The Rake Page #4

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[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

I would've been there, Ash.

ASHLEY:
I highly doubt that.

BEN:
I went

to the psych evaluations

with you. The late night

emergency room visits?

ASHLEY:
And thought I was crazy.

You were hurting yourself.

Does this look familiar...

to you?

- Mom and Dad? Jacob Murphy?

- Stop this, Ash. Please.

You know what this is.

- You saw it that night.

- I saw Mom and Dad.

I saw that maniac slit

his own throat.

There was something else

in the house.

Jacob Murphy has been dead

for 20 years.

It didn't end with Murphy.

Okay, he was just a body.

He... he was just a vessel.

One of many.

Do you hear what you are saying?

I wanted to keep my baby, Ben.

But I had to save her from him.

Not a man who died 20 years ago.

You have to deal with your sh*t.

You decided that child's life.

It threatened to cut her out

of me every time I slept.

Have you been taking your pills?

They make everything cloudy.

I can't function!

How long?

Months.

God!

I need to hear

that you're stable.

That you're trying

to get better.

What happened

to all the progress you made?

After I did...

what I did...

it left me alone.

I could sleep and eat again.

No more whispers.

It's getting stronger.

In the family room just now,

I heard it whispering to her.

Savannah.

Why do you still take

your pills, Ben? Hm?

- Are you afraid to dream?

- It's not the pills, Ash.

I grew up and I moved on.

I'm living here now

with Michelle and Nicole.

Reality has no room

for your rake.

Neither does your family.

Go f*** yourself.

[SOBS]

[HEAVY BREATHING]

What do you want?

[GROWLS]

[SCREAMS]

[GROWLS]

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMS]

[JACOB'S VOICE OVER]

Feeding on fear, hate, death...

decay...

Death is everywhere.

No one is immune.

Beyond compare...

it convinced me...

to come to the despair.

I see the pain you've given me

as a gift, once you give in,

things become much easier...

death, rebirth...

giving and taking...

[GRUNTS]

- [BEN GRUNTING]

- [THUDDING]

Ben?

- NICOLE:
Andrew! Jeremy!

- MICHELLE:
Oh, my God!

Just give in to it.

You can trust me.

It will infect us all.

[GASPS]

Where's Ashley?

Babe, look just try to lay down,

okay, and relax.

You fell down the stairs

and you may have a concussion,

we're taking you

to the hospital.

- Ashley. Where is she?

- She's back at the house, Ben.

Probably chain smoking out back.

Did anyone see her?

I'm sure she's still

pretty upset

from what happened earlier.

I said, did anyone see her?

MICHELLE:
Why are you

freaking out?

Something's happening to her...

- she's not herself.

- Yeah, big surprise.

- What are you talking about?

- Turn the car around.

Ben, you're really freaking

me out.

Just turn

the f***ing car around!

Uncle Jeremy.

I kind of like the ring to that.

Does that mean your kid is going

to bring me beers and sh*t?

I'm having a child,

not a f***ing servant.

You want one so badly, go make

your own.

Woah! No, no, no.

No, thank you.

Kids are not my thing, man.

Let's just say, my sofa bed

isn't the only thing

that pulls out.

You know, you were always

so meticulous

- with your words, Jeremy.

- Oh, come on!

Worse things have

definitely been said tonight.

What was I supposed to say, huh?

"Ashley, my dear, are you

in need of re-admittance?

Please, take my tax dollars

and find Jesus."

Really? I'm an a**hole?

Because I told the crazy b*tch

she's acting like a crazy b*tch?

Even little Benny boy blue was

in denial.

- Shouldn't be your problem, man.

- Nicki needs to realize...

you can't help someone

if they don't want to be helped.

- F*** 'em!

- Amen to that!

I'm sorry, I'm not sorry...

- But I'm sorry.

- Amigo...

it is me who is sorry.

Yes! B*tch gets the booze!

- Ha-ha!

- F*** it.

I'm going to go take a piss.

And I'm going to go

out for a smoke. Mm.

Try not to piss

in your slippers, Grandpa.

Where are you?

Ah, there you are!

Come to Daddy.

Kimmy! Babe...

we're all inside.

What are you doing?

Fogging up the windows

without me? [LAUGHS]

- [CELLPHONE RINGING]

- Babe!

What are you doing?

Squatting in the bushes?

JEREMY:
Come out, come out,

wherever you are.

You horny little b*tch.

Daddy is going to spank you.

Getting warmer, baby,

I can hear you!

Oh, my God. Ki...

Kim? Kim? Babe...

Yo... Oh, my God. Babe!

[PANTS]

[GROWLING]

- Where the hell are they?

- BEN:
Try Jeremy's number.

- I don't have it.

- F***!

Ben, we are not in your head,

okay, so you're going to have

to tell us,

why you're freaking out?

Remember the nightmares Ashley

and I used to have as kids?

Of course...

about the night your parents

were murdered.

Those nightmares

never went away.

- You told me they stopped.

- I lied.

I don't understand.

Our nightmares suggested

something else was

in the house that night.

Something that has stayed

with us.

How does that have anything

to do with Ashley?

She believes she is becoming

its conduit.

To do what?

To infect us all.

Okay, are we seriously

considering this

as a possibility, right now?

She killed her baby to save it

from this thing.

Ben, Ashley was unfit to be

a mother, she was just confused.

Did you ever mention

the name Savannah to her?

- No.

- She knew.

Why would it whisper

to an unborn child?

It speaks to what it wants.

[WATER FLUSHING]

[PHONE RINGS]

Crazy b*tch can check

on herself.

[THUDDING]

- [WATER PATTERING]

- Ashley? Is that you?

Ashley?

What the f*** are you doing

down here?

No, no, no, no! F***!

[GRUNTS]

Ashley?

[GROWLING]

[GROWLING]

Nicole!

[PANTING] Ashley?

Hey, Andrew!

Ashley!

- Andrew!

- Stop yelling!

Oh, my God, will you go grab

him some ice.

Okay.

Babe!

What are you doing?

Hey, calm down!

[BEN PANTS]

Look, I mean it, you're really

starting to freak her out.

All right, let's just get this

off of you. All right?

Okay. Hey, babe. Babe, look,

stay with me, okay? All right?

Just get this off.

All right, just lean back.

- Just lean back.

- [SIGHS]

Relax, okay, I'm going

to find her.

Thanks.

I'm going to check outside.

- [SIGHS]

- [PHONE VIBRATING]

Graham, your nuts

better be falling off.

How is that important?

Huh. Really? Okay.

Graham, are you deliberately

trying to piss me off?

- [DOOR BANGING]

- Shut up, Graham.

Hey! Jesus Christ,

just give me a second!

Okay, I'm sorry what?

You know, I don't understand

why I hired you

when I can't delegate

a God damn thing to you.

You think what?

HR? Are you f***ing kidding me?

Just do your God damn job!

[CHOKES]

Do you believe her?

Ashley?

Yeah. Do you trust her?

How else would she know

what she knows?

Ben, I love Ashley to pieces,

but what if Andrew is right?

She's not wrong, Nicole...

something is off.

BEN:
I've seen...

I felt something here too.

I lost my baby boy at nearly

19 weeks.

I will do everything in my power

to make sure this baby comes

into this world safely.

Even if that means losing

a sister.

- [NICOLE SCREAMING]

- Nicole!

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