Rosewood Lane Page #5

I need to talk to you.

Mr. Crumb,

I know you're in there.

I don't answer

this door after dark.

Well, I am not leaving

until you speak to me.

You don't

talk about him.

You don't go to

the police about him.

You don't do anything that might

attract his attention.

Your father had a dog.

It barked and chased the boy every time

he came to deliver the paper.

One night,

your father found that dog

nailed to that

fence in your backyard.

He'd done it,

and your father knew it

and he really

went after him.

Did he go to the police?

They'd been called out to the house

themselves a few times...

And they always found him drunk,

so no one believed him.

They were at war

with each other.

Only you don't want to be at war

with that thing.

Thing?

He's a trick of the light,

something dark that doesn't

always look like one

until you look

into those eyes,

those reptile eyes

that look like two big holes

where the person ought to be.

They know.

The dogs, they know when he's

in the cul-de-sac.

You're seriously telling me

he's up on the roof?

I've seen him

on your roof too.

And in that

big tree of yours.

What would you say if

I told you I'd seen him

do things that

I can't explain?

Things that

a normal boy

shouldn't be able to do?

You're not afraid

of him like we are,

but you should be,

after what he

did to your father.

Are you telling me

my father didn't die

just by falling down

a flight of stairs?

Mr. Crumb?

Okay, sugar.

They're each on their own track,

so press track two now.

And now, if you're talking,

she's listening.

Back to Dr. Sonny Blake.

And now, back to our own

Dr. Sonny Blake.

If you're talking,

she's listening.

Paula, you're never gonna believe this.

I just saw him.

Saw who?

Just now on

the side of the road.

Psycho paperboy?

At half past midnight?

Are you sure?

Out here

in the middle of nowhere.

He knows this is the only road

into Stillwater from the city.

And you're sure

it was him?

Yes, he was holding a sign.

He was holding a what?

Sonny?

Sonny, I'm talking to...

Hold on a second.

Sonny, I'm talking to you.

You're saying I hallucinated,

but I'm not crazy.

This man puts

the idea in your head

that this boy may

have killed your father.

This man calls

the boy a thing.

He says this boy

does things no normal boy

should be able to do.

And I saw him do

the impossible.

It's probably that house

and your history with it.

Either that or you

got yourself a paperboy

who's figured out how to be in more

than one place at a time.

I'm also saying that I think it's very

important that you go back to therapy.

You don't have to see me,

but you do need to see someone.

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