Lao Yue: Chen Yan, could you turn on the heater? The people in the back are freezing.
Xiao You: It's so cold.
Chen Yan: My hands are full. A Yu, can you grab my phone?
A Yu: Sure. I'll turn on the headlights.
Xiao You: Turn them off! Turn them off! We'll expose ourselves.
Xiao You: Lao Yue, are you sure about this? It's already past two in the morning.
Lao Yue: I've been observing for a month. She usually comes out around this time. I think it’s soon.
A Yu: Chen Yan, maybe you should film.
Lao Yue: By the way, Xiao You… you seem a bit nervous today.
Xiao You: Yesterday I accidentally searched online. What we're doing might actually be dangerous. The internet says one-third of sleepwalkers can be aggressive.
Xiao You: In 1846, an American named Albert Tirrell was accused of murdering his lover while sleepwalking. He was eventually found not guilty. In 1999, Scott Falater from Arizona was accused of stabbing his wife forty-four times. He was found guilty.
And on May 23rd, 1987, in Toronto, Canada...
Lao Yue: Wait, wait. I’ve read those cases online too. Let me ask you something, Xiao You—how many videos has our hobby group filmed so far?
A Yu: Today should be the seventh.
Lao Yue: And in the previous six times, did we run into the kind of danger you're worried about?
Xiao You: But those were people we knew. Tonight we don’t know this woman at all.
Lao Yue: Xiao You, I’ve been observing her for two months. I think—
A Yu: Stop arguing, both of you. You both have a point. Let’s just stay careful tonight. The most important thing is that we must not wake the sleepwalker. It could be dangerous for her—and for us.
Lao Yue: Chen Yan, stop pointing the camera at us. Keep it on the door. Don’t miss the moment it opens.
Xiao You: Don’t worry. I’m watching for her. If the lights turn on inside, I’ll tell her.
Lao Yue: She never turns on the lights when she comes out. I’m sure of it. That detail is important.
Xiao You: Wait… the door’s opening.
A Yu: Sleepwalkers don’t rely on vision. They rely on memory.
Xiao You: It looks like she’s looking this way.
Chen Yan: Do you think she noticed us?
Lao Yue: No. This distance is safe. I tested it beforehand.
A Yu (calmly): If she could see us, she wouldn’t be sleepwalking.
A Yu: Let’s get out of the car and follow her.
Xiao You: Okay… be careful.
A Yu: Lao Yue, hurry up.
Chen Yan: What are you doing? Don’t—
Chen Yan: Go ahead.
A Yu: This is the seventh case we’ve documented. It will be the longest route we’ve recorded a sleepwalker walking. Although the walk lasts a long time, the route she takes every night is almost precisely the same—like it’s been measured with a ruler. Once again, it proves that sleepwalkers rely not on vision, but on memory—
Lao Yue: Keep it simple.
Xiao You: Lao Yue, don’t get so close.
A Yu: I tested it. Her eyes show no reaction to moving objects.
Xiao You: Come back, Lao Yue! Come back! Don’t get too close—you’ll wake her!
Xiao You: Did you notice? Her arms barely swing at all.
A Yu: Yes. Very stiff.
A Yu: On camera it’s not very obvious. It just looks like someone taking a walk late at night.
Lao Yue: But it’s two in the morning… and she’s a woman.
Xiao You: Come back, Lao Yue! You’ll wake her!
A Yu: Relax. You’re too timid.
Xiao You: If we get too close, we’ll wake her.
A Yu: Don’t film us—film her!
A Yu: Where did she go?
Xiao You: She’s gone.
Lao Yue: She disappeared.
Lao Yue: That’s impossible… not at that speed.
A Yu: Let’s check inside.
Lao Yue: Xiao You, keep up.
Xiao You: You’re going inside to film?
Lao Yue: I’ve scouted this area. That’s an empty house—no one lives there. It’s fine.
Xiao You: I’m scared.
A Yu: Chen Yan… you dropped your phone.
Lao Yue: Then go wait in the car.
Xiao You: Alright… I’ll go back.
Lao Yue: Okay.
Xiao You: Call me if anything happens.
Lao Yue: Chen Yan, A Yu—let’s go in.
Chen Yan: Okay.
A Yu: Chen Yan?
Chen Yan: Yeah?
A Yu: You film.
A Yu: Let’s go.
Lao Yue: What do you mean “let’s go”?
A Yu: Don’t you feel like the atmosphere here is… strange?
Lao Yue: So what? That’s exactly the atmosphere we want.
A Yu: It feels like a trap… like someone deliberately led us here.
Lao Yue: There are three of us and only one woman. Besides, I spent two months scouting for tonight’s shoot. Do you know how hard it is to find a subject like this?
A Yu: Fine. Let’s just film what’s in the box and leave.
Lao Yue: Okay.
A Yu: Chen Yan?
A Yu: Chen Yan!
A Yu / Lao Yue: Chen Yan!!
A Yu: Who are you? Who the hell are you? What do you want?
Professor Cheng: Dr. Li, where did that painting on the wall come from?
Dr. Li (the middle-aged sleepwalking woman): One of the patients downloaded and printed it from the computer. Our hospital allows patients two hours of computer use every day. We think it helps their condition.
Professor Cheng: Do you know where the painting originally comes from?
Dr. Li: I’m not sure. It doesn’t look particularly special.
Professor Cheng: It’s an oil painting created in 1871 by the British painter John Everett Millais. It’s called The Somnambulist.
Dr. Li (confused): Why would the patient print it and hang it on the wall?
Professor Cheng: That actually answers the question you raised earlier. You said the strange thing about these two patients is that they behave as if the people around them don’t exist.
Dr. Li: Yes… exactly.
Dr. Li: It’s as if we doctors and nurses are blind and deaf to them.
Professor Cheng: They don’t think the staff are blind or deaf. In their hallucination, they believe everyone else is sleepwalking.
Professor Cheng: I just returned from Austria. Professor Thomas, a psychologist at Salzburg University, recently treated several cases very similar to the two patients in your hospital. During an episode, the patients experience hallucinations and believe that everyone around them—except themselves—is sleepwalking. The exact cause is still unknown. Perhaps they’ve begun to doubt the reality of the world itself...
Chen Yan: Dr. Li, the patient Xiao You who was admitted yesterday has escaped.
Dr. Li: Xiao You?
Chen Yan: Yes.
Dr. Li: You mean Room 5 in Ward 3?
Chen Yan: That’s right. Her symptoms are very similar to those two patients.
Woman: What are you doing?
Xiao You: “You’re awake.”
Woman: What did you say?
Xiao You: “You’re awake.”
Woman: Crazy.
Xiao You: Crazy…
THE END
如果你需要，我还可以帮你：
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做成专业英文电影剧本格式（screenplay format）
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优化对白，让它更像好莱坞惊悚片台词
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做中英字幕版（适合直接做SRT字幕） ????
