Deja vu.

1. WHO KILLED ALASKA?
#30.5 - THE DOCTOR
TRANSCRIPT
written by
Cameron Cooper LeBrun

2. DENVER [narrator]
Why would I interview the surgeon?
DR LAMPMAN’S CLINIC.
LAMPMAN
Am I the only witness you’re interviewing?
DENVER
You’re the only witness who matters.
DENVER [narrator]
While I’m interviewing the surgeon, the suspects are becoming impossible to talk to. Boo’s taken
Bobby’s pain. I don’t even know where to start with everything else going on with Boo. Jo is
getting restless. She’s chewing on her chains. And Emma— Emma is going to into withdrawal,
because she has no more poppies.
EMMA’S HOUSE.
Door creaks open.
EMMA
(shivering) Who took my opium? Who took my opium?
DENVER
I heard your poppies were gone. What happened?
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3. EMMA
(shivering) I don’t know. They were just gone. I went to tend my poppies and there was only a
pile of dirt.
DENVER
Do you think somebody took them?
EMMA
(shivering) I don’t know. They’re just gone. I went to tend my poppies and there was only a pile
of dirt.
DENVER [narrator]
But I need to hear the surgeon’s witness account to understand the rest of them. This is Dr.
Lampman, the surgeon who served Alaska on the night of his murder. She was there to receive
Alaska in an operating room at St. Francis Hospital, before Alaska succumbed to his injuries and
left in a body-bag. She’s here with me in her white coat. This Dr. Lampman is the only witness
who matters. I’ve interviewed so many others. The others hardly helped. She can.
DR LAMPMAN’S CLINIC.
LAMPMAN
Which part can I help you with?
DENVER
As much as you remember.
LAMPMAN
You’re going to need to be more specific. I write everything down. I don’t skip details.
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4. STUMP TOWN.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
First of all, Alaska Curtis was stabbed in the woods outside Roslyn Estates. It’s an unusual
situation.
WAITING ROOM AT ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
The ambulance pulled up. He should’ve been brought to the ambulance entrance. Unfortunately,
an EMT in the ambulance started misbehaving. They wrapped their hands around Alaska’s throat
and tried to choke him— to death, says hearsay.
That was Pete Cantu. I watched Pete Cantu’s handcuffed body get pulled out of the
ambulance while Boo Curtis tried to watch from the back-seat of a police vehicle. He kept
craning his neck but his view was stained by long bars of rain along the window. Pete was
speaking gibberish. I’ve heard he was a good EMT, but he was writhing on the ground with an
undiagnosable condition. At that point I wondered if maybe the world I knew that morning was a
different place from where I was. Maybe we were in a place that looked just like ours; that just
looked like ours.
Jeremy Goldberg pulled Alaska’s stretcher out of the ambulance and his body bounced.
The EMTs saw that. They slid through the rain to wrestle the stretcher’s bars out of Jeremy's
hands. They rolled the wet body inside. Alaska wasn’t dead yet.
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5. A BIT LATER.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
Between the ambulance and the car, they brought four boys to the hospital that It was Alaska,
and it was Boo, and it was Jeremy, and it was Bobby. Boo came in the back of a police car. There
were too many bodies in the ambulance, packed like pig meat in a can, and just as sticky for the
rain and the blood. How morbid. See how morbidly I worded that? Right there. I do like poetry.
I went to Alaska.
OPERATING ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
The EMTs were just starting to snip the clothing off his body. They were cutting his shirt’s hem
towards the stab wound, where threads of his shirt were frayed, circling a one-centimeter cut in
his abdomen. I looked. I had them back away from him. I felt the edges of his dead skin. The
attack seemed uncontrolled, like the thrust of the knife came from a dysfunctional hand— maybe
drunk, maybe injured. The wound was diagonal. He hadn't put up a fight, so the cut should've
been vertical. It was diagonal. I put my finger inside it. The wound was shaped like a blade. No
hiccups on its route. No pulling out and pushing back in. Just the mold they made of the knife in
his body; just the one penetration. The stab was cut with unrelenting depth, so their lust for blood
was clear to me, but they stabbed at a diagonal, so, I think their hand didn't have their control.
Maybe drunk. Maybe injured.
I went to Jeremy.
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6. ANOTHER OPERATING ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
He wasn’t my case. I watched them extract a .475 bullet out of his foot.
DENVER [narrator]
Not his leg?
LAMPMAN [narrator]
His foot. And look at the paper trail. Look in between my notes. Look at the surgeon’s notes.
They pulled it from his foot.
I went to Bobby.
ANOTHER OPERATING ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
His hand was cut off through what I can only assume was three dozen hacks from the wrong
implement. Even his bone was scarred. That poor boy. His eyes cried but he was removed. As
they operated, they kept him awake. He told things to his nurse. He said he saw a weapon.
I went to Boo.
HOSPITAL ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
And he was fine. He had glass stuck in his knuckles.
And then Alaska was prepped. He was ready for my hands. So I went to Alaska.
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7. DENVER [narrator]
What about Kenzie Joyce?
LAMPMAN [narrator]
(with a quiet ferocity) Exactly. What about Kenzie Joyce.
HALLWAY.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
I heard her name in the mouths that passed me. “Kenzie Joyce?” I was thinking to myself, like,
“Her name was on the schedule. She’s my orderly.” And she was. And the police were inside
then, at the end of the hall, yanking her through the doorway by handcuffs, and she spoke in
gibberish. She looked at me. But she wasn’t looking at me. She was looking behind me, and
behind the walls, and she was speaking. And it was nonsense. It was like Pete.
Half the hospital went into quarantine that night. The chief of staff thought we’d
witnessed patient zero of a contagion, a brain-worm, born in our unlucky hands— symptoms
uncharted by the ICD: a single rapid surge of violent behavior, followed by a state of catatonia,
that couldn’t be called catatonia— they were babbling, after all. They were talking in gibberish.
Yet they had normal brain scans. And negative antibody tests. And invasive procedures with no
findings to show. We couldn’t find where the disease was hiding. If it was a disease, it only took
two victims. And then it stopped.
DENVER [narrator]
And Glory.
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8. LAMPMAN [narrator]
Hallelujah?
DENVER [narrator]
No, the missing girl. She’s shown the same signs. She’s a third victim.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
Oh. That’s right. Glory Johnson. And she went missing that night.
OPERATING ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
While half the hospital shut down into quarantine, I put on my gloves. And I earned my pay in
Alaska’s innards. At least, that’s how I worded it, right— a bit morbid, but, I like my poetry.
I cleaned him. I sealed him. It was a solved problem once I was through with the thread.
But he had complications. He lived, for a while. Then he didn’t.
DENVER [narrator]
Yes.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
I’m sorry. You might find my lack of pity disturbing. People die. I put my hands in their flesh
when they do. He wasn’t my first to die. He wasn’t my last. I had no time to mourn.
DENVER [narrator]
There are more ghosts than graveyards.
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9. LAMPMAN [narrator]
There are. There are more ghosts than graveyards. (beat) I cleaned myself up. I gave his blood to
the wash.
OUTSIDE HOSPITAL ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
And I went to his hospital room, where he was dying. I didn’t visit Alaska. I just watched from
the doorway. And there was Boo Curtis. He was doing… like a dance. I don’t know. He was
doing some kind of dance over Alaska. And then a voice said, “Now the tree branch.” And he—
he took out the tree branch. And he started waving the tree branch. And then a voice said, “Now
the Venetian glass,” and he picked up a vase, like, a vase? And he started waving that over
Alaska, and then a voice said, “Now the corners,” and he ran to the corners of the room, and he
clapped in the corners. That was very strange.
WAITING ROOM.
LAMPMAN [narrator]
Then the front desk got a call from Emma Wooten, who was just released from police custody
for the She wanted to visit. She was told to go back to the dark of her home and rest. I told them
to tell her to change her clothes and wrap herself in towels and rest in the darkest room of the
house until the smell of rain was gone. They tried to convey that differently. I corrected them. I
told them to say it in this poetry; to keep the rhythm of it. Emma was unhinged. Stupid poetry is
medicine for the unhinged.
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10. DR LAMPMAN’S CLINIC.
DENVER
Please describe this object.
LAMPMAN
It’s a DVD box set of Scrubs.
DENVER
Uhh, how about this? What’s this object?
LAMPMAN
That’s a DVD box set of House.
DENVER
Please descriiiibe this object.
LAMPMAN
It’s a DVD box set of Scrubs again.
DENVER
Do you know where they came from?
LAMPMAN
No.
DENVER
They were mailed to your hospital by Glory Johnson. Do you know Glory Johnson?
LAMPMAN
I know of her. Because she was the missing person case related to Alaska.
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11. DENVER
Tell me what else you know about her.
LAMPMAN
I heard she came from a strict household.
Beat.
DENVER
She mailed these to the hospital, with letters saying that she wanted to work at your hospital. She
said she didn’t get into medical school, but she had lots of experience watching doctors on tv. Do
you know about this?
LAMPMAN
No.
DENVER
Did you ever meet Glory Johnson?
LAMPMAN
No.
DENVER
Apparently she threw a rock in a staff room window. I was told you might’ve been there at the
time.
LAMPMAN
Really? (pause) I don’t remember that.
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12. OUTSIDE.
DENVER
Thank you.
They walk.
DENVER
What did you get from Lampman?
JO
Hold your fucking horses. Why is it that when you talk to the actual suspects, I can’t come along,
but I have to watch you talk to this random bitch?
DENVER
Because I’m not gonna bother doing multiple interviews with Alaska’s surgeon, so I need you
here for the one interview I’m gonna do. We just exhausted all of her information. I’m doing
multiple interviews with the suspects. I need the suspects to get their stories straight with me
one-on-one, before you fact-check them. I’ll bring you in, and they have to stick to their story,
meaning, you’ll be able to catch the lies they already told.
JO
Then— I would’ve wanted you to tell me that! You could’ve told me that and we wouldn’t be
having this conversation!
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13. DENVER
Listen. I will bring you in soon. I need to interview everybody first. Emma and Bobby have been
slippery with their planning.
JO
That’s how they are.
DENVER [narrator]
Sorry, I know you’ve heard Bobby already. You’re hearing the interviews a little out of order.
DENVER
Once I’ve interviewed everyone, I’m going to bring them to you and have them confirm that
everything in their witness accounts is true— or else you’ll detect the lie.
JO
So, are we gonna talk about Lampman?
DENVER
Sure, Jo.
JO
She’s firm. She’s forceful. She likes to steam-roll. Also, she recognized me for some reason. But
she didn’t lie much. She lied sometimes. She said Alaska wasn’t her first patient to die. That was
a lie.
DENVER
No wonder she’s invested in this case.
JO
When you asked her about a memory she had, she felt something about that. (CONTD.)
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14. And then her feelings flickered until they came back on again? And then she was normal again,
but what she felt was gone.
DENVER [narrator]
A note is slipped under the door that
DENVER’S LIVING ROOM.
Paper is slipped under the door.
DENVER [narrator]
It says, “The doctor is hiding something.” I look out the window and between the buildings and
on the street, there is nothing and nobody. Eventually I would learn why Jeremy left us that note,
but even he didn’t know the whole of the truth, so it’s just as well that I stared out the window all
night, tracing the trees with my eyes and waiting for the answers yet to come. “The doctor is
hiding something.” For who?
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15. CREDITS
THE GHOST FACTORY
WRITER/SHOWRUNNER - Cameron LeBrun
DIRECTION - Cameron LeBrun, Lorena DeLeon
SCRIPT EDITOR - Katrina Clairvoyant
MUSIC - Cameron LeBrun
SOUND DESIGN - Andres Buitrago, David Geyer
MIX & MASTER - Manas Kunder
ART - Bella Wynne, Locke Reinhardt, and doritofalls
EMMA WOOTEN - Liz Mina
JO MAGARO - Sally Roberts
FINN DENVER - Joseph Kitembo
DR LAMPMAN - Debbie Soelter
PATRONS - dżdżownice, Jess, Tyler Piano, Tyler Piano’s Wife, Sierra, K. Lovechilde, Katrina
Redman, MuricanPye, Nicole Collard, Ben Walter, LavendarKozzy, Jupiter Defense Squad,
Moony Boons, Happidragon, Criminal Frog, Lukas King, August Ure, Mic Drop,
LivinLuxuriouslySelena, Kelly Brennan, Ash, Shoshi, Emma, MishaWarlock, Sarah, and CJ
Taylor-Caldwell!
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