The Dead Room Page #2

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like I'm a child, Scott.

- I'm not talking

to you like anything.

Holly, y... you can't just

throw out vague observations

about how the air feels

and expect me to do cartwheels.

What we need is facts.

-Yeah, good one.

-What did I say?

Could still just be the wind.

-You're kidding us, right?

- You've never seen a door

get opened by the wind before?

- Does nothing I say

mean anything to you?

I just saw this giant of a man

smash his way through

the house last night.

If you don't believe me

then why are you

still paying me to be here?

- Look, I believe what

you guys believe, I was there.

But we can't show

this to anyone.

All we've got is a door

opening and a light swinging.

- Those cameras

reacted to something.

Something moved

in front of those sensors.

-Yeah, but so what?

Look, I'm sorry but I have to

play devil's advocate here.

Nothing we've captured

actually proves anything.

-Yeah, but what do you expect?

You think ghosts are just going

to come up to the camera

and give us a little wave?

-That'd help.

No, I'm serious.

I would love to capture

something conclusive..

To prove the existence

of the paranormal.

- Yeah, well, just be

careful what you wish for.

-So, what now?

- Well, we just keep

documenting everything.

-What?

No, we can't stay here.

We can't just keep documenting!

This entity doesn't

want us to be here.

-It can't hurt us.

I have never come across

a scientifically plausible case

of anyone being harmed by..

One of these things.

Scaring us is

the worst it can do.

It's like a roller coaster,

sure it scares you..

But that's the thrill of it.

And isn't that

one of the reasons

why we choose to do this?

- Well I don't like

roller coasters.

Is there anybody here with us?

If there's anybody here

with us can you give us a sign?

Repeat after me.

-What? What is it?

-Are... are you getting that?

-What's wrong?

-The..

The temperature dropped.

It's..

It's freezing.

You're not cold?

- No.

-It's getting colder.

Are you reading

anything on that?

-No. Not a flicker.

-Who are you?

Tell me your name.

-What's wrong, Holly?

- We don't want to

cause you any harm.

We... we just want

to know who you are.

God..

Do you see that?

-What?

-T... the mist.

It's like a shadow.

Can I have some of this?

- Yeah, sure.

-It's the same feeling.

In here, it's..

It's... it's cold, it's..

It's sad.

Are you sure

that thing is working?

- I put a fresh battery

in this morning.

-God.

It's really..

Hard to breath.

It's like a... A gloom.

It's... Heavy on my lungs.

Is anybody here?

It's so weird.

I don't know how

to explain it but it's..

It's like the feeling

stops at the doorway.

No, there's a... there's a

definite line here and it just..

It just stops.

Do it again.

- Did you get that?

- Yeah.

-Do it again.

Oh! Oh, ho-ho!

This thing can clearly interact

with its physical environment.

-Clearly.

- Tonight I want

to fog the hallway.

Let's see if we can

get a visual of it.

Almost time.

Get anything?

-It's... it's gone.

-What's going on?

-Wh... what's wrong?

- What happened?

- I dunno.

-Holly, what is it?

- He's ri..

He's right in front of me.

He's right in front of me.

I ca... I can't move.

-Holly..

Take my hand.

Come on, take my hand.

-Shh.

Listen.

- Well, we definitely

got something last night.

Whatever it was

smashed one of our cameras.

Yes, well, that's the next step.

Yes... yes, I understand that,

look, I'm sure we can do it.

Okay.

- You can't say

this was broken by the wind.

-See anything, Holly?

-No.

- This thing

doesn't want us here.

I say we get

the hell out of here.

Pack up and just

get the hell out.

- He's right,

it doesn't want us here

and this thing is dangerous.

Can we please just go?

- But this is exactly what

we've been searching for.

Why would I want

to leave the minute

we actually find something?

- Is this about our

assignment or your experiment?

-Oh, come on, Liam.

You can't just leave.

- It's my truck.

I go, we all go.

-Not me.

One more night.

That's all I'm asking.

Look at what

we've got here, Liam.

No one's ever documented

anything like this before.

And this thing

hasn't hurt any of us.

It's frightening, sure.

But being frightened

won't kill you, right?

- It... it broke a wall

trying to get at Holly.

- Yeah, but it didn't

harm her though.

Did it, Holly?

-No.

-We should go.

- Well, he is right

about this room.

- Yeah, yeah, the ghost

can't come in here, whatever.

Urgh!

Screw this.

-You couldn't sleep?

- I'm just making hot

chocolate, you want one?

-Yeah, yeah, thanks.

- I'm surprised

you can still sleep.

- Huh? Oh, I've always

liked the wind.

I find it very relaxing.

-That's not what I meant.

- Careful, it's hot.

- Thanks.

Do you want some?

- No thanks.

-Heh!

- What's the coefficient

of restitution for glass?

Holly, come away from there.

-What's happening?

He's in front of me.

- What do you want from us?

-We're not here to harm you.

Just tell us what you want.

- This way!

- Go back!

-This way!

-It won't come in here.

-Oh, no.

This is not good.

Not good.

-Hold still.

- Ah!

- Oh, sorry.

-Ow!

- I'm going to be getting

glass out of my hair for days.

-What is it about this room

that stops it

from coming in here?

- We're all

in agreement now right?

It's time to go.

I don't care if the client

believes any of this or not.

Whatever's here doesn't want

us around and quite frankly

I'm okay with that.

So... We've got

enough recorded, yeah?

- Scott?

- Hm?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're good.

-Oh, so, pack up and leave?

- I want to try

and get rid of it.

- What?

- Really?

You want me to do a cleansing?

- No, we're going to do this

properly, scientifically.

Using sound displacement.

- Oh, forget it,

we've got... we've got to

get out of here, Scott.

- What kind of

ghost hunters are we..

If we run the minute

we find our first ghost?

This is exactly what we want.

This is our chance to do

what no one else has ever done.

- If we want to get rid of it

we've got to do it properly.

-It will be done properly!

-You know what I mean.

Oh, come on,

I know how to do it.

People have been performing

this for hundreds of years.

-My equipment's in your car.

-So is mine.

-Alright.

-What happened?

- So what are you going

to do when that doesn't work?

- This little beauty

produces the deepest

bass signal that money can buy.

I have more faith

in this working

than I have in your witchcraft.

- You're just going to

irritate it even more.

-So what.

Oh, come on.

You've gotta be kidding!

-The generator's out of gas.

- So you'll refuel the

generator and I'll set this up.

Yeah?

- Okay.

-Okay, here we go.

Yes!

- He's in front of you!

- Whoa!

-What's happening?

-I think it's working.

-Scott!

-Liam!

Scott! We need to leave now!

-Whoa!

-Wait!

-Wait for it!

What do you think, Holly?

-I think it's gone.

- Uh-huh, oh, absolutely,

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