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[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

[WOMAN PANTING]

Provided by explosiveskull https://twitter.com/kaboomskull M_I_SForEver

[PANTING INTENSIFIES]

[INDISTINCT TALKING]

- [WOMAN GASPS] - MAN: My God!

You don't know death before your God.

Do you understand the horror that's gonna fill your soul?

Seeing and Satan...

What, you think that you're just gonna live forever,

until you realize...

[OVERLAPPING VOICES]

...and sorrow and burning in hell!

Can you imagine what that will be like?

Can't change it. Can't change your life.

You may be dead before the sun goes down!

[HORN BLARES IN DISTANCE]

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS FAINTLY]

[PAN CLANGS IN DISTANCE]

[GROANS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BELL JANGLES]

[COUNTRY MUSIC CONTINUES]

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

♪♪

[DOOR CREAKS]

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪♪

[SCREAMS]

[TIRES SCREECH]

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

No, no, no, no, no!

[SOBBING] No, no, no, no!

No, no! No!

[HORN HONKS]

Fuck! No! No!

I don't want you!

I don't want you! No!

No! No! No! No! No!

[GASPING]

[BABY CRIES]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[BABY CRIES]

Ooh...

- [SOBBING] - [BABY WAILS]

♪♪

ANNOUNCER: Officials and decision-makers

- across the state. - [ALARM BLARING]

The Gallo Radio Show

on SuperTalk Mississippi.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Race ya!

You can't just announce a race and not give me a chance.

That is completely unfair.

- And the judge rules... - And I'll race you back!

Get your butt over here. We have to go to school.

[CHUCKLING] You're gonna be late.

Fine. Fine.

March it.

Hey!

Oh, hey, guys!

- Oh, hey, Susan! - Hey, David.

Um, you still good to pick him up today, right?

Yeah. No problem.

I have that late class tonight, so...

it'll be later than usual.

I'll see you guys later.

- DAVID: Bye! - Thank you.

[SIGHING] Alright. Don't forget your seatbelt.

Yep.

- Mom... - Yeah.

...I need to ask you something serious.

- [SEATBELT CLICKS] - What?

If you had eight arms,

what would you do with the extra ones?

Would you hide them down your top?

Or show them off?

- Aaah! No, no, no! Stop! - You're such a little butt!

Why would you scare me like that?

DAVID: [LAUGHS] I'm serious!

Seriously.

- I'm serious. - Okay. Okay.

I will take it seriously, but I need to think about it,

because I'm gonna take it extra seriously.

Think about it while your driving...

- I will. - ...because school starts

- in five minutes. - We'll get there.

[ENGINE STARTS]

[BELL RINGS]

LAURA: Okay. Go. Have a good day.

I love you.

DAVID: Bye, Mom.

Love you.

Hey!

I wouldn't hide my eight arms down my top.

I would just show them off and call myself a spider lady.

Good answer, Mom.

[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

LAURA: "A" is for...

CLASS: Apple!

LAURA: Beautiful.

"B" is for...

CLASS: Ball!

Fabulous!

"C" is for cow.

♪♪

Excuse me!

♪♪

A child with PTSD will often have a intense focus on death.

And while it is normal

for some kids to be curious about death,

others with trauma

will often develop an obsession with it

and worry excessively about their own safety,

or the safety of their loved ones.

- [DOORBELL RINGS] - [DOG BARKS]

♪♪

- Mommy! - [CHUCKLES]

- Hi, munchkin. - Hey.

- How'd it go? Good? - It was great.

We just ate, and he finished all of his homework.

- Amazing. Thank you. - All of my homework.

- For the rest of the week! - Good job, buddy.

Thank you, Susan. We'll see you tomorrow, okay?

- See you. Bye, David! - Bye!

Mom, can I play video games before bed?

LAURA: Maybe.

♪♪

DAVID: Mom...

Yeah, sweetie.

I need my gym clothes tomorrow.

I already have them waiting for you.

Thanks, Mom. You're the best.

You're welcome.

- Now go to bed. - Wait, wait, wait.

Don't shut off the night light.

Just in case there's zombies hiding in the dark.

That's why we're not supposed to play scary games

before we go to bed.

- Uh... - Um...

- Okay. - [LAUGHS]

Goodnight.

[SWITCH CLICKS]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[WIND HOWLING]

[PAPERS FLIPPING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

[CHUCKLES]

David?

I told you you were gonna get scared.

What do you know. Come on in.

You can sleep with me tonight.

[GRUNTS]

Oh, come on.

Mommy loves when you sleep in her bed.

Don't feel bad.

[DOOR CREAKS]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

David!

David, wake up!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Help!

Help, somebody!

Somebody, help, please!

Help!

Help!

Susan...

Susan, help!

Help! Susan! Susan!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Help!

Susan, hurry, hurry!

Susan!

There are people in my house. Call the police!

There are people in David's room.

- Laura, who do I call? - Call the police!

Okay!

♪♪

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

- David. - [KNIFE CLATTERS]

David! David! David! David!

[BREATHING SHAKILY] David. David.

David, wake up.

Wake up. Can you hear me?

David, can you hear me?

[WEAKLY] Mom?

- [SOBBING] - [POLICE SIREN APPROACHES]

Alright. Alright.

So I'll check these, your neighbor's,

and your son's off the prints that I found.

Um...

We couldn't find any evidence of forced entrance

on any of the windows or doors.

Could you have left a window or a door open,

do you think?

No.

I always lock the doors and the windows,

and then I double check that I locked them,

and then do that again and again.

So, no, no.

I'm OCD that way.

Is there a spare key, perhaps?

Does a neighbor or anyone have a spare?

No.

Did you lose a key?

Or have one stolen?

Uh...

No, I don't... No.

No. No. Mnm-mnm.

Think you could have been dreaming?

- A lucid dream, maybe? - [SIGHS]

Maybe you went into your son's room sleepwalking,

stripped him, went back to your room.

It can happen.

No, I've never sleepwalked a day in my life.

It happened.

Those people were here. It was real.

Have you been under stress lately?

Recent break-up, loss of a loved one?

Why do you think these people were here? Who were they?

I don't know. You tell me. You're the police.

Uh, Steve, w... why don't you head back to the station.

I'll... I'll finish up here.

Copy that.

[FOOTSTEPS DEPART]

Those people were here, alright?

Those people were here. It happened.

[INHALES DEEPLY] I did not imagine it.

I believe you.

You do?

Yeah.

Now, the doctors...

they couldn't find anything physically wrong with your son.

So, my guess is that you interrupted these people

just before they had time to do whatever they wanted to do.

- Right. - But don't worry, okay?

We'll fucking get them.

Excuse me.

[CHUCKLES]

[LAUGHS]

[SIGHS]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[DOOR LOCKS]

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

[INHALES SHAKILY]

♪♪

♪♪

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What are you doing?

I was sleeping.

I'm sorry.

[SIGHS]

Were there really people in my room?

You don't remember anything?

No.

Do you remember if you took your jammies off...

in the middle of the night?

I'm not sure.

Sweetie, this is very, very, very important.

I need you to remember...

if you took your jammies off in the middle of the night.

I think I did.

I was too hot.

Okay.

That's okay.

[SIGHS]

Mom?

Yeah.

I was dreaming.

What about?

I was drowning.

I was drowning in a river of blood.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS, FADES]

Alright. Exactly like that.

You dip it...

GIRL: I did it.

...and you flick it.

[CHILDREN TALK INDISTINCTLY]

LAURA: You didn't find a single print?

Other than you, your neighbor,

and your son's, no.

Are you okay?

[SIGHS]

Sort of.

Alright.

Well, it's gonna take you a while to get back to normal.

People breaking into your home is just such a... violation.

You know, my son... he said that he could have

taken his pajamas off in the middle of the night.

He said that he does that sometimes.

[CHILDREN SHOUTING]

But those people...

Those people were there.

If you need anything...

here's my card.

Call me anytime, okay?

Oh, thank you, Detective Tate.

Yeah. Oh, you can call me Paul.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

MAN: Wake up honey.

[GASPS, BREATHING HEAVILY]

[SCREECHES]

[GASPS, BREATHING HEAVILY]

Mom?

Yeah.

I have a headache

- and my stomach feels sick. - Okay.

Well, it's probably 'cause you haven't eaten anything today.

- [GROANS] - LAURA: That's probably why.

And if you still feel sick in the morning,

I will take you to the doctor.

Don't worry.

I got you.

Got to sleep.

[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]

[THUD IN DISTANCE]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

♪♪

[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]

[FLOORBOARDS CREAK]

♪♪

[SOFT THUDDING]

[INHALES DEEPLY]

[SIGHS]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

- [GASPS] - [TELEPHONE DINGS]

Nothing.

LAURA: Here you go. It's...

I didn't know if you wanted sugar or...

You know, I really don't think

they're gonna be back here, Laura.

I mean, whoever they were,

they must know that... the police are watching.

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

I saw them, though.

[SIGHS] But I'm thinking that they must have came in

- through the back garden. - [SIGHS]

Right? It's the only explanation left.

So...

I'll have my guys check for footprints in the morning.

I have a feeling that they'll come with something.

Right.

[VOICE BREAKING] Mom?

David, are you okay?

It really hurts.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

[DOCTORS SPEAK INDISTINCTLY]

♪♪

Jesus. What is that?

[DAVID GROANING]

[GROANING INTENSIFIES]

David.

David...

[SCREAMING]

♪♪

PAUL: I'll just, uh...

I'll wait out here, okay?

Can you stay?

I just want someone to be with me.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

DOCTOR: We thought at first, it was bacterial meningitis,

as the symptoms are quite similar,

but the tests turned up negative.

Because of the severe gastrointestinal bleeding,

we checked for trauma, tumors,

ulcerative colitis, and parasites.

Negative.

We then tested for all other viral and bacterial infections

and various diseases, including tropical diseases,

known degenerative diseases, poisons, and narcotics...

but everything turned up negative.

Oh.

Okay. So...?

So...

Laura...

can I be honest with you?

As a parent myself, if I were in your position,

I know that's what I'd want.

[SIGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

We don't know what this is.

We're still testing,

and, of course, we'll continue to test,

but I'm afraid time is against us.

His condition is worsening by the second,

and we can hardly keep up.

I think you should prepare yourself for the possibility...

the distinct likelihood that David isn't gonna wake up.

I'm sorry.

♪♪

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Uh...

Those people... Those... Those... Those people.

Those people that were in his room...

Th-They gave him something then.

Poison.

Well, like I said, we checked for poisons.

W-Well, then something else.

- Like what? - I don't know.

Something else... Something that doesn't show up.

I don't know what that is.

Paul, does this make any sense?

[SIGHS] I...

Laura, I assure you, if someone gave him something,

it would have shown up.

There's nothin'.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

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LAURA: [WHISPERING] Mommy's right here. [SNIFFLES]

[SOBBING] I'm so sorry.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

I'm so sorry that this is happening to you, baby.

I'm so sorry I couldn't do anything

to help make it better.

[GASPS]

[SOBBING CONTINUES]

If you have to go...

then it's okay.

I know you do.

I know you hurt.

[SOBBING]

I know you hurt.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[SNIFFLES]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

[DAVID GROANS]

[DAVID MOANS]

[RAPID FOOTSTEPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Help, somebody!

Nurse, doctor, somebody!

Get in here!

Help! Help!

Yeah, I-I don't know what's happening.

I think he's coughing up blood again.

- NURSE: I'll get the doctor. - Hurry! Hurry, please!

Hurry, please! Hurry, please! Hurry!

Baby, can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Help, somebody! Doctor, hurry, please!

DR. BOND: David. David!

David, it's Dr. Bond. Open your eyes.

Open your eyes. Can you hear me?

Mommy...

Hi, baby.

[WEAKLY] Mommy...

[SIGHS]

Hi, sugar.

Eat an apple... It makes me happy.

'Cause apples are the candy

of the forest.

[NURSE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

♪♪

[ORIENTAL MUSIC PLAYS]

LAURA: You've been working on it all dinner.

I think it's time to unveil it to us.

Thank you so much. What do you say?

Thanks.

- She gave you fortune cookies. - Fortune cookies.

Thank you!

Well, I wonder what the fortune is.

DAVID: This is my zombie-killing sword.

It has six spikes.

- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. - Eat you fortunate cookie, man.

- Look at your fortune. - Oh, yeah.

Mine says...

you will one day achieve greatness.

- Huh? - You hear that?

- Ooh! - That sounds pretty good.

"Money can't buy everything.

You can buy a doctor, but you can't buy health."

- Wow. - I don't get it.

PAUL: What does yours say?

"Do something unusual today."

I got to go to the bathroom.

Do you know where it is?

DAVID: It's literally right over there.

Okay.

It's amazing.

It's like he was never even sick at all.

Yeah, the doctors still have no idea what it was.

We're just...

We're chalking it up to a miracle.

I'm happy before you.

[SIGHING] I think that, um...

I'm gonna put the house on the market.

I think we're gonna sell and just get out of here.

You know, start over someplace new.

Laura, I feel that whatever happened was a one off,

and that...

I mean, that's your home.

Right?

You can't get scared out of your home.

- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH] - Yeah.

Yah!

Aaah!

Can we just go?

LAURA: Can you take a few bites?

DAVID: No.

David, you haven't eaten anything today.

We don't want it.

I'm not hungry.

[TV PLAYS INDISTINCTLY]

[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]

[WHISPERING] He's completely exhausted.

He's out cold.

Well, he's had a long...

a long day, huh?

He's fond of you.

- You think? - Yeah.

Yeah, I can tell.

He doesn't like everyone.

[PAUL CHUCKLES]

[SIGHING] Thank you, Paul, for everything.

It's been...

Thank you.

You're welcome, you know.

Just doing my job,

- I'll get out here. - Wait. Just...

Can you say?

Laura...

you're safe here.

I promise you, you don't have anything...

You don't have anything to worry about, okay?

I promise.

- I don't know if... - Just stay, please.

I... I-I like you, Laura.

Just say just tonight.

Are you sure about this?

Alright.

LAURA: What happened?

A junkie cut me up the other night.

It's one of the perks of the job.

[LAUGHS]

- [DAVID SCREAMS] - [THUDDING]

David?

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

[GAGGING]

- No... - We're still testing.

We have a lot more testing to do.

Dr. Bond, I called you three times over the weekend.

I called you three times,

and I said that he wasn't eating.

He wasn't drinking.

He was doing all of these things

that he had done before, before he got sick.

And you said he's fine. You said he's totally fine.

W-Why would anything else be wrong with him?

- This is a miracle. - I need you to stay stay calm.

- He's not fine! - I need you to stay stay calm.

Stay calm? [LAUGHS] Oh, my God.

I can get you something to help you relax.

No.

[VOICES FADE]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA]

Paul...

I haven't been completely honest with you about everything.

I was raised in a cult.

I...

escaped eight years ago,

and...

I... I wasn't sure

if it was them,

but now I know.

They were the people that were in his room.

I know there were people

- that started all of this. - Laura.

You can come in now.

Laura...?

[WHISPERING] Please. Please stay with us.

DR. BOND: Laura.

You have no idea what they're capable of.

Okay.

Yeah.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

♪♪

- [MONITOR BEEPING] - [LAURA SIGHS]

[FOOTSTEPS DEPART]

[BONES CRACKING]

Shhhh.

[JAW CRACKING]

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

MAN: [ECHOING] Say the words.

[GLASSES CLINK]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

They're waiting for us downstairs.

We have to handle it quietly.

Wait till she falls asleep.

The boy is the priority.

- You understand? - Yes, sir.

- Do you understand? - Yes, doctor.

♪♪

♪♪

LAURA: Okay, baby.

- [MONITOR FLAT LINES] - Okay. Okay.

I got you, baby.

- I got you, baby. - [ALARM BLARING]

Okay. Shh.

♪♪

♪♪

[GROANS]

Shh. Shh.

[ALARM CONTINUES]

♪♪

[DAVID WHEEZING]

Shh, baby. Shh. I know.

Everything alright back there?

[WHEEZING CONTINUES]

LAURA: Okay, baby.

Alright. Okay.

I'm just gonna run next door,

and I'm gonna get money and clothes a-and my car,

and then I'll be right back, okay?

No. No, Laura. I can't be a party to that.

You have to take him back.

Just let him lie here for a few minutes, Susan.

- Look at him. - You saw at the hospital,

They did nothing for him. They did nothing.

Just let him like here for a few minutes,

and I'll be back in a few.

What if I take him back while you're gone?

You would not do that

because you are a friend.

You're our friend, okay?

Okay. Please just take care of him while I'm gone.

- I'll be back. - [SOBS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[SOBBING CONTINUES]

[WEAKLY] Come closer.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]

[CELLPHONE BEEPS]

- PAUL: Laura, where are you? - Don't ask me any questions.

Just meet me outside of David's school in an hour, okay?

PAUL: Laura, everyone is looking for you.

LAURA: Just promise me, Paul!

Promise me.

PAUL: Okay. I-I'll see you there.

LAURA: Don't trust anybody. Everybody is in on it.

Everybody... The doctors, everybody at the hospital.

PAUL: "In on it"? What, in the cult?

They're gonna be coming for us.

Bring your gun.

PAUL: Laura...

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[DOOR KNOB RATTLES]

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Susan!

♪♪

[DOOR CREAKS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪♪

- [THUD] - [GASPS]

♪♪

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♪♪

[WHIMPERING IN DISTANCE]

♪♪

[LIQUID DRIPPING]

♪♪

[SQUELCHING]

♪♪

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

[GASPS]

[HAMMER, KNIFE THUD]

Dav...

David...

I feel better now, Mom.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

Towel is so warm.

[SOFTLY] Okay.

[DAVID SIGHS]

DAVID: Mom...

are we staying with Susan tonight?

No, I just need you to rest right now,

so that's what we're gonna do.

Okay?

Okay. I'll try.

LAURA: Cool.

I love you, Mom.

I love you, too, sweetie.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYS]

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[EXHALES SHARPLY]

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[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]

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[WINDOW WHIRRING]

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

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[ENGINE TURNS OFF]

[DOOR SHUTS]

This is a cool room.

[WOMAN MOANS]

Mom, look what's on.

LAURA: Hey, buddy, that's not for you.

Turn that off. You know that.

[TV PLAYS INDISTINCTLY]

[CHUCKLES]

I've see this one, but it's super funny.

[DAVID LAUGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

[SCREAMING ON TV]

[SIGHS]

DAVID: Mom...

Do you think that this room has fleas?

- No. - I don't think it does.

LAURA: Try to get some sleep, okay, bud?

Okay. A couple more minutes.

And then right to bed, okay?

DAVID: Okay. Fine.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

[SIGHS]

[DAVID CHUCKLES]

[TV PLAYS INDISTINCTLY]

[MOANS]

[DAVID CHUCKLES]

REPORTER: Police say the mother seen here in this photograph

with her son has a history of a mental illness

and may have suffered a complete mental breakdown...

Mom... we're on TV.

REPORTER: ...the degenerative disease

is returned to hospital within 48 hours...

I'm scared.

REPORTER: Police appeal to the public to stay vigilant...

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

DAVID: Mom... are we going?

[TIRES SCREECH]

♪♪

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

Is Forensics here yet?

No, sir, not yet.

[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Got a good one.

Take a look.

[PAUL SIGHS]

Mm-hmm.

♪♪

Think she's dead?

[SCOFFS]

♪♪

ANNOUNCER: ICK Kansas Radio has

just received further weather reports

from the Kansas City area.

DAVID: Where are we going?

We're going to see an old friend of mine.

Who?

Somebody that I knew when I was a kid.

Why?

He'll definitely be able to help me remember a few things just...

a little bit more clearly.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

[CONGREGATION SHOUTING]

♪♪

CORONER: I'll have the first autopsy report

ready for you within the hour.

[ELEVATOR CLANKS]

Better take a look at this.

♪♪

♪♪

So, should I ask for a new partner on this?

No, I'm fine.

♪♪

Are you in a relationship with Laura?

What?

What are you talking...

Are you fucking her or are you not?

[SCOFFS] Okay.

- We made out, Steve. - Mm-hmm.

But does that mean I'm in a relationship? No.

She couldn't have done this. Okay? I know she couldn't.

She was in a fuckin' mental institution, right?

For trauma.

So, who did it then?

- This cult. - Was a pedophile ring

And maybe that's what she meant.

There are pedophile cults. They're fucking cults, Steve.

They're crazy. They'll do anything.

They could have killed Susan trying to get to the boy,

or trying to silence Laura.

Pedophile cults.

[SIGHS]

Let's just find her and bring her in.

If this is real, she needs our protection.

And what if it's not?

Then at the very least,

we need to find the boy

and bring him back to the hospital before he dies.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[ENGINE TURNS OFF]

Hi, Mrs. Naegle.

It's... It's me. It's Anna. Anna Hansen.

I know who you are.

[MUSIC PLAYS FAINTLY]

Is that the boy?

Is that your father...

This is...

He doesn't know anything...

Know about what, Mom?

Nothing, sweetheart.

Do you wanna listen to some music

while Mrs. Naegle and I talk about something, okay?

- Okay. - Okay.

Poor child.

How could something so beautiful and innocent like you...

come out of such evil?

[WHISPERING] She's crazy.

Mrs. Naegle...

um...

I...

really need to talk to Jimmy.

Do you know where he is?

When did you get out of the institution, Anna?

A while ago.

We lost Jimmy to drugs.

He's been in and out of prison these past five years.

He stole from me a couple times

and drove his father to an early grave.

You know, for years...

I blamed you

for what happened,

for introducing him to your father.

Then, of course, that's ridiculous.

You were just a child, like Jimmy.

It wasn't your fault.

Please.

I really need to know where he is.

I'm sorry.

He went south.

Clarksdale, Mississippi.

An awful place.

Calachmont Square.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

♪♪

Can I help you?

PAUL: Hi, uh, Tracy.

I'm looking for a doctor

by the name of Nathan J. Bradlee.

I'm afraid Dr. Bradlee retired a couple of years ago.

- You know where I can find him? - I'm sorry,

I don't think I'm supposed to give out that information.

Oh, it's okay. He's not in trouble or anything like that.

I'm a police officer.

I just need to ask him a couple of questions.

[MUZAK PLAYS]

Are there patients here?

It's awfully quiet.

TRACY: People always expect screaming,

but the patients here are quiet mostly,

I find that scarier. Don't you?

This place gives me the creeps. I have nightmares about it.

[CHUCKLES] Why do you work here then?

It's better than McDonalds.

Yeah, well... that's a good point.

[DAVID GROANS]

LAURA: Watch your step. It's a big one.

- Okay. - DAVID: There's a dog.

LAURA: There is a dog.

[DOG GROWLS]

DAVID: Doesn't the garbage man ever come here?

LAURA: I don't think so, babe.

Don't touch anything, okay?

And especially when we go inside.

Don't touch anything.

DAVID: Okay.

- [MAN LAUGHS] - LAURA: Okay.

DAVID: I don't feel so good.

We're gonna be out of here in a few minutes, okay?

[LOCK DISENGAGES]

Jimmy.

Hi.

Anna?

Can I speak with you for a minute?

Who's that?

- Uh, this is my son, David. - [POLICE SIREN WAILS]

He's from a previous marriage.

Can you say hi to Jimmy?

This was Mommy's friend when I was a kid.

You want to say hi?

DAVID: Hi.

Do you mind if we come in?

DR. BRADLEE: Anna was the most extraordinary case.

She had suffered such terrible abuse in her life

that she had retreated into a fantasy world.

Was Anna psychotic?

She had an extreme psychotic episode, yes.

The truth is that her father would pimp her out

to other men for money,

her and a little local boy

named Jimmy Naegle.

Well, Laura... or... Anna

thinks that this cult may still be out there.

- She thinks... - There was never any cult,

no conspiracy or any other fantasies

that she's now trying to perpetuate.

It was all in our head.

[SOUND EFFECTS PLAY]

JIMMY: What happened to the other child?

I was born dead.

I-I-I really wanted to go and see you at the hospital,

Anna, b-but... but they wouldn't let me in.

They tried to tell me I was crazy, too,

but I wouldn't let them lock me up.

Those psychiatrics, they fuck you up in the head.

Yeah, they had me on so many medications

that when I was discharged, I couldn't remember anything.

Was it like that for you?

No.

I-I remember it all.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

What do you remember?

You... You happen to have a light on you?

- I-I don't have mine. - No, Jimmy, I don't.

I'm sorry.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Please.

They... They'd conduct these ceremonies

where they'd kill and torture animals in front of us.

U-Usually in your bedroom.

T-Then they'd make you begin your chanting.

Chanting?

You were the only one who could do it.

That's why they said you were special,

th-th-they all tried,

but you were the only one.

Your father taught you.

Taught me?

What did he teach me?

They called your Palestine.

The Huntsman.

Th-The demon.

You'd make him rise from Hell.

♪♪

T-Then they'd let the Huntsman rape you.

Jimmy, that can't...

that can't be. [INHALES DEEPLY]

[SIGHS]

You know it's true, Anna.

You know I'm telling the truth.

I wouldn't... I wouldn't lie to you.

My father is the one that raped me.

I remember that.

I remember those men.

Th-They're false memories.

You were sacred, Anna.

Th-Th-They would have never dared touch you.

You were meant for the demon...

Shh!

[GROANS]

- You were abused. - No, that never happened!

I didn't happen like that. [POUNDS TABLE]

Okay?

Okay.

[SNIFFLES]

I'm sorry.

Jimmy, I'm afraid, though.

I'm really afraid.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Because if I...

if I let all these things back into my brain...

that just means that I'm slipping back into psychosis,

which is exactly what the doctor said would happened.

Everything I've said is true.

[VOICE BREAKING] Mom... my skin hurts here.

You're as sane as I am, Anna.

Everything hurts.

♪♪

[CELLPHONE VIBRATES]

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

STEVE: Where are you?

I'm headed home. I just passed through Little Rock.

Any luck with Jimmy?

STEVE: Yeah. I talked to his mother

Laura followed him to Clarksdale.

Fuckin' Mississippi?

STEVE: Yeah. Look, I'll meet you there in the morning.

Wait for me. I'm about three hours behind you.

We should talk to him together.

Alright.

[TRAIN SCREECHES, RATTLES]

DAVID: I don't like it here.

LAURA: We're not gonna be here long, okay?

Just till we figure out what to do.

When I say drink this shit, drink it.

[WOMAN GAGS]

[MAN MUTTERING]

Better drink that. There you go.

- [WOMAN COUGHS] - [DAVID GROANS]

- LAURA: I know. - Get the fuck off me.

What's up, mama?

Why don't you come over and hang out with us.

Come on.

We'll have some fun with you.

[DOOR SLAMS]

[DAVID WHEEZES]

[WHEEZING INTENSIFIES]

[DAVID GROANS]

[DAVID GROANS]

LAURA: There you go, really slow.

Really, really, really slow. Really slow.

- I know, sugar. - [DAVID WHIMPERS]

I know. There you go.

There you go.

Okay. Okay.

[GROANING]

Okay. Shh.

It hurts!

It hurts so bad!

- Shh. - I'm scared, Mom!

[VOICE BREAKING] I don't want to die.

Hey, none of that.

You're not going to die.

I am right here.

You are gonna be okay.

Okay?

[DAVID WHEEZING]

Shh.

Sing that song that you used to sing for me.

[SNIFFLES]

Okay.

So close those eyes.

[DAVID WHEEZES]

[SINGING SOFTLY]

[WHEEZING INTENSIFIES]

[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[SINGING CONTINUES]

♪♪

No, shhh!

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

MAN: Wake up, honey.

It's time again.

Say the words.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

[DAVID GROANING]

[SCREAMS]

Mom, it hurts!

- It hurts! - LAURA: Shh!

[SCREAMING]

It hurts so bad! I'm gonna die!

[SCREAMS]

- Okay. Okay. Okay. - I'm gonna die!

[DOOR SLAMS]

DAVID: Mom, come back!

Mom!

Mom, get me some food!

Get me some fuckin' food, you bitch!

Get me some food!

I need it!

[SCREAMING STOPS]

[THUDDING IN DISTANCE]

[LAURA INHALES SHARPLY]

- LAURA: Okay. Okay. - [TEETH CHATTER, BONES CRACK]

[SQUEALING]

Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay.

[TEETH CHOMPING, SNARLING]

- [GROWLING] - Okay. It's okay.

Okay. Hey...

Hey. Hey.

Baby...

- [HISSES] - LAURA: Okay.

Okay. Okay.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Shh.

Shh, shh.

Shh, shh.

Shh, shh.

[BOTH PANTING]

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

[BREATHING WEAKLY]

I need food.

I...

need...

food.

I need food.

Please, Mom.

[DOOR OPENS]

♪♪

♪♪

[SCREAMS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪♪

By Astaroth, your prince,

by your master Lucifer...

appear before me now.

[BONES CRACKING]

That's my girl.

- [SCREAMS] - [MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]

MAN: I want my fuckin' money!

Yeah, you got it. I know you fuckin' do.

You owe me that fuckin' money!

Bitch!

Yeah, see, I knew you got it!

Bitch!

- [BLOWS LANDING] - [WOMAN GRUNTING]

♪♪

The fuck are you looking at?

[PUNCHES DOOR]

Huh?!

♪♪

[DOOR SLAMS]

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

[DAVID WHEEZING]

♪♪

[GAGS]

[COUGHS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[EXHALES]

[MUSIC PLAYS INDISTINCTLY]

What can I do for you, little mama?

I'd like for you to come to my room and fuck me.

[DOOR CREAKS]

[LAURA EXHALES SHAKILY]

Not here.

I want to do it in the bathroom.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

I... I want you to take yours off first.

I wanna...

I wanna look at your body.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[COAT THUDS]

♪♪

Take your fuckin' clothes off!

Now!

[WHEEZING]

♪♪

♪♪

[GAGS]

[CHOKING]

[MAN MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY]

[GASPS]

Take that fuckin' shirt off!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪♪

♪♪

[WHEEZING]

♪♪

[DAVID GROANS]

[MAN SCREAMS]

Aaah! Get off me!

Help! Help!

[SCREAMING] Get off me!

Get this off of me!

[SCREAMING CONTINUES]

[DAVID SCREAMS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[SOBBING SOFTLY]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

David: Mommy, wake up.

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

I love you, Mom.

[CARTOON PLAYS ON TV]

♪ I'm a deep water sailor ♪

♪ I just come from Hong Kong ♪

♪ To me way, I blow the man down ♪

♪ If you give me some silver, I'll sing you a song ♪

♪ Or give me some time to blow the man down ♪

[CHUCKLES]

[SINGING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

- Mom? - LAURA: Yeah?

Can we do something fun tomorrow?

We haven't done something fun in forever.

LAURA: Uh, maybe, sweetie.

I don't know. We... We kind of have to leave soon.

Just sit there and watch your cartoons, okay?

Okay.

♪ ...sailors, beware ♪

♪ Or give him some time to blow the man down ♪

[INDISTINCT TALKING ON TV]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

MAN: And so you can't trust anyone these days.

[ENGINE TURNS OFF]

Can you... Can you do me a favor and get down on the floor?

- Why? - Just for a minute.

I just have to do something, okay?

[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]

[GRUNTS]

Ohh.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Okay.

[ENGINE STARTS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[WIND WHISTLING]

Jimmy.

Jimmy, we're police officers. We'd like to speak to you.

PAUL: Jimmy?

STEVE: Jimmy, your mother told us where we could find you.

We're looking for Anna Hansen. Has she been here?

Jimmy, it's the police.

Shit.

[CELLPHONE BUZZING]

Yeah.

Got an address?

Copy that.

She used her credit card to check out of a nearby motel

at 4:00 a.m., just around the corner.

We got to call local PD.

Alright.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING IN DISTANCE]

[DAVID MOANS]

- Mom? - Hmm?

DAVID: I was dreaming.

I was flying and I was looking down at everyone.

And I could see you and my school and everything.

It was so cool.

Sounds cool.

DAVID: Then I raised my hands like this,

and the world cracked in half.

There was fire and everything.

Buildings were burning.

People were screaming like 9/11.

Were you scared?

Uh-huh.

But I was okay.

I was like a superhero or something.

Wow.

Like that blue guy that was in the movie we saw.

Yeah.

Nothing could touch me.

LAURA: Mm-hmm.

Sweet pea.

You know how you've been sick?

Uh-huh.

- So... - What about it?

Your illness...

it seems that it's getting closer and closer every time.

Which means that you're gonna probably get sick again

really soon.

Okay, it's gonna come on really quick,

and it's gonna be really painful.

But you're gonna help me, right?

I'm gonna be here by your side

holding your hand.

But I'm not gonna be able to help.

- Why not? - Because I can't.

[SOBBING]

I can't do anything.

Mom, stop crying.

- [SNIFFLING, SMOOCHING] - Please.

- I hate it when you cry. - Shh.

[LAUGHS]

Do you want to do something fun today?

There's a carnival that's nearby.

It's inside, and they have a carousel.

[LAUGHS]

I want to go. I want to go.

Can we?

Yeah, we can go.

Yes.

We can go when it gets dark. Okay?

Okay.

Okay, now go to sleep.

Is it dark yet?

No. [LAUGHS]

[URINATING]

Laura was seen last night taking this pimp to her motel room.

You know it's her doing this, right?

Nobody's following her around

killing everybody that she meets.

It's her. No fucking satanic cult.

No pedophile ring. It's her.

Tell them to go easy on her, Steve, when they find her.

Even if she's the one doing this,

she may not know it herself.

- I tripped. - Way off.

I tripped a little.

Aah! [GROANING]

You okay? What's going on, baby?

Let me see, let me see.

Jesus.

Come on, come on.

- [GROANING] - It's okay.

- [DAVID CRYING] - LAURA: I'm right here, baby.

I'm right here with you. Come on.

We're almost there. We're almost there.

Come on. Come on.

It's okay, baby. You're good. You're good. Okay, okay.

You're okay. You're okay. You're okay, sugar.

- [GROANING] - You're okay.

No, no, no, don't look at that. Don't look at that.

I know it hurts. I know it hurts, but look at me.

Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

It doesn't have to hurt. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't look down. Just look at me.

Look at me. I'm right here with you.

- [CRYING] Mom. - No.

- Aah! It hurts, Mom! - I know. I know. I know. I know.

- I need help. - I'm sorry, baby.

Are you really not gonna help me?

- I can't. - What if I die?

I need help.

I can't. I can't.

- But, Mom! - I need you to trust me.

Mom!

- Get the boy. - Get the boy.

Hey, Laura.

Stop!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

- DAVID: Mom! - David, David, are you okay?

[DAVID WHIMPERS]

[LAURA BREATHING HEAVILY]

[DAVID MOANS]

Mom.

[GASPING]

[RADIO CHATTER]

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

[GASPING]

Move your hand. I got it, I got it.

I got it.

Fuck. It won't stop.

Please help me.

[GURGLES, COUGHING]

LAURA: It's okay. It's okay. Lift up your head.

Lift up your head. Lift up your head.

No, no, stay with me.

Look at me, look at me, look at me.

[GASPING]

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No.

[GAGS, GASPING STOPS]

Look, don't be scared.

We have to go.

[DOOR CREAKS]

[INDISTINCT TALKING]

[CELLPHONE BUZZING]

[SIGHS]

Laura, hello?

LAURA: Paul, I don't know what to do

or who to turn to.

Okay, Laura...

LAURA: I did not mean to kill him.

I did not mean to kill your friend

or any of those men, I swear to you.

Your friend, he died in my arms.

You have to turn yourself in, Laura.

I still might be able to help you, okay?

I-I-I know you're not well.

LAURA: I just panicked and I fired and I did not mean to.

PAUL: Laura.

Just tell me where you are.

LAURA: I have to go back now.

No. Go... Go back where?

LAURA: Back where it all started.

- No, no, Laura. - LAURA: Goodbye, Paul.

Listen carefully to me, okay?

Everything that you think has been happening

and is true is not, okay?

It's all fantasy. It's all in your head.

- I'm sorry. - PAUL: Wait, don't hang up.

Fuck!

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[LOCK CLICKS]

Can you hear me? Can you hear me, baby?

Okay, David, whatever I say in there,

whatever I do, just know that I love you, okay?

Mm-hmm.

You are my son.

You are my only son.

And I love you and I will always take care of you.

Okay?

- [SMOOCHES] - [GROANS]

Okay, baby, come on. Come on.

I know. I know. I know. I know.

There we go. There we go.

By Astaroth your prince, by your master Lucifer,

by all the kings, queens, and princes of hell,

I command you, appear before me.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Great Palystes, I conjure you. Appear before me now.

You are my servant. Do my bidding.

I-I want you... to come here.

I know you can hear me.

I want you to come here and I want you to cure my son.

Our son.

I know you can hear me.

Cure him.

Or I'll kill him.

[MOANS]

- Mom. - LAURA: I know. Shh, baby. Shh.

By Astaroth your prince, by your master Lucifer,

by all the kings, queens, and princes of hell,

I command you, appear before me.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Great Palystes, I conjure you. Appear before me now.

You are my servant. Do my bidding.

Show yourself!

Mom, no.

- LAURA: Shh, baby. - Please don't.

I'll kill him.

By Astaroth your prince, by your master Lucifer,

by all the kings, queens, and princes of hell,

I command you, appear before me.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Great Palystes, I conjure you. Appear before me now.

You are my servant. Do my bidding.

[MOANS]

By Astaroth your prince, by your master Lucifer,

by all the kings, queens, and princes of hell,

I command you, appear before me.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Great Palystes, I conjure you. Appear before me now.

You are my servant. Do my bidding.

[RUMBLING]

By Astaroth your prince, by your master Lucifer,

by all the kings, queens, and princes of hell,

I command you, appear before me.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

PAUL: Laura.

What are you doing?

Drop the knife, ma'am, or I'll shoot.

Hold on. Stay the fuck back!

I summoned him. I summoned him.

He was here. He was gonna cure David.

Okay.

This is Detective Tate. Nobody move.

Hold your fire. I got this.

Laura.

You don't understand.

He's not human.

He's killed, Paul, and he's going to kill again.

Laura.

Put the knife down.

Stay back!

Show yourself!

Come back! Come back! Please, come back!

Laura.

He was here. Fuck!

Fuck! He was here. He was here. He was right here.

You made him go away, Paul. You made him go away.

And now I'm going to have to kill him.

I have her. I have a clean shot.

Don't fire. Nobody fucking move!

On that night when they came into his room,

they fed him human flesh.

I know that now.

That wasn't real, Laura.

None of that was real. You imagined everything.

They awakened something in him, something that was always there.

It was waiting.

Laura, I can help you, okay?

I know what happened to you, your terrible childhood,

why you are the way you are

and why you did the terrible things you did.

Please, Laura, let me help you.

[SOBBING] I can't. Paul, I can't.

I can't let him live like this.

You don't understand.

I can't let him live. I love him too much.

I love him too much.

Mom, stop.

I can't. He's his father's son.

Put the knife down, Laura.

- I'm sorry, Paul. - Don't.

I love you, David.

[GUNSHOT]

DAVID: Mommy.

Mommy.

Mommy, please.

Wake up.

Please.

Please.

Please, Mommy.

Wake up.

[MONITORS BEEPING]

David.

It's me.

It's Paul.

Hey.

I want you to know that I'm here for you.

I'm here to protect you.

And also...

...to make you better again.

[ALARM DINGING]

WOMAN: Code blue, room 305.

[PAUL GRUNTING]

I want you to know that no one can ever know anything

about you or who you are.

Don't you worry.

I took care of everything.

[CHOKING]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

I want you to know...

that you will never be alone.

You are never gonna be alone again.

And I got...

...a little surprise for you, David.

Someone is here to see you.

Hey.

It's your father.

Daddy.

♪ I'll see you somewhere in Dreamland ♪

♪ Somewhere in Dreamland tonight ♪

♪ Over a bridge made of moonbeams ♪

♪ We'll find our clouds are silver-lined ♪

♪ Each little star is a castle ♪

♪ Shining a welcome so bright ♪

♪ Dreams will come true for me and you ♪

♪ Somewhere in Dreamland tonight ♪

[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ I'll see you somewhere in Dreamland ♪

♪ Somewhere in Dreamland tonight ♪

♪ Over a bridge made of moonbeams ♪

♪ The clouds we'll find are silver-lined ♪

♪ Each little star is a castle ♪

♪ Shining a welcome so bright ♪

[SINGING FADES]

[METAL CREAKING]

[SINGING ECHOES INDISTINCTLY]

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS]

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