The Taking of Deborah Logan Page #5

Can you feel it?

It's like... it's like

jammed in... it's jamming it.

It's right at the back.

Wait, wait, wait.

Oh, yeah, I can feel it.

I can feel it.

I can feel it.

Wait. Wait.

SARAH:
Careful.

- (DRAW SQUEAKS)

- Oh, f***.

Wait, there it is.

Yeah, this is the 1971

and 1972 index here.

Yeah, but there's

no customer profile. See?

- Yeah.

- That's weird.

Mom was fastidious.

Mom was like...

This is...

There should be no holes.

Jack 337, there's nothing.

- 336.

- SARAH AND MIA:
Yeah.

336 continued, and then...

- 338.

- SARAH:
Exactly.

GAVIN:
What's that?

What are you doing?

The one page we need is

the one that's missing.

It's been ripped out.

(CLOCK TICKS)

Sarah, does Deb keep charcoal

in the house?

Yeah.

- LUIS:
Yeah?

- I mean, in her art room.

Hey, Mia, do you have a notebook,

like notebook paper?

There's this little depression

that's right here.

Just line it up here.

OK. Here we go.

Oh, yeah.

- (LUIS CHUCKLES)

- What?

- LUIS:
Here we go, here we go.

- Is it working?

GAVIN:
This is some serious

Scooby-Doo sh*t right here.

LUIS:
Look how nice

that is. '337'.

- SARAH:
Are you kidding me?

- MIA:
Yeah, great.

- LUIS:
Here we go.

- MIA:
So smart.

GAVIN:
I wouldn't go that far.

Oh, what is that?

- GAVIN:
Is that 'D'?

- LUIS:
D, E, J, A, R...

GAVIN:
DJ Raj?

- SARAH:
Desjardins.

- MIA:
Who is it?

Huh!

"Local paediatrician thought to have

killed some local girls."

"Went missing

in the early '70s."

Yeah, I was young,

but I still remember the curfews.

The whole state

was looking for him.

LUIS:
And she never once

talked about this guy?

No. I mean, he was infamous.

There was a whole documentary.

I can't believe

you guys haven't heard...

- Yeah?

- ..that name before.

REPORTER ON VIDEO:

Still no arrests have been made

in the nightmare spree of killings

that have plagued the Exuma Valley

for the last two years,

leaving four young girls dead.

The teen girls were each found

with serpentine carvings

on their foreheads.

Parts of their bodies

had been cannibalised

and traces of rattlesnake venom

were found in their blood.

Whoever performed the murders

was re-enacting

a very specific

Monacan blood ritual -

the cauterised symbol

of the snake consuming itself.

The choice of the Monacan mines

was no accident,

built over a cave system

sacred to the natives

which fed directly

into the River Rouge.

Girls were sacrificed

during the times

of their first menstruations -

'bleeding flowers'

as they were called.

The blood of their oestrus

was offered to the demon

in exchange for immortality.

MAN:
It's only when the local

paediatrician goes missing

that interest in

the River Rouge case begins again.

Henri Desjardins

is well known, he's respected,

he does a lot of pro bono work.

And a month

after he goes missing

a local paperboy directs

authorities to a house,

claiming there's a strange odour

from the building.

The stench was the worst

I have ever smelt.

I mean, guys were gagging.

Then we saw the snakes everywhere,

hundreds of them,

all kinds, just constrictors,

rattlesnakes...

Monacan totems,

books on rituals.

INTERVIEWEE:
Henri Desjardins

had the ultimate motive.

He was dying.

He had Lou Gehrig's disease.

You understand how debilitating

that disease is, don't you?

The Monacan ritual

required five victims

to attain immortality and

be free from the human body,

yet only four victims appear.

I know he didn't

complete the ritual.

Maybe he had second thoughts.

I don't know.

MAN:
Despite a massive manhunt

spanning two borders,

Desjardins is never seen again

and his whereabouts

become the stuff of legend.

Some say that

he fled back to Quebec,

others that he...

he killed himself.

MIA:
I got up this morning

to make coffee

and she was on the stoop.

- (SARAH MOUTHS SILENTLY)

- (MIA WHISPERS)

(SARAH WHISPERS)

I'm going to ask her.

(SARAH WHISPERS) Yeah.

(SARAH STAMMERS)

Do you remember

a man named, um...

...Henri Desjardins?

He was, uh... like, a local paediatrician

around here

a long time ago.

That name...

- (CLEARS THROAT) Yeah.

- SARAH:
Yeah?

That name sounds familiar.

Was he, like,

a client of yours or...

Maybe?

I don't know.

I think so.

Well, he just

went missing a while ago,

over 30 years ago,

so, you know...

DEBORAH:
He's not missing.

He's dead.

How do you know that, Mom?

(HOARSELY) Murdered.

Murdered?

- Ma?

- (MOANS)

- (GROANS)

- M... Ma?

Sarah, it's me.

Do you need a hand?

(RETCHING)

(BANG!)

(DEBORAH HEAVES AND GROANS)

Stay with her.

I'm calling an ambulance.

- What's going on?

- Stay with her!

- MIA:
Luis, what is...

- (DEBORAH WHIMPERS)

LUIS:
Oh, my God. Deb?

MIA:
Oh, my God.

Oh, Deb...

(DEVICE BEEPS REGULARLY)

MAN:
Voice changes,

self-alteration,

feeling as if your body

belongs to someone else -

all hallmarks of

split personality disorder.

We'll run a DDIS.

What about the skin?

The biopsies came back

negative for ichthyosis.

We're still searching.

She puked f***ing earthworms.

MAN:
Your mother's

a gardener, right? Your mom?

You said she tried to

swallow some objects before?

You can't be serious.

Well, she's out back

in the garden,

she scoops up some soil...

MAN 2:
Excuse me, sir?

Sir, you can't be in here.

Come on. Come with us.

You come with us.

LUIS:
That's her

neighbour Harris.

(DEBORAH GROANS SOFTLY)

Obviously she did know him.

Desjardins was

her client, Harris.

What... Don't try and bullshit.

Why are you acting like...

Nazir told us to!

She's speaking French,

obsessed with the guy.

He was her f***ing client!

F***er. Yeah, hang up.

We think Harris is being shady to...

I don't know. Protect Deb.

But what if Harris is trying

to protect himself?

LUIS:
It says he was

brought in for questioning.

- GAVIN:
Yeah, twice.

- MIA:
Look.

Here's an article I found.

"Eyewitnesses say Sredl skulking

around the Desjardins residence

"and scenes of the crime."

SARAH:
Well, I'm stupid.

What are you getting at?

Well, AFTER

Desjardins disappears.

GAVIN:
Mia, come on.

MIA:
What if Sredl

for some reason -

he wants to save the girls

or whatever -

he murders this

Desjardins guy, right,

and then Deborah, who's his best friend

in the whole world,

has to cover for him

and take the secret

and she buries it,

like, so deep,

it takes a disease

to bring it to the surface?

Oh, come on.

It says he's missing.

It doesn't say anything

about him being dead.

- LUIS:
It's so paper thin.

- MIA:
It's not, though!

SARAH:
I'm ordering

some dinner, OK?

Yeah, why don't you get

on the phone and find somewhere?

Somewhere with salad.

Oh, yeah, somewhere with salad.

In this booming metropolis,

I'm sure I'll find

a f***ing salad emporium.

- (BOOM!)

- MEN:
What was that?!

- GAVIN:
What was that?

- MIA:
I think it came...

- Did it come from out there?

- Yeah, it came from out there!

- What the f*** was that?

- (BOOM!)

- (ALL EXCLAIM)

- SARAH:
Somebody's out there.

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