Carol Anne Freeling: They're here.
Tangina: There is no death. There is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness. Carol Anne is not like those she's with. She is a living presence in their spiritual earthbound plane. They are attracted to the one thing about her that is different from themselves - her life force. It is very strong. It gives off its own illumination. It is a light that implies life
and memory of love and home and earthly pleasures, something they desperately desire but can't have anymore. Right now, she's the closest thing to that, and that is a terrible distraction from the *real* light that has finally come for them. You understand me?
[Diane shakes her head]
Tangina: These souls, who for whatever reason are not at rest, are also not aware
that they have passed on. They're not part of consciousness as we know it. They linger in a perpetual dream state, a nightmare from which they cannot awake. Inside the spectral light is salvation, a window to the next plane. They must pass through this membrane where friends are waiting to guide them to new destinies. Carol Anne must help them cross over, and she will only hear her mother's voice.
Now... hold on to yourselves.
[brief pause]
Tangina: There's one more thing. A terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage, so much betrayal. I've never sensed anything like it. I don't know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you. It keeps Carol Anne very close to it and away
from the spectral light. It *lies* to her, it tells her things only a child could understand. It has been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply *is* another child. To us, it is the Beast.
[long pause]
Tangina: Now, let's go get your daughter.
Steve Freeling: [shouting in Teague's face] You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why? Why?
Tangina: Help me tie this around my waist.
Diane Freeling: What do you think you're doing?
Tangina: I'm going in after her.
Diane Freeling: She won't come to you. Let me go.
Tangina: You've never done this before.
Diane Freeling: Neither have you.
[pause]
Tangina: You're right. You go.
Carol Anne Freeling: [burying the canary, Carol Anne says a prayer] Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Dana Freeling: [sarcastically] Oh brother!
Diane Freeling: [to Dana] Stifle it.
Carol Anne Freeling: If I shall die before I wake...
Dana Freeling: [whispers
to Diane] It did.
Carol Anne Freeling: ...I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Carol Anne Freeling: [puts a twizzler in the Tweety's coffin] For when he's hungry.
Carol Anne Freeling: [puts a picture in Tweety's coffin] For when he's lonely.
Carol Anne Freeling: [puts a piece of cloth in Tweety's coffin] For when it's bedtime.
[breaks down in tears in Mom's arms]
Tangina: Y'all mind hanging back? You're jamming my frequency.
Dr. Lesh: Would your family welcome a serious investigation of these disturbances by someone who can make firsthand observations?
Steve Freeling: Look, Dr. Lesh. We don't care about the disturbances, the pounding and the flashing, the screaming, the music. We just want you to find our little girl.
Diane Freeling: She just moved through me. My God. I felt her. I can smell her. It's her. It's her. Smell my clothes. It's her. She's all over me. It's her. She's on me. It's her. I felt her. It's her. It is. It's... it is... it's my baby. It's my baby. She went through my soul.
Tangina: [offscreen upstairs] Why is this door locked, Mr. Freeling?
[Steve Freeling closes his eyes, clasps his hands, and appears to be concentrating for several seconds]
Diane Freeling: [quietly] Answer her, Steven!
Steve Freeling: [sotto voce] I *am*.
Tangina: [steps out to the top of the stairs] I
am addressin' the living!
Steve Freeling: I'm sorry. Sorry. That's the room my son and daughter used to occupy.
Dr. Lesh: We believe it's the heart of the house.
Tangina: This house has many hearts.
[Tangina steps away from the stairtop. Diane approaches Steven]
Diane Freeling: [quietly] What is
the matter?
Steve Freeling: [with laughter] "What's the matter"?
Steve Freeling: [he composes himself, whispers] I was trying to answer her with my mind and she couldn't hear me.
Steve Freeling: [to Dr. Lesh, whispering even softer] Now, I thought you said this Tangina Barrons was an *extraordinary*...
Tangina: I *am*!
Steve Freeling: ...clairvoy...
Tangina: [steps out again] I just don't like trick answers.
Diane Freeling: Ahhh... this is probably going to be seem a little strange. We hear better on this channel. Don't ask me why. Well... ah... I guess I will call her. Carol Anne. Ah... it's mommy, sweetheart. Ah, we want to talk to you. Please answer me, baby. Please answer me. Please talk to me, bunny.
Marty: Look at the dog.
Diane
Freeling: Are you with us now? Can you... can you say hello to daddy?
Carol Anne Freeling: Hello, daddy.
Steve Freeling: Hello, sweet pea.
Diane Freeling: It's mommy, sweetheart.
Carol Anne Freeling: Hello, mommy.
Diane Freeling: Hello, baby. Can you see me? Can you see
mommy?
Carol Anne Freeling: Mommy? Where are you? Where are you?
Diane Freeling: We're home, baby. We're home. Can you find me? Can you find a way to us, baby?
Carol Anne Freeling: Mommy, where are you? I can't find you. I can't. I'm afraid of the light, mommy. I'm afraid of the light.