The effort put into Dean's "information gathering" did prove a little helpful; she had taken a picture of the crew member that was killed. Dean recognized him as an actor, more of a D list player, did a lot of extras parts in movies. Anyway, the guy was still around. He told them the murder was staged by the director and producer to raise a media hype around the movie. Even the "vanishing figure" Tera saw was faked with a projector. Just so the trip wasn't a wasted one, they decided to look into the previous deaths and the rumors on the haunted set.
The next day on set, the three were sporadically placed to keep an eye out for anything suspicious. Whoever the guy was who wanted the smoothie the day before had killed himself before they got there, hung himself on set; so far it seemed that staying was a good idea. They really enjoyed the conversation about how it was stupid to think ghosts would be afraid of salt. Kayla wondered who the original writer was; he did some good research. She glanced to her left and saw Dean, munching away on some dessert left for the cast and crew while taking periodically into his headset. To her right was Sam with that same distant look, he didn't really seem to be watching for anything.
She walked over to him and nudged him to get his attention. "Dean's really into this whole PA thing huh?"
"Hmm?" He glanced over to Dean and barely smiled. "Yeah, it's kind of funny."
"How're you holding up Sam?"
"Me? I'm fine."
"Really?"
He glanced to her then back to the set. "I really don't want to talk about it. Please."
"You can't pretend like it didn't happen."
"Why? You do." He saw the look on her face. "I'm sorry. I just, I don't even want to think about it right now."
"Ok, you know you can talk to me though."
"I know." He motioned over to Dean and she followed him over. "How's it going?"
He nodded. "It's going great, Tera has really stepped up her performance."
Kayla laughed. "I think he's referring to the case."
"Right."
"Anyway, I got into the morgue. The newspapers were right…"
Dean spoke into his headset. "Copy that." He flipped the mouthpiece down. "What was that?"
His brother was retarded. "I was saying the newspapers were right. Brad's a doornail, he…"
Dean pulled the mouthpiece down again. "They are aware!"
"Who's aware?"
He moved it again. "What'd you say?"
"Brad's dead." Kayla said quickly, and loudly, so he would focus.
"Well it's a good thing we didn't skip town then isn't it." He paused to listen. "10-4. I'll be right there. Guys, I want you to hear something."
One of the techs played them the sound recording from the scene earlier, right before Brad hung himself. There was some kind of feedback, a strange voice coming through over the actors. Looked like this was a real haunting after all.
