To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
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A4Chapter Chapter Six
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CENE 12(Turner house. Hokey Pokey is playing. Polly is napping with the doll. As song ends, MELISSA enters and begins to take doll away from POLLY. Doll's eyes open.)
DOLL: Let's have fun.
(MELISSA backs away in horror. Record player starts over on its own. MELISSA goes back down stairs to kitchen and begins crying. She looks up and sees reflection of OFFICER BUDDY RIGGS in her kitchen window holding his bloody nightstick.)
BUDDY'S IMAGE: Melissa ... help me.
MELISSA: No!
SCENE 13
(Restaurant. SCULLY and BONSAINT at a table. Waitress places a very large lobster in front of them. BONSAINT sighs with pleasure.)
SCULLY: Oh, my god! That looks like something out of Jules Verne.
We're supposed to eat that?
BONSAINT: (ripping off a piece) A little late for anything else.
You said you had some other directions you were looking at?
SCULLY: I've been thinking about Melissa Turner. Now, you said that her husband died in a boating accident?
BONSAINT: (eating lobster with much cracking) Ayuh.
SCULLY: Well, was there anything strange about that?
About the way that it happened?
BONSAINT: Well... it was never quite explained to anyone's satisfaction, actually.
SCULLY: How's that?
BONSAINT: (rips off more lobster) How the man got a grappling
hook poked clean through his skull.
SCULLY: Was Melissa ever questioned about that?
BONSAINT: Melissa? No. I don't see how she'd be involved.
The boat he died on is right over there if you're at all wondering.
(They look out window and see the OLD MAN on a small fishing boat, named "Working Girl".)
SCULLY: I saw that man at the market.
(Outside, OLD MAN throws a bucket of water over the side of the boat.)
SCENE 14
(Turner house. POLLY, holding her doll, puts a record on her record player.)
POLLY: I want popcorn, Mommy.
(MELISSA looks in the room as POLLY starts her record player.
Hokey Pokey.)
MELISSA: Okay.
(MELISSA turns and is started to see OFFICER BUDDY RIGGS.)
BUDDY: What are you doing here?
MELISSA: Buddy!
BUDDY: How come you're back in town?
MELISSA: You've got to get out of here, Buddy.
BUDDY: You know, I called the rangers. They said you tried to kill a man. You almost ran him over. You came back to kill her, too, didn't you?
MELISSA: I didn't try to kill anybody.
BUDDY: Jane Froelich.
MELISSA: It isn't me, Buddy.
BUDDY: Well, we're going to see about that. You're coming in with me. You and your little brat.
(POLLY turns the doll to face BUDDY. Doll's eyes open.)
DOLL: I want to play.
SCENE 15
(Night. On the boat, SCULLY and BONSAINT interviewing the OLD MAN. OLD MAN still has scratches around his eyes.)
OLD MAN: What happened? You ask that question around here, you get as many stories as ... as fishermen.
SCULLY: You were on board the night that he died. What do you think?
OLD MAN: I told my story to the Chief.
SCULLY: People's stories change.
OLD MAN: Folks blame the widow.
SCULLY: Who do you blame?
OLD MAN: He was wild for her.
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(Flashback, before the father died. As OLD MAN tells the story, FATHER pulls up a trap and finds the doll.)
OLD MAN: (voiceover) He worked very hard to build that little house for her and when that daughter came, you'd need a mop to wipe that smile off his face. We'd set out to sea on the girl's last birthday. He was counting the hours before he'd be home again.
FATHER: Hey, look what Davy Jones sent my little Polly.
Catch of the day.
OLD MAN: Ayuh.
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(Present.)
OLD MAN: Three days later, he was dead.
SCULLY: And you know what killed him.
OLD MAN: The eyes play tricks at night, water up against the hull
making noises.
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(Night FATHER died. FATHER is alone on deck.)
OLD MAN: (voiceover) Sometimes you hear things.
DOLL'S VOICE: Let's have fun.
FATHER: What the hell was that?
(FATHER picks up a long curved grappling hook. He opens cabin door, waking the OLD MAN.)
OLD MAN: What is it?
(FATHER doesn't answer, just goes back outside. OLD MAN hears the voice.)
DOLL'S VOICE: I want to play.
(OLD MAN gets up and goes outside. He sees the FATHER with the hook through his head.)
OLD MAN: Oh, my God.
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(Present.)
OLD MAN: Like I said, the eyes play tricks.
SCULLY: But you saw something in that grocery store. That little girl and her dolly.
OLD MAN: Moment I saw them, I knew.
