Chapter 12: Darby / a new tape
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Moesko Island local clinic
A retarded boy sits in the waiting room and plays with beads. He is the doctors adopted grandson.
"Soooo…." Rachel said to the doctor. "You've been a doctor here since, what, the stone age? So you know the Morgans and their daughter?"
There was a pause.
"Do you know their daughter?" Rachel asked her mysteriously.
"Do you know their daughter?" Mimicked the retard boy.
"Shut up, Darby…you retard of a grandson." The doctor spat.
Rachel explained to the doctor about how her and her son are seeing images and she thinks that Samara caused them.
"I haven't heard anybody say that in a long time." The doctor said.
"So you believe me?" Rachel asked.
"Oh sure." She said, and she started to walk around outside. "Samara was always making me see sick images when she was getting check ups – Darby as a fully grown man…a TV with 2000 channels but nothing to watch… Repeats of Will and…"
"I'm talking about the other images…"Rachel said quietly.
"Oh yeah…they were just as retarded." She said, looking deep in thought.
They walked about outside the clinic. They were near the roundabout in the yard, where Darby was sitting, spinning around on it mindlessly, looking very scary. Rachel and the doctor talk about the Morgans.
"She wanted a child more than anything." The doctor sighed. "Poor Anna…She couldn't conceive…Neither could Richard…so they so they adopted a daughter."
"Samara." Rachel whispered.
"Ya." She said, "But some people said she was evil…others say the adoption centre found her in a lost and found bin…one day Anna came to me and said she was having visions…seeing horrible things…"
"Were you Samara's doctor, too?" Rachel asked her, giving a wary eye to Darby as he spun around and around in little circles.
"Yes." The doctor said.
"Was there anything wrong with her?" Rachel asked her. "Were all the lights on upstairs?"
The doctor considered her answer before talking.
"Well she had severe ingrown toenails for a few months…"
"That's not what I meant…" Rachel said, trying to say it with the look in her eyes.
"You mean…"The doctor started. "There's a full tank of gas but no-one's steering?"
"I mean whatever you mean…"Rachel whispered, as she shot another wary look at Darby, who was now harassing some pigeons and stealing the bread they were eating off the ground so he could put it up his nose.
"When Darby over there was born…"The doctor started.
"Damn." Rachel muttered under her breath. "Shouldn't have looked at him."
The audience were equally peed off.
"We want to know about Samara! Not retard boy!"
"Ok, ok…" The doctor said, waving an uncaring hand at Darby, who was walking around on his knees.
"I referred them to the hospital on the mainland. The one for psychos. I suspect she's still there." She said.
Rachel tried to break the news gently.
"Anna's been six feet under for 24 years and God knows about Samara…"
"Aw…"Doctor said. Rachel thought she was going to cry at first.
"That's a shame…Well if you excuse me I have a pot of tea bubbling…"And with that she left.
As Rachel walked away she spoke to herself.
"Well…. That went well…"
As she walked away she was sure she could hear shouts of "Darby no", "Darby put down that pigeon!" and "Darby now drink your "tea" before it gets cold…"
Hospital
"1978…"A male doctor said to Noah, who was trailing behind him.
"Man we're really going back in time here."
"Yup." Noah said, looking around the dingy basement where the records were kept.
"So you say you're the patients father, right?" Asked the man to Noah.
"Yup…" Noah said. "Richard Morgan…That's me."
"So what is you secret man?" The doctor asked, looking at Noah's incredibly youthful skin for an age of 73 or so…
"Face lifts, botox, bum lifts, liposuction, beauty treatments, oh yeah and salad…"
"You know…I'm not an idiot…"The doctor hissed at Noah.
"Well…." Noah said, studying him. The doctor continued.
"I know your not…"
"Busted!" Noah yelled. "You know I'm not Richard Morgan, father of Samara, incredibly youthful looking and owns the retarded horses…yup I saw this in the movie…should have thought this one through…or got Aidan's help…"
"No." The doc said. "I know you're not eating salad…That stuff's nasty!"
"Of course…." Noah said very professionally.
"The last person who took out Samara's video file was apparently you…"
The doctor gave Noah a look that just says, "I know who you are so give up the act…" or "Perhaps salad tastes better with meatballs…"
There is a look of shock and disappointment on Noah's face.
Later that day
Noah desperately tried to phone Rachel.
"Oh look…" The audience said sarcastically. "It's not raining…it's a thunderstorm!"
Morgan house
Rachel sneaked into the Morgan house. It's very dark.
She found a box upstairs of junk. There are some of the wire/sucker things she choked on, some files and other crap.
She finds a certificate of live birth to Anna Morgan – Samara. A huge centipede crawled out from under a file. Rachel absolutely soiled herself (tee hee)
Bug-a-phobics in the audience speak up.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
Rachel finds a tape, and pushes it into the VCR.
TAPE
A little girl sat on a bed in a white room. She gets up and watches the clock, watching hours go by. She then looks at the camera.
A man's voice speaks.
"This is recording SM0015 – Samara Morgan, hour 14."
The people at the hospital have set up a chair, with a camera facing it to record the interview, Samara sitting in the chair, her head dipped low.
"So what is it that's keeping you awake, Samara?" The doctor asked.
"Sometimes Freddy Kruger lands on my roof and sings the crazy frog…" Samara said in an innocent little voice.
"Riiiiight…" the man said, changing the subject.
"Let's talk about he pictures, Samara. How did you make them?"
He holds up the retarded X ray pictures Noah was looking at.
There is no response from Samara.
"I don't make them…I just see them in my head.and then they just…are…"
"Samara." The doctor sighed. I need you to tell me the truth now."
"I can't…"Samara said innocently. "These are my lines…"
There was a silence.
"Can I see my mommy?" Samara asked sadly.
"No Samara…Not until we find out what's wrong with you…"
"I was dumped down a fricken well…that's what's wrong with me…"Samara said in a violent voice, but she turned back to her innocent one straight away. "Now can I see my mommy? I love my mommy…"
The doc did not respond.
"He's going to leave me here…"Samara whispered.
"Who? Who's going to leave you here?" He asked.
"Santa Claus…" Samara said.
"Ok…." The doctor muttered, scribbling furiously on his notebook.
"My dad you wheel barrow!" Samara shouted.
"They just wanna help you…" He said.
"Not daddy…"Samara said.
"Your daddy loves you." The doctor told her in a matter-of-fact type voice.
"Daddy loves the horses…" Samara whined.
"I love the Lakers myself…" The doctor said.
Samara continued.
"…Sometimes…late at night…he forgets I'm in the barn and he comes in and…"
"Moving swiftly on!" Yelled the doctor, flipping a few pages of his notebook.
…
In the background, Richard is watching Rachel watch the tape.
…
"He wants me to go away." Samara said.
"No he doesn't." The doctor argued.
"But he doesn't kno-ow…" Samara said in a creepy lingering voice.
"He doesn't know what? Samara?"
…
The tape suddenly hissed off with the blare of extremely loud static.
Richard Morgan came up behind Rachel and hit her on the head with something and grabs the TV. He leaves the room with it.
"Samara was one of a kind," Rachel shouted. "But I'll buy you a new one!"
There was no reply as Richard walked into the bathroom with the TV.
"OH MY GOD!" Rachel shouted after him. "Are you going to kill yourself in the bath!"
Richard looked at her like she was from another planet.
"No…" He said. "I just like to watch TV in the bath."
Rachel followed him into the bathroom.
"Please go away." He said. "I need to bathe…"
"Okay dokey…" Rachel said, turning on her heel.
Suddenly the TV accidentally fell into the tub, and Mr Morgan dies.
"Shit." He muttered.
Rachel turned back around and was about to yell 'hey you stole my catch phrase' when she noticed Richard was dead, so she screamed for ages until Noah appeared (?) and grabbed her from behind.
The Noah fans in the audience cooed.
"Aw he looked so sexy there…lucky bitch…"
Noah dragged Rachel away.
Later…
Another unnecessary shot of Shelter Mountain Inn tree, and the sky in fast motion.
"She doesn't like the barn…"Rachel whispered.
"Uh…what dude?" Noah asked, totally confuddled.
They break into the Morgan's barn.
Every one on the English speaking planet: FINALLY!
There was a ladder leaning against the wall, leading up to a small cove like bit in the top of the barn. I would like to live there myself, If I wasn't so scared of heights and the smell of horses…
"Samara…" Rachel whispered.
They both climbed the ladder.
Rachel starts babbling on about how Anna went crazy so Richard kept Samara here.
"Not alone…" Noah muttered.
"Wrong movie you push chair…" Rachel muttered.
"No…" Noah corrected her, feeling like the smart one for a speck of a second. "I mean she wasn't kept up here alone."
Rachel frowned.
The audience frowned too, but spoke for Rachel. "What the?"
A light bulb lit above Rachel's head. Any normal person would have solved the mystery by now, but Rachel's light bulb signified other 'ideas'…
"Hey!" She shouted to Noah, turning to the back of the tiny cove. "Let's for no reason at all rip off all this pretty wallpaper…Looks fun…"
"I agree!" Shouted Noah, and they both proceeded to tear it off in large sheets.
They uncover a picture of a huge tree, burned into the wood.
"I've seen this before…" Rachel whispered, racking her memory.
"Yeah it was on the tape…" Noah said to her.
"No…" Rachel said, still thinking.
"My Auntie Mo has a tree like that in her garden…" Noah said, but Rachel ignored him and continued with what she was thinking.
"…I've been there…" She said at last.
"My Auntie Mo's?" Noah asked, frowning. "Doesn't she just make THE best apple pie?"
"NO" Rachel shouted at him. "Shelter Mountain Inn…"
"Of course!" The audience yelled. "The fast motion tree!"
"Say what now?" Noah asked, just following Rachel.