The Body Tree Page #4

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your superstitious bullshit?

If you're wrong, we all die!

But if you're wrong,

we still die, right?

I'm not wrong, goddammit!

You were all there the

night that Kara was murdered.

So now you think

it was one of us too?

I don't know what to think!

Peter was the one who performed

this f***ed-up ceremony

that possessed Dan, right?

If you believe that.

I don't believe it!

But let's just say it's true.

Afterwards, Dan

tried to kill you.

And Sandra.

And now Dan's dead.

And you want to trust Peter?

Over your own f***ing friends?

My friends?

What do you mean, Brandon's

friends or Kara's friends?

But what if that's

not what you are?

We tie now!

Shut

the f***

up!

They are strangers to us!

Who is gonna let a

stranger tie them up?!

This demon, can he enter you?

Da.

So we could all be tied up

and the only one who's loose

is the one who's possessed,

is that right?

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

(LAUGHING)

Maybe we use the coffin.

For what?

To put Dan inside.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Keep him from rolling

around the back of the...

(THUDDING)

(MENACING MUSIC)

(THUDDING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(THUDDING)

(UNSETTLING MUSIC)

Piotr is the only

one who can perform

the purification ceremony.

Guys, understand this.

He has to be free!

It's just simply a

chance we have to take.

No, we don't!

No way.

Maybe there's a reason

you don't want to do it.

Oh yeah?

And what's that? You

think I killed Kara?

Did you?

You ever think maybe

I just don't want to

a f***ing ax through my head?

Or be f***ing tied up

and watch it happen

to all of you first?!

Where's Sandra?

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(LIGHTS BUZZING)

(CRUNCHING)

Two minutes. Five minutes.

Either way, nothing's

happened so you're wrong.

You know what?

I'm taking that

car and I'm leaving

with whoever the f***

wants to come with me.

It's now or never.

F***ing decide.

(INTENSE MUSIC)

Whoa! Whoa!

(HELEN SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Man with gun running things.

Understand?

Understand?

Yes.

Yeah.

Say!

I understand!

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

What did he say?

He told me to protect myself.

Do I have permission

to get some air?

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Okay, I wanted to show you

before I showed anyone else.

Ready? No, don't peek.

(LAUGHING)

Okay, you can look.

I just um...

I never want to lose her.

That's what you do when

you love someone, right?

(LAUGHING)

I'm asking Kara tomorrow.

(LAUGHING)

(SOMBER MUSIC)

They're bringing out the cake.

(CHEERING)

Guys, guys, guys,

wait, wait, wait, wait.

Kara, in honor of your birthday,

I wrote a small speech.

And it's from the heart.

Let's f***ing party like

there's no tomorrow.

(CHEERING)

(EXCITING PARTY MUSIC)

(MUFFLED PARTY MUSIC)

(KARA CRYING)

Is Brandon in there?

No, just Kara and...

KARA:
I get to decide what I want.

I'm with Brandon now.

You need to leave me alone.

MIKE:
Kara!

KARA:
Right now!

(KARA CRYING)

Rez doesn't give up, does he?

KARA:
I don't want it!

No, I guess not.

KARA:
Just leave me alone!

(GLASS SHATTERING)

MIKE:
Kara!

I'm gonna go tell Brandon.

No, Alice, you know how he gets.

Alice!

Alice, you'd better come.

I'm afraid Mike's gonna

try to rush Sergei.

Try to get his gun.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Your friend Peter,

he's a fraud, isn't he?

Of course he is.

My friend?

What do you want to call him?

I think to us that word means

something different

than to all of you.

Whatever the f***

you wanna call him,

this ceremony, chanting,

this demon, it's all

just a bunch of f***ing...

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You did see

Kara's Itterma doll

levitate, didn't you?

Yeah, we all did.

And I also saw

a woman sawed in half at

a magic show in Las Vegas.

The Altai call it Dyula.

It's a sickly soul.

Yeah, you have some

experience with that?

Now by the time

you all figure out

what you're dealing with

here, it's gonna be too late.

Is that what you think, Sergei?

It's gonna be too late for us?

Mike?

Mike?

Don't.

Don't what?

I think she's trying to tell

you not to get yourself shot.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

(ELECTRIC BUZZING)

(MENACING MUSIC)

All we have to do is figure out

which one of us

killed Kara, right?

Well, I can tell you that.

Who?

Well, don't look so

nervous, professor.

I think you're a f***ing bastard

but I don't think you did it.

Well, let's hear it then. Who?

Your brother.

Brandon.

Because he was the

only who was convicted

by a jury of his peers.

And he's rotting for

it in prison right now

while Kara's rotting out

in their f***ing woods.

Brandon didn't.

Of course he did, Alice.

Okay, we get it.

Growing up, all you

had was each other

but sometimes the

people we love,

they do horrible f***ing sh*t.

(ELECTRICAL BUZZING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

I did tell you you

not to tell Brandon

about the argument we overheard.

We all knew what he was

like when he was jealous.

I told Brandon because Rez

was f***ing terrifying her.

I was the last person

that she was afraid of.

And I wasn't even in the

room with her that night.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

I was.

Helen told me Brandon

was gonna propose.

I told Kara to say no.

Maybe that's why she's dead.

Because she did.

But I saw blood on Rez's hands.

That's because Brandon

punched me so hard

that he broke my nose.

Don't you think that an

insane jealousy like that

can drive someone to murder?

So stop blaming everyone

else for what happened.

Kara is dead because

of your brother

and because of the

decisions that you made.

You and Rez just want

Brandon to be guilty

because you're both

in love with Kara

and she didn't choose

either one of you.

No, she didn't choose us!

And look where the

f*** that got her!

Jesus.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Okay, you can

stop this whole lie

and just tell us why

the f*** we're here.

Do you think this world

is only what you can see?

As children, Kara wanted

to travel the world

and Piotr went to study

from our best shamans

to understand the world

that we cannot see.

So when Piotr tell me

that kyuryum, the demon,

is inside one of you,

it's as real to me as this gun.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Sergei, they don't

understand this culture.

But you do.

You do.

With your field research?

You understand our grief?

You understand what makes

our mountain roads slippery?

I don't...

Piotr's parents car?

It never turned.

It drove straight off

the mountain cliff.

So whichever one of you

put the knife in Kara,

you killed them too.

(THUDDING)

You win.

No rope.

Everyone free.

Now your friend dead.

How?

Eric.

Eric killed Tony.

Alice,

Alice, find out which one of

these bastards killed Kara.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Car dead.

You destroyed our

only way out of here?

You believe now?

Or need...

Proof?

Oh, f***.

(GASPING)

What Eric do to your friend!

(CRYING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Kyuryum, the demon is

taunting us with a message.

You mean the burns on the

floor from Kara's Itterma doll?

Yeah, and with the writing...

In blood.

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