"Dr. Barrett?" "My people tell me you're among the best five in your field." "Your fee will be L1 00,000." "Your assignment:" "to establish the facts." "Regarding what?" "Survival after death." "You want" "To know ifit's factual." "What would convinceyou eitherway?" "Give me the facts." "Where can I fi nd these facts?" "In 20 years ofstudy" "You'll fi nd them in the only place where survival hasn't yet been refuted." "The Belasco House." "Hell House?" "Hell House." "The Belascos sealed it up afterwhat happened." "20 years ago." "They need money now." "I've bought the place." "Can you be there Monday?" "Well, can you?" "Yes." "There'll be two others." "Florence Tanner" "Tanner?" "But she's a mental medium." "Yes." "I want that approach employed, too." "She's practically a child." "My people tell me she's the best in her field, too." "And the other one?" "The only survivor from the last attempt." "Fischer?" "I expect an answer within a week." "A week?" "Take it or leave it." "I have a list ofall phenomena recorded at the Belasco House, restoration ofelectricity, transportation of your equipment." "Is that it?" "No." "There's a partially constructed machine." "How long before it's complete?" "Depends on how many electronics experts you use." "How soon will you need it?" "Wednesday." "Good day." "It would be better ifyou didn't come." "But I always come with you." "I don't want to be left alone." "I want to be there when you prove your new theory." "Isn't itjust another so-called haunted house?" "It's the Mount Everest ofhaunted houses." "There were two attempts to investigate it." "Both were disasters." "Eight people died." "Fischerwas the only survivor." "He crawled out a mental wreck." "These are the house keys." "Your luggage and equipment has already been installed." "Electricity's on." "Your rooms are ready." "There's a full larder." "I'll return at 5:00 on the 24th." "Look at the windows." "He had them bricked up so no one could see in." "Or out." "It's hideous." "We're not even insideyet, Miss Tanner." "I don't have to be." "[Trying Light Switch]" "So much for electricity." "There's a generator?" "Yes." "My God, that smell." "The atmosphere in here." "Ofthis world, not the next." "This house... it knows we're here." "Miss Tanner." "Sorry." "I'll keep my observations to myself." "Doyou know where the emergency generator is?" "I hope I didn't disturbyou." "It'sjust that I'm concerned foryou coming here." "Yes, I understand." "I wonder ifyou do." "Just how wealthy was Mr. Belasco?" "I believe he left millions when he died." "Died?" "Ifthere's anything you'd care to tell us..." "What's to tell?" "The house tried to kill me." "It almost succeeded." "That leads to the cellars, Mr. Fischer?" "That's right." "What's through there?" "The chapel." "Chapel?" "Sorry." "I can't right now." "We understand." "Welcome tomyhouse." "I'm delighted youcouldcome." "I'm certainyou will find yourstaymostilluminating." "Think ofme asyour unseenhost..." "Why couldn't Miss Tanner come in?" "Her system is attuned to psychic energy." "Obviously, it's very strong in here." "A church in hell, that sort ofthing." "Why doesn't it affect him?" "Obviously, he protects himself better than she does." "Miss Tanner." "Miss Tanner?" "I'm sure it's nothing." "Areyou?" "Miss Tanner?" "I'm over here." "You shouldn't have done that," "Miss Tanner." "You caused us undue alarm." "I heard a voice in here." "Welcome tomyhouse." "I'm delighted youcouldcome." "I'm certainyou will find yourstaymostilluminating." "Think ofme asyour unseenhost." "Believe thatduring yourstayhere," "Ishallbe withyou in spirit." "Mayyoufind theansweryouseek." "Itis here, Ipromiseyou." "Andnow, aufwiedersehen." "Aufwiedersehen." ""Till we meet again."" "The record wasn't for us." "What made the record go on?" "Belasco said he could will people to a particular object, then move among them unobserved." "I doubt that." "Doyou?" "Our attention was on that a few moments ago." "How doyou know he didn't walk right by us?" "This house hasn't lived up to its reputation so far." "It hasn't taken our measureyet." "Don't consider the house the haunting force." "Quite evidently, the problem is created by multiple surviving personalities." "I take ityou don't believe in survival, Dr. Barrett." "Ifyou mean surviving personalities, you're correct." "We will see." "Indeed we shall." "When was the house built?" "I don't know." "Mr. Fischer?" "1 91 9." "You seem to know a lot about Belasco." "Would you mind sharing it with us?" "His fi rst name was Emeric." "He was born on March 23, 1 879, the illegitimate son ofan American munitions maker." "What did he look like?" "His was a frightening visage, the face ofa demon that had taken on some human aspect." "Areyou quoting?" "Yes, I am." "That is his second wife." "She committed suicide in this room in 1 927." "How tall was he?" "He was 6'5"." "They called him the Roaring Giant." "What did he do to make this house so evil, Mr. Fischer?" "Drug addiction, alcoholism, sadism, bestiality, mutilation, murder, vampirism, necrophilia, cannibalism, not to mention a gamut ofsexual goodies." "Shall I go on?" "How did it end?" "Ifit had ended, we would not be here." "It's about to end, Mr. Fischer." "What happened to Mr. Belasco?" "No one knows." "When relatives ofthe guests had this house broken into in 1 929, they found all 27 ofthem dead." "Belasco wasn't among them." "Ifno one objects," "I'll try a sitting tonight." "I have no objection." "Would you care to sit in the morning, Mr. Fischer?" "I'm not readyyet." "Spirit oflove and tenderness, we gather here tonight to communicate with those who walk this house in torment." "Help us to bridge the chasm ofdeath so faithfully that pain is transformed intojoy, sorrow into peace." "All this we ask in the name ofour Infi nite Father." "Amen." "This is an evil house, a place ofsickness." "Evil!" "Extremes." "Limits." "Terminations and extremities." "I don't know." ""Ifthine eye offend thee..."" "Yes." "Yes." "There is a young man." "Veryyoung." "Says he must speak." "Must speak." "[In Spirit's Voice] I don't knowyou people." "Why areyou here?" "It does no good." "Nothing changes." "Nothing." "Get out or I'll hurtyou." "I can't help myself." "God damn you, you fi lthy sons ofbitches." "God damn you!" "I don't want to hurtyou, but I must, I must." "Get out ofthis house before I kill you all!" "[Pounding]" "You started manifesting physical phenomena." "But I'm not a physical medium." "You werejust now." "The embryo ofone." "I don't understand." "All this time a mental medium, and now this." "The Lord certainly does move in mysterious ways." "So does this house." "Back to normal." "Those pounding noises are a bit unnerving the fi rst time you hear them." "Whywas Miss Tanner so disturbed by that sitting?" "Because she caused physical phenomena." "If Miss Tanner is a mental medium and Mr. Fischer a physical medium, how can you be sure she created those noises, not Fischer?" "I can't." "In fact, I'm not at all sure about Mr. Fischer or Miss Tanner." "Who is it, please?" "You want to speak to me?" "Areyou the one that warned us to get out?" "Yes, it is you, isn't it?" "You must give me some sign." "You're not Belasco, areyou?" "Such a pain would not be in Belasco." "I feel your anguish." "Who areyou?" "Daniel?" "Daniel Belasco." "Very clever." "Ifyou're that clever, why areyou still a prisoner in this house?" "[Weeping]" "Good morning." "Good morning." "You slept well?" "Fine." "And you?" "Yes, verywell, thankyou." "I think I have a partial answer to the haunting, Doctor." "Thatyoung man that warned us during the sitting came to my room last night." "Belasco's son." "Yes." "Daniel Belasco." "He's veryyoung and frightened." "Because he's so frightened, he's very hostile." "IfI convince him to move on, the haunting force will be eliminated." "Do so by all means." "I'd like to suggest another sitting, under scientific conditions this time." "Miss Tanner in apparent trance." "Pulse rate 85, respiration 1 5." "Four electric contacts maintained." "No change in temperature." "Steady at 73.2." "Dynamometer reading decreased to 1 823 now." "Temperature lowering." "Now it's 69.6 degrees." "Pulse rate 94.5 and rising." "Temperature drop now 1 2.3 degrees." "Dynamometer reading reduced to 1 779." "Pressurometer negative." "Electric contacts still maintained." "Rate ofbreath increasing." "50." "57." "60." "Rising steadily." "[Clicking]" "Infrared rays broken." "Cameras activated." "Evidence ofelectromagnetic radiation commencing." "Medium's respiration 21 0." "Dynamometer 1 460." "Temperature..." "[Clicking]" "Evidence ofozone in the air." "Ectoplasm forming." "Separate fi laments exuding from fi ngertips ofboth hands uniting to form two separate strands." "Two strands moving toward each other." "Ectoplasmic stalk through net, moving toward table." "Leave a sample, please." "Leave a sample in thejar." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Hold it." "She's all right." "Miss Tanner coming out oftrance." "Premature retraction ofectoplasm causing brief systemic shock." "Conclusion ofsitting, 2:48 P.M." "I spoiled your sitting, didn't I?" "Not at all." "I couldn't be more satisfied." "Take a look." "What is it?" "A specimen ofthat teleplasm prepared in water." "What the spiritualists refer to as ectoplasm is derived almost entirely from the medium's body, the remainder being admixtures from the air, the medium's costume, fi brous remains, dust particles." "But the bulk is organic living matter, an organic externalization ofthought" "Mind reduced to matter." "She made that figure from herself?" "I was visited by Belasco's son again this afternoon." "Wereyou?" "Will it never end?" "Will what never end?" "Your attitude ofdoubt and distrust." "Why should mediums be expected to perform only under conditions that science dictates?" "We're not machines!" "I'm not a medium for fun." "Doyou think" "I believe mediumship is God's manifestation in man." ""When I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth" ""and thou shalt say unto thee, thus saith the Lord. "" "There's nothing in the Bible that doesn't occur today, be it sights or sounds, coming through closed doors," "Levitations, or the speaking in tongues!" "Miss Tanner," "I don't know what this is about." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "No!" "Mr. Fischer, you must go." "What doyou mean?" "You know." "You're the physical medium." "You're being used." "You're not in control." "You've got to leave!" "Trying to get rid ofus both now?" "What doyou mean?" "Doctor, what doyou mean?" "I would have thought that was obvious." "What is he saying?" "That I'm responsible?" "You're the one who should leave this house." "You're the one who's being used, not me." "Do we have to stay?" "This is important to me." "What ifyou're hurt again?" "I won't be." "I'll see to it!" "Surelyyou noticed how it all ended with a word from her, how I was the only one who was attacked." "I angered her." "You think Miss Tanner was responsible?" "Not unassisted." "There's a lot ofpower in this house, Ann." "She was the one who used it, though." "Directed it at me." "I made a mistake." "I accepted quiet, polite behavior toward me at face value." "You can't do that with a medium." "You never know what's underneath." "[Knock On Door]" "May I speak toyou?" "I'll only be a moment." "Wereyou badly hurt?" "I'll manage." "I know what happened now, Doctor." "It was Belasco's son." "He's trying to separate us." "We're less ofa challenge that way." "I'll sit foryou tomorrow." "There'll be no further sittings." "You can't stop them now!" "I'm doing so." "You don't think I did all that?" "I know it!" "Please." "I'm in considerable pain." "Doctor, I am not responsible." "It was Belasco's son." "Miss Tanner!" "There is no such person." "You're wrong." "Lionel?" "[Moaning]" "[Moaning]" "Lionel!" "Lionel!" "Where areyou going now?" "To look for something." "Proofthat Belasco's son existed?" "I'm sorry ifI insulted you before." "Mrs. Barrett." "Mrs. Barrett!" "You... me... that girl..." "Lionel... all together... naked... drunk... clutching... sweating... biting..." "Aah!" "You..." "You were walking in your sleep." "Mrs. Barrett." "[Voices]" "[Voices]" "Daniel, I've found you." "[Chain Rattles]" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "What is it?" "What happened?" "Daniel Belasco." "I've found him." "Well, I'm not imagining it." "He attacked me." "Did I imagine this?" "He's in there behind the wall." "'Ashes toashes, dust to dust." ""OLord, we beseech Thee" ""mercifully toreceive" ""theprayers ofThypeople" ""andgrant that theymayknow that which they ought to do. "" "Florence." "Florence." "Is thatyou?" "Help me, Florence." "Why?" "Why?" "You should have gone on." "You're my onlyhope." "Your bodywas buried." "I prayed foryou." "Please, Florence." "No." "You have to go." "You've been given your release." "Youare my onlyhope." "You must go on." "Youare my onlyhope, Florence." "What does he want?" "No." "I can't." "Please, Florence." "No." "I can't." "No!" "[Door Opens]" "[Hiss]" "What in the name ofGod?" "[Cat Screeches]" "Aah!" "[Screech]" "Oh!" "Aah!" "[Hiss]" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "[Screech]" "Florence." "Florence." "[Whimpering]" "Doctor." "Miss Tanner's been hurt again." "Where is she?" "She's in her room." "She's been bitten and scratched." "How did it happen?" "I don't know." "A cat, I think." "A cat?" "It was possessed by Daniel Belasco." "Would you like me to examineyou?" "This will prevent infection." "I'm all right." "I knowyou think" "It doesn't matter what I think." "What matters is your being mauled." "I'm all right." "I wonder ifthat is so." "Shouldn'tyou leave?" "No!" "I'm not leaving now." "I'd be failing in my duty ifI didn't warn you to leave." "I don't wantyou to be anothervictim of Hell House." "He's right, you know." "You should leave." "You're being torn to pieces." "You don't think I'm doing this to myself?" "Ofcourse I don't." "You say it's Daniel Belasco, but what if you're wrong?" "What if you're being fooled?" "Fooled?" "Daniel Belasco does exist." "We found his body." "We laid him to rest." "Why is he not at rest?" "I think I know." "Controlled multiple haunting." "Something unique in haunted houses." "A surviving will so powerful that he can use that power to dominate all other surviving sources." "You mean Emeric Belasco?" "He's the one that's kept me from the chapel." "He made it seem as if Daniel possessed the cat." "He's the one that's keeping Daniel's soul imprisoned here." "He's like a general with his army" "Never entering the battle, but always controlling it." "Just what haveyou been doing," "Mr. Fischer?" "Hmm?" "Haveyou been drinking?" "I don't think that's any ofyour business, although I do think it's a very good idea." "Come on." "No." "You come on." "Mrs. Barrett." "Yes..." "Ben?" "You should not leave your husband alone." "Oh, I think he's all right." "He's sleeping." "Mrs. Barrett, you must go back upstairs." "Did you know that this was where it all happened?" "Where all what happened?" "All that debauchery and vice." "Right here." "Right around this very table." "Mrs. Barrett, you don't know whatyou're saying." "Oh, yes, I do." "I know exactly what I'm saying," "Mr. Fischer." "Mr. B.F. Fischer." "Mrs. Barrett, it's this house." "It's making you" "This house isn't doing anything." "I'm doing it." "Touch me, or I'll fi nd somebodywho will!" "No!" "No!" "Oh." "I knowyou won't forgive me...now." "I know what I did." "I'd give anything to undo it." "I just don't know why I went down those stairs." "I knew what I was doing." "I knew, but at the same time..." "I'm not asking you to forgive me, but please, please don't hate me." "I need you." "I loveyou." "I just don't understand what's happening to me." "I just don't understand." "It's all right." "It'll pass after we've left this house." "I loveyou, too." "Doctor, I think yourwife is in danger." "Mr. Fischer." "It was not her fault." "Please, Mr. Fischer." "This is a matter oflife and death." "She walked down here last night." "When?" "Near midnight." "You were asleep." "So was she." "She walked in her sleep?" "Yes." "You should have told me." "No, Doctor." "She should have." "The fact that she didn't..." "I don't thinkyou know what's going on in this house." "What I think is irrelevant." "What the hell doyou mean by irrelevant?" "Whatever is getting atyourwife has already gotten to Miss Tanner and toyou." "You're blocking yourselfoff completely." "Mr. Deutsch is wasting a third ofhis money." "You're blockingyourselfoff completely." "Blockingyourselfoff completely." "Iam notblocking anything." "I'mjustnot sticking myneck out the way Ididin 1953." "Aaah!" "Aaaaaaahhh!" "Uh!" "Uh!" "Uh!" "Eee!" "[Knock On Door]" "Ben?" "I've been think" "Give up." "Give up?" "What's happened?" "I thought we trusted each other." "I don't trust anyone or anything." "Anyone who does in this house is a fool." "Something has happened." "Lots ofthings." "Nothing we can't handle." "Wrong." "There is nothing in this house that we can handle." "That's not true." "We've made wonderful progress." "Toward what?" "Our graves?" "Daniel and the way Belasco works." "Daniel!" "Daniel!" "Daniel!" "Daniel!" "How doyou know he ever existed?" "The body." "How doyou know that he isn't a figment ofyour imagination?" "How doyou know his personality isn't what you made ofit ?" "I know I'm right." "We knew we were right in 1 953." "Grace Lauter, a successful medium for" "For 20 years." "Shejumped off the balcony, and she shattered both her legs." "Dr. Graham... physicist." "He crawled out ofthis house... to die." "Professor Rand, head of the chemistry department at the University ofOxford... paralyzed." "Professor Fenley... psychic investigator... crippled and insane to this day." "Yes, uh..." "You're right." "I am obstructing." "You're quite right." "I'm shut off." "I am going to stay shut off until I am far away from this place." "I am going to collect my L1 00,000, and I am never going to come within 1 ,000 miles ofthis house for as long as I live, and I suggest you do the same." "Ben." "[Water Running]" "Huh!" "Aah!" "Can I do anything to help?" "I'm afraid not." "It'sjust too complicated." "Thanks all the same." "What's it going to do, Lionel?" "You've heard me talk about a power in this house." "It's a real power, Ann, a field of measurable energy." "Energy that can be reversed." "That's what I'm going to do." "By this time tomorrow," "Hell House will be de-energized." "You'll see." "[Clapping]" "That pile ofjunk you have isn't going to do a thing." "Get her out ofhere!" "You haven't a chance." "Have you?" "Yes." "I know the score." "You do not fight this house!" "Hell House doesn't mind a guest." "What it doesn't like is people who attack it." "Belasco doesn't like it." "His people will fight back, and they'll kill you." "Leave that machine alone." "When Sunday comes, tell old Deutsch anything and bank the money." "Ifyou try anything else, you will be a dead man." "He won't listen, will he?" "I was the only one to get out ofhere alive and sane in 1 953." "I will be the only one to make it out this time." "He's wrong." "I told you before, what Florence Tanner believes is wrong." "I'm telling you now that Fischer is equallywrong." "Tomorrow, it will be proved." "Florence." "Florence." "Help me." "Please. help me." "[Moaning]" "Love me." "[RoaringAndShrieking]" "Florence." "Florence." "Don'tgo, Florence." "Help me." "Florence, help me." "Help me, Florence." "Help me, Florence." "[Voices Echoing]" "Florence." "Daniel, you must understand." "Whatyou ask is impossible." "I can't." "I believe in you." "I've opened my heart toyou." "Please, help me." "Please, love me." "Florence." "Love me." "No." "No." "Please, help me." "Florence." "Please... help me." "Love me." "Dear God... reach down Your hand and give me Your protection." "Help me this night to bring to Your care the tortured soul of Daniel Belasco." "[Voices]" "I giveyou now the loveyou've never known." "I give it soyou will gain strength to leave this house." "Iloveyou." "And I loveyou." "With love, please, with love." "Hah!" "Oh." "Ah." "Oh." "Oh." "Florence." "Aaahh!" "Aaaaahhh!" "Mm hm hm!" "Florence." "How long haveyou been here?" "All night." "There?" "Stupid." "You could have slept with me." "Who put on my nightdress?" "Mrs. Barrett." "Why didn'tyou do it?" "My God." "He's inside me." "He lied to me." "He said it was the onlyway." "But he's inside me!" "I can feel him just waiting in there to take over." "It will be all right." "I will takeyou out ofhere." "He won't let me go." "He can't stopyou." "He can." "He can't stop me." "[In Spirit's Voice] Who doyou thinkyou are, you bastard?" "You might have been hot stuff before, but nowyou're shit!" "Dear God, help me." "I'm taking her away." "How areyou, Miss Tanner?" "I'm all right." "You needn't come back, Mr. Fischer." "The house will be clear." "Clear?" "How?" "There isn't time for explanation." "Yes, there is." "Florence." "I am not leaving until I know." "All right." "The body emits a form ofenergy invisible to the human eye." "This energy can be expanded far beyond the body, where it can create mechanical, chemical, physical effects, sounds, moving objects like we've experieced." "The energy I talk about is a field of electromagnetic radiation." "E.M.R." "Exactly." "All living organisms emit this energy." "Such power must saturate its environment." "Is it anywonder that Hell House is the way it is?" "Consider the mental and physical energy which is being poured into its interior." "The house is a giant battery, the residual energy ofwhich must be tapped." "We survive with this energy after death." "No, Miss Tanner." "This residue has nothing to do with surviving personalities." "The spirit of Emeric Belasco does not prowl this house." "Neither does his son or any other entities thatyou believeyourself to be in contact with." "There is one thing and one thing only in this house-- mindless, directionless power." "You're wrong, Dr. Barrett." "You cannot destroy a spirit." "All you will do is send it to another hell." "No, Miss Tanner." "I'm right." "My machine will fi ll the house with a massive countercharge ofelectromagnetic radiation, opposing the polarity ofthe atmosphere, reversing, and dissipating it." "And Hell House will be exorcised." "I see." "Well, there's nothing else to do then." "Barrett." "Ah!" "Thank God she didn't know what to smash." "I should be flattered." "Her attack on the reverser was her ultimate tribute." "She knows I'm right." "There was nothing else to do." "That's what she said." "She had to destroy my beliefs before they destroyed hers." "Daniel?" "[Roaring Noise]" "[Crying]" "Aah!" "No!" "[Voices]" "Aah!" "No!" "Aaahh!" "Florence." "Daniel, you must leave before it's too late." "Soon you'll be sent from this hell to another." "Aah!" "Where is Miss Tanner?" "She was lying over there." "Why didn'tyou watch her?" "Ah!" "Oh!" "Florence." "You tricked me." "God help me, you tricked us all." "Ha haha!" "Ah!" "[Humming]" "Quickly." "[Voices]" "You'll have to open yourself to it, Mr. Fischer." "Try, Mr. Fischer." "I guarantee there'll be no trouble." "Well?" "He's startled because there's nothing to pick up." "Is it really over, Lionel?" "Yes." "It's over." "Done with, fi nished." "I can't believe it." "I know." "Doyou mind ifI say I told you so?" "What a pity Miss Tanner died when the answer was so close." "Barrett." "Barrett, the house is clear." "It is completely clear!" "And I called that machine a pile ofjunk." "You better go and get some rest." "I want to check my readings." "[Clicking]" "[Clicking]" "[Beeping]" "[Clacking]" "This is impossible." "I don't accept this." "I do not accept this!" "Lionel?" "Lionel." "Lionel!" "In here." "Lionel?" "Here." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "No!" "No!" "I'm sorry." "Lionel." "Oh, please get me out ofhere." "Please." "I'm not leaving." "I'm going back to the chapel." "No." "No, you can't." "You don't know what it's like in there." "I have to." "You don't." "There is no reason to go back there." "None." "Ann, listen." "I have to." "It's for Florence." "It's foryour husband." "IfI leave Hell House now, mywhole life will be a failure." "You can't solve it." "It cannot be solved." "You're going to die... like Lionel, like Miss Tanner." "Then I will." "It's here." "The entire house is clear except for this one place." "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "Belasco." "That's what the " B" inside the circle means." "She was trying to tell us that it was only Belasco all along." "It isn't mindless, directionless power." "It isn't multiple hauntings." "It's only one." "One entity pretending to be Daniel." "One entity pretending to be many others." "That's where the answer lies." "But what's the key?" "What is the key?" "Extremes andlimits." "Terminations andextremities." "Oh." "Oh, God." "Ofcourse." "That's what she meant." "Extremes." "Limits." "Legs." "Grace Lauter's spine and legs shattered." "Dr. Graham crawling." "Professor Rand, paralyzed." "Professor Fenley, crippled." "Florence's legs crushed." "Your husband's..." ""Ifthine eye offendthee... "" "Oh, yes, yes, yes." "Belasco!" "Whateveryou do, do not interfere." "Belasco." "Here I am." "Destroy me ifyou can." "Don't leave thejob halfdone." "We're here." "I'm here!" "Kill me!" "That's it." "Oh, that's it." "Tell me something, Belasco." "Why didn'tyou ever leave this house when you were alive?" "Why did you despise the sunlight?" "Was it better hiding in the shadows?" "[Whining Noise]" "No one..." "No one could really seeyou then, could they?" "No one could fi nd out your secret then, could they?" "You weren't a genius!" "You were a deviate!" "A sawed-off little bastard!" "[Roaring Noise]" "Your motherwas a bitch!" "A whore!" "You were a bastard!" "A funny little dried-up bastard!" "You're no genius!" "You're no Roaring Giant!" "What size wereyou, Belasco?" "5-foot 2?" "1 ?" "I knowyou weren't even 5-foot tall." "Aah!" "Emeric Belasco." "The Roaring Giant." "Is it clear?" "This is a special moment." "Meet Emeric Belasco." "Your husband did have part ofthe answer." "Florence had part ofit, too." "I fi nally found the last part, that which Belasco's giant ego could not face." "He so despised his own shortness that he cut off his legs and wore those instead to give himselfheight." ""Ifthine eye offend thee, pluck it out."" "Maybe he was a genius after all." "Just because a man preserves his body doesn't make him a genius." "It's not his body ofwhich I'm speaking." "This is why your husband's machine could not destroy his power." "These walls are sheathed with lead." "He built himself a fortress to protect his spirit." "He knew what was coming years before it came." "Your husband and Florence helped us to rid this house of Belasco." "Let us hope that their spirits guide him to everlasting peace." "Belasco."