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.
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 seriousScooby-Doo sh*t right here.
LUIS:
Look how nicethat 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 oncetalked 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
Whoever performed the murders
was re-enacting
a very specific
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.
was offered to the demon
in exchange for immortality.
MAN:
It's only when the localpaediatrician 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
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 Desjardinshad 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 manhuntspanning 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 morningto 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,
Maybe?
I don't know.
I think so.
Well, he just
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!)
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'sa 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 herneighbour 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 wasbrought 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 Sredlfor 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 orderingsome 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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