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Let's pick up the pace.

Let's act like we didn't mean to be late, we were just,

we were trying to be on time, just fate got in the way, okay?

The teachers already know we're late

because we're bad at being on time.

Everyone stares at me when I come in late.

And when I make this noise. Ba-caw! Ba-caw!

Okay. Very attention-grabbing noise, in their defence.

Bye! Have a good day.

You too, Sleeve Buscemi.

Oh, yeah. Uh, can you sign this test?

Um, it's from months ago, I just found it.

Yeah, okay.

No.

Is that...

The Red Ghost.

He's back.

This thing used to haunt her nightmares.

Why is she saying it's her best friend?

She has actual friends, right?

I don't know, Dad. Viv's weird.

Can you sign my test? - Yeah, yeah. Okay.

There are parents who obsess

over their kids' social lives. Us, for example.

Are they lonely? Are they being picked on?

Is it our fault?

Some kids struggle finding where they fit in.

Some kids don't fit in anywhere

and it's your job to find out why.

Here. She's not actually weird though, right?

I'm not allowed to say who's weird and not.

It's against policy.

But uh, connecting with other kids outside of school

can make a big difference. - Oh, yeah. Okay, good.

Thank you. That's a good idea, actually.

Viv's drawing is creeping me out.

Yeah.

The Red Ghost is very unnerving.

No, Viv drew herself with a cat on a leash.

What's up with that?

"The Hex." "A Sorcerer's Hat?"

"Talisman of Shady Wood." Thank you so much, Corey,

for bringing these graphic novels.

Felix and Viv are gonna eat these up.

It would be better if they burned them.

Corey. Just because they no longer align

with your beliefs doesn't mean other people can't enjoy them.

Corey got mixed up with the pious group

at his Swiss boarding school.

It's less intense than it was,

but he still talks to them online.

Sounds like you found your peeps.

Yeah, um, Viv is actually kinda struggling with that.

We're hoping this big playdate

is gonna kickstart some friendships.

There's no need to worry.

Corey was a bit of an outcast at Viv's age,

but it sorted itself out. Now he's fine.

Corey? You okay there?

We need to leave, Mother. I sense an evil presence.

That's probably the fridge.

There's some tofu in there that's gone off.

We must go, now.

- You say this is less intense? - Yeah, he's just being a teen.

You know, acting out, sarcasm, sensing evil presences.

Good luck with the playdate. Heh.

Come, Mother, we have to leave.

Bye now!

Will sort itself out? Yeah, thanks, Dawn.

Kids can't get here soon enough.

Oh, my.

Good news!

Got snacks for the playdate.

Bad news, Morris shoplifted a lime.

Your mom's problem now. I dropped him off.

What is... Is that tofu still in there?

Yeah, it's disgusting.

Sorry, I was waiting for you to handle it.

I was waiting for you to handle it.

So, that keeps happening. Should we call somebody?

Uh yeah, I'm gonna get on it. When are the kids showing up?

I don't know, James.

Not a single one of them has RSVP'd.

Viv?

Hey, everybody.

How's it goin'?

- Yeah, really good. - Mm-hmm.

Um, Viv,

you know you said your friends were coming, right?

So, did they actually tell you that?

I gave them the invitation cards

and they said, "Okay!"

Okay, well uh, sweetie, honey, sometimes uh, things happen,

like unexpected things like people get sick,

or there's a family emergency like a dog dying.

- A dog died?! - No. No, no, no,

I'm just giving you examples of reasons why people

might not come to the playdate. - They're not coming?!

- Oh, my God! - No, I...

They might and they might not.

They... Astrid, a little help?

I mean, where to start?

They're here!

Isabelle!

Hi. That's your parents, I assume?

Isabelle, what's on your shirt?

Stuff I'm allergic to.

Okay.

Dynasty! - This is so great.

We wanted to go to Niagara Falls for the night.

- Oh, to the waterpark. - Uh, no, to gamble.

One thing, she's going through a bit of a nosebleed phase,

so just stick a tampon up her nostril,

she'll go right back to sleep. Enjoy your sleepover, honey!

Bye, Mom!

Okay, let's play Hoochie Dolls.

Viv.

Come on, let's keep on dancing, it's fun.

Did you tell your friends this playdate was a sleepover?

I thought it would be fun.

Let's keep playing, guys.

Yeah, we're having a dance party.

This is the sleepover party house?

- Uh... yep. Sure is. - Yeah, huh.

- First time for you guys? - No. No, we have a son, so.

- I'll tell you this.

Girls get weird at night

when they're all in a gaggle together.

Three rules. One, don't feed 'em sugar after 7pm.

Two, don't let 'em play hide and seek.

And three, the most important rule of all,

make sure they're in bed by 10.

Or things will get really weird.

Okie dokie, sweetie pie. You go have some fun.

Okay.

I mean, they're just girls, dude.

I don't even want that guy's contact info.

It's quiet up there.

What are they up to?

Where's the baby?

Viv says she had a baby.

We wanna play with it. Where is it?

Viv has a baby brother,

but he's staying at her grandmother's house.

- Oh. - Okay, why don't we join

the girls upstairs, shall we? - Yeah, let's, let's get you--

I'm sorry, where, where is she?

Right here.

- Hey you! - How?!

Is this house haunted?

No, no, no. Sweetie, no, it's just um, a

silly light that I'm gonna fix right now.

Wait, James, what about the quiet upstairs?

Oh no, you go up there. You got it.

Okay, let's go.

All right, everybody having fun in here?

Opposite.

- What about the Hoochie Dolls? - We wanna play with Morris.

I tried telling her.

Yeah, um, Morris isn't here.

And also, he's not a toy. So, sorry.

We're your guests.

You're supposed to say yes to us.

Ah, no, I'm not. Not to everything.

We could play Red Ghost!

Viv, why don't you show the girls your karaoke machine?

Singing makes me grumpy.

M'kay. What about a snack?

Yes!

Okay, Viv, you wanna come with me?

Can we have chocolate, too?

It's getting kinda late. How about some blueberries?

Nature's other chocolate.

The Red Ghost hates fruit.

Viv, can I tell you something?

You have to stop with The Red Ghost, all right?

Ghosts are not real.

But your friends are.

Think I fixed it. - No, you didn't.

If we can't play Red Ghost, what else are we supposed to do?

You can't force people to play a game they don't wanna play.

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

See what the group wants to do.

Okay. Go with the flo-o-ow.

Hey, thanks for coming over so late.

I-I know I probably played around with it and made it worse

like, when I tried to install that toilet.

It's okay.

I needed to take a break from building my son's robot suit.

- Robot suit? - Yeah.

He's doing cosplay now so I'm building him

this robot armour. Or trying to.

- Right. - But he's not talking to me.

It's awkward, man.

Yeah. It...

Sounds like a tough one.

Being a dad freaks me out.

But not as much as this switch box.

Oh. Can you tell me why the lights are flickering?

Flickering's not the issue. The wires are all screwed up.

This light shouldn't even work.

I'm going to uh, take a few pics.

Um, just real quick before we...

How much money are we talkin'?

This uh, best bet...

700 bucks.

I don't know what I'm talking about,

but that sounds like a lot

and it, I don't like the feel of it.

You know what? I'm... I appreciate you.

I'm gonna take a look

and I'm gonna tinker with it some more.

I guess I'll just go back to my son.

Yep, good luck with that. Ahem.

Bonne chance!

All right. All the best.

Yeah.

Mom! Dad! Help me!

- Felix? - Dad! Help!

Stop! Stop, stop.

Viv, stop it. Stop!

Hey!

Come on, let's go!

- Felix? What happened? - They, they came in.

They said they were gonna read my palm

and I do have questions about my future, so I let them.

They grabbed my arm and they tied me up.

And they ate all my Halloween candy. Look!

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Eye-patch dad said don't feed them sugar after 7pm.

- James! - I'm just saying,

it's way after 7, that's a lot of sugar.

Everything that eye-patch dad said is coming true. I'm just saying.

Or they're retaliating because I didn't give them Morris to play with.

And Viv's going along with it

because I told her to make them happy.

You can't find us!

Don't open this door for anybody. Except for us.

And also the police.

Okay, let's just wrangle these girls into bed

before we break any more of the eye-patch guy's precious rules.

I don't think we should be calling him that.

I just feel like it's rude.

I know I said it first, but I'm just...

They're in our bedroom.

Ginger?

What are you doing in here all weird and creepy-like?

Shh! We're playing hide and seek.

Huh! That's eye-patch guy's second rule.

I thought we weren't calling him that?

I don't know his name. It's a very identifiable feature.

What is eye-patch guy's third rule?

- It's the most important one.

They have to be in bed by 10 o'clock.

Got less than an hour.

We got this.

We may not got this.

James, splitting up was a bad idea.

When you're dealing with one kid,

it's easy to clamp down on any behaviour issues.

If you're in charge of lots of kids,

it's more difficult to keep tabs on them all.

And if the kids rile each other up,

the difficulty gets to expert level.

Oh, my God.

That's gonna be really hard to get out, you guys!

Hello?

James, I totally understand

you decided not to hire me,

but I was alarmed by your wiring.

So, I went to the library and I did some research.

The wiring is deliberate.

I discovered the wiring is a signature

of an old electrician who's gone insane!

His name is "Red Wire Killer!" - What?

He purposely rewires customers' switch boxes

so the lights short circuit, or flicker,

until eventually burn out.

That's when he comes back to, you know...

- Hello?

Hello?

Oh, tofu, oh, my God.

Ugh! Oh, God!

Morris? What?

Oh, my God!

You're out of toilet paper.

Okay. Uh... ugh!

Think I remember your mom

saying something about nosebleeds

as she ran away from our house. Um, okay. Oh.

Hey! Come on.

Girls! The game's over. It's time for bed.

If you don't open this door right now...

I don't, I don't, well, I don't know what I’m gonna do.

Mirrors are so creepy in the dark.

Astrid? James!

Oh, what the... Oh, my God.

James, can you let me out?

Okay, I got it. Step back.

Oh, my God. Are you all right?

They locked me in here. I'm telling you right now,

I'm so done with pretending to be nice to those girls.

If I were my mother, I'd be waving my spoon so hard

in their faces right now.

Okay, well, save your shaky spoon

for the psycho killer who wired this house.

Huh?

Yeah. The contractor called me.

Our faulty wiring was done by a crazy electrician

called the "Red Wire Killer."

James, stop, you're spiralling.

Everything's fine. It's just...

It's a bunch of seven year old girls hopped up on sugar.

That's it, it's nothing more. - Yeah, ahem.

I think that's for you.

Coming in. I'm coming in. I'm coming in. I'm coming in.

I'm not trying to scare you. Touching you. Touching you.

I just, I wanted us to die together.

James, why is the karaoke machine on if the power's off?

- Mice? - Huh?

I don't know. I was just trying to think

of something that wasn't...

...scary.

Did Viv do all these?

She didn't do all these. They did these together.

Wait, so she's not going along with them,

she's the instigator.

Oh, my God.

Our baby girl's a cult leader.

Okay. - That little stinker.

I fixed the lights. It was the main breaker.

- Felix is handy. - He's a good kid.

- He's handy. - Two for two.

Girls, you are in so much trouble right now.

You attacked Felix, you locked me in the bathroom.

You rubbed your nosebleeds all over my walls.

Party's over.

I'm sorry, Mommy.

You said to include my friends in a game.

And by the way, Isabelle's sister said

we could make spirits come over for a visit.

She saw it online. She's 14.

She's allowed TikTok at her dad's house,

but not our house.

Her dad isn't my dad but her mom is my mom.

My dad's Gary. Her dad's Antoine.

Okay, well, families come in all different shapes and sizes.

Just no more paranormal activity for tonight. Okay. Bedtime!

Huh.

Wait, Viv...

Where's your dad?

It's me!

It's me, it's The Red Ghost!

I'm so mad. Why would he do that?

The Red Ghost is a girl, not some big, mean man!

Yeah, Viv, it, it was my idea.

Your dad wanted to ban all future sleepovers

and I wanted to leave this house and never, ever return.

So, our compromise was to scare a bunch of little girls.

Viv, I'm really happy you found people that get you.

Me and the girls are gonna play Red Ghost

at school where you guys can't ruin it.

One of our worst fears

is finding out that our child doesn't fit in.

But the truth is, we're all weirdos to someone.

Hey, guys. Wanna play Red Ghost at school?

The key is to find the same kind of weirdos as you.

And never let them go.

Can we just clean up tomorrow? I wanna go to bed.

Yes. But first I'm gonna deal with the tofu in the kitchen.

Okay.

- Okay.

Hello? - James Berney?

- Yeah? - Detective Russo. May I?

Yeah.

Have you had any contact with this man?

That's our contractor.

"Contractor" is just uh, one of his many personalities.

Wha--

His real name is Roland St-Pierre.

Two years ago, he escaped from the correctional facility

for psychiatric sickos.

We used this guy three times. He was here tonight.

Tonight? Did he um, did he say where he was going?

Well, he said he was gonna help his son

with his robot suit but instead was gonna go

to the library to do some research.

This late at night? Library's not open.

Come on, James, you're better than that.

Wait, if he wasn't at the library,

why does he know so much about the "Red Wire Killer?"

The "Red Wire Killer" is uh,

one of his other personalities.

Got a nervous stomach? - No, that's--

Nervous talking to a police officer?

- There's some tofu in the fridge... - Ah, tofu.

You on an elimination diet, or something?

You wanna make sure you have a fresh watering every 24 hours.

- That's what keeps it fresh? - It keeps it from uh, stinkin'

like, like a stinky diaper.

Want me to go and water your tofu?

I could just go in there and give it a quick little rinse.

I... think you need a warrant.

Uh, listen um...

Do you wanna come see my fridge?

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