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Anjelica Huston, Tallulah Evans, Nicholas Galitzine, and Dixie Egerickx in The Watcher in the Woods (2017)

Tallulah Evans: Jan Carstairs

The Watcher in the Woods

Tallulah Evans credited as playing...

Jan Carstairs

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  • Mrs. Aylwood: What sort of a person are you? Do you sense things?
  • Jan Carstairs: [shakes her head] I'm sorry... I don't know what you mean.
  • Mrs. Aylwood: I think I shall have to take a chance on you.
  • [then turns around and walks away]
  • Paul Carstairs: [as they drive through the countryside on their way to their new home] In ten years' time, this summer will seem like the blink of an eye.
  • Jan Carstairs: [unimpressed, misses Cleveland] Let's see if that works.
  • [blinks]
  • Jan Carstairs: Nope. It's still there.
  • Jan Carstairs: [as they drive into the town, they encounter a funeral procession] Wow. This place already feels like fun.
  • Paul Carstairs: Jan... have some respect.
  • Jan Carstairs: Sorry.
  • [as they drive past, she blinks again]
  • Jan Carstairs: Nope. Still there.
  • Jan Carstairs: [as her little sister wanders off] Ellie!
  • [no response]
  • Jan Carstairs: Ellie! Ellie!
  • [still no response, so confronts her:]
  • Jan Carstairs: Ellie!
  • Ellie Carstairs: What?
  • Jan Carstairs: Didn't you hear me? Where we're you going?
  • Ellie Carstairs: I don't know...
  • Paul Carstairs: What's going on, you two?
  • Ellie Carstairs: She's trying to scare me again.
  • Jan Carstairs: No, I wasn't. She wandered off. It was like she was sleepwalking.
  • Ellie Carstairs: [huffily] I'm not sleepwalking.
  • Mrs. Aylwood: ... and he needs somebody to care about the child he keeps until he gets it. That's why I made a bargain with the Watcher.
  • Jan Carstairs: What kind of bargain?
  • Mrs. Aylwood: I'm getting old, I'd do anything to see Karen again...
  • Jan Carstairs: What kind of bargain, Mrs. Aylwood?
  • Mrs. Aylwood: [tearfully] I promised him a young girl in Karen's place. The Watcher's agreed.
  • Jan Carstairs: He... You offered him *me.*
  • Mrs. Aylwood: No...
  • [sobs]
  • Mrs. Aylwood: I offered him Ellie.
  • [sobs]
  • Mrs. Aylwood: Forgive me.

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