Dead of Night (45)

It's not the house that's supposed to be haunted.  It's the people
that go in it.  That's the legend, anyway.
I've heard stories about this house.
They say it's a spiritual channel of some kind.
A portal to the afterlife.
A port hole somewhere.  Never seen anything like a ghost in there.
But I got a clear conscience.  No spook bugging me.  I think, anyhow.
  -- Carl, Nick and Tracy

So I'm guessing you're not much of a believer in ghosts.
I'll take the fifth on that one.
  -- Tracy and Nick

I'll check around down here, and hey, Nick, if I see anything weird,
I'll scream.
  -- Tracy

Nicholas....
Well, it looks pretty cut and dried to me.  Railing broke. In highly
technical terms, he fell, he died.  You know, if I didn't know you better, 
I'd say this place frightens you.
Yeah, just keep it between us, okay?
  -- Alyssa, Nick and Natalie

Dr. Lambert, I need you to sign the crime scene duty roster.
Sure...that takes me back.  Natasha.  My grandmother used to call me
Natasha.
Excuse me, Doc?
Your name...uh, never mind.  It's all right.  Thanks.
  -- Cop and Natalie

Officer, did you see a young woman standing by my car?  Just now?
No.
  -- Nick and Cop

Nick, there was a little girl sitting right here!  Didn't you see her?
No.  No, I didn't see anything.  You okay?
Yeah.  Forget it.
  -- Tracy and Nick

Of course, its haunted.  Shirelle can attest, can't you sweetheart?
She's had encounters there.  In the dead of night.
With ghosts?
Ghosts are merely people without bodies, detectives.  Very much like
us.  They share our same need for answers to burning questions.  Many
seek justice where none was rendered in life.  Kessel house is a
reverse medium, if you will, through which the dead come to the living
for closure.  I've been an afficionado of the occult and paranormal
all my life and I've never come across anything quite like it.
  -- Odgen, Tracy and Nick

Did Gefford Weintroff believe that Kessel house was haunted?
Well, I know he didn't yesterday.
  -- Tracy and Ogden

This is such an awful place, Natasha.
Yeah, you're telling me.....
Natasha, why you don't come see me in hospital?  Why you don't come
say Dasvedana?
  -- Nana and Natalie

I don't believe in ghosts, but I know foul play when I see it.  Look,
Nick, the guy went over the railing with sufficient force to pull it
down. 
Yeah, that's right.
Well that tells me he was pushed.  We're not focusing here, people.
I don't know how I missed that one.
  -- Reese, Nick and Tracy

Please, tell me you found something. 
Well, I did finish the prelim, and I'm going to say that, actually, I
think that I'm going to say that it was uh...
Accidental?
  --  Reese and Natalie

You okay?
Yeah, yeah, never better.  Maybe just a little overcaffeinated.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Something you people should know about me.  I hate when people get
away with murder on my watch.  Now, we're gonna take a fresh look at
this thing with the idea firmly in mind that this was a homicide!
Okay!  Sleep on it.
  -- Reese

Nicholas... You said we'd be together forever.
Alyssa...
Your wife.
  -- 

Say you remember.  Please.  Say you remember how I loved you.
  --

Do you, Alyssa Von Linz, promise to love, cherish, honor, and obey this man
who will today be your husband?
I do.
In sickness, in health, forever without condition?
Without condition.
Do you sir, also take this woman as your wife in the eyes of God and church,
to cherish in life, forever and unconditionally.  What say you,
Nicholas de Brabant?
I do.
If any man object whatsoever to this union, let him come forward to
speak, or forever hold his peace.  With authority vested in me by God,
I pronounce you man and wife.  What he has put together, let no man
put asunder.  
  -- Priest, Alyssa, and Nick

TRACY!  HELP ME!
  -- Susan

What's up?
Nick, what if I told you I saw a ghost at Kessel house.
The little girl in the car.
I thought you'd laugh.
No.
When I was little, a friend of mine was killed by a train.  I was
there.  I saw it.  I blame myself.  Last night at Kessel house, that
was her.  And I saw her again outside my window at home.  It was her.
Susan Feldman.
  -- Nick and Tracy

Natasha, why?
Okay, I know your just a figment of my imagination, but please, don't
sneak up on me like that.
I'm sorry, Natashka.
Nana, you've been dead for years.  How can you be here?
I don't know.  I saw you last night, so I followed.  To ask why you
don't come see me in the hospital.
  -- Nana and Natalie

Could be hysteria, hypnotic suggestion, maybe even a hallucenagenic
agent.  I haven't slept in going on in two days.  That could be it, or
I could be just losing my mind.
You're not crazy.  It's happening to me, too.
All right, all right, I saw someone, too.  A woman in the house.  Make
you feel better?  But I'm not prepared to think that a ghost killed
Weintroff.  
Okay, this conversation has officially gone over the deep end!
  -- Natalie, Tracy and Nick

Natalie, when your grandmother came to see you, what did she want?
She wanted to know why I never went to see her while she was dying.
And did you tell her?
No. No I didn't.  Not the real reason.
She'll be back.
  --  Tracy and Natalie

A ghost is an hallucination of some famous regret.  No more.  Ghosts
are mistakes that we have made.  They come not from beyond the pale,
but rise up from our gravest doubts about ourselves.  Each
ill-considered thing that we've done, is a ghost that haunts us...if we
let it.
  -- LaCroix

Are you happy, My lord, Nicholas?
As I've ever been.
We'll be together forever.  Won't we?
For eternity.  Do you remember when I promised that we would be
together forever?  I can give you eternal life.  Alyssa, I am
immortal.  As you will be.  My gift to you.  Alyssa, do you trust me?
Of course, my lord.  With all my heart.
Then close your eyes, and give yourself to me...
  -- Alyssa and Nick

Regret is for the foolish, the weak, the tormented.  Kill it before it
bleeds you dry.
  -- LaCroix

Sorry, Nick, that guy gets under my skin.  
  -- Tracy (about the Nightcrawler)

So, what do you think she wants?  Susan Feldman.  What does she want?
I don't know.  Why don't you ask her.
  -- Tracy and Nick

Something's not right here.
  -- Nick

You know, with all that's been happening lately, if someone were to
suggest to me that he's been scared to death, I might actually believe
it.
  -- Natalie

Did he know who was following him?
It was a dead someone, he said.
These guy's have real flesh and blood enemies.  Stop chasing ghosts,
will you?
I wish they'd stop chasing us.
  -- Reese and NIck

Grandma?  Nana?  You here?  Right, I am completely out of my mind.
  -- Natalie

This is such an awful place, Natasha.  You spend so much time here.
That nice boy Nick, he likes you.  I can tell.  He seems like a very
down to earth fella.
Nana.  Listen to me.  I'm sorry I never came to the hospital.  But I
have to tell you the truth.  I resented you.  Do you remember when I
was a little girl and you used to take care of me?
Yes, I remember.  I hit you.  I hurt you.  Now I know how wrong I
was.  I'm sorry Natasha.  Can you forgive me?
Yes, of course.  I'm sorry, too.
I'm happy now.  I can rest.
Nana, wait!  Please!  You have to tell me, where are you?
I'm sleeping, Natasha.  I'm sleeping in a beautiful dream.
Nana?
  --  Nana and Natalie

Nat?  What's wrong?
She was here.  My grandmother was here again and I told her why I
never went to visit her when she was dying.  She apologized to me.
I've been waiting my whole life for her to apologize.
Maybe you should knock off for a while.
No.  I'm okay. It's okay.  I've almost finished my write up.
Yeah, well if you're sure, I found this outside of Kessel house.  It's
got Weintroff's blood on it.  I was wondering if you could find a cut
or a scratch to match with it.
I'll double check.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Nat?  Are you sure you're going to be okay if, you know, your
grandmother comes back?
She won't be back.  Don't ask me how I know, I just know.  She's
finished here.  We made our peace.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Sleep my love, when you awake, we will be as one forever.
  -- Nick

Alyssa, Alyssa, Alyssa, it's time to wake.  Alyssa?  
Something wrong, Nicholas?  Your love nest reeks of death.
I brought her across!
Life is a fire, Nicholas.  It can be rekindled from the tiniest ember,
as long it is not allowed to become too cold.  This fire is dead.  Oh
well.  Never mind.  It's a subtle art.  Practice will make perfect.
It was your first attempt after all.
LaCroix, help me please!
I can't Nicholas.  I told you.  Don't take too much.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Alyssa, can you hear me?  I want you to understand.  I did love you
very much.  I wanted us to be together, forever.  I'm so sorry.
Nicholas.  I know that what you say is true.  I love you still.  But I
must tell you, because I love you, that you should not have come here.
You are in danger here.  You will die here tonight, and because of
what you have been and done, you will not be with me.  Ever.
  -- Nick and Alyssa

Tracy, there's no such things as ghosts.
  -- Reese

My God!  What does she want?  What am I going to do?
  -- Tracy

You are in grave danger, Nicolas.  
Please forgive me for what I've done!
I do, I forgive you.  I needed to know that you remembered me and what
we had together.
What we almost had.
Seeing you again, gives me a great peace.  You must go now.  Others are
coming.  Some among them bear you ill will.  Souls that you dispatched
from this world that cannot be appeased.  Go now.  Go quickly.
Please, come with me!
I cannot.
Be with me a while longer?
I cannot.  But I can help you.  I know what it is you seek.  Why you
came here.  The answer is here, Nicholas.  Come to me and see.
  -- Alyssa and Nick

Tracy I'm taking you to ER.  I don't like this.
  -- Reese

This is the only place I'll ever see my mother again.  I couldn't let
that happen.
  -- Shirelle

Tracy...Come play we me.  Tracy.  Come with me.
  -- Susan

Halt.  Drop you're weapon now!
Whoa.  Watch where you're pointing that thing.  Hey, little Joe.
What the hell?  Jordan?
Captain, see something?
No.
  -- Reese, Jordan and Nick

So, is your case closed, now?
Boo!  Ah.  You mean my ghost.
You know, you never actually told me who it was.
Someone I loved and lost a long, long time ago.  Someone who needed to
be remembered.
  -- Natalie and Nick

Tell me, Nat, what do you make of all of this?  What we saw?
You mean, what we think we saw?  I don't know.  You know what bothers
me about this, is that each of our ghosts told us the same things.
Things that we subconsciously wanted to hear.
Projections of our own desires, our needs for closure.
Well, I'm not going to go on record saying that I saw a ghost, but if
someone were to ask me If I had some kind of religious experience, I
think I'd have to take the fifth on that one.
  -- Nick and Natalie