When a Stranger Calls Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1979
- 97 min
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JILL:
Okay, Nancy. Bye. And thank you.
NANCY (O.S.)
Yeah. Bye.
Jill makes a face at the phone and hangs up. She tries to go
back to her homework, but she cannot.
CUT TO:
Jill is working now, diligently. The phone rings. She picks
it up.
JILL:
Hello?
There is a brief pause; then the line goes dead and a dial
tone cuts in. Jill hangs up and goes back to work.
Pause.
The phone rings again. Jill picks it up.
JILL:
Billy?...
A VOICE speaks on the other end of the phone.
DUNCAN (O.S.)
Have you checked the children?
JILL:
What?
The line goes dead. Dial tone. Jill hangs up and goes right
back to work.
CUT TO:
Jill sits at the table as before, doing her homework, smoking
a cigarette. The phone rings. Jill picks it up.
JILL:
Hello?
DUNCAN (O.S.)
Have you checked the children?
JILL:
Mrs. Mandrakis?
The line goes dead. Dial tone. Jill hangs up and looks off
into space, thinking.
O.S. we hear a faint rattling noise from somewhere in the
house. Jill hears it too. She stubs out her cigarette, gets
up from the table and walks out of the living room.
INT. HALLWAY
Jill enters the hallway and pauses. Then she starts walking
slowly down the hall to the kitchen door.
Again the rattling noise O.S., only louder this time. Jill
stops dead, listens, then continues forward even more
cautiously.
INT. KITCHEN
As Jill enters. She cannot find the lightswitch, so she stands
in the darkness listening. Again the rattle, very close now.
Jill turns her head sharply, then walks to the refrigerator
and opens it. It is only the automatic icemaker creating the
rattle.
Jill takes a piece of cake from the refrigerator and leaves
the kitchen.
INT. LIVING ROOM
Jill is sitting at the table, polishing off the cake. Then,
the phone rings. Jill stands up quickly and picks up the
phone.
JILL:
Hello!
Pause.
DUNCAN (O.S.)
Have you checked the children?
JILL:
Billy! I don't think this is very
funny!
Pause. "Billy" doesn't answer.
JILL:
...Who is this?
The line goes dead. Jill stands frozen beside the table with
the phone in her hand as the dial tone gets louder and louder.
CUT TO:
INT. LIVING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER
Jill is standing at the wet bar in the corner, pouring herself
a drink. She samples the alcohol, doesn't cough, and starts
to pour a little more into the glass.
The phone rings. Jill turns, then slowly walks to the table,
kneels down and quietly picks up the phone and brings it to
her ear. She waits and listens, a full three seconds. No
sound comes to her.
She quickly hangs up the phone before the silence can be
broken by the voice she knows is waiting on the other end.
Then, she shuffles through her books and papers on the table-
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