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Ara!

[Priest singing]

An immortality machine, the mummified remains

of kings and nobles,

bound souls crossing the Underworld.

Each night, an abyss.

Oblivion.

Each morning, a rebirth, resurrection.

[Electronic humming]

[Radio static]

[Radio flips through stations]

[Jazz music plays]

[Swooshing sound]

[Jazz music continues]

[Radio static, music stops]

[Gentle music]

[Swooshing sound]

I heard you rattling around last night.

You can't sleep?

Come by the office later, have lunch with me.

- Oh, yeah? - Mm-hmm.

I have a big morning, but I'd enjoy that.

I wanted to ask you, is, um...

was Isobel sleepwalking last night again?

No.

She was sleeping peacefully on the sofa.

It's stress.

She's stressed out.

She's fine.

How can you tell?

How would you know?

I can tell. Can't you?

No!

I mean, lately, it just...

I don't know.

I'm finding another doctor, though.

That guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

Sweetheart, it's just a phase.

She'll grow out of it.

We said we'd come down here, fix this place up.

It was never meant to be permanent.

She wasn't sleepwalking around the house in Chicago, Robert.

It's a sign.

We're done here.

We are.

[Tea kettle whistles]

Cleo, music.

[Rock music plays from speaker]

[Bag slams]

Hey.

How you doing?

Oh, my God, did you do this?

Is this you?

Oh, I know. I sent Rita, I forgot.

Okay, no more. I'll just do it.

Great. I love that.

Hey.e you can't be bothered.

Oceans full of plastic, landfills full of plastic.

I made a mistake.

Is this necessary?

Cleo! Off, please!

You don't have to yell at Cleo.

Honey, Cleo is a robot.

She doesn't have feelings.

Cleo, are you a robot?

I am not a robot.

Oh, shut up.

I was just telling Iz how I found her downstairs last night.

Are you feeling a little worried about anything or stressed out?

No. Why?

Was I doing something weird?

Was it bad?

No, no, darling.

I'm finding a new doctor.

Why?

Because, honey, you are -

No, I just had a creepy dream.

I slept fine, I feel fine.

[Phone buzzes]

Maria's here.

Have a good day.

Why don't you sit down and have some breakfast?

I gotta go.

[Ominous notes]

[Noise from upstairs]

Robert?

Robert!

Robert!

Oh, my dear!

Hello!

Come here!

[Door creaking]

[Tapping noise]

[Fluttering]

Years ago, an Englishman who had excavated Egyptian tombs

stole a cache of plundered relics

and fled to Mexico City.

He built a home, a life, a family,

trading treasures on the black market,

a soldier, an adventurer, a thief: my great grandfather.

See, I grew up in a family that actually excavated tombs.

And the Egyptians believed

if their name was on the lips of someone living,

then they were living.

Human beings actually carry

the experiences of their ancestors in their DNA.

Maybe we're all haunted.

[VO] He roamed the house at night.

[VO] She was always sleepwalking.

[VO] She said she had the same dreams over and over again.

[VO] I think he was shellshocked from the war.

[VO] Mother's gone somewhere.

She'll sleep better at night.

[VO] Robert? Robert, you've been sleepwalking again.

[Robert VO] It's just a phase. She'll grow out of it.

[Beth VO] She wasn't sleepwalking around the house

in Chicago, Robert.

It's a sign.

[Sonia screaming]

[Phone rings]

Robert Corwin.

Good morning, Mr. Corwin.

My name is Derek Mendoza.

I understand you're involved in authenticating a cache

of artifacts and correspondence

recently auctioned off in London.

Yeah, I'm familiar with the material.

I'm looking for a specific figurine I'd hoped to find

in that collection, but did not.

I believe the item we're looking for is being held privately.

I represent a significant collector.

Might I come by and discuss it with you?

Are you the man who was outside my house

on the street this morning?

My client is prominent, Mr. Corwin, and quite wealthy.

It will be worth your time.

I'll see you within the hour.

Thank you for meeting us

on such short notice, Mr. Corwin.

My client, Charlotte Grove.

Hello.

Welcome.

We appreciate your discretion.

I read about Paul.

I'm sorry.

How is he?

He's being held in this world by machines.

Doing as poorly as a man can be and still be alive.

Your home is lovely.

Thank you.

Ah.re still updating it.

I've seen this in books.

The negatives are in the British Museum.

Those are original prints, and on the left,

that's Arthur Corwin, the notorious great grandfather.

Where was the family before all this?

Oh, pig farmers in the English Midlands.

That's how he escaped into the military,

and then into Egypt,

and then here.

The Butcher of Kabul.

Subjugator of India.

The Queen's man in Egypt.

Would you like some tea, coffee?

Tequila?

No, thank you.

I would love to see...

Is this all?

Most of it.

The significant pieces went back to Cairo

or the British Museum when my father was alive.

I'm trying to locate several pieces we've traced

to the 1921 excavation at Abydos,

led by your great grandfather.

[Evocative strings]

His patron's estate was liquidated.

The Earl's family came to believe that several items

brought to England from Egypt were cursed.

One of the Aberdos's tombs manifests describes

a female figure. Blue faience, distinctive.

These pieces were found all over the desert.

Not like this.

Engravings at the site indicate a retainer sacrifice.

A king's concubine, predynastic,

performed by a priest using powerful Heka magic.

The last of the Earl's letter accuse your great grandfather

of drunkenly taking the piece back at gunpoint in 1926.

I'm not surprised.

Then Arthur Corwin vanishes from England

with crates of plundered loot.

The piece came here.

I believe it remains here, or you know where it is.

Well, I'm sorry, I don't.

You're lying. Please, stop.

You do understand that the lore about spells and curses

was invented to create a market for antiquities.

The first Egyptian relics were on display at Vaudevilles.

There's no magic, no Heka,

no Wicca, no Norse.

You sure?

Show me. I'll change my mind.

[Noise]

In the books of Enoch, angels sent down by God

had the power to raise life from inert matter,

rearrange elements using words,

not representative of reality, but that are reality.

This gift exists in creation and antediluvian myth worldwide.

I believe the Heka in the tomb

your great grandfather blundered into,

to be the last documented mention of this lost language.

I believe the life force felt by those

who held this artifact to be evidence

of this old deep magic interred within.

I believe this gift has traveled time and space to meet us.

We will find it and use it to bring my husband back.

If you've been tracking this piece,

then you'd know that in those days,

people gave treasures away as gifts,

used them as collateral,

bought and sold them on the black markets.

It could be in Oslo, Singapore, Buenos Aires.

And some things, time just takes.

My husband is a great man.

He will not depart this world

gagging and spitting in a hospital bed.

I wish I could help you.

I hope that Paul recovers. I do.

Your great grandfather held this piece in his hand.

He knew its truth. It would not have disappeared.

I can be a valuable ally,

or I can have all you are and own taken from you.

Thank you for seeing us on such short notice.

Derek will follow up with you tomorrow.

[Expectant music]

Promise you'll keep her safe.

She's magic.

[Music builds]

[Mystical notes]

I forgot about you.

[Warped music]

Robert!

Isobel?

Hey!

Dad?

[Warped music builds]

[Barking]

[Growling]

Iz?

Izzy?

They've come.

Time to wake up.

We need to look out for this one.

She speaks.

[Piano music plays]

[Piano music continues]

Hey, what are you doing here?

Are we going back to Chicago?

I don't know. Probably not.

[Piano music]

What is that?

Who are those people?

She's someone. I've seen her on TV.

Charlotte Grove. She's a wealthy tech entrepreneur.

Okay, look, I'm gonna drive you back.

You cannot be ditching school.

If we're going back to Chicago, who cares?

I told you, that is probably not going to happen.

She's right.

There's something here.

Where?

In the house.

A girl, a spirit.

I've seen her.

That's what the sleepwalking is.

It's not weird dreaming.

It's her.

You know, my father had every expert imaginable in this house.

Spiritualists, mediums,

conmen, dingbats of every stripe.

And do you know what they found?

Nada, nothing.

Honey, houses are not haunted.

People are.

Mom knows it, too.

That's why she wants to leave.

Your mother is a long way from her family.

This isn't her home.

Is it for you?

I don't know.

It's the first place that I can remember.

It's complicated.

She's right.

You're a bad liar.

Okay. Let's go.

It's fine. I'll take myself.

I'll go through the park.

Hey!

Hey!

Be careful!

[Radio plays rock music]

Cleo off.

[Phone rings]

Hey, Moke.

Thanks for getting back with me.

Of course, Robert.

It's been too long.

The piece you're looking for, it comes from Abydos?

It's just a simple bride of the dead figurine.

They're a dime a dozen.

Blue faience.

Well preserved?

Now, if it was in your family's possession,

you would recognize it.

If it was, it was before my time.

I have never seen it.

So, who is Derek Mendoza?

He said he worked for an NGO,

but he was in Giza recently, doing some research,

and asked to see some of the scrolls

at Mit Rahinah having to do

with a burial rite at Abydos.

What was in these scrolls?

Nothing of value.

A peasant's family lore, a domestic scene.

Well, you have them logged?

Could you send them to me?

I'm sure we have it.

- I will send them to you. - Thank you, Moke.

By the way, Robert, why are these tech people suddenly

interested in these old scrolls?

With neurolinks, we've corrected stroke damage, epilepsy,

and Alzheimer's disease.

We're already uploading ourselves.

How long before that digital presence

has the power and the complexity

to become presence?

We're gonna cure death like a disease.

There are people alive right now who might not need die, ever.

When being born doesn't come with a death sentence,

imagine what being alive will mean.

[Email notification sound]

[Ominous music]

[VO] Before the pharaohs moved north, before the first dynasty,

a mad king died.

A girl was stolen from a village,

murdered in an outer tomb,

her spirit bound to a figurine, to rise again

as this king's concubine in the world to come.

Her name was Ara.

Her aunt tried to follow,

but the way was lost and the tomb could not be found.

She never ceased searching.

The task passed sister to daughter, mother to son.

Find our sister bound

in endless darkness and set her free.

If you are reading this,

this task has passed to you.

[Foreboding music]

[Music swells]

[Footsteps]

- Hey. - Hey.

School called.

Said they couldn't find her for two hours this morning.

Yeah, I know.

I was gonna take her back.

She wants to stay.

I guess I'm the bad guy now?

No, honey, I didn't put it all on you.

[Air conditioning turns on]

Oh, my God.

Jeez.

Why is this damn thing always trying to refrigerate us?

Can - Can you please?

Hey, Iz, have you been messing with the thermostat?

I don't even know how it works.

Okay, well, don't touch it.

I didn't!

It doesn't need to land a space shuttle.

It just needs to keep the house at 68 degrees.

Okay. 68. Fixed.

[Speaks in Spanish]

You can come stay with us.

They won't let me.

They don't care. They just drag me around.

[Speaks in Spanish]

What?

¿Dónde? This?

Who was here?

Janice said that there were some security people

out on the sidewalk?

It was an antiquities broker, and, um...

Charlotte Grove.

Charlotte Grove?

Those are deep pockets, Robert.

A gig would be good for you.

If you have something real going on,

this Chicago conversation changes.

Yeah, my book is a real thing.

I know, honey.

You asked me to read pages. Where are the pages?

I'm just not there yet, honey.

When are you gonna get there?

I - I don't know what you do all day.

[Electrical sounds, radio plays jazz]

Oh, my God. Are you kidding me right now?

What the heck?

[Eerie music]

Iz?

¿Qué?

Iz?

[Music builds]

[Screams]

Iz?

What was that?

Cleo! Off! [Radio stops]

I swear to God, that fucking thing is taunting me, okay?

It's not convenient.

It's - It's - It's creepy!

Cleo, are you taunting Beth?

I am not taunting Beth.

Call Juaquin, and get him back out here.

This isn't cool.

I mean, I love him, but nothing is ever getting fixed.

Okay, okay, I will, I promise, okay?

No hot water.

I have meetings in the morning.

I can't be sitting around in the dark,

no hot water, like we're camping.

Izzy!

Pack a bag!

We're going to Roma!

Mom, it's not the electricity.

It's the girl? She's angry.

What? What girl?

The girl in the house?

There's a ghost in here.

Baby, this house is not haunted.

It's old, and it's patched up,

and when nothing really gets fixed, this is what happens.

Pack a bag.

The client's suite is empty. We're going to Roma.

Are you coming or staying?

No, I need to stay behind and fix this stuff.

This house has bad mojo, Robert.

Maybe you can't see it, but I do.

We can go to Chicago,

live off of what I make, you can write there.

What's wrong with that?

We're going to Roma.

When she falls asleep, I'll sneak it out.

Meet me?

Sí, if I can!

[Ominous music]

[Electronic buzzing]

[Swoosh sound]

Robert!

[Doors shutting]

Robert!

[Urgent strings]

[Haunting notes]

Robert!

[Electronic sounds]

[Warped notes]

Do you remember our sleep walks, Robert?

You were a bright, fearless child.

Your daughter's the same. Bold, clever.

What is this place?

Is - Is this death?

The ones who took me have returned.

They must be brought back and killed.

We don't kill people.

I've worn your flesh.

I know your heart.

You can't hide from me.

Your name is Ara.

[Discordant tones]

I will not be taken again.

I will not rise a slave.

Bring them to me.

[Warped notes]

[Upbeat music]

There I am.

There I am.

I have what you're looking for.

You're welcome to come and get it.

Cleo, music.

[Classical music plays]

Cleo, music!

[Guitar music plays]

Music.

[Jazz music plays]

She's not herself.

I dream of being not myself.

Let me be anything but myself.

She can't be trusted.

Oh, she hears voices.

You hear them, Robert.

Tell him that you hear them.

The past is the past.

The past is never past.

Nothing loved is lost.

She's not herself.

I dream of being not myself.

Let me be anything but myself.

She can't be trusted.

Oh, she hears voices.

You hear them, Robert.

Tell him that you hear them.

What do you expect me to do?

They're coming for her, Robert.

It is up to you to meet them.

[Jazz music plays]

I thought I was alone.

Where is my father?

Look how beautiful you are.

It's you in the lights and stuff, isn't it?

Yeah, I don't move so well in that.

I like your music.

It's not mine.

It was on when I woke up.

You were here when my father was a boy.

"And so the gods will depart from mankind.

And only evil angels will remain."

What is that?

I's a shame when the children get too old to see me.

Only children and... lunatics.

[Warped music]

[Abrupt noise]

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

What are you doing here?

Talking to the dead girl dancing around in your body.

How's my dancing?

Not bad. Pretty weird.

They came for this?

Yes.

How can someone be trapped in here?

Well, Charlotte believes they used an ancient language

to bind her soul,

her "ba," to that figurine to travel into the next world.

Maybe a prehuman language

that doesn't represent reality, but is reality.

And if you speak it correctly, you can alter matter,

maybe even manipulate life and death.

So, if she's real, so's that?

Yeah.

You said everything important went back.

Well, I lied.

So you knew she was here?

When I was young, I sensed something.

But they told me that I was dreaming.

They put my mother, your grandmother,

in a mental institution.

They said there is no such thing as lost souls

or languages of light, no magic.

Except there is.

Yes.

Yes.

She said,

"The gods will depart."

Yeah.

That's an ancient warning from the god Thoth,

"All the gods shall depart the earth.

Only the evil angels shall remain.

The world will be disordered and go awry.

All good will disappear."

Isobel!

So I'm your guinea pig. I'm bait.

You were never in any danger.

You don't know that.

What if she used me to jump off the roof?

I don't think she would do that.

She's me.

See? She's there...

and she's there.

She's been staring out at us all these years.

So how can we free her?

I don't know.

The answer to that question is with a man

who spoke a dead language and was killed 5,000 years ago.

[Phone rings]

Did you leave that out?

No.

She likes ice cream.

That's good ice cream.

All right, I want you to stay here.

[Derek on the phone] Open the gate, give me the piece.

You called me, I'm here.

I don't have it.

Are you drunk?

I talked to you an hour ago.

[Foreboding music]

I'm sorry,

but I don't know what I said.

I don't have it.

I've got two men on the sidewalk,

not our security people, local freelancers.

Give me what I'm here for, or they go in and take your kid.

We're having ice cream.

Would you like some?

No, thank you.

It's toffee and cream.

You should have some. It's the best!

Where is it?

Smart.

Charlotte's the real thing.

Hard times are coming, even for people like you.

Keep yourself on the right side of things,

you'll do okay.

[Crashing noise]

Shit!

Grab a towel.

Izzy!

Izzy!

Isobel!

Isobel!

Hello again.

You've come for me?

You found me.

I'm right here.

You see me now?

What was that?

I can't hear you.

Speak up.

Where is your master?

Where?

I told you, where are the others?

Please.

Bring them here.

Please, don't hurt her.

This is not her doing.

"You were chosen for a beautiful journey,"

they said.

"You will wake up in a field of reeds in a land of peace,

or we will destroy your family,

burn your home, and take you anyway."

[Spits]

My aunt told me, "Be brave.

We'll find you, we'll follow them."

Where are you now?

Why didn't you come for me?

You were missed. You were mourned.

Where are my bones?

Where is my flesh?

My "ka" is dust.

I need this.

And you'll give me this.

You love the music.

You love to dance.

She loves to dance -

I will not be taken again.

Give me to them, and I will kill you

and your family, and I will burn this house to the ground!

[Guttural screams]

Alright. Okay.

Okay, honey, just stay here.

What happened?

Okay. Nothing happened, honey.

Nothing. It was just a little accident.

Just stay here until I come back and get you, okay?

Everything's gonna be fine.

It's gonna be fine.

[Rhythmic music]

[Music becomes more urgent]

[Off-kilter notes]

[Phone rings]

Wait a minute.

Over and over.

[Isobel VO] So how can we free her?

The answer to that question

is with a man who spoke a dead language

and was killed 5,000 years ago.

Again and again.

Never ends.

Got it!

Got it!

[Phone dings]

[Sound of water running]

What kind of accident?

Um... he threatened us,

and, um, and then we fought,

and he got hurt.

It was me.

No, Isobel, this was not you.

This was not you, honey.

You have to use the wood floor cleaner

or the varnish will peel off, and Mom will lose her mind.

What happens to him?

I don't know yet.

I'll do the floors.

[Phone rings]

Oh, shit.

[Charlotte on the phone] Why don't you answer

when your wife calls, Mr. Corwin?

I know you see the number.

I know you see the phone.

[Static] Did you think we wouldn't know?

If you can see, we can see.

Give me what I've come for,

or that video goes to the Federales,

and your girl spends the rest of her life in prison.

We're coming to you.

Isn't that what she wants?

For the others to come?

You have to get out of here now.

No.

Go out the back door.

You go through the park to Maria's right now, Isobel.

No!

I think I know

how to free you.

I think that when you are outside the flesh,

maybe time for you is non-linear.

Maybe time... is all one piece.

All present at once.

Maybe you can be...

present with your own death.

I would never go there.

The power...

that was passed from priest to priest,

that power can be learned.

Was the language repeated?

Again and again.

Like a song.

If you can understand this fragment,

then you could take this language,

and you could unbind your "ba."

You could return.

You want me to live my murder again.

Yeah.

Again and again and again

until you possess the power that he had.

I'm no priest.

How could I understand it?

It would take me an eternity.

Eternity you have.

Don't you?

No.

No.

You ask too much.

I will not let you hurt Isobel again.

Do you understand me?

Hey.

Hey!

Let them take it and go.

What do they think she can do for them?

Show them how to live forever.

Can she do that?

I showed her how to save herself.

You have to go. You have to go now.

- Now! - Not without Mom!

She lost her body a long time ago.

And she - she likes being you.

[Phone rings]

What??

[Charlotte on the phone] Bring it out,

and you can have your wife.

Look, you saw what she did to your man.

If I do that, she's gonna do the same to me and my daughter.

So, no.

You have to come in and get it.

Look, don't let her in. And stay out of sight.

Is Mom with them?

Yes.

[Suspenseful music]

[Doorbell rings]

Where's my mother?

In the car.

Where's your father?

I'm Charlotte Grove.

I don't think we've been properly introduced.

Isobel Corwin.

Are you inviting me in, or no?

Bring my wife in here right now.

Don't you fucking move.

What on earth are you holding?

This is an Enfield Mk. 2 used by my great grandfather

during the Afghan War in 1880,

and it's in perfect working order.

Do you think your father would murder someone in front of you?

I don't think he would do that.

[Gun fires]

Bring the wife in.

Bring in the wife.

What you're holding here does not belong to you.

It was stolen from its resting place, and it must be returned.

Oh, my God. What are you doing, Robert?

Just give them what they want!

All right, take it,

and your friend's body and go.

So this is what all the fuss is about.

[Electronic humming, radio plays]

Are you here with us?

I'm not your enemy.

I'm here on a mission of mercy.

I've been looking for you for a long time,

to bring you this.

This is a piece of bone found in a crevice of your tomb.

Inside this shard is embedded everything you once were

and could be again.

It's the building blocks of you.

Your flesh has traveled time to meet you.

Isn't that the idea?

The "ba" may rise, find its "ka," and return?

[Radio spikes, then stops]

I'm not that any longer.

That girl died screaming.

Everyone she knew is dead.

There's nothing left for me in that body but pain and grief.

Who sent you?

[High-pitched tones]

I was killed to rise for a king.

Where is he?

You faced a priest.

He spoke an old language, and it bound you.

I offer you yourself again.

Can you bring me this gift?

All I am is in here?

I believe you can help me.

Bring my husband back, and I will bring you the world.

Will you, please?

[Appliances buzz]

Isobel?

[Priest singing]

You want me to live my murder again?

Yeah.

Again and again and again,

until you possess the power that he had.

[Priest sings]

[Ara sings tentatively]

[Screams]

[Appliances buzz]

[Both sing]

[The priest's voice weakens]

[Ara's voice grows stronger]

[Ara sings]

[Ara sings]

[Ara laughs]

[Silence]

[Appliances stop buzzing]

[Ara's voice sings alone]

If I can find a way back, the men who killed me can, too.

You're safe here.

[Ara sings]

Run.

You.

You saw what your mother saw.

You understood.

You could have said, "She's not crazy.

What she sees is here." But you wanted to be like them.

Men with answers.

She loved you.

You betrayed her.

I was with her at the end.

I eased her pain.

I helped her through.

Or she would have died alone.

Like me.

I didn't know. I was too young.

This house is a tomb.

Please, don't hurt her.

I remember this age.

Once you see,

everything is a vibration.

Just like rearranging matter,

like moving your hands.

Let me show you.

If anything happens to me, kill everyone in this room.

Where is this?

Come. Take my hand.

I don't like this.

I've got you.

Let me go.

I can't stay here. It's excruciating.

Paul!

I don't - I don't want this.

Hang on. I found her!

We're bringing you back.

Do you love me?

Of course I love you.

Let me go.

Come back!

You are not leaving me!

That wasn't Paul.

That wasn't Paul. I don't know who that was.

Paul's a fighter.

He would not have given up.

[Ara's voice] Charlotte!

[Ara singing]

Where are you?

Wow!

[Ara's voice] We have what we've come for.

[Ara VO] And so I found my way back.

Not as myself.

Not yet.

But as someone formidable.

Powerful.

Awakened with a world at my feet.

[Ara singing]

[Newscaster] Just weeks after burying her husband,

tech mogul Charlotte Grove was found dead in her home

of what doctors have said is natural causes.

Police found no evidence of substance abuse or foul play.

The settlement of Grove's estate is now -

I will meet you at the museum, 1:30-ish?

Okay.

[Newscaster] - have come to light,

leaving her vast fortune to a mysterious ward.

What's going on?

Ara said that if she can come back, they can, too.

Now there's riots in Cairo, something weird's going on.

I think something's woken up.

Moke wants me to go to Cairo, but I told him we can't go.

Her family...

sent a message through 4,000 years and you found it.

Call Moke back.

You should go.

[Ara VO] I was well remembered.

Across time, memory found me,

held me, carried me home.

Ara!

[Ara VO] Nothing is lost

All that is, has been, or will be, we carry.

Points of light in a sea of time.

[Isobel] Cleo, music, please.

[Jazz plays]

[Ara VO] We hear whispers

in dark corners and quiet moments.

Echoes, reaching out, searching.

We are all returning.

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