[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMS IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour, there must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candy Critters.
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters, our favorite show. [MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[SERENE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHILDREN PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
[CLARINET MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[LOCKS DOOR]
Lorna, what are you doing?
Play for me, Mickie.
[SIGHS] What are you talking about?
Play for me, Mickie.
Mickie?
You haven't called me that.
Please.
Practice.
What is it?
[GRUNTS]
Put this away.
Talk to me.
Turn off that record!
[MUSIC STOPS]
[SIGHS]
And who asked you to go digging in my things?
Malcolm, you're in pain.
How would you know?
Huh.
[SIGHS IN EXASPERATION]
I used to know,
we used to be like one person.
I'd like to talk to you tonight.
I have to create a box
to hold 48 cupcakes without crushing them.
So...
What's happened to us?
Nothing.
[SIGHS]
You look tired, why don't you go to bed?
I'll be in later.
[POLICE SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
[CLARINET MUSIC PLAYING]
Mickie?
[CLARINET MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
You were humming.
And a light.
[GRUNT]
Malcolm! What's the matter?
Open up.
[GASPING]
Uh-huh.
Yes.
Fine.
[CHUCKLES] Wonderful.
Are you sure?
Your insurance is all paid up and a fine carrier at that.
Insurance?
You wouldn't believe the types that try to get in here.
Oh, not that I'm suggesting,
So, how are we feeling, Mr. Flint?
Malcolm, tell him.
My wife's on...
[LAUGHS] Now, isn't that just the way they are?
All right, let's have a look.
Now any, uh...
Any pain here?
No.
That's not where it is.
That is right there.
[EXCLAIMS IN PAIN]
Oh, any other symptoms besides the, uh, stomach cramps?
Malcolm, tell him.
Lorna.
Doctor.
There's a light...
Lorna... I told you.
Mrs. Fine.
Just give me a few minutes with your husband, huh?
Malcolm.
Doctor.
Ask him about the light.
Yes, yes, I certainly will.
Right.
I apologize for her.
May, uh...
May I ask you a serious question?
Yes, what?
Have you thought about your future with her?
I really don't... Now.
A group of us are putting together a retirement village.
Malls, golf courses, the whole...
kit and caboodle.
[CHUCKLES]
Promise me.
You'll think about it.
I will.
Good.
Good, now...
moving right along.
Hey, what...
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
Have you any idea what's inside of you?
What is that?
It's a cyst.
Like a tumor?
No.
A cyst is a sack of cells that the body creates to isolate an irritant.
An irritant?
Yes.
Just as an oyster
isolates a grain of sand
with a smooth ball of pearl.
What's inside this cyst?
I thought you might have an idea.
There's no way I would know.
Really?
Why?
'Cause it's completely dark inside of me.
There's no light.
There's nothing happening in there.
I mean,
it's dark.
There was something.
Yes?
When I sleep,
I... I hear sounds.
You hear sounds?
Bright sounds.
What is that tune you're humming?
[SIGHS] I wasn't humming.
But, it's that old tune.
[HUMMING]
[EXCLAIMS IN PAIN]
Oh, please help me.
[GRUNTS]
Prepare the surgical table.
LORNA: What's going on?
He'll need emergency surgery.
Surgery? What did you find?
I'll need your permission.
What are you taking out of him?
Didn't he tell you about the light?
Everything is going to be fine, Mrs. uh...
[BUZZING]
[ECG BEEPING]
Increasing the concentration to 900 bpm.
Checking your retinal reflex.
He's under.
[CLARINET MUSIC PLAYING]
What's... what's that?
[HUMMING SOFTLY]
It's that old tune.
I know the tune, but where is it coming from?
I thought he was under.
He is.
He has to be.
[SIGHS] We can't stop now, let's get in and out. Stat.
Mickie.
Clamp.
Doctor, he's coming out. Restrain the patient.
No.
Don't.
[EXCLAIMS]
DOCTOR: I'm isolating the mass.
He's losing pressure.
I believe that's all of it.
Let's close.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello?
Good evening, sir, yes.
I know, I know, I said I'd be in.
Oh, I know the...
cupcake account is pivotal, sir, yes.
I'm sure, I'm sure you do.
[RECEIVER CLICKS]
[CHILDREN PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
[RECORD SCRATCHES]
[CLARINET MUSIC PLAYING]
[PLAYING OFF-KEY]
[DOOR OPENS]
I thought you would be working.
They gave me the day off.
Great.
Let's go out to dinner.
I can't go outside, everything's out there.
What do you mean?
I don't mean anything.
Malcolm, were you playing again?
I can't play.
Sure you can, you just have to practice.
You don't understand, do you?
Help me understand.
This...
This is all wrong.
I should never have done this.
I should never have stopped playing.
Why did you?
How can you ask me that?
When you constantly complain about the band?
I just missed you when you were on the road.
You took away the only thing I ever had.
Oh, funny.
That's how I feel.
What did I ever take away from you?
You...
All I ever wanted was you.
I wanted Mickie.
Guy who made me laugh, guy who swept me off my feet.
I never really wanted anything else and you took that away from me.
[RUMBLING]
[EERIE CLARINET MUSIC PLAYING]
What?
Who is it?
Lorna, don't go in there.
[ALIEN VOICE] Who is it?
MALCOLM: Nobody.
[GASPS]
What is it?
Tell me.
It's the thing they took out of me.
[ALIEN VOICE] Malcolm.
It's talking to you.
No it's not.
[HUMMING]
What do you want?
[ALIEN VOICE] Help me.
Don't talk to that thing.
Who are you?
[ALIEN VOICE] Mickie.
Mickie?
Don't touch it.
[HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING]
It is you.
You're crazy, I'm human.
What happened to him, Mickie?
MALCOLM: Lorna...
Get a grip on yourself.
Like you have, Malcolm?
Get back.
Don't run away.
Help me, Lorna.
Give in.
You can do it.
I can't anymore.
Why?
I don't know why.
I gave up.
MALCOLM: Little by little,
I thought I wasn't.
But I was giving up.
Then one day I looked inside myself.
And there was nothing left.
It doesn't have to be like this.
You can start over.
[HUMMING]
[ALIEN VOICE] Please, Malcolm, please.
Goodbye.
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[HIGH-PITCHED MOANING]
LORNA: Oh.
[HIGH-PITCHED WAILING]
[CLARINET MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[SOFT THUD]
Mickie!
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]