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DELIA<br />
I was thinking of a pale<br />
ochre.<br />
OTHO picks up a porcelain figurine he finds particularly<br />
offensive.<br />
OTHO<br />
I was thinking dynamite.<br />
He tosses the figuring, then turns and looks in the closet.<br />
We're expecting another apparition -- but it's just ADAM's<br />
clothes. OTHO fingers the material with distaste.<br />
OTHO (cont)<br />
What happened to the people<br />
who lived <strong>here</strong> before?<br />
DELIA<br />
They died.<br />
OTHO<br />
Yes of course, but how did<br />
they die?<br />
DELIA has gone over to the bathroom door, and pushed it wide<br />
open. But before she goes in, she stops a moment to think.<br />
DELIA<br />
I think they drowned.<br />
Behind DELIA, in the bathroom, the old-fashioned bathtub suddenly<br />
overflows with vile water. ADAM's face-down bloated corpse bobs<br />
to the surface, and then suddenly spills out onto the tiled<br />
floor, flipping over to land face up. His head, drowned stare is<br />
ghastly.<br />
DELIA stares downward directly at the corpse, then she points at<br />
it.<br />
DELIA<br />
Otho, I cannot live with<br />
these tiles.<br />
The bathroom is now empty. No water, no drowned corpse.<br />
EXT: SIDE AND BACK OF HOUSE -- DAY<br />
CATHY has come out the front door and has gone around the side of<br />
the house, exploring her new home with wonder and delight.<br />
She reaches the orchard at the back of the house. The pears are<br />
no longer bearing, but the apples are now. She plucks one from<br />
the trees and bites into it.<br />
CATHY is suddenly pushed forward, nearly falling. Recovering<br />
herself, she whirls around. She is staring into the face of<br />
ADAM'S DEER.<br />
For a moment, CATHY is startled and a little frightened. She's<br />
not used to wildlife. Then she recovers.<br />
CATHY<br />
Oh. You're hungry.<br />
She gives him her apple to eat.<br />
A second-floor window is suddenly flung open at the back of the<br />
house, and DELIA leans far out.<br />
DELIA<br />
RABIES! RABIES!<br />
CATHY! RUN!<br />
The DEER drops the apple from its mouth, and bolts back into the<br />
forest.<br />
CATHY stares after it.<br />
INT: HALLWAY -- DAY<br />
OTHO and DELIA comes out of another room.<br />
OTHO<br />
The new Silver Palate cookbook<br />
has a wonderful recipe for<br />
terrine of venison. (Wearily)
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