VERY long chapter…. be prepared…
Chapter 10: Discovering lotsa stuff
The sky was blue and the clouds rolled past the sun (in fast forward style for some unknown reason, and why the hell the camera/director filmed this I do not know…)
Tuesday – Day 6
Noah and Aidan sat in Noah's car in an awkward silence. Aidan continued to draw his picture.
"You took my picture." Aidan said.
"I wanted to…um…put it in a gallery!" Noah yelled nervously.
"I mean my photograph you plant pot…" Aidan said, looking at Noah. Aidan cleared his throat and continued to speak.
"I've seen you in the yard at school…you're there…"
"You wish I was around more?" Noah asked, hurting his back by twisting in the driver's seat to look at Aidan in the back.
"Not if you perv on me in my own playground, no…do you want to be around more?" He asked, looking away from his drawing for about a mili second.
"Rachel and I were…" Noah started, but Aidan cut him off.
"Young…I know. Mom's told me that story."
"You're just like a little adult…" Noah said, frowning at Aidan. "It's creepy…"
The audience and Noah both spoke at once.
"I don't think I've ever heard you call Rachel mom before…"
Noah continued.
"Thing is…I don't think I would make a very good dad."
The audience frowned.
"Why is he turning to his 6 year old son for advice?" they sarcastically asked.
"Why are you turning to your 6 year old son for advice?" asked Aidan.
Noah continued, as if he were talking to himself.
"Thing is…I don't want anyone else to be your father, either…"
Aidan thought about this for a mo. He looked up from his drawing and spoke with his creepy emotionless, expressionless face.
"It's a conundrum." He muttered, and went back to his drawing.
"Gotta love that line…" The audience said to each other. "Hey…wait…it's raining AGAIN!"
Noah gave a nervous giggle.
"Yeah…yeah it is…" (A conundrum, not raining.)
The Embrey Residence (to you and me – Katie's house/Katie's room.)
The sound of paper crackling filled the room as Rachel looked through one of Katie's old notebooks. She has drawn a house, a chair with a camera facing it, and a dead horse that says above it 'why is this in my head?'
Rachel keeps looking through the book.
"For god's sake…it's raining AGAIN!" The audience shouted.
Rachel looked out of the window to the driveway, where Noah's car sat with Aidan in the back. Noah was actually right behind her.
Some of the audience yelped.
"Look out! He's gonna kill you!"
"Shut up…morons…" The other audience muttered.
Rachel gets into the car
"Time to go mister." She said to Aidan, as she caught sight of his drawing.
"I'm not finished." Aidan mumbled as he continued to scribble.
Rachel's car drove along a long country road that wound in lots of places. They drove around a lake, but our view is zooming over the lake. (Coz cameras are magic) Rachel's voice over (tee hee) spoke.
"It'd almost like you can draw a line through her life…"
"Why?" Noah's voice over said. "Was she schytsophrenic?" (A split personalitied mental disorder lol)
Rachel's VO continued, ignoring Noah's VO.
"On one side, there's this happy woman who spends her time with her husband, riding horses, everything sheltered, protected and comfortable. Her face, there's light – there's pride…"
Noah's VO got a bit bored.
"What the hell is this shit you're babbling on about?"
Yawn said the audience.
"…And then one day something happens and she takes this hard corner, and the light…goes out. And then she ends up at Eola County Psychiatric… All alone…" Rachel's VO stopped.
"Am I going to have nightmares about that bedtime story?" Noah's VO asked.
There was an awkward silence.
Noah decided to break it.
"What happened to her?" He asked.
The car is quite close now. We continue to zoom in on it.
"I don't know yet," Said Rachel, answering Noah. "But I think it has something to do with the horses."
"I think we should go to the island together." Noah's VO said.
"It's Tuesday, Noah…I only have one day left…I need you to go to the hospital and find out about Anna…the images on the tape are leading us somewhere…" Rachel said.
"Oh!" Noah yelled, "I hope its Chucky Cheeses!"
There was an awkward silence.
We are now finally in the car.
"Katie saw them too." Rachel said. "I think before you die, you see the ring…" She looked at the notebook on her lap, at the scribbled ring that Katie had…well…scribbled…
"Classic line…" The audience whispered.
The Crossing…
Rachel gets out of the car and walks towards the ferry.
"Surprise, surprise…it's raining AGAIN!" the audience shouted. A geek at the back shushed them.
"Hey Rach…wait!" Noah shouted, half out the car.
He hands her Aidan's drawing.
"Why couldn't Aidan give me it himself? I'm getting soaked for a dumb picture here!" Rachel yelled.
"Are you crazy?" Aidan asked from the back of the car. "Does it look like I want my hair mussed?"
Rachel glowered and get on the ferry, saturated.
Ferry
Rachel stood on the ferry deck, looking at Katie's book again. She sees pictures of Anna's hubby, Richard, and a news article about Anna falling off her horse at a show. The article talks of a daughter.
"A daughter?" Rachel said.
"Why the hell do you keep talking to yourself?" The audience asked.
For some odd reason Rachel went snooping in a car park, and finds a horse trailer. She approached it, and looked through the bars several times.
"Hey you…" She cooed.
"Who me?" Asked the horse.
"Ssssshhh!" Rachel hissed. "You don't have any lines!"
"I'm not being paid much either…" The horse grumbled.
Rachel kept patting the horse through the holes, even though it is clearly aggravated.
The horse started neighing scaredly, and broke out of the trailer. It ran around on the deck of the ferry, as Rachel and several men who have appeared from no-where try to herd it up. They have no luck.
"We told you not to touch it…" The audience said in a teasing voice.
"My horse!" The horse's owner yelled as she appeared.
"Blame her!" All the men and audience yelled.
The horse did a very impressive jump-on-bonnet-of-car and buck 'n' rear routine. It looks very majestic.
The horse ran away onto the open deck after Rachel, after bucking a few dudes and doing a totally awesome Jackie Chan run-up-the-wall-stunt routine. Rachel turned on the deck, as the horse ran straight for her. She ducked, and it jumped. Its back legs got caught on the ledge, and it went flying over the edge, into the water.
"Jeranemoooooooooooo! Nooooooooo! Oh shit…."
Rachel, a few men and the girl who owns the horse went rushing to the other end of the ferry. They leant over and saw the horse in a desperate attempt to swim, but the current is dragging it away.
It got dragged underwater and Rachel, the owner and the men ran to the back end of the ferry and leant over. The water frothed with the propellers. The foamy water turned red.
We get a flashback of a part of the tape where there if frothy red water.
The owner screamed.
The audience wrinkled their noses. "Eeeeeewwwww…and oh noooooo!"
The horse lovers in the audience were equally disgusted.
"Oh. My. GOD!"
Hospital…
Noah walked straight up to the reception desk.
"I need to see the records for a patient named Anna Morgan."
The woman behind the reception desk raised her eyebrows.
"Excuse me?"
"I know..." Noah started. "One does not simply walk into a mental hospital and get handed records on demand without security crap…blah, blah, blah…"
"No." The woman said. "You forgot the magic word!"
Noah was stunned.
"Okay…Abra Caddabbra!"
"Close enough…" The woman sighed, handing Noah the key to the record room. "By the way, she died a while ago."
"Shit…Gotta tell Rachel…" Noah muttered. "Wait…She knew that already… Listen…I've been up there before."
A guy spoke.
"Nice try, but the records are kept downstairs…"
"Such an amateur actor…"Noah muttered dramatically, before following the dude downstairs.
Noah stood outside the doors to the record room, in the pouring rain, and raises his crowbar.
The Noah fans in the audience sighed lovingly.
"Wait! The rain might mess up his hair! Noooo! Hey wait…It wasn't raining on the ferry! That's a first!"
Noah breaks in.
"Aaaaah…he's so strong…"
There is an unnecessary shot of a fly at this point…or the fly on the door.
"Familiar…" The audience whispered mysteriously.
Noah for some psychic reason knows to go in there. Once he's in he speaks.
"Anna? You in here?"