EPISODE: 10
RENAI (CONT'D)
You took me into that place last
night, didn't you?
DALTON
Yes.
RENAI
Do it again. Can you do that?
Dalton nods apprehensively.
DALTON
Close your eyes.
She does. Dalton does the same.
INT. LIVING ROOM, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - SAME TIME
Possessed Josh staggers back into the house, carrying an AXE.
He roosts a couch aside and WRENCHES a huge rug back,
exposing the thick wooden floor boards.
He holds the AXE high, then arcs it over his head, burying
the blade in the wood. Like a madman, he swings it down, one
blow after another, wood splinters flying.
INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - SAME TIME
Chips of wood flutter down from above each time the axe
strikes.
Renai and Dalton are facing each other, eyes closed. We CLOSE
IN ON RENAI'S FACE.
She opens her eyes. The impossible quiet and dark of the dead
enfolds her.
INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
Renai is sitting opposite Dalton. He takes her by the hand,
standing up and hauling her to her feet.
Dalton gestures out into the dark above the basement stairs.
DALTON
Out there. Call his name.
Renai glides up the stairs.INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Renai JOLTS with each THUMP against the door. She whisks to
her feet, whipping her head around the basement, seeing a row
of tools.
She plucks a CHISEL from its slot, scurrying up the stairs
and STABBING it into Josh's arm.
INT. CORRIDOR, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - SAME TIME
Possessed Josh YELPS in pain, jerking back...then laughs.
POSSESSED JOSH
I enjoy the pain.
He storms down the corridor, then lurches to a stop in front
of a wall mounted mirror. Even in the dark, he can see his
reflection.
With horror, he sees that he looks decidedly more AGED now;
haggard, haunted. Hair stringy and grey, spine arched.
INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Renai keeps the flashlight focused on the beams of wood above
them. Dalton steps up beside Renai. His resolve has grown
even more. He whispers in her ear.
DALTON
I can go and find daddy. Out in the
dark place. If I go to sleep.
Renai holds his gaze.
DALTON (CONT'D)
Let me find him. I can bring him
here.
RENAI
No...I can't let you do that. It's
too dangerous. I nearly lost you
once, I'm not letting it happen
again.
A long, resolute beat. Then:
RENAI (CONT'D)
I'll go.
She hunkers down to his level.JOSH
Who the hell is that?
There is another round of desperate knocks on the door.
JOSH (CONT'D)
Stay here.
He bounds out of bed, jostling through the door.
INT. UPSTAIRS LANDING, LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (FLASHBACK)
Josh paces into the hall.
What he doesn't see is the LONG HAIRED FIEND, standing beside
the doorway to Cali's bedroom.
EXT. LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (THE FURTHER)
Renai tries the door handle again. No good.
INT. CALI'S BEDROOM, LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (FLASHBACK)
In Cali's room, the Fiend hovers over her crib. He reaches
in, touching the baby. She gurgles.
Renai suddenly appears in the doorway to Cali's room -
- AND SCREAMS!!!
EXT. LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (THE FURTHER)
Renai hears a SCREAM.
With all the power she can summon, she BLASTS her fists into
the front door. It flies open, the burglar alarm wailing
instantly.
INT. FRONT DOOR, LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (THE FURTHER)
Renai stampedes inside the former Lambert home, hastening up
the stairs in a blur.
RENAI
Josh!!
As the alarm squeals, we follow her intoEXT. LORRAINE'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
Renai glares out into the pitch black environs of The
Further.
She moves into them, mist swirling around her. Thunder growls.
RENAI
Josh!
Her cry echoes back to her, swallowed by oblivion.
INT. BLACK VOID (THE FURTHER)
Josh, Carl and Elise FREEZE suddenly.
JOSH
Listen.
RENAI (O.S.)
Josh...
JOSH
That's Renai.
ELISE
My god...she's here.
They surge forward into the void.
INT. BLACK VOID (THE FURTHER)
The sound of a baby crying spirits towards Renai from the
darkness.
She turns to see THE ORIGINAL VICTORIAN HOME where this all
began for her.
RENAI
Josh!
Renai trots towards the door. She WALLOPS into it. It is
locked. It won't budge. She PUMMELS the door with her fists.
INT. MASTER BEDROOM, LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (FLASHBACK)
(We are now watching a scene from the original film)
Josh and Renai are in bed. They hear someone pounding on the
front door.The axe penetrates the wood, gash by gash. A hole has formed,
not yet big enough for an adult to worm through.
He raises the axe again, then --
-- headlights hit the darkened wall opposite him, bleeding
through the drapes.
Someone is pulling up outside.
Possessed Josh ceases chopping, darting to the window.
EXT. PHILIP'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
A shape forms in front of Elise - the foreboding estate where
Philip and his mother reside.
CARL
That...that's it. That's Michelle's
house.
Elise, Renai, Carl and Josh float towards the front door of
the house.
INT. CORRIDOR/LIVING ROOM, PHILIP'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
Elise leads Carl, Renai and Josh down an empty corridor. It
is exactly as the house was that Carl visited - seen from the
other side.
INT. LIVING ROOM, PHILIP'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
They push into the living room. Dozens of GHOULISH FIGURES
stand in the room, glacially still. They are all YOUNG GIRLS,
ranging from teenagers to women in their early twenties.
Their eyes are hollow, skin sallow. They don't look at the
four intruders, stunned eyes fixed on some unseen depravity.
Elise weaves through the bodies, careful not to touch them.
Josh shields Renai, weaving through with her.
It is a human maze.
JOSH
Who are they?INT. CALI'S ROOM, LAMBERT HOME - NIGHT (THE FURTHER)
The Further version of Cali's room.
There is no furniture or decorations in here except for
Cali's crib. The room is dark, tentacles of fog writhing
along the floor.
The Fiend looms over the crib, cackling.
RENAI
Where is Josh?
The Fiend CANNONS TOWRDS HER, arms outstretched, ATTACKING.
Renai SHRIEKS.
EXT. LAMBERT HOME (THE FURTHER)
Josh leads the charge, following Renai's scream all the way
to the front door of the house.
He barrels through it.
INT. CALI'S ROOM, LAMBERT HOME (THE FURTHER)
Josh charges in, confronted with the sight of the Long Haired
Fiend assaulting his wife.
Josh HURLS himself at The Fiend, attacking with all his
strength.
WHAM! Josh socks the Fiend in the face, trading devastating
blows with him, his fury providing strength.
He PICKS THE FIEND up, hurling him THROUGH THE WINDOW. The
Fiends' screams recede into The Further.
Josh embraces Renai, tearful.
INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Foster hovers over Dalton and Renai, who lie on the floor,
out cold. Foster clings to his mother.
INT. LIVING ROOM, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - SAME TIME
SLAM!!INT. ENTRY WAY/LIVING ROOM, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
The trio blunder into the house, Tucker first. He gropes
forward in the dark.
Specs follows Tucker with a flashlight. The light illuminates
pockets of a desolate living room. No signs of life.
INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - SAME TIME
Dalton blinks awake, coughing. Renai is still lying next to
him, out cold. Dalton stands, reborn with strength.
INT. LIVING ROOM, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Specs and Tucker keep treking forward.
All is quiet.
WHOMP!!
Tucker falls, his right leg spilling through the hatch that
Possessed Josh rended in the floorboards.
He slams down to the ground.
TUCKER
Ah, damn it!
Specs ferries Tucker out of the hole.
Tucker WHEELS around - coming face to face with Possessed
Josh!
Possessed Josh PROPELS a knife forward, embedding it in
Tucker's chest. The blade shears into his flesh and he cries
out in PAIN, his body folding.
Specs ATTACKS, swinging his flashlight, SMASHING IT down.
It connects with Possessed Josh's face, CRACKING against his
jaw bone. Teeth go flying, clattering on the wooden floor.
Possessed Josh recovers, smiling. He wrenches Specs' forward,
smashing his head down against a desk. He falls.
Lorraine SCREAMS and takes off down the hall.
INT. CORRIDOR, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
She BOLTS up the corridor, dialing 911 as she runs. Frantic.ELISE
Murder victims. That's what The
Further is - a black hole where all
of the suffering from a life can
continue on in eternity, like an
echo. The souls here either don't
know or can't accept that they're
dead. They simply wander the dark.
Lost.
She turns to face Josh, brushing one of the ghouls.
ELISE (CONT'D)
The people who die without being
murdered at the hands of another,
who die peacefully at the hand of
nature...they don't know this place
exists. They go to the light. But
if there's light, there must also
be dark. And that's where we are.
EXT. LORRAINE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Lorraine, Specs and Tucker climb out of Tucker's van.
LORRAINE
That's strange...
TUCKER
What is?
LORRAINE
No lights on inside. Or at the
front door.
Tucker checks the other houses on the street, still glowing
from within.
TUCKER
It's not a black out.
LORRAINE
Oh no...please no.
SPECS
We're right behind you.
Tucker grabs a large tool from the back of his van, wielding
it like a sword, along with a flashlight. They approach the
front door.
Lorraine fishes for keys, slots one into the lock. It clicks
open.The demon reaches out with taloned fingers, gripping the door
handle and opening the door.
Josh steps inside.
INT. YOUNG PHILIP'S BEDROOM (THE FURTHER)
The same bedroom that Carl first explored reveals itself. The
same eloquent dollhouse's and child's drawings.
It is obviously the bedroom of a young girl. Josh's eyes
sweep the room, coming to rest on the young girl in question.
She sits with her back to Josh, slumped on a stool, facing
the wall.
Her hair is long and combed into twin pig-tails. Her dress is
decorated with fanciful trimmings. Her feet dangle above the
floor. Josh approaches the young girl, very slowly.
The girl doesn't move. He reaches out to touch her shoulder.
JOSH
Michelle?
The girl suddenly SPINS around -- revealing that it is NOT A
GIRL AT ALL. It is a young boy, bedecked in a dress.
YOUNG BOY
That's not my name.
He rips at a wig on his head, revealing his true hair. THEN --
-- the door to the bedroom POUNDS open. MICHELLE barges
inside the room. She is dressed in a very prim and proper
fashion, but her expression belies rage.
She seems not to see Josh and the others, her gaze fixed on
the boy. The boy looks terrified, backing away from her.
Michelle clenches a sheet of paper, which she juts out at him
with her fist.
MICHELLE
What is this? Just what is this?!
The boy bumps into the wall, unable to back up any further.
Michelle looms over him. She unfurls the piece of paper,
revealing it to be a FINGPossessed Josh dives for her, landing on her back and pinning
her. He crushes the phone against the wall.
INT. LIVING ROOM, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER
Possessed Josh uses nylon rope to tie up Lorraine, coiling it
around her ankles and wrists. Hog-tied.
She stirs, coming out of her daze.
POSSESSED JOSH
I'm going to leave you alive. But
I'm going to make you watch.
He hales her along the floor to the lip of the hole he cut.
INT. UPSTAIRS CORRIDOR, PHILIP'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
Josh keeps Renai close to him, advancing down the corridor.
Finally, they reach a DOOR. A heavy oak door, it is guarded
by a GHOUL, his head bowed.
A demon.
There is nowhere left to go. Josh marches forward, trying to
pass him - but the monstrous man blocks his path with a thick
forearm.
DEMON
The key.
INT. LIVING ROOM, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Possessed Josh BLUDGEONS the axe down, the hole gaping now.
INT. BASEMENT, LORRAINE'S HOUSE - SAME TIME
Possessed Josh peers into the hole.
POSSESSED JOSH
Now it's all over.
INT. DOWNSTAIRS CORRIDOR, PHILIP'S HOUSE (THE FURTHER)
Josh leans into the ear of the demon, whispering.
JOSH
Michelle....