The camera angle switches to looking out from just inside the edge of the woods.
The horse runs up and past and then neighs off-screen. The boys come up behind
and slow to a walk as they enter the edge of the woods.
We now look at the boys from behind who come to a stop at the edge of a rise
or bank and look down into the hollow.
Margaret (off-screen):
"Nathan. Sammy."
The camera is in front of the boys, who we can now see are alarmed at and transfixed
on whatever it is that they are looking down on. Margaret comes running up,
but gets quiet and slows to a walk as she nears them and sees their expressions.
She looks down with concern.
The camera angle cuts to behind the children as Margaret slowly moves up to
beside the boys and we pan up so we can look over the childrens' shoulders down
into the creek that comes into view. There are bodies floating in the river
as we continue to move forward until the children nearly disappear off the bottom
of the screen.
Closeup of the boys looking down at the bodies in concern, as though they are
trying, but not yet able to fully grasp the sight before them.
Closeup of the back of a head floating in the creek and then pan up to a second
body floating, as patches of dark red tint the creek.
Closeup of a third body, this one with a lifeless face looking toward us.
Closeup of Margaret, who can't tear her eyes away from the river.
The camera angle now is shifts to the right of Margaret and faces parallel to
the creeke, so we look past the children to where Benjamin comes running up
from the childrens' left. He looks at them, follows their eyes down to the scene
in the creek, glances around the trees, as if looking for signs of intruders
and then speaks to the children as he steps into their view of the creek and
herds them back toward the house.
Benjamin:
"Back to the house. Come on. Back to the house now. Come
with me. Margaret, go now. Come on."
