Sliver Page #5

I had it custom-built in Osaka.

It cost me $6 million.

He's not there.

We'll know if he is, though.

Tomorrow night.

Yeah, I have to be in at 5:00.

No, it's just me. Can you believe it?

There must have been 600 girls there.

Put my apartment on.

- There's nobody home there, either.

- Put it on.

Aren't you gonna come meet us?

Yeah, we're gonna be there in

about a half hour, if I can get ready.

No, I think Henry will be there.

No, he just called me, like,

What does that have

to do with anything?

My God, have you slept with her?

Did you sleep with her?

Simple question, Will.

You're making me do something

I don't want to do.

I know.

You watch them?

- You watch these people?

- So do you, Carly, with your telescope.

- Oh, you...

- I just have better technology.

You want gossip?

I'll give you real gossip. Real life, Carly.

It's better than any book.

Better than any movie.

It's a soap opera. It's real life.

It's a tragedy, it's funny,

it's sad, it's unpredictable.

- Look for yourself, Carly.

- It's wrong.

It's the same as your James Dean book.

Only nobody gets hurt.

- You ready?

- Yes...

They don't even know.

Open the door, Zeke.

Look, Carly, don't...

I love you.

Give me a little bit more time,

for God's sake!

You will ride with your dad, okay?

That's it. No more.

He's not my father, and I'm not riding

with him alone. I don't...

Jonnie, get back in here!

Jonnie! Come here.

You be nicer to him!

- He touches me.

- Stop it!

He puts his hands on me, Mom,

every chance he gets.

Don't start. I don't wanna hear it.

He is a decent, hard-working man.

I hate him! I hate him!

- Don't you...

- I hate you, Mom! I hate you!

The little girl's right.

Every chance he gets.

I hate him, Pony, I really do. I hate him.

Whenever the mother's not around,

he's got his hands all over her.

Why don't you give it a try?

You just have to tap the touch screen.

There are some alternatives.

I realize you're in a lot of pain.

- Would you like something to eat?

- I'm not hungry.

You haven't eaten anything all day.

You're like a kid with a new toy.

But it's not a toy, is it?

No.

Are you the one

that sent me the telescope?

Yes.

Why did you do it?

Not now, honey.

What did the x-ray show?

Some kind of shadow, that's all.

Don't worry about it.

It could be anything.

Baby, please tell me everything.

What did he say?

- He said it might be a tumor.

- A tumor?

Were you watching Vida

when she got killed?

No. The lights had gone down

in the stairwell.

What about the others?

I wasn't watching.

I did see Gus Hale

on the floor of the shower, though.

I was the one who called the police.

Do you tape these?

Yes.

Did you tape us?

Would you like to see?

Yes.

There's so much on this tape.

Come on, where is it?

You see, sometimes I just let it run

on record in one apartment for a while.

Like my own little soap opera.

I don't even have the time

to watch most of what I record.

It's amazing what I've found

on some of these tapes.

Good morning.

Oh, God. Are you all right?

- Carly.

- I'm fine.

We've been so worried about you.

Everybody's been calling.

Yeah, and to think I spent the weekend

with an impotent maniac...

hoping that he'd, you know...

The police even talked to me.

Carly Norris.

- Carly, will you come and see me later...

- It's Zeke Hawkins.

...and tell me the real skinny?

I wanna hear everything, darling.

- Hello?

- Hey, guess what?

I called Ballinger at his office, you know

the guy who can't keep his hands...

off his stepdaughter?

I told him if he ever touched her again,

I'd kill him.

- What did he do?

- He panicked, that's what he did.

I just wish you could have heard him.

Hey, maybe we should

start wiring the whole town, huh?

That way we could see everything.

You there, Carly?

I don't know what to do.

Just come home, you.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Don't you scream.

Don't. I'm not gonna hurt you.

He set me up, Carly. Zeke set me up.

I believe you. I do, I believe you.

It's okay. Let me go. Let me go.

He's sick. That man is sick.

His mother died when he was 17.

She was a soap opera actress.

Do you know how she died? She fell.

- She fell?

- She fell in the shower.

- Look!

- What?

Look, Carly. Thea Manning.

That's his mother, Carly.

- Who does she look like?

- Oh, she...

She looks like you, Carly.

- Hello?

- Hi, it's me.

Hey, are you coming down?

- Why don't you come over here?

- Why? What's up?

Well, because I have a surprise for you.

Great. I'll be right there.

Okay.

- Sit down.

- Okay.

- Hey, you.

- Hi.

A little dark in here, don't you think?

- He's got a gun!

- Sit down! All right, you bastard!

You tell the truth now,

or I'll blow your brains out.

- What the hell are you talking about?

- You killed Naomi Singer.

No, I didn't.

- How'd your mother die, Zeke?

- My mother?

Yeah, she fell in the shower,

wasn't that it?

She had an aneurysm and fell.

She fell in the shower

the way you killed Gus Hale.

- Gus Hale?

- Yeah, and he killed Vida, too.

Didn't you? Didn't you?

Three now, Jack? I killed three people?

First of all, I didn't

even know Naomi Singer.

But you did, Jack.

'Cause I saw you with her.

So I know

why you would want to kill her.

What do you mean, you saw us?

I also saw her give you a key

to this apartment, right, Jack?

Is that how he got in here

this time, huh?

- Is it?

- You still have the key, don't you?

- Why don't you show it to us, Jack?

- What the hell are you talking about?

I'm talking about the fact that you

just couldn't get it up, could you, Jack?

I saw that, too.

Is that why you killed her, Jack?

- Is it? Is it?

- He's lying, Carly. He's lying.

Jack, I don't know what to believe.

Just show me the key.

No, Jack! No.

Jack, let go! Jack. No!

Oh, my...

Because he was already in this room,

but I didn't see him.

And when he came out,

I saw that he had a gun.

He started screaming at me.

And...

Sorry.

Then we wrestled around

on the ground.

And...

the gun skidded across the floor there...

and I picked it up.

How did he get in?

Your door wasn't forced.

He must have had a key.

I mean, it was just like before.

He was already in here.

He had these in his pocket.

Try them.

Jack Landsford's got a sheet with us.

He's a known offender.

Assaulted his ex-wife more than once.

She dropped charges.

I wish she hadn't.

Maybe we wouldn't

have two women dead.

He didn't get in with these.

- You guys about done here?

- Finished.

- Where?

- Floor, next to the counter.

This yours?

No.

Bingo.

Well, that wraps it.

The D.A.'s gonna need to see you both

tomorrow morning...

down at the precinct. Say, 9:30?

You know where it is.

Let's secure it.

I don't...

I don't want to stay here tonight.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

Okay?

Jonnie, can we talk for a minute?

Have you told anyone that I...

- Just Mom.

- You're sure?

Jonnie, I'm sorry.

It was just, I couldn't help myself.

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