Sarah!

Jay!

- Help! - Adelle!

Help!

- Jay! - Adelle!

Er, Jay, Jay, Jay...

Sarah! Sarah.

Adelle!

Where's Sarah?

Where's Sarah?

She fell in the water. In the water.

- Oh God, she fell in... - What?

Sarah?

Sarah?

Oh my God. Sarah.

I let her go.

Sarah?

No, no, let me go.

No.

Let me go.

No.

He'll find her!

No.

Sarah!

I lost...

We'll begin again first light

tomorrow morning.

But I must say it...

you should prepare yourself.

My daughter could be alive out there,

waiting for us to find her.

The boats have lights,

your men have lights.

Then we search all f***ing night

if we have to.

I can't stay here, Adelle.

I'm going down to join the search.

Adelle.

We'll find her.

Promise.

I hate you.

Sarah.

I can't stand this any more!

Dad's gone

And on the count of three,

I want you to open this door.

Don't test me on this.

Sarah?

Mum Mum, help me...

One...

James.

Jay!

Sarah.

Oh my God. Sarah.

Sarah!

Sarah!

Are you in here?

Mother.

Sarah?

Oh God. Sarah.

Sarah?

Is that who you're looking for?

You won't find her here.

This is where the sheep come to die.

The sheep?

But before they go...

they must have the filth

taken from them.

And that's what he does for them...

with scrapes and hooks...

he cleans hell from their heads.

He?

Who is he?

The Shepherd...

All that you see is of his making.

It's all right. It's all right.

I'm not gonna hurt you, okay?

I told you, you won't find her here.

Wait.

Just wait.

I want you to get me in there, see?

Can you get me in there

close to that shelf?

Not till the tide's back in.

How long?

Another hour.

I saw a girl.

You saw a girl?

Yes, out in the yard.

What?

I followed her out to the abattoir.

You went to the abattoir?

Yes. She said something...

she said something about the

Shepherd and she said something else,

something in Welsh...

I couldn't understand her.

Adelle.

I couldn't understand her and I...

Adelle... you saw Sarah?

well, and when I went to touch her,

she just...

Look, please Adelle...

you saw Sarah?

No.

You've cut your hand.

Why don't you let me have a look at it.

I don't know why I thought it was her,

but it wasn't.

It wasn't her.

It's okay. Come here.

Before we left New York,

Sarah and I had a fight.

I was a bad mother.

You weren't.

You aren't.

You did your best, we both did,

and we made mistakes.

She loves you, Adelle.

We both do.

Bed your pardon, missus.

I just came to pick up James.

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

I'm all right.

I was just, er... I was just, er...

I thought I heard something

upstairs tapping, and, er...

Sarah and James play this

SOS game, they used to play this game.

That's what waiting here is like, it's...

How are you holding up?

I don't know how

this could have happened.

I should have been there with them.

Why don't you go back and stay with her?

I'll let you know if we find anything.

I wasn't there when she was lost.

I want to be there when she's found.

Who are you?

ANNWYN:

Jesus.

May 16th, 1952, put down six sheep.

Panicked.

Here, look at this. Where is it?

Okay, okay, May 17th...

...Put down seven sheep.

Burnt bodies to contain illness.

Cause unknown.

There's pages of it.

Sheep dying for unknown reasons.

Er, er, sick sh*t.

Sheep, er, dissection and trepanning

and then...

...and then over here it says, er...

...it says 'she is doing it'.

She is killing the sheep.'

Who is she? Who is she?

I don't know who she is, Adelle.

I don't know.

Okay look at this.

Right, it's her.

The girl you saw in the abattoir?

Yes.

The same girl I saw the night

Sarah went missing.

Adelle, we didn't find her.

Okay.

We didn't find her today.

Are you listening to me?!

Yes, yes, I'm listening!

Maybe we're just not looking

in the right places, all right?

This is crazy.

Can you hear yourself? Can ya?

I'm down there, Adelle.

All those people are down there

looking for our dead daughter.

And you're running around the moors

drawing pictures!

Jesus.

I'm sorry... Adelle.

Welsh Farmers Mourn their Loss

Inexplicable Disease Strikes Welsh Sheep

Found what you're looking for?

Er, yes, I'm fine, thank you.

Er, actually, do you speak Welsh?

Only to bother the English.

Would you mind looking at this for me?

Here.

Derbynwy y plant afradlon yn ol l

Gesail Annwyn.

Well, plain enough, it means...

'The children were received back

into the armpit of Annwyn'.

The armpit of Annwyn...

But probably, more like, um...

'The children were taken into

the embrace of Annwyn'.

Taken?

Welsh mythology is full of

that sort of thing.

The living and the dead crossing back

and forth, you know.

Like what?

You found it there.

Creiddylad.

She was pulled into Annwyn

by a dark spirit.

Her husband had to cross over

to get her back.

The maiden Creiddylad falling

to the depths of Annwyn

The Shepherd.

The Shepherd and his flock.

Mass suicide.

The Shepherd with

his late daughter Ebrill.

Ebrill.

Is that who you're looking for?

Ebrill.

James?

James!

Who's there?

Someone out there?

Who's out there?

Open the door.

Open the door!

I can't... I'm afraid.

Sarah?

Sarah?

Is that you?

Yeah, it's me.

Listen to me... okay?

I'm gonna count to three.

And before I get to three,

you will have opened this door.

Okay?

One...

Sarah?

James.

She's here.

Who's here?

Ebrill. The Shepherd's daughter.

She's upstairs in Sarah's bed.

Adelle, please.

She knows where Sarah is.

She knows, she knows.

You've gotta believe me, James. Look...

Sarah drowned. Sarah is dead.

She's not. She's not!

I feel it. I know it, James.

Jesus, Adelle. It's over. It's done!

We've called it off. Do you get that?

I've called off the search!

Hush. Sshh, don't cry.

Don't cry... mummy's here.

Ebrill?

Do you remember me from the abattoir?

You know where Sarah is, don't you?

James, look at her,

she knows this place, she knows it.

Is this the Shepherd's house?

Yes, this was the Shepherd's house,

wasn't it?

A long time ago.

And he lived here...

...all by himself.

No, no, no.

He lived here with you... Ebrill.

Don't you remember?

And he was very sick.

That's the room.

Show us. Tell us about the room.

That's the room where the Shepherd

kept his little lamb.

And never let her out,

no matter how she cried.

No, don't hurt me. Please, don't hurt me!

He'd take her out... to the place...

...where the sheep go to die.

The abattoir?

Your father cut your head,

like he did the sheep, didn't he?

And she begged and begged him

to stop hurting her head.

It's okay.

But the dark had to come out

of it somehow.

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

(WELSH)

Don't you want your lockbox back?

No, no, no, no, no, no...

What's in the box, honey?

Please don't make me go up there

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