The Nursery Page #3

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Heath and Morton

today to examine the...

(remote clicks)

He was just hanging there.

Honey, he's fine.

You don't believe me, do you?

I believe you

think you saw it,

but this isn't the first

time tonight, is it?

The picture?

There was no picture.

Yes, there was.

There wasn't.

You all think I'm

crazy, don't you?

I knew it the minute you

guys walked in here tonight.

Honey, nobody thinks

you're crazy, but...

Have you thought that maybe

you need to go

back on your meds?

Well, you haven't been

off them that long.

They were antidepressants

not antipsychotics.

Grief and depression

can affect people

in all kinds of ways.

Look at your brother.

This has nothing

to do with that.

Honey.

Cali, there's

something in this house.

(soft music)

(lips smacking)

Okay, slow down Tiger.

They'll be back eventually.

Come on, Gracey.

I'll be quick.

That's not exactly

an incentive.

Just take off your shirt.

We'll hear if they come down.

(lips smacking)

Okay, stop. Let me do it.

(dramatic music)

(Grace screaming)

[Jeremy] What

the f*** is wrong?

[Cali] What did you do?

[Jeremy] I didn't do sh*t.

[Cali] Did he hit you?

[Jeremy] What?

[Cali] Then what

the f*** happened?

You're all f***ing crazy

that's what happened.

What's wrong, Grace?

[Jeremy] You're f***ing

freaking everyone out.

[Cali] Shut up!

Grace!

Did he hit you?

Quit f***ing asking

her if I hit her!

I didn't f***ing hit her.

Everybody calm down.

Jeremy, shut up for a minute.

[Jeremy] Don't

tell me to shut up.

This is your freak show.

Grace, what happened?

What did you see, Ranae?

What?

In the monitor, outside...

What did you see?

Wait, outside?

Nothing.

I didn't see anything.

That's bullshit, Ranae.

Hey!

J's right.

You've been walking

around here all night

scaring the sh*t out of everyone

and now suddenly you

don't know anything.

What happened here?

We were fooling

around a little bit.

Jesus!

Oh, f***ing relax.

It's not a church, okay?

It's somebody's

f***ing living room.

Try keeping it in

your pants for once.

Takes two tango, b*tch.

It's not like she

was complaining.

Oh, yeah, she's great.

F*** off!

We were fooling

around on the couch

and then she screamed

and started flipping out.

Grace, what happened?

What did you see?

(sighs) Nothing,

it was just...

Nothing.

(ominous music)

There's something

in this house.

What is it?

I know it sounds crazy,

but I think it was...

If you say ghost,

I'm going to f***ing

lose my mind on you guys.

Shut up, baby dick.

A ghost, okay?

A f***ing ghost.

Oh, my god!

You guys are off the planet.

Jeremy!

What exactly did you see?

I don't know.

It was a girl, that's for sure.

Small, but I couldn't

see her face or her eyes.

Jesus Christ.

Do you ever shut up?

Not when everyone

else around me

is acting f***ing crazy, no.

And she was just

staring at us.

You just said you

couldn't see her face.

I know,

but I could feel it.

Listen to yourselves.

What is your problem?

What's my problem?

I'm sitting here with a

bunch of paranoid hysterics

talking about ghosts.

That's my f***ing problem.

I was right here.

There was no girl, there

was no f***ing ghost.

How do you know?

Because there's no

such thing as ghosts.

Do I really have to

say that out loud?

[Ranae] So what exactly

did she see then, Jeremy?

How the hell should I know?

She's probably just on the rag.

(Grace gasping)

You pig.

You did not just say that.

You tell me

what's more likely.

You've got a case of

the crimson crazies

or you saw a god damn ghost.

F*** you.

No, f*** you.

F*** all of you.

(footsteps departing)

Where are you going?

I'm going to take a

piss and find a beer.

What the f*** do you care?

Hey, ghost girl, I am

going to take a piss

and find a beer if

you wanna kill me, okay?

Just let me have the

beer first, thanks.

Jeremy don't!

Just let him go.

I don't think it's a good

idea for us to be alone.

Who gives a sh*t about him?

If there's really

something in this house-

- He's not going to

listen to you, Ranae.

She's right.

It's like trying to reason

with a one year old.

What?

I just said he's not

going to listen to you.

No, Grace, what did you say?

I said it's like trying

to talk to a one year old.

A one year old.

(suspenseful music)

(stairs creaking)

(dramatic music)

What are you looking for?

Here, look at this.

[Grace] Baby

pictures, so what?

Wait.

I don't get what we're suppose

to be looking at, sweetie.

Wait!

There, look.

It's a birthday

party, so what?

It's a first birthday party.

Yeah, they're at a first

birthday party, so what?

No, they're not at a

first birthday party,

they're throwing one.

Okay, so?

So, Miller's only

like three months old.

And?

And they don't

have any other kids.

Fine, so it's for

someone else's kid.

No, that's

definitely their kid.

Do you think they had

another kid before and lost it?

Maybe.

Well, so what?

The thing I saw

wasn't a one year old.

No, these pictures are just

from the kid's first year.

Who knows how old it was.

Come on.

Seriously, why not?

Cali, you met them.

How old were they?

Forty at least, right?

At least, probably older.

Okay, so mid-forties.

They could have had a kid

that was five years old.

It wasn't a five

year old either.

Fine!

They could have a 10

year old, a teenager!

I mean at their age, they

could have a kid in its 20s.

(scoffs) Ranae!

Why not, right?

By that logic, they

could have had an older kid

who just moved out or went

to college or whatever.

Yeah, that's true.

No way.

These people

interviewed me twice.

That would have come up.

How do you know?

[Ranae] I know.

- (computer keys clicking)

- [Cali] What are you doing?

I'm calling Ray.

(water splashing)

(child laughing)

(ominous techno music)

(dramatic music)

(nervously chuckles and sighs)

F***!

(child laughing)

[Ray] There is no way you

guys are babysitting a ghost.

Ray, I'm not screwing around.

You've been obsessed with

this stuff for a year.

That's my point.

I live and breathe this stuff.

I hang out in live

chats on Saturday nights

watching lectures by

paranormal experts

and my stupid sister

sees a ghost in Wisconsin

while I'm stuck here in Utah.

I mean there's no way the

universe is that cruel.

Ray, if they lost their child,

is it possible that her

ghost is in this house?

Of course it's possible,

that's how this

kind of thing works.

[Ranae] What do you mean?

Well, a kid probably

didn't just die, right?

More likely an accident

or terrible disease

or something tragic.

That's like textbook

ghost stuff.

It's like their soul

has unfinished business

and it can't release until

that business is resolved.

That makes perfect sense.

[Grace] It does?

What?

Why are we taking

him seriously?

He knows tons

about this stuff.

(scoffs) He's just a dumb

kid with a weird hobby.

You know I can

hear you, right?

Don't be shitty, Grace.

[Grace] Look, no

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