Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2_2000
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  <scene>
    <stage_direction>Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>BLACK SCREEN And in that darkness , white words silently FADE UP : The following is based on actual events . Some dramatic re - creation was necessary for reasons that will become obvious . Beat . And then slowly swelling up is the sound of panicked hyperventilation - spasms of words and weeping :</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE</character>
    <parenthetical>( HEATHER DONAHUE . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm. scared. to close my eyes -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>SMASH UP ON the teary and terrified EYES of HEATHER DONAHUE -LRB- the now ubiquitous scene from `` Blair Witch Project '' of her confessing to the camera -RRB- :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER DONAHUE</character>
    <dialogue>- I'm scared to open them.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( beat . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We're going to die out here -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- then , suddenly , this image of Heather FREEZE FRAMES . And we hear the incongruously perky Voice of ABC 's DEBORAH ROBERTS :</scene_description>
    <character>DEBORAH ROBERTS</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- she'd be a much happier camper if she'd lived to see this weekend's grosses -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- abruptly , the freeze - framed image of Heather goes squeeze - boxing up into the upper left corner of the screen , revealing : That we 're watching ABC WORLD NEWS SUNDAY - the date bannered at the bottom of the screen : August 1 , 1999 . Reporter Deborah Roberts sits behind the Anchor Desk reading TelePrompTer copy :</scene_description>
    <character>DEBORAH ROBERTS</character>
    <dialogue>In only its first week of wide release, `` The Blair Witch Project'' has taken in a whopping 36 million at the nation's box office. Not too bad for an independent film that was reportedly made for less than the cost of your average Buick -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>News Video - Day . The Angelika Theatre , New York City . Big and bold on the marquee : `` Blair Witch Project . '' Tracking shot away from the theatre and down the street , to see :</scene_description>
    <character>NEWSCASTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- lines to see the new film stretching five blocks long down Houston Street - and this was for a 10 a.m. show -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Close On the long line - Two YOUNG MEN in their late teens being interviewed on camera :</scene_description>
    <character>YOUNG MAN #1</character>
    <dialogue>- to get the holy sh -.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( BLEEP ! )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- scared outta me, man, what do you think?</dialogue>
    <character>YOUNG MAN #2</character>
    <dialogue>I heard last night they had people runnin' screamin' out of the theatre -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The last scene of BWP projected on a big screen - Heather Donahue running screaming down the stairs inside the house - and seeing Mike standing facing the wall - WHIP BACK to see that we 're inside a theatre , and the audience watching this is collectively shrieking with surprise - - and then collectively shrieking even louder as Heather is hit from behind and goes down , camera with her . Another Theatre - Night - Video of an Audience exiting the film . One YOUNG WOMAN being interviewed is particularly shaken :</scene_description>
    <character>YOUNG WOMAN</character>
    <dialogue>the kid. Mike. he was turned around towards the wall'cause that's what that guy in 1940 made all the little kids do before he killed them -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A gaggle of Male Teenagers pass by in b.g. of the shot . One of them shouts :</scene_description>
    <character>TEENAGER</character>
    <dialogue>Just a movie, baby!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Young Woman looks confused for a moment . Looks into the camera :</scene_description>
    <character>YOUNG WOMAN</character>
    <dialogue>no. it was real, what we saw. was n't it? -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Telecast of MARY HART on the set of `` Entertainment Tonight . ''</scene_description>
    <character>MARY HART</character>
    <dialogue>- whatever you want to call it, `` Blair Watch'' is definitely the Cinderella story of the summer, if not the century, with now an 80 million dollar gross in just two weeks -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>News Video of a 30ish GUY railing at the People waiting to purchase tickets to BWP :</scene_description>
    <character>30ISH GUY</character>
    <dialogue>- save your money, it's all bullshit hype! Blair Witch sucks! -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Some STONER being interviewed on camera :</scene_description>
    <character>STONER</character>
    <dialogue>- all repeat business, dude - I know morons who've seen the stupid thing like three times in one day.</dialogue>
    <character>INTERVIEWER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>How many times have you seen the film?</dialogue>
    <character>STONER</character>
    <dialogue>Like maybe five. But not in one.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( BLEEP . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- ing day -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Critic LEONARD MALTIN holding forth on - air :</scene_description>
    <character>MALTIN</character>
    <dialogue>- it taps into our universal primal fears : of the boogeyman, of the things that go bump in the night - there's something out there, you ca n't see it, and it's coming for you -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Video of more audience exit interviews . Two YOUNG MEN in their 20s :</scene_description>
    <character>YOUNG MAN #1</character>
    <dialogue>- I'll tell you what was scary : trying to keep my lunch down. If that stupid camera jiggled one more time -</dialogue>
    <character>YOUNG MAN #2</character>
    <dialogue>- some guy the row in front of me actually did toss -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>WOMAN holding a baby .</scene_description>
    <character>WOMAN</character>
    <dialogue>- it was just so real -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Solemn - looking GEEKY GUY :</scene_description>
    <character>GEEKY GUY</character>
    <dialogue>- it was real -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dubious - looking TEENAGE GIRL :</scene_description>
    <character>TEENAGE GIRL</character>
    <dialogue>- you got ta be kidding me - there's people out there think `` Blair Witch'' was real? -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bespectacled MAN IN SUIT :</scene_description>
    <character>MAN IN SUIT</character>
    <dialogue>- the story of the three students was fiction. The legend of the Blair Witch is, apparently, true, however -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>DIANE SAWYER on `` Good Morning America . ''</scene_description>
    <character>DIANE SAWYER</character>
    <dialogue>- the brass tacks of the matter is, love it or hate it, `` Blair Witch'' has escalated from being merely another cinema success story to a genuine nationwide phenomenon - if not obsession. Profits from merchandising tie - ins going through the roof -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Montage of Blair Witch paraphernalia : - t - shirts and other apparel - keychains - posters - the books - The Blair Witch Project : A Dossier ; Heather 's Journal - the CD `` Josh 's Blair Witch Mix ''</scene_description>
    <character>DIANE SAWYER</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- the official `` Blair Witch'' web - site now having received 75 million `` hits'' to date -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- shot of computer screen , on - line : The Blair Witch Store</scene_description>
    <character>DIANE SAWYER</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- with that web - site, in just a matter of a few weeks, begatting dozens more web - sites, with chat rooms so packed with fans and foes you're lucky to get a cyber - word in edge - wise -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Computer Screen showing a Chat Room in progress - exchanges flying back and forth like lightning :</scene_description>
    <character>GIRLGENIUS</character>
    <dialogue>if story true, then how come end credits list `` written by''?</dialogue>
    <character>WARLOX</character>
    <dialogue>all docs are written by - somebody has to put all the pieces together like a story</dialogue>
    <character>K-RATIONAL</character>
    <dialogue>that's EDITING, idiot - they made whole thing up - those were actors</dialogue>
    <character>CHERUBIM-BO</character>
    <dialogue>then how come characters had same names as `` actors''</dialogue>
    <character>AK-47</character>
    <dialogue>you call that acting</dialogue>
    <character>C.I.A-LIST</character>
    <dialogue>Congrats any U bought into big lie that BWP phony have successfully been suckered by dis - info campaign waged by U.S. govt they do n't want us TO KNOW TRUTH</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Video interview with RONALD CRAVENS , Sheriff of Burkittsville . He 's standing at the corner where the Union Cemetery abuts Route 17 .</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>- the truth is, this movie's probably been the best and worst thing ever happen to this town. The good thing - well, take a look down East Main there -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CAMERA PANS past him towards a stretch of two - lane blacktop with stores on either side .</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIF</character>
    <dialogue>- we've got people pouring in here like it's Times Square, some of'em all the way from Europe, Japan. A whole lot of money being spent. The bad?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He points to a white wooden post stuck in the shoulder of the road .</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>There used to be a sign on it, `` Welcome to Burkittsville.'' They showed it in the movie. Somebody wan na show me where it is now? I swear to God, these people, they're coming in and making off with every - thing is n't nailed down. There's two other signs I had to take down myself, put away for safekeeping'til this whole damn thing's finally over.</dialogue>
    <character>INTERVIEWER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>When did you think that'll be?</dialogue>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>Just pray we get to see it this lifetime.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Video footage - Burkittsville Union Cemetery . Two KIDS wearing Ohio State jackets . Wandering around , confused , with gravestone - rubbing kits under their arms .</scene_description>
    <character>KID #1</character>
    <dialogue>Ca n't seem to find'em.</dialogue>
    <character>KID #2</character>
    <dialogue>Got ta be around here somewhere - right here's where Heather stood in the movie.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kid # 1 looks into the camera .</scene_description>
    <character>KID #1</character>
    <dialogue>We're trying to find the graves of those seven kids Rustin Parr killed.</dialogue>
    <character>KID #2</character>
    <dialogue>Lotta dead kids - just ca n't find any died later than like 1867.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kid # 1 stops , squints . The camera travels with his gaze : atop nearly every other grave marker is a black candle melted into the stone .</scene_description>
    <character>KID #1</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think all these candles are for?</dialogue>
    <character>KID #2</character>
    <dialogue>I would n't touch'em.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sheriff Cravens on Video .</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing much we can do - just enforce the curfew. Which is dusk, for both the cemetery and the Black Hills Forest.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Aerial shot of the Black Hills area : we see packs of people everywhere . The overgrown foundation of Rustin Parr 's house in the middle of the woods . Manic - eyed Teenagers proudly display their souvenirs for the camera : rocks and cement slivers .</scene_description>
    <character>TEEN #1</character>
    <dialogue>This is what you call `` striking gold.''</dialogue>
    <character>TEEN #2</character>
    <dialogue>Fifty bucks a pop minimum back in Philly.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Sheriff on tape .</scene_description>
    <character>INTERVIEWER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>There seems to be some controversy whether or not any of this actually happened.</dialogue>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>That what actually happened.</dialogue>
    <character>INTERVIEWER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>The three kids who disappeared, everything that was in the movie, the whole Blair Witch legend.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Sheriff just stares for a beat towards the Interviewer like he/she 's completely insane . Then turns and walks away , rubbing his eyes with a thumb and forefinger like a headache the size of Manitoba just hit him .</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>You'll excuse me -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>An office in L.A. Big `` Artisan Entertainment '' logo on the wall . A well - turned out Gentleman -LRB- or Woman -RRB- who exudes `` EXECUTIVE '' smiles gently for the camera .</scene_description>
    <character>ARTISAN EXECUTIVE</character>
    <dialogue>- the only statement we feel comfortable making at this time is : we're happy the film's been such a success ; we grieve with the families of Heather, Josh and Mike. Now, if you'll excuse me -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dusk . Sheriff Cravens leaning on his car on a road at the edge of the forest .</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>- this is the only reality I know : we're averaging about four lost rubberneckers a week up in these woods.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Sheriff puts a bullhorn to his lips ; bellows into the woods :</scene_description>
    <character>SHERIFF</character>
    <dialogue>Get outta these damn woods and go home! There is nothing in there!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>SMASH TO BLACK And silence . White words again appear in the darkness : NINE MONTHS LATER Music begins to be heard under it - uber Goth : Type O Negative 's `` Haunted . '' It suddenly swells - to ear - shatter proportions . SMASH UP ON</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. A VAN - IN MOTION - HIGHWAY - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Zipping fast down U.S. Route 70 - West . We see the mileage signs on both sides of the median indicating where they 're coming from and where they 're now going : from Baltimore , towards Frederick , Maryland . -LRB- NOTE : this is shot on 16 or 35mm film , which will be the medium of `` reality '' for the rest of the movie . -RRB- The music that 's blaring is n't underscoring - it 's coming from inside the Van . As is a WOMAN 'S VOICE -LRB- ANNA -RRB- shouting over it :</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You want to turn that shit down just a hair?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THE VAN - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>TIGHT ON the Driver of the Van , a grunged - out 25 year old with shoulder - length hair , a well - worn black `` Blair Witch Project '' t - shirt and cap : COTTER KALLER . He yells towards the backseat :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Shit? This is from `` Josh's Blair Witch Mix,'' man!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Down or off - you're giving me a migraine.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( mutters . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Christ.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He turns the volume down .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( petulant . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Just trying to set the mood for the mission - get the `` feeling.''</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Only thing I'm feeling is homicidal.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter grumbles . Then a wicked grin hits his lips . Turns to the unseen Man sitting next to him in the passenger seat :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Hold this.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>The wheel.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He clamps Nick 's hand on the steering wheel , picks up the 8mm Camcorder beside him , turns around , and starts shooting into the back seat . POV OF VIDEO CAMCORDER On a not - very - happy - at - the - moment - looking Blonde Woman . ANNA TASSIO - ON VIDEO age 20 . She rolls her eyes as Cotter begins narrating :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>The bitched - out babe in back here is one Anna Tassio - we met one dark and stormy night in a Blair Witch chat room, we all did -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- Christ almighty -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- but she was nicer then - sweeter - she had n't vomited twice already like today -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- it's called `` morning sickness,'' asshole -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <parenthetical>( editorial aside . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- a six week bun in the oven -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <parenthetical>( wearily . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- Cotter, just turn the camera off?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter responds by panning the Camcorder towards the passenger seat . We see on video : NICK LEAVITT a lanky 21 year old wearing wire - rims .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>This is her equally on - the - rag boy - friend, Nick Leavitt -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- turn the camera off -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- they're from UMass, doing some kind of fucking term paper -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- Graduate Thesis -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- about the Witch -</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE FROM BACK SEAT</character>
    <dialogue>- she does n't exist -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- you got that right -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>THE CAMERA pans again into the back seat , showing HEATHER ARENDT , 19 , with a huge mane of fire - engine red hair .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- and if she ever did -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- which she may have -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- bullshit -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- she was n't a witch - we embrace nature, not evil -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- thank you, Heather Arendt - and arend' t we glad you're here - a real witch -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- fuckin' A right -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- Cotter -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- a Wiccan -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- turn the goddamn camera off!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Camcorder swings back to Nick .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>We're not making Blair Witch II here.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I am.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>One big blur of a pan - Cotter 's turned the camcorder on himself . He issues his manifesto :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>And let it be known - before we even get to Burkittsville - it's gon na be an eighteen thousand times better movie - for half the cost -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- which'd be about ten bucks -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- and unlike the first one, every second of it's gon na be true! `` Blair Witch : The Real Story!''</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Cotter?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not finished.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We're all going to be if you do n't hit the brakes.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Camcorder WHIP = PANS towards the windshield : The Van is about to plow into the rear of a HUGE COCA - COLA TRUCK</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Jee - zuz!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Visual pandemonium as the Camcorder goes flying from his hands and down next to the BRAKE PEDAL We see both of COTTER 'S FEET smash down on the pedal . Hear O.S. : screeching of the passengers - screeching of the brake shoes - screaming of the tires as the Van swerves into the next lane - and then an angry symphony of CAR HORNS .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're a complete fucking idiot, are n't you?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hey, Mr. Graduate Fucking Thesis here was s ` posed to be driving!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You drive, I'll handle the video, okay?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We see the view from the Camcorder as it 's scooped up from the Van floor and brought back up to eye - level again . ON NICK 'S FACE As he waves two fingers at the lens .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Bye - bye -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and the Video zaps to black . SMASH BACK TO - FILM Where Nick can be seen tossing the camcorder into the backseat . Anna catches it , puts it in a back pack and zips it .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What're you doing?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>This is n't about us.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Right. And the check's in the mail.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT/INT. THE VAN - TWO HOURS LATER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Doing a relaxed 35 down the narrow ribbon of Route 17 . Rural farm country . The weather 's turned grey - making all the 19th Century - vintage houses and barns they pass look dismal , if not a little foreboding .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Cheery little place.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>It's like traveling back in time.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>The good old days : toasting marsh - mallows over a burning witch.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>They never burned witches in this country, they hanged them.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever - all I know is the persecution's going to start all over again, they keep pumping out inflammatory bullshit like this fucking movie -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- hey : check that out!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ahead of them , at a crossroads , is a sign : Welcome to Burkittsville</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>` Thought those all got stolen.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Guess they thought it was safe to put some up again.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Think again.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He starts to slow the Van alongside the sign .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Somebody wan na hand me that claw hammer in back -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Nick pushes Cotter 's leg back down on the accelerator . The Van jerks past the sign and down the road .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Get busted on your own time. We've got a schedule to keep.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter just glares at him .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Was it every day or just semi - weekly you got your ass kicked as a kid?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( ignoring him . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Now you can bring the vehicle to a stop : there on the left.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BURKITTSVILLE UNION CEMETERY - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The four of them stand there by the sign to the graveyard . Anna searching the gray horizon .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Why are we here?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>She e - mailed me yesterday this is where we should meet her.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Who?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Whatzername - the `` psychic'' Anna hired.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Domini. Domini Von Teer.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What's she look like?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>No idea, just talked to her on the ` Net - she's very good.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>So says her website.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>She is - she's helped solve a bunch of murders : Arizona, New Mexico -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- how old?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I dunno, probably right up there, based on her resume.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Then there she blows.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter points to THE WOODS near the far edge of the cemetery . Standing there is an old , gaunt and particularly Unattractive Woman , staring at them .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Terrific - and I was afraid I was n't going to get laid on this trip.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The four of them start tromping towards her .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>That's not whatzername - it's Mary Brown.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>From - the - movie - Mary - Brown, Trailer Park Bible Psycho?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, for chrissake, she was an actor.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>No, the kids were actors, the townspeople were real. Her, the Sheriff, the Convenience Store guy -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- whatever ; that's her.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>FLASHBACK - B&amp;W To the interview with Mary Brown from `` Blair Witch Project . '' The years have apparently not been kind : she looks a good two decades younger . CUT BACK TO - THE PRESENT They 're less than 20 feet now from MARY BROWN . She speaks without expression :</scene_description>
    <character>MARY BROWN</character>
    <dialogue>What do you want?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Just came over to say hello.</dialogue>
    <character>MARY BROWN</character>
    <dialogue>It's five bucks for signin' something ; ten for signin' a Bible ; twenty, you want to take a picture with me. Any kind've conversation, that's subject to negotiation.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( sotto . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I do n't believe this.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( sotto . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I do.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Thanks just the same. I think we're fine.</dialogue>
    <character>MARY BROWN</character>
    <dialogue>Heather's not.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather double - takes .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Me?</dialogue>
    <character>MARY BROWN</character>
    <dialogue>Heather. I saw her. Elly Kedward's hands were on her throat, and she was sucking out the girl's insides with her mouth.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( to Heather . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Heather from the movie.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mary Brown shakes her head .</scene_description>
    <character>MARY BROWN</character>
    <dialogue>Heather.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Been a pleasure meeting you ; we need to go now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He hustles the other three back towards the cemetery .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I take it back - she was n't an actor. She's a nutjob.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>That's what Josh and Mike said.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Shut - up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The cemetery . Everyone spread out looking for :</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Domino? Domini Von Teer??</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat . And then , out of nowhere , seemingly just plunging right out of the earth AN ARM extends into the air not far from them . Paper - pale and stick - thin , almost skeletal .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Present.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They walk over . See , lying atop a cracked granite marker , a Young Woman who ca n't be more than 18 . Heroin - chic skinny . All in black , including her make - up - uber Goth : DOMINI VON TEER .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Domini?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>What're you doing there?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Trying to find the energy.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Inside the grave?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>To stand up - I'm exhausted. Been on the road since yesterday.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>You want a hand?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>I want amphetamines.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter helps her up .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Beer and weed is what I've got.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Both. Now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anna and Heather look at the faded marker Domini 's been lying on . It says :</scene_description>
    <character>BOY KURTH</character>
    <dialogue />
    <character>May 28 '00</character>
    <dialogue />
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Sweet place to take a nap.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Strange girl.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You think so?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As they walk away , Heather sees Mary Brown across the cemetery , staring at her .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT/INT. THE VAN - LATER - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Snaking its way down the road that wends through the Black Forest Hills . INSIDE Domini and her second beer have commandeered the shotgun seat , Nick relegated to a tight squeeze in the back seat . Dead silence . She 's slightly unnerving . Finally :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>So, I hear you're from New Mexico!</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Sometimes.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Her father's Sheriff of Taos County.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Sometimes. Where are we going?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Ruins of the Rustin Parr house.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Guy who killed all the kids in the'40s.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( `` Outer Limits '' tremolo . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>`` The Voiiiiices made him do it.''</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>The Witch's voice.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>She was n't a witch.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>I hear voices all the time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>That pretty much kills the rest of the conversation .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE VAN - LATER - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Parked at the edge of the woods . Back - packs being hauled out of the rear , camping gear , video equipment .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>What is all this shit?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>We're doing dusk - till - dawn taping of all the places where there've been alleged Blair Witch `` sightings'' - the Parr House, Coffin Rock, Tappy Creek.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>See what turns up - which I guarantee will be nothing. Some of the rest of the party are more hopeful -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- or incredibly fucking naive.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, folklore -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- myth -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- does n't just pop out of thin air. It spins off of real events. At some point there was a Blair Witch -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- or one huge attack of group hysteria.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( snide . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Either way, maybe there's a book in it, and they both make a ton of money.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( snapping . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It's a serious sociological study.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>The four of you really have too much spare fucking time on your hands, do n't you?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>And what's your excuse for being here?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>She got paid.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <parenthetical>( shrugs . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I thought the movie was bitchin'.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE WOODS - SOON AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mammoth backpacks strapped on , the five begin walks into the forest .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Wait a sec!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He spins and runs back towards the Van .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Through the trees , they see Cotter place a pint of bottled water on the roof of the Van . Starts video - ing it as he walks away .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>He really is a fucking idiot.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DEEPER IN THE WOODS - LATER - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Slogging up a 45 - degree angled hill . This is not exactly Sir Edmund Hillary and Co. - the five of them already look exhausted .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Did n't we already do this hill?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick is staring at three different maps at once as he walks .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>You sure?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Terrific : an hour, we're already lost -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then a look of trepidation crosses Cotter 's face - Footage from `` Blair Witch Project '' - panic , as Heather , Josh and Mike realize they 've spent all day walking in a circle .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Cotter?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT BACK TO - PRESENT Nick 's glaring at him .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Look over there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter looks up : less than 500 yards ahead can be seen the ruins of an Old House .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, but -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- now there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Nick is pointing behind him . Cotter looks . From the atop the hill he can see down to the road - and his Van with the water bottle on the roof .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Oh. Cool.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE PARR RUINS - SHORTLY AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>All the backpacks and miscellaneous tonnage is already dumped on the ground . The five of them stretch their legs , massage sore shoulders and lower backs , while sightseeing the remnants of the old house and its environs . Cotter , not surprisingly , is taping everything . POV CAMCORDER a huge bite taken out of one of the walls of the foundation , stone , brick and soil strewn everywhere around it .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Where they found the backpacks and all the film a year later.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Buried deep under 200 years worth of soil, ash, and compost layers.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Yeah, that was a cluster - fuck for the mind.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK/HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>If it happened at all.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suddenly , the camcorder image starts shaking wildly . CUT BACK TO - FILM Cotter seen running full - tilt towards Heather , who 's facing one of the interior foundation walls . He 's jiggling the camera like he 's got St. Vitus dance . CUT BACK TO - VIDEO We hear Cotter doing a passable Heather Donahue impression - screeching as the shaking video image PUSHES IN right towards Heather Arendt 's face .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Mike! Miiiiiiike! Noooooo!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather turns , scowling , and puts her hand over the lens . CUT BACK TO - FILM Heather pushing the camcorder out of her face .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You're not only an idiot, you're a goddamn child.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Why does everyone here but me have have a gigantic stick up their ass?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Hey! Check this out!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On one of the foundation 's interior walls : a gobbledygook of tiny handprints and strange , angular glyphs .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Look at those marks - just like in the movie.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Ancient runes -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- what the fuck's a `` rune''? -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT BACK TO - FILM Nick erasing half the marks with one sweep of his palm .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- chalked just hours ago by ancient adolescents. It's called vandalism.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>What is this?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>All turn . She 's pointing to the large , leafy tree with branches stretching everywhere above them .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Oak?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>No. What's it doing here in the middle of the foundation?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Growing. This place burnt down 50 years ago. Trees happen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick flips through a voluminous loose - leaf notebook - points out a page to Anna .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Look it's right here - from the Blair Witch `` Dossier'' - the sketch the anthropology students made of their dig when they found the backpack.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The sketch shows a spindly growth in the middle of the foundation , no more than six feet high .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>That's a sapling - this mother's got to be three hundred years old, minimum.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>It's a sketch, Anna - it's not to - scale cartography ; the tree was not the kids' focus -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- do you agree it's that old, Nick?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, fine, whatever, yes - it's an old tree.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Why do n't you just cut it down and count the goddamn rings - who cares?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Because it means the tree is older than the house.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, so?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>So whoever built this -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Nick rustles through the loose - leaf -</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- brother of Rustin Parr's maternal grandfather, somewhere after 1858 -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- whoever - they built an entire house around a tree. Sticking up right through the living room. Somebody like to explain that to me?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>The rest of the family was crazy as Rusty Parr.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, c'mon - even you have to admit this is weird.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>No - this is weird.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He reaches down and picks one of the now infamous wooden `` stick men '' off the ground . POV - COTTER 'S CAMCORDER - CLOSE UP Sudden , stunned silence as the camera examines it fore and aft . And then Nick 's hands are seen removing the material that secures the Stick Man 's `` arms '' to his `` torso . '' Torso and legs fall to the ground , leaving Nick holding a piece of - CUT BACK TO - FILM</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- sacred and occult Scotch Tape.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Rusty Parr had the right idea on child care.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE PARR RUINS - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>By flashlight , Cotter 's fiddling with five vid - cams on tripods that have already been set up . Domini lies within the foundation walls staring up at the sky . Finishes the last of Cotter 's beer and discards the empty . Not far from there , Heather 's already got her simple one - person tent erected . Adjacent , Nick and Anna are wrestling with the nightmare of trying to put up some Barnum &amp; Bailey - size number .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Your parents did n't have a bigger one?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>It was free - I recall that was the chief selling point for you.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>No offense, sweetheart : fuck you.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>You know, Nick, you've been something of a total asshole the past few days.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Pardon me, I've had a few things on my mind - like putting this safari together.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Like how weirded - out you are with this pregnancy thing.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Let's just leave it at : it was one hell of a surprise.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>You do n't want it though.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Your body, your call.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Why is there no `` our'' here?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Could we take this up later - like indoors, without half the world listening?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>You feel no need to get married or anything.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Anna -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- fine, later, fine.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sonovabitch!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>All eyes turn : Cotter 's standing 20 feet away with rotted wooden tentpoles and a piece of grommeted canvas that 's literally mildew - disintegrating in his hands .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Nice tent.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Had n't even opened the thing since Cub scouts.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Never would've guessed.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>So where the hell am I going to sleep?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>If you're looking at me, look elsewhere.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I've got the Panasonic Portable DVD player.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat . She stares at him .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What movies?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Ask me what I do n't have.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HEATHER'S TENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather and Cotter jammed in there like Spam , sharing a joint , and watching `` Curse of the Blair Witch '' on DVD : The Interview Sequence with folklorist CHARLES MOOREHOUSE , explaining the `` origins '' of the Blair Witch story - Elly Kedward 's banishment , etc. .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What I never could figure about the movie?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Three people : two guys, a girl - sleeping in the same motel room, the same tent night after night.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>No fucking.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Made no sense. Scared out of their minds, and the greatest stress reliever in creation right at their fingertips. Nada.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>No sense at all.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( beat . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm a little stressed.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Try a long walk.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S TENT - SIMULTANEOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>It ai n't the Ritz , but they did come prepared : air mattresses , big Coleman lanterns , a kerosene heater - and heaps of books and brimming file folders . They 're sitting up in their respective mummy - style sleeping bags , studying documents , making notes - - when this high - pitched MOANING can be heard outside the tent . Nick and Anna looks at each other . Nick grabs one of the lanterns and dashes for the tent door .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE TENT - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He shines the light slowly out into the foundation ruins - - and there 's Domini , still lying on her back , staring up , cooing :</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Oooh. Oooh.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Ah, Domini?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>You planning on sleeping out there?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Not planning on sleeping at all.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She points up into the big oak in the middle of the foundation .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Oooh. Oooh.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The call comes back to her from the tree : `` oooh - oooh . '' Nick sees perched high up on one of the branches : A GREAT HORNED OWL . It 's staring down at them .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>I figure I lie here long enough, maybe he'll swoop down and carry me off in his talons.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick rolls his eyes and goes back into his tent . COTTER AND HEATHER are also watching this from their tent .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>We should be so lucky.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Butt - ugly owl.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They duck back into the tent . The Owl keeps watching . FADE TO BLACK . Several beats . And then in the darkness , a rustling sound is heard . A whisper that sounds like :</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>see if it's alive -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CLICK ! Then Anna 's hand seen - she 's just turned on one of the lanterns . Sits up in her sleeping bag . Listens . The sounds have stopped . Beat . She gets out of her bag , grabs the lantern , and goes to the tent flap -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. TENT - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- and just as she steps outside - - something strikes her hand -</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- shit -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- the lantern goes flying into the dirt - - and suddenly out of the darkness come flying - LITTLE HANDS wielding small sharpened sticks - or are they tent pegs ? - - and they stab into Anna 's belly again and again , accompanied by shrieks of delight . Anna screams -</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Who's James?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>ANNA TURNS and finds she 's inside the tent , wrapped tight in her sleeping bag . Staring at Nick , who 's propped up on his air mattress with a book and a lantern , staring quizzically back at her .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( disoriented . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>You said the name `` James.''</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pulls her sleeping bag down , looks at her belly - unmarked , unharmed , bloodless .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Baby names?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know. Nightmare.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>You want me to scooch over next to you?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE RUINS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Domini is still supine , staring upwards .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>This place is like a regular K - mart of bad vibes, ai n't it, pal?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Owl does n't respond .</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <parenthetical>( distant . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Please, someone, help me -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>SMASH TO a static shot of dark , dark woods . The Voice continues to be heard from somewhere deep in there :</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>- somebody, please!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>PULL BACK It 's coming from the DVD of `` Blair Witch Project . ''</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER DONAHUE'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Josh?!?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>PULL BACK FURTHER Cotter and Heather Arendt are fast asleep . Must have drifted off during the umpteenth viewing .</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <parenthetical>( much louder . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Heather?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather Arendt is up like a shot .</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Heather? Josh?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mild snort of amusement when she sees the movie 's still playing on the DVD . She buttons it off . Starts to lay back down -</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <parenthetical>( loud . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Heather?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- bolts right back up on the verge of a coronary . The Man 's Voice screams :</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>They're pulling my teeth out!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather literally punches Cotter awake .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Wha' the -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She clamps her hand over his mouth . Beat . They listen - - suddenly , SCURRYING FOOTSTEPS heard ; giggling -</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( through her hand . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- o - fug - me -</dialogue>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Heaaaaather?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter wrenches himself away , grabs his little 8mm camcorder -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( scared . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What're you, crazy?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( exhilarated . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What're you, nuts?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He lunges out of the tent , camera already whirring -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. TENT - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- and right into a blinding , light - up - the - night battery of halogen lamps .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Halo - ed in the glare of those lights stand FOUR LARGE TEENAGERS in various states of grunge . They all but scream of STONERS . One of them 's got a huge running Beta - Cam on shoulder , another 's hefting a DAT recorder and shotgun mic . We see Cotter from the POV of these guys camera : POV BETA - CAM - VIDEO Cotter shooting back at them with his puny - by - comparison camcorder , his thermal long - johns halfway down his legs .</scene_description>
    <character>STONER #1</character>
    <dialogue>Check this out : Burkittsville's Funniest Home Videos.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter 's still shaking .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus - Jesus - Jesus -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A furious Heather can be seen scrambling out of the tent . Gets right in the lens :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What the fuck?!?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT BACK TO - FILM The Stoner Cameraman snaps the Beta away from her .</scene_description>
    <character>STONER CAMERAMAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, that's 50K worth of hi - tech, chickee.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You gave me a fucking heart attack!</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, and you boogied all the way up here to get a good night's sleep.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #3</character>
    <dialogue>We just made your every dream come true, darlin'.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Get out of here!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What're you doing with all this shit?</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #4</character>
    <dialogue>Shootin' `` Blair Witch II,'' man - what's your excuse?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Shooting `` Blair Witch II.''</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, dude, I do n't think so - that is just not happening.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER CAMERAMAN</character>
    <dialogue>This is our gig.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #3</character>
    <dialogue>We got jurisdiction, man - we got fuckin' permits to be here.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, yeah? Let's see'em.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #4</character>
    <dialogue>They're, uh, like, in the car.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Bullshit.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <dialogue>Let's put it this way : one of us is going, and it's you.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What's the hassle here?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick and Anna appear from their tent .</scene_description>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <dialogue>You and the Brady Bunch, Mr. Scorsese.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER CAMERAMAN</character>
    <dialogue>You're interfering with the commerce of independent film!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter asides to Nick .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>They're making `` Blair Witch II,'' too.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>No problem, just give us'til dawn and we're gone.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Look, guys, we're cold, we're tired we're shook - we just want to get out of here as soon as there's light. We saw something up at Coffin Rock today -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( catching on . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- or someone -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- scared the living shit out of us.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #3</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know, I do n't know -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- yeah, a hand or something -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- coming out of the water -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Now even Domini joins the prevarication party , popping up from inside the foundation :</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- stop it! Stop talking about it! I'm gon na freak!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( tearing up . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I just wan na go home.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER #3</character>
    <parenthetical>( impressed . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Whoa.</dialogue>
    <character>STONER CAMERAMAN</character>
    <dialogue>You did n't get it on tape, didja?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Tried, but -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Stoner # 2 starts barking orders to his crew :</scene_description>
    <character>STONER #2</character>
    <dialogue>Strip it down and ship it out! Coffin Rock!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They 're packed up and ready to move in a flash . Stoner # 4 turns as they trot off :</scene_description>
    <character>STONER #4</character>
    <dialogue>Any other voices or noises you hear tonight - it ai n't us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Stoners make Josh Leonard - like cries as they disappear back into the darkness ;</scene_description>
    <character>STONERS</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Heather? Mike? Somebody? Please?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>They were never seen again. Their footage was found a year later - underexposed and useless.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tired laughter .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>How're the cameras doing?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Due for a re - load and battery check. I'll get on it.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>` Give you a hand. I think my sleep for the night just ended.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Join the club.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Well, everybody grab a coat, and pull up a rock for a night of witch - watch.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The four campers proceed to their respective tasks . Domini stays perched on the foundation , watching where the Stoners disappeared . To herself :</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Something. really twisted. is going to happen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks up . The Owl 's gone . FADE TO BLACK . Birds heard in the darkness . And snoring .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S TENT - DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cuddled together , fast asleep .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE PARR FOUNDATION - SIMULTANEOUS - DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Domini conked out on the grass , curled in a fetal position .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HEATHER'S TENT - SIMULTANEOUS - DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Ditto Heather , sprawled half - in/half - out of her sleeping bag . Only Cotter is awake - well , making an attempt at it , anyway . Squints at his digital watch : 5:45 am .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus. wha' happened.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He groggily gets to his knees and dog - walks out of the tent . Several beats . And then we hear outside the tent :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh, fuck me! Oh, Jesus!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The cries wake Heather -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S TENT - SIMULTANEOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- as well as Nick and Anna -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE PARR FOUNDATION - SIMULTANEOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- even Domini , who pops her head up and starts to ask :</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>What happ -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then she sees ; they all see -</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- they're all gone! -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- five tripods , all minus the Video cameras they used to support -</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- and none of'em were mine! I - am - so - fucked, I - am - so - fucked - where the hell was everybody?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Asleep -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- what happened to the goddamn `` Witch - watch?''</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- I dunno, I just woke up -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- last thing I remember were those four clowns shooting the movie -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- yeah, the goddamn stoners! Who you think stole the stuff!?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Got to Coffin Rock, found zip, and came back, ripped off the cameras.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Domini looks at one of the mangled tripods .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Ripped? They look like they were bit off.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Smells Like Teenage Spirit.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>This is funny? This is tens of thousands of fucking dollars!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( shouts into the woods . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You pricks! I'll see you in fucking court!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Not the only things missing, Nick.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick turns . Anna 's at the tent door holding a pile of empty file folders and two looseleaf notebooks that have somehow been torn clean in half . Now Nick 's incensed :</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>That's almost a year's worth of work!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( into the woods . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Scumbags! Oh, Jesus, Jesus.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>At least you still have the tapes.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>One set. Everything from midnight on -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- no, I think they're all in there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She 's pointing to the collapsed section of the basement foundation where the original `` Blair Witch Project '' Tapes were found . The other four stop and stare at her . And then Cotter goes diving in the hole . Beat .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sonovabitch!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And emerges with two grimy handfuls of VHS , Beta , and 8mm video tapes .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Those ours?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter brushes dirt from them ; holds them up for inspection .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>My handwriting on the face labels.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And then his excitement switches to confusion . Turns to Domini :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>How'd you know they were -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <parenthetical>( shrugs . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- hunch. Just sort've saw'em there.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>My ass - you saw those four fucking baboons put'em there!</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Cotter, I think she's right. Why would those guys go to all the trouble of stealing the camera and all this other stuff and leave the tapes?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Spite.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>They were making a movie - if they were going to steal anything it'd be just the tapes, to see if we had anything they did n't.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't think it was them.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, who did then? Blair Witch? Snatching equipment to make her own sequel?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know yet.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Well, please keep me fucking informed!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Those four guys - it's the only thing that makes sense.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks over at Domini , who says nothing - just stares into the woods .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>This is a goddamn disaster. Let's just pack it up and go.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I want to see the tapes.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>And what do you possibly think you're going to fucking see there?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>No idea. But if that's all we've got left -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- nothing left to play'em on, honey.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, sorry, right.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>You can be goddamn sure, though, I'm going to be looking at every second of'em when I get back to Baltimore - I get proof who stole my shit and I call the cops!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>We're ticketed to fly back from Baltimore, anyway.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Me, too.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, I got a whole editing suite in my loft - more the fucking merrier.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Pointless.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>No. I do n't think so.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. STREET IN N. BALTIMORE - SEVERAL HOURS LATER - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The Van pulls up to the curb in a savagely decrepit and extremely desolate old industrial section of North Baltimore .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>403 41st Street, kids : home.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I dunno it's safe to even get out of the car.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>By day? No sweat.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What about night?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Not a great idea. Especially ` cross the street.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>All four look : a thickly wooded area that looks like mostly sumac .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Druid Hill Park.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>That's a joke?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>That's its name. A pastoral glade gamboling with crackheads and homeless and averaging at least one homicide a week.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Let's get inside.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>First enormous brick warehouse on your right.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S BUILDING - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Four of the five of them ride nervously in a huge , ancient elevator that ascends in a series of jerks . Cotter 's oblivious .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Used to be a meat - packing plant. Slaughter on the ground floor - carcasses schlepped up on this thing for dissection and grinding and -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- Cotter : shut up.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DOOR TO COTTER'S LOFT - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cotter opens the elevator grates , revealing a metal door with a single lock . He fits a key into it</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Just one lock in this neighbor - hood?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>All I need -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- throws the door wide - - the LOUD BARKING of what sounds like a pack of pit - bulls greets them .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Get inside quick, they'll stop.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Too busy eating us?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Just go.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S LOFT - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He shuts the door ; the BARKING stops . Everyone 's eyes zapping all 360 degrees around them : no dogs . Cotter taps a small speaker above the door ;</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Baltimore's cheapest burglar alarm.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He re - opens the door a crack - the BARKING starts anew . Closes it . Nothing .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Had the door jimmied a few times. Nobody's yet made it inside.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He ushers them into a huge DOUBLE - STORIED SPACE easily 30 feet high . Exposed brick walls - massive iron roof beams . And crammed to bursting with bizarre esoterica everywhere : - carousel horses , huge airplane propellers , a bowsp ` rit from an old clipper ship , lawn jockeys , a set of bunkbeds made entirely of wagon wheel parts , bowling balls , cannonballs , pinball machines .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Mi casa y su casa!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Su casa y shit - o hole - o.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, hon' - this is what pays the rent and tuition.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Running a junk yard.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>A Cyber Entrepreneurialship.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>English.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I spend a lot of time on e - Bay. Buying, selling - sometimes buying then re - selling at substantial mark - up, sometimes just selling crap I find in the street.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Looks like business is booming.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>There's some stuff that's hard to part with. Editing's stuff's up there -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- he points to a loft overhanging the big room - a thin wooden railing separating the work space from a sheer 20 foot drop .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- stairs are back through the kitchen - and a ton of bedrooms, you wan na dump your stuff or catch a nap -</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S LOFT WORK SPACE - A WHILE LATER - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cotter 's running tape through his new video iMac . The rest of them are gathered around the screen in various degrees of discomfort . They look like they 've been there for some time . A lot of yawns . Nick 's rubbing his temples like somebody 's pounding a marimba inside his head . ON SCREEN : they 're all watching minute after minute of nothing . Darkness . The outlines of the Parr Foundation . Trees in the back - ground . Silence . Several beats as they continue to watch this stasis . Then :</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I think we get the gist.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>We've looked at half of one tape.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>There's four other angles, man, we have n't even -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- great : we can watch Domini sleep for hours - or, shit, maybe if we stay at it for a couple of days, maybe a deer'll dash by!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>For once could you just sit down, shut up, and give something a chance?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>We're leaving - case dismissed for lack of evidence. Maybe on the ride home we can figure how the fuck we're going to graduate with no thesis.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not going anywhere,'til -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- bullshit!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, chill, man -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- there's something here, Nick -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- fuck you - all off you -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- he grabs Anna by the wrist and yanks her up -</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- now c'mon!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Get your goddamn -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and suddenly Anna stops . Doubles over , clutching her abdomen .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- oh, Jesus -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- blood can be seen soaking through her jeans .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I need to go to a hospital.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. EMERGENCY ROOM - UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BALTIMORE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Domini , Heather and Cotter standing grimly in the Waiting Area . Finally , they see Nick exiting a Trauma Room , looking even grimmer .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>She lost it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick nods .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TRAUMA ROOM - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Anna 's lying on a OB/Gyn table in a johnnie , clearly sedated , but with a face and eyes still soaked with tears . An E.R. INTERN -LRB- Female -RRB- is cleaning her up .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <character>INTERN</character>
    <dialogue>Any number of reasons - pick one, it's as good as the other.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I was out hiking, camping the past two days - that's what did it - I killed it -</dialogue>
    <character>INTERN</character>
    <dialogue>- doubtful, Mrs. Leavitt. The main thing to remember is, whatever the reason, it was for the best - it meant something was wrong.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Something was wrong.</dialogue>
    <character>INTERN</character>
    <dialogue>Look, this is not my field of expertise. You seem stabilized, but why take any chances? Let's keep you overnight and have the Staff obstetrician do a follow - up tomorrow.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I guess -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then Anna sees what the Intern is writing on her chart : To see : Boyd Kurth , 5/26/00 . Anna 's eyes go wide . INSIDE HER HEAD she flashes on the grave marker that Domini laid on in the Burkittsville Cemetery : same name , same date . BACK IN THE TRAUMA ROOM Anna yells :</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>No!</dialogue>
    <character>INTERN</character>
    <dialogue>Mrs. Leavitt -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- I'm not staying here!</dialogue>
    <character>INTERN</character>
    <dialogue>Let's talk to your husband -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- he's not my husband!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She 's flails at the Intern , trying to get up , tearing pages from her chart .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Where are my clothes?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT/INT. COTTER'S VAN - LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They all sit silently as Cotter drives . The now - fully clothed Anna just sits in back like a zombie .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( softly . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We'll stay overnight, get a hotel -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- Cotter's -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- whatever you want, no problem -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- still go see the OB in the morning -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- no.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anna tosses a crumpled ball of paper into Domini 's lap . She opens it . It 's the top page of Anna 's chart . Domini looks at the Intern 's jotting `` see Boyd Kurth - '' - her head snaps up . Beat .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Nick. Do what she says.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S LOFT - BEDROOM - LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Nick tucks her into an elderly four - poster bed . Colonial in style . Another one of Cotter 's `` finds . ''</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What can I get you?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Sleep.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She closes her eyes .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK SPACE LOFT - SIMULTANEOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Domini , Heather and Cotter gathered around his iMac , drinking beer .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Something happened to Anna in Burkittsville, in the woods, I do n't know.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What? That made her lose the baby?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Something. Someone.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Who? What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Domini just shakes her head .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Women miscarry all the -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- no.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>This is a little nuts.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Turn the tapes back on.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He goes to it . Without even looking , Domini pulls the shoulder of her shirt down , rubs something on her upper arm . Heather sees it : a good - sized burgundy - colored mark , oblong , vaguely spidery in shape .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What's that?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Hmm? I dunno. Chafing from the backpack, something.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>That'd be up on your shoulder, maybe your lower back.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Then I have no idea.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And now Cotter 's staring at it .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Does it hurt?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Like hell. Play the goddamn tape.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The first image that pops up is Domini sprawled out on the grass of the Parr Foundation . Deep in REM sleep , her leg jerking like a dog 's . Domini sees it - a snort of embarrassed laughter .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Nick bolts awake to the sound of laughter . Looks next to him , Anna 's fast asleep . He looks relieved - then clucks to himself when he sees that he 's fallen asleep next to her on the big old four - poster with his clothes on . Starts to take off his shirt - - and then hears the laughter again . Louder . It seems to piss him off . He gets out of bed , opens the door . Hisses :</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, knock it off, willya?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But there 's nobody there . He walks down the hallway towards the kitchen .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK SPACE - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Nick appears on the stairs leading into the work - loft . Sees the three of them huddled over the iMac .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>You wan na keep it down, she's trying to sleep.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, I did n't think we were making that much noise.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>It's not a real `` funny'' time for us, okay?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( confused . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No. it's not.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick just shakes his head , snorts with disgust . Goes back down the stairs -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- when he hears the laughter again .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Christ almighty -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- he starts to storm back up the stairs to the loft - - when he realizes he 's walking away from the sound of the laughter . He stops . It 's coming from the hallway -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- further down the hallway . Louder . He walks faster towards it . It 's coming from the open door of his and Anna 's bedroom . Starts to trot . Louder . Takes the corner into -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THE BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- the laughter stops - - as does Anna , who appeared for a moment to be twirling round and around in the middle of the room .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What's going on?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anna looks down at herself and lets loose a giggle of astonishment .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing. I dunno -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- you should get back into bed.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I guess, yeah.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She does so . Nick once again tucks her in .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Was that you laughing?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Just now?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Just. try and go back to sleep.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I get dreams. I do n't like'em.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What'd you dream?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Little boys. Looking up my skirt as I danced. Giggling.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He pops out two Xanax from a hospital sample bubble pack . Hands them to Anna .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>This'll help.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She swallows them dry .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Good.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She closes her eyes .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>There -</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK LOFT - LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Domini 's pointing to the iMac screen .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>There, what? I did n't see anything.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Back it up, rewind, whatever you call it.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He does so .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What'd you see?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Motion. Stop there. Play it again.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter hits PLAY . They 're watching tape from a camera that was placed almost to the ground , aimed upwards -</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- there! In the tree.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter freezes the image . The tree is so dark and so far in the distance of the shot , he and Heather have to put their eyes right up to the screen to even see it .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Whatta you got, telescopic vision?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Still do n't see it -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- that blur, right by that branch.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She puts her finger right on the screen . Cotter quickly removes it - squints .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, a blur.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Can you zoom it or something, make it real close, real big?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I'm the ebay Boy, remember? I ca n't exactly afford that kind of equipment.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Who do you know who can? Where do we go?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>For a blur?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>There is something there - do n't ask, just trust me.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Ca n't you like just divine it?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>If I could do that, I'd be at the goddamn racetrack, not here.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( sighing . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I got a friend at a Lab. I could get the whole thing blown - up, enhanced -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- go!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Four in the morning?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. 41ST STREET - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cotter wearily unlocks the door to his Van . He looks all around him - finally up : There 's an Owl staring down at him from a tree in Druid Hill Park across the street .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK LOFT - LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather is bringing a cup of hot tea and 40 ounce bottle of Malt Liquor up the stairs . Sees Domini still in front of the iMac , trying to figure out how to work the thing .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Cotter'll kill you.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>He'll never know.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Two - to - one he dusts the keyboard for fingerprints the second he gets back.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She hands Domini the beer . Keeps the tea for herself .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>At least go drink it somewhere spilling it wo n't drive him to suicide.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Okay.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Domini gets up and slumps down on the broken - backed couch in the work - loft .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What is it you thought you saw on that tape?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Still working on it.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Elly Kedward?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>No. Elly Kedward's not the problem here, I do n't think. She was just a good old - fashioned white witch - PAGE 62 IS MISSING FROM THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT!</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>You're gon na owe me the rest of your life, bud.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I know, I know.</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>Beta Cam's still coming back tomorrow, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat . Cotter flushes for a moment .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Absolutely.</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>Before 5:00 -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- hours before -</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>- Christ, they find out I let you have it for the weekend -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- no one'll ever know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sid pauses the tape .</scene_description>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>This is what you wanted enhanced?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>You mind me asking : why the fuck?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>The, uh, blur there.</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>Looks like a rope.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK-LOFT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather has apparently gained a tad enough mastery to run tape through the iMac . She 's playing and replaying a short section of Cotter 's camcorder tape where the bunch of them were interacting with the Stoner Film Crew . She keeps seeing a FLASH on the tape . Between two trees far in the background . But she ca n't seem to freeze the image inside the flash . It looks vaguely like a MIDDLE - AGED MAN .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Does this look like a person stand there to you?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( no response . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Domini?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She turns . Sitting on the couch where Domini was is now the very clear presence of A MIDDLE - AGED MAN in a topcoat . He says nothing , just stares straight ahead . There 's a horrible wound in his forehead . Heather is mindboggled - and petrified . She manages to stammer out the word :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Dad?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What'd you say?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather 's neck snaps to her right . She 's sitting on that same couch with Domini . Her eyes scan the entire loft . There 's no one there but the two women .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Are you alright?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>FADE TO BLACK . Beat . And then in the darkness , a pack of dogs heard BARKING . FADE UP ON</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S ELEVATOR - DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He 's having trouble getting the key out of the lock . The door is wide open . The recorded pit - bulls bark and bark and bark .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK - LOFT - SIMULTANEOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The barking bolts Heather and Domini up like a shot .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S BEDROOM</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Likewise Nick . Anna does n't seem to hear it - fast asleep . As soon as Nick makes it to the door , the barking stops .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK LOFT - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Nick , Domini and Heather are gathered around him like kids on Christmas .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>So lem me see it.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Just let me get my coat off - I had eight cups of coffee, I'm wired for sound here.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Where is it?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I got the tape enhanced - and I managed to sleaze a photo blow - up. Jesus, he's gon na kill me when he finds out about the camera.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Gim me it!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter throws her the 8 `` x10 '' blow - up of the frame . Heather looks at it , her face falls .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Still looks like a blur, only bigger.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Domini grabs it . Stares at it , puzzled .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>My friend Sid said it looked like a rope.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And now Domini 's eyes go wide .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>That's the reason.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Why she kills children.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>The witch?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>It's not about witches, goddamnit!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Someone want to tell me what's going on -</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- and we brought it back with us!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>It touched me, do n't you see it now?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She yanks down the shoulder of her shirt : the burgundy - colored mark on her arm has grown larger and more distinct . It seems to have finger - like tendrils spreading out from it .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Its fingers! Here. And here -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- she yanks down the front of her shirt : there 's another burgundy mark there -</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>- and here and here and here!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pulls back her hair : there are two more growing on the back of her neck .</scene_description>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know how to stop it! I do n't know how to kill it! But it's here right now!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Domini 's head is in her hands . She 's hyperventilating . Heather puts her arms around her .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Slow it down, slow it down, whatever it is, we'll figure it out.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>That's why she kills children.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I know, I know -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- you do n't.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all look up . Anna 's standing in the doorway looking at Domini .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>They put their palms in the blood. And then they press them on your skin.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And Anna walks out of the room .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S BEDROOM - JUST AFTER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Domini 's lying down , Heather beside her . She 's drinking a beer , seems much calmer - though she 's got an afghan cinched around her entire body , toes to chin .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You gon na be alright?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Sure. I'm sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>No big deal. I'm just trying to understand.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Get some more beer.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( laughs . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I think you closed the bar again. I'll have to go out.</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>Go to the store. When you get back, I'll try to make sense of it for you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather gets up , starts for the door . Stops .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What're you afraid's going to happen?</dialogue>
    <character>DOMINI</character>
    <dialogue>That they'll start touching us inside our heads.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DELI - N. BALTIMORE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather sticks two six packs inside a car . Double thinks . Goes back and grabs two more . AT THE REGISTER Heather waits in line . She sees that across the street is Druid Hill Park . Stares aimlessly into the woods , chewing on a thumb nail . She looks seriously worried .</scene_description>
    <character>CHECK-OUT CLERK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sweetheart?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather shifts her gaze to the Check - Out Clerk - and she shrieks : Standing behind the Clerk is THE MIDDLE - AGED MAN she saw in the loft , with the wound in his head .</scene_description>
    <character>CLERK</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Miss?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather 's eyes dart back to the Clerk .</scene_description>
    <character>CLERK</character>
    <dialogue>Are you alright?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather 's eyes dance around the deli . The Man is gone .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You have a phone?</dialogue>
    <character>CLERK</character>
    <dialogue>Just outside -</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. 41ST STREET - JUST AFTER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather stands at a payphone by the curb . We hear ringing on the other end . Finally a pick - up . But an OPERATOR 'S VOICE is heard first :</scene_description>
    <character>OPERATOR'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>You have a collect call from Heather. Will you accept the charges?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Long beat on the other end . Finally :</scene_description>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <parenthetical>( MOM . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>yes.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Operator clicks off .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Mom?</dialogue>
    <character>MOM'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I was just calling, I know it's been a long time -</dialogue>
    <character>MOM'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>- what do you need this time, Heather?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing. It's nothing like that. I just wanted to know if Dad -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- a sound on the other line of the phone dropping , banging on the floor or against a wall -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- Mom? Mom?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- a Voice comes back on the line . But it 's MALE now :</scene_description>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>She wants me to talk to you, Heather.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Who is this?</dialogue>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Your mother's pastor.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What happened to my Dad?</dialogue>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>There was an accident early this morning. Another car. Your father's injuries were fatal.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>MAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>I'll tell your mother not to expect you at the funeral.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The phone clicks dead on the other end . Heather lets the receiver just drop and begins walking , leaving her two bags of beer on the sidewalk , in a daze . And then she starts running .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S ELEVATOR - JUST AFTER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather 's banging like crazy on the door to the loft . Finally , she hears the sound of Cotter snapping open the deadbolt . He opens the door . The recorded dogs bark . Heather slams the door behind her .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Where's Domini?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>My room, asleep, last I checked.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather barges past him and towards Cotter 's bedroom .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather walks in . The bed 's empty . The afghan 's lying in a pile on the floor - - along with all of the clothing Domini last had on .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Domini?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She does n't bother calling her name again , there 's nobody in the room .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Nick and Cotter look up at Heather , confused .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Well, she's got to be somewhere here.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>No one's been in or out since you left. Would've heard the dogs.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather dashing up the stairs into the work - loft .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Domini?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Empty . Cotter poking through the two hallway closets . Nothing . Nick looking in the closet and under the bed of his and Anna 's bedroom . Nobody . Anna sleeps through it all . Heather really starting to lose it . Rampaging through the big main room , pushing aside all of Cotter 's huge carousel animals , looking behind those things she ca n't move , dumping things willy - nilly on the floor .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Domini!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter helping Heather open one of the windows in the big room . Looking out on the ledge . Looking down to the sidewalk , five stories below . Nothing .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Fire escape?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Do n't have one.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather screams out the window :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Dominiiiiiiii!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - SOON AFTER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather , Anna and Cotter sit at the table nervously . Heather is literally shaking .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>She would've had to have a key, anyway, to lock the deadbolt behind her.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Well, she got out of here some - how because she's not here!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Parents. She might've called -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather on the phone .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Taos, New Mexico. The Sheriff's Office, please. thank you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She hangs up . Picks back up . Punches in a number in a blur . Beat . Someone picks up on the other end :</scene_description>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Good morning, Sheriff's Office.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Yes! I need to speak to Sheriff Von Teer.</dialogue>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>He's in a meeting. Could I have him -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- it's urgent!</dialogue>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Could I tell him what it's regarding?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>His daughter, for God's sake - I need to know if he's heard from her this morning.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat on the other line .</scene_description>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>the Sheriff is a widower. They never had any children.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather is struck dumb .</scene_description>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Ma'am?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I'm talking to Taos, New Mexico -</dialogue>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>- yes -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- the Sheriff's Office -</dialogue>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>- yes, Ma'am, can I help you with anything else? -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- his name's Von Teer! His daughter's named Domini! -</dialogue>
    <character>WOMAN'S VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>- thank you for calling -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The line goes dead . The three of them just stand there , staring at each other , petrified . And then Anna walks in the room .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm glad she's dead. She brought the thing that killed my child.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - LATER - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather sits at the table alone , staring at the 8x10 that Cotter made for Domini .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What did you see here that I ca n't see, damnit!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She runs a finger down the length of the blur in the branches .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What is it that scared you so much?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick enters , heads for the blotched , '60s vintage Mr. Coffee maker .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Finally got her back to sleep.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Nick, what you should do is get her back up and get her to a goddamn doctor.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus, you do n't think I know that? You do n't think I've tried? She wo n't fucking go - she wo n't leave this place.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>She's off her fucking rocker -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- I know!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, I know. It's. alright. We're all a little -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- a lot.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Heather.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. Hypothetically.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Shoot.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>You think. there could've been something up in those woods that Anna -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- it's not a could've - there was, Nick. And it fucked up Anna, and did something to Domini, and it caused my father to die, and it's here with us in this place now. And I do n't have one single idea in hell what's going to happen next, just that it's going to happen to one of us. And then the other. And then the other. It's going to get into our brains.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And Heather finally loses it and starts weeping - great wracking sobs . Nick 's a little awkward at first how to comfort her . Finally just starts lightly massaging her neck .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>There's explanations. Rational explanations for everything that's happened. We'll drive ourselves crazy if we keep obsessing on supernatural what - ifs.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>That feels good. Lower - down into my neck.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick moves his hands down - - and somehow the two of them are then guiding his hands down into her blouse , onto her breasts - - and she 's moaning , and grabbing hard onto his hair - - and pulling his whole head down to hers . And their lips and tongues meet , and they 're biting each other like animals - - and his hands are yanking and twisting hard on her breasts , between her legs - - and she 's literally clawing him with her fingernails , drawing blood down the length of his chest - - until she reaches a burgundy - colored mark right at his belt line with tendrils like fingers - - SNAP ! - it 's like someone woke them from a dream . They both look at each other , baffled - what the hell just happened ? But it was n't a dream . Nick 's chest is streaming blood ; there 's blood on Heather 's lips - - matching the color of the mark on Nick 's waist , and the one Heather now sees inside her elbow . They both move away from each other , uncomprehending - and scared .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S BEDROOM - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Nick pacing the floor as Anna lies in bed .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't know what it is, but there is something happening here, and it's starting to scare the living shit out me, and look, I'm just not going to argue the point anymore - you want to stay here, stay, but I've got to get the fuck out of here, and I'm begging you to come with me.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I ca n't.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Then I'm going -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- no, you're not. You love me too much. You do n't want to see them kill me.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK LOFT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cotter 's behind the iMac , screening tape millimeter by millimeter , downing one Coke after another . He 's so caffed - out , both his body and his voice is shaking .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>This could be something right here, do you think it's some - thing, Heather -?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather does n't even look up . She 's just sitting on the broken - backed couch staring at Domini 's 8 `` x10 '' .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- but that could be just a shadow, I think it's a shadow, it's nothing, Heather, do you think it's nothing -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and he just keeps prattling on oblivious , eyes fixed on the tape moving at a snail 's pace in front of him .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>It's about the tree, it's something about the tree.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She puts it down on a cushion and snatches up the dog - eared copy of the `` Blair Witch Dossier . '' Easily flips to the page Domini showed her : Elly Kedward trussed in the wagon in the woods . Flips backwards in the book , looking for something -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- the goddamn tree, Domini, for chrissake, what?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then she stops on the page that shows the anthropology students ' sketch of the Parr foundation ; the skinny little sapling in the middle - - then back to the woodcut of Elly Kedward in the woods - - then back to Domini 's photo of the foundation - the huge tree -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Same trees. They took Elly Kedward out to the same kind of trees.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( still oblivious . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- I look and look in the tree, all I ever see, he's always there watching, that stupid owl, over and over -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- Cotter, where can I get on - line?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- anywhere, anywhere, all up and live, all the time - fucking owl -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather slips in front of one of Cotter 's PC 's . TIME CUT TO Heather on - line , in the middle of Blair Witch Chat Room , typing :</scene_description>
    <character>WICCA GIRL</character>
    <dialogue>anybody know where tree is they tied Elly Kedward?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat . And then a response .</scene_description>
    <character>COFFIN ROX</character>
    <dialogue>Black Hills</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather responds , types :</scene_description>
    <character>WICCA GIRL</character>
    <dialogue>thanx - anybody know where? in Hills</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat . Response :</scene_description>
    <character>TREACLE-TREACLE-LITTLE-EILEEN</character>
    <dialogue>My two cts? By Rusty Parr's house hadda be that close how else could she whisper into his ear?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather stops typing ; absorbs this .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Cotter?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Fucking owl!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You think it's possible the tree in the Parr foundation is the same one they tied Elly Kedward to?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>No idea - goddamitt!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And then suddenly another response appears in the Chat Room :</scene_description>
    <character>COFFIN ROX</character>
    <dialogue>Check BW Cult book, 1809 - they have full account</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather grunts . Types back :</scene_description>
    <character>WICCA GIRL</character>
    <dialogue>1 copy in exist. you got it?</dialogue>
    <character>COFFIN ROX</character>
    <dialogue>no just seen it</dialogue>
    <character>WICCA GIRL</character>
    <dialogue>where</dialogue>
    <character>COFFIN ROX</character>
    <dialogue>one of us</dialogue>
    <character>WICCA GIRL</character>
    <dialogue>if you're out there and got it anybody, contact me this mailbx urgent</dialogue>
    <character>COFFIN ROX</character>
    <dialogue>location described pretty good in section bout first boys disappeared afer Elly dies - James Kurth &amp; another kid</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather stops typing . To herself :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Boy Kurth.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Heather, does that look like Domini there?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather does n't look up from her screen . Impatient , trying to put pieces that do n't fit together .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Where?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Down there in the Park.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks up . Cotter is looking down through the big room 's huge windows ; he 's waving to someone . Heather gets up . Slowly peers over the loft railing . Squints . HEATHER 'S POV A stark - naked Domini is standing in Druid Hill Park . Looking up at them .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DRUID HILL PARK - JUST AFTER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather and Cotter 's pace slows drastically as they try and navigate the overgrown pathways inside the Park . The flora is dense below and above - moonlight barely penetrates where they 're walking .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Domini?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter puts a finger to her lip . Whispers :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Not the place you want to announce your arrival.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>How's she going to know where to -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- things got a way of finding you here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They walk .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>It's freezing.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Next time try putting on shoes -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- the two of them stop dead in their tracks . Through the thicket ahead of them they can see a clearing . Illuminated by the moon is what appears to be an old WOODEN OX CART with SNOW drifted up nearly to the hubs of its wheels . HEATHER AND COTTER are suddenly so cold they can see their breath in the air .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck -?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- I do n't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He grabs her hand and pulls her through the thicket . They enter THE CLEARING the snow is now gone . Where the cart was is now just a stack of rotting cut brush . A clean - up effort someone must have started , then abandoned . Heather and Cotter stare at each other , baffled - and not a little afraid .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>The moon trying to shoot down through all these trees - can make things funky -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- I saw what I saw.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Me too.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>The cart they brought Elly Kedward into the woods with -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- into the Black Hills with - 200 - something miles from here -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- Domini!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They both see it at the same time : A NAKED WHITE BODY face down at the base of a tree . Heather races over , kneels down next to it .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, Jesus, what happened, are you -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and Heather lets out a screech . The face of the body reveals an ELDERLY MALE . Filthy , tongue lolling black out of its mouth . He 's been dead for some time .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Be it still alive, James?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather turns - A PACK OF LITTLE BOYS wild - eyed and wielding sticks , RUSH AT HEATHER -</scene_description>
    <character>BOY #1</character>
    <dialogue>- then finish the job, lads!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Heather screeches again , throws up her arms to protect herself -</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Jesus!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks up : Cotter 's lying on the ground , holding his bleeding forehead .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck you do that for?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks at her hand . She 's clenching a sharp stick in it . The Little Boys are gone . The body of the Dead Man is not .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I did n't.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She grabs his hand , pulls him up . They start running .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S KITCHEN - LATER THAT NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather and Cotter at the table , still out of breath and shaking , as they tell Nick what happened .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- and one of the little boys, his name was James. As in the boy James Kurth - the first child to disappear from the town of Blair after they banished Elly Kedward.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A look of alarm comes to Nick 's face . But he says nothing .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I dunno it's anything. It's a name Anna's mentioned - from her dreams.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I ca n't handle this anymore.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He produces a large , thick spliff and torches it up . Big hit , and passes it to Heather , who takes an even bigger one .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>How much of that stuff you guys been smoking?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Enough to keep sane.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Enough to make shapes and shadows in the dark into something else.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Spare me.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, chemicals, fear, sleep - deprivation - and a round - the - clock obsession with the occult - hell've a recipe for a mind - fuck.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Except we seem about 18 times more together than you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather spit - takes a lung - full of smoke .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I'd strongly advise you to join us -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- before you lose your emotional lunch.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <parenthetical>( shrugging . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Yeah, what the hell.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He takes the joint , sucks in mightily -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Atta boy -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then the whole kitchen seems to explode - - GLASS and MULLIONS from the big window in the room come hurtling in shards at them - - and then when the noise finally stops , and the flying debris has all hit the floor , they all look down and see : ON THE PEELING LINOLEUM A HORNED OWL broken and bleeding from its header through the window . Spasming , and then dying . Eyes wide , staring up at them . No one says a word . They just look at it .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK-LOFT - LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A lot of chairs , but nobody 's sitting down . Cotter , Heather and Nick all look like their nerves are fraying down to bare wire .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>We are being fucked with here, someone or something.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Domini.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Why in the world would she -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- why in the world would she just fly the coop in the first place?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Chrissake : why any of this?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I think it's time to get out of here.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Nobody's going anywhere -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- hell, I do n't think I'm ever leaving this place again -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- one of us, all of us - I have no idea - brought whatever this thing is back here. We're not going to go out there and spread it around like Typhoid Mary. We're gon na figure it out, we're gon na bring a goddamn end to it.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Domini's the only logical explanation.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>We're not dealing with fucking logic here!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>It's Domini, it's not Domini, I do n't care - all I know is I'm not dealing with something - anything - snuffing me in my sleep. I want to do what we did in the woods - surveillance of this whole place 24/7, with somebody monitoring those cameras every second. There's something, somebody here, I want to see'em coming.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I thought all your equipment got stolen.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>All the shit that was worth anything, yes. You'd be amazed, though, what you can get free on the ` net.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He opens a desk drawer - there must be a dozen little palm corders in there .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THE LOFT - VARIOUS LOCATIONS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>What Cotter lacks in other equipment , he makes up for with cable : huge SPOOLS of it - and he 's running it from the various tiny vid - cams to a motley bank of monitors he 's set up on the kitchen table . HEATHER duct - tapes one of the little units on the top of a closet door - frame in the hallway . COTTER sees he has an excellent angle on the front door/elevator . ANNA watches half asleep and befuddled in their bedroom as Nick aims a camera on a jerry - rigged broom - handle tripod . COTTER connects the cables in the kitchen - sees Anna and a clear view of the bedroom door . NICK &amp; HEATHER collaborate on installing a camera from Cotter 's work - loft that provides a view of the dark area under the work - loft . Nick lowers the camera on a rope , while Heather guides and supports the cables attached . COTTER watches the camera descend on one of the monitors . Satisfied by the view it 's giving him , he yells :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>That's good! Tie it off!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BACK IN THE WORK - LOFT Nick does so . Ties the rope securely around the loft railing . Ties a slip knot in the loose end and lassoes it over one of the iron beams above to keep it from being a hazard . He has to jump to catch the rope as it comes down again from the beam - - stumbles backwards slightly as he catches it - - hitting the spindly loft railing - - which suddenly SNAPS ! And Nick goes tumbling out into mid - air , the slip - knot in the rope in his hand the only thing keeping him from plummeting 20 feet to the floor below -</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- Jee - zus! -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>COTTER sees it happen on the monitor .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- Christ!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He dashes out of the kitchen . BACK IN THE WORK - LOFT Heather is trying to lift Nick back up by the rope by sheer physical strength she does n't have -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I ca n't do it!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Do n't! You're making me lose my grip.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( O.S . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm coming! I'm coming!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And Cotter comes dashing in with a tall metal step ladder .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Just hold on!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I ca n't!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter splays the ladder open , starts clambering up it .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Just let it go, I've got you!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What're you nuts -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- it's less than four feet, just -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- shit!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick loses his grip - starts falling - - Cotter snatches hold of him as he falls , pinning Nick between the ladder and his torso . The ladder wobbles precariously -</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- do n't move, do n't even breathe -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then the ladder finally comes to a stable rest . Nick is savagely shaken as he slowly climbs down .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Jesusjesusjesus.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ditto Cotter :</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah - please do n't do that again.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A giggle is heard from the doorway to the big room . They all look : ANNA is standing there , laughing with her hand against her mouth like a little child . She sing - songs :</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I could see up your dress.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cotter , Heather and Nick watch the monitors on the table in silence . Drinking coffee . They all look majorly exhausted - but none of them look in any immediate danger of falling asleep . Their eyes dart from monitor to monitor , relievedly seeing nothing - except Anna tossing restlessly in bed . Heather sees that Nick is massaging something on his forearm that 's making him wince . Without a word , she rolls his sleeve up : A wine - colored mark that looks vaguely like a jagged J.</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Gothic rune - the letter `` S.''</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Or a blood blister - or a bruise.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Must be that blue collar life we all lead.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter pulls up his pant leg : two blurry burgundy marks - crescent shapes overlapping each other .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>That's a `` j.''</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>For `` James?''</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Goes right along with these two.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pulls back her hair - where jaw meets neck : two smudgey marks that together look like badly - drawn lowercase `` n `` s.</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Put'em together that's a `` k.'' James Kurth -</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- or Lyme Disease or poison sumac, or God knows what - else we could have picked up in the woods.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You know what we picked up in the woods -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then there 's a sharp knock at the door . All three sets of eyes zoom towards the sound , but no one moves . The knocking grows louder , more insistent . Still , they remain frozen . Frightened . They look at the monitor giving an angle of the door/elevator . Nothing can be seen - just a dark blur in the door 's peephole indicating someone 's standing in the elevator .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Who?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>No one ever comes here.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Have to open the door to find out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The knocking increases , along with muffled shouts of :</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE BEHIND THE DOOR</character>
    <dialogue>Cotter? Cotter?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I'll. go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter gets up and slowly walks to the door . The rapping and shouting increasing in volume with each step . Finally , a deep breath . And then Cotter looks through the peep hole . He sees : SID his Techie friend from the Film Lab glowering back at him .</scene_description>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>I know you're in there, you piece of shit!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( quietly . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You have to go.</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>Not until I get that Beta Cam back! We're both in a world of shit here!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( quietly . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I ca n't.</dialogue>
    <character>SID</character>
    <dialogue>It's my fucking job, man!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>I ca n't let you in.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sid starts knocking again . Cotter walks back to the kitchen . Sits down in front of the monitors . Watches as the knocking continues . Finally stops . The expression on Cotter 's face never changes . TIME CUT TO - THE SAME - SEVERAL HOURS LATER So quiet , so tense , they can hear the clocks ticking all over the loft : 4:10 a.m.</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I should check on Anna.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Check the monitor, she's fine.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>She's far from `` fine.''</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You're needed here - keep watching -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- f ` chrissake, Heather, it's not like the two of us are gon na doze off he leaves for two seconds -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- I do n't trust anybody, not even me, anymore -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- shhhh! # 5, there's something up there!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Their eyes all go to the Monitor with the view of Cotter 's work loft . Beat . They freeze . A slight WHIRRING - then slow WHOOSHING heard . Movement seen in the darkness .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>One of the printers.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter gets up .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>No. We all go.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Anna -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- fuck Anna!</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <parenthetical>( V.O . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No, you -</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THE WORK LOFT - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cotter handing a sheaf of print - outs to Heather .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- it's for you. Came through email. How it started printing without a command, though -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks up at them in astonishment ; dithered :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- it's the `` Blair Witch Cult'' - a copy - some pages from - one of them on the site must've gotten my message -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- who?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Does n't say - it's just these pages.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She tries to make out the ancient , smeared scrawls of this nearly 200 year old book .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <parenthetical>( reading . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>`` taken by the witch as they were marked by her - first Jamie Kurth when the stain appeared on his brow that next summer -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- the next page is illegible , Heather flips forward :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>`` for t ` was said he and Jon Edmunds and other boys who found Elly Kedward still on her tree in the snow. Poking her with sticks finding her still living. Taking her bonds and noosing them to her neck, hanging her from her tree until she perished.''</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks up at the others in wide - eyed .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>That's the little boys. Elly Kedward did n't die from `` exposure'' out there : she was executed.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>( resumes reading . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>`` Killing Elly Kedward, but not the witch herself, who floated from the mortal husk -''</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks up ; she echoes Domini 's words :</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>`` It's why the witch kills children.''</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I thought all witches were benign and good.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Not this one.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NICK AND ANNA'S BEDROOM - LATER THAT NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather tries to rouse Anna in bed .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>I need you to talk to me, talk to me about the dreams - about James, the other boys.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't. I do n't understand them myself.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Try, please, Anna -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- bad boys, mean boys, cowardly boys - just like Domini.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What do you mean?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>A coward too. That's why she had to go.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What happened to her, where did she go?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Do n't know - just that she was afraid -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- Anna -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anna winces .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>What, are you alright?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>My eye, is there something in my eye?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather looks .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Not that I can see.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Closer. Lift the lid and look - it hurts.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather lifts Anna 's eyelid , gets close to her face and looks .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Closer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And Anna gently guides Heather 's face down . Begins stroking it . And the next thing Heather knows , her body is gravitating towards Anna 's . She 's kissing her , stroking and fondling her as Anna guides her fingers . Pulling down the covers , guiding Heather down the length of her body to - - a spot on the mattress between Anna 's legs that 's soaked solid with fresh , gleaming blood . Heather yanks herself away , now seeing that the entire mattress is blood - covered . Runs from the room .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heather stares at her face in the mirrored surface of a toaster . Blood blots on her cheek - vaguely in the shape of little palm prints . She 's hyperventilating as she tells Cotter .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Remember. what Mary Brown said - she could see the witch's hands on my face, her mouth sucking on mine.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Anna's the witch.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nick enters .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck's going on here?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Does she have marks, Nick - like the ones we have, that Domini had?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Does she, goddamnit?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Not that I've seen - but that has no meaning - that means nothing.</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Why was she exempted, Nick?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe whatever they are, they just have n't appeared yet on her?</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You really believe that?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>It's possible for chrissake -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- the marks appear, then you disappear. Like the little Kurth boy, like Domini, as soon as they come to full bloom - and mine are!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pulls down her blouse - the marks on her neck have grown - they are the size of - and very clear image of - the palm - prints of a child , ringing around Heather 's neck as if strangling her .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Mine, too. And so are yours, pal.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He points to Nick 's exposed midriff - the stains have spread up from his waist into his abdomen -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Like a blueprint for disembowelment.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>There are other explanations! She is not the goddamn witch, that's insane!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Then just give me one of your explanations that all three of us'll buy.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I do n't.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- and then Nick hears giggling . His eyes and everyone 's eyes go to one of the video monitors : THE BIG ROOM of the loft . Where they see Anna twirling round and round on her tip - toes , laughing , as though she were simultaneously being hanged and looking up the dress and giggling at the person being hanged . Now even Nick looks petrified .</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THE LOFT - VARIOUS LOCATIONS - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The Big Room . Nick enters on the run .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I want to see something!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever you want.</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>The clothes - take'em off - I want to see every square inch -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- no, what's wrong with you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>HEATHER &amp; NICK Watch on the monitor : Nick showing the huge mark on his torso .</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Are you marked like this?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>I see for proof positive you're the goddamn witch -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anna dashes from the room . AT THE ELEVATOR Heather grabs her , as Anna 's trying to open the door to escape . The recorded dogs start barking madly .</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>You killed Domini, did n't you, witch?</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not a witch, you're all crazy!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anna runs panicked into the kitchen - and right into Cotter . He grabs her by the arms .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Just say you are - we wo n't hurt you -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Heather runs in behind her -</scene_description>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- we'll just make you go away, so you ca n't hurt anyone else -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Nick enters the kitchen -</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>- like you hurt the baby -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- what're you saying? I did n't have anything to do with -</dialogue>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>- the witch kills children -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>I have n't killed any -</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>- Jamie Kurth, Jonathan Edmunds -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <parenthetical>( in terror . )</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>- my God, Nick?</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Just say the words, Anna.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She tries to dodge Nick and get back to the elevator , he cuts her off . Ditto , the other direction and Heather - - Anna sprints up the stairs -</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COTTER'S WORK-LOFT - JUST AFTER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>- and finds she 's got nowhere to go but down - 20 feet worth of down . And Nick , Heather and Cotter are closing in on her from the stairs .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Please! Please? I have n't done anything.</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Bullshit! Talk!</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Nick!</dialogue>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Out of my hands.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter barges past them all , grabs the tope that Nick dangled from the loft space with -</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>What're you doing?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>- Cotter throws the slip - knot loop around her neck .</scene_description>
    <character>COTTER</character>
    <dialogue>Hang you like the witch you are, unless -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- Nick!</dialogue>
    <character>HEATHER</character>
    <dialogue>Confess!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cotter tightens the rope .</scene_description>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>Alright! Fuck you, fuck all of you! I'm her.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Heather grabs the vid - cam from the railing and starts recording her :</scene_description>
    <character>NICK</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, Jesus, no -</dialogue>
    <character>ANNA</character>
    <dialogue>- fuck your bullshit pieties! You were the next to die, asshole! PAGE 102 IS MISSING FROM THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT/EXT. VARIOUS LOCATIONS - DAYS FOLLOWING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A dizzying montage of video `` real '' footage much like the opening of the film . TV Reporters telling us that `` once again , like Columbine and `` Basketball Diaries , '' life has imitated violent art . In this case , the Blair Witch Project , '' where , yesterday obsessed fans of the film performed ritualistic murder - '' Nick , Heather and Cotter seen : in cuffs , being led into the Baltimore Police Station . Seen : grainy static - cam of them being interrogated . Seen : news - film of the inside of the Loft - where Anna was found `` murdered . '' And then a closet where an unidentified nude woman was found similarly `` executed . '' The News camera zooms in on the nude body of Domini crumpled in that closet , visible rope burns on her neck . Seen : Nick 's confession . That Anna admitted to being The Evil . Seen : the footage Heather shot of Anna `` confessing . '' But all the police and we see is Anna with a rope around her neck , pleading to Nick , Heather and Cotter not to kill her : `` I have n't done anything ! Why are you doing this ? Please , God - '' END</scene_description>
  </scene>
</script>
In November 1999, tourists and fans of The Blair Witch Project descend on the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland, where the film was set. Local resident Jeff, a former psychiatric patient and obsessed fan, orchestrates a group tour of locations featured in the film. Among the group are graduate students Stephen and his pregnant girlfriend, Tristen, who are researching mythology and mass hysteria; Erica, the Wiccan daughter of an Episcopal minister; and Kim, a goth psychic. They camp for the night in the ruins of Rustin Parr's house, where Jeff has placed surveillance cameras, hoping to capture supernatural occurrences. Jeff becomes unnerved when he notices a large tree located in the center of the house's foundation, claiming it was not there before. That night, another tour group arrives to camp at the ruins, but are misdirected to Coffin Rock by Jeff and Stephen. After drinking and smoking marijuana all night, the group awaken in the morning to find Stephen and Tristen's research documents shredded and strewn through the woods, and Jeff's cameras destroyed; his damaged tapes are uncovered beneath the house's foundation. Tristen suffers a miscarriage, and they rush her to the Burkitsville hospital. In her hospital room, Tristen sees a young girl walking backward. After she is discharged, the group retreat to Jeff's home, an industrial building that was once a factory. While Tristen rests, the group review Jeff's tapes, which uncover an image of Erica circling around a tree, nude. Distraught, Erica claims she has no memory of such event, and goes to pray in another room. When Kim tries to console her, Erica reveals rash-like symbols covering her body, and proclaims the group has been marked for death. Kim borrows Jeff's van to pick up coffee and alcohol in town. At the country store, she gets into an argument with the cashier. While driving away, she swerves to avoid a group of children in the road, and crashes the van into a tree, denting the fender. The children disappear when she exits the van. Later, Kim finds a bloody nail file stuck among the bottles of beer she purchased. The following morning, Jeff looks outside and sees the front end of his van entirely caved in, to the point that it is undriveable; Kim insists that the accident was minor. The group realize Erica is absent, and search the house. They attempt to call her father at his office but are told by his secretary that he has no children. Meanwhile, Tristen's disposition grows increasingly bizarre. The county sheriff, Cravens, calls Jeff, informing him the other tour group was found disembowled on Coffin Rock, and threatens him. Later while searching through a drawer, Kim finds a set of surveillance dossiers on herself and the others. She confronts Jeff, but he denies knowing the source of them. Shortly after, the group discovers Erica's corpse in a closet. Tristen begins chanting about widdershins and speaking backwards; this leads Kim to suggest they play Jeff's tapes in reverse. Upon doing so, they find the footage shows the high and drunken group descending into a demonic ritual and frenzied orgy led by Tristen, culminating in the murder of the other tour group at Coffin Rock. When they confront Tristen, she alternately pleads and goads them; Jeff, convinced Tristen is possessed by the Blair Witch, begins filming the confrontation, attempting to elicit a confession in Erica's death. The three follow Tristen to the second floor, where she ties a rope around her neck and taunts Stephen, daring him to push her. In a fit of rage, he pushes her over the balcony, killing her. Later, Jeff, Stephen, and Kim are arrested and interrogated by police. Each claim that a possessed Tristen was responsible. Their accounts are contradicted by various video footage: Security cameras captured Kim murdering the store cashier with her own nail file, while Jeff's home monitors show him, nude, hiding Erica's body in the closet; the DV footage Jeff filmed during Tristen's confrontation shows her pleading for her life as they accuse her of being a witch, ending in Stephen pushing her to her death. Later, funeral mourners arrive up in the woods to remember the other tour group that was murdered.