Silent House

Hey, sweetie. Hey, Dad.

I hit the Internet cafe.

You know how many e-mails

I had in my box?

Eighty-three.

Oh, you're a popular guy.

Very.

Of course, 60 of 'em were ads

trying to get me to buy something.

Sarah, did you leave

these tools on the ground?

I might have.

Let's get them in the bag and

bring them in the house, please.

We don't want it

to rain on them.

Oh, I checked

your Facebook page.

What's-his-name

wrote on your wall again.

God, I should

never have added you.

Yeah, he, um.

Wants to get back together.

Of course he does.

I told you. Princess,

he doesn't deserve you.

There you are.

And there you are. Here I am.

Mmm-hmm.

Hey, we have a problem.

I've barely been gone

an hour. What now?

You'll see.

Great. Do I have to? Yeah.

Hey, I was looking for you.

Did you go into town?

Mmm-mmm. I didn't think so.

Where were you? Outside.

JOHN:
Working very

hard on the garden.

Hmm. We have a garden?

(CLEARING THROAT)

I had a headache.

Haven't you heard that one before?

(PETER LAUGHS)

I did!

I know, honey.

Are you all better now?

Yes. Thank you, Uncle Peter.

JOHN:
So, what is

the big problem?

All right, all right. This way.

Why can't you just

tell me about it?

No, this is something

you have to see.

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)

I'll give you a hint.

It's in here.

JOHN:
Funny.

What do you think?

How are you supposed to

tell anything from that?

What, do you need

binoculars, old man?

Just get your face up there.

Look in there.

Okay. Oh.

That's really...

ls this necessary?

I made a hole! What are you...

(SARAH LAUGHS)

Are you impressed with your dad?

I'm impressed with your dad.

JOHN:
Now that, little

brother, is a hole.

PETER:
Nicely done.

That is not good.

No, not good.

SARAH:
What is it?

Oh, it's mold.

Honey, you know what, I want you to stand back.

This is really bad.

I don't want you breathing it in.

It can make you really sick.

Just looking at it

is making me sick.

This whole house could be

infected, for all we know.

Affected, not infected.

Affected, infected, whatever.

Well, if you cover it up,

who'll ever know, right?

That's true. Just a minute ago

we had a tiny hole to deal with.

Now we have a big hole.

Well, the insurance

will cover it.

It's obviously

part of the leak.

(SIGHS) Did you remember

to bring the...

Ah, great minds think alike.

(POLAROID WHIRRING)

So what do you want to do?

Why are you asking me?

We're out of here in a few days.

Oh, okay. See here, this

is where it gets tricky.

You're gonna dump

this whole thing on me.

But it comes with the perk

of you not being here.

So, dare I complain?

It's what you do best.

All right, I'll deal with it.

Just don't give me sh*t later

when you find out how.

Well, if you do it right the

first time, I won't have to.

Have you checked the wall all

the way down to the basement?

I just figured out

that it got down here.

Okay, come on.

Bring the work light, please.

(LAUGHS) Have fun.

(LAUGHING SPOOKILY)

SARAH:
(LAUGHING) Uncle

Peter, don't do that!

Come on. You used to love that

when you were a little girl.

JOHN:
Any day now!

Coming!

(GROWLS PLAYFULLY)

How are you, Sarah?

I'm okay. Yeah?

Yeah. How are you?

(LAUGHS) Look at you.

I can't get over

how grown up you are.

JOHN:
You gonna

come down here or what?

Bite me! See you later.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING CONTINUES)

(FAINT RATTLING)

Sarah? Yeah.

Wow, I can't believe

you're here!

You don't remember me, do you?

I'm so embarrassed.

I'm Sophia.

We used to play together.

Oh, of course. Yeah.

How are you?

I'm quite good actually, especially

now that I'm finding you here.

Why is it so dark in here?

The power's out.

My dad thinks rats

chewed through the wires.

I'd invite you in, but there's

really no place to hang or anything.

That's okay.

I can't stay long anyways.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

How long's it been

since you were out here?

A long time, years.

Yeah. I come by

once in a while,

and I've seen other people here

but never you.

Yeah, other family

come out now and then,

but no one's really been

here this last summer.

Well, except for the people who keep

breaking in and messing the place up.

That's terrible. Yeah.

Well, they broke

almost all our windows.

My uncle had to call the

police to run them off.

So what are you doing here now?

Fixing it up.

We're gonna sell it.

That's too bad.

And aside from selling this

house, what are you up to?

Nothing much.

Are you in school or something?

No, me and school

don't really go together.

I'm working for my dad and thinking

about doing something else.

Yeah, it's tough getting any

kind of job these days.

There's so many things

I want to do,

but I never seem to be

able to do any of them.

Can you believe

how long it's been?

Remember when we used to play

dress up and do makeovers?

Did we? Yeah.

(LAUGHS) Oh, my God.

It's been so long,

I swear, sometimes,

I think I have holes up here.

I have a pile of photos around somewhere.

I'll have to find them.

Yeah.

You always had the best hair.

So how long are you around for?

We've already been

here a couple days,

and my dad thinks

we're gonna head out soon.

Really?

Well, you maybe

want to hang out later?

Yeah, that could be good.

(LAUGHS)

The phone lines

aren't set up though

and our cells

don't work up here.

It's okay,

I'll just come by later.

Okay.

I didn't know if I'd

ever see you again.

It's so good to see you.

Yeah, it's good

to see you, too.

I'll see you later.

You know, I do remember you.

How could you forget?

SOPHIA:
See you later.

PETER:
John, if you care so

much about the way it's done,

you can do it yourself, okay?

Just do it yourself.

JOHN:
Just trying

to be helpful.

You're an a**hole.

What? What did I do now? Sorry.

I gotta get out of here, Sarah.

Whoops.

Can I have the keys

to my car, please?

Uh...

You know where they are.

Give me the keys.

When you're done with

your temper tantrums,

see if you can get the electrician

on the phone, please.

That would be awesome.

If he could come out here,

we could use his

needle nose pliers

to get that stick

out of your ass.

(SNICKERS)

What was that?

I love you, brother.

(DOOR SHUTS)

I don't know why my brother always

has to make everything so difficult.

Yeah, when he doesn't do

what you want him to.

Exactly. You see, if everyone

would just do what I say,

we wouldn't have any

problems, would we?

Uh-huh.

Do you need any

help down there?

No, it's okay.

Okay.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING CONTINUES)

(THUDDING)

(CREAKING)

Hey. What are you doing?

I just thought

I heard something upstairs.

It's probably the damn rats.

God, don't remind me.

No, it sounded like

someone was up there.

Maybe it's your uncle.

No, his car's not here.

(LAUGHS) I know how

you think, sweetie.

Would you like me to go

upstairs and have a look?

Yeah. Okay.

Wait! I'm gonna come with you.

Jesus!

L get you?

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