The Disappointments Room Page #4

Where are you, Rascal?

(PURRS)

(PURRS)

Lucas! Are you up there?

(DOOR CLOSES)

Lucas!

Lucas, we're not playing

games right now, honey.

(CREAKING)

Lucas?

(DOOR CREAKING)

(GASPS)

(NAILS SCRATCHING)

Oh, my God.

(SHUDDERING)

What's your name?

Can you tell me your name?

Laura.

He doesn't want you here.

Who?

LUCAS:
Oh, there you are!

I've been looking all over for you.

(SIGHS)

(LUCAS SHOUTING AND LAUGHING)

(PANTING)

LUCAS:
Oh, there it is.

My book, I was looking

all over for it.

(GROWLING)

There, I can read.

(SNARLS)

(PANTING)

(LUCAS SCREAMS)

Lucas!

(BARKING)

Lucas! Lucas!

(LUCAS SCREAMING)

Lucas!

(GRUNTING)

(LUCAS WHIMPERING)

Lucas!

Oh, Lucas...

(PANTING)

Did you see that?

Never mind. Come on.

Let's go inside for lunch.

Mommy, wait! I need Rascal.

He came out with me.

Wait, wait, wait.

We'll go together.

Rascal! Rascal!

Rascal!

Rascal!

Hey, baby, why don't you

go look in those trees?

He's a really good climber.

Okay.

Rascal! Rascal!

Where are you? Rascal!

Rascal!

Come down wherever you are.

Come down, kitty, kitty.

Where are you?

Mommy, I can't see him.

Why don't you look over there?

I think I heard him.

He's not out here, baby.

He's probably back in the

house skitching about.

We'll find him?

Yeah, we'll find him.

Oh, sh*t.

(GRUNTS)

(POUNDING ON DOOR)

DAVID:
Dana!

Dana! Dana!

Sh*t! Stop! Hey.

Hey. I got you. Hey, Dana.

DAVID:
I feel like

she's slipping.

She had a few episodes

where she completely

lost track of time.

I mean, she thinks that odd

things are going on in the house.

PSYCHIATRIST:

Odd in what way?

She started to imagine things that

aren't really happening again.

Catherine's birthday would

have been Sunday, right?

Yeah.

We both know that

you tend to bury

your feelings for

the greater good,

and that is not

good for you, either.

Being out in that big house way outside

of the city is very isolating.

Why don't you have

people over on Sunday?

She doesn't need advice.

She needs friends.

Okay.

Um...

There's a gravestone

out back.

It's probably an old dog's,

but it scares Lucas.

Would you dig it up

and make sure it's nothing?

I don't want David to know.

Yeah. Then I'll do that.

Sure hope he

appreciates all this.

I said I sure hope

he appreciates all this.

I hope he appreciates all

that you're doing for him.

What am I doing?

Leaving the city, buying the

old house in the country,

fixing it up so you can

throw some big dinners.

Everyone gathered around your

beautiful Stickley table.

Eating vegetables

you grew out back

or bought at the corner

at the farmer stand.

Wasn't that the plan?

Yeah, or something.

How would your girlfriend feel

about us sharing a smoke?

I don't have one.

If I did, I probably wouldn't

care what she thought.

Why not?

I don't live my life worrying

about things I can't control.

And how is that

working out for you?

(CHUCKLES)

It works out just fine.

Keep me working around here long

enough, you might get to see or

feel how it works out,

for yourself.

Well, it's a shame

we're almost finished.

We don't have to be.

(GASPS)

David! I thought you weren't

home till tomorrow.

I was.

Then I thought I should be home

with my wife and my son. Hmm?

How did you get home

from the station?

Oh, I got a cab.

You know, I think the driver doubles up

as the town's dentist in his spare time.

Was it a productive trip?

Yeah. Yeah, I guess it was.

Was it productive?

Yes. It was productive.

Those paintings are incredible,

huh, don't you think?

I mean, I can't imagine.

I can't fathom why would someone

would want to cover them up.

I can.

Are we taking our...

No. No, I'm not.

That's probably

not the best idea.

No, it's probably not.

But they make me feel...

Fuzzy.

Fuzzy.

I should get back to work. Lucas

will be happy you're home.

(GRUNTS)

MAN:
(ON PHONE)

Chill that wine, buddy.

We just crossed

into North Carolina.

We should be there

around 5:
00.

DAVID:
Yeah, great.

(SIGHS)

(PHONE RINGING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(CONTINUES RINGING)

Oh!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Ah!

So, where exactly is Dana?

(PANTING)

(SOBS) Oh, you poor thing,

out here all by yourself.

Oh!

Dana!

Lucas?

(WIND WHOOSHING)

(BALL BOUNCING)

Lucas?

(SNARLS)

Oh!

(BARKING)

(GASPS)

DAVID:
Sh*t.

Dana!

I will put her

out of her misery.

We have allowed this curse

to linger too long.

Don't. Don't! I beg you!

(BARKING)

(SCREAMING)

Ah!

(WOMAN SCREAMS AND SOBS)

(SHUDDERING)

She will embarrass me

no more.

You are

a miserable mother.

And you will fail again.

A daughter,

and now a dead son.

No!

Amos!

(SNARLS)

(PANTING)

(GROANING IN PAIN)

(GRUNTS)

(SNARLING)

(DOOR CREAKING)

(MUFFLED SHOUTING)

(NECK SNAPS)

(LUCAS GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

Dana! Dana! Dana!

(GRUNTING)

Dana! Dana!

LUCAS:
Mommy!

DAVID:
Dana!

Dana! Dana!

Put it down!

Put it down!

(MUFFLED GRUNTING)

Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

I got you. It's okay.

It's Daddy, it's Daddy.

I got you.

I got you. I got you.

LUCAS:
(CRYING) Mommy.

It's a bad dream. It's a bad dream.

It's okay, it's a bad dream.

It's a bad dream.

(WIND WHOOSHING)

(GRUNTS, GASPS)

(LUCAS SCREAMING)

Are you out of your f***ing mind?

What the f***?

Are you trying to destroy

everything we ever had, Dana?

Everything? Are you?

Is he okay?

Yeah, he's fine, Dana. He's fine.

He's asleep in our bed.

He thinks it was

a bad dream.

David, I think

I can't tell anymore

what's real

and what's not real.

There was no one there.

Nobody was trying to hurt Lucas.

Dana, it was just...

It was just you.

I almost killed him.

I killed Catherine.

(WAILING)

(GASPING AND SCREAMING)

Oh, God!

No.

No, that was an accident.

That was a horrible accident.

That's all it was.

And you know that.

Baby, come here.

We need to get back home.

No more running.

You will get better.

There's nothing

we can't overcome.

(INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE)

(DOOR LOCKS)

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