The Crescent Page #3

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(EERIE MUSIC)

See you later.

Hello.

(BIRDS TWITTERING)

Hi.

(KNOCKING AT WINDOW)

[SAM] Hello.

No, knock on the window.

[SAM] Hello.

[LOWEN] Hello.

(KNOCKING AT WINDOW)

I'm up here, Sam.

Huh?

Hello.

Was I go outside for you?

Hi.

(SEA ROARING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(SOFT, EERIE MUSIC)

(LOWEN BABBLES)

(LOWEN IMITATES CAT)

(THUDDING)

Hello?

Are you there?

Ah, are you there?

(WHEELS CRUNCHING)

(TOY SIREN WAILS)

(CELL PHONE BUZZING)

(CELL PHONE VIBRATING

AND RATTLING)

Yes.

(RUMBLING)

Hello?

(STATIC BUZZING

DROWNS OUT SPEECH)

Oh, hi Dad.

[FATHER] Can you hear, hello?

[LOWEN] Yeah.

[FATHER] I wanna see you,

but (static drowns out speech)

in the hospital.

[LOWEN] You're not

supposed to talk, Dad.

Yeah.

[FATHER] I just

want you to wake up.

Yeah, okay, yeah.

(STATIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH)

What's wrong?

(STATIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH)

Are you sad?

[MAN] I'm f***ing dying here.

[LOWEN] You okay?

I wanna comb your hair, Dada.

(STATIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH)

(LOWEN VOCALIZES)

(KNOCKING)

Mom?

Mom.

Can you (BABBLES) again?

(RUMBLING)

(LOWEN CRIES)

(CLATTERING)

(LOWEN CRYING)

(TOY SIREN WAILS)

(CLATTERING)

(TOY SIREN WAILING)

[JOSEPH] Great

kid there, Tampa.

(ALARM BLARING)

Strong legs.

(LOWEN SCREAMING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(ALARM BLARING)

(LOWEN SCREAMING)

I'm just looking around.

(FOOTSTEPS SQUELCHING)

(LOWEN SCREAMING)

I'm house-hunting.

(ALARM BLARING)

(LOWEN CRYING)

Just looking for a new home.

(COUGHING)

(CLATTERING)

Lowen

I'm going to be moving in

while your mother is gone.

(DOOR CREAKING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

Would you like to live together?

(EERIE MUSIC)

Lowen

Lowen

(CAT MEOWS)

[LOWEN] No!

(CAT MEOWS)

(LOWEN WAILS)

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

[WOMAN] Quick, it's

all gonna be okay.

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

(SPEAKING FAINTLY)

Do you wanna see your dad?

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

He's out there.

They're all waiting for you.

[LOWEN] On the ocean.

Yeah, he's out in the

ocean, that's right.

We've gotta find her.

We have to find him,

we have to find you dad.

It's all gonna be over soon.

It's all gonna be over soon.

[LOWEN] Hi.

[WOMAN] Yeah, we're

gonna go swimming, okay?

Do you wanna go swimming?

[LOWEN] No, I want Mama.

- No, I want Mom!

- It's okay.

(LOWEN WAILS)

- I don't like that.

- Okay, okay.

(LOWEN WAILS)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

(LOWEN WAILS)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

(LOWEN WAILS)

(RUSTLING)

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

(SIRENS WAILING)

(RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

[MAN] Lowen?

(EERIE MUSIC)

(WIND ROARING)

(RUSTLING)

(WHISPERING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(SEABIRDS CALLING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(EERIE MUSIC)

[LOWEN] No.

(LOWEN BABBLES)

- Beth?

- Mom?

- Hello?

- Mom?

- Is anybody home?

- Mom?

Mom?

- Mom?

- Beth?

(SEA ROARING)

Beth.

Beth!

Beth!

(SEA ROARING)

Beth.

(COUGHING)

Beth?

You okay?

(COUGHING)

What happened?

(BETH WHIMPERING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

[LOWEN] Hello, can you

wake up, wake up Mom.

Uh.

[SAM] Wanna brush

Mommy's hair?

Good job.

(BRUSH RASPING)

Are you okay?

[SAM] She's okay.

What's this brush?

(BRUSH THUDS)

Is Mom tired?

She is.

It's too late for you, the

water won't take you back.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(SOBBING AND COUGHING)

(SCREAMING)

(BETH GASPS)

Lowen.

Lowen?

Lowen.

(EERIE MUSIC)

Lowen?

(EERIE MUSIC)

(BETH VOCALIZES)

(EERIE MUSIC)

Lowen?

(EERIE MUSIC)

(BETH LAUGHS)

(GASPS) Where's my son?

What did you do with

him, he's just so...

[JOSEPH] Good, you're up.

I didn't wanna wake you.

What the f***?

Where is he?

He's gone, I'm afraid.

Where is he?

Stay back.

I said stay back. (WEEPING)

[JOSEPH] Yeah.

Put the stick down.

No, I said stay

back. (WEEPING)

[JOSEPH] Why don't

you give the cane?

Where is he?

Huh? (WEEPING)

(JOSEPH BREATHES HEAVILY)

(CLATTERING)

(WEEPING)

Where is he?

Where's Lowen? (WEEPING)

Lowen.

This is...

Oh.

(JOSEPH CHUCKLES)

You never know

how rich life is until

you've lost it.

Once you've lived as

many times as I have,

you begin to realize

there are ways to get it back.

(BETH WHIMPERS)

(SQUELCHING)

Let's get on with it.

Oh God.

I'm dead, you're dead.

Everyone's dead.

We're all stuck here in this

everlasting nothingness.

(BETH WEEPS)

Now your little

boy, he isn't dead.

Not yet.

That's why I need

the little critter.

He's my way back.

(BETH WHIMPERS)

You know by now you can't

just float on out of here.

You need a vessel.

If you wait around long enough,

one will come sailing by.

Please just tell

me where he is.

(EERIE MUSIC)

They've taken him.

But if we help each other,

we can get him back.

(BETH WEEPING)

All I want is his body.

You can keep the rest of him.

No. (YELLING)

(SOBBING)

(THUDDING)

(SQUELCHING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(BETH GASPING AND CHOKING)

(SQUELCHING)

[JOSEPH] Beneath the

(speaking faintly),

that's what you want, Beth.

You know we can be

together, forever.

(SQUELCHING)

(BETH WHIMPERING AND YELLING)

(SQUELCHING)

(JOSEPH GROANS)

(THUDDING)

(BETH YELLING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(BETH WEEPING)

(HIGH-PITCHED CRYING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

[BETH] Lowen?

(BETH PANTING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(BETH WEEPING)

[LOWEN] Mommy.

I got to go in the water, Mom.

(BETH COOING AND LAUGHING)

We gotta go, Mom.

Gonna go in the water.

(EERIE MUSIC)

It's okay, sweetie.

You can go.

[BETH] Mm.

(EERIE MUSIC)

(SEA ROARING)

(SOFT MUSIC)

(SPEAKING FAINTLY)

[LOWEN] No.

I'm with you, Mom.

(SPEAKING FAINTLY)

(SOFT MUSIC)

(HIGH-PITCHED WAILING)

(SOFT MUSIC)

Mommy.

(LOWEN VOCALIZES)

(ROARING)

(TRIPPY POP MUSIC)

(WORDLESS VOCALIZING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

Bright lights.

Look at the lights on there.

(SPEAKING FAINTLY)

Head up, I don't

wanna get your chin.

Is that too tight?

(LOWEN LAUGHING)

You okay?

Do you wanna go on your bum?

I got your hand.

Come on, slowpokes, get on in.

- Thanks.

- Hey, pal.

Thank you.

You know, we don't have

to sell the place.

Yeah.

Come on, let's see if we

can get this thing working.

I don't know if it's

ever been used before.

(LOWEN BABBLES)

There are paddles.

[BETH] Put him the

other way around.

(ENGINE DROWNS OUT SPEECH)

(ENGINE RUMBLING)

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily,

merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm hmm

Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm

Mm-Hmm hmm hmm-hmm hmm-hmm

- Hmm hmm hmm hmm

- Can you smile?

Wanna make a funny face?

(LOWEN VOCALIZES)

(CAMERA CLICKS AND WHIRS)

(ENGINE PUTTERS)

[LOWEN] How come we stopped?

[BETH] I just wanna

float for a while.

[LOWEN] You do

this when you float?

[BETH] Mm hmm.

[LOWEN] I wanna go faster.

This was a terrible idea.

We shouldn't have come out here.

No, you were

right, this is nice.

I needed this.

(CAMERA CLICKS AND WHIRS)

Okay, stop.

(LOWEN BABBLES)

I don't get to see out

of the studio that often,

I want to remember what

you look like in the light.

Okay, burn it into your mind.

(CAMERA CLICKS AND WHIRS)

(LOWEN VOCALIZES)

[LOWEN] I wanna

take a picture, Dad.

[FATHER] You wanna take

a picture, all right.

Here, lemme help

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