The Seamstress Page #2

that maybe your dad

went away on purpose.

- 57 hours in a car by myself.

Hmm, no, never occurred to me once.

- I think what Dina means is

he was always-

whatever happened wasn't in-

he's always been a very-

- No, he hasn't always been anything.

- Al, I love you, and we've been friends

since grade six,

and I've been inside your house,

like, five times.

- I know.

That's true, but-

- So before you make a choice like-

whatever, okay, you're mad,

but he was really sick

for years, chick.

- Okay, let's not make it sound like

he's watching TV in a straightjacket.

- No, she needs to hear this.

- This had a beginning, okay?

Something happened to him.

Then for, like, 15, I didn't.

Last year, dj vu.

I just start to get him back,

and he's gone again.

That hurts.

-Okay, Al, I think what Dina means-

- I'm saying, how much do you give?

- I'm sorry, this affects you how?

- Friday night we're at a prom.

Monday morning, you're leaving town.

Did it affect you?

- Look.

I know that was really hard to understand,

but being here was killing him.

Okay?

I got a resume together.

I sent it out.

Ferryman Publishing called.

We took it.

It helped.

He was just starting to get better, so...

- And what set him off, Allie?

- This was him last year,

and this happened six months ago.

His boss said he read it Tuesday,

quit Wednesday.

- "Police investigating the discovery

of a 10-year-old's mummified body

"report that the boy

found in a shallow grave

"by day hikers had been

grotesquely mutilated.

The eyes and mouth were sewn shut."

- That's the same exact way

the Seamstress did it.

- That's probably a body that they just

didn't find until now.

- Uh, it says here that he died in '98.

- The ones around here ended in '87.

- So this was a copycat?

- Sanzu?

- It only came up in his notes once.

Could be a person.

- No, it's an island.

- Hey, Lizzie, is this Sanzu?

- There's tons of little islands

up and down the coast.

Half of them have got, like,

fringe folks living on them.

- My uncle has a boat.

[exuberant rock music]

- Whoo-hoo!

With all the stuff that Jason had

in his truck,

we'll be fine for one night.

- Yeah.

- He's a good guy, Allie.

- Hey, I'm somewhere else right now.

- I know he's still into you.

He totally told Paul the other day

that he thought you were the-

- Hey, you guys!

I just want to say

that I know you don't

have to be here,

and I really-

I really appreciate it.

Thank you.

- Any time.

- Cheers.

Hey, can you take that for a second?

- Chug it.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- How's it going?

- Good.

How are you?

- Think that's Sanzu?

- Right here.

- This Saudi thing, it's cuckoo.

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