The Good Neighbor Page #4

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there all night?

Seven hours.

I mean, what the hell would he

be doing in the basement...

In the middle of the night

for seven hours?

Oh, wow, do I detect some actual

enthusiasm in your voice?

And not whiny hesitation?

Any opportunity to be an idiot.

Okay, it's day 15,

2:
10 in the morning.

Got a very interesting one

for you tonight.

This one is called "cold spots""

now the original idea behind

this was to kill the thermostat.

To mimic the drop in temperature

brought on by spirits.

But Sean here had the ingenious

idea for the windows.

Sean, if you will.

Okay, so, there's a chemical

solvent that you can make...

From an alkaline battery which,

among other things...

Causes glass to crack

in the cold.

It's essentially an

anti-anti-freeze.

Uh-huh, and Sean spread it all

over the windows...

The night we broke in to

Grainey's.

Now we've already killed

the heater...

And it's about 36 degrees

outside...

So as you can imagine...

That bedroom's gonna get

pretty f***ing cold.

It's kind of beautiful watching

an old man sleep...

Thinking, you know,

what he's dreaming about.

World war 1.

You falling asleep?

No.

Better not be.

Quitter. Quitter!

Yo, dude.

Hey, Sean, come here...

I want you to see Grainey's

face.

What?

Come here!

Look, look at Grainey's face,

right there, what do you see?

Uh, I don't see anything.

No, here... right there.

He's shivering. Come on, man,

this is kind of f***ed up.

No, he's... he's not shivering.

He's saying something.

The audio, can you...

Yeah.

Got it.

What are you...

Ssh, ssh, ssh.

F***!

Oh, sh*t!

You, in the hallway now!

You turn the camera off!

F***...

Are you out of your mind, Ethan?

Have you listened to what

I said?

Right, I'm sorry, I just...

I... Sean wanted to see it.

How could such an elaborate

scheme be executed...

Right under your own roof

for upwards of six weeks...

Without the least of your

objection or interference?

Honestly, I never knew

what they were doing.

You never knew what

they were doing?

Your son and his friend spent an

average of 50 hours a week...

In your son's bedroom...

With a professional grade

equipment hub...

That you didn't purchase,

and you never once inquired...

As to what they were up to?

Of course, I asked.

Sean said his father bought

the computers for him.

His father had money.

Had Ethan and Sean ever gotten

into trouble before?

Sean? Never.

But Ethan...

He got into some trouble

after his father left.

But meeting Sean this year...

It's just been such a good

influence on him.

And trust me, when you're

a mother...

You would so much rather

have your son...

Sitting with his friends in his

room with cameras...

Than out god-knows-where...

Doing drugs and drinking

and getting into trouble.

But would you agree that they still

found a way to get into trouble?

Objection, your honor.

Argumentative.

I'll rephrase.

At no point during your son's

six-week experiment...

Did you ever become concerned...

That any of their actions could

get them into trouble?

When I came home that night...

I noticed that Ethan had gone

through my closet.

And why did this concern you?

Because that's where I kept

his father's gun.

It's working.

Hey.

I wasn't sure if you'd make it.

Um...

She'll be home soon.

Yeah.

We have time.

It's freezing in here.

Dude, he's just sitting there.

What the f***?

Okay, so, not only did

"cold spots" work...

But it yielded a much more

interesting development.

Now we're both convinced

that our haunts...

And Grainey's basement

are somehow related.

And he's been down there

for a couple hours, so...

What do you think is down there?

What about his wife?

Hm?

It can't be, we already saw her.

Did we?

Yeah, we did.

Yeah, well, how do we know

that was his wife?

Maybe it was just some

old woman.

Yeah, but, nobody visits

Grainey.

Why would some old lady just be

pounding on his door?

Who the hell knows? I'm just

saying, add it to the board.

You know what the weirdest thing

about this is?

No matter what we do to this

guy, he never calls the cops.

Or does anything about it for

that matter.

Would you call the cops if you

had a body in your basement?

Don't you think it's weird?

I mean, after everything

that's happened to this guy...

He's never once seemed afraid.

Oh, here he comes.

Mark it, dude. What time is it?

8:
28 am.

Okay, so that's...

An hour and ten minutes

in the basement.

All right, Sean, you know what

needs to happen now, right?

No way, dude.

Yes.

No!

Sean...

We're not going in there.

We have talked about this.

Yeah, and I said the same thing

then. There's no way.

All we have to do is find

a way past the lock.

No, actually, because even

if we break the lock...

Which he'll notice...

We still have to get in there

when he's not home.

And Grainey never leaves

the house.

Who's to say when he's gonna

be leaving again?

Listen, all I'm saying is we

have a film to finish.

And you and I both know...

That there's something going

on in that basement.

Okay, and I have reason to

believe that we're not...

The ones committing

the crime any more.

Ethan...

Sean, come on!

We're this close, all right?

Don't let me down on this.

Seriously, how can you live with

yourself without knowing?

Well, we're not going

when he's there.

Okay, yeah, deal.

And we still need to find

a way past the lock.

Yeah, so we'll find a way.

All right, well, any ideas?

I don't know, man, you're the

one going to MIT, all right?

It's a problem. Just find

a solution.

Okay, so, here's the thing.

Maybe we don't need to go into

the basement.

What?

Not if we can get someone else

to go in there for us.

Why am I filming this?

What? Because. Are we on?

Yeah.

Grainey still out?

Grainey hasn't moved all

morning.

All right, then. Let's go.

Come on.

All right, I want you to go back

in my room, call my phone...

If Grainey even moves,

then you tell me, okay?

I'm gonna plant this bug...

And you let me know when you

hear it, okay?

I'll be back before you know it.

Okay, I can see you.

And Grainey still hasn't

moved, so you're all good.

Hurry up! Come on.

Ethan can you hear me?

Yeah. Yeah, no,

you're all good...

But you should come back now.

Uh, just two seconds. I gotta

get it hooked on this thing...

Oh, sh*t!

Oh, come on!

Right now, really? F***.

Whoa. Ethan?

Yeah?

Yeah, I can't see Grainey, so...

You need to come back now.

Okay, okay.

Oh, he was just taking a leak.

Oh, f***, oh, f***, oh, f***.

Run, run, run, run!

All right, Sean. Ready to give

Mr. Grainey a awake-up call?

Hi, yes, Ashland police

department.

I hope this works.

Don't hope it works, Sean...

Expect it to.

Mr. Grainey. I hope

you're well this evening.

I was sleeping.

Does this sound okay?

Yeah, ssh, yeah, it's fine.

I was trying to sleep.

I'm sorry for the late hour.

I just wanted to make sure that

you didn't hear anything...

Out of the ordinary tonight

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