EPISODE: 10
He drives himself to move faster and faster.
JOSH
DALTON!
DALTON (O.S.)
Dad...help me...
JOSH
DALTON!!
A figure suddenly appears at the end of the hallway.
It is the LONG HAIRED MAN IN THE GREY JACKET. The man who
terrorized Renai.
LONG HAIRED MAN
I hear you...
He approaches.
LONG HAIRED MAN (CONT'D)
I hear you, but you don't know what
you've done.
He licks his lips.
LONG HAIRED MAN (CONT'D)
There is a place that you can't go
to and this is that place.
He is only a few yards from Josh now. He SCREAMS with awesome
power, his spit flying.
LONG HAIRED MAN (CONT'D)
YOU MADE A MISTAKE!! I'M GOING TO
MAKE SUFFERING A FUCKING BLESSING
FOR YOU! I'M GOING TO RIP YOU APART
YOU CUNT!!
He CHARGES at Josh, screaming with hellfire fury.
Josh recoils, falling onto the floor, screaming.
INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - OUR WORLD
Josh's body JOLTS in the chair and he makes a noise somewhere
between a scream and a moan.
RENAI
What's happening to him?!
Elise leans in, attempting to communicate with Josh. ELISE
You're stronger then they are,
Josh. You are a living soul!
INT. CORRIDOR, THE FURTHER
Josh struggles. The Long Haired Man attacks him viciously.
Then something changes in Josh - he gets angry.
JOSH
Get...off..me!
He shoves the Long Haired Man back, pounding into him with
the strength of TEN MEN.
JOSH (CONT'D)
Get away from me! Leave now!
Frightened, the Long Haired Man retreats, backing away until
he is swallowed up by the blackness.
JOSH (CONT'D)
Dalton!!
DALTON (O.S.)
(still distant)
I'm here...
Josh follows the voice to another stairwell in this Escher-
like maze of passageways.
JOSH
Dalton!
DALTON (O.S.)
Here...
INT. BALLROOM, THE FURTHER - CONTINUOUS
From darkness into baroque extravagance.
Josh finds himself in a gilded chamber of long neglected
opulence...as if a palace had been stormed, the occupants
murdered and the place left to rot.
Mold caked pillars support a ceiling of gold flakes, the rest
having rotted way.
Mirrors line the walls, their surface too clouded to see into. JOSH
Dalton...?
He weaves between pillars, finally coming across a figure,
slumped on the floor in the corner like a dog.
It is Dalton.
Josh runs to him. His foot is chained to a PIPE behind him,
the clamp binding his right ankle. He looks pale and sick. He
looks like one of them.
JOSH (CONT'D)
I'm taking you back.
He sees that Dalton is terrified. Looking over Josh's
shoulder.
JOSH (CONT'D)
What is it?
He glances back, spotting an open door at the end of the
ballroom, light spilling from within it.
There is somebody inside.
INT. MAKE-UP ROOM, THE FURTHER - CONTINUOUS
A grotesque form sits in front of an immense gold-rimmed
mirror at a baroque powder table.
It is the RED-FACED creature seen by Elise.
The creature daubs RED LIPSTICK onto its face, arching
forward, glaring into the mirror, caking the make-up on.
The room is littered with hundreds of discarded CHILDREN'S
TOYS - teddy bears, stuffed animals, dolls (including one
white-faced, black-haired doll we recognize). They are
scattered about like bones, collecting dust in the shadows.
Suddenly the creature stops what it is doing. It sees
something in the mirror.
What it sees is Josh.
INT. BALLROOM, THE FURTHER - CONTINUOUS
With horror, Josh watches as the Red-Faced Man stands up and
staggers to the door, peering through the crack at him.
Josh wrestles to free Dalton's leg from the chain. No good. Behind them the Red Faced Man opens the door. A rage unknown
to humans is building up inside the creature. He hisses.
DALTON
Help me, dad...take this off me...
The creature steps closer. Taking his time. Drool seeping
from his mouth with each drunken, wayward lope.
JOSH
You're not really here. You're
asleep in your bed in our home.
Just stand up.
DALTON
He's going to hurt me again...
JOSH
This isn't real. You can do this.
DALTON
He's coming!
JOSH
Just stand up!
Dalton does - and suddenly finds that the chain is no longer
attached to his foot.
The Red Faced Man ROARS and the power of his breath sends
them FLYING BACK.
RED-FACED MAN
This...issssss....real!
Josh smashes his head on a pillar, blood leaking from his
head. The power of this demon far outweighs the others.
RED-FACED MAN (CONT'D)
That...issss...my....boy!
Josh scrambles to his feet and snatches up Dalton, carrying
him to the door as the Red Faced Man pursues.
INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - OUR WORLD
Josh convulses in the chair, choking.
RENAI
Help him! INT. CORRIDOR, THE FURTHER
Josh surges down a corridor, carrying Dalton.
The Red-Faced Man hobbles up behind them, his rasping wheeze
growing in volume.
RED-FACED MAN
You're here now! With ussss!
Josh stampedes through the front door of the house - but
instead of the street, he is facing another corridor.
They spill into the second corridor, running again, racing
past rows and rows of doors.
INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - OUR WORLD
Josh twitches in his chair, sweat beading on his forehead.
JOSH
(moaning)
....ome....onnnnn...
Elise paces in front of him.
ELISE
They've made contact. I know it.
He's found your son.
RENAI
What happens now?
ELISE
We need them to come back. We need
him to find us.
Tucker's equipment begins to shake on the table. The hanging
light above them quivers as if an earthquake were rattling it.
A force is building in the room.
INT. CORRIDOR, THE FURTHER
As Josh and Dalton streak down the corridor, each door opens
and a different figure staggers out.
Grotesque figures...the solemn dead. Pale skin, hollow eyes.
Their dead eyes drill into Josh's soul.
They want what he has - life. They begin running - chasing Josh. Dozens of them.
Josh stops, seeing that the corridor seemingly has NO END. He
yells in frustration.
JOSH
I want to get out!
INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - OUR WORLD
Josh's body SHUDDERS, the cry escaping his lips.
JOSH
....eeeeet out!
The room trembles again. Elise looks to Renai.
ELISE
Call out to him!
INT. CORRIDOR, THE FURTHER
Josh whips around, desperate.
DALTON
Listen!
Josh follows the order - and hears it. A faint shout. A siren
call from another world.
RENAI (V.O.)
(distant)
Josh, follow my voice...
The voice seems to come from behind the door in front of
Josh. He shoves it open--
INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - OUR WORLD
Renai glares at Josh's eyelids...as if he can see her through
them.
RENAI
Follow my voice. Come back to us.
The room stops trembling. All is very still.
For a moment, it is as if time has stopped. Nuclear silence.
Then...a drawer slides open in the corner of the room.
Lorraine and Renai gasp at this supernatural interruption. Specs clambers to his feet, approaching the drawer. It
contains a note pad and nothing else.
He reaches out to close it...and then JOLTS as a HAND reaches
out from within it!
He FLAILS backwards in fright, watching as the hand wrenches
a mop of hair into view.
A FULL GROWN BODY BEGINS TO CLAW its way out of the drawer!
INT. DALTON'S BEDROOM, NEW HOUSE - SAME TIME
Drawers in Dalton's room slide open in unison. Then cabinets.
The closet BURSTS open.
Pale adult bodies begin to claw their way out of the
different doors, undulating out of impossibly small spaces
and falling onto the floor like limbless insects.
Cracks are opening in our world and the miserable dead are
slithering through the fissures.
INT. KITCHEN, NEW HOUSE - SAME TIME
More doors shoot open - cabinets, closets, the pantry. Forced
by unseen hands.
More hideous forms wrench themselves out into our world.
INT. CORRIDOR, THE FURTHER
Josh is exhausted, pushing himself to the limits.
He hears the voice again - distant and small. An echo.
RENAI (V.O.)
Find us...
Josh follows the voice to a door.
He staggers towards it, still supporting Dalton. He slams the
door open, falling through it into--
INT. BASEMENT, LAMBERT HOME, THE FURTHER
-- the empty basement.
He is in the basement of his old house. The wooden steps
beckon above him. Renai's voice cries out from behind the door at the top of
the stairs.
RENAI (V.O.)
Hurry! Come back to us!
DALTON
Put me down, I can run!
Josh sets Dalton down, who scampers up the stairs. Josh is
about to follow when he turns and spies a familiar face.
THE OLD WOMAN.
She leers at Josh through the window of the basement, her
visage spookily flecked in candlelight.
Josh is transfixed.
DALTON (CONT'D)
Come on, dad! Come on!
JOSH
Go! I'm right behind you!
Dalton charges ahead as Josh glares back at this face from
his past.
JOSH (CONT'D)
You...what do you want from me?
The old woman's eerily unblinking gaze cuts through Josh. A
long dormant rage BOILS OVER inside him. He approaches the
window, vomiting fury at her.
JOSH (CONT'D)
Get the fuck away from me! I'm not
scared of you, just leave me alone!
Get away from me!
The old woman's lips protract to unveil a yellow graveyard of
molars. A smile to buckle the steeliest nerve.
She raises a lit candle to her lips.
She snuffs out the plume with a single puff...plunging the
basement into darkness.
INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - SAME TIME
Specs staggers back as the skeletal figures emerging from the
cabinets ambulate into the living room, surrounding Josh. RENAI
(to Josh)
Find us!
ELISE
(to Specs)
Check on the boy!
Specs sprints out of the room.
INT. CORRIDOR, LAMBERT HOME, THE FURTHER
We are now locked into a POV shot, pushing down the corridor
of the Lambert's NEW HOUSE. The scene of the trance.
Our POV is bee-lining for Dalton's bedroom.
INT. BASEMENT, LAMBERT HOME, THE FURTHER
In another POV shot, we SURGE up the basement stairs.
INT. CORRIDOR, NEW HOUSE, THE FURTHER
Our POV is only a few yards from Dalton's bedroom door.
The Red-Faced Man appears at the opposite end of the hall.
Malevolent. Cruel.
He SCREAMS and flits towards us.
The POV keeps going, hitting the bedroom door and FLINGING IT
OPEN - seeing DALTON'S BODY sleeping inside.
We SOAR towards it, getting closer--
INT. DALTON'S BEDROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - OUR WORLD
Specs stands over Dalton's body.
SUDDENLY - Dalton shudders, his legs spasm. His eyes FLICK
open and he SUCKS IN A HUGE BREATH.
SPECS
He's awake!
Dalton sits up, panting. Renai charges into the room. He
looks at her, registering her appearance.
DALTON
Mom...