The Hollow Child Page #2

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Please, Sam, for me?

Whatever.

Don't you understand,

I'm on your side.

I can't keep sticking up

for you...

if you keep sabotaging me

like this.

I want so much to see

you succeed.

I want you to be proud

of yourself.

I love the heck out of you, Sam.

Hey, there you are. So what's

the plan for tonight?

Um, we can go to my place

and we can get our drink on...

because I stole some beers

from my dad.

I can't go.

Sam... this is such bullshit!

Can't you just sneak out?

I really need to be different.

What's that supposed to mean?

I think I have a shot...

at something real.

I have to try.

Sam, I'm the only person who's

always been there for you.

No matter how much you

pretend...

they're never gonna be

your real family.

Not now, Logan.

So, I guess there's no point

in asking...

you to the dance, is there?

Here.

(DOG BARKING)

Olivia?

Olivia, what is the matter

with you?

I'm just playing.

Being mean isn't playing, okay?

It's dinnertime.

Come on, okay?

(BARKING CONTINUES)

(TV PLAYING)

- (CHAINSAW BUZZING ON TV)

- (WOMAN SCREAMING ON TV)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Trick or treat!

Hey, take it. Go.

[SAM] What are you, a skeleton?

Thanks, guys, bye.

Are we going out?

Liz wants us to stay home.

But I want to!

We could play a game.

Hide and seek?

I'm hiding first!

45, 46, 47...

48, 49, 50!

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)

Olivia.

That's enough, okay?

I'm not playing anymore!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC FADES UP)

Olivia?

Olivia, no hiding outside.

That is the rule.

This isn't funny.

DEMONIC VOICE (V.O.):

You can't find me.

Olivia!

Hello?

Are you okay?

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

I win.

That's not funny... after

everything that happened.

Just get inside, it's time

for bed.

Go.

(ROCK MUSIC FADES UP)

Jesus!

Sorry!

You can get your own notes

from now on...

or copy off of someone else.

Because I'm not doing it

anymore.

Is that cool?

How was the dance?

I didn't go.

You went on and on

about it for weeks.

Probably would've sucked

anyways, so.

But it could have been okay

and now you'll never know.

(LAWNMOWER RUNNING)

(ENGINE STOPS)

You haven't seen Indy, have you?

The other day, Olivia was

bugging him.

Why, what happened?

Got out of the yard apparently.

They haven't seen him since

Halloween.

Sucks.

Don't forget to trim the hedges,

all right?

Sam, would you say grace?

Come on, Sam.

Dear God, thanks for the food.

And thanks for all of us.

Amen.

Hey, quit it!

Knock it off.

She's the one that just

kicked me!

I don't care. Stop it.

Have you... noticed anything

weird about Olivia...

since she's been back?

She went through a lot, Sam.

Did she say what happened

to her out there?

She'll talk about it

when she's ready.

You have noticed, haven't you?

She's back... that's enough.

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

What do you want?

What makes you think she did

something to the neighbor's dog?

Well, the dog had been acting

really weird...

around her and now it's missing.

So? I mean, that doesn't mean

she did something to it.

Well, that doesn't mean

she didn't.

Sam, Olivia's just acting weird

because of what happened.

You just need to give it

some time.

Do you remember that empty lot

at the end of Caffey?

The one with the

giant pile of woodchips.

We would spend all night

climbing up and down...

that thing, pretending

it was a castle.

Yeah, your dad always let us

stay out so late.

He only let us do that, because

he didn't want us around...

when he had his lady

friends there.

Well, I remember sitting on top

of that thing...

listening to the cars passing

on the highway.

Talking about how good

everything was gonna be...

when we got outta there.

Away from our shitty parents.

You got away from yours.

Sam, I didn't mean it.

No, I know.

At least we have each other,

right?

Em...

Hey, I'm sorry.

I should probably go.

(FAINT HOWLING)

Hello?

(GASPS)

You scared me.

What are you doing out here?

I saw you before, right?

Are you lost?

Do you want me to take you home?

Hey! Hey, hey! Wait.

What? Where are you going?

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Garrett? Garrett?

He was right here.

I swear. I swear I saw him,

okay? His eyes were missing.

Christ.

I gotta work in three hours,

you know that?

Something must've moved him.

You have to believe me.

Yeah, what were you doing

walking around...

in the woods at this hour, huh?

I don't understand you,

Samantha.

What's going on?

All right, look... let's just

go home, all right?

Let's get some sleep, okay?

Come on.

Hey, you seen Olivia?

Uh, I think she's out back

with her mom. Why?

No reason.

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

This is mine.

I just wanted it back.

Hey, uh, Logan, this is really

weird...

but do you remember the name

of that crazy lady...

that we saw at the thrift shop?

LOGAN (OVER PHONE):

Who? Alison Marcus?

I don't know, that's why

I called you.

LOGAN (OVER PHONE):

Yeah, yeah, it's Alison Marcus.

Yeah, my mum went to school

with her.

She tried to burn her house

down.

Why do you want to know? Sam?

Uh yeah, I'm gonna see you

tomorrow.

Thanks.

You know, running laps should

be outlawed.

I'm pretty sure it breaks the

Geneva Convention.

Sam, wait, slow down. Slow down.

What's wrong with you?

Did you know Alison Marcus

had a sister named Janie?

She disappeared in the woods,

just like Olivia...

and then came back

a few days later.

So?

So when Alison set fire to her

house...

she told the police it was

because of an imposter...

some sort of forest creature.

She knows what happened

to Olivia.

[COACH]

Logan, Sam, hurry up...

this isn't a world's slowest

competition!

I need you to cover for me.

Alison lives near here, okay?

Thanks!

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Logan, what...

Alison?

What do you want?

I want to talk to you

about your sister... Janie.

She's dead. She died

a long time ago.

When you saw my sister,

Olivia, downtown...

you said she wasn't what she

seemed and I think you're right.

- I'm sorry.

- No, please.

I don't know what else to do.

No one will believe me.

I read about your sister. She

disappeared too, didn't she?

She wasn't the first.

Children have been disappearing

into these woods for decades.

Charles McNabb. Percy and June

Frazier.

A little girl named Amanda

Sutherland got up...

in the middle of the night

and walked into the woods.

She told her mother

she'd heard singing...

coming from the forest

behind their house.

Four days later she's back.

And these are just the ones

I could find records for.

What are they?

The Hollow Ones.

They're watching, always

watching...

from the shadows, from the

woods... waiting.

They hate us.

Hate what we have.

Everything they're denied

by their nature.

What do you mean, their nature?

Without their disguise,

it hurts them to be seen.

They have to hide their

true form.

At least, that's what the

folklore says.

And the only way to break

their disguise...

is to free those they

have taken.

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