The Body Tree Page #5

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It wants to be released.

It's trying to get out into

the city, into the country.

To world.

To keep killing.

(BANGING)

Sergei, Sandra.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

You need to go.

Okay.

Get to the bottom

of the mountain.

Get to people.

Okay, so it's one of us?

Anyone want to

make a confession?

Anybody?

No? Okay, so then what do we do?

Do we draw straws to figure out

which one of us we kill first?

Rez.

No!

We kill somebody,

we save Eric, right?

We take a life, we save a life.

And we know that

Eric didn't do it.

How about you first

professor? You're deserving.

Maybe it should be you.

You don't want to

be here anyway.

How many times you try suicide?

Not enough, obviously.

Maybe you're just

not good at it.

A failure at even that.

Yeah, f*** yeah. That's it.

That's you.

That's the real you.

Now we're having a conversation.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

(GASPING)

No one can leave.

Piotr said.

He said that

the person who's possessed

won't try to kill

Kara's murderer.

But Dan tried to

kill Alice and me.

So you know, you know I

didn't do it, don't you?

Look, Eric will probably

be dead before I find help,

but I can't live with

myself if I don't try.

So if you're gonna shoot me,

you can put a bullet in my back.

(MENACING MUSIC)

Why do you go to a party

with a bunch of

twenty year-old's? Hm?

And why are you here?

Kara was my student.

She was my best student.

And she was my friend.

Like the rest of you.

Her trusted mentor.

And you just loved

her beautiful culture.

Look, we have to focus.

There's a killer out there.

There's a killer in here too.

(SOBBING)

Oh God.

(HELEN WHIMPERING)

We start falling apart,

we're not gonna make it.

HELEN:
I'm so f***ing exhausted.

Okay, this needs

to be the focus.

Here.

Which one of us

really killed Kara?

(HELEN SOBBING)

You f***.

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(INTENSE MUSIC)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

Stay close together.

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(DISTANT GLASS SHATTERING)

Why is he breaking windows?

He's trying to confuse us.

To divide us.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(GASPING)

He stopped.

Where's Piotr?

And Sandra?

I don't know.

We need weapons.

Everyone grab something.

An ax, a hammer,

a f***ing shovel.

A hammer and a f***ing shovel.

Stop. Mike, just stop!

(REZ GIGGLING)

What the f*** are

you laughing at, Rez?

Sergei's got a gun.

REZ:
And we shoot Eric?

You're goddam

right we shoot Eric.

REZ:
And who's possessed

next after we shoot Eric?

MIKE:
He's right.

If we shoot kill Eric,

another one of us turns.

We gotta, we gotta

f***ing catch him.

ALICE:
How're we supposed to do that?

REZ:
Why don't we dig

a hols in the middle

of the f***ing room,

cover it with sticks?

(GROANING)

(SCREAMING)

(INTENSE MUSIC)

Go! Go! Go!

(DOOR SLAMMING)

Shut the door!

Where are the girls?

Shut the f***ing door!

(HELEN CRYING)

(ALICE SHUSHING)

What are those?

Oh f***.

Coffins.

There's eight of them.

One for each of us.

(HELEN SOBBING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Give me the gun.

No. I don't think so.

I gotta find the girls, Rez!

Give him the f***ing gun!

I don't think so.

(HELEN CRYING)

(ALICE SHUSHING)

Please be quiet.

Please, please, please.

I think that's me.

These are the dolls that

they're gonna bury with Kara.

It's Mike.

That's me.

Wait, look at the clothes.

This is what I wore

the night Kara died.

What we all wore.

That's what we're gonna be soon.

Lifeless.

Dead eyes.

(SCREAMING)

Stop screaming!

Stop screaming!

Stop screaming!

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Oh, jeez.

Ah, okay.

No! No! No!

(SCREAMING)

(THUDDING)

(CRYING)

(SOBBING)

No!

(HELEN CRYING)

No, no, no, no, Helen.

Helen, be quiet.

Be quiet. Be quiet.

(SHUSHING)

Please be quiet.

Please be quiet.

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

(HELEN SOBBING)

Please be quiet.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Helen, Helen. We gotta go!

We gotta go!

(SCREAMING)

(GUNSHOT BANGING)

(SCREAMING)

(BANGING)

(GUN CLICKING)

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Help! Help! Help!

Help!

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(THUDDING)

Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!

Girls?

(HELEN GASPING)

Lock the door! Lock the door!

(GASPING)

Where's Eric?

Piotr shot him.

Dead?

No.

It's okay.

Please!

(CRYING)

Please! Please! Please!

(SCREAMING)

(SQUELCHING)

(CRYING)

(THUDDING)

Choices have to be made.

ALICE:
What do you mean choices?

Or we're all gonna die.

Don't you do

something stupid, Rez.

Yeah, like what?

Punch someone?

Slap someone?

Shoot someone?

You know, a few days

before Kara died,

she called me to come

pick her up at this house.

Couldn't even walk.

Dress torn.

Someone had slipped

something into her drink

and she just managed

to get out of there.

And she asked my advice.

"Um, should I uninvite this

person to my birthday party?

"Should I press charges?

"Should I file a report?"

Now you,

you would probably want to

stop something like that

from happening,

wouldn't you, professor?

What did you do?

Nothing.

Did you kill Kara?

No!

You see, the thing is

that not all secrets

go to the grave.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(MENACING MUSIC)

Okay. Okay.

Oh, jeez.

Okay.

Okay.

There were plenty of girls.

Plenty of girls who

woke up in your bed,

not remembering what happened,

weren't there, professor?

Is that true?

He's f***ing crazy!

Look at his wrists!

Yeah, look!

Look what I did to myself!

Look!

But it's not me who is sick.

It is you! It is you!

It is people like you!

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

I didn't kill Kara.

Maybe you did.

Maybe you didn't.

You did enough though.

(GIRLS GASPING)

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

(THUDDING)

Give me the gun Rez!

(DOOR THUDDING)

No, no, no, no!

This does not end unless

we end it here and now.

(THUDDING)

JEFF:
Shoot the f***ing door!

Stop!

The person on the

other side of that door

is just paying the price for

what one of us did, right?

(DOOR THUDDING)

Shoot the goddam door!

What do you think?

Shoot the door?

Shoot the door

or someone else?

No, no, no, Rez.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Or maybe I shoot myself?

Yeah.

Yeah. It's what you want!

What the f*** are

you talking about?!

Pull the trigger.

Just pull the trigger man!

(MENACING MUSIC)

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, Kara's sending a message.

(LAUGHING)

Rez, you listen to me,

before you get us all killed.

Don't you wanna be free?

Shut the f*** up, Jeff!

Rez?

Kara's spoken.

(INTENSE MUSIC)

No!

(GUNSHOT BOOMING)

(SCREAMING)

(GROANING)

(CRYING)

You know, you were right.

I was not very good at suicide.

But it broke my heart

when Kara was killed

and now I get to do

something about it.

(BOOMING)

(HELEN SCREAMING)

(LOCK CLICKING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)

(CRUNCHING)

(MENACING MUSIC)

We gotta get out of here.

Make our way down the mountain.

(THUDDING)

Go! Go! Go!

Now, now, now, go!

(INTENSE MUSIC)

(CRASHING)

(GASPING)

You okay?

Come on, baby.

Come on.

(INTENSE MUSIC)

F***.

Oh, f***.

Go! Go! Go back!

Go back! Go back!

Go back!

(SCREAMING)

(GUNSHOT BOOMING)

Oh God.

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