Janet Mansell

[the group is huddled in the conservatory. Nell, Theo, and Markway are asleep as Luke enters and takes a drink from a liquor bottle, when the door suddenly slams shut by itself, waking everyone up!]

Dr. John Markway: [to Luke] Why aren't you upstairs?

Luke Sanderson: I needed a drink.

[suddenly there are sounds of wind blowing and then distant yet distinct pounding is heard]

Dr. John Markway: Grace!

Luke Sanderson: Wait a minute! It's nowhere near the nursery... it's down here.

Theodora: Seems we've been on this kick before.

Eleanor Lance: Next vacation I must really go somewhere else!

[the pounding becomes louder and closer]

Eleanor Lance: [thinking; voice-over] It knows my name, this time it knows my name!

Dr. John Markway: I have to go out there.

Eleanor Lance: [shouting] No, no! It hasn't hurt me. Why should it hurt her?

Dr. John Markway: She might try to do something about it!

[the pounding stops]

Eleanor Lance: Is it over, Theo? Is it?

Theodora: No, I'm still cold. It's going to start everything all over again!

[the pounding resumes violently and loudly against the closed door]

Eleanor Lance: [screaming] It can't get in! It can't get in! Don't let it get in!

[the pounding stops and the doorknob jiggles]

Eleanor Lance: [whimpering] God, it knows I'm here!

[the door begins to buckle and bend in on itself, Luke in his horror drops his bottle]

Luke Sanderson: Doc... I'll let you have the house cheap!

[the bulging door returns to normal, the wind is heard blowing again, and soon the pounding footsteps resume and head upstairs]

Eleanor Lance: [thinking to herself; voice-over] Go on and on and come back again until it finds me! On and on and on until it finds me!

[the group in the conservatory room hears the pounding and breaking glass and furniture from the unseen phantom]

Dr. John Markway: It's in the nursery!

Luke Sanderson: [stops Markway from opening the door] You must be crazy!

Dr. John Markway: I'm going out there!

Luke Sanderson: Oh, no you don't! Not with that thing out there!

Eleanor Lance: [intervenes] Luke, we must find Mrs. Markway to find out if she's there!

[Luke shoves Eleanor aside and continues to try to stop Markway from leaving the room]

Luke Sanderson: No! Don't be crazy!

Dr. John Markway: I've got to get out of here! I've got to find out if Grace is all right.

Luke Sanderson: Look, I don't know what that is out there, but I don't want to find out!

Dr. John Markway: Get away from me! I've got to get out of here! I've got to find out if Grace is all right!