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entire body goes into spasm.
26.
WOODS - CONTINUOUS - EXT
Lee grabs a branch for support and twists, searching for
the breath. A flock of birds rise from a distant tree,
flapping and squawking, and fly away. There is no other
wildlife to be heard and no more wheezing. She picks a big
stick from the ground and presses on.
CABIN BEDROOM - AFTERNOON - INT/EXT
Crash drops to his knees, circles his finger over his lips
and crawls across the dark bedroom and into the lounge. He
peeks through a wind-torn hole in one of the boards. Shay
steps out behind him but stands way back.
SHANNON
I heard it before. The woods,
the forest. It was all alive and
coming for me.
CRASH
Shut up. Nothing is alive and
after you. Nothing.
The soles of feet, one trainer, one sock, through the
jagged hole. Widen and slow reveal Paul. He is sitting on
the porch floor and facing. His eyes are unfocused. Four
thin scratches are torn into his torso, ripping his white
shirt and staining it with blood. His right leg is bent
beneath him at an impossible angle.
Crash pulls back from the wall and glances behind him.
CRASH (CONT'D)
Go back in your room. You can’t
see this.
27.
SHANNON
There’s something out there.
Outside my home. I need to see.
She doesn’t move and Crash puts his eye back to the crack.
Paul takes a long shuddering breath and winces.
PAUL
Oh God. Help me.
More breathing can be heard, this time more growling,
waiting.
CRASH
It’s Paul. Why didn’t he go
home?
SHANNON
Would he have been safe there?
CRASH
No. But I wouldn’t have to
watch.
PAUL
Please, I know what did this and