Ghost Stories Page #3

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I was married

for 15 years.

You get less for murder,

don't you?

[CHUCKLES]

Did you divorce?

She died 23 years ago.

I'm sorry.

If she fell ill now,

they'd smash that cancer.

Different world, isn't it?

Yeah. Any children?

Mind your own

f***ing business.

How many more of these questions

have you got, eh, Kojak?

It's worse than getting

car insurance, this.

I got a daughter, Marnie.

I was always

a big Hitchcock fan.

If I had had a boy,

I would've called him Norman.

- How old is she?

- She's 30.

Right, so she was seven

when your wife died.

That must have been tough.

Marnie is not my wife's.

I had a little bit

on the side.

What are you gonna do, eh?

Right.

You see much of her?

Well, I'm done here.

This is bullshit.

I thought you wanted to

talk about what I'd seen.

Tony, I'm just

trying to help.

You can't help me, mate.

[SIGHS]

She's in hospital.

She's been in there

five years.

Oh, f***.

Locked-in syndrome

they call it.

Her eyes are open, but..

...everything else

is paralyzed.

If I go and see her,

I... I don't know

if she even knows

if I'm there or not.

I stopped going

in the end.

I couldn't handle it.

My little girl.

I'm sorry.

You apologize a lot,

don't you?

Guilty conscience?

You wanna..

Wanna tell me

about your incident?

You'll think I'm mad.

Everyone else does.

Even my priest.

Ah, you don't believe,

do you?

[SCOFFS]

It was my last night

working that job.

Quarter to 4:
00

in the morning.

That is a sh*t time

of night.

Even after seven years

of doin' that shift

your body never

gets used to it.

That place had a history.

None of it was nice.

Hundreds of years before,

it was, um, it was a..

What do you call it?

A nuthouse for women.

Mad birds roaming

about the place.

Old brasses, drunks

young girls that got

themselves knocked up

newborns that no one

wanted, thrown away.

Miserable.

In the month

leadin' up to that night

two of the new

foreign blokes quit.

They said

they had seen things.

Did you believe them?

I wish I had.

Christ Almighty.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[RADIO BEEPS]

Hello? Marek?

You have to press

the button on the side.

Press the big black button on

the side, you Russian prick.

Yo, Tony.

I am in other building.

Congratulations.

Which other building?

Um, the building

with the blue door.

Alright. You're in

building number three.

Yes, yes, yes.

What do I do?

Well, you sit on your arse

for the next 10 hours.

Every hour

go for a walk round

and then chart it.

Set that timer

that I gave ya.

Other than that,

you do what you want.

I don't know, read,

play chess, learn English.

Okay.

Thank you a lot, Tony.

Alright, Marek.

No worries.

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