The Quiet Ones Page #4

week, something's up.

I just feel like we're

living on a spaceship.

There's no TV, the

phones don't work.

I've stopped going to lectures,

I haven't read a newspaper in...

It's a prison.

It's a prison and we

are her prisoners.

This has gone on long enough.

What, you mean you and me?

No, you idiot! The Experiment.

Are both of you blind?

Joseph is in love with Jane Harper.

He's wants to cure her

so he can have her.

Don't be a child!

Piss off.

(ELECTRICAL BURST)

(SHRIEKS)

Krissi!

(LAUGHTER OVER SPEAKER)

I had nothing to do with this,

I swear. I was asleep.

You couldn't have been

asleep. That's impossible.

She heard you laugh.

I don't control Evey.

You made Evey.

KRISSI:
This is where your grand

hypothesis meets reality, Joseph.

What's the bloody plan? Hmm?

Do you even have one?

The plan's what it's always

been. Cure Jane Harper.

She tried to kill me!

Your tart tried to kill me.

Jesus, Joseph. Are you

screwing both of them?

Is that part of the Experiment?

You can go to hell, all of you.

Harry, go help her.

So, why couldn't she

have been sleeping?

Because that would mean she could

manifest whilst unconscious.

And that is, well,

unexpected.

KRISSI:
I'm sorry, Harry.

You're all in love

with her, you know?

You, Joseph and Brian...

Brian most of all.

Come on, Krissi. Get real.

You all think you can save her.

(BOTH SCREAM)

(BRIAN PANTING)

Power's out, just

checked the fuse box.

- COUPLAND:
Brian! Brian!

- BRIAN:
Sir?

Bring the light. Jane's missing.

- BRIAN:
What?

- Come on!

BRIAN:
Where's she gone?

She's missing. If I knew

the answer to that,

she wouldn't be missing, would she?

(JANE SCREAMING)

BRIAN:
What's that?

JANE:
(SCREAMING) Help me!

- BRIAN:
Jane!

- COUPLAND:
Jane!

BRIAN:
Jane, where are you?

Jane?

Jane!

Open the door!

(LOUD BANG)

(ALL GASPING)

(BANGING)

(LOCK CLICKS)

BRIAN:
Be careful.

HARRY:
Krissi, go on. Slowly.

BRIAN:
We don't know

what's in here.

Sir, sir.

Jane?

BRIAN:
Jane?

COUPLAND:
Shine the light,

goddamn it. I can't see.

- BRIAN:
Jane?

- Jane!

BRIAN:
Jane.

Jane.

- KRISSI:
Where is she?

- BRIAN:
Jane.

Odd, there's a toy.

What? Who's is it?

KRISSI:
It's like the painting,

on the wall in Jane's room.

- (CLATTERING)

- (KRISSI SCREAMS)

HARRY:
You okay?

COUPLAND:
Goddamn it!

- KRISSI:
Oh, God, Joseph.

- It's pitch black in here!

Sorry.

COUPLAND:
Jane!

- HARRY:
God, what is this?

- BRIAN:
Jane? Jane?

HARRY:
Oh, my God, she's not here.

Can we please get out of here?

BRIAN:
Go on.

(GASPS)

Jesus! It's okay,

it's okay, I'm sorry.

- COUPLAND:
We need to stick together!

- I'm sorry.

BRIAN:
Oh, God!

- KRISSI:
Jane, please.

- COUPLAND:
Jane!

We understand this has been

difficult, but we're your family now!

(CLATTERING IN DISTANCE)

BRIAN:
What's that?

What are you doing?

Why are the lights off?

COUPLAND:
Where's Evey?

(RUSTLING)

- HARRY:
What was that?

- COUPLAND:
What's that?

BRIAN:
It's coming from there.

What was that?

She's right in front of you.

What's wrong, darling?

Why are you upset?

COUPLAND:
Get in close, go on.

You don't want to leave this house?

I understand.

Do you need me to hold you?

It's okay, love, I'm here.

Don't be afraid.

(SCREAMS)

BRIAN:
What's going on? Jane, Jane!

COUPLAND:

Put it out! Put it out quickly!

BRIAN:
Oh, my God, what is that?

HARRY:
What is that?

HARRY:
What was that?

It's a sigil.

HARRY:
A what?

A sigil.

A sign of devil worship.

Which one of you idiots

put this into her mind?

Will you please just

consider the possibility

that Jane didn't create Evey?

Okay, that maybe Evey came from...

Somewhere else?

What came from somewhere else,

is the idea of the f***ing occult

to a patient who is

highly suggestible!

So, I ask you again,

which one of you was it?

What if it didn't

come from any of us?

What if she's just a

vessel or a conduit?

She needs to go to the hospital.

Try to control your hysteria,

Kristina, it's beneath you.

- She's just expressing what she thinks...

- No one's asking you, Harry!

Don't talk to us like we're

children. We are colleagues.

Then think before you

speak, colleague.

With each paranormal event, we learn

more about how to eradicate it!

To probe like scientists,

not school girls.

That is so incredibly sexist.

Perhaps it doesn't fit

our hypothesis exactly.

Well, not if she's

possessed, it doesn't!

JANE:
I can't be.

We made her, didn't we, Joseph?

And we can purge her.

You believe that with all

your heart, don't you?

We can stop this experiment

right now if you wish to.

No.

I don't want to hear another word

of this superstitious nonsense

uttered in this house again.

If any of you are too frightened,

well, you can leave.

I am too frightened.

We should go back to Oxford.

Salvage what's left of the term.

What about Jane?

I'm sorry.

We gave her a break,

now we need one.

Have you seen this sigil before?

Does it mean anything to you?

I can't remember.

Try, Jane, it's important.

Before I came here,

I was never comfortable

with who I was.

Have you ever felt like that?

You ever heard someone

call out your name,

but you couldn't recognize

it as your own?

Or looked at old

photographs of yourself,

but you couldn't

recognize your face?

I felt like that for as

long as I can remember.

Don't lose faith in Joseph,

or in Evey.

Or in me.

We need you.

For the first time in my life,

I think there's finally a

way for me to be happy.

Evey's making that happen.

- We can't.

- Why not?

Not yet.

Brian?

Not until you're well.

(BELL TOLLING)

Do you think Evey will ever

leave Jane Harper alone?

Whatever Evey is.

Screw Evey.

(CREAKING)

(STRANGE NOISES)

(CLATTER IN DISTANCE)

(DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE)

Jane.

Jane.

I need to leave.

I'll be back as soon

as I can. Alright?

- Do you understand?

- Does she understand what?

I have to go to the film

lab, get more stock.

It might take me a while.

Oh.

Okay.

Take your time.

(SIGHS)

You.

You're the guy with the camera

working for Joseph Coupland.

Listen to you, nothing to say just like

everyone in Joseph's inner circle.

Tell me, have you already been

indoctrinated by the quiet ones?

You must have killed her by now.

You know, killing a young woman is

a wonderful way to create a ghost.

(SCREAMING)

(SHRIEKS)

Harry! It's hot!

(GASPING)

(CHOKING)

Harry!

Krissi!

She needs to be locked

up in an asylum!

Sedated around the clock! Right?

When you leave a haunted house,

the spirit isn't

meant to follow you.

Keep it rational, Harry.

Rational?

- Now Evey's...

- COUPLAND:
Cameraman.

What took you so long?

They called themselves "Lilitu."

A cult, devoted to an ancient

demon worshipped by the Sumerians

5,000 years before Christianity.

Is this a joke?

Kristine nearly lost her life...

It's not a joke, it's Evey!

Evey?

Evey Dwyer.

As a child she exhibited

a gift for clairvoyance.

Their leader Dr. Heinrich

Dwyer became convinced

that Evey could

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