The Dead Girl Page #2

You know,

like they'll, uh,

they'll find bottles

[indistinct]

and all sorts

of things

out there.

I don't want to talk

about serial

killers anymore.

[phone ringing

at other end]

(female voice)

may I assist you?

What's your

emergency? Hello?

There's a woman,

the woman

needs help.

Is she injured?

Her daughter

left her.

Is the woman

there with you?

Hello?

No.

Where is she?

Ma'am?

She's in the house--

where they found

the dead girl.

(female voice)

They finally approved

our proposal,

to post a missing

childrens' board

near Jenny's bench.

It's good, it's good.

It'll just be one more

way of spreading the word.

(young female voice)

Oh.

Pigtail shot, you know,

we've overdone that.

I'm gonna have

to rule that out.

Your father thinks

we should go

with the headband

but, l--l--I like

the Christmas tree.

Y eah.

We have used this shot

so many times,

you know, l--

maybe the pigtails.

[loud water from tap]

the black

and white is not--

doing it for me anymore,

I think the color

would be better.

So, I'm--I'm gonna,

yeah, I'm gonna

go with the color.

I don 't know.

Maybe we should go

with the age progression.

Whichever you think.

What do you think

it might look like

to move on?

Well, my mom,

and Dad

and me, we'd--

pack up all the stuff

from her room,

and we'd take

all the boxes

with the--

newspaper reports,

and the false leads,

and the posters, and--

we'd burn everything

in a big bonfire.

And then we'd--cry

and hold one another.

and then we'd--

fall asleep

for like--

a thousand years

and then,

in the morning,

we'd wake up and--

the sun would be

shining and--

my mom would

go back into

the kitchen

and start making

breakfast and--

my dad would say,

"Go get ready for school"

and smile.

And--

everything would

be okay again.

[rain and thunder]

Well, not okay, but--

you got a chance to be.

She's been

gone for--

It'll never be okay.

It'll never be over.

I'm heading out.

Oh. Okay.

Murray wants to do

the Jane Doe

in the morning.

She's parked

in the deep freeze.

Do you mind

prepping her?

Sure.

My roommate and I are

having a little get together

tomorrow night.

Just a host dissertation,

throw-your-computer

out-the-window

celebration kind of thing.

Um, if you feel like

stopping by--

I'll probably be

in the library

but, thanks.

You could come

by afterwards.

I'll see.

Okay. Don't

work too hard.

Hasn't your sister

been missing

a long time?

She was taken

from the state park

less than ten miles

from where this girl's

body was found.

Leah, with age-progressed

photos, though--

I know,

they're a guess.

This girl,

she has a birthmark

on her left hand

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