Winchester Page #5

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I know all three of you feel

pain and torment.

But violence cannot bring

justice.

Only more suffering,

and I will not allow my family

to suffer anymore.

Leave this house

with your brothers.

I hope together

you can find peace.

HARRY:

Beautiful dreamer

Wake unto me

Starlight and dewdrops

Are waiting for thee

Sounds of the rude world

Heard in the day

Led by the moonlight

have all passed away

(RUMBLING)

SARAH:
It's Ben.

(RUMBLING)

(MARION WHIMPERS)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING)

(DEBRIS CRASHING)

SARAH:
Stop them! Ah!

(WHIMPERS)

No!

Ah! (GROANING)

(COUGHS)

(GRUNTS)

Mrs. Winchester?

(THUDS)

I'll find another way

to get to you!

(CREAKING)

MARION:
Henry, sweetheart,

where are you?

Henry? Henry?

(GASPING)

Henry?

HENRY:

Beautiful dreamer

Henry! Henry!

Wake unto me

(PANTING)

Eric, this is just in your mind.

Fear is just in your mind.

It is only in your mind.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(BELL RINGS)

MARION:
Henry?

Henry, where are you?

Henry, sweetheart?

Where are you?

(SHIVERING)

(DOOR CREAKS)

VOICE:
(WHISPERS)

Be free, my brothers.

RUBY:
I always loved

our garden room, sweetheart.

- Ruby.

- But you let it die.

Oh, no.

Tell me the story

about the farmer

who owned the old mule.

- No.

- I always liked that story.

They built our garden room.

The farmer's old mule

fell into his well.

Go on, Eric.

The farmer heard...

What?

He heard the mule crying.

And it broke his heart.

RUBY:
He chose to bury

the animal in the well

- and put it out of its...

- Its hardship.

He started shoveling.

The mule realized that every

time dirt fell on his back,

he could shake it off

and step up.

Shovel after shovel.

He could shake it off

- and he could step up...

- Shake it off.

It wasn't long

before the old mule,

battered and exhausted,

stepped over the wall

of that well.

What should have buried him...

- Saved him.

- And he overcame...

This is not real.

This is not happening.

You are not real.

I've tried to be a good wife.

The voices are not real, Ruby.

They were never real.

They were just inside your head.

All these years, all I wanted was

for you to believe me. But...

- I should have put you in care.

- You never did.

I should have put you in care.

Just something that can be

diagnosed and treated,

like any other crazy person.

Yes. Yes. I did.

I made a mistake. I'm sorry.

A delusional disorder.

- Yes.

- That's what you called it.

Yes. Put the gun down,

Ruby, please.

We can talk about this.

I don't want to talk anymore.

I need you to believe me.

I don't know

what I believe anymore.

Someone like you never will.

Please, Ruby, don't.

Please, I'm lost

without you, Ruby.

I'm lost without you.

Don't do it. No!

(GASPS)

(GUNSHOT)

You can go on.

You need to let go

of your guilt,

so that I can let go of mine

and see the truth.

ERIC:
I'm so sorry.

Mrs. Winchester,

are you all right?

SARAH:
This spirit is destroying

the balance of this house.

It has to be stopped.

Master Henry and Marion,

we need to find them.

Seal that door.

Ben must not leave.

HENRY:

Beautiful dreamer

Henry?

Starlight and dewdrops

(SKATE ROLLING)

Sounds of the rude world

heard in the day

Led by the moonlight

have all passed away

Thirteen.

Sit.

Sarah, I can see them.

I can see all of them.

You're the only one who can.

You believe?

I do. I do.

Dead for three minutes,

killed by the Winchester rifle.

You are connected to this house.

Yes.

Henry.

I'm not afraid.

I'm not afraid.

(SHAKILY)

I won't let fear control me.

Henry!

Henry!

Oh, please,

please come back to me!

(FOOTSTEPS)

Marion and Henry

are in grave danger.

The only way to save them

is to stop Ben here and now.

Ben, leave my family alone.

You speak to me.

Talk to me.

Now.

Sarah.

Corporal Block is in this room.

BEN:
The Winchesters

are a vile plague!

This whore b*tch has to die!

Sarah, fight him!

My brothers were killed

by the rifle,

murdered by this

instrument of death...

- Fight him!

- That killed your wife.

- Sarah, control him!

- (PANTING)

Be present, Sarah. Be present.

I want you to suffer.

Marion is mine.

Henry is mine!

No, no, no!

Fight him!

And eye for an eye!

Get off me!

These vermin profit from death.

- Sarah, fight him.

- No more!

No!

Seal the floor, Doctor.

Thirteen nails. Hurry!

His rage is endless.

But he can be stopped.

- How?

- By something...

Something in this room.

He's afraid of something.

I felt it.

His gun.

That's 12.

This is the gun

he used to kill.

- Do you see him?

- No.

There. Done.

Now he's locked in.

And so are we.

(BELL TOLLING)

SARAH:

Ben, show yourself.

Show yourself!

(METAL OBJECT DROPS)

Your anger will never defeat us.

(GASPS)

(GROANING)

You took everything from me!

(GROANS)

They're going right through him.

- You saw him?

- Yes.

MARION:
Who's there?

You're there.

You are there amongst the dead.

It's not the gun.

He's afraid of something else.

You kept it and refurbished it.

All because it's a reminder

of my past.

SARAH:
Instruments of death

have a powerful connection

to the afterlife.

What should have killed him,

saved him.

Ben, we can help you be free

of your torment.

I'm a mother...

A fighter.

Show yourself.

A protector.

And I am not afraid.

RUBY:
See the truth.

Yes.

He's at peace.

He has joined his brothers.

You've done it. They're gone.

Everybody else,

go back to your rooms.

All of you.

(SARAH COUGHING)

Henry.

Henry!

Henry! Oh, Henry!

ERIC:

Dear Mr. Gates,

below you will find

my psychological assessment

and mental status examination

of Mrs. Sarah Lockwood

Winchester.

It was conducted at her home

between the dates of April 12

to April 19, 1906,

and prepared at the request

of the Winchester Repeating

Arms Company.

In my professional opinion,

after having observed

Mrs. Winchester

for the past week,

it is my conclusion that

she is of sound mind and body,

and is fit to continue

in her role

with the Winchester

Repeating Arms Company

for as long as

she desires such a burden.

Yours truly,

Dr. Eric A. Price.

It's time for us both

to leave this house.

I'll always miss you.

Thank you, Dr. Price,

for your help.

Young man.

Thank you.

Time for me to say goodbye.

Ruby loves you.

That did not stop

after her death.

You know that, don't you?

I do.

You know,

in spite of everything,

you really do have

a beautiful home.

What are you going to do next?

Rebuild, of course.

Of course.

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