: Don’t touch me!!
(A piercing scream from HAYNES comes from the basement. EMMA and FRANK freeze. Long pause)
EMMA
: (
heavy whisper
) What was that?
FRANK
: Don’t go down there.
EMMA
: I’m not going down there.
FRANK
: It’s a trap.
EMMA
: Frank—how did this happen? How could this be happening to us? We were living so—
FRANK
: We weren’t paying attention, Emma. We let things slip right past us. I should’ve known the minute he called me from Rocky Buttes—
EMMA
: Don’t say that name!
FRANK
: What?
EMMA
: That name—you shouldn’t be tossing that around. It’s top secret.
FRANK
: Is that what he told you?
EMMA
: Who?
FRANK
: Graig.
EMMA
: I thought he was your friend.
FRANK
: So did I.
EMMA
: Maybe they’re in this together—the two of them. A conspiracy.
FRANK
: No.
EMMA
: Why not? He sends Haynes out here to soften us up; then he steps in for the kill.
FRANK
: Kill? Who? Mr. Welch?
EMMA
: Yes.
FRANK
: Mr. Welch is a righteous man!
(Another sharp scream from HAYNES out of the basement. FRANK and EMMA freeze.)
EMMA
: One of us has to go down there.
FRANK
: That’s just what they want, Emma. That’s exactly what they want.