(Cut to Melissa?s house at night. Ronald standing outside fence staring in.)

OFFICER: All right, pal ? why don?t you just turn around ? nice and easy ? put your hands in the air.

RONALD: (hands in pockets) I was just out for a walk.

OFFICER: (pulls gun) Hands, now!

(Ronald shows hands, smiling slightly. His arms end in two stumps)

OFFICER: I?m sorry we got a report of someone ? not you.

RONALD: That?s quite all right, officer. Just doing your job. I understand.

(Walks off. Cut to the hands slip under Melissa?s blanket. She wakes, looks under the blanket, screams.)

OFFICER: What?s wrong?

MELISSA: Oh, he?s?

OFFICER: Did someone break in? - Lady I can?t help you if you don?t tell me what?s wrong. Now, did someone break in or are you just having a bad dream?

MELISSA points to her bedroom: In there!

OFFICER: (finding nothing) Okay. Everything?s okay now. Look there is nobody in your bedroom, there is nobody in your bathroom. Now if you want to start from the beginning and just tell me?

(A hand grabs him by the shoulder)

OFFICER: Oh, god!

(Melissa runs screaming past the officer down stairs, out of house and into?)

ANGEL: It?s me. It?s me.

MELISSA: He?s ? he?s in there. - His ? his hands?

ANGEL: I know, I know what he can do.

MELISSA: He killed a ? Please don?t leave me alone! Please don?t leave me!

ANGEL: It?s all right. It?s all right. I?m not going to let him near you. Shh!

written by: David Greenwalt; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by Ann. Checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
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