Sightings Page #4

Synopsis: A character-driven sci-fi mystery about a dysfunctional family living on a ranch in TX threatened by a cryptid in their woods. Ultimately, they must overcome their interpersonal conflict in...
 
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2017
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if I were y'all.

- Tom?

Tom, come on, baby.

We gotta go, all of us, okay?

We've all gotta go.

Come on.

Thank you.

Hannah?

Hannah.

Baby, come on.

You have to come, okay?

Your Dad'll come if you come.

Hannah.

- Why?

Because you heard some

voices or the static

of the TV telling you that

they're comin' to get ya?

- You know me.

Why can't you believe

that this is real, huh?

- There ain't nobody

goin' anywhere.

This is ridiculous.

Give me my stuff.

- Now, the rest'll have

to come with y'all.

Hey, what's shakin'?

- They won't listen.

- Now, now I don't know the

reasons why,

but this thing is real

and it's targeted Lily

and we gotta get her outta here.

- No, you're not doin' anything.

- Hey, how can you protect

your family

from something you

refuse to believe exists?

- I shoulda protected my family

from you

and your crazy ideas.

- Stop!

- Stop it.

Come on, come on both.

- Uncle Rickey, stop.

- I want you to go

and I'm gonna meet ya, okay?

I'm gonna meet ya in

just a minute.

- I'm so sorry, Rickey.

I do believe that whatever's

in our woods

had something to do

with Lily's death.

And it deserves to die for it.

- Mr. Mayfield, came as

promptly as possible.

- What I wanna do is

shrink the perimeter,

so installing the security

system on this fence

all the way around the house.

Did you bring the surveillance

equipment?

- Indeed, sir.

You see, it compresses

files while it records

so we can maximize space

for the hard drive,

so we can see a particular

area longer.

But what I'm actually

excited to use is this.

Thermal scanner.

It senses heat rays,

also infrared rays.

We're gonna set up surveillance

throughout the night,

hopefully capture this thing,

see exactly

what we're dealing with.

- Oh, I could tell ya exactly

what we're dealin' with.

I say we go get this thing

right now.

- It's an intelligent creature.

We gotta be more strategic.

- All right, so let me

ask you something, Akiro.

If you guys have been huntin'

these things

for decades with all this fancy

equipment surveillance gear,

why don't you have a carcass

or a skeleton or somethin'?

- Because Bigfoot is an alien.

Think about, guys.

He's dropped off in

remote areas of the planet

to scout it out and then

taken away, never to be found.

- Great, we're dealin'

with Chewbacca.

- Hope you

don't mind I let myself in.

- I say we walk straight up to

this guy

and we blow a shotgun shell

right up its rear end.

- No, I suggest we attempt to

lure it out.

I have a supply of deer urine

we could place in the yard.

They're known to track deer.

- Excuse me, gentlemen.

Let me see one of those.

Lady.

Newton's First Law of

Motion states an object

at rest will remain at rest

unless acted on by an

outside force.

If we go to that thing and lure

it out,

it will be on the offensive

and therefore aggressive,

but if we go to it

and come upon it

when it's at rest, it

won't have time to react

and it will drop.

- I'm with her.

- You guys know this

thing could be out there

waitin' for us, right?

- Heck yeah.

- Hannah!

- Hey.

- Hey.

I thought you said

she was in danger.

- Okay look, I don't know

what Pitney's sayin',

and I don't know

what you're thinkin',

but I'm convinced

that something,

not someone, killed those women.

And I need you to stay here

and watch out for Hannah.

- No.

- You're stayin' here, Hannah.

It's Hannah's backpack.

- Was Hannah's.

- We'll just wait 'til

nightfall.

- Hope we don't die.

- We're all gonna die.

- See, I told you you could see

real good

in the dark, right?

- Right on.

- Right there.

Right there.

- And what are we lookin' at

here, though?

- Well, that's a tree.

- It's kinda hard to get

my bearings with that.

- Watch, you can see better

like that.

- So, you writing your

next book?

- No, journaling.

You know how many famous people

in history kept journals?

My favorite was Lewis and Clark.

They wrote about all

the interesting things

that they encountered in their

exploration of the Northwest.

So, I don't know.

I just love the idea of

people reading my journal

about all the incredible things

I've seen.

- And Tinkerbell?

- To me she symbolizes

imagination and belief.

But mostly I got her because

my mom told me not to.

- Well, I know somebody

like that.

- You know, I was surprised

when you called me.

What is it that changed

your mind about all of this?

- Well, I'm still not

sure what all this is.

- You know there's those who

believe that this creature

is what remains of an

ancient alien civilization

and the blood type with no

Rhesus strand

is said to date back to a time

when there was crossbreeding

between extraterrestrials

and humans.

- What?

- I know.

But there's also these

ancient Hebrew manuscripts

that talk about beings

coming down from heaven

and reproducing with

the women of the earth.

Think about this, this

coincidence,

all those photos and maps

you have pinned to your wall.

In the exact same areas there

were reported UFO sightings

within days of those women

going missing.

Including your wife.

- Dad.

- Oh, don't be alarmed.

- Hannah!

- Shh.

- I thought I told

you to stay at home.

- You filmin'?

- I was using night vision.

- Hey, Tom, look.

I'm sorry, I know you

told me to keep her there,

but when she started

explainin' everything to me

about Miss Otis's theory

of this thing

being some sort of

vampire alien Bigfoot?

Well, I got spooked.

- And so ya came out here?

- Well, I just thought that,

you know--

- Dad, look.

If Rebecca's right and

it's really after my blood

then it's not gonna be

out here if I'm in there.

And I'm probably less safe with

just Brian

than out here with all of you.

I mean, no offense.

- Safety in numbers.

- Hannah, that's not

entirely accurate.

I'm also O negative so

it could come after me.

- Akiro.

- Stay here, stay here.

Hey. Hey, buddy.

You okay?

Easy, here, come here.

- Hannah!

Hold onto her!

Hold onto her!

We gotta get her back

to the house.

- Dad, we have to stop.

We have to stop

the bleeding now.

We have to stop

the bleeding now.

- All right.

I'm gonna put ya down

right here.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- Okay.

- Against the tree.

- Okay, okay.

- It won't clot.

I can't get it to clot!

Oh sh*t.

- I want Mom.

- I do, too, Hannah.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I shoulda protected Lily.

I shoulda protected 'em both.

- It'll slow down.

It'll slow.

- Baby, it's not safe.

- Mom, no.

- Please.

Please come.

- Please stay.

- Tom.

Tom.

Hey, hey.

Hey, Tom.

You fellas okay?

- It's okay, it's all right.

Put your arm around me.

- Think this thing'll

still see in the dark?

- Miss Otis!

Miss Otis!

- Shh.

I don't think we're alone.

All right, I'm gonna get

Hannah back to the house.

You guys go and find Rebecca.

Come on, keep goin', keep goin'.

- Let's go.

I can see it, come on!

- Hey, hey, hey,

what's goin' on?

- There's somethin'

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