The Evil Within Page #5

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whom you know

knows you're lying,

that's when it can be called compulsive.

(scoffs)

How do you know?

Friendly word of advice, John.

Steer clear of poker.

It wouldn't be your game.

Quite a tell, huh?

- Oh. Sorry.

- Excuse me.

I'm so sorry.

- Lydia.

- Hi, John.

Are you spying on me?

No.

No, I, uh, I just needed a ride.

Well, I'm going home.

That's okay.

You want company?

Yeah.

- Yeah, sure.

- Okay.

Thanks.

What was our first date like?

Feeling nostalgic?

Sentimental?

You wanna do it again,

see if we can recapture

something, is that it?

What're we doing down here?

Dennis spends a lot of his spare

time down here these days.

Oh right, carpentry.

The carpentry.

(knocks on door)

Hey, Dennis.

Come here, buddy.

I got a surprise for you.

Dennis:
What surprise?

You know I love surprises.

John:
Well, come on out.

Come on out and I'll

tell you all about it.

Tonight, you're in charge.

Whatever you wanna do we'll do.

All three of us.

Let's go to the car, chop, chop.

Dennis.

The girls are over here,

the girls are over there

Love is in the air

Yeah, the girl's are fair

walking in the field

Flower in the air

I Looking for a fling

with a millionaire.

How do they make

the things move?

Like, the octopus, how do they

make all those eight big tentacles

of the octopus move like that?

Well, it's animatronics, Dennis.

Very simple one.

See the wires attached

to the tentacles?

Well, they go up past the

curtain where we can't see them.

Into a big plastic tube

with a bunch of disks on it.

It's not too unlike a giant shish kabob

skewer, put through old vinyl records.

But it doesn't actually go through the

center, it's a little off center,

so when it rotates, the

disc goes up and down

and subsequently the arms attached

to that disc go up and down as well,

moving cables,

which move the tentacles.

I didn't understand any of that.

( laughing)

Hi, What'll it be?

Large pepperoni pizza

and a pitcher of diet.

And a strawberry milkshake.

Okay, I'll be back in a flash.

I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

When I look in her eyes

I see the sunrise

He is really well-behaved this evening.

You didn't talk me into that one.

I just did it and I don't know why.

I knew you'd come

around eventually.

What happened?

You've developed immunities,

so you're upping your dosage.

Why?

You're addicted. Stop killing and

sobriety's icy hand will have you.

Hell, you can't even

decrease your kills,

but any increase

and you overdose.

So, what do I do?

You graduate to stronger sh*t.

You have to kill those

close to you now.

Friends, family, you have to

kill more people like Susan.

I think you're tricking me.

I think you had this

planned all along.

You say everyone else is tricking me,

but it's you.

I know that now, so you

can't trick me anymore.

You're still gonna have

to do everything I say,

because I control your dreams.

I can handle the nightmares.

You haven't yet had a nightmare.

I won't do it.

You're getting real close.

I can smell your soul getting ripe.

I won't do it.

Oh, you'll do it, retard, or I'll find

another retard, and he'll do it to you.

(whimpering)

Oh, wow.

Hi, Susan.

You got me really good.

Car? Hit me right here,

first, and then up here,

You can't even really see

a bruise, can you?

(giggling)

My skin held up pretty well.

Even after the bus sent me

through the windshield.

You'd think I"d be cut, but I'm not.

My skin...

(giggling)

is good.

There's not a mark

anywhere on it.

And most of my bones

aren't broken either.

You know that saying,

"a chain is only as strong

as its weakest link"?

Well, you can see that my skin

isn't the weakest link.

My bones aren't either.

What is?

Absolutely everything else.

You can see now, Dennis that may skin,

Is the only thing

that's holding me together.

(whimpering)

Hey, you nod off there, buddy?

Well, I guess you've had

enough fun for one night.

Come on, we'll take you home.

You can't hurt me

if I don't fall asleep.

You know what happens

if you stay awake too long?

I don't care.

You reach a state

of semi-consciousness,

unable to discern

asleep from awake.

You know what happens if you stay

in the dark place long enough?

You get really ugly.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

How can you stay awake all night?

You won't last an hour.

Nighty night.

This just in, Sleep.

Let yourself sleep.

Sleep.

(gibberish)

Sleep.

- You still up?

- Nope, I just woke up.

Glad to hear you got some sleep.

Whew! You are ripe.

You need a bath.

Let's go run one.

I'm not. I get to call the

shots today and I say no bath.

Yes, that was yesterday.

Run a bath.

Today.

Chop, chop.

Wake up, honey.

We overslept.

(grunts)

What are you talking about?

You went to go check on

Dennis five minutes ago.

No, I didn't.

You didn't?

No.

You didn't tell him

to take a bath?

No.

That's weird,

I must have dreamt it.

- I got the "morning afters."

- Yeah.

Morning after crack

and gasoline.

What the hell did

we drink last night?

We didn't. We didn't drink

anything last night.

Let's get some coffee

at the ice cream place.

Hey, Susan, do you still...

That's not Susan, honey.

Sorry, ma'am, I just so

used to seeing Susan here.

You look so much like her.

People have made that mistake

tons of times before.

You'll be seeing me here from now on.

Where is Susan?

- I'm sorry, you haven't heard?

- No.

She had an accident.

What kind of accident?

A traffic accident, kind of.

She got hit by a car.

- Oh, my god.

- Well, how is she doing?

She's dead.

- Oh, honey, here she comes.

- Good. Ma'am.

- Miss.

- Ma'am.

Excuse me, ma'am.

- Wow.

- Sir? Sir? Could you send...

Thank you.

What would you like?

- Uh, I want a drink. You?

- Definitely.

Vodka, soda, splash

of pineapple, please.

And I will have a Jack, neat.

And what happened

to the usual waitress?

What's her name, Jenny?

I'm filling in for her.

She's sick or something.

Hostess, valet, waitress...

it's beginning to seem

like an epidemic.

No kidding.

Totally forgot my appointment

with Dr. Preston.

At least I'll see one familiar face today.

Excuse me, Dr. Preston?

- I am, uh, I'm sorry.

- Thanks f***ing Christ for that.

I'm in the mood to vent, and you

caught me at a hell of a time.

Go ahead, ask me the question.

Ask me what everyone

f***ing asks me,

every f***ing minute

of every f***ing day.

"Why do you look like that?

What's wrong with you?"

You wanna know what's

wrong with me?

Nothing.

I'm just dandy.

Until of course some a**hole

like you comes along,

and ruins my damn good time.

Terribly sorry, sir.

I need a break.

- After we get Mildy.

- Who?

You'll remember when we see her.

But I don't know.

She's a bitter social reject who

can never feel good about herself,

so to even the playing field

she makes everyone feel bad.

No! What if I say,

"No, I won't kill Mildy"?

I won't kill anyone again.

She's coming for you now.

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