Kristy, Killer Party and Just Before Dawn

Kristy

When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back. College girl Justine works hard to support herself at Bryce College, where she studies. During Thanksgiving, her boyfriend Aaron goes home and Justine plans to stay on campus with her roommate, Nicole. Out of the blue, Nicole’s father invites her to Aspen, while Justine remains the dorm. One night, Justine drives to a convenience store to buy supplies and meets Violet, who threatens her. Shaken, Justine returns to campus, where she soon finds herself being hunted down by Violet and three hoodlums from a cult. Justine has to fight to survive.

The film opens with a hooded figure photographing a young woman’s corpse in an empty field, followed by a montage of Internet screenshots and video of women being killed in what appears to be ritual murders by a cybercult, and footage of the murders being uploaded on an anonymous underground website, where members are encouraged to “kill Kristy”, “Kristy” coming from a Latin name meaning “follower of God.” College student Justine is attending a private university in the Northeast on scholarship and financial aid, and is unable to fly home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Her boyfriend Aaron and wealthy roommate Nicole both leave for the holiday, leaving Justine to spend the holiday in solitude on a nearly empty campus, aside from the security guard, Wayne, and groundskeeper, Scott.

On Thanksgiving night, Justine uses Nicole’s BMW to drive to a nearby convenience store off campus. Inside the store, a hooded girl, Violet, approaches Justine, complimenting her car. At the counter, the girl asks for a student discount on a pair of sunglasses, but has no ID. Justine offers to pay for them, but the girl refuses and calls her “Kristy”. On the drive home, Justine nearly rear ends a mysterious car parked in the middle of the road. Upon returning to the campus, Justine calls Aaron and informs him of the strange occurrence, and though he offers to come stay the night with her, she declines. After falling asleep on a couch in the common room, she hears odd noises coming from the direction of her dorm. Inside her dorm, Justine finds that someone has accessed her laptop, as a snuff film plays on the screen. Violet appears in the room with a box cutter in hand, and Justine flees to the entryway. Outside, Wayne, who had been investigating a noise, is murdered in front of her by a masked man.

The four cult killers assemble, and Violet begins recording Justine, telling her that they will hunt her and that she should “run to God”. Justine flees to Scott’s house on the edge of the campus for help. Scott goes outside to confront the assailants, but the killers murder his dog before hanging him from a swing set in the yard. Justine attempts to call 911 from Scott’s cell phone, but the gang has hacked into it. They begin sending Justine video clips of her self on the phone and menacing text messages. Justine attempts to hide in the library, but is chased to the roof of the building; cornered by the four assailants, she leaps from the roof, falling through the branches of a tree help break her fall.

Aaron arrives at the campus, and Justine struggles to run toward his car, but he is killed by one of the men in front of her. She uses Aaron’s car to pin the man against a concrete wall, crushing him to death. She then retreats to the gymnasium where she hides in the swimming pool. She stabs one of the men in the throat with her car keys before drowning him, and beats the other man to death with a baseball bat inside the locker room. She hears a cell phone alert from the dead man’s jacket, and reads a text message from Violet asking if he’s “killed Kristy yet”. Justine responds “yes”. While accessing the killer’s phone, Justine finds photos of the cult’s numerous victims, and their declaration to kill the “Kristy’s” of the world – pure, beautiful, and privileged women who they believe follow God.

Justine uses pool chemicals from a storage closet to make a flammable powder. She then dresses herself in the dead man’s mask and jacket and approaches the car where Violet is, dousing it in the powder. Violet attempts to lash at her with a box cutter, but Justine ignites the powder, and Violet is engulfed in the flames; Justine watches as she is burned alive. She then photographs Violet’s corpse with the cell phone, and uploads it to the website, entitled /the foldl. A montage at the end of the film narrated by news footage reveals a series of similar cult murders had occurred in New York City, Denver, Portland, Oregon, Kansas City, Dallas, Minneapolis and Atlanta, but with Justine’s testimony and access to the phone, many of the cult’s members have been arrested. A post-credits scene shows a young woman being attacked by another cult killer outside her home.

Killer Party

In order to join a sorority, three friends go to a hazing party in an old house where a sadistic bloodthirsty demonic spirit is lying in wait. Three gorgeous babes decide to join a sorority and a whole bunch of horny guys dump bees in the sorority’s back yard where a bunch of girls are naked in the outside hot tub so when the girls jump out the boys use a video camera to take shots of them. Their house mother gets talked into letting the girls have a hazing party in a forbidden frat house, and when she goes there to make sure the place is safe, she first stops at a handy grave in the front yard to explain to “Allan” why she’s letting the girls use the house, and tells him it was all an accident and it’s time for him to just let it go. Allan doesn’t answer her, since he’s dead. Or is he? As she is nailing down a loose banister on the stairway, a mysterious figure appears before her, brandishing what looks like a tire iron, she turns, asks “What are you doing here?” and this person does answer her by striking her dead. Well, the three pledges go through a hazing (and there are some very nice set pieces here, watch for ‘em) and are accepted into the sorority. One of the pledges is really good at special effects, horror stuff, and she is told that the only reason that she was accepted was that skill – they want her to gimmick up a traditional April Fools party that the sorority is hosting for a fraternity. Twenty-two years ago, the boy in the grave was killed at one of those parties by what everyone carefully refers to as an “accident.” The girls talk about strange disappearances while they begin to set up the old house for the party, and more strange things happen. Vivian, the special effects girl, starts to pull off her stunts, but then really menacing things begin to happen. Will the youngsters figure out what’s going on and who is doing it before they are all horribly killed? Is it still safe for us to go out to parties, or should we all be hiding under our computer desks?

Three friends, Vivia, Jennifer and Phoebe, decide to pledge a sorority. The night of the initiation, Vivia (Sherry Willis-Burch) plays an elaborate prank on the sorority sisters as the three girls are being initiated through a hazing ritual. Subsequently, all three girls are chosen to join the sorority, and Vivia learns that her prank was the only reason for her acceptance. Now she must gimmick up a traditional April Fools party that the sorority is hosting for a fraternity. The party is to be held at an old abandoned frat house where a young man named Allen was killed 22 years prior. Jennifer (Johnson) is bothered by this house, but Phoebe (Wilkes) and the guy she is interested in (Hewitt) convince her to go along with the party plans. Unfortunately for the friends and everyone else at the party, someone or something else does not want anyone in the abandoned house.

Near the end, it’s revealed that Jennifer, who happens to be possessed by the demon, tries to kill Phoebe and Viva with a trident, but they escape upstairs and through a blocked window to the roof. Jennifer then appears on the roof and attacks Vivia outside of the house, causing her to fall from the roof. Phoebe saves Vivia by impaling the possessed Jennifer with a sharp piece of wood through her chest, apparently killing both the girl and the demon. However, the demon possesses Phoebe just before the police and ambulance arrive. As the bodies are removed from the house, Vivia is placed on a stretcher and taken to the ambulance where Phoebe is waiting, still under the demon’s control. Vivia begs not to be put in the ambulance with Phoebe, but her screams are ignored and the vehicle drives away.

Just Before Dawn

Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the Forest Ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorizing the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there’s a genuinely shocking plot twist halfway through.

Two men are hunting in a forest and come across an abandoned church. They go in to explore, and one of them receives a machete to the groin by a laughing man wearing a checkered jacket, while the other, Ty, runs away screaming. Next, we see park Ranger Roy McLean at his home, followed by a van of five teenagers going camping, but becoming lost. McLean warns them not to keep going the way they’re headed, but they ignore him. The five are: Warren, the blonde, body builder; his girlfriend Constance, blonde girl; Jonathan, the goofy, horny partygoer, his provocative girlfriend, Megan; and the nerdy camera operator, Daniel. On their way to the campsite, they almost hit a frantic, dirty Ty who tells them to drive away, but they do not listen and he runs into the woods.

They finally find a campsite and begin to set up, drinking beer, eating, and listening to music, not paying attention to anything around them. When night falls they go to sleep, all the while being watched by something in the woods. The next morning, they eat breakfast and go to the waterfall, where they see a young girl named Merry Logan who runs off into the woods. Meanwhile, Megan and Jonathan have gone skinny dipping in the lake, not knowing someone is under the water with them. Megan does not realize that Jonathan has got out of the water and feels hands touching her. She assumes it’s Jonathan, until she sees him on shore, upon which she panics and swims to safety.

When the group splits up to go exploring, Jonathan spots Merry and chases her, asking what her name is and telling her he will not hurt her. She thinks this is a game and runs out into a clearing where she sees something horrible, backing up towards the trees. Jonathan figures it’s the roped passageway over the river ahead, and begins to go across, but Merry runs and gives chase, only to be hit in the hand with a machete by a deformed giggling man in a checkered shirt. Jonathan runs to the other side, only to have the rope break, almost plunging him to his death and the rapids below. As he begins to climb up, he is greeted by the same man, who shoves him off to his death with his boot.

Megan and Daniel have gone off to take pictures of the woods and come across the church and a graveyard. Daniel breaks his glasses and sees a figure coming through the woods, and thinks it’s Jonathan and tells Megan, who decides to make it look like they’re making out. Daniel sees the figure approach, and upon realizing it’s not Jonathan, pushes Megan out of the way and is stabbed through the stomach with the machete. Megan sees the checkered shirt killer and runs into the church, where she sees him outside picking up Daniel’s camera. She turns around and is greeted by the same man and realizes that they’re identical twins. He begins to chop her with the machete as the other takes pictures through the window.

Meanwhile, Warren and Constance have met back at camp, but cannot find anyone else, until they see spot Jonathan’s body floating in the river and pull him out. They go to find the others but cannot find any trace of them as night approaches, so they go back to get the keys from Jonathan’s body which has disappeared.

Ty finally meets Roy and tells him all about the killer twins at the church, and Roy goes out on his horse to find the teens, and comes across Merry’s family, who consist of a crazy father and silent sister/mother. They tell him that the twins were actually theirs and that their mother died after having them, so he mated with his daughter and had Merry. Warren goes to find Jonathan’s body to get the car keys and leaves Constance at the campfire, where she is attacked by one of the twins who chases her up a tree. Warren finds Jonathan’s body along with Daniel’s who is wearing sunglasses and gets the keys, running back to camp with the Ranger. The twin cuts down the tree Constance is in, and is about to kill her when Roy shoots him in the chest, killing him and he tells the couple to go pack their things. They go back to camp, as Merry runs through the woods to find them.

At camp, the other twin stabs Warren and tries to kill Constance, who instead rams her fist down his throat, choking and killing him. Then she stands up, and makes the same noises as them, noting that she may have gone insane, as Warren questions her and Merry watches from the trees .The final shot shows the sunset view of the forest from the beginning.

Two men Ty (Mike Kellin) and Vachel (Charles Bartlett) are hunting in a forest and come across an abandoned church, which they go in to explore. After Ty sees their truck being crashed into a tree, Vachel is stabbed with a serrated machete by a chuckling assailant who dons Vachel’s hat and jacket. Ty, seeing the murderer come out of the church, quietly flees off into the forest. Meanwhile, Forest Ranger Roy McLean (George Kennedy) is at his home, where he encounters a van of five college-aged adults heading to rural property which one of them is has inherited. Despite his insistence that they not venture up the mountain, the five continue along. Among them are Warren (Gregg Henry); his girlfriend Constance (Deborah Benson); Jonathan (Chris Lemmon) and his girlfriend, Megan (Jamie Rose); and Daniel, Jonathan’s brother (Ralph Seymour).

On their way up the mountain, they hit a deer and encounter Ty stumbling through the woods on his way down the mountain; they dismiss the warnings of “demons” as he is visibly drunk. After reaching a point where the van cannot drive any further, the group set out on foot and make a campsite; at night, while around the fire, Constance, Megan and Daniel hear noises around them and become frightened, only to find that Jonathan and Warren are playing a joke on them. The next morning, they hike along Silver Creek to a waterfall, where they see a young girl named Merry Cat Logan (Kati Powell) singing before noticing their presence and running into the woods. Megan and Jonathan go skinny dipping at the bottom of the falls, unaware that someone else has entered the water. Megan feels hands touching her and assumes it’s Jonathan, until she sees him on shore, whereupon she panics and swims to safety.

When the group splits up to go exploring, Jonathan spots Merry and chases after her. She runs to a clearing but sees something that frightens her and hides behind some trees. Jonathan assumes it’s the rope bridge over the waterfall ahead and begins to go across, only to be confronted by the killer, who cuts his hand with his machete. The killer severs the bridge and Jonathan plummets into the water below. Unable to swim, he attempts to climb back up over the ledge using the rope. When he reaches the ledge, the killer kicks him in the face, and he falls to his demise. Meanwhile, Megan and Daniel are taking photographs in the woods, and come across the church and a graveyard. Daniel, who has lost his glasses, sees a figure coming through the woods, and thinks it’s Jonathan. He and Megan pretend to kiss as a joke, but as the figure comes closer, Daniel realizes it is not his brother. The figure stabs Daniel and Megan flees into the church, where she watches through the window as the killer investigates Daniel’s camera. Suddenly, another identical man emerges behind her inside the church, realizing that the two are identical twins, she is murdered in the church while the other twin photographs her death from outside the window.

The Woods

The Woods

Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls’ school that she was sent to by her estranged parents. In 1965, after provoking a fire in a forest, the rebel teenager Heather Fasulo is sent to the boarding school Falburn Academy in the middle of the woods by her estranged mother Alice Fasulo and her neglected father Joe Fasulo. The Dean Ms. Traverse accepts Heather in spite of the bad financial condition of her father. The displaced Heather becomes close friends with weird Mary Turner, while they are mistreated by the abusive Samantha Wise. During the nights, Heather has nightmares and listens to voices from the woods, and during the days she believes that the school is a coven of witches. When some students, including Mary, simply vanish, Heather believes she will be the next one.

In 1965, after burning down a tree in her yard, rebel teenager Heather Fasulo (Agnes Bruckner) is sent to the boarding school Falburn Academy in the middle of the woods by her estranged mother Alice Fasulo (Emma Campbell) and negligent father Joe Fasulo (Bruce Campbell). The Headmistress, Ms. Traverse (Patricia Clarkson), accepts Heather in spite of her father’s bad financial condition. The displaced Heather becomes close friends with Marcy Turner (Lauren Birkell), while they are maltreated by their abusive classmate Samantha Wise (Rachel Nichols). During the night, Heather has a nightmare of a student named Ann, covered in blood, and hears voices that seem to be coming from the woods. The next day, Marcy tells Heather that Ann was taken to a mental institution after attempting to commit suicide, and that she’d been covered in blood.

With the help of Marcy, Heather eventually learns to adjust to her new school, even having fun at times and making more friends. Ms. Traverse subjects Heather to special tests to see if she is “gifted,” telling her that it is all part of her scholarship to the academy. The girls tell Heather a spooky story about the history of Falburn, which includes three young redheaded sisters who arrived at the school and turned out to be witches, killing the Headmistress before leaving the woods. Meanwhile, Samantha continues to torment Heather, who comes to despise her and fights back. Ann returns from the mental institution, and Heather finds her one day, rocking in her bed. Ann reveals that she is afraid she will be taken by the witches. She says she is cold, so Heather climbs on a trunk to try and close the open window over Ann’s bed. A low fog rushes into the room and knocks Heather down, twisting her ankle, and she is taken to the infirmary. The next day, Heather finds Anne’s bed empty, her place filled with dead leaves. She witnesses the Headmistress lying to the police about Ann’s disappearance, remarking that she is being taken care of.

This leads her to become suspicious and she tries to talk to Marcy about it. But Marcy acts strangely, and is shadowed by one of the teachers. Soon after, Heather finds Marcy’s bed empty and covered in leaves. Later, she is confronted in the woods by Samantha, who reveals that she has actually been trying to protect Heather with her antics. She tells Heather that the school is led by a coven of witches who want to take all of the girls away. Samantha explains that she has called Heather’s father to help her escape and that milk is poisoned. The girls are both caught by a school mistress, who promptly takes Samantha away. Samantha is later found hanging from a long noose in the cafeteria. When a police officer comes to investigate, Heather tells him of the missing students.  The officer confronts the Headmistress, but she claims that the girls ran away. Another mistress “leads” the officer into the woods to find the girls, where he is killed by the living vines of a tree.

Heather’s parents show up to take her home, though the Headmistress tries to persuade them otherwise. On the way home, their car is mysteriously flipped and Heather is knocked unconscious. Alice is dragged out of the car by a living vine and kicks Joe in the head, knocking him out. Heather and Joe wake up in a nearby hospital. Before they can reach each other, Ms. Traverse has Heather dragged away, then slits her own hand and forces her black blood down Joe’s throat, which puts him into a catatonic state. Heather returns to the school in despair. She drinks the milk that evening, but later vomits it back up, finding tree bark in it. Back at the hospital, Joe wakes up and vomits Ms. Traverse’s black blood, which also has tree bark in it. He quickly escapes and goes to find Heather. That night, Heather begins to hear voices again, and when she attempts to leave, a living vine captures her.

When she awakens, she is wrapped in vines in a large room, next to Ann and Marcy, who are also held captive. All of the teachers appear and reveal themselves to be witches. Ms. Traverse is their leader, and she explains that their spirits have been trapped in the woods all these years, and they need to inhabit the bodies of young women to escape their imprisonment. Heather appears to be the centerpiece of her plan because she has the strongest powers among the gifted students. Heather is coerced into completing the ritual, and the vines being to mummify all of the girls in the school. Before it can complete itself, Joe breaks into the room with an ax and begins to kill the witches. Heather breaks free from the vines and grabs the axe, proceeding to chop all of the witches into pieces. Heather and Joe then leave with all of the girls, walking down the road into the daylight as the school burns in the distance behind them. The end of the movie states that Falburn Academy burned to the ground in 1965, while the surrounding woods were strangely left untouched.

A teenage girl is drawn into the path of the unknown in this tale of terror. Heather (Agnes Bruckner) is a teenage girl whose father (Bruce Campbell) and mother take little interest in her. Heather’s parents enroll her in a private boarding school for girls located deep in a remote forest. Heather isn’t happy with this turn of events, and she doesn’t get along well with her classmates or the Headmistress, Ms. Traverse (Patricia Clarkson). As she struggles to make the best of her situation, Heather notices that slowly but surely the other students at the school have been vanishing, and there seems to be a mysterious force in the nearby woods which has been claiming the lives of the younger women – and will soon be coming after Heather. The Woods was the first major-studio feature from director Lucky McKee, who earned enthusiastic notices for his independent film May.

Quotes

Samantha: [Walks up to the table] Heard you been saying stuff behind my back, fire-crotch.

Heather: Now, Samantha, all I said was your breath smells like you’ve been drinking out of Ms. Mackinaw’s douche bag, that’s all.

[Samantha leans in threateningly]

Heather: I don’t wanna kiss you, Samantha, so please, don’t ask.

Samantha: No, you listen very closely, fire-crotch. We have a certain way of doing things around here and you better figure out what that way is or there are going to be serious consequences.

Ms. Traverse: [Ms. Mackinaw brings Heather into the office] What is this?

Ms. Mackinaw: Miss Fasulo attacked Miss Wise in the dining hall. [Her head twitches]

Ms. Traverse: Is that so?

Heather: I didn’t… [She twitches intentionally]

Heather: … attack anyone. I was just trying to defend myself. [Ms. Mackinaw looks embarrassed and upset that Heather made fun of her twitch]

Heather: I’m sorry. I didn’t man to… [Ms. Mackinaw twitches again and leaves angrily]

Ms. Traverse: [Slaps Heather] Now listen: We have a certain way of doing things around here and you better figure out what that way is or there are going to be serious consequences.

Samantha: [Heather kicks bathroom stall door to try and get out. Samantha has her pinned inside] Say it.

Samantha: [Heather kicks stall door again] Say it.

Samantha: “I’m a fire-crotch.”

Heather: What?

Samantha: “I am a fire-crotch.”

Heather: How many football players put it in you before your mom get sick of having another tramp around the house?

Girl #1: [Samantha pulls open the stall door angrily, then proceeds to punch Heather in the stomach] Nice one.

Samantha: [Heather is keeled over in pain] If you know what’s good for you, you’ll run away and never, ever come back.

Samantha: Got it, fire-crotch?

Title Card: In the fall of 1965, the Falburn Academy burned to the ground. It remains a mystery why the trees surrounding the academy were untouched by the fire.

[First lines] Alice: Fasulo: [to Heather in the backseat] Feet off the seat.

Heather: Apparently, my father isn’t as well off as he presents himself.

Marcy Turner: Who is?

Heather: [On the phone] Mom, I just wanna come home. I miss my friends.

Alice Fasulo: Heather, sweetheart, you don’t have any friends.

Ms. Traverse: A loving mother never abandons her child. To be separated from her is like an amputation. It doesn’t matter what a child looks like –if she’s smart, if she’s stupid, if she has no friends. So why would your mother leave you here?

Alice Fasulo: I don’t know what I have to do, to get you under control, Heather.

Heather: Then stop trying.

Ms. Traverse: You don’t know what it’s like to be trapped. To be tied to the same place, for hundreds of years. They’re here to help you, Heather. Don’t be sad. By leaving this world, you’re giving others the opportunity to fully enter it.

Welcome to the Doll House

Welcome to the Doll House

Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Dawn Wiener is a shy, unattractive, unpopular seventh grader living in a middle-class suburban community in New Jersey. Her seventeen-year-old brother Mark is a nerdy high school student who plays clarinet in a garage band and shuns girls to prepare for college. Dawn’s younger sister, eight-year-old Missy, is a spoiled, manipulative little girl who pesters Dawn and dances around the house in a tutu. Their mother dotes on Missy and sides with her in disputes with Dawn. Their father is a meek, immature, selfish man who sides with Dawn’s mother in arguments with Dawn. Dawn’s only friend is an effeminate sixth-grade boy named Ralphy, with whom she shares a dilapidated clubhouse in her backyard. At school, Dawn is ridiculed and her locker is covered in graffiti. After her teacher unfairly keeps her after school, she is threatened with rape by a bully named Brandon McCarthy, who also has trouble socializing. At home Dawn’s mother punishes her for calling Missy a lesbian and refusing to be nice to her. Dawn gets in trouble at school after she accidentally hits a teacher in the eye with a spitball. Brandon’s first attempt to rape Dawn after school fails, but he orders her to meet him again. After she complies, he takes her to an abandoned field. He starts an earnest conversation with her and kisses her.

Mark’s band is joined by Steve Rodgers, a charismatic and handsome aspiring teenage rock musician who agrees to play in the band in exchange for Mark’s help in school. Dawn decides to pursue him romantically after he spends time with her, though one of Steve’s former girlfriends tells Dawn she has no chance of being with him. Dawn and Brandon form an innocent romance, but Brandon is arrested and expelled for suspected drug dealing. Dawn visits his home and meets his father and mentally challenged brother who requires constant supervision. After kissing Dawn, Brandon runs away to avoid being sent to military school. After angrily rejecting Ralphy, Dawn is left with no friends. When she refuses to tear down her clubhouse to make room for her parents; 20^th wedding anniversary party, her mother has Mark and Missy destroy it and gives them her share of a cake. At the party, Dawn intends to proposition Steve, but gets cold feet and is contemptuously rebuffed. Steve plays with Missy, who pushes Dawn into a kiddie pool. That evening, the family watches a videotape of the party, laughing when Dawn falls into the water. That night, Dawn smashes the tape and briefly brandishes her hammer over Missy as she sleeps.

A few weeks later, Dawn’s father’s car breaks down and her mother has to pick him up from work. Dawn is supposed to tell Missy to find a ride home from ballet class but chooses not to do so after arguing with her. Missy is kidnapped while walking home. When Missy’s tutu is found in Times Square, Dawn goes to New York City to find her. After a full day searching for Missy, Dawn phones home and Mark tells her that Missy was found by police after being abducted by a pedophile neighbor who lives on their street. Dawn returns home. Later, Dawn’s classmates ridicule her as she presents a thank you speech. After the principal tells the unruly students to be quiet, Dawn musters the emotional strength to finish her speech and makes a quick exit. Summer arrives and Dawn is relieved that school is over for the time-being. Mark tells Dawn that she cannot expect school life to get any better until she starts high school. As Dawn’s parents continue mistreating and ignoring her, Dawn signs herself up to attend a summer camp in Florida. On a school trip to Walt Disney World, Dawn sits among other girls from her school and joins them in singing the school anthem. Unnoticed, her voice slowly trails off as she sits looking out a bus window.