EPISODE: 11

Renai literally throws herself at him, wrapping her arms

around his body. No words can express.

Renai scoops him up, carrying him out of the bedroom.

INT. CORRIDOR, NEW HOUSE, THE FURTHER

The second POV whooshes down the corridor, zeroing in on the

living room.

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS

A scene of desperation.

Elise leans into Josh's face.

The living room is now filled with the CREEPING FORMS of the

souls who crawled out from within the drawers. All of them

marching towards Josh.

ELISE

Find me, Josh! Now! Wake up!

The closest entity reaches out with gnarled fingers and is

almost touching Josh--

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE, THE FURTHER

The POV shoots towards Josh's body, seconds away--

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - SAME TIME

Josh's eyes BURST OPEN and he inhales a chest full of air, as

if emerging from deep water.

He falls forward, his strength gone.

RENAI

Josh? Josh?

He pants on the floor, barely able to speak.

JOSH

Dalton...?

Dalton and Renai pounce on him.

Josh holds onto Dalton like he's a life preserver, and in a

way, for Josh, he is. He laughs, inhaling deeply. Specs, Elise and Tucker approach. Renai sees them and stands

up, tearful. She is lost for words.

RENAI

I don't know what to say...

She rushes forward and hugs all three of them.

ELISE

Well put.

Josh brings Lorraine in they all embrace in a circle. A group

hug for the ages.

JOSH

Now this is worth dying for.

EXT. NEW HOUSE - NIGHT

It's over.

Specs and Tucker haul a large tripod case to their van,

heaving it into the back.

They stand in awkward silence. It's been a long day.

TUCKER

I guess you did some pretty awesome

stuff in there. You deserve some

credit.

SPECS

You did good too in an assistant-

type way.

Tucker can't hold his stoic pose any longer. He breaks out

laughing, followed quickly by Specs.

TUCKER

Thanks, boss.

They shake hands.

TUCKER (CONT'D)

Dude, I got some amazing shots. We

are gonna write a book and my shots

are gonna be the main selling point.

SPECS

Yeah.

(beat)

Not the main selling point, but

definitely important, for sure. INT. MASTER BEDROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT

Renai lie with Dalton on her bed.

DALTON

I'm tired.

RENAI

Too bad. I'm never letting you go

to sleep again.

She runs her fingers through his hair.

RENAI (CONT'D)

Did you know we'd come and find you?

Dalton nods.

RENAI (CONT'D)

Whenever you're lost...we'll always

come and find you.

They hug.

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT

Josh wanders out of the kitchen, examining the house as if

seeing it for the first time. He is smiling...happier than we

have ever seen him.

Elise sits on the couch amongst the remains of Tucker's

paraphernalia of the paranormal. Josh approaches her,

standing over her.

JOSH

You introduced me to a new world.

ELISE

No. You've been there before,

remember? And you'll go back.

(beat)

All of us will...eventually.

JOSH

Maybe I can forget again.

He reaches into his jacket, taking out the eerie photos

Lorraine gave him of himself as a child.

JOSH (CONT'D)

I'll start by giving these back. As he hands them to Elise, she sees with fear that his hand

is withered and wrinkled.

Like the hand of an eighty year old woman.

Shocked, she looks up at his face.

JOSH (CONT'D)

What's wrong?

Elise stands. She looks haunted. Her eyes wide and unnerved.

ELISE

Nothing, I...

She turns away, reaching for something.

JOSH

What's the matter, Elise?

She spins around and lifts Tucker's camera up to her face,

aiming it at him. She depresses the trigger and takes a photo

of him, bathing the whole corridor in white light.

Josh recoils back in shock. Elise lowers the camera. She is

terrified. Josh suddenly LUNGES at her, slapping the camera

out of her hands.

JOSH (CONT'D)

Why the fuck would you do that? Why

would you do that? Why?!

He SLAMS her against the wall, his hands around her throat.

Elise chokes in terror, terrified of him.

JOSH (CONT'D)

You of all people! You know! Why

would you do that to me when you

know what you know? You bitch!

He abruptly stops attacking her, staggering backwards,

examining his hands as if he can't believe what he's done.

Seething with fury. Panting.

Elise collapses, catching her breath.

Josh swipes a framed photo off the wall and storms away,

heading down the corridor...

...swallowed up by the darkness.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM, NEW HOUSE - SAME TIME

Renai furrows her brow.

RENAI

What was that?

(beat; to Dalton)

Stay here.

She gets up.

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT

Renai jogs into the living room. Sees Elise lying on the

floor.

RENAI

Elise, what was that noise?

Elise simply looks up at her. The utter terror on her face is

palpable. Her neck is bleeding from scratch marks.

RENAI (CONT'D)

Jesus...what happened to you?

Elise just stares, unable to speak. Her fear is contagious.

RENAI (CONT'D)

Where's Josh?

(beat)

Josh? Josh?!

She turns and runs into the corridor, flicking on the lights.

There is nobody there.

INT. CORRIDOR, NEW HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

Renai dashes from room to room in the hallway, pitching each

door open.

Each room is empty. Josh is nowhere to be found.

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - SAME TIME

Elise stares at Tucker's camera in a state of catatonic dread.

Renai backs into the room, her own fear rising in her gut.

She leans down and grabs Elise by the shoulders. RENAI

Elise, what happened? You're

scaring me, tell me where Josh is?

Elise finally looks up at her. Seeing the "expert" so afraid

unnerves Renai. When the lion-tamer drops his whip and runs,

you know the lion is vicious.

Elise opens her mouth to speak...but nothing comes out.

Instead, she simply holds up the camera, showing Renai the

digital display of the photo she took.

We do not see it.

We simply see the look of horror on Renai's face.

FLASHCUT TO:

INT. LIVING ROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT - FLASHBACK

We have returned to the previous scene - only now we are

seeing it through Elise's eyes.

Elise is sitting on the couch, alone. Trying to recover from

the nights events.

She glances up when Josh approaches her.

JOSH

You introduced me to a new world.

ELISE

No. You've been there before,

remember? And you'll go back.

(beat)

All of us will...eventually.

JOSH

Maybe I can forget again.

Once again, we see him reach into his jacket, taking out the

photos Lorraine gave him.

JOSH (CONT'D)

I'll start by giving these back.

As he hands them to Elise, she sees with fear that his hand

is withered and wrinkled.

Shocked, she looks up at his face. JOSH (CONT'D)

What's wrong?

Elise stands up, not knowing how to react.

ELISE

Nothing, I...

She turns away, reaching for something. We see her scoop up

Tucker's digital camera.

JOSH

What's the matter, Elise?

She spins around and lifts Tucker's camera up to her face,

aiming it at him. She depresses the trigger and takes a photo

of him, bathing the whole corridor in white light.

--and in that split second, Josh is replaced by the Old

Woman!

Elise lowers the camera, horrified. For a beat, the Old Woman

just glares at her...

...then she CHARGES at Elise, arms outstretched, wrapping her

white hands around the soft flesh of Elise's throat.

Elise CHOKES, eyes bulging, spittle flying from her mouth, as

the pale hands of the Old Woman dig into her thorax, droplets

of blood running down her chest where the yellowing finger-

nails have CUT IN to the flesh.

The Old Woman smiles - a merciless harlequin grin that mocks

Elise's pain.

She lets Elise go, letting her drop to the floor.

The Old Woman turns and glares down the corridor. Something

has caught her attention. A distant scream.

INT. BATHROOM, NEW HOUSE - NIGHT

The door groans open, a blade of light penetrating pitch

black darkness.

The silhouette of the Old Woman floats ethereally into the

bathroom. She steps up to the mirror, then reaches into her

tattered Victorian dress and produces a candle.

She lights the candle with a match, holding it beneath her

chin and glaring into the reflective surface of the mirror. Instead of seeing her own reflection though, she sees THROUGH

the mirror as if it were a window.

In it, she can see the BASEMENT of the Lambert's previous

residence.

Josh bursts into the basement, carrying Dalton.

DALTON

Put me down, I can run!

Josh sets Dalton down, who scampers up the stairs.

We are watching the same scene we saw earlier play out in the

mirror.

Josh is about to follow when he turns and spies a familiar

face. He looks at the Old Woman...seeing her through the

'window'.

DALTON (CONT'D)

Come on, dad! Come on!

JOSH

Go! I'm right behind you!

Dalton disappears as Josh glares at the woman.

JOSH (CONT'D)

You...what do you want from me?

He approaches the mirror. WE CIRCLE AROUND the Old Woman,

past the mirror and THROUGH THE BATHROOM WALL, emerging on

the other side in--

INT. BASEMENT, LAMBERT HOME, INSIDE THE FURTHER

--the basement.

Josh screams at the Old Woman as she stares at him through

what he thinks is a window. THEY HAVE SWAPPED PLACES. He is

now in The Further, and she is in our world.

JOSH

Get away the fuck away from me. I'm

not scared of you, just leave me

alone! Get away from me!

We KEEP CIRCLING, wiping past Josh's back and completing a

360 degree turn, THROUGH THE WALL and back into INT. BATHROOM, NEW HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

--our world.

The Old Woman smiles at Josh's rage. She finds it amusing.

With an eerily unblinking gaze, she snuffs out the plume of

flame with a single puff of breath...plunging the bathroom

into darkness...

...and snuffing out Josh forever...

...and ever.....