The Haunting Page #5

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MARROW:

No, but she does, and that's all

that matters.

MALCOLM:

Does she know that's why you're

using her?

MARROW:

No.

MALCOLM:

I, I just can't...

MARROW:

She needed a job, Malcolm. And

she's smart. And she helps me.

MALCOLM:

I have a bad feeling about what

you're doing.

MARROW:

This is the last chapter. Please,

please give me clearance. It's

for science.

Marrow waits.

MALCOLM:

I'm gonna hate myself for this.

But he nods. Permission granted.

MARROW:

Thank you.

INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE LAB - DAY

They open the door. They walk out. Mary is there. She closes her

eyes, and does a gypsy voice.

MARY:

I see a hostile man... he's (she

describes him). The hostile man

does not believe in Madame Velka.

This relieves the pressure. Malcolm is not listening anymore and

storms off.

MARY:

You know what he's really upset

about?

MARROW:

What?

MARY:

You're going to publish, he's

going to perish... And why did you

hire me for this?

Marrow has a sly smile. They go into his office through another

door in the lab.

INT. MARROW'S OFFICE - DAY

Long, narrow, badly lit, it's filled with filing cabinets, stacks

of unread textbooks still in publisher's plastic, a desk with

computer. As soon as they enter, Mary looks at the phone.

MARY:

It's for you.

And then the phone rings. He doesn't pick it right up, he lets it

ring.

MARROW:

You hear the vibrations in the

wire. There's a magnetic pulse in

the wires, you feel it. I could

test it.

MARY:

Test it.

The phone still rings. Marrow answers.

MARROW:

Yes, this is Doctor Marrow.

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