The Premonition

- What do you think? - I don't know yet.

It's so hard to tell.

Well, here, look at this one.

It's her eyes, Andrea. Look at those eyes.

The mouth, see that?

I saw her yesterday when I took the photograph.

This time I'm positive, I know it's her.

You sure her name is Janie?

Yeah, I'm sure. Here, here.

Janie Bennett, the age is right.

It all figures. It's got to be her.

- Where does she live? - Dover. About five miles from here.

I thought you'd forgotten about me, Jude.

I told you, I'd call you as soon as I found something, didn't I?

Jude, what if it's not her? What if it's like all the other times?

What if we come out with nothing? What then?

We'll wait.

And we keep on waiting until we find her.

Evidence of telepathy appears most readily

when the unconscious mind is most receptive.

And it's most receptive in the dream state.

We can tell when the subject is dreaming through alpha brainwave activity.

Heart rate, breathing patterns, ah, R.E.M.

- Ah, Bennett. - Oh, Dean Fuller, how are you, sir?

- Fine, how are you? - Fine.

I'd like you to meet Dr Jeena Kingsly.

- Dr Kingsly, this is Professor Bennett. - How do you do?

Pleased to meet you. Dr Fuller has told me quite a bit

about your astro-physics programme. Sounds fascinating.

Dr Kingsly just arrived from London last week.

She is to help us set up our new physics division.

- What division is that? - Para-physics.

These subjects have already woken

and they're trying to sketch the dominant figure in their dreams.

Thank you, Margaret.

- May I? - Of course.

So what you're saying is that these dreams are inspired

by some sort of telepathic communication.

- I can see you're a sceptic, Dr Bennett. - Sceptic?

I think you'll find our work very closely related.

Trying to understand the phenomena of the real world

sometimes reveals more the nature of the mind

than the nature of things. Wouldn't you agree?

Our concern at this point is the gathering of facts.

The theory part comes later.

Janie. Janie.

Hi, Mommy.

- Who was that? - I don't know, some lady.

What did she say to you?

Mommy, can we go to the fair again?

Daddy's home.

Hi, Daddy.

Hi, sweetheart. How's my favourite star tonight?

Fine. Do you love me, Daddy?

Of course, I love you, sweetheart.

- Can I carry your briefcase? - No, it's too heavy, sweetheart.

- Then can I carry the bottle? - Sure, take it in the kitchen, OK?

- OK. - Hey, don't run with the bottle, Janie.

- Oh, I'm full of paint. - How was your day today?

It was all right. What's the matter? Oh, that. What do you think?

- Strange. - Very funny.

Can you take me and Mommy to the carnival on Saturday?

- Didn't you go with her yesterday? - Yes, but I want to go again.

You were right.

We were lucky. I mean, it could have took years to find her.

It did take years. Five stinking years in that rotten pit.

It wasn't all that bad. We never would have met otherwise.

Hey, let's you and me celebrate, huh?

That's a great idea.

I've got some whiskey in the back. I'll go get it.

No, no, no, no, wine.

Wine. I bet the liquor store is still open.

I'll meet you up in my room, OK?

OK.

Coming. Coming.

Oh, hold your horses.

Oh, it's you.

That was quick.

I figure we can get a couple of hundred dollars for the trailer. It ain't much...

Leave it behind. There's no time to sell that thing.

Cheers.

There's a house in Clinton County I've been looking at.

I mean, it's nothing. Nothing fancy, but it's cheap, real cheap.

And, I know the owner, he's a nice sort of guy.

It'd be a good place to settle down. It'd be good for the kid. Good for Janie.

Settling down?

What are you talking about settling down for?

Sometimes I don't understand you, Jude.

Settling down for what? This comes first.

No, no, listen, listen, Andrea.

Andrea, this house...

We can hide out in it for a while until things blow over.

It's way out in the middle of nowhere.

There are no roads, no towns, nothing, just woods.

Nobody has lived there for years. They'll never find us.

- Miles? - Mm?

There was a strange woman watching Janie today.

Miles, in the school yard today,

there was a woman I've never seen before looking at Janie.

Ah, well...

What was Janie doing?

It doesn't matter what Janie was doing.

Did this woman say anything to her?

I heard her call Janie's name.

What you're really saying is that consciousness is more primordial

- than matter. - Are you ready to accept that?

You mean am I ready to view reality as an arbitrary consensus?

Yes.

No.

Then how do you account for telepathy or precognition or retrocognition?

I'm not so sure that I do.

That's because the fundamental principles

upon which your science is based on are incomplete.

- Would it help if I closed my eyes? - You might find you'll see a lot better.

Tell me Dr Kingsly,

will this new age of enlightenment pass me by?

Perhaps not. I'm leading a seminar in about 15 minutes.

- Why don't you drop in? - Wonderful. You won't mind?

Why should I mind? But you must promise me one thing, Dr Bennett.

Miles.

- Miles. - What's that?

That you come with the open minded spirit of true and free scientific inquiry.

- Leave behind my prejudices. - And fears.

- Fears. - Promise?

Promise.

Hi, Sheri.

Hi, Lenore. How'd it go this morning?

Well, my lawyer said it went all right, but you know Barry. I could never get...

Ah, do you mind if, if we didn't go to lunch today?

- Anything the matter, Sheri? - What do you mean?

You, you just seem down all of a sudden.

Oh, no, I'm just a little tired. Ah, Janie had bad dreams last night.

What were they about?

She said she didn't remember, but whatever they were, they terrified her.

And so the fundamental assumption of modern science

is that we are separate entities and everything is external to us.

This approach, however, obscures our true nature.

Parapsychology becomes a rather philosophic and theological science

at this point.

What is the cause of such an illusion?

It arises from the structure of our nervous system

and the false way we are trained as children to perceive.

The clairvoyant reality is totally rejected by science

and finds expression only in, art, music, religion.

Hi, Mommy.

- Oh, hello, darling. - Hi.

Hello. Oh, hello, Miles.

No, I'm all right. What's up?

Oh, oh, I see. No, no, that's OK.

No, really, it's all right.

Maybe I'll have Lenore come over tonight.

OK.

I love you, too.

It was all so strange.

I'm not even sure how I got to the school to pick Janie up.

Do you suppose it had anything to do with Janie's nightmare.

Maybe. I never thought of that.

You know, I once read about two miners

who were trapped in a mine for two weeks

and they began to share the same hallucinations.

- You and Janie maybe... - Come on, Lenore.

- Who knows? Maybe. - Mommy.

Janie!

- What are you doing up? - I can't sleep.

- Well, you have to try. - When's Daddy coming home?

Daddy will be home soon. He's having dinner with another professor.

Now, I want you to go back upstairs. It's past your bedtime.

No!

She is mine.

And, she'll always be mine.

It's all right, Mommy's here.

It's all right, baby.

Where the hell is the kid?

'Operator.'

Yes, could you get me the police?

- Is this an emergency? - Get me the police.

Hey, this is my house. I live here.

Honey.

Miles. Oh, it was so awful.

- I, I don't know how she... - What?

- What happened? - I don't know how...

- Sheri, what happened? - She...

- Is Janie all right? - Janie's in the bedroom.

What happened?

We got a call about an attempted kidnapping.

Kidnapping! Is my daughter all right?

She's upstairs asleep.

I trusted you.

You told me there'd be no problem.

What the... are we going to do with a goddamn doll?

No! No!

- Hi, Lieutenant. - Where is everybody?

Upstairs. Doctor got here about five minutes ago.

Father here yet?

He's standing right behind you, sir.

She's asleep.

Mr Bennett, Mark Denver, detective, county police.

Mind if I ask you a few questions?

No, not at all.

Now, where were you at the time of the break in?