The Body in the Basement - Alex Broun

30EILEEN:MAX:EILEEN:MAX:Dropped the candle ? You mean we’re all going to burn to a crisp now.It bounced down the stairs and went out. It was so dark I couldn’t seeanything – so I decided to come back upstairs.Mission unaccomplished.Give me a moment and I’ll go back down again.EILEEN: What whimpers ? Cats, dogs. Do spiders whimper ?MAX:EILEEN:MAX:EILEEN:I don’t think so.Maybe really big ones. Maybe a really big one whimpering because ithasn’t had anybody to eat in a week or so.I don’t think it was a spider. It sounded …Like an animal, you already said that.MAX: No it sounded … It sounded –EILEEN:MAX:EILEEN:MAX:EILEEN:MAX:(HOLDING UP KNIFE AGAIN) Spit it out.Human.I told you it was the electricity guy.I don’t think it’s the electricity guy.Then it isn’t human. No one else has ever been done there.But it’s not the electricity man.EILEEN: How do you know ?MAX: Because it – Do I really have to go back down there ?EILEEN:MAX:EILEEN:MAX:In a word - yes. And don’t look at me like that. If you’d done it rightthe first time I wouldn’t need to be sending you back behind enemylines.You make it sound like some secret mission.It is. A secret mission in to our basement, where no man before hasever braved to go. Except the Electricity man.And me.