The Secret of Crickley Hall Page #2

Season #1 Episode #3
Synopsis: 2012; Nearly a year after their son goes missing, Londoners Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters move to Crickley Hall. Gabe hopes a few months away from the city, will help his family heal. But it soon becomes apparent, their new home is haunted. 1943; Crickley Hall is an orphanage run by Augustus Cribben and his sister Magda. The orphans live in terror of the Cribbens, especially Augustus whose brutality knows no bounds. Nancy, the children's new tutor, is appalled by the abuse and determined to find a way to save them... Can these dark secrets of the past help the Caleigh's find their son?
 
IMDB:
6.9
Year:
2012
59 min
409 Views


EVE:

Have you been showing her your magic

finger?

Close on the little finger of his left hand - shorter than

the one on the right.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

I’d never have noticed. Is it rare?

Eve puts her hands next to his - same feature.

EVE:

My mother had it.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Does it mean anything?

EVE:

Just that we’re connected. We hear each

other sometimes. Don’t we?

CAM:

All the time.

EVE:

We tend to wake up at the same time.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

That must be ...

EVE:

Incredibly annoying.

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TEACHING ASSISTANT

I was going to say reassuring.

EVE:

It is. Well darling are you happy youcame? You made enough of a fuss about it.

What did you like best?

CAM:

I wanted to be with you.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Oh God I want one so badly.

EVE:

That’s how it starts.

12 EXT. GABE’S HOUSE - DAY 1 12

Eve parks outside their house.

13 INT. EVE’S CAR - DAY 1 13

Eve reaches for her homework pile on the back seat.

Slide!

CAM:

EVE:

You are not serious.

Please.

CAM:

Why?

EVE:

CAM:

I didn’t go outside.

EVE:

You did go outside!

liar!

You are such a big

CAM:

I need fresh air.

Eve laughs, despite her exhaustion. She gets out his bluewoollen hat and pulls it over his ears.

EVE:

Okay here it is:
you can do the slide orthe roundabout or the swings but not allthree. Do we have a deal?

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CAM:

Deal!

EVE:

Deal means you promise.

CAM:

Deal!

14

EXT. PLAYGROUND - DAY 1 14

A montage of Cam having his fun on slide, roundabout, swings

and a few more besides with Eve supplying the momentum with

the last of her energy.

CUT TO:

Eve watching Cam with love and deep exhaustion from a bench.

He’s still racing around, tireless. She’s catching up with

homework marking.

There are other mothers and children around.

CAM:

Look at me!

EVE:

I am looking. Five minutes.

Clouds pass.

Eve can’t focus on the handwritten scrawl of her pupils.

Cam is standing on the highest part of the climbing frame

gazing at Eve.

Her eyelids are drooping.

Cam gazes at her intently. Whispering:

CAM:

Love you Mummy.

Even though Eve is too far away to hear she mumbles a

response.

EVE:

Love you more.

Eve closes her eyes for a moment.

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15 EXT. CRICKLEY HALL - 1943 DAY 1 15

Stefan is carried screaming and kicking back to CrickleyHall. Cribben slams the front door.

16

A distant cry.

CAM:

Mummy.

EXT. PLAYGROUND - DAY 1 16

Eve wakes up with a start.

Surely she’s only been asleep for seconds.

But the playground is empty. No other mothers. No otherchildren.

And no Cam.

Her marking lying on the grass. She wipes her mouth. Stands

up.

EVE:

Cam?

She looks around, confused.

Cam?

EVE (cont’d)

She runs into the centre of the playground. Just his bluewoollen hat on the ground. She picks it up.

She runs to the adjacent path and looks both ways.

EVE (cont’d)

Cam!

Back into the park. Criss crossing. Scans the horizondesperately.

EVE (cont’d)

Please no.

She shrieks into the abyss.

EVE (cont’d)

CAM!!

17 EXT. PLAYGROUND - NIGHT 1 17

A full police search is underway where Cam was last seen.

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Joe Ahearne

Joe Ahearne is a British television writer and director, best known for his work on several fantasy and science fiction based programmes including Ultraviolet, Apparitions and Doctor Who. He also wrote the screenplay for 2013 feature film Trance. more…

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