The Brood Page #4

human beings are born.

Jesus.

You're the beginning of the end, Ms. Mayer.

The beginning of the end for me,

my family, my dream.

So sad.

And I feel so guilty for my part in it.

I wish it had never happened.

I wish we could be together again,

just the three of us.

You're kidding yourself.

Right now, you're dreaming.

From what Frank tells me,

it was lousy from the very start.

You never had anything real together.

It would be better for everybody if you...

If Frank divorced you and married me.

We'd still let you see Candy

in the weekends.

That stinks!

We had a lot.

We had beautiful things,

things that you couldn't understand.

And we'll have them again,

if you'd just leave him alone...

and stop poisoning him against me

and taking advantage of his Ioneliness.

Then he'd wait for me.

He'd help me to get better,

instead of abandoning me.

He would do that,

if you would just leave him alone.

Leave him alone!

Listen, I'm sorry. I called a few times.

You didn't answer.

I didn't want to talk to your wife again,

that's why. Once was enough.

- Nola called? What did she say?

- Look, I have to go.

Your life is just a little too complicated

for me right now.

I'll see you at the next open house.

Daddy.

What's the matter, sweetheart?

Why aren't you sleeping?

I had a bad dream. A scary bad dream.

- What was the dream about, honey?

- I'm afraid to tell you.

- Why?

- The dream doesn't want me to.

Candy, listen to me.

I know what happened at Grandma's.

I know what you saw there.

I just came from the police...

and when I was there,

I saw the thing that hurt Grandma.

And, Candy, it's dead.

I saw it lying on a table,

and the police were there, and it's dead.

It can't hurt you now.

And it can't hurt me or anybody else.

Do you understand me?

It's dead?

Yes.

It's all right now, baby.

What do you think?

How many people do we have

at the main house?

Twenty-seven.

Okay, I want them out by this afternoon...

and the house closed.

It'll be hard on them, Hal, especially Mike.

Then do it gently.

But get them out.

All right.

- Put your suitcases in the compartment.

- I don't want to go.

You have to go.

Come on. I just want you to get on the bus...

You'll see the doctor.

I don't want to go.

- Don't make me leave.

- I'm not making you leave.

Just be a good boy

and get on the bus, all right?

- Hi, Jan.

- Frank, hi.

Look, I think we've got ourselves

a real live one.

Come on upstairs.

There's somebody I want you to meet.

Is this the guy from Chicago?

No. He's a local boy.

He lives a lot closer to home

than you expected.

Mr. Carveth is here to see you.

Look who's here.

Nola's old man.

- The queen bee's favorite drone.

- Jeez, he's pretty far gone.

He'd be dynamite in court.

What did you mean when you said

Nola's the queen bee?

She's the queen bee, all right.

She's the star.

She's the one he's interested in,

and the rest of us don't count anymore.

She doesn't even have to pay for it.

That's because she's the one

who was born to prove...

that "psychoplasmics

is the ultimate therapeutic device."

That's the quote, isn't it?

Can you be my daddy?

He won't do it anymore.

And my real daddy won't do it.

And that bastard, Dr. Raglan,

won't do it anymore.

You see, my real daddy rejected me.

And my surrogate daddy rejected me.

That's just f***ing wonderful,

don't you think?

Calm down, Mike. Cool it,

and tell him what happened at Somafree.

Look...

I'll make a deal with you, okay?

Just be my daddy.

Please. I'll tell you anything

you want to know.

I'll bleed for you. Want me to bleed?

No.

That's silly, right?

Repulses you, I can see that.

You're not into it, so why do it, right?

Besides, nobody could do it like Dr. Raglan.

Not even real daddy.

And he knows it.

Dr. Raglan knows I'm addicted to him...

and he doesn't care.

He's such a hard man.

I was at that demonstration last Monday.

You and Raglan seemed very close.

What happened?

He threw us out. All of us.

Locked the door.

It's true.

I've been in touch with some of the others.

They've all been thrown out of Somafree,

and all therapy suspended.

All except for your wife. She's still there.

Doesn't anybody know why?

Sure somebody knows. I know.

He wants to be alone with her.

Dr. Raglan wants to be alone with your wife.

- 'Bye, Daddy.

- 'Bye.

- Hi, Frank.

- Hi, Wendy.

Quickly but quietly, children.

Rebecca, do you want to pass out

the blue papers, please?

And Clayton, how about you pass out

the purple ones?

Okay, let's see.

This person here?

You can do snowflakes, too.

That's a good idea.

Help!

- What's the matter?

- They're hurting Ms. Mayer.

The bad kids are hurting Ms. Mayer.

They knocked her to the floor

and they're hitting her.

They're hitting Ms. Mayer.

They made her fall down!

Candy!

It's all right. It's Hal.

Where's Chris? Chris usually wakes me up.

Chris had to go into the city.

You've been dreaming?

Yes. I was having a wonderful dream.

Wonderful.

And painful, at the same time.

My daughter was coming back to me.

And Frank.

And Ruth Mayer?

Was she in your dream?

Candy's teacher?

I don't remember.

Then maybe we should talk about her.

But I don't feel the need to talk about her.

You don't?

Why not?

I don't know.

I think I must be getting stronger,

because somehow...

I just don't feel threatened by her anymore.

This is where my wife and kid lived

for nine months...

before Nola moved out to Somafree.

This is the first time I've seen the place.

What are we doing here?

Tell me, again.

I don't know.

I thought Candy might come back here.

It's not a coincidence.

Those things, those creatures...

they all disappeared together.

They've got her.

You've got to help me.

Somebody's following me.

- Somebody's always following me.

- Did you find out anything?

- Did you find out why they moved you out?

- I've got to have something to eat. Anything.

What did you find out?

Why did they close Somafree down?

- Talk to me! Now!

- Okay.

Raglan's onto something very big,

something to do with the kids.

- He just got bored with the rest of us.

- Kids? What kids?

The disturbed kids in the work shed...

the ones your wife's taking care of.

What have you done with my kid?

Where is she?

Carveth, what the hell

are you talking about?

They took her.

They killed Ruth Mayer,

and then they brought Candice back here.

They killed Ruth Mayer?

I want my daughter back, now.

Did they bring her back here, back to Nola?

I don't know.

If they brought her back here,

then she'd be up there, in the attic.

That's where they live.

Frank, I've got a gun.

They'll kill you

if you try to take her away from them.

Why?

Because they understand

that she's one of them.

You're insane.

Frank, they exist. You've seen them.

They're just freaks. Deformed children.

You've got Nola taking care of them.

I'm sure she loves being

their surrogate mother.

She's not their surrogate mother.

She's their real mother.

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