The Linda Vista Project (2015)
Christopher Allen-Nelson: Dawson
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Quotes
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Emily Strand : You don't watch much TV, do you, Dawson?
Dawson : Meaning what?
Emily Strand : Ever watch Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, Paranormal Challenge?
Dawson : I like cooking shows.
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Dawson : Hey, your daughter showed me in, she's adorable.
Emily Strand : I don't have a daughter.
Dawson : Well then you have a little person with pigtails who showed me in.
Emily Strand : It must be Will's daughter, he sometimes brings her to work with him.
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Chase : Emily, you better see this, it says 1993 on it.
Dawson : [unimpressed] It's a 20 year old picture.
Emily Strand : It's Lacey.
Cassy : How is this possible?
Emily Strand : The occult.
Cassy : What's the occult?
Emily Strand : In some parts of the world it's believed that in exchange for allowing a demon into our world, that you can spend time with a loved one who's left it.
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Emily Strand : Let's check the downstairs exits next.
Dawson : What about the 4th floor?
Chase : We've never been up there.
Dawson : Well I saw a fire escape, maybe we can climb down.
Cassy : It's worth a shot.
Emily Strand : We don't have the keys for that floor.
Dawson : The bolt looks pretty flimsy on that thing, I think with one good kick it could come off. I can't believe you guys have never been to the 4th floor.
Emily Strand : Well there's no reason for us to be up there. Most of the paranormal activity takes place on the 3rd floor and below.
Dawson : Okay, wait a second. You're trying to tell me that in a haunted hospital, where thousands of people have died, over nearly a century, there's been no activity above the 3rd floor? Do you find that a little odd?
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Dawson : These are hospital records, what're they doing down here?
Emily Strand : It's only a fraction of them, 2/3 were destroyed when the hospital closed.
Cassy : Think I get why this place is so active.
Dawson : I don't understand it.
Cassy : Poor record keeping, located in east LA. U know how many John Does came through here?
Dawson : So what if there were a lot of John Does? Why's that matter?
Chase : The John Does were just incinerated, bodies never got a proper burial.
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Officer Hamilton : What happened here?
Dawson : [laughs] That's right, you wouldn't believe me even if I told you.
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Cassy : [finds a satanic shrine] What the?
Dawson : I take it you didn't know about this.
Emily Strand : I haven't been up here in years.
Cassy : Will must've built this, he's the only one with keys up here.
Emily Strand : I just can't believe he'd be into this sort of thing, it doesn't make any sense.
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Dawson : [grabs Emily before she falls down the elevator] Whoa whoa whoa!
Emily Strand : [gasps] Oh God.
Dawson : You almost walked through that elevator shaft.
Emily Strand : How did this door open?
Dawson : Didn't you call the elevator?
Emily Strand : No, this elevator hasn't worked in years.
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Dawson : You really love this place, don't you?
Emily Strand : More like love/hate. Do you know anything about Linda Vista?
Dawson : I know it opened in 1904 and was closed in 1991 due to a ton of malpractice lawsuits, rightly so, that's about it.
Emily Strand : One incident in particular, remind me to tell you about it sometime.
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Emily Strand : [about an elevator that hasn't worked in years] Are you sure you saw this door open?
Dawson : They're open, aren't they?
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Dawson : The owners wanted me to discuss the claims you've been throwing around about the place.
Emily Strand : Such as?
Dawson : The crazy ghost stories.
Emily Strand : It's not just me. There are plenty of ghost documentaries that were shot here too.
Dawson : Okay, look, these claims can ultimately hurt the sales of the place when we're finished here, so...
Emily Strand : Hey, if you want to build apartments in a haunted building, have at it.
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Emily Strand : Do you have a plan for dealing with all the paranormal activity here?
Dawson : Claiming this hospital is haunted isn't going to stop this project.
Emily Strand : So you're a skeptic.
Dawson : I don't believe in ghosts. I believe there's a viable explanation for anything labeled supernatural.
Emily Strand : Do you know how many Los Angeles residents have died here?
Dawson : I'm sure quite a few.
Emily Strand : Many of those spirits have never moved on. That's why we hear noises, voices, we see things move.
Dawson : Voices? Really? And those can't be explained from other sources like, animals, or wind, or pipes?
Emily Strand : I'm a professional, we debunk those first. Ever since it was announced that your company was going to redevelop the property, the paranormal activity here has increased tenfold.
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Emily Strand : Chloe, can you hear me? Chloe, can you do this?
[pounds on wall]
Dawson : Why don't you try 'Shave and a Haircut'?
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Emily Strand : [calling the spirits] I'm injured, can anyone help me?
Chase : [Dawson shoots him a look] Well one of our strategies is to put ourselves in their world.
Dawson : [mocking] I've fallen and I can't get up!
Chase : *Now* you're getting it.
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Lacey : They don't like you, you know.
Dawson : Yeah.
Will : Sweetie, that wasn't very nice.
Lacey : I didn't say it, they said it.
Dawson : Nice guys, really, I know you don't like me, but prompting the kid?
Emily Strand : Wasn't us. Who doesn't like him, sweetie?
Lacey : The people here.
Emily Strand : What do they say?
Lacey : They're mad, *real* mad.
Emily Strand : Why're they mad?
Lacey : Cuz you're gonna tear the place down.
Dawson : Not gonna tear this place down.
Lacey : They'll have nowhere to live.
Dawson : Gonna fix the place up, make it really pretty.
Lacey : They're gonna get you.
Will : Sweetie, if I take you to work, you have to be nice to the people, okay?
Lacey : Okay.
Chase : Yeah, but he doesn't count though.
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Chase : What was that?
Emily Strand : An elemental.
Dawson : What's an elemental?
Emily Strand : A demon.
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Dawson : Open the door.
Emily Strand : I didn't lock the door, I don't know how it got locked.
Dawson : Alright, alright, alright, I was gonna wait until later, I might as well tell you now. This building has changed hands, you have one week to vacate.
Emily Strand : One week? That's it? It's gonna take at least 2 weeks just to get the cameras down.
Dawson : Not my problem.
Chase : Man, you're not getting it. We didn't lock the doors.
Cassy : We didn't!
Dawson : Alright then, who did?
Emily Strand : It's an old building, lots of things break.
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Emily Strand : Hey guys, check out the second floor. There's a lot of activity today.
Cassy : Yeah, they're pissed at Dwayne here.
Dawson : Dawson.
Chase : [to the screen] Danny here's gonna tear your place down.
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Emily Strand : We have to avoid mirrors.
Dawson : Why?
Emily Strand : The demon is using mirrors to move through the building.
Chase : Great, this is a hospital, there's a mirror in every damn room!
Emily Strand : In patient rooms, yes, so we have to avoid those.
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Dawson : Is there a window we can jump out of?
Emily Strand : They're all boarded shut, too many vandals. Every window on the first two floors is either boarded shut or has wire nailed over it.
Dawson : What about this floor? I mean the first floor's what, half way underground? I mean the drop from the third's gotta be what, 20 feet?
Emily Strand : I don't know.
Dawson : [yells] What do you mean you don't know?
Emily Strand : I never contemplated jumping out of a third floor window before! I don't know how high they are!
Dawson : Well let's go find out.
[finds a window, looks down]
Dawson : Shit, that's higher than I thought.
Chase : [sarcastic] Do you still want to jump?
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Chase : [about the occultist temple] What do we do with all this stuff?
Dawson : We're not touching anything.
[walks away]
Dawson : We're not touching anything.
Chase : Come on, man, it's not like you're gonna be infected by it.
[smashes it]
Emily Strand : Chase, stop!
Chase : What?
Emily Strand : Move now! If a demon is connected to the temple, you just let it know where we're at! We have to go now!
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Emily Strand : We have to get out of here, whatever you do, don't show the elemental your fear. It feeds off fear, it can smell it.
Dawson : Right, stay calm, something's chasing us, I should stay calm.
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Dawson : I'm not going down there until I know it's clear.
Emily Strand : Wait here then.
Cassy : I'll go with you.
Chase : Good idea, let's split up, that always works for the better.
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Dawson : Ow! What the hell?
Cassy : What?
Dawson : Something just bit me!
Chase : Let me see that.
[sees claw marks on the side of Dawson's face]
Chase : Three scratch marks, looks like claws.
Dawson : What? What clawed me, what it?
Chase : The elemental.
Dawson : What? You mean those things can hurt you?
Cassy : He's marked.
Dawson : Marked? What the fuck does that mean?
Chase : Nothing.
Cassy : [under her breath] Oh my God.
Dawson : Don't bullshit me, I saw that look between the two of you, what's it mean?
Cassy : [to Emily] It scratched Dawson!
Chase : It's the mark of the trident, the beast, the devil.
Dawson : Do you people always have to talk in codes?
Cassy : It's marking you! Okay? And now you're a target.
Dawson : Target for what? What's gonna happen to me?
Chase : Worst case scenario, they snatch you from our world into theirs and feed off your soul forever.
Dawson : That's great! Okay, so you're not gonna let them take me, right?
Cassy : [cynically] Oh all of a sudden you believe in this?
