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"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"\"Ha, the Chateau de l'Aiguille will become famous!--I'm sure I don't\nmind, for, as a matter of fact, now that my mother no longer lives in",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"\"Oh, yes, but the Chateau de l'Aiguille, which has belonged to one of\nmy clients for the last five years, is not for sale.\"\n\n\"He lives in it, then?\"",
"\"I have good reason to believe,\" he concluded, \"that my father is\nimprisoned in the Chateau de l'Aiguille, doubtless in the company of",
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"\"The Chateau de l'Aiguille?--Oh!--But in what department are we? The\nIndre?\"",
"de l'Aiguille, that it had been built and christened by Louis XIV., and\nthat, by his express order, it was adorned with turrets and with a",
"A year later, Louis XIV. buys a domain and builds the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille. Where does he select his site? In the Midlands of France,",
"All said, there was no material evidence to prove the fleeting presence\nof Lupin at the Chateau de l'Aiguille; and the authorities would have",
"Yes, he has made a mistake. Yes, his reading of the document is all\nwrong. The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.",
"Arsene Lupin, was--Valmeras! Valmeras, the owner of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille! Valmeras, the very man to whom he had applied for",
"\"Yes, the word AIGUILLE forces itself upon us.\"",
"The old chateau came into view--once the abbey residence of the priors\nof Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revolution, both restored by the",
"And, in the course of conversation with the old man, he learnt that\nthis castle, standing on the bank of the Creuse, was called the Chateau",
"He lunched at an inn at Fresselines and was on the point of leaving\nwhen he saw Gaffer Charel arrive and cross the square, wheeling his\nlittle knife-grinding barrow before him. He at once followed him at a\ngood distance.",
"Comte de Gesvres, who had now owned it for some twenty years. It\nconsists of a main building, surmounted by a pinnacled clock-tower, and",
"The same newspapers which, on the following morning, related the last\nepisodes that had occurred at the Chateau d'Ambrumesy--the trickery at"
],
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"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"de l'Aiguille, that it had been built and christened by Louis XIV., and\nthat, by his express order, it was adorned with turrets and with a",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"\"Ha, the Chateau de l'Aiguille will become famous!--I'm sure I don't\nmind, for, as a matter of fact, now that my mother no longer lives in",
"A year later, Louis XIV. buys a domain and builds the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille. Where does he select his site? In the Midlands of France,",
"\"Oh, yes, but the Chateau de l'Aiguille, which has belonged to one of\nmy clients for the last five years, is not for sale.\"\n\n\"He lives in it, then?\"",
"\"I have good reason to believe,\" he concluded, \"that my father is\nimprisoned in the Chateau de l'Aiguille, doubtless in the company of",
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"\"The Chateau de l'Aiguille?--Oh!--But in what department are we? The\nIndre?\"",
"All said, there was no material evidence to prove the fleeting presence\nof Lupin at the Chateau de l'Aiguille; and the authorities would have",
"Arsene Lupin, was--Valmeras! Valmeras, the owner of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille! Valmeras, the very man to whom he had applied for",
"Yes, he has made a mistake. Yes, his reading of the document is all\nwrong. The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.",
"\"Yes, the word AIGUILLE forces itself upon us.\"",
"He lunched at an inn at Fresselines and was on the point of leaving\nwhen he saw Gaffer Charel arrive and cross the square, wheeling his\nlittle knife-grinding barrow before him. He at once followed him at a\ngood distance.",
"They had reached the out-houses at the back of the chateau. Beautrelet\njumped on his bicycle and rode away.",
"whom he had taken to live with him two years before, when the\nsimultaneous death of her father and mother left Raymonde an orphan.\nLife at the chateau was peaceful and regular. A few neighbors paid an",
"And, in the course of conversation with the old man, he learnt that\nthis castle, standing on the bank of the Creuse, was called the Chateau",
"The old chateau came into view--once the abbey residence of the priors\nof Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revolution, both restored by the"
],
[
"On the 17th of March, 1679, there appeared a little book with the\nfollowing title: The Mystery of the Hollow Needle. The Whole Truth now",
"\"What about the Needle? The legend of the Hollow Needle? Don't you know\nthat?\"\n\n\"Upon my word, I don't--never heard of it--\"",
"read a meaning into them. The Hollow Needle! What a bewildering\nconjunction of two simple words! What an incomprehensible question was\nset by that scrap of paper, whose very origin and manufacture were",
"That evening, he wrote a long letter to the chief of the detective\nservice, giving a faithful account of the results of his investigations\nand revealing the secret of the Hollow Needle. He asked for assistance\nto complete his work and gave his address.",
"These, no doubt, were insoluble questions; and what did it matter? The\nessence of the thing was contained in this fact: The Needle was hollow.",
"* * * * *\n\nSo the Needle was hollow.\n\nIt remained to discover how one obtained access to it.",
"\"Well, then, speak madame, speak, I implore you! Those revelations are\nof exceptional importance. Speak, I beg of you: minutes lost are never\nrecovered. The Hollow Needle--\"",
"\"Oh, it's quite simple. The Hollow Needle means--\"\n\nAt that moment, a footman entered the room:\n\n\"A letter for madame.\"",
"from some royal treasure the hiding-place of which, unknown to all,\nwould just constitute the mystery of the Hollow Needle. Lupin conveyed\nas much to me; Lupin was not lying.\"",
"It was a very simple method, hinging on this one question: Is there a\nlink of any sort uniting all the more or less important historic events\nwith which the pamphlet connects the mystery of the Hollow Needle?",
"THE HOLLOW NEEDLE\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER ONE\n\nTHE SHOT",
"Ganimard reflected:\n\n\"You are right. The great thing is the Hollow Needle. For the rest, let\nus hope that chance will favor us. And now, let us talk.\"",
"mystery. The Hollow Needle! A castle with pointed bell-turrets standing\non the bank of the Creuse and belonging to the King. People would at",
"THE HOLLOW NEEDLE",
"unknown! The Hollow Needle! Was it a meaningless expression, the puzzle\nof a schoolboy scribbling with pen and ink on the corner of a page? Or",
"resources which I have at my command. Look here, this secret of the\nHollow Needle which you are trying so vainly to unravel: suppose, for a",
"A dozen voices greeted his arrival. To his great surprise, he\nrecognized the whole crowd of reporters who were following up \"the\nmystery of the Hollow Needle.\" And one of them exclaimed:",
"Hollow Needle and proved the vanity of his struggle with Arsene Lupin:",
"don't you? The Hollow Needle is the great adventure. As long as it\nbelongs to me, I remain the great adventurer. Once the Needle is",
"which he parcelled out for his purposes, as though he had his haunt in\nthe very centre of the region with which, the legend of the Hollow\nNeedle was most closely connected."
],
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"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"M. Filleul looked him straight in the eyes and said, sharply:\n\n\"No more jokes! Your name?\"\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Your occupation?\"",
"M. Isidore Beautrelet, according to my information, has made a great\nreputation at the Lycee Janson-de-Sailly as an observer whom nothing",
"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer to his question. It\nseemed as though he were in a hurry to give the answer himself and to\navoid all comment. He continued straightway:",
"BEAUTRELET.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIsidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, \"Cuzion, Indre.\"",
"\"My dear chap, let me introduce M. Isidore Beautrelet.\" And, addressing\nthe young man, he continued, \"I have to thank you, M. Beautrelet,",
"\"Good-afternoon, M. Beautrelet.\"\n\nWithout hesitation, Isidore sat down beside the man and said:",
"\"The fact is that you know nothing, M. Isidore Beautrelet.\"",
"The excitement was intense. Isidore Beautrelet awoke to find himself a\nhero; and the crowd, suddenly infatuated, insisted upon the fullest",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"\"M. Isidore Beautrelet!\" exclaimed M. Filleul with an air of rapture,\nholding out both his hands to the newcomer. \"What a delightful",
"On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nadministered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly,",
"Isidore Beautrelet's face denoted a keen vexation.\n\n\"Will it be for long?\"\n\n\"Long enough to collect the necessary information.\"",
"name of Bernod, the friend of Beautrelet's father. And Isidore very\nsensibly replied:",
"I. The Shot\n II. Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy\n III. The Corpse\n IV. Face to Face",
"\"So that--\"\n\n\"So that you are free, M. Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Absolutely free?\"",
"It was an unexpected and dramatic stroke. Isidore Beautrelet appeared\nnonplussed:\n\n\"I, mademoiselle? I? You saw me yesterday?\"",
"to you M. Isidore Beautrelet, a sixth-form pupil at the Lycee\nJanson-de-Sailly.\"",
"At nine o'clock on Monday morning, as soon as M. Filleul had arrived,\nGanimard announced the capture which he had made. The prisoner was\nbrought downstairs. It was Isidore Beautrelet."
],
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"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"M. Filleul looked him straight in the eyes and said, sharply:\n\n\"No more jokes! Your name?\"\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Your occupation?\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer to his question. It\nseemed as though he were in a hurry to give the answer himself and to\navoid all comment. He continued straightway:",
"BEAUTRELET.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIsidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, \"Cuzion, Indre.\"",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"\"My dear chap, let me introduce M. Isidore Beautrelet.\" And, addressing\nthe young man, he continued, \"I have to thank you, M. Beautrelet,",
"\"M. Isidore Beautrelet!\" exclaimed M. Filleul with an air of rapture,\nholding out both his hands to the newcomer. \"What a delightful",
"\"The fact is that you know nothing, M. Isidore Beautrelet.\"",
"M. Isidore Beautrelet, according to my information, has made a great\nreputation at the Lycee Janson-de-Sailly as an observer whom nothing",
"\"Good-afternoon, M. Beautrelet.\"\n\nWithout hesitation, Isidore sat down beside the man and said:",
"name of Bernod, the friend of Beautrelet's father. And Isidore very\nsensibly replied:",
"The excitement was intense. Isidore Beautrelet awoke to find himself a\nhero; and the crowd, suddenly infatuated, insisted upon the fullest",
"And so it was natural that they should turn once more to Isidore\nBeautrelet, as he alone had succeeded in dispelling shadows which, in",
"It was an unexpected and dramatic stroke. Isidore Beautrelet appeared\nnonplussed:\n\n\"I, mademoiselle? I? You saw me yesterday?\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet's face denoted a keen vexation.\n\n\"Will it be for long?\"\n\n\"Long enough to collect the necessary information.\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet said all this with a frank and artless simplicity of\nwhich it was impossible not to feel the charm. M. Filleul himself,",
"Isidore Beautrelet, nerve-shattered at all this talk, interrupted him\nbluntly:\n\n\"I beg your pardon, monsieur, but the book--\"",
"On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nadministered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly,",
"Isidore Beautrelet completed his journey to Dieppe without moving a\nlimb. Bent in two, with his elbows on his knees and his hands plastered\nagainst his face, he sat thinking."
],
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"Arsene Lupin has been living in Paris for twelve months under the name\nof Etienne de Vaudreix. It is a name which you will often come across",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\nHe took up the third card and started back with surprise. It bore his\nown name:\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet!\"",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin!\" he cried, rising from his chair. \"The one and only\nArsene Lupin, returned from the realms of darkness, since it appears",
"said Etienne de Vaudreix was none other than Arsene Lupin--as the\nofficial examination went to show--all this provided an additional",
"confederates introduced to him by the name of Arsene Lupin. And, as the\ncorpse of Etienne de Vaudreix was found in that same crypt and as the",
"them about the people who lived at the castle, and, particularly, about\nthe habits of Arsene Lupin. He thus learnt that Lupin came only every",
"Since then, this road has been demolished by landslips. But Louis\nValmeras, better known by the name of Arsene Lupin, had it restored at",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\n\"Ah,\" murmured the lad, confounded in spite of everything, \"Mlle. de\nSaint-Veran!\"",
"Arsene Lupin, a contrast so perfect even that, to my mind, Lupin\nappeared as much perplexed as myself.",
"\"I think, I am sure that your tenant is none other than Arsene Lupin.\"",
"\"No, no,\" protested Lupin. \"Mme. Arsene Lupin, or rather, if you\nprefer, Mme. Louis Valmeras, my wedded wife, married to me in",
"\"Arsene Lupin!\" stammered one of the voices, thus emphasizing the scare\nthat underlay the sight of that demoniacal name at the foot of the\nhallowed page.",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin,\" repeated Beautrelet. \"The Queen's friend was\nunable to understand her desperate dying appeal. He lived with the",
"[2] Arsene Lupin versus Holmlock Shears, by Maurice Leblanc.",
"Yes, Arsene Lupin was there. In theory and in fact, he was there:\nneither of them was now able to doubt it.",
"ARSENE LUPIN.\n\nAll, in turns, took the sheet of paper and the same cry escaped from\nthe lips of all of them:",
"The story amused Louis Valmeras. He knew all the adventures of Arsene\nLupin and the varying fortunes of his struggle with Beautrelet. He\nrubbed his hands:",
"Arsene Lupin, was--Valmeras! Valmeras, the owner of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille! Valmeras, the very man to whom he had applied for",
"It goes without saying that there was something about Arsene Lupin in\nall of them. Since the attempt at murder of which poor Isidore",
"ALIAS Arsene Lupin, ALIAS myself. He learnt, in this way, that a\ncertain M. de Gesvres was willing to part with four pictures by Rubens,"
],
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"A year later, Louis XIV. buys a domain and builds the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille. Where does he select his site? In the Midlands of France,",
"de l'Aiguille, that it had been built and christened by Louis XIV., and\nthat, by his express order, it was adorned with turrets and with a",
"\"I don't think so. It's an historic castle, built in the purest Louis\nXIII. style. My client was very fond of it; and, unless he has changed\nhis mind--\"",
"Louis XIV., the folly of Versailles, the wars, the great disasters of\nthe reign! And think of Louis XV., the spendthrift king, with his",
"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"asked, he laid for M. Beautrelet precisely what we may call the\nhistoric trap of Louis XIV.",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"Allow me to call your attention to the following passage of Voltaire,\nwhich I came upon in his manuscript of Le Siecle de Louis XIV. (Chapter",
"\"Yes, no doubt, in times of invasion and during the civil wars. But its\nreal destination was to be--how shall I put it?--the strong-room or the\nbank of the kings of France.\"",
"One hundred and fourteen years later, Louis XVI., then a prisoner in\nthe Temple, took aside one of the officers whose duty it was to guard\nthe royal family, and asked:",
"The seventeenth century arrives. Louis XIV. burns the book in which a\nperson unknown reveals the truth. Captain de Larbeyrie masters a copy,",
"They had reached the out-houses at the back of the chateau. Beautrelet\njumped on his bicycle and rode away.",
"this way reached the top of a hillock that rose to the level of the\nneighboring trees. The walls were taller still. Nevertheless, he\nperceived the roof of the castle which they surrounded, an old Louis",
"And, in the course of conversation with the old man, he learnt that\nthis castle, standing on the bank of the Creuse, was called the Chateau",
"The old chateau came into view--once the abbey residence of the priors\nof Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revolution, both restored by the",
"Louis XIV., and Citizen Larbrie, under the Terror.",
"hand, in the chateau itself, the assistance which was indispensable to\nhim in order, first, not to be discovered and, secondly, to live.",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"whom he had taken to live with him two years before, when the\nsimultaneous death of her father and mother left Raymonde an orphan.\nLife at the chateau was peaceful and regular. A few neighbors paid an",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's"
],
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"They knew the hiding-place where Arsene Lupin had taken refuge and lain\na-dying; there was no doubt about it: Dr. Delattre, who continued to",
"Arsene Lupin has been living in Paris for twelve months under the name\nof Etienne de Vaudreix. It is a name which you will often come across",
"Lupin held him in the air, like a living shield, behind which he hid\nhimself.\n\n\"Ten to one that I escape, Ganimard! Lupin, you see, has never quite\nexhausted his resources--\"",
"The motor arrived, an immense closed car. Lupin opened the door and\nBeautrelet gave a cry. There was a man inside and that man was Lupin,\nor rather Massiban. Suddenly understanding, he burst out laughing.\nLupin said:",
"them about the people who lived at the castle, and, particularly, about\nthe habits of Arsene Lupin. He thus learnt that Lupin came only every",
"Beautrelet did no more that day. He felt the need to reflect and to\nprepare his plan of attack without leaving anything to chance. He held\nLupin safe; and it was for Beautrelet now to select the hour and the\nmanner of the combat.",
"Shears made a mistake. Carried away by his longing for revenge, he\nglanced across at Raymonde, whom these revelations filled with horror.\nLupin took advantage of his imprudence. With a sudden movement, he\nfired.",
"said Etienne de Vaudreix was none other than Arsene Lupin--as the\nofficial examination went to show--all this provided an additional",
"The door gave way below. They heard Ganimard and his men running about\nand searching.\n\nAfter a moment, Lupin continued, in a low voice:",
"Since then, this road has been demolished by landslips. But Louis\nValmeras, better known by the name of Arsene Lupin, had it restored at",
"As he had foreseen, I guess the trickery of the chapel, I discover the\ncrypt and I go down into the lair where Lupin has taken refuge. His\ncorpse is there!",
"Arsene Lupin had ended by laying his hand on the famous book of hours.\nOnce in possession of the document, he took the field, \"found\" and\nsettled down as in a conquered country.",
"\"Ten days,\" Arsene Lupin had said.",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"It goes without saying that there was something about Arsene Lupin in\nall of them. Since the attempt at murder of which poor Isidore",
"\"Arsene Lupin!\" stammered one of the voices, thus emphasizing the scare\nthat underlay the sight of that demoniacal name at the foot of the\nhallowed page.",
"ARSENE LUPIN.\n\nAll, in turns, took the sheet of paper and the same cry escaped from\nthe lips of all of them:",
"\"To-day, of course, the case is different. We know his retreat, his\nstronghold, which means, when all is said, that Lupin is Lupin. He can\nescape. The Etretat Needle cannot.\"",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\nHe took up the third card and started back with surprise. It bore his\nown name:\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet!\"",
"Lupin drew himself up, stifled the rage within him and, coolly, with\nhis hands in his pockets and his breast exposed to the enemy, began\nonce more:"
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"M. Filleul looked him straight in the eyes and said, sharply:\n\n\"No more jokes! Your name?\"\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Your occupation?\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nadministered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly,",
"\"My dear chap, let me introduce M. Isidore Beautrelet.\" And, addressing\nthe young man, he continued, \"I have to thank you, M. Beautrelet,",
"BEAUTRELET.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIsidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, \"Cuzion, Indre.\"",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"Nor was this the last surprise awaiting Sergeant Quevillon. At dawn,\nwhen they entered the oratory which had been used as a cell for young\nIsidore Beautrelet, they realized that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nvanished.",
"The excitement was intense. Isidore Beautrelet awoke to find himself a\nhero; and the crowd, suddenly infatuated, insisted upon the fullest",
"Isidore Beautrelet's face denoted a keen vexation.\n\n\"Will it be for long?\"\n\n\"Long enough to collect the necessary information.\"",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer to his question. It\nseemed as though he were in a hurry to give the answer himself and to\navoid all comment. He continued straightway:",
"\"Good-afternoon, M. Beautrelet.\"\n\nWithout hesitation, Isidore sat down beside the man and said:",
"So Isidore Beautrelet, mastered for a moment by Arsene Lupin,\ndistressed by the abduction of his father and resigned to defeat,",
"\"M. Isidore Beautrelet!\" exclaimed M. Filleul with an air of rapture,\nholding out both his hands to the newcomer. \"What a delightful",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"At nine o'clock on Monday morning, as soon as M. Filleul had arrived,\nGanimard announced the capture which he had made. The prisoner was\nbrought downstairs. It was Isidore Beautrelet.",
"It was an unexpected and dramatic stroke. Isidore Beautrelet appeared\nnonplussed:\n\n\"I, mademoiselle? I? You saw me yesterday?\"",
"\"No, no, young man, here and now, please.\" At that moment Raymonde de\nSaint-Veran, who had not taken her eyes from Isidore Beautrelet since\nthe beginning of this scene, came up to M. Filleul:",
"\"The fact is that you know nothing, M. Isidore Beautrelet.\"",
"\"Why don't you help, Beautrelet?\" cried the old detective, gnashing his\nteeth with rage. \"Why don't you shoot him, instead of staring at him\nlike that?\""
],
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"\"What about the Needle? The legend of the Hollow Needle? Don't you know\nthat?\"\n\n\"Upon my word, I don't--never heard of it--\"",
"* * * * *\n\nSo the Needle was hollow.\n\nIt remained to discover how one obtained access to it.",
"Ganimard reflected:\n\n\"You are right. The great thing is the Hollow Needle. For the rest, let\nus hope that chance will favor us. And now, let us talk.\"",
"These, no doubt, were insoluble questions; and what did it matter? The\nessence of the thing was contained in this fact: The Needle was hollow.",
"from some royal treasure the hiding-place of which, unknown to all,\nwould just constitute the mystery of the Hollow Needle. Lupin conveyed\nas much to me; Lupin was not lying.\"",
"Without the Hollow Needle, Lupin is incomprehensible, a myth, a\ncharacter in a novel, having no connection with reality.",
"the Hollow Needle really exists, I am now certain to succeed.\"",
"which he parcelled out for his purposes, as though he had his haunt in\nthe very centre of the region with which, the legend of the Hollow\nNeedle was most closely connected.",
"don't you? The Hollow Needle is the great adventure. As long as it\nbelongs to me, I remain the great adventurer. Once the Needle is",
"On the 17th of March, 1679, there appeared a little book with the\nfollowing title: The Mystery of the Hollow Needle. The Whole Truth now",
"\"Well, then, speak madame, speak, I implore you! Those revelations are\nof exceptional importance. Speak, I beg of you: minutes lost are never\nrecovered. The Hollow Needle--\"",
"read a meaning into them. The Hollow Needle! What a bewildering\nconjunction of two simple words! What an incomprehensible question was\nset by that scrap of paper, whose very origin and manufacture were",
"resources which I have at my command. Look here, this secret of the\nHollow Needle which you are trying so vainly to unravel: suppose, for a",
"\"Oh, it's quite simple. The Hollow Needle means--\"\n\nAt that moment, a footman entered the room:\n\n\"A letter for madame.\"",
"THE HOLLOW NEEDLE",
"Hollow Needle and proved the vanity of his struggle with Arsene Lupin:",
"under Fort Frefosse, descend perpendicularly the three hundred feet of\ncliff and, by means of a tunnel contrived under the rocks of the sea,\nend at the Hollow Needle.",
"stones and the diamonds; and all the jewels and all the ornaments:\neverything is there. Who could discover it? Who could ever learn the\nimpenetrable secret of the Needle? Nobody.",
"That evening, he wrote a long letter to the chief of the detective\nservice, giving a faithful account of the results of his investigations\nand revealing the secret of the Hollow Needle. He asked for assistance\nto complete his work and gave his address.",
"THE HOLLOW NEEDLE\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER ONE\n\nTHE SHOT"
],
[
"\"What about the Needle? The legend of the Hollow Needle? Don't you know\nthat?\"\n\n\"Upon my word, I don't--never heard of it--\"",
"Ganimard reflected:\n\n\"You are right. The great thing is the Hollow Needle. For the rest, let\nus hope that chance will favor us. And now, let us talk.\"",
"the Hollow Needle really exists, I am now certain to succeed.\"",
"These, no doubt, were insoluble questions; and what did it matter? The\nessence of the thing was contained in this fact: The Needle was hollow.",
"from some royal treasure the hiding-place of which, unknown to all,\nwould just constitute the mystery of the Hollow Needle. Lupin conveyed\nas much to me; Lupin was not lying.\"",
"* * * * *\n\nSo the Needle was hollow.\n\nIt remained to discover how one obtained access to it.",
"for the master. And the master was I! I was the king of the story, the\nking of fairyland, the king of the Hollow Needle! A strange and",
"which he parcelled out for his purposes, as though he had his haunt in\nthe very centre of the region with which, the legend of the Hollow\nNeedle was most closely connected.",
"On the 17th of March, 1679, there appeared a little book with the\nfollowing title: The Mystery of the Hollow Needle. The Whole Truth now",
"That evening, he wrote a long letter to the chief of the detective\nservice, giving a faithful account of the results of his investigations\nand revealing the secret of the Hollow Needle. He asked for assistance\nto complete his work and gave his address.",
"don't you? The Hollow Needle is the great adventure. As long as it\nbelongs to me, I remain the great adventurer. Once the Needle is",
"\"Well, then, speak madame, speak, I implore you! Those revelations are\nof exceptional importance. Speak, I beg of you: minutes lost are never\nrecovered. The Hollow Needle--\"",
"resources which I have at my command. Look here, this secret of the\nHollow Needle which you are trying so vainly to unravel: suppose, for a",
"Hollow Needle and proved the vanity of his struggle with Arsene Lupin:",
"\"Oh, it's quite simple. The Hollow Needle means--\"\n\nAt that moment, a footman entered the room:\n\n\"A letter for madame.\"",
"A dozen voices greeted his arrival. To his great surprise, he\nrecognized the whole crowd of reporters who were following up \"the\nmystery of the Hollow Needle.\" And one of them exclaimed:",
"Without the Hollow Needle, Lupin is incomprehensible, a myth, a\ncharacter in a novel, having no connection with reality.",
"handed over the Hollow Needle? What did he care about the rest? Had he\nnot the right to humor the irresistible sympathy with which, in spite\nof everything, this man inspired him?",
"\"By Jove, the Needle was badly damaged when I succeeded in discovering\nit! One could see that no one had possessed the secret for more than a",
"It was a very simple method, hinging on this one question: Is there a\nlink of any sort uniting all the more or less important historic events\nwith which the pamphlet connects the mystery of the Hollow Needle?"
],
[
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"Lastly, that same evening, Isidore found out that the motor car had\nonly passed through Issoudun, continuing its road toward Orleans, that\nis to say, toward Paris.",
"Isidore turned the photograph over and read this little note, in his\nown handwriting:\n\n\"R. de Val.--3.4--Lion.\"\n\nHe was silent for a few minutes and resumed:",
"Isidore gave a bound. At one end of the table, on a muddled heap of\npapers, lay a little book bound in red morocco. He banged his fist down",
"Isidore knew what the learned Norman archaeologist did not know,\nnamely, that the same two letters figured in the document, on the line\ncontaining the indications. Was it a chance coincidence: Impossible.",
"Isidore had the unpleasant sensation which one feels when going down in\na lift: the sensation of the ground vanishing beneath you, the\nimpression of emptiness, space. This time, it was the water retreating;\nand space opened out, slowly.",
"Isidore, in fact, had not budged, had remained, till that moment, an\neager, but passive spectator. He would have liked to fling himself into",
"And so it was natural that they should turn once more to Isidore\nBeautrelet, as he alone had succeeded in dispelling shadows which, in",
"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"But the Havre, the neighborhood of the Havre drew Isidore like a\nbeacon-fire.\n\n\"The kings of France carry secrets that often decide the fate of towns!\"",
"By midnight, Isidore had covered the thirty-five or forty miles to La\nMailleraie and was knocking at the door of an inn by the waterside. He\nslept there and, in the morning, questioned the ferrymen.",
"Isidore disappeared briskly up the middle staircase. At the thirtieth\nstep, a door, an ordinary wooden door, stopped him. He seized the\nhandle turned it. The door was not locked.",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"but another voice that read it aloud. Realizing his defeat, crushed\nunder the weight of his humiliation, Isidore had dropped the newspaper\nand sunk into his chair, with his face buried in his hands.",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"A few minutes later, M. Filleul was driving toward Dieppe, while\nIsidore mounted a bicycle which he had borrowed from the Comte de",
"\"Now,\" continued Isidore, \"what was there in this room that could\narouse the covetousness of the burglars? Two things. The tapestry",
"\"And this place is within reach of my hand,\" said Isidore to himself,\nquivering with hope and expectation. \"My father is waiting for me to",
"Isidore's strength gave way and he was at once over come by his\nadversary. It was the end. A hand was lifted over him, armed with a"
],
[
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"\"I have good reason to believe,\" he concluded, \"that my father is\nimprisoned in the Chateau de l'Aiguille, doubtless in the company of",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"\"Ha, the Chateau de l'Aiguille will become famous!--I'm sure I don't\nmind, for, as a matter of fact, now that my mother no longer lives in",
"Isidore had the unpleasant sensation which one feels when going down in\na lift: the sensation of the ground vanishing beneath you, the\nimpression of emptiness, space. This time, it was the water retreating;\nand space opened out, slowly.",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"Isidore turned the photograph over and read this little note, in his\nown handwriting:\n\n\"R. de Val.--3.4--Lion.\"\n\nHe was silent for a few minutes and resumed:",
"Yes, he has made a mistake. Yes, his reading of the document is all\nwrong. The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.",
"Isidore, in fact, had not budged, had remained, till that moment, an\neager, but passive spectator. He would have liked to fling himself into",
"Isidore felt like flying at his throat, as though all the truth lived\nin that man and he hoped to get it from him at one swoop, to tear it\nfrom him.",
"Isidore felt his heart beat as he approached. Was he really nearing the\nend of his race? Did the castle contain the key to the mystery?",
"\"The Chateau de l'Aiguille?--Oh!--But in what department are we? The\nIndre?\"",
"But the Havre, the neighborhood of the Havre drew Isidore like a\nbeacon-fire.\n\n\"The kings of France carry secrets that often decide the fate of towns!\"",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"And so it was natural that they should turn once more to Isidore\nBeautrelet, as he alone had succeeded in dispelling shadows which, in",
"\"Oh, yes, but the Chateau de l'Aiguille, which has belonged to one of\nmy clients for the last five years, is not for sale.\"\n\n\"He lives in it, then?\"",
"Isidore knew what the learned Norman archaeologist did not know,\nnamely, that the same two letters figured in the document, on the line\ncontaining the indications. Was it a chance coincidence: Impossible.",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal."
],
[
"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"de l'Aiguille, that it had been built and christened by Louis XIV., and\nthat, by his express order, it was adorned with turrets and with a",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"\"Ha, the Chateau de l'Aiguille will become famous!--I'm sure I don't\nmind, for, as a matter of fact, now that my mother no longer lives in",
"A year later, Louis XIV. buys a domain and builds the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille. Where does he select his site? In the Midlands of France,",
"\"Oh, yes, but the Chateau de l'Aiguille, which has belonged to one of\nmy clients for the last five years, is not for sale.\"\n\n\"He lives in it, then?\"",
"\"I have good reason to believe,\" he concluded, \"that my father is\nimprisoned in the Chateau de l'Aiguille, doubtless in the company of",
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"\"The Chateau de l'Aiguille?--Oh!--But in what department are we? The\nIndre?\"",
"All said, there was no material evidence to prove the fleeting presence\nof Lupin at the Chateau de l'Aiguille; and the authorities would have",
"Arsene Lupin, was--Valmeras! Valmeras, the owner of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille! Valmeras, the very man to whom he had applied for",
"Yes, he has made a mistake. Yes, his reading of the document is all\nwrong. The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.",
"\"Yes, the word AIGUILLE forces itself upon us.\"",
"He lunched at an inn at Fresselines and was on the point of leaving\nwhen he saw Gaffer Charel arrive and cross the square, wheeling his\nlittle knife-grinding barrow before him. He at once followed him at a\ngood distance.",
"They had reached the out-houses at the back of the chateau. Beautrelet\njumped on his bicycle and rode away.",
"whom he had taken to live with him two years before, when the\nsimultaneous death of her father and mother left Raymonde an orphan.\nLife at the chateau was peaceful and regular. A few neighbors paid an",
"And, in the course of conversation with the old man, he learnt that\nthis castle, standing on the bank of the Creuse, was called the Chateau",
"The old chateau came into view--once the abbey residence of the priors\nof Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revolution, both restored by the"
],
[
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"de l'Aiguille, that it had been built and christened by Louis XIV., and\nthat, by his express order, it was adorned with turrets and with a",
"A year later, Louis XIV. buys a domain and builds the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille. Where does he select his site? In the Midlands of France,",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"\"Ha, the Chateau de l'Aiguille will become famous!--I'm sure I don't\nmind, for, as a matter of fact, now that my mother no longer lives in",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"\"I have good reason to believe,\" he concluded, \"that my father is\nimprisoned in the Chateau de l'Aiguille, doubtless in the company of",
"\"Oh, yes, but the Chateau de l'Aiguille, which has belonged to one of\nmy clients for the last five years, is not for sale.\"\n\n\"He lives in it, then?\"",
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"All said, there was no material evidence to prove the fleeting presence\nof Lupin at the Chateau de l'Aiguille; and the authorities would have",
"\"The Chateau de l'Aiguille?--Oh!--But in what department are we? The\nIndre?\"",
"Yes, he has made a mistake. Yes, his reading of the document is all\nwrong. The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.",
"The old chateau came into view--once the abbey residence of the priors\nof Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revolution, both restored by the",
"\"Yes, the word AIGUILLE forces itself upon us.\"",
"\"I don't think so. It's an historic castle, built in the purest Louis\nXIII. style. My client was very fond of it; and, unless he has changed\nhis mind--\"",
"And, in the course of conversation with the old man, he learnt that\nthis castle, standing on the bank of the Creuse, was called the Chateau",
"\"Very simple circumstances, indeed. A ladder was removed from the farm\nbuildings and placed against the second story of the chateau. A pane of",
"They had reached the out-houses at the back of the chateau. Beautrelet\njumped on his bicycle and rode away.",
"this way reached the top of a hillock that rose to the level of the\nneighboring trees. The walls were taller still. Nevertheless, he\nperceived the roof of the castle which they surrounded, an old Louis"
],
[
"\"What about the Needle? The legend of the Hollow Needle? Don't you know\nthat?\"\n\n\"Upon my word, I don't--never heard of it--\"",
"\"It's the ascent of the Needle beginning,\" said Ganimard. \"This is more\nserious.\"\n\nBut one of his men called him:",
"\"No. The Needle is not so high as the cliff, and, besides, there's a\nbend in the ground where we are.\"",
"* * * * *\n\nSo the Needle was hollow.\n\nIt remained to discover how one obtained access to it.",
"These, no doubt, were insoluble questions; and what did it matter? The\nessence of the thing was contained in this fact: The Needle was hollow.",
"which he parcelled out for his purposes, as though he had his haunt in\nthe very centre of the region with which, the legend of the Hollow\nNeedle was most closely connected.",
"than that by which we came and several roads also through the Needle.\nBut it is certain that, between the cliff and the Needle, there is no\ncommunication except the tunnel. Therefore they must pass through this",
"The knocking continued within the hollow of the Needle without ceasing.\n\n\"I can't stand this!\" said Lupin. \"Let's go higher.\"\n\nA fresh staircase. A fresh door.",
"live in the Needle, after all those kings!--\"",
"Needle. This is what we may learn from the first three lines. The first\nis so conceived to revenge myself on the King; I had warned him, for\nthat matter--",
"The staircase, dug out in the wall of the Needle, dug in its very\ncrust, turned round and round the pyramid, encircling it like the",
"Beautrelet grasped the plan of the works executed inside the Needle. It\nwas a series or rooms placed one above the other and, therefore,\ngradually decreasing in size. They all served as store-rooms.",
"communicates with another from which a staircase starts and runs\nthrough the Needle? The facts are at the disposal of the first-comer.\"",
"Needle loomed from the waves. On the right, quite close, was the arched\nbuttress of the Porte d'Aval and, on the left, very far away, closing",
"stones and the diamonds; and all the jewels and all the ornaments:\neverything is there. Who could discover it? Who could ever learn the\nimpenetrable secret of the Needle? Nobody.",
"through all the papers, that we are looking for a book entitled The\nTreatise of the Needle. It may be fished out from the back shelves of\nsome provincial library.\"",
"under Fort Frefosse, descend perpendicularly the three hundred feet of\ncliff and, by means of a tunnel contrived under the rocks of the sea,\nend at the Hollow Needle.",
"\"If he is there, he will escape from the Needle by the other side, the\nside overlooking the sea.\"\n\n\"In that case, he will at once be arrested by the other half of my men.\"",
"Ganimard reflected:\n\n\"You are right. The great thing is the Hollow Needle. For the rest, let\nus hope that chance will favor us. And now, let us talk.\"",
"from some royal treasure the hiding-place of which, unknown to all,\nwould just constitute the mystery of the Hollow Needle. Lupin conveyed\nas much to me; Lupin was not lying.\""
],
[
"\"He told her that he was looking for Louis Valmeras, that he was a\nfriend of yours.\"\n\n\"Then?\"\n\n\"The madame said that her son had gone abroad--for years.\"",
"The story amused Louis Valmeras. He knew all the adventures of Arsene\nLupin and the varying fortunes of his struggle with Beautrelet. He\nrubbed his hands:",
"Valmeras at home. He was a man of about thirty, with a frank and\npleasing face. Beautrelet saw no need to beat about the bush, stated",
"identity as the Louis Valmeras that I had been from a child. It was\nthen that I conceived the idea, as you refused to relinquish your quest",
"\"Can you give me his name and address?\"\n\n\"Louis Valmeras, 34, Rue du Mont-Thabor.\"",
"One incident, moreover, made it still more glaring, which was the\nengagement of Louis Valmeras and Mlle. de Saint-Veran. In the intimacy",
"Beautrelet set forth his plan. He would go alone at night; he would\nclimb the walls; he would sleep in the park-- Louis Valmeras stopped\nhim at once:",
"and Valmeras even had to defend himself one evening against a so-called\ndrunken man, who fired a pistol at him and sent a bullet through his",
"village, in an old deserted cart-shed. In addition to the driver, who\nwas none other than Valmeras, there were three young men, who occupied",
"Beautrelet returned to the friend with whom he was staying and began to\nmake his preparations. But, late in the day, as he was getting ready to\ngo, he received a visit from Valmeras.",
"hat. But, in the end, the ceremony was performed at the appointed hour\nand day and Raymonde de Saint-Veran became Mme. Louis Valmeras.",
"\"Are you there, Beautrelet?\" asked Valmeras. \"Wait for me. You two\nchaps, watch the door and keep our line of retreat open. At the least\nalarm, whistle.\"",
"\"No. He saw your mother. Mme. Valmeras caught him as he was just going\naway.\"\n\n\"Well?\"",
"Valmeras grasped his companion's arm:\n\n\"Keep still!\"\n\n\"What is it?\"\n\n\"The dogs, over there--look--\"",
"Since then, this road has been demolished by landslips. But Louis\nValmeras, better known by the name of Arsene Lupin, had it restored at",
"They all four went down the stairs. When they reached the bottom,\nValmeras stopped and bent over the man. Then, leading them to the\nterrace-room:\n\n\"He is not dead,\" he said. \"He will live.\"",
"the winter. Two days later, Valmeras brought his mother to see his new\nfriends and they thus composed a little colony grouped around the Villa\nde Gesvres and watched over day and night by half a dozen men engaged",
"Valmeras gently uncrossed his hands and raised his head.\n\nIsidore Beautrelet was weeping.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER SEVEN",
"Arsene Lupin, was--Valmeras! Valmeras, the owner of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille! Valmeras, the very man to whom he had applied for",
"created between them by the new conditions under which they lived, the\ntwo young people fell in love with each other. Valmeras loved\nRaymonde's melancholy charm; and she, wounded by life, greedy for"
],
[
"They knew the hiding-place where Arsene Lupin had taken refuge and lain\na-dying; there was no doubt about it: Dr. Delattre, who continued to",
"Arsene Lupin has been living in Paris for twelve months under the name\nof Etienne de Vaudreix. It is a name which you will often come across",
"them about the people who lived at the castle, and, particularly, about\nthe habits of Arsene Lupin. He thus learnt that Lupin came only every",
"Lupin held him in the air, like a living shield, behind which he hid\nhimself.\n\n\"Ten to one that I escape, Ganimard! Lupin, you see, has never quite\nexhausted his resources--\"",
"Since then, this road has been demolished by landslips. But Louis\nValmeras, better known by the name of Arsene Lupin, had it restored at",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\nHe took up the third card and started back with surprise. It bore his\nown name:\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet!\"",
"The motor arrived, an immense closed car. Lupin opened the door and\nBeautrelet gave a cry. There was a man inside and that man was Lupin,\nor rather Massiban. Suddenly understanding, he burst out laughing.\nLupin said:",
"Let us start at the beginning. On Thursday the sixteenth of April, at\nfour o'clock in the morning, Arsene Lupin, surprised in the middle of",
"Here we have the first of our two problems solved, at the same time\nthat the Ambrumesy mystery is set forth. Arsene Lupin found, close at",
"ARSENE LUPIN.\n\nAll, in turns, took the sheet of paper and the same cry escaped from\nthe lips of all of them:",
"Arsene Lupin had ended by laying his hand on the famous book of hours.\nOnce in possession of the document, he took the field, \"found\" and\nsettled down as in a conquered country.",
"Yes, Arsene Lupin was there. In theory and in fact, he was there:\nneither of them was now able to doubt it.",
"said Etienne de Vaudreix was none other than Arsene Lupin--as the\nofficial examination went to show--all this provided an additional",
"and yet invisible adversary, whom they had been hunting in vain for\nseveral days, could really be Arsene Lupin? Arsene Lupin, caught in a",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin!\" he cried, rising from his chair. \"The one and only\nArsene Lupin, returned from the realms of darkness, since it appears",
"\"Ten days,\" Arsene Lupin had said.",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin,\" repeated Beautrelet. \"The Queen's friend was\nunable to understand her desperate dying appeal. He lived with the",
"that I expired and passed away in a crypt! Arsene Lupin, alive and\nkicking, in the full exercise of his will, happy and free and more than",
"to the cliffs of the Channel almost invariably constituted the field of\noperations of Arsene Lupin. For ten years, it was just this district",
"\"To-day, of course, the case is different. We know his retreat, his\nstronghold, which means, when all is said, that Lupin is Lupin. He can\nescape. The Etretat Needle cannot.\""
],
[
"And so, a few years earlier, possessing the pamphlet and knowing the\nhiding-place in which Marie Antoinette had concealed the document,",
"conveyed to Marie Antoinette, who slipped it into the binding of her\nbook of hours. What has become of this paper? Is it the one which",
"\"Marie Antoinette's book of hours?\" he exclaimed. \"Why, the Queen left\nit to her waiting-woman, with secret instructions to forward it to",
"secret of the Royal house of France. But how did he know it? And why\ndid he wish to divulge it? Lastly, who was that strange personage? A",
"And suddenly Beautrelet gave a cry of stupefaction. Under the queen's\nsignature there were--there were two words, in black ink, underlined\nwith a flourish--two words:",
"does not wish it known. And, to reach his ends, he shrinks from\nnothing, he even undertakes that incredible theft of the two corpses\nwhich he needs in order to impersonate himself and Mlle. de",
"\"If she does not understand, sire--\"\n\n\"You must add, 'It concerns the secret, the secret of the Needle.' The\nQueen will understand.\"",
"\"In the following year, the son of this Larbeyrie and his daughter, who\nhad married the Marquis de Velines, were banished to their estates in\nProvence and Brittany. We cannot doubt that there is something peculiar\nin this.\"",
"It is, in fact, probable that this document, if it could have saved\nher, came too late, for, in the month of October next, Queen Marie\nAntoinette ascended the scaffold in her turn.",
"other was kept by Louis XIV., handed down to Louis XV., and burnt by\nLouis XVI. But a copy of the essential page, the page containing the\nsolution of the problem, or at least a cryptographic solution, was",
"\"But how can they hope to keep a secret like this? In the old days, one\nman alone held it: the king. To-day, already, there are a good few of\nus who know it, without counting Lupin's gang.\"",
"\"Yes, but the other copy, which King Louis XVI.'s captain of the guards\nsnatched from the flames, was not destroyed.\"\n\n\"How do you know?\"\n\n\"Prove the contrary.\"",
"In a rather ambiguous phrase in her examination, Joan of Arc admits\nthat she has still a great secret to tell the King of France. To which",
"Shears made a mistake. Carried away by his longing for revenge, he\nglanced across at Raymonde, whom these revelations filled with horror.\nLupin took advantage of his imprudence. With a sudden movement, he\nfired.",
"The seventeenth century arrives. Louis XIV. burns the book in which a\nperson unknown reveals the truth. Captain de Larbeyrie masters a copy,",
"\"Marie Antoinette!--Arsene Lupin!\"",
"the earlier chapters. It referred to a secret which was known to the\nKings of England, which was lost by them when the crown passed from the\npoor fool, Henry VI., to the Duke of York, which was revealed to",
"\"Beautrelet, I was at the Elysee last night. They look upon this matter\nas a state secret of the utmost gravity. There are serious reasons for",
"Nobody can see them. The footman Victor is watching the little door.\nThe other, Albert, posted at the drawing-room window, has lost sight of\nboth of them. Will she give up the man she has wounded?",
"\"You know quite well! Don't pretend not to know. You are at this moment\nin possession of a secret to which I attach the highest importance.\nThis secret you were free to guess, but you have no right to give it to\nthe public.\""
],
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"surprise! Our excellent amateur detective here! And at our disposal\ntoo! Why, it's a windfall!--M. Chief-inspector, allow me to introduce",
"Here we have the first of our two problems solved, at the same time\nthat the Ambrumesy mystery is set forth. Arsene Lupin found, close at",
"The story amused Louis Valmeras. He knew all the adventures of Arsene\nLupin and the varying fortunes of his struggle with Beautrelet. He\nrubbed his hands:",
"\"Who then?\"\n\n\"A young girl.\"\n\n\"Mlle. de Saint-Veran, no doubt.\"",
"It goes without saying that there was something about Arsene Lupin in\nall of them. Since the attempt at murder of which poor Isidore",
"\"I do.\"\n\n\"Have you discovered the traces of a third accomplice who disappeared\nbefore the arrival of the young ladies?\"\n\n\"I have not.\"",
"\"That is because you have not had time to reflect, Monsieur le Juge\nd'Instruction. The great thing is to reflect. Facts very seldom fail to\ncarry their own explanation!\"",
"Beautrelet went up to the young woman and stooped to examine her. Lupin\nrepeated:\n\n\"Dead--dead--\"",
"\"He is still a young man--\"\n\n\"Yes, with very expressive eyes, fair hair--\"\n\n\"And a beard?\"",
"\"I think, I am sure that your tenant is none other than Arsene Lupin.\"",
"misses a bookcase in three sections and a life-size statue which nobody\never noticed. And, if I asked you the name of the murderer?\"",
"It was an amusing and, at the same time, a significant meeting. The boy\nat once saw the full bearing of it. After an exchange of compliments,\nhe said to Shears:",
"\"It is very nearly a year ago, Monsieur le Juge d'Instruction, since a\nyoung man, who gave his name as Charpenais, came to the Chateau",
"So all was explained. It remained to decide which inn the doctor had\nspoken of: an easy piece of work for a Ganimard, a professional ferret,",
"Ganimard, after a minute, but utterly useless exploration of the ruins\nof Ambrumesy, returned to Paris by the fast night-train. On reaching\nhis apartment in the Rue Pergolese, he found an express letter awaiting\nhim:",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\n\"Ah,\" murmured the lad, confounded in spite of everything, \"Mlle. de\nSaint-Veran!\"",
"\"The probable truth! You go pretty fast, young man! Do you suggest that\nyou have your little solution of the riddle ready?\"\n\n\"Oh, no!\" replied Beautrelet, with a laugh.",
"\"Now, M. Beautrelet, it's you and I!\"\n\nBeautrelet adopted a listening attitude and Lupin began, in measured,\nbut harsh and masterful tones:",
"He spoke softly, in a tone of infinite politeness. He was quite a young\nman, very tall, very slender and dressed without the least attempt at",
"\"Why don't you help, Beautrelet?\" cried the old detective, gnashing his\nteeth with rage. \"Why don't you shoot him, instead of staring at him\nlike that?\""
],
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"Masters of the secret, the Kings of England lord it over France, humble\nher, dismember her, have themselves crowned at Paris. They lose the\nsecret; and the rout begins.",
"Charles VII., King of France, by Joan of Arc and which, becoming a\nState secret, was handed down from sovereign to sovereign by means of a",
"\"Monsieur, after my death, you must hand this to the Queen and say to\nher, 'From the King, madame--for Your Majesty and for your son.' If she\ndoes not understand--\"",
"France; and these two are King Henry IV., who laid siege to Rouen and\nwon the battle of Arques, near Dieppe, and Francis I., who founded the\nHavre and uttered that suggestive phrase:",
"roads lead in that direction. Two kings of France are mentioned more\nparticularly, after the secret is lost by the Dukes of Normandy and\ntheir heirs, the kings of England, and becomes the royal secret of",
"the earlier chapters. It referred to a secret which was known to the\nKings of England, which was lost by them when the crown passed from the\npoor fool, Henry VI., to the Duke of York, which was revealed to",
"\"The kings of France carry secrets that often decide the fate of towns!\"",
"\"Yes, no doubt, in times of invasion and during the civil wars. But its\nreal destination was to be--how shall I put it?--the strong-room or the\nbank of the kings of France.\"",
"Because he knows this key, Caesar is able to subdue Gaul. Because they\nknow it, the Normans force their sway upon the country and, from there,",
"CHAPTER TEN\n\nTHE TREASURES OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE\n\n\nA curtain was drawn back.",
"\"The document, of course! The document written by Louis XVI.; and it is\nthat which I held in my hands. The same appearance, the same shape, the",
"Between these two, Francis I., in a speech addressed to the notables of\nthe Havre, in 1520, uttered this phrase, which has been handed down in",
"This secret concerned the existence and described the whereabouts of a\ntremendous treasure, belonging to the kings, which increased in\ndimensions from century to century.",
"The seventeenth century arrives. Louis XIV. burns the book in which a\nperson unknown reveals the truth. Captain de Larbeyrie masters a copy,",
"Masters of the secret, the Kings of France push back and overstep the\nnarrow limits of their dominion, gradually founding a great nation and",
"But the Havre, the neighborhood of the Havre drew Isidore like a\nbeacon-fire.\n\n\"The kings of France carry secrets that often decide the fate of towns!\"",
"What a fascinating procession through the ages! What a rousing\nspectacle was that of all those barons, dukes and kings, starting from\nsuch widely opposite points to meet in this particular corner of the",
"supernatural kingdom! From Caesar to Lupin: what a destiny!\" He burst\nout laughing. \"King of fairyland! Why not say King of Yvetot at once?",
"\"Yes, but the other copy, which King Louis XVI.'s captain of the guards\nsnatched from the flames, was not destroyed.\"\n\n\"How do you know?\"\n\n\"Prove the contrary.\"",
"And right at the beginning of the adventure, who is that chief of the\nCaleti who pays his ransom to Caesar with the secret of the Needle but\nthe chief of the men of the Caux country, which lies in the very heart\nof Normandy?"
],
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"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"M. Filleul looked him straight in the eyes and said, sharply:\n\n\"No more jokes! Your name?\"\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Your occupation?\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"BEAUTRELET.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIsidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, \"Cuzion, Indre.\"",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"\"My dear chap, let me introduce M. Isidore Beautrelet.\" And, addressing\nthe young man, he continued, \"I have to thank you, M. Beautrelet,",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer to his question. It\nseemed as though he were in a hurry to give the answer himself and to\navoid all comment. He continued straightway:",
"The excitement was intense. Isidore Beautrelet awoke to find himself a\nhero; and the crowd, suddenly infatuated, insisted upon the fullest",
"At nine o'clock on Monday morning, as soon as M. Filleul had arrived,\nGanimard announced the capture which he had made. The prisoner was\nbrought downstairs. It was Isidore Beautrelet.",
"It was an unexpected and dramatic stroke. Isidore Beautrelet appeared\nnonplussed:\n\n\"I, mademoiselle? I? You saw me yesterday?\"",
"Nor was this the last surprise awaiting Sergeant Quevillon. At dawn,\nwhen they entered the oratory which had been used as a cell for young\nIsidore Beautrelet, they realized that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nvanished.",
"Beautrelet gave a shudder. It was the first time that he was\nexperiencing the sense of danger. And such danger! He felt himself in\nthe presence of an implacable enemy, endowed with blind and\nirresistible strength.",
"On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nadministered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly,",
"\"Good-afternoon, M. Beautrelet.\"\n\nWithout hesitation, Isidore sat down beside the man and said:"
],
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"M. Filleul looked him straight in the eyes and said, sharply:\n\n\"No more jokes! Your name?\"\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Your occupation?\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer to his question. It\nseemed as though he were in a hurry to give the answer himself and to\navoid all comment. He continued straightway:",
"Isidore Beautrelet's face denoted a keen vexation.\n\n\"Will it be for long?\"\n\n\"Long enough to collect the necessary information.\"",
"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"Isidore Beautrelet, nerve-shattered at all this talk, interrupted him\nbluntly:\n\n\"I beg your pardon, monsieur, but the book--\"",
"\"Good-afternoon, M. Beautrelet.\"\n\nWithout hesitation, Isidore sat down beside the man and said:",
"\"M. Isidore Beautrelet!\" exclaimed M. Filleul with an air of rapture,\nholding out both his hands to the newcomer. \"What a delightful",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"\"My dear chap, let me introduce M. Isidore Beautrelet.\" And, addressing\nthe young man, he continued, \"I have to thank you, M. Beautrelet,",
"On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nadministered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly,",
"It was an unexpected and dramatic stroke. Isidore Beautrelet appeared\nnonplussed:\n\n\"I, mademoiselle? I? You saw me yesterday?\"",
"The excitement was intense. Isidore Beautrelet awoke to find himself a\nhero; and the crowd, suddenly infatuated, insisted upon the fullest",
"BEAUTRELET.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIsidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, \"Cuzion, Indre.\"",
"Valmeras gently uncrossed his hands and raised his head.\n\nIsidore Beautrelet was weeping.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER SEVEN",
"Beautrelet gave a shudder. It was the first time that he was\nexperiencing the sense of danger. And such danger! He felt himself in\nthe presence of an implacable enemy, endowed with blind and\nirresistible strength.",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"Isidore Beautrelet completed his journey to Dieppe without moving a\nlimb. Bent in two, with his elbows on his knees and his hands plastered\nagainst his face, he sat thinking.",
"At nine o'clock on Monday morning, as soon as M. Filleul had arrived,\nGanimard announced the capture which he had made. The prisoner was\nbrought downstairs. It was Isidore Beautrelet.",
"\"The fact is that you know nothing, M. Isidore Beautrelet.\""
],
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"It is a sanctuary and also a stupendous hiding-place. All the treasures\nof the kings, increasing from century to century, all the gold of",
"moment, that it is a formidable, inexhaustible treasure--or else an\ninvisible, prodigious, fantastic refuge--or both perhaps. Think of the",
"This secret concerned the existence and described the whereabouts of a\ntremendous treasure, belonging to the kings, which increased in\ndimensions from century to century.",
"CHAPTER TEN\n\nTHE TREASURES OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE\n\n\nA curtain was drawn back.",
"A dazzling sight presented itself. Every sort of precious stone\nsparkled there, every color gleamed, the blue of the sapphires, the red\nof the rubies, the green of the emeralds, the yellow of the topazes.",
"stones and the diamonds; and all the jewels and all the ornaments:\neverything is there. Who could discover it? Who could ever learn the\nimpenetrable secret of the Needle? Nobody.",
"IX. Open, Sesame!\n X. The Treasures of the Kings of France",
"treasure, I shall lay at her feet. She will be happy. She will love me.",
"and he gives way to it. A proof? His murder. A further proof? The\nmagnificent jewel found upon him, which he must undoubtedly have taken",
"\"That's impossible! My friends and I have searched the whole naval\nharbor.\"\n\n\"Then he has left it!\"\n\n\"Impossible, every outlet is guarded!\"",
"\"Yes, Beautrelet, there is something--the sixth hiding-place! This one\nwas intangible. Not one of them dared touch it. It was the very last",
"And this man soars above everything. There is in his flight a wealth of\nimagination, a force and power, a skill and freedom that send a thrill\nthrough me!\"",
"all the doubloons; but the chest with the jewels has remained intact.\nLook at the settings. They belong to every period, to every century, to",
"While speaking, he moved toward a large triptych by Van der Weyden,\nrepresenting the Wise Men of the East. He shut the right-hand panel\nand, in so doing, exposed a little door concealed behind it and seized\nthe handle.",
"\"The Rubenses and something besides--something which has been replaced\nby a similar thing, as in the case of the Rubenses; something much more\nuncommon, much rarer, much more valuable than the Rubenses.\"",
"\"This is the last room,\" said Lupin. \"The treasury.\"",
"from some royal treasure the hiding-place of which, unknown to all,\nwould just constitute the mystery of the Hollow Needle. Lupin conveyed\nas much to me; Lupin was not lying.\"",
"heaped up in the royal cave. Old Merovingian gold sous, glittering\ncrown-pieces, doubloons, ducats, florins, guineas; and the precious",
"\"Ah, my little man, that's what interests you most! None of those\nmasterpieces of human art can compete with the contemplation of the",
"An invisible kingdom, in mid-water and at ten fathoms from land! An\nunknown fortress, taller than the towers of Notre Dame and built upon a"
],
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"Isidore saw it all in a flash. The Chateau de l'Aiguille! The\ndepartment of the Creuse! L'AIGUILLE CREUSE! The Hollow Needle! The",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"Suddenly, he had an idea, handed his portfolio to Bredoux, ran round\nthe chateau and made for the ruins. Isidore Beautrelet was lying near",
"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep\nsilence. The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"\"The Chateau de l'Aiguille?--Oh!--But in what department are we? The\nIndre?\"",
"BEAUTRELET.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIsidore at once looked at the postmarks. They read, \"Cuzion, Indre.\"",
"M. Filleul looked him straight in the eyes and said, sharply:\n\n\"No more jokes! Your name?\"\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet.\"\n\n\"Your occupation?\"",
"proved stronger than their professional pride, suddenly enlightened the\npublic as to the part played by Isidore Beautrelet in recent events. He\nalone had done everything. To him alone the merit of the victory was",
"Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer to his question. It\nseemed as though he were in a hurry to give the answer himself and to\navoid all comment. He continued straightway:",
"The excitement was intense. Isidore Beautrelet awoke to find himself a\nhero; and the crowd, suddenly infatuated, insisted upon the fullest",
"Nor was this the last surprise awaiting Sergeant Quevillon. At dawn,\nwhen they entered the oratory which had been used as a cell for young\nIsidore Beautrelet, they realized that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nvanished.",
"On examination, it was proved, first, that young Isidore Beautrelet had\nadministered a sleeping draught to the village policeman; secondly,",
"CHAPTER TWO\n\nISIDORE BEAUTRELET, SIXTH-FORM SCHOOLBOY\n\n\nFrom the Grand Journal.",
"Beautrelet succeeded in climbing over, not without some difficulty.\nOver the pointed door, which was closed with an old rusty lock, he read\nthe words:\n\nFORT DE FREFOSSE",
"\"M. Isidore Beautrelet!\" exclaimed M. Filleul with an air of rapture,\nholding out both his hands to the newcomer. \"What a delightful",
"It was an unexpected and dramatic stroke. Isidore Beautrelet appeared\nnonplussed:\n\n\"I, mademoiselle? I? You saw me yesterday?\"",
"Beautrelet gave a shudder. It was the first time that he was\nexperiencing the sense of danger. And such danger! He felt himself in\nthe presence of an implacable enemy, endowed with blind and\nirresistible strength."
],
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"\"That's the Chateau de l'Aiguille, sir.\"\n\nHe had put his question without attaching any importance to it. The\nanswer took away his breath:",
"and had found the Chateau de l'Aiguille, of profiting by your\nobstinacy.\"",
"The old chateau came into view--once the abbey residence of the priors\nof Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revolution, both restored by the",
"The notary mentioned a number of properties. Beautrelet took note of\nthem and let fall that some one had spoken to him of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille, on the bank of the Creuse.",
"And, in the course of conversation with the old man, he learnt that\nthis castle, standing on the bank of the Creuse, was called the Chateau",
"Here ended the letter. But, for some minutes, from the passage that\nreferred to the Chateau de l'Aiguille onward, it was not Beautrelet's",
"They had reached the out-houses at the back of the chateau. Beautrelet\njumped on his bicycle and rode away.",
"whom he had taken to live with him two years before, when the\nsimultaneous death of her father and mother left Raymonde an orphan.\nLife at the chateau was peaceful and regular. A few neighbors paid an",
"\"Ha, the Chateau de l'Aiguille will become famous!--I'm sure I don't\nmind, for, as a matter of fact, now that my mother no longer lives in",
"Comte de Gesvres, who had now owned it for some twenty years. It\nconsists of a main building, surmounted by a pinnacled clock-tower, and",
"ruins of its castle. There Charel made a halt of an hour's duration.\nNext he went down to the riverside and crossed the bridge.",
"Ambrumesy appeared in sight. He coasted at full speed down the slope\nleading to the chateau. The top rows of venerable trees that line the",
"A year later, Louis XIV. buys a domain and builds the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille. Where does he select his site? In the Midlands of France,",
"mile from the chateau, at the foot of the tree known as the Great Oak,\nthat they stopped--and executed their purpose.\"",
"\"I don't think so. It's an historic castle, built in the purest Louis\nXIII. style. My client was very fond of it; and, unless he has changed\nhis mind--\"",
"\"Oh, yes, but the Chateau de l'Aiguille, which has belonged to one of\nmy clients for the last five years, is not for sale.\"\n\n\"He lives in it, then?\"",
"\"Yes--a name--like Chateau--\"\n\n\"Chateaubriant?--Chateau-Thierry?--\"\n\n\"No-no--\"",
"hand, in the chateau itself, the assistance which was indispensable to\nhim in order, first, not to be discovered and, secondly, to live.",
"\"What was this 'rest'? A work of art, a curiosity? The chateau contains\nnothing of any value besides the Rubenses and the tapestries. Jewelry?",
"fell upon a sort of little castle, built in imitation of an ancient\nfort, with cracked turrets and Gothic windows. It stood on a jagged,"
],
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"Arsene Lupin has been living in Paris for twelve months under the name\nof Etienne de Vaudreix. It is a name which you will often come across",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\nHe took up the third card and started back with surprise. It bore his\nown name:\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet!\"",
"them about the people who lived at the castle, and, particularly, about\nthe habits of Arsene Lupin. He thus learnt that Lupin came only every",
"said Etienne de Vaudreix was none other than Arsene Lupin--as the\nofficial examination went to show--all this provided an additional",
"Arsene Lupin, a contrast so perfect even that, to my mind, Lupin\nappeared as much perplexed as myself.",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin!\" he cried, rising from his chair. \"The one and only\nArsene Lupin, returned from the realms of darkness, since it appears",
"confederates introduced to him by the name of Arsene Lupin. And, as the\ncorpse of Etienne de Vaudreix was found in that same crypt and as the",
"ARSENE LUPIN.\n\nAll, in turns, took the sheet of paper and the same cry escaped from\nthe lips of all of them:",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\n\"Ah,\" murmured the lad, confounded in spite of everything, \"Mlle. de\nSaint-Veran!\"",
"Yes, Arsene Lupin was there. In theory and in fact, he was there:\nneither of them was now able to doubt it.",
"The story amused Louis Valmeras. He knew all the adventures of Arsene\nLupin and the varying fortunes of his struggle with Beautrelet. He\nrubbed his hands:",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin,\" repeated Beautrelet. \"The Queen's friend was\nunable to understand her desperate dying appeal. He lived with the",
"Since then, this road has been demolished by landslips. But Louis\nValmeras, better known by the name of Arsene Lupin, had it restored at",
"\"I think, I am sure that your tenant is none other than Arsene Lupin.\"",
"Let us start at the beginning. On Thursday the sixteenth of April, at\nfour o'clock in the morning, Arsene Lupin, surprised in the middle of",
"Arsene Lupin, was--Valmeras! Valmeras, the owner of the Chateau de\nl'Aiguille! Valmeras, the very man to whom he had applied for",
"It goes without saying that there was something about Arsene Lupin in\nall of them. Since the attempt at murder of which poor Isidore",
"\"Arsene Lupin!\" stammered one of the voices, thus emphasizing the scare\nthat underlay the sight of that demoniacal name at the foot of the\nhallowed page.",
"\"No, no,\" protested Lupin. \"Mme. Arsene Lupin, or rather, if you\nprefer, Mme. Louis Valmeras, my wedded wife, married to me in",
"and yet invisible adversary, whom they had been hunting in vain for\nseveral days, could really be Arsene Lupin? Arsene Lupin, caught in a"
],
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"Arsene Lupin has been living in Paris for twelve months under the name\nof Etienne de Vaudreix. It is a name which you will often come across",
"They knew the hiding-place where Arsene Lupin had taken refuge and lain\na-dying; there was no doubt about it: Dr. Delattre, who continued to",
"them about the people who lived at the castle, and, particularly, about\nthe habits of Arsene Lupin. He thus learnt that Lupin came only every",
"Since then, this road has been demolished by landslips. But Louis\nValmeras, better known by the name of Arsene Lupin, had it restored at",
"Lupin held him in the air, like a living shield, behind which he hid\nhimself.\n\n\"Ten to one that I escape, Ganimard! Lupin, you see, has never quite\nexhausted his resources--\"",
"\"Mme. Arsene Lupin.\"\n\nHe took up the third card and started back with surprise. It bore his\nown name:\n\n\"Isidore Beautrelet!\"",
"Let us start at the beginning. On Thursday the sixteenth of April, at\nfour o'clock in the morning, Arsene Lupin, surprised in the middle of",
"The motor arrived, an immense closed car. Lupin opened the door and\nBeautrelet gave a cry. There was a man inside and that man was Lupin,\nor rather Massiban. Suddenly understanding, he burst out laughing.\nLupin said:",
"Here we have the first of our two problems solved, at the same time\nthat the Ambrumesy mystery is set forth. Arsene Lupin found, close at",
"ARSENE LUPIN.\n\nAll, in turns, took the sheet of paper and the same cry escaped from\nthe lips of all of them:",
"and yet invisible adversary, whom they had been hunting in vain for\nseveral days, could really be Arsene Lupin? Arsene Lupin, caught in a",
"Arsene Lupin had ended by laying his hand on the famous book of hours.\nOnce in possession of the document, he took the field, \"found\" and\nsettled down as in a conquered country.",
"Yes, Arsene Lupin was there. In theory and in fact, he was there:\nneither of them was now able to doubt it.",
"said Etienne de Vaudreix was none other than Arsene Lupin--as the\nofficial examination went to show--all this provided an additional",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin!\" he cried, rising from his chair. \"The one and only\nArsene Lupin, returned from the realms of darkness, since it appears",
"that I expired and passed away in a crypt! Arsene Lupin, alive and\nkicking, in the full exercise of his will, happy and free and more than",
"to the cliffs of the Channel almost invariably constituted the field of\noperations of Arsene Lupin. For ten years, it was just this district",
"Arsene Lupin gives and bequeaths to France\n all the treasures contained in the Hollow Needle,\n on the sole condition that these treasures be housed",
"\"Yes, Arsene Lupin,\" repeated Beautrelet. \"The Queen's friend was\nunable to understand her desperate dying appeal. He lived with the",
"\"To-day, of course, the case is different. We know his retreat, his\nstronghold, which means, when all is said, that Lupin is Lupin. He can\nescape. The Etretat Needle cannot.\""
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"The Chateau de l'Aiguille also known as what?",
"Who built the Chateau de l'Aiguille?",
"When did the mystery of The Hollow Needle, start?",
"What level of school is Isidore Beautrelet?",
"What is Isidore Beautrelet known for being?",
"What other name is Arsene Lupin known by?",
"Why was the chateau built by Louis XIV?",
"Where did Arsene Lupid decide to hide himself?",
"What is young amateur detective Isidore Beautrelet in search of?",
"What is the legendary Hollow Needle supposed to contain?",
"Who is believed, in the story, to have mastered the secret of the Hollow Needle?",
"What does Isidore discover in the department of Creuse?",
"What does Isidore believe the chateau de l'Aiguille represents?",
"Who built the Chateau de l'Aiguille?",
"Why was the Chateau de l'Aiguille built? ",
"Where is the real Needle?",
"Who is Louis Valmeras?",
"Where has Arsene Lupin hid himself?",
"What is the \"second secret\" of Mari Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro?",
"Who is the young but gifted amateur detective?",
"The Kings of France have been handing down \"this\" since the time of Julius Ceaser?",
"Where does Isidore Beautrelet discover the Chateau de lAiguille?",
"Isidore Beautrelet is poised to give who a big headache?",
"This contains the most fabulous treasure ever imagined?",
"What did Isidore Beautrelet find when he discovers the Chateau de l'Aiguille in the department of Creuse?",
"Who was the Chateau built by?",
"Arsene Lupin was also known as?",
"Where has Arsene Lupin hidden himself?"
] |
[
[
"The Hollow Needle",
"The hollow needle"
],
[
"Louis XIV, the King of France",
"Louis XIV"
],
[
"With Julius Caesar",
"1924"
],
[
"High School",
"High school"
],
[
"A young but gifted amateur detective",
"A young, gifted detective"
],
[
"Louis Valmeras",
"Louis Valmeras"
],
[
"To keep people away from the needle in Normady",
"mislead those hunting for the needle in Normandy."
],
[
"The town of Le Havre near Normady",
"The town of Le Havre."
],
[
"The secret of the Hollow Needle. ",
"The solution to the Hollow Needle."
],
[
"It is believed to contain all of the fortunes of the kings of France.",
"A collection of valuable jewels and gems."
],
[
"Arsene Lupin.",
"Arsene Lupin"
],
[
"The Chateau de l'Aiguille. ",
"Chateau de L'Aiguille"
],
[
"The answer to the riddle of the Hollow Needle. ",
"The secret to the riddle"
],
[
"Louis XIV, the King of France.",
"Louis XIV"
],
[
"To throw people off track of the real needle. ",
"Le Havre"
],
[
"In Normandy, near the town of Le Havre. ",
"Hidden In Secret place within France"
],
[
"Arsene Lupin.",
"Arsene Lupin"
],
[
"Near Le Havre in Normandy. ",
"Near the town of Le Havre in Normandy"
],
[
"The Hollow Needle",
"The Hollow Needle"
],
[
"Isidore Beautrelet",
"Isidore Beautrelet"
],
[
"A Secret",
"Secrets of the Mystery of the Hidden Needle"
],
[
"Department of Creuse",
"The department of Creuse"
],
[
"Arsene Lupin",
"Arsene Lupin"
],
[
"The Legendary Needle",
"The Hollow Needle."
],
[
"The Solution to the riddle",
"He thinks found solution to riddle"
],
[
"Louis XIV",
"Louis the 15th"
],
[
"Louis Valmeras",
"Under a different name Louis Valmeras in hiding"
],
[
"Le Havre",
"the chateau King Louis 15th built"
]
] |
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[
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"Oh, that miserable little prick is\n\t already leaving.\n\t\n\tThey approach a row of brownstones, narrow four story",
"Lydia turns, gives Meg an \"are you insane?\" look.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t What say we see the house before we",
"neighbor's brownstone.\n\t\n\tShe begins to step off the distance, heel to toe, measuring\n\twith her feet until she reaches the metal door that is the",
"she can see out of the house, into the courtyard behind the\n\tbrownstone.\n\t\n\tAbout thirty yards away she can see the backs of the",
"The same house, two weeks later. The entry floor is piled\n\thigh with moving boxes. Sarah and Meg lie sprawled out in\n\tthe middle of the black and white tile, arms and legs splayed",
"The front door closes behind them, with a THUD so\n\tauthoritative it seems to say no one's ever getting out. Meg\n\ttries to get her daughter's attention, to tell her to stop",
"unusual, the elevator, you will not\n\t find this in ninety percent of\n\t brownstones.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Losing patience, Meg just pulls the Neighbor out of the way\n\tand shoves into the house. The Neighbor stumbles out onto",
"Meg sits up in bed. She's bleary, her head feels like\n\tsomeone rested a manhole cover on it. She gets up, in the",
"What do you think, I mean, give me a\n\t clue, here, where are we gonna live?\n\t\n\tMeg rolls over, props herself up on one elbow. She seems",
"Meg, dressed in an old Knicks T-shirt and boxer shorts,\n\tstands next to the alarm panel in the master bedroom, reading",
"Meg takes a breath, walks across the foyer, tousling her hair\n\tas she goes.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,",
"She looks at Meg and winks.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - DAY\n\t\n\t EVAN",
"Straining to see (yet stay in the house), we see Meg all the\n\tway at the right edge of the frame, as she shifts the gun to",
"INT. LIBRARY - NIGHT\n\t\n\tStill leaning out the window, we can see Meg from here as she",
"Meg is hugely relieved. And extremely pissed off. She goes\n\tto the corner of the room and picks up the gun, the one that\n\tRaoul dropped.",
"The door begins to crank open, Meg slips through the gap\n\tsideways before it's even all the way open. She darts across\n\tthe room --",
"pair of feet pad across the CREAKY floor. Finally, they hear\n\ta SQUEAK of bedsprings as Meg climbs back into bed.",
"Shoulda got an apartment.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Well, I know that now.\n\t\n\t SARAH"
],
[
"neighbor's brownstone.\n\t\n\tShe begins to step off the distance, heel to toe, measuring\n\twith her feet until she reaches the metal door that is the",
"door, Burnham continues to rant, but there's a second sound,\n\ta sound coming from the long wall of the panic room, the wall\n\tthat's shared with the brownstone next door.",
"unusual, the elevator, you will not\n\t find this in ninety percent of\n\t brownstones.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"brownstones on the next block, and directly across (because\n\tthe tube doesn't leave much room for lateral vision) she can\n\tsee straight into somebody's bedroom.",
"she can see out of the house, into the courtyard behind the\n\tbrownstone.\n\t\n\tAbout thirty yards away she can see the backs of the",
"EVAN\n\t Third floor, spare bedroom, den,\n\t what have you. Mr. Pearlstine used\n\t it as an office.",
"silhouetted by the sunlight streaming through the bedroom\n\twindows behind them.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t It's called a panic room.",
"Oh, that miserable little prick is\n\t already leaving.\n\t\n\tThey approach a row of brownstones, narrow four story",
"upstairs bedroom. Nice, roomy, looks out on the courtyard.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t Top floor. Two bedrooms, one",
"living room, peers through the big French doors, which look\n\tout over the courtyard area. There's another row of\n\tbrownstones on the next block, and all the patios back up to",
"We rise up further still, above where the ceiling ought to\n\tbe, to look down on this room and the one beside it, the room\n\tbehind the four inches of reinforced steel, the panic room in",
"behind it. There's a latticework of two by four studs, and\n\tbeyond those the dull shine of the wall's metal core.",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"And we emerge in the master bedroom.\n\t\n\tHe checks his watch.\n\t\n\tMeg looks around, studying the dimensions of the room. She",
"Working elevator. Mr. Pearlstine,\n\t the previous owner, was disabled the\n\t last ten years of his life. Highly",
"LYDIA\n\t Old Bernie didn't miss a trick with\n\t this room, did he?\n\t\n\t MEG",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\t-- and come out in the panic room. Three red streamers, tied",
"the doorway to her bedroom.\n\t\n\tNoiselessly, the Man moves away, down the hall. The moment\n\this head disappears down the stairwell --",
"The intruders are in the master bedroom now, and Burnham is\n\tlike a man possessed, tearing at the sheetrock with the sharp",
"She goes to the front wall of the bedroom, stands with her\n\tback against the exterior wall (street side), with her left\n\tshoulder against the common wall that's shared with the"
],
[
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"through shelves, opening drawers. Every drawer has something\n\tin it, sealed under plastic. She opens and closes, sorts and\n\tlifts finds the following:",
"rich as hell, he was worth thirty\n\t million or something, now it turns\n\t out they can't find half of it.\n\t (singsong)",
"Somebody took something didn't\n\t belong to them!\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t I hardly see how family gossip is",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"Burnham unsnaps his satchel and gives it a shove. It rolls\n\tout and opens up onto the floor, revealing a neat array of\n\tsafecracking tools.",
"fistful of bills at them.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Here. For your time.",
"SARAH\n\t What do they want?\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I don't know. Rob us. I don't",
"They both just stare at him.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Five hundred bucks here.",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"something. Junior returns a moment later holding something\n\tand the three of them hunch over a box, working on something.\n\t\n\tAfter a moment, they break apart and Junior steps up to the",
"the three men hear her footsteps, as one, they take off for\n\tthe stairs.\n\t\n\tIN THE MASTER BEDROOM,",
"clothes, blankets -- you get the idea.\n\t\n\t LYDIA\n\t Hey, this is perfect for you...",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"Burnham stops, sags to his knees. He reaches into his\n\tjacket, pulls out the loose stack of bonds.",
"clothes. They also carry satchels.\n\t\n\tThey walks calmly across the street, grow large in the window",
"the leather pouch. Burnham stands, looking down at them.\n\tRaoul grabs him, pulls him to the far end of the room.\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"unfamiliar to us. They sort through the pile, choosing\n\tthings.\n\t\n\tINT. KITCHEN FLOOR - REAR DOORS - NIGHT",
"The three intruders are gathered in the living room, standing\n\tin a tight circle, having a hell of an argument. Lots of",
"ripping off, it's my prick\n\t grandfather who built that fucking\n\t room, it was my idea to get the\n\t plans, I found the floor safe, and"
],
[
"Somebody took something didn't\n\t belong to them!\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t I hardly see how family gossip is",
"through shelves, opening drawers. Every drawer has something\n\tin it, sealed under plastic. She opens and closes, sorts and\n\tlifts finds the following:",
"SARAH\n\t What do they want?\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I don't know. Rob us. I don't",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"the three men hear her footsteps, as one, they take off for\n\tthe stairs.\n\t\n\tIN THE MASTER BEDROOM,",
"something. Junior returns a moment later holding something\n\tand the three of them hunch over a box, working on something.\n\t\n\tAfter a moment, they break apart and Junior steps up to the",
"Burnham unsnaps his satchel and gives it a shove. It rolls\n\tout and opens up onto the floor, revealing a neat array of\n\tsafecracking tools.",
"The three intruders are gathered in the living room, standing\n\tin a tight circle, having a hell of an argument. Lots of",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"But that's not what he's after. He continues tearing,\n\treveals an air duct running through the wall, feeding into",
"on clothes, staring down at the dead body in mute shock.\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"clothes. They also carry satchels.\n\t\n\tThey walks calmly across the street, grow large in the window",
"She blinks. Takes a step, further into the room. She stares\n\tat the video monitors -- at the three men in dark clothes,\n\tstealing silently across the foyer.",
"the leather pouch. Burnham stands, looking down at them.\n\tRaoul grabs him, pulls him to the far end of the room.\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"RATTLES aside, and Meg and Sarah leap out. They take off\n\tdown the hall, toward the doorway to the master bedroom.",
"unfamiliar to us. They sort through the pile, choosing\n\tthings.\n\t\n\tINT. KITCHEN FLOOR - REAR DOORS - NIGHT",
"Raoul flies down the stairs, not twenty feet behind them.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"landing. Still moving stealthily, Junior heads down the hall\n\tfor the master bedroom, where he thinks Meg is sleeping.\n\tRaoul heads for the stairs that lead to the top floor."
],
[
"She looks up, sees the infrared safety beam over her head,\n\tand realizes with horror what his intention is.\n\t\n\tStill with one arm holding Sarah, who is kicking and",
"her. She looks at her daughter, curious -- your plan?\n\t\n\tSarah reaches into the tube, finds the little flash button on\n\tthe top of the flashlight.",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\t-- and come out in the panic room. Three red streamers, tied",
"They're bare, no video cameras. Good.\n\t\n\tShe goes to the window, tries to open it. Screwed shut, of\n\tcourse.",
"In the panic room, Meg punches 9-1-1 on her cell phone with\n\ttrembling fingers.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"not what she meant to do, but at least she got the alarm on\n\tfor the night.\n\t\n\tThe door that leads from the panic room to the master bedroom",
"light, which is flashing directly in his eyes.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,\n\t\n\t MEG",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"Meg manages to raise her head, breaking the beam.\n\t\n\tINT. HALLWAY - NIGHT",
"tell what he's doing. He's reaching up, stretching for\n\tsomething. It drops into view with a metallic SCRAPE.\n\t\n\tThe fire escape.",
"IN THE PANIC ROOM,\n\t\n\tSarah is frustrated. She adjusts the flashlight.\n\t\n\tTHROUGH THE TUBE,",
"The very moment the red light goes on, we cut sharply to --\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"CUT TO:\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"CUT TO:\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"on clothes, staring down at the dead body in mute shock.\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"shoulder into it, and slithers to the ground, too late.\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"against it, cups his hands so he can see better. The flashes\n\tcontinue, right on top of him now.",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"through it.\n\t\n\tShe sits up, gestures to her mother to bend down next to her.\n\tShe does, and they both jam their mouths up near the end of",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg tries desperately to see something on the bedroom"
],
[
"Burnham shoves the end of the garden hose into the hole he's\n\tjust drilled in the air duct.",
"The intruders are in the master bedroom now, and Burnham is\n\tlike a man possessed, tearing at the sheetrock with the sharp",
"Burnham is freaking out, but trying to stay calm.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Oh God... oh, my God...",
"the panic room through a welded hole in the steel. Burnham\n\ttears away with the hammer, exposing a short section of the\n\tduct.",
"Burnham throws himself back on the floor, goes back to work\n\ton the safe. Fires up the drill again, it SCREAMS into the\n\tmetal.",
"Pause. Then, as if a starting gun has been fired, Burnham\n\tleaps to his feet and races out of the bedroom.",
"air, and they'll be fine.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Junior, you gigantic idiot, how are",
"Burnham turns, looks up at the camera in the corner of the\n\troom.\n\t\n\tHe can't stand it anymore. He whips off his jacket, runs to",
"On the stairwell, Burnham, stops, frozen, his face twitching\n\twith indecision. He hears the murder taking place just above\n\thim.",
"He pulls his gun, shoves it into Burnham's eye, hard, we can\n\thear the faint SIZZLE of skin burning.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"-- Burnham leaps through the air, hurling himself toward the\n\tpropane tank --\n\t\n\tINSIDE THE DUCT,",
"Burnham chews a fingernail. If only he could get closer. He\n\tthrows a look back at the door to the panic room. He looks\n\tback out the bedroom door. Listening.",
"And he disappears, down the stairs, Burnham still pleading\n\twith him.\n\t\n\tINT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT",
"to the air vent, flap to life as the gas HISSES into the\n\tpanic room.\n\t\n\tDirectly underneath the vent, Meg is hunched up against the",
"Burnham stands up, turns to the video camera, and SHOUTS.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t OPEN THE GOD DAMN DOOR!",
"Junior cut the phones.\n\t\n\tBurnham goes to the window and stares outside. He laughs,\n\tcovers his face.",
"At the window, Burnham notices something sitting just outside\n\tthe French doors, on the balcony. It's a large outdoor\n\tbarbecue grill. He thinks, takes a step closer.",
"He smiles and pulls his ski mask back on, to cover his face.\n\t\n\tComing around behind him, we see Burnham sitting in the",
"Burnham's eyes suddenly pop wide as he identifies the sound.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Oh.",
"-- the person on the bed in the bedroom is Burnham, wearing\n\tHarris's shirt. His eyes pop open, he sits up, sees the wide\n\topen door to the panic room."
],
[
"With an abrupt SHRIEK, the line goes dead. Meg pauses, can't\n\tbelieve it.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Damn it!\n\t\n\tNo more time to hold. Meg hangs up the phone, dials another\n\tnumber, a seven digit one she knows by heart.",
"Meg tries another wire. Still no dial tone. Sarah shoves\n\tanother wire at her. She tries again. Nothing. She moves\n\ton.",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"With the phone receiver cradled on her shoulder, Meg starts\n\ttwisting the ends of wires onto the exposed ends of the wires\n\tfrom the phone unit. First wire -- nothing. She tries a",
"INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT\n\t\n\tIn the kitchen, Junior goes to the wall phone Meg used to\n\tcall for pizza earlier. He cuts the phone wire with a",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg raises the cell phone to her ear --\n\t\n\t-- and gets a rapid busy signal.",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg listens as a phone rings on the other end. And rings.\n\tAnd rings again.",
"While Sarah goes to work on the wires, Meg turns to the phone\n\titself, the one with the buried phone line that isn't working",
"Meg's fingernails paw the phone, pull it closer to her. She\n\tgrabs it, stands --\n\t\n\tIN THE HALLWAY,",
"INT. KITCHEN - DAY\n\t\n\tMeg picks up the wall phone in the kitchen, gets a dial tone.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"In the panic room, Meg punches 9-1-1 on her cell phone with\n\ttrembling fingers.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"listens for a dial tone.\n\t\n\tNothing there either.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Damn it!",
"Meg sits back, eyes alive with an idea. If only she could\n\tget to that phone, which must be still under the bed. She",
"Meg and Sarah run through the master bedroom. As she passes\n\tthe night table, Sarah swings an open hand to grab her cell\n\tphone from its cradle. But in her haste she starts to pull",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThe phone is ringing. An operator picks up.",
"Meg continues to stretch, her fingers inches from the phone.\n\t\n\tON THE STAIRWELL,",
"Different phone line, I never hooked\n\t it up!\n\t\n\tShe hurls it down, looks back at Sarah. She seems a bit",
"staring at the cell phone in her hand, thinking. Remembering\n\tsomething.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Wires...",
"There in an abrupt CLICK, and the speaker turns off. Meg\n\tturns, goes to Harris, falls to her knees, no idea what to"
],
[
"Meg is hugely relieved. And extremely pissed off. She goes\n\tto the corner of the room and picks up the gun, the one that\n\tRaoul dropped.",
"As Meg nears the bottom of the stairs, she sees a horrifying\n\tsight. It's Raoul, ski mask over his face, standing in the\n\tdoorway of the master bedroom.",
"Raoul's body slumps to the floor, dead.\n\t\n\tBurnham stands there, looking down at Meg and Sarah.",
"with one hand, he bends down, grabs Meg by the hair, and\n\tdrags her toward the doorway.\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"Raoul measures the distance, knows he'll lose, and sprints\n\tfor the panic room instead. Meg turns, looks down at the",
"struggling viciously, Raoul holds Meg's head down on the\n\tfloor, below the safety beam that would prevent the door from\n\tclosing. He reaches for the \"close\" button.",
"Meg strains, gets her head off the floor again, breaking the\n\tbeam. Raoul starts jamming the close button, over and over\n\tagain, the beam completes, then breaks, completes, then",
"Meg hurls herself at Raoul, lands clinging to his back. She\n\tclaws and wrestles with him, gets one hand on his ski mask,",
"INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg stares, in shock, as Raoul's voice echoes in the empty\n\troom.",
"his chest, his arms. Raoul lunges forward, Junior tears the\n\tblankets from the bed and throws them over him, Burnham HOWLS\n\tand rolls on the floor in pain.",
"Raoul walks past him calmly, grabs Junior by the ankles, and\n\tdrags him back into the house. He turns, looks at Burnham,\n\twhose jaw is dropped in horror.",
"Burnham stands by, powerless, horrifies, watching as Raoul\n\tsavages Harris, who continues to call out, as long as he has",
"the leather pouch. Burnham stands, looking down at them.\n\tRaoul grabs him, pulls him to the far end of the room.\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"Burnham SLAMS into the wall, bounces off and SCREAMS at\n\tRaoul, who SCREAMS right back. Junior leaps into the middle,",
"at her.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Are you okay?\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"Burnham SHOUTS incoherently and turns. Raoul is standing\n\tthere, two steps up, a silencer twisted onto the barrel of\n\this gun.",
"BURNHAM\n\t Please...\n\t\n\tRaoul pulls the gun back, just an inch. The skin around",
"Raoul hurries through the doorway of the bedroom, carrying a\n\tcoiled garden hose. Burnham snaps his fingers for it, Raoul",
"INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tNear the tank, Raoul shoves Burnham out of the way.",
"Raoul flips her off his back violently, she CRUNCHES to the\n\tfloor, clutching his mask and getting a good long look at his"
],
[
"Meg rolls over and pulls Sarah into her arms, both of them\n\tbreathing hard, asking each other if they're okay, scared out\n\tof their minds.",
"Meg races into Sarah's room, drops onto the bed, and grabs\n\tSarah by the shoulders, trying to rouse her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"In response, Meg picks up two or three of the fireproof\n\tblankets and piles them over Sarah, right up to her\n\tdisbelieving eyes. She bends down, takes another gulp of",
"SARAH\n\t Go ahead.\n\t\n\tMeg is reluctant, frightened. Sarah is encouraging, for the\n\tfirst time.",
"She turns, looks back at Sarah, who is starting to tremble\n\tagain.\n\t\n\tThat does it. Meg leaps up, hits the button that controls",
"SARAH\n\t Are you okay?\n\t\n\tMeg looks at her. As she watches, Sarah floats away from",
"RATTLES aside, and Meg and Sarah leap out. They take off\n\tdown the hall, toward the doorway to the master bedroom.",
"which Meg and Sarah kneel in the middle of the floor, holding\n\teach other tight.\n\t\n\tStandoff.",
"Sarah stares at her for a moment, then goes back to eating.\n\t\n\tMeg picks up the bottle of wine.",
"She swallows. She grabs Sarah by the face.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Okay, listen, honey, you went double",
"Meg and Sarah run through the master bedroom. As she passes\n\tthe night table, Sarah swings an open hand to grab her cell\n\tphone from its cradle. But in her haste she starts to pull",
"Meg falls across the panic room, grabs Sarah, and holds on\n\ttight.\n\t\n\tThe door detects the obstruction and opens again, slowly.",
"On the top floor, Meg is already dragging Sarah out of the\n\troom and into the hallway.\n\t\n\tINT. HALLWAY - NIGHT",
"Meg and Sarah leap as one, facing the common wall, SHOUTING\n\tat the tops of their lungs -- get help, call the police,\n\tplease, call the police, that sort of thing.",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"MEG\n\t He WILL.\n\t\n\tShe practically shouted. Sarah drop her head into her arms.",
"the tube, gulping fresh air greedily.\n\t\n\tMeg looks at Sarah, good job, and they both drop to the floor",
"her face all hope. Meg keeps her cool, but it take a hell of\n\tan effort.\n\t\n\tSarah reads her face. She turns away.",
"Meg and Sarah see all three men accounted for, downstairs.\n\t\n\t SARAH\n\t GO GO GO!",
"SARAH\n\t You can do it.\n\t\n\tMeg leans forward, clears her throat."
],
[
"call to them to open the door.\n\t\n\tAnd then they hear another VOICE, calling back to them.\n\tSarah sits up, recognizes her father's voice.",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t DADDY!\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"from her forehead, begins to come back around. She turns her\n\thead, sneaks a look at the funny wristwatch Sarah wears,\n\ttries to look without her daughter knowing. It's not an",
"Sarah swallows, licks her cracking lips. When she speaks,\n\tit's breathy, almost inaudible.\n\t\n\tBut the words are clear.",
"holding Sarah, she pulls her back, off her shoulder. Her\n\tface is completely white, her lips blue, her eyes rolled back\n\tinto her head. The BEEPING sound grows louder, she checks",
"She looks up, sees the infrared safety beam over her head,\n\tand realizes with horror what his intention is.\n\t\n\tStill with one arm holding Sarah, who is kicking and",
"That's their problem.\n\t\n\tSarah is terrified. Doesn't know what to do. She looks to",
"horrified. Sweat has broken out on her forehead, her whole\n\tbody seems to vibrate. Sarah comes over, leans in front of\n\ther.",
"Sarah stands up and bends over her, but now she's just a\n\tfigure far away, all the way at the end of a long, impossibly",
"Sarah overhears that. She raises her head, alarmed. Burnham\n\tturns, looks over at her, and she just gets her head back",
"years younger. She looks at Sarah, reaches out, brushes her\n\tdaughter's hair behind one ear.\n\t\n\tShe smiles. She is calm.",
"Sarah sees her mother go.\n\t\n\t SARAH\n\t (to Raoul)\n\t Won't happen again.",
"SARAH\n\t Call Dad!\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t On it!",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t Mom, please!!\n\t\n\tThere is the sharp sound of a SLAP, and Meg's face abruptly",
"abruptly goes black, mercifully sparing them the sight of\n\tHarris's beating.\n\t\n\tShe holds Sarah, who's sobbing, shaking.",
"Meg, watching the monitors with Sarah, GASPS as she sees the\n\tman, whose name is HARRIS. While she and Sarah watch --",
"Oh, man...\n\t\n\tHe crawls over to Sarah, puts his ear down next to Sarah's\n\tlips.",
"SARAH\n\t Go ahead.\n\t\n\tMeg is reluctant, frightened. Sarah is encouraging, for the\n\tfirst time.",
"turns the corner and Raoul thunders down the steps from four.\n\t\n\tShe abandons the phone, grabs Sarah, and they lunge through",
"Now Sarah coughs. The gas is pouring into the room.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT"
],
[
"Burnham stops, sags to his knees. He reaches into his\n\tjacket, pulls out the loose stack of bonds.",
"Raoul walks past him calmly, grabs Junior by the ankles, and\n\tdrags him back into the house. He turns, looks at Burnham,\n\twhose jaw is dropped in horror.",
"They reach the base of the stairs, Junior in the lead. As he\n\treaches a bend at the base of the stairs, he places one foot",
"Junior has another go at the door, pulling as hard as he can,\n\tactually bending the door, but the elevator is still moving,\n\tthe catch holds fast and the door won't open.",
"problem. And he's your problem.\n\t Wasn't me idea to bring him along.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"(to Junior)\n\t We're gonna talk. Downstairs.\n\t\n\tJunior nods and starts out. Raoul lets him pass, but when",
"Burnham is concerned as well. He's still in the master\n\tbedroom, but barely, he's standing in the doorway, straining\n\tlike hell to hear a conversation that Junior and Raoul are",
"Junior cut the phones.\n\t\n\tBurnham goes to the window and stares outside. He laughs,\n\tcovers his face.",
"He moves for the door. Junior, trying desperately to hold\n\tthis together, gets there first, blocks the door with his\n\tback.",
"BURNHAM\n\t You walk out that door and you lose\n\t your share of the money.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT\n\t\n\tIn the kitchen, Junior goes to the wall phone Meg used to\n\tcall for pizza earlier. He cuts the phone wire with a",
"Junior points at Raoul, speaks in an urgent whisper.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Top floor, get the little girl and",
"BURNHAM\n\t What about us?\n\t\n\tJunior thinks, then pulls out his wallet. He thrusts a",
"JUNIOR\n\t It's still a good plan. It's\n\t just... got a twist.",
"JUNIOR\n\t Shut up and let me think.\n\t\n\tHe opens a pack of cigarettes, takes out a joint and lights\n\tit.",
"landing. Still moving stealthily, Junior heads down the hall\n\tfor the master bedroom, where he thinks Meg is sleeping.\n\tRaoul heads for the stairs that lead to the top floor.",
"Junior flies down the stairs, to cut them off at the first\n\tfloor.\n\t\n\tINT. ELEVATOR - NIGHT",
"They both just stare at him.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Five hundred bucks here.",
"BURNHAM\n\t Yeah. Kidnapping.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"Say, while we're on the subject of\n\t phones...\n\t\n\tHe turns, looks up at Junior."
],
[
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"Different phone line, I never hooked\n\t it up!\n\t\n\tShe hurls it down, looks back at Sarah. She seems a bit",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThe phone is ringing. An operator picks up.",
"While Sarah goes to work on the wires, Meg turns to the phone\n\titself, the one with the buried phone line that isn't working",
"MEG\n\t I may not have hooked up the phone\n\t in here, but I hooked up the main\n\t line, and there's a jack at the base",
"itself out of the wall, cuts the cord for the handset too.\n\t\n\t CUT TO:",
"The phone works.\n\t (to Sarah)\n\t Hey, I hooked up the phone.\n\t\n\t SARAH",
"yet. She rips the phone out of its housing, tears free the\n\twire on the end of it.\n\t\n\tINT. ENTRY FLOOR - NIGHT",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg listens as a phone rings on the other end. And rings.\n\tAnd rings again.",
"With the phone receiver cradled on her shoulder, Meg starts\n\ttwisting the ends of wires onto the exposed ends of the wires\n\tfrom the phone unit. First wire -- nothing. She tries a",
"Meg tries another wire. Still no dial tone. Sarah shoves\n\tanother wire at her. She tries again. Nothing. She moves\n\ton.",
"think not!\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t Reinforced steel core walls. Buried\n\t phone line, completely separate, not",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg raises the cell phone to her ear --\n\t\n\t-- and gets a rapid busy signal.",
"Burnham turns, sees another, smaller metal box, this one\n\tclearly labeled:\n\t\n\tPHONES",
"In the panic room, Meg punches 9-1-1 on her cell phone with\n\ttrembling fingers.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"listens for a dial tone.\n\t\n\tNothing there either.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Damn it!",
"With an abrupt SHRIEK, the line goes dead. Meg pauses, can't\n\tbelieve it.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Damn it!\n\t\n\tNo more time to hold. Meg hangs up the phone, dials another\n\tnumber, a seven digit one she knows by heart.",
"INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT\n\t\n\tIn the kitchen, Junior goes to the wall phone Meg used to\n\tcall for pizza earlier. He cuts the phone wire with a",
"INT. KITCHEN - DAY\n\t\n\tMeg picks up the wall phone in the kitchen, gets a dial tone.\n\t\n\t MEG"
],
[
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"Burnham stops, sags to his knees. He reaches into his\n\tjacket, pulls out the loose stack of bonds.",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"BURNHAM\n\t I did.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t He said open it.",
"Raoul measures the distance, knows he'll lose, and sprints\n\tfor the panic room instead. Meg turns, looks down at the",
"Raoul stands behind him, muttering to himself.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Saw my face, man. Saw my face.",
"Burnham unsnaps his satchel and gives it a shove. It rolls\n\tout and opens up onto the floor, revealing a neat array of\n\tsafecracking tools.",
"Behind him, the front door CRACKS open, half a dozen COPS\n\tappear and start SHOUTING, all at once. Burnham tosses the",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"BURNHAM\n\t Yes.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Remember that.",
"side of the hole, and waits, poised above it.\n\t\n\tAt the safe, Burnham doesn't lose his cool, just opens a",
"as they approach us. The first intruder (who has a name,\n\tit's BURNHAM) steps over to the kitchen door, runs his",
"Burnham throws himself back on the floor, goes back to work\n\ton the safe. Fires up the drill again, it SCREAMS into the\n\tmetal.",
"-- and burst out laughing.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Man, you are good! You mean, like,\n\t if somebody was in the house or",
"Burnham goes back to work on the safe. He's making progress.\n\t\n\tRaoul looks at Sarah. Stares actually. He's thinking too.",
"Burnham races over, looks over his shoulder. One monitor\n\tcovers the front stoop, and on that monitor they can clearly\n\tsee TWO UNIFORMED COPS.",
"Junior points at Raoul, speaks in an urgent whisper.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Top floor, get the little girl and",
"They stare at each other, wordless, their first face to face\n\tcontact. She sees the bonds protruding from his jacket.",
"the leather pouch. Burnham stands, looking down at them.\n\tRaoul grabs him, pulls him to the far end of the room.\n\t\n\t RAOUL"
],
[
"SARAH\n\t Go ahead.\n\t\n\tMeg is reluctant, frightened. Sarah is encouraging, for the\n\tfirst time.",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"Meg falls across the panic room, grabs Sarah, and holds on\n\ttight.\n\t\n\tThe door detects the obstruction and opens again, slowly.",
"She turns, looks back at Sarah, who is starting to tremble\n\tagain.\n\t\n\tThat does it. Meg leaps up, hits the button that controls",
"Meg rolls over and pulls Sarah into her arms, both of them\n\tbreathing hard, asking each other if they're okay, scared out\n\tof their minds.",
"In response, Meg picks up two or three of the fireproof\n\tblankets and piles them over Sarah, right up to her\n\tdisbelieving eyes. She bends down, takes another gulp of",
"Meg, watching the monitors with Sarah, GASPS as she sees the\n\tman, whose name is HARRIS. While she and Sarah watch --",
"Meg races into Sarah's room, drops onto the bed, and grabs\n\tSarah by the shoulders, trying to rouse her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"On the top floor, Meg is already dragging Sarah out of the\n\troom and into the hallway.\n\t\n\tINT. HALLWAY - NIGHT",
"SARAH\n\t Are you okay?\n\t\n\tMeg looks at her. As she watches, Sarah floats away from",
"Meg and Sarah leap as one, facing the common wall, SHOUTING\n\tat the tops of their lungs -- get help, call the police,\n\tplease, call the police, that sort of thing.",
"Meg and Sarah see all three men accounted for, downstairs.\n\t\n\t SARAH\n\t GO GO GO!",
"trying to smash their way right through the wall.\n\t\n\tSarah is right over Meg, holding her by the arms, and that",
"She swallows. She grabs Sarah by the face.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Okay, listen, honey, you went double",
"which Meg and Sarah kneel in the middle of the floor, holding\n\teach other tight.\n\t\n\tStandoff.",
"IN THE PANIC ROOM,\n\t\n\tMeg turns to Sarah, impressed.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Meg and Sarah run through the master bedroom. As she passes\n\tthe night table, Sarah swings an open hand to grab her cell\n\tphone from its cradle. But in her haste she starts to pull",
"Meg and Sarah come out of Sarah's bedroom just as Raoul\n\treaches the top of the stairs at the other end. They're cut\n\toff.",
"The elevator.\n\t\n\tShe yanks open the elevator door, throws aside the gate, and\n\traces inside with Sarah.",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg and Sarah are like animals, clawing and tearing at the"
],
[
"The front door closes behind them, with a THUD so\n\tauthoritative it seems to say no one's ever getting out. Meg\n\ttries to get her daughter's attention, to tell her to stop",
"HARRIS\n\t Police.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t (gasps)\n\t You called the police?",
"MEG (O.S.)\n\t The police are on their way.\n\t\n\tOnly Burnham has remained relatively calm. After he gets",
"wall, three times, on and off. Satisfied, she turns back to\n\tthe tube.\n\t\n\tMeg, curious, crawls across the floor to join her. Sarah",
"It's the Cop, the first Cop, the one who came to the door and\n\twas so suspicious of Meg. The Cop looks down, sees blood",
"we see the video image of the Cops as they turn and head away\n\tdown the front steps. Meg closes the doors, looks up into a\n\tcamera, right at us.",
"Meg and Sarah leap as one, facing the common wall, SHOUTING\n\tat the tops of their lungs -- get help, call the police,\n\tplease, call the police, that sort of thing.",
"Behind them, Meg SCREAMS in anger and wriggles through the\n\topening. Before she's even all the way through, she gets",
"He begins his delicate work, but is suddenly jarred by a\n\tPOUNDING on the metal door. He turns, annoyed. Meg is still",
"Meg takes a breath, walks across the foyer, tousling her hair\n\tas she goes.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"Losing patience, Meg just pulls the Neighbor out of the way\n\tand shoves into the house. The Neighbor stumbles out onto",
"THEY'RE COMING IN! THEY'RE COMING\n\t IN!\n\t\n\tMeg looks to the wall, watches it seem to vibrate as another",
"Meg crawls out, into the middle of that hallway, to get away\n\tfrom the wall, but they both continue moving in on her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Meg looks at him -- what in the world? Even pushes again,\n\ttwice this time, first at the top, then at the bottom, and",
"pair of feet pad across the CREAKY floor. Finally, they hear\n\ta SQUEAK of bedsprings as Meg climbs back into bed.",
"BAM! Another one, even louder. Meg's whole body winces at\n\tthe sound.",
"The door begins to crank open, Meg slips through the gap\n\tsideways before it's even all the way open. She darts across\n\tthe room --",
"Cop 1 looks at him. Cop 2 stops talking.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Somebody called you?",
"and falls back onto the floor of the panic room. Meg clears\n\teverything away from her, tries to make room for her."
],
[
"Burnham stops, sags to his knees. He reaches into his\n\tjacket, pulls out the loose stack of bonds.",
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"bonds to the floor, the same gesture as folding a hand of\n\tpoker.\n\t\n\tHe GROANS and collapses, slowly, falling through the bonds,",
"Burnham lies there on the floor, eyes open, staring up at the\n\tceiling, looking at the bonds that swirl in the blast of air,",
"BANG!\n\t\n\tA gunshot whizzes right through one of the bonds, setting it\n\taflame before it SLAMS into the far wall, sending up a little",
"They stare at each other, wordless, their first face to face\n\tcontact. She sees the bonds protruding from his jacket.",
"Burnham shoves the loose bonds into his jacket.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"They both just stare at him.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Five hundred bucks here.",
"fistful of bills at them.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Here. For your time.",
"BURNHAM\n\t What about us?\n\t\n\tJunior thinks, then pulls out his wallet. He thrusts a",
"bonds up off the floor, and blows them back into the house,\n\tas if they were never meant to leave.",
"EXT. CENTRAL PARK - GREAT LAWN - DAY\n\t\n\tThe swirling bonds melt into swirling leaves, blowing in the",
"of the fourteen million bucks slip\n\t away because of --\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"Raoul stands behind him, muttering to himself.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Saw my face, man. Saw my face.",
"rich as hell, he was worth thirty\n\t million or something, now it turns\n\t out they can't find half of it.\n\t (singsong)",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"Raoul laughs.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Drugs. She wants drugs. What the",
"BURNHAM\n\t You walk out that door and you lose\n\t your share of the money.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"BURNHAM\n\t Yes.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Remember that."
],
[
"mom... only saw her for a second,\n\t but, woah. Beautiful, huh?\n\t\n\tNo answer. Burnham ties the rubber tubing around Sarah's",
"SARAH\n\t ... 'jection...\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t An injection?",
"The shot successfully given, he pulls Sarah's sleeve back\n\tdown.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Feel better?",
"He pulls his gun, shoves it into Burnham's eye, hard, we can\n\thear the faint SIZZLE of skin burning.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"Sarah overhears that. She raises her head, alarmed. Burnham\n\tturns, looks over at her, and she just gets her head back",
"Congratulations. You saved her life\n\t for ten minutes.\n\t\n\tBurnham looks up at him -- what? But Raoul turns and walks",
"You guys are pretty rich, huh?\n\t\n\tSarah shrugs. While Burnham goes through the process of\n\tfinding an exposed vein and giving the injection itself, he",
"stretches it out, exposing the underside of her forearm.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t You seem like a good kid. Your",
"Sarah tries to form words, but she's too weak. Burnham\n\tswallows.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"Burnham looks at her, musters the most reassuring face he can\n\tcome up with under the circumstances.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"Bad thoughts. He moves over, crouches down next to Burnham.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t She saw my face. The kid too.",
"Suddenly, a VOICE comes over the intercom speaker.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM (O.S.)\n\t I understand. I'll give her the",
"Burnham is freaking out, but trying to stay calm.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Oh God... oh, my God...",
"Sarah shakes her head no. Burnham takes the syringe, starts\n\tto fill it from the Glucogen bottle.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"You stay. Make sure she don't come\n\t out.\n\t\n\tBurnham swallows. But stays.",
"Raoul's body slumps to the floor, dead.\n\t\n\tBurnham stands there, looking down at Meg and Sarah.",
"at her.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Are you okay?\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"BURNHAM\n\t Unless Daddy comes back later.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Daddy's not coming back, she's in",
"She looks up, sees the infrared safety beam over her head,\n\tand realizes with horror what his intention is.\n\t\n\tStill with one arm holding Sarah, who is kicking and",
"goes on, as much to comfort Sarah as to comfort himself:\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t Yeah, you don't think about that"
],
[
"Meg is hugely relieved. And extremely pissed off. She goes\n\tto the corner of the room and picks up the gun, the one that\n\tRaoul dropped.",
"Straining to see (yet stay in the house), we see Meg all the\n\tway at the right edge of the frame, as she shifts the gun to",
"Meg SCREAMS, loses her grip on the gun, and it CLATTERS into\n\tthe space between the houses.\n\t\n\tBETWEEN THE WALLS,",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"The other two walk inside, but Meg lingers near the door,\n\tlooking around, studying the neatly arrayed survival supplies\n\t-- water, food packs, batteries, flashlights, tools, rope,",
"BAM! Another one, even louder. Meg's whole body winces at\n\tthe sound.",
"Meg looks to herself. Her arm is signed, the hair burned\n\toff. The sleeve of her T-shirt is burned back to the\n\tshoulder. Her face is sooty, blackened.",
"The door begins to crank open, Meg slips through the gap\n\tsideways before it's even all the way open. She darts across\n\tthe room --",
"Meg takes a breath, walks across the foyer, tousling her hair\n\tas she goes.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,",
"Meg looks from the walls of the bedroom to the walls of the\n\tpanic room. Her eyes light up with an idea.",
"Meg takes a step back. They're now enclosed in the room.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t Everything's spring-loaded, even if",
"She shoves the gun into her belt.\n\t\n\tHere in the bedroom, she can hear the drill. From the house",
"In the master bedroom, Meg pulls on a pair of jeans that are\n\thanging over a chair.\n\t\n\tShe steps into a pair of boots.",
"the gun, but she pulls his fingers off it, takes it away from\n\thim. He is too weak to resist.\n\t\n\t CUT TO:",
"In response, Meg picks up two or three of the fireproof\n\tblankets and piles them over Sarah, right up to her\n\tdisbelieving eyes. She bends down, takes another gulp of",
"face. He makes a move toward his gun, but she's faster,\n\tshe's already pawing herself frantically across the hardwood\n\ttoward it.",
"Meg is staring up at the camera, miming the act of giving\n\therself an injection in the arm.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,",
"Behind them, Meg SCREAMS in anger and wriggles through the\n\topening. Before she's even all the way through, she gets",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"and falls back onto the floor of the panic room. Meg clears\n\teverything away from her, tries to make room for her."
],
[
"The three intruders are gathered in the living room, standing\n\tin a tight circle, having a hell of an argument. Lots of",
"Burnham unsnaps his satchel and gives it a shove. It rolls\n\tout and opens up onto the floor, revealing a neat array of\n\tsafecracking tools.",
"Behind him, the front door CRACKS open, half a dozen COPS\n\tappear and start SHOUTING, all at once. Burnham tosses the",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"the three men hear her footsteps, as one, they take off for\n\tthe stairs.\n\t\n\tIN THE MASTER BEDROOM,",
"rich as hell, he was worth thirty\n\t million or something, now it turns\n\t out they can't find half of it.\n\t (singsong)",
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"And we emerge in the master bedroom.\n\t\n\tHe checks his watch.\n\t\n\tMeg looks around, studying the dimensions of the room. She",
"Burnham throws himself back on the floor, goes back to work\n\ton the safe. Fires up the drill again, it SCREAMS into the\n\tmetal.",
"BURNHAM\n\t You walk out that door and you lose\n\t your share of the money.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"Raoul measures the distance, knows he'll lose, and sprints\n\tfor the panic room instead. Meg turns, looks down at the",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi",
"Somebody took something didn't\n\t belong to them!\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t I hardly see how family gossip is",
"The intruders are in the master bedroom now, and Burnham is\n\tlike a man possessed, tearing at the sheetrock with the sharp",
"side of the hole, and waits, poised above it.\n\t\n\tAt the safe, Burnham doesn't lose his cool, just opens a",
"INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThe Intruders have stopped their racket too, and are",
"fistful of bills at them.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Here. For your time.",
"ripping off, it's my prick\n\t grandfather who built that fucking\n\t room, it was my idea to get the\n\t plans, I found the floor safe, and",
"-- and burst out laughing.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Man, you are good! You mean, like,\n\t if somebody was in the house or"
],
[
"The front door closes behind them, with a THUD so\n\tauthoritative it seems to say no one's ever getting out. Meg\n\ttries to get her daughter's attention, to tell her to stop",
"Meg looks at her, not sure how to confront the open defiance.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I agree. But don't.",
"window. There is a profound melancholy about her. Meg\n\twatches her, tries to catch eyes with her in the reflection.\n\tCan't.",
"The kid in here. The other two when\n\t we come out.\n\t\n\tMeg listens, horrified.",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"She looks at Meg and winks.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - DAY\n\t\n\t EVAN",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"Meg races into Sarah's room, drops onto the bed, and grabs\n\tSarah by the shoulders, trying to rouse her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Meg nods, as if reassuring herself.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t We're fine. We're okay.",
"years younger. She looks at Sarah, reaches out, brushes her\n\tdaughter's hair behind one ear.\n\t\n\tShe smiles. She is calm.",
"Lydia turns, gives Meg an \"are you insane?\" look.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t What say we see the house before we",
"pair of feet pad across the CREAKY floor. Finally, they hear\n\ta SQUEAK of bedsprings as Meg climbs back into bed.",
"doing, young lady?!\n\t\n\tShe storms back into her house, following Meg. As both of\n\tthem disappear from the frame, we move out of the library,",
"The door begins to crank open, Meg slips through the gap\n\tsideways before it's even all the way open. She darts across\n\tthe room --",
"wall, three times, on and off. Satisfied, she turns back to\n\tthe tube.\n\t\n\tMeg, curious, crawls across the floor to join her. Sarah",
"turns to Lydia. She brushes her hair behind an ear, we\n\tnotice her thin hand is shaking.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t Mom?! Mom!!\n\t\n\tMeg ignores the voice, she's so happy to be out here, out in",
"The other two walk inside, but Meg lingers near the door,\n\tlooking around, studying the neatly arrayed survival supplies\n\t-- water, food packs, batteries, flashlights, tools, rope,",
"Meg is on her back, arms folded behind her head, staring up\n\tat the clouds.\n\t\n\tSarah is intent on the paper, circling the occasional ad.",
"Straining to see (yet stay in the house), we see Meg all the\n\tway at the right edge of the frame, as she shifts the gun to"
],
[
"The front door closes behind them, with a THUD so\n\tauthoritative it seems to say no one's ever getting out. Meg\n\ttries to get her daughter's attention, to tell her to stop",
"window. There is a profound melancholy about her. Meg\n\twatches her, tries to catch eyes with her in the reflection.\n\tCan't.",
"Meg looks at her, not sure how to confront the open defiance.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I agree. But don't.",
"Meg races into Sarah's room, drops onto the bed, and grabs\n\tSarah by the shoulders, trying to rouse her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"Meg whispers Sarah's name, but Sarah still ignores her, goes\n\ton bouncing the ball.\n\t\n\t EVAN",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"Meg nods, as if reassuring herself.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t We're fine. We're okay.",
"The kid in here. The other two when\n\t we come out.\n\t\n\tMeg listens, horrified.",
"Behind them, Meg SCREAMS in anger and wriggles through the\n\topening. Before she's even all the way through, she gets",
"She looks at Meg and winks.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - DAY\n\t\n\t EVAN",
"Meg looks to herself. Her arm is signed, the hair burned\n\toff. The sleeve of her T-shirt is burned back to the\n\tshoulder. Her face is sooty, blackened.",
"The door begins to crank open, Meg slips through the gap\n\tsideways before it's even all the way open. She darts across\n\tthe room --",
"Meg stretches her arms out, smiles, but far off in the\n\tdistance, she hears a voice calling to her, dimly:",
"wall, three times, on and off. Satisfied, she turns back to\n\tthe tube.\n\t\n\tMeg, curious, crawls across the floor to join her. Sarah",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t Mom?! Mom!!\n\t\n\tMeg ignores the voice, she's so happy to be out here, out in",
"Lydia turns, gives Meg an \"are you insane?\" look.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t What say we see the house before we",
"In bed, Meg stirs. An alcohol sleep is a restless one, and\n\tshe's suffering.",
"her face all hope. Meg keeps her cool, but it take a hell of\n\tan effort.\n\t\n\tSarah reads her face. She turns away.",
"MEG\n\t He WILL.\n\t\n\tShe practically shouted. Sarah drop her head into her arms."
],
[
"The front door closes behind them, with a THUD so\n\tauthoritative it seems to say no one's ever getting out. Meg\n\ttries to get her daughter's attention, to tell her to stop",
"She looks at Meg and winks.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - DAY\n\t\n\t EVAN",
"Pause. She stares at him.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t Okay, look. My husband and I just",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"In bed, Meg stirs. An alcohol sleep is a restless one, and\n\tshe's suffering.",
"Meg nods, as if reassuring herself.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t We're fine. We're okay.",
"Meg looks to herself. Her arm is signed, the hair burned\n\toff. The sleeve of her T-shirt is burned back to the\n\tshoulder. Her face is sooty, blackened.",
"window. There is a profound melancholy about her. Meg\n\twatches her, tries to catch eyes with her in the reflection.\n\tCan't.",
"Behind them, Meg SCREAMS in anger and wriggles through the\n\topening. Before she's even all the way through, she gets",
"Lydia turns, gives Meg an \"are you insane?\" look.\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t What say we see the house before we",
"Meg looks at her, not sure how to confront the open defiance.\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I agree. But don't.",
"The other two walk inside, but Meg lingers near the door,\n\tlooking around, studying the neatly arrayed survival supplies\n\t-- water, food packs, batteries, flashlights, tools, rope,",
"Meg is on her back, arms folded behind her head, staring up\n\tat the clouds.\n\t\n\tSarah is intent on the paper, circling the occasional ad.",
"Meg sits up in bed. She's bleary, her head feels like\n\tsomeone rested a manhole cover on it. She gets up, in the",
"Straining to see (yet stay in the house), we see Meg all the\n\tway at the right edge of the frame, as she shifts the gun to",
"Meg takes a breath, walks across the foyer, tousling her hair\n\tas she goes.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,",
"Meg's face lights up, she practically laughs, she's so\n\toverjoyed at this turn of events.",
"Meg sits back, eyes alive with an idea. If only she could\n\tget to that phone, which must be still under the bed. She",
"wall, three times, on and off. Satisfied, she turns back to\n\tthe tube.\n\t\n\tMeg, curious, crawls across the floor to join her. Sarah",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t Mom?! Mom!!\n\t\n\tMeg ignores the voice, she's so happy to be out here, out in"
],
[
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"Meg races into Sarah's room, drops onto the bed, and grabs\n\tSarah by the shoulders, trying to rouse her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"On the top floor, Meg is already dragging Sarah out of the\n\troom and into the hallway.\n\t\n\tINT. HALLWAY - NIGHT",
"RATTLES aside, and Meg and Sarah leap out. They take off\n\tdown the hall, toward the doorway to the master bedroom.",
"Meg rolls over and pulls Sarah into her arms, both of them\n\tbreathing hard, asking each other if they're okay, scared out\n\tof their minds.",
"Sarah looks around the room.\n\t\n\t SARAH\n\t Small space?\n\t\n\t MEG",
"The same house, two weeks later. The entry floor is piled\n\thigh with moving boxes. Sarah and Meg lie sprawled out in\n\tthe middle of the black and white tile, arms and legs splayed",
"Meg and Sarah run through the master bedroom. As she passes\n\tthe night table, Sarah swings an open hand to grab her cell\n\tphone from its cradle. But in her haste she starts to pull",
"SARAH\n\t Are you okay?\n\t\n\tMeg looks at her. As she watches, Sarah floats away from",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t Mom?! Mom!!\n\t\n\tMeg ignores the voice, she's so happy to be out here, out in",
"SARAH\n\t Go ahead.\n\t\n\tMeg is reluctant, frightened. Sarah is encouraging, for the\n\tfirst time.",
"Meg is on her back, arms folded behind her head, staring up\n\tat the clouds.\n\t\n\tSarah is intent on the paper, circling the occasional ad.",
"Night has fallen. Meg and Sarah sit at a small table in the\n\tmiddle of the kitchen, surrounded by packing boxes. They eat",
"which Meg and Sarah kneel in the middle of the floor, holding\n\teach other tight.\n\t\n\tStandoff.",
"Meg and Sarah come out of Sarah's bedroom just as Raoul\n\treaches the top of the stairs at the other end. They're cut\n\toff.",
"In response, Meg picks up two or three of the fireproof\n\tblankets and piles them over Sarah, right up to her\n\tdisbelieving eyes. She bends down, takes another gulp of",
"She turns, looks back at Sarah, who is starting to tremble\n\tagain.\n\t\n\tThat does it. Meg leaps up, hits the button that controls",
"SARAH (O.S.)\n\t Mom, please!!\n\t\n\tThere is the sharp sound of a SLAP, and Meg's face abruptly",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"trying to smash their way right through the wall.\n\t\n\tSarah is right over Meg, holding her by the arms, and that"
],
[
"On the top floor, Meg is already dragging Sarah out of the\n\troom and into the hallway.\n\t\n\tINT. HALLWAY - NIGHT",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"Meg races into Sarah's room, drops onto the bed, and grabs\n\tSarah by the shoulders, trying to rouse her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"The same house, two weeks later. The entry floor is piled\n\thigh with moving boxes. Sarah and Meg lie sprawled out in\n\tthe middle of the black and white tile, arms and legs splayed",
"Meg and Sarah run through the master bedroom. As she passes\n\tthe night table, Sarah swings an open hand to grab her cell\n\tphone from its cradle. But in her haste she starts to pull",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"Meg rolls over and pulls Sarah into her arms, both of them\n\tbreathing hard, asking each other if they're okay, scared out\n\tof their minds.",
"Sarah looks around the room.\n\t\n\t SARAH\n\t Small space?\n\t\n\t MEG",
"SARAH\n\t Are you okay?\n\t\n\tMeg looks at her. As she watches, Sarah floats away from",
"In response, Meg picks up two or three of the fireproof\n\tblankets and piles them over Sarah, right up to her\n\tdisbelieving eyes. She bends down, takes another gulp of",
"which Meg and Sarah kneel in the middle of the floor, holding\n\teach other tight.\n\t\n\tStandoff.",
"Night has fallen. Meg and Sarah sit at a small table in the\n\tmiddle of the kitchen, surrounded by packing boxes. They eat",
"RATTLES aside, and Meg and Sarah leap out. They take off\n\tdown the hall, toward the doorway to the master bedroom.",
"Meg and Sarah come out of Sarah's bedroom just as Raoul\n\treaches the top of the stairs at the other end. They're cut\n\toff.",
"SARAH\n\t Go ahead.\n\t\n\tMeg is reluctant, frightened. Sarah is encouraging, for the\n\tfirst time.",
"trying to smash their way right through the wall.\n\t\n\tSarah is right over Meg, holding her by the arms, and that",
"She turns, looks back at Sarah, who is starting to tremble\n\tagain.\n\t\n\tThat does it. Meg leaps up, hits the button that controls",
"Meg is on her back, arms folded behind her head, staring up\n\tat the clouds.\n\t\n\tSarah is intent on the paper, circling the occasional ad.",
"her face all hope. Meg keeps her cool, but it take a hell of\n\tan effort.\n\t\n\tSarah reads her face. She turns away.",
"While Sarah goes to work on the wires, Meg turns to the phone\n\titself, the one with the buried phone line that isn't working"
],
[
"Losing patience, Meg just pulls the Neighbor out of the way\n\tand shoves into the house. The Neighbor stumbles out onto",
"Meg takes a breath, walks across the foyer, tousling her hair\n\tas she goes.\n\t\n\tIN THE PANIC ROOM,",
"As Meg nears the bottom of the stairs, she sees a horrifying\n\tsight. It's Raoul, ski mask over his face, standing in the\n\tdoorway of the master bedroom.",
"The door begins to crank open, Meg slips through the gap\n\tsideways before it's even all the way open. She darts across\n\tthe room --",
"Meg steps out of the panic room, into the master bedroom.\n\tShe looks at Harris, on the bed. With his back to her she",
"Meg GRUNTS, half frightened by herself.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"Meg manages to raise her head, breaking the beam.\n\t\n\tINT. HALLWAY - NIGHT",
"INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a",
"and falls back onto the floor of the panic room. Meg clears\n\teverything away from her, tries to make room for her.",
"Behind them, Meg SCREAMS in anger and wriggles through the\n\topening. Before she's even all the way through, she gets",
"THEY'RE COMING IN! THEY'RE COMING\n\t IN!\n\t\n\tMeg looks to the wall, watches it seem to vibrate as another",
"INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tUsing the light that spills from the open door to the panic\n\troom, Meg comes back into the master bedroom and finds the",
"Meg is back in the library, hurriedly unscrewing the window.\n\tShe gets the last screw out, shoves the window up.",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg moves. Leaps to her feet and dashes out of the room.",
"Meg is hugely relieved. And extremely pissed off. She goes\n\tto the corner of the room and picks up the gun, the one that\n\tRaoul dropped.",
"In the panic room, Meg punches 9-1-1 on her cell phone with\n\ttrembling fingers.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tMeg steps up, onto the shelf she climbed earlier, and comes\n\tup next to the vent.",
"Meg crawls out, into the middle of that hallway, to get away\n\tfrom the wall, but they both continue moving in on her.\n\t\n\t MEG",
"Meg comes into a small room full of empty bookshelves, a\n\tlibrary. There is a window that looks out over the sidewalk,\n\tone floor up, same level as the stoop.",
"She looks at Meg and winks.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - DAY\n\t\n\t EVAN"
],
[
"They reach the base of the stairs, Junior in the lead. As he\n\treaches a bend at the base of the stairs, he places one foot",
"Raoul walks past him calmly, grabs Junior by the ankles, and\n\tdrags him back into the house. He turns, looks at Burnham,\n\twhose jaw is dropped in horror.",
"Say, while we're on the subject of\n\t phones...\n\t\n\tHe turns, looks up at Junior.",
"He tilts his head over to Junior, whose brains are spreading\n\tout on the kitchen floor.\n\t\n\t RAOUL",
"Burnham is concerned as well. He's still in the master\n\tbedroom, but barely, he's standing in the doorway, straining\n\tlike hell to hear a conversation that Junior and Raoul are",
"(to Junior)\n\t We're gonna talk. Downstairs.\n\t\n\tJunior nods and starts out. Raoul lets him pass, but when",
"INT. ENTRY FLOOR - NIGHT\n\t\n\tIn the foyer, Junior freezes, hearing the elevator stop and\n\tstart again.",
"He moves for the door. Junior, trying desperately to hold\n\tthis together, gets there first, blocks the door with his\n\tback.",
"JUNIOR\n\t ... hit a little snag finding the\n\t one in the basement.\n\t\n\tShit.",
"JUNIOR\n\t Shut up and let me think.\n\t\n\tHe opens a pack of cigarettes, takes out a joint and lights\n\tit.",
"JUNIOR\n\t Fuck.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM\n\t I know.",
"Junior flies down the stairs, to cut them off at the first\n\tfloor.\n\t\n\tINT. ELEVATOR - NIGHT",
"problem. And he's your problem.\n\t Wasn't me idea to bring him along.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"Junior has another go at the door, pulling as hard as he can,\n\tactually bending the door, but the elevator is still moving,\n\tthe catch holds fast and the door won't open.",
"BURNHAM\n\t Unless Daddy comes back later.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Daddy's not coming back, she's in",
"JUNIOR\n\t (points to Burnham)\n\t Stay here. Nobody gets past you.",
"He takes off up the stairs again. Burnham can't take it\n\tanymore, he takes off after Junior, following him upstairs.",
"Burnham's eye is an angry red. His eyes dart, strain to look\n\tover at Harris, MOANING on the floor. And at Junior, dead.",
"Junior cut the phones.\n\t\n\tBurnham goes to the window and stares outside. He laughs,\n\tcovers his face.",
"Got her right where you want her,\n\t Junior.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Shut up."
],
[
"SARAH\n\t What do they want?\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I don't know. Rob us. I don't",
"Somebody took something didn't\n\t belong to them!\n\t\n\t EVAN\n\t I hardly see how family gossip is",
"the three men hear her footsteps, as one, they take off for\n\tthe stairs.\n\t\n\tIN THE MASTER BEDROOM,",
"The three intruders are gathered in the living room, standing\n\tin a tight circle, having a hell of an argument. Lots of",
"They hold a moment longer, a silence grows. Raoul reaches\n\tinto his jacket pocket and pulls out a ski mask. He pulls it\n\tover his head. They look at him.",
"But that's not what he's after. He continues tearing,\n\treveals an air duct running through the wall, feeding into",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"And in a moment, so is this intruder. The Man peers down,\n\tthrough the open hatchway, then slips through the opening and",
"Raoul flies down the stairs, not twenty feet behind them.\n\t\n\tINT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT",
"Junior points at Raoul, speaks in an urgent whisper.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Top floor, get the little girl and",
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"They reach the base of the stairs, Junior in the lead. As he\n\treaches a bend at the base of the stairs, he places one foot",
"Raoul stands behind him, muttering to himself.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Saw my face, man. Saw my face.",
"the three men come off the stairs and race toward her, they\n\tsee her as she lunges across, toward the panic room, she\n\thurls herself through the door --",
"something. Junior returns a moment later holding something\n\tand the three of them hunch over a box, working on something.\n\t\n\tAfter a moment, they break apart and Junior steps up to the",
"She blinks. Takes a step, further into the room. She stares\n\tat the video monitors -- at the three men in dark clothes,\n\tstealing silently across the foyer.",
"Somebody is on the other side, pounding like hell.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t The walls are steel, right?",
"Raoul measures the distance, knows he'll lose, and sprints\n\tfor the panic room instead. Meg turns, looks down at the",
"Burnham throws himself back on the floor, goes back to work\n\ton the safe. Fires up the drill again, it SCREAMS into the\n\tmetal.",
"landing. Still moving stealthily, Junior heads down the hall\n\tfor the master bedroom, where he thinks Meg is sleeping.\n\tRaoul heads for the stairs that lead to the top floor."
],
[
"holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury\n\tBearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his\n\tGrail.",
"Burnham stops, sags to his knees. He reaches into his\n\tjacket, pulls out the loose stack of bonds.",
"BANG!\n\t\n\tA gunshot whizzes right through one of the bonds, setting it\n\taflame before it SLAMS into the far wall, sending up a little",
"They stare at each other, wordless, their first face to face\n\tcontact. She sees the bonds protruding from his jacket.",
"bonds to the floor, the same gesture as folding a hand of\n\tpoker.\n\t\n\tHe GROANS and collapses, slowly, falling through the bonds,",
"Burnham lies there on the floor, eyes open, staring up at the\n\tceiling, looking at the bonds that swirl in the blast of air,",
"fistful of bills at them.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Here. For your time.",
"false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.\n\t\n\tHe snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he",
"They both just stare at him.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR\n\t Five hundred bucks here.",
"Raoul measures the distance, knows he'll lose, and sprints\n\tfor the panic room instead. Meg turns, looks down at the",
"They hold a moment longer, a silence grows. Raoul reaches\n\tinto his jacket pocket and pulls out a ski mask. He pulls it\n\tover his head. They look at him.",
"SARAH\n\t What do they want?\n\t\n\t MEG\n\t I don't know. Rob us. I don't",
"rich as hell, he was worth thirty\n\t million or something, now it turns\n\t out they can't find half of it.\n\t (singsong)",
"They reach the base of the stairs, Junior in the lead. As he\n\treaches a bend at the base of the stairs, he places one foot",
"The three intruders are gathered in the living room, standing\n\tin a tight circle, having a hell of an argument. Lots of",
"Raoul stands behind him, muttering to himself.\n\t\n\t RAOUL\n\t Saw my face, man. Saw my face.",
"BURNHAM\n\t You walk out that door and you lose\n\t your share of the money.\n\t\n\t JUNIOR",
"Burnham shoves the loose bonds into his jacket.\n\t\n\t BURNHAM",
"But safe.\n\t\n\tShe spots the telephone, the one with the special buried\n\tphone line. She lunges for it, snatches it from its cradle,",
"INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT\n\t\n\tThat same starting gun has been fired in the panic room.\n\tWith a strong RIP, Meg pulls the whole bundle of multi"
]
] |
[
"Where in NYC did Meg just purchase a brownstone?",
"What kind of room was installed by the previous owner of the brownstone?",
"How much money is (are) the item(s) worth that the thiefs were seeking? ",
"What was (were) the item(s) the thiefs were after?",
"What object did the Altman's use in order to try to signal for help?",
"What did Burnham force through the air vents in order to get the Altman's to evacuate?",
"Who did Meg Altman originally reach on the phone before the line was cut?",
"What did Meg use to hit Raoul, ausing Burnham to flee?",
"What did Meg and Sarah do after recovering?",
"What is Sarah's father's name?",
"Why did Junior's plans to steal the bonds change?",
"How many phone lines are in the house?",
"How did the burglars know about the bearer bonds?",
"Which intruder helped both Sarah and Meg?",
"How many times did the police come to Meg's house?",
"How much were the bonds worth?",
"Why did Burnham inject Stephen's daughter?",
"Where did Meg get a gun?",
"How much did the burglars make from their crime?",
"How old is Meg's daughter?",
"What is Meg's daughter's name?",
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