Original subtitles

(eerie music)

- [Julianne] Brian, where are you?

Can I lure you like a siren?

- [Brian] Can you lure me?

Lure me into the rocks.

- [Julianne] (chuckles) Yeah, into the rocks.

(laughing)

- [Brian] Naughty girl.

Why do you love me?

- [Julianne] Because you are a beautiful shipwreck.

(waves rustling)

(gentle music)

- [Brian] Just a little more time.

- [Julianne] Let's get out of town this weekend.

It's time I see that old building you've been lusting after.

- [Brian] Ah, come on, Julianne, I've been your husband

for eight years.

Ah!

- Ha!

- [Brian] Are you jealous of a building?

- [Julianne] It is a brothel.

- [Brian] It was a brothel.

Long, long ago, once upon a time.

- [Julianne] Once upon a time.

♪ Dreaming of you that's all I do ♪

♪ Night and day for you I'm pining ♪

♪ And in your eyes, blue as the skies ♪

♪ I can see the love-light softly shining ♪

♪ Because you love me ♪

- Damon.

Brian stayed at home.

(bottles clinking)

He's having a dark day.

- Dark day?

So how many will I be seducing tonight?

- Last count 50.

(phone ringing)

And keep your hands off the groom.

And the bride.

(dancer laughing)

- Cinnabar, can I help you?

(speaking in a foreign language)

- [Woman] Did anyone tell you that the bride

is allergic to garlic?

- No, no, no, they didn't.

- [Woman] So sorry.

- No, it's not a problem, not at all.

We'll see you later.

Bye bye.

Did anyone mention that the bride

breaks out in a hideous rash at the sight of garlic?

Great.

(gentle flamenco music)

Where's that waitress with our cake?

(Julianne sighing)

Brian?

What you doing here?

You okay?

- [Brian] Yeah, I just wanted to see you.

- Oh, you know I can't slow down.

I've just spent half an hour in the kitchen

with Damon unstuffing Cornish game hens

and our guests are arriving in half an hour.

- [Brian] When will you be home?

- Oh, come on, honey, we won't have a home

if it doesn't pick up here.

You know I have to be here tonight.

- [Brian] The restaurant's closed.

- We're opening in half an hour.

I'll be home at 11.

Make it worth your wait, I promise.

- [Brian] There's a little more time.

(both panting)

- Damn you, in my office now.

(Julianne breathing heavily)

(moving to lively Flamenco music)

(laughing) What is it?

(panting)

What is it?

Brian?

(glass shattering)

(wind whistling)

(waves rustling)

(sultry jazz music)

(women laughing)

(insects chirping)

(dog barking)

(whiskers crackling)

(gentle music)

Good evening.

Two?

This way.

(woman vocalizing softly)

(door creaking)

(eerie music)

(light piano music)

(lock clacking)

- I'm home.

(water dripping)

Hello?

Hello?

(record player needle clacking)

Brian?

(eerie music)

(gentle music)

(Julianne panting)

Oh, God!

(eerie chaotic music)

(Julianne crying)

No!

No!

Give him back!

(door slamming)

(lock clacking)

Don't let him go.

(water dripping)

(eerie music)

Shadow of death

(phone ringing)

I will fear no evil.

- [Operator] Emergency response system.

- I will walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

- [Woman] We missed you at the funeral.

- [Man] Face it!

- [Julianne] No!

(people chattering)

(eerie music)

Can we talk about what's mine for once.

- [Man] Mine.

- [Woman] No, run!

- [Julianne] I will not look back, I will not look back.

(insects chirping)

(somber music)

(wind whistling)

(gentle music)

Once upon a time.

- [Brian] Once upon a time.

Long, long ago.

(moving to somber music)

(Julianne sighs)

- [Man] Nice truck.

- Thanks.

Nice view.

- Yeah.

- I'm looking for the House of Joy.

- Ah, you're the city girl who wants to turn

into a B&B, huh?

- Word travels fast.

- It's big news in a small town.

This place used to be a hospital

back at the turn of the century

when the copper mines were flourishing.

Up there on the fourth floor that used to be the asylum.

Miners afraid of the dark and others.

- [Woman] Julianne.

(people chattering)

- You'll find the House of Joy

down by the kaleidoscope shop.

Avery, he's expecting you, he's got the key and everything.

(Julianne sighing)

(jazzy music)

- (chuckles) And you think you're bad luck.

(wind rustling)

(suspenseful music)

(birds chirping)

Here kitty kitty.

(door creaking)

(chimes tinkling)

(wind whistling)

(sighs)

(player piano music)

♪ Meet me in dreamland ♪

- [Julianne] Now, I was a brave little girl.

(woman groaning)

But I was afraid of the attic.

All our secrets were up there in those old chests.

Something guarded them.

- [Brian] Secrets?

(Julianne giggling)

But you didn't open them.

- [Julianne] They were locked.

I used to try and charm them open.

I used to say tick-tock open lock.

Tick-tock, tick.

(woman vocalizing)

(wind whistling)

Tick-tock.

(water dripping)

(sighs)

(water dripping)

- [Brian] Tick-tock, tick-tock.

Tick-tock.

(water dripping)

(wind whistling)

- [Julianne] Tick-tock.

Tick-tock.

Tick.

(sighs)

(chuckles)

(sighs)

- Julianne?

I'm Avery.

You called from the city.

I suppose you'd like to take a look at the House of Joy.

- I already did.

(birds chirping)

- Oh, I thought it was (door creaking) locked.

- I like what I saw.

- Well, it used to be a brothel.

- [Julianne] Everyone seems to know that.

- I spent an unhealthy amount of time indoors

reorganizing the Jerome archives.

This is quite a town.

Opium, murder, opera.

(people chattering and laughing)

Miners came from all over the world.

If you need anything, I'm just across the street.

(singing in a foreign language)

(footsteps thudding)

- [Woman] Shh, Julianne.

(thunder rumbling)

(woman groaning)

(suspenseful music)

(wind whistling)

(woman panting)

(windows creaking and thudding)

(Julianne panting)

(cat screeching)

(Julianne gasping)

(Julianne panting)

- [Woman] Tick-tock.

- [Man] Julianne.

(wood cracking)

(Julianne screaming)

(Julianne panting)

(cat purring)

- Very funny.

(hammer thudding)

(glass shattering)

(gentle music)

(cat purring)

(birds chirping)

(wheel creaking)

(eerie music)

(woman moaning)

- [Man] Julianne.

- Brian?

(women crying)

(rain pattering)

(wind whistling)

(water dripping)

(metal creaking)

(woman vocalizing)

(suspenseful music)

(door creaking)

(thunder rumbling)

(somber music)

(door creaking)

(thunder cracking)

(door creaking)

(women vocalizing)

(rain pattering)

(thunder cracking)

(Julianne panting)

(Julianne screams)

Oh, Jesus Christ!

(panting)

(chuckles) A bloody dress

and a locked chest.

(woman vocalizing)

(suspenseful music)

(tinkling music)

Tick-tock open the lock.

(woman vocalizing)

(insects chirping)

(woman moaning)

(eerie music)

(music box music)

(suspenseful music)

- [Woman] Tick-tock, tick-tock.

(birds chirping)

- Excuse me.

Who was this woman?

- Lady Sadie.

She was the most famous madam in Jerome's history.

Her girls came from all over.

Armenia, Italy, Spain.

The miners loved her.

- Did they?

- I met your husband when he was out here last year.

Architect, right?

- Yes, yeah.

Do you know when she was here?

- I do know she was murdered in 1903.

- Who killed her?

- It was rumored the son of a mine owner.

(gun firing)

(man shouting)

(gentle music)

She bled to death.

- [Julianne] In a red dress.

- [Woman] In front of her own brothel.

♪ Bled to death in a red dress ♪

- We're all here.

(somber music)

As much as you are anyway.

(girls laughing)

- [Julianne] Who is she?

The one in the bath--

- [Lady Sadie] The one in the bath?

The redhead in the bath.

Who is Maddy?

(laughing)

♪ Ghost, ghosts, and demons talk ♪

- [Lady Sadie] Who was in the bath?

(water dripping)

That's it?

No screaming, no fainting?

I got more reaction as a brazen hussy

than I do now as a ghost.

Our stubborn blood stains.

- [Julianne] It's not blood.

- Of course not.

Come, a woman who on a whim would take on the challenge

of ripping apart and rebuilding an old cat house

must have something to say to a phantom.

- I'd rather you didn't smoke in here.

(thunder cracking)

- Better not to speak.

- Is she your daughter?

- Who?

- The one hugging you in the picture.

- Ah, Maddy.

Yes, I thought you might ask about her.

Well, it's been a bleeding thrill

getting to know you, Julianne.

Now you just relax and enjoy.

You've been working hard.

Working hard to forget.

(sighs)

(rain pattering)

- Hey, how's the bed and breakfast coming?

Avery, the mildly eccentric

yet charming kaleidoscope vendor

who lives across the street.

- Yes.

- It's quite a storm we're having. Got any leaks?

- (scoffs) Leaks, are you kidding?

I bought a goddamn sieve.

(Avery laughing)

- Are you gonna remodel to period?

Because if you are, I rescued the chandelier

from the brothel.

(suspenseful music)

I didn't know you were gonna come and save the building.

So I saw you limping up here

did you hurt your foot?

(suspenseful music)

(tinkling music)

(rocking chair creaking)

- [Lady Sadie] Oh, that chandelier.

Lovey, while you're nosing about find my drapes.

This is the profession that thrives on discretion.

Didn't I say so.

- [Julianne] I'm not here to find your lost things.

- [Lady Sadie] My mistake.

I thought finding lost things was your

(speaking in a foreign language).

(eerie music)

- [Julianne] Stolen, not lost, stolen.

(suspenseful music)

(cat purring)

(Julianne sighing)

(chuckles)

It's just an old photograph, Julianne.

♪ Don't ♪

♪ Only it ain't me swing me, baby ♪

♪ Yeah, swing me, baby ♪

♪ Swing me, baby ♪

♪ Oh, swing me, baby ♪

♪ Swing me, baby, swing me low ♪

♪ You will swing me before I go ♪

♪ I am trying ♪

- I used to love kaleidoscopes.

♪ Oh I am trying ♪

- Oh.

Hello.

- Hi.

You said you rescued a chandelier?

- Rescued (chuckles)

is that what I said?

♪ I am crying 'cause I'm blue ♪

♪ Sky is blue ♪

- Draws you into the moment at hand

like nothing else, doesn't it?

♪ Bye bye, blue eyes ♪

♪ Me too ♪

- Can I make you a cup of tea?

- Oh no.

I'd just like to see the chandelier.

- Take it.

It belongs in the brothel.

- Oh no, I'd want to buy it. - [Avery] Really.

(birds chirping)

- I don't need favors.

- Well, it's against my principles to sell a hot chandelier.

Once I found out they were gonna tear down the place,

I broke in and I couldn't bear the thought

of this piece falling into the wrong hands.

(tinkling music)

What would you consider a trade?

I mean my family comes into town from time to time.

You know, once you open the bed and breakfast.

You know, my sister would had a big kick

out of staying in a haunted brothel.

Don't let me scare you.

It's just that I've gotten used to living with ghosts.

(laughing)

- Doesn't scare me at all.

- Is it the ghosts that brought you to Jerome, Julianne?

I don't even know your last name or where you moved from.

Well, um...

(tinkling music)

(somber music)

- [Brian] Where are we, Julianne?

Eight years at sea.

(Julianne laughing)

You're slipping away.

- Buried but not forgotten?

The chandelier made this room, Julianne.

A gift from one of the mine owners

after the best night of his life.

- What do you want?

You've been watching me all day, haven't you?

- Don't be embarrassed.

A woman without a past is no woman at all,

not in my book anyway.

- Who's Sophie?

Till death do us part.

(somber music)

Not what you'd expect to find in a brothel.

- Neither is a flannel shirt.

Oh, Julianne, quibbling with ghosts.

What would the neighbors think?

- Well, I was here first.

- I beg to differ.

- I'm real.

I'm really here.

- One of us doesn't have a very good grasp of boundaries.

If it's me, I beg your pardon.

But you'll have to admit I have the better excuse.

- And what's that?

- I'm dead.

I'm bored.

I stray.

What's your excuse?

- I'm here now.

(chair creaking)

And you're from the past.

- Time ceases after death.

Don't you find that to be so?

- How would I know?

- I remember when I was dying.

I began to slip over the barriers of time, too,

to see those I'd lost

to death, other places.

- I feel like I'm slipping.

- It's always the way with the slowly dying, the slipping.

- (scoffs) I'm not dying.

- [Lady Sadie] It's always the way

with those close to death.

- [Julianne] I'm not dying.

- [Woman] I'm not dying.

- [Woman] I'm not dying.

- [Lady Sadie] This they see here.

- [Julianne] I'm not dying, I'm not dead.

- [Woman] Breathe.

(door creaking)

(eerie music)

Breathe.

(Julianne inhales deeply)

She's right you know.

- Are you Sophie?

- [Sophie] Yes.

- Till death do us part.

In sickness--

- [Sophie] In sickness and in health.

Augustus liked to bring me things.

He brought me these.

(lively Parisian music)

They're miners' boots.

They made me feel brave.

We were going to go everywhere in the world.

- [Julianne] Going to go everywhere in the world.

- The mirror was a gift, too.

- Well, it was a pain in the ass to polish.

Ow!

- You have no right to be rude.

You came knocking through our place of rest,

rummaging through our things.

- No one else seemed interested.

- No one else could have found them.

- No one else cared to look.

(Sophie sighs)

- What do I look like?

- [Both] Am I still pretty?

- [Sophie] A life is such a sad thing to waste.

You'll never forgive yourself.

- Said the dead prostitute to the delusional woman.

- Suffering is a luxury for the living.

- I'm not suffering.

- [Sophie] For the living.

Breathe.

(door clattering)

- Come back.

Sophie?

You are pretty.

(eerie music)

- [Woman] No, no.

(man whispering)

(woman crying)

(door creaking)

(suspenseful music)

- [Both] Are you afraid?

- [Girl] The attic.

- The attic?

Things forgotten live up there.

(slow jazzy music)

Something borrowed, something blue.

Something old and something new.

The prostitute's hope--

- Hope chest.

The twisted joke or every girl's dream.

Priscilla.

The pleasure's all yours I'm sure.

(laughing)

Do you have a hope chest?

After all, why not hope?

Sophie had Augustus, Maddy was young.

What happened to Maddy?

- [Julianne] What happened to Maddy?

- I wasn't marriage material.

(man and Priscilla grunting)

And Madam was already spoken for.

All good madams are wives to their brothels.

What happened to Maddy?

- What happened to Maddy?

- Oh the things we forget in the poppy fields.

Secrets can get you killed.

- [Woman] We drew you a bath.

We drew you a bath.

We drew you a bath.

- [Priscilla] Hope can blow up in your face.

- [Woman] We painted you.

We painted you a bath.

- [Priscilla] Better to die hoping than suffocate

for the lack of it.

We remembered you a bath.

Remembered you a bath.

We forgot you.

- [Julianne] The bath?

(somber music)

- [Priscilla] There it is.

(sighs)

I've forgotten what it is I was trying--

- [Julianne] I've forgotten what it is

I was trying to forget.

(woman vocalizing)

Brian.

(crying)

- [Woman] Hear me.

(water trickling)

- [Maddy] She doesn't seem very happy.

Maybe she's lost.

- Yes, maybe she is.

(jazzy music)

- [Man] You shut up.

(man and woman grunting)

(somber music)

(tinkling music)

- Maybe you should have purchased a convent.

(lively music)

(bed thudding)

(man and woman groaning)

- [Woman] Oh, oh, oh yeah, oh, oh!

(women laughing)

- Oh, that was easy.

I get him next week.

- (laughing) Oh shh.

(both laughing)

Shh, Katie.

Uh.

♪ Your mama never told you ♪

- Welcome to the House of Joy. ♪ How you were supposed ♪

♪ To treat a girl ♪

♪ Your papa never told you ♪

♪ That you're alone out in the world ♪

♪ Sirens are ♪

- Well, well, well, well.

Hello handsome.

(giggling)

- What? ♪ Dreaming of a blue angel ♪

- I just moved in

and now I'm running a whore house?

- No, I'm running a whore house.

You're just running.

(somber music)

(clapping)

- Thrilling.

A wild ride.

I was on the edge of my seat.

Brilliant performance.

- Shut up, Priscilla.

The men love Katie.

She's soothes them with her open--

- Legs, her willing mouth.

(woman laughing)

- [Katie] My men come for the taste

of a woman's companionship.

Lonely.

- [Julianne] I'm fine.

- Julianne's here for the companionship.

- No, I'm just here for the sex.

- Less disappointment in sex.

And my men come, all they see is me.

When they leave...

- What do you want, Priscilla?

- To be seen.

Nobody wants an old whore.

- Augustus just wants me.

- Gayle wants me.

- [Julianne] Gayle?

(people chattering)

(door clattering)

(somber music)

- [Katie] Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

- [Priscilla] Gayle owns this place, Julianne.

- He's not welcome here.

- Collecting debt is his specialty.

(ominous music)

(somber music)

(fire crackling)

- [Thief] What kind of woman invites a man into her life

then runs away?

- I didn't invite you, Thief.

You broke in.

And then you stayed.

- That's why you like me.

You knew I would never leave you.

- Everyone leaves.

Look, it's over.

I'm taking my life back.

- Really?

- Yes.

- Ironic, looking for your life in a ghost town.

Collecting lives is my job.

You are a rare one, Julianne.

(gentle music)

I want you.

- You can't have me.

- Course I can.

- I get off for what I want to.

- [Thief] Let him go.

- You take so much.

Why can't you just give me back what you took, what's mine?

- Finders keepers.

(eerie music music)

- Wait, wait!

(tense music)

(Julianne panting)

- [Thief] A trade.

(heart beating)

Isn't that what you wanted?

- [Julianne] Where is he?

- [Thief] You chose to be my mistress.

Convinced me that you could balance on the wire

between life and death better than any tightrope walker

ever to fall to their brilliant death.

Ever again.

I want you.

Come with me.

You won't feel a thing, Julianne, never again.

Come with me.

- No.

(panting)

No, it's over.

(dramatic music)

- [Thief] No, we're not going back.

We're going farther, farther, farther.

- [Julianne] Closer to him?

- I'll be back for you soon, Julianne.

(Julianne exhaling heavily)

- [Julianne] Brian.

(people laughing)

Where are you?

- [Brian] Far out at sea, drifting, drowning.

- [Julianne] Can I lure you back like a siren?

- [Brian] Can you lure me, lure me into the rocks?

- (chuckles) Into the rocks.

(gentle music)

- Julianne, let me.

You're a beautiful woman, Julianne.

Julianne, any man

would gladly take you, any man.

But you, you are waiting for one, aren't you?

One who might never come back again.

How, how could he?

Any ghost would gladly trade places with you.

Is that what you want, huh?

- [Julianne] Where are we?

- To be a ghost, to find your ghost?

- [Julianne] Are you happy?

You and I we make...

♪ Songs of sirens and ships of sailors ♪

♪ Splinter upon the rocks ♪

♪ And widows wait on the widows' walk ♪

♪ For sailors lured by sirens ♪

- [Women] I am one of you.

(women whispering)

- Come, come away.

(tinkling music)

- Away?

(women vocalizing)

- [Sophie] He's waiting.

- Who?

(Sophie grunting)

(Julianne panting)

(Julianne sighing)

(insects chirping)

(Julianne crying)

(gentle music)

I look like a prostitute.

Thank God no one's here to see.

- Really?

What about that man who was here?

- Who was that man who came after you?

- Thief?

- Why do you call him Thief?

- Because that's what he is.

I caught him breaking into my house.

I caught him stealing from me.

- [Sophie] Were you afraid?

- I was furious.

- What did you do?

- What do you think I did?

I took him to bed.

(women laughing)

(lively Parisian music)

- In a sex mask when he came for me.

Sex at a price.

A woman after my own heart.

- [Julianne] I was only after what was mine.

- You took a thief to bed?

- I figured I'd play him at his own game.

- And how was Thief in bed?

- Wicked.

(women giggling)

- Gayle says I'm the naughtiest of all.

(gentle music)

- Gayle?

- Did you steal back what was yours?

- [Maddy] What Thief put in his little black bag?

- No.

(sighs) Thief wasn't stupid so I became his mistress.

He moved in early and he never left.

- But you did.

- Why?

He wanted you.

- A mistress expects gifts like we expect money

to make up the difference.

- The difference?

- Thief wasn't willing to give you what you needed

to make up for what wasn't there.

- He loved me.

- But you don't love him.

- I hate him.

- Hmm, the strongest glue.

- You see, a simple trade is always the best.

Women who wanna be wives

are selling themselves into slavery.

Whereas we are free and independent.

We fuck, they pay, they leave.

The rest of our time is ours.

- Augustus gives me more than money.

Don't listen to her, Julianne.

- Gayle gives me things.

- No, Priscilla's right.

I left because he started wanting more and more of me

and he wasn't paying up.

She's right.

I am one of you.

I am one of you.

- [Sophie] I am one of you.

(laughing)

(all women laughing)

(Julianne sighs)

- Quite a story.

- Yeah, I suppose it is.

(eerie music)

- [Lady Sadie] Tell me about that night, the night of the,

what are we calling it?

The night of the robbery.

- Thief was there.

And I was there.

- [Lady Sadie] You can run but you can't hide.

Isn't that what they say?

(women whispering)

- [Julianne] I see him.

(moving to tense music)

(loud pounding)

(insects chirping)

- Hey, hey, hey, is something wrong?

- Um, I've decided to make the trade.

- Hmm?

- The chandelier.

- Oh, sure, sure, I'll bring it over tomorrow.

- I just realized how much the place needs light, you know.

- (chuckles) It's two in the morning, Julianne.

- I'll get it.

(door creaking)

- I'll just get dressed then.

- No, it's okay.

I'll get it.

I don't need help.

(crickets chirping)

- Are you all right?

- Thank you.

Good night.

- Good night.

(tinkling music)

(record crackling)

(gentle music)

(Julianne breathing heavily)

- [Woman] Don't sleep.

(woman vocalizing)

- [Thief] Julianne.

- Thief.

(somber music)

- [Maddy] Please don't hurt, ow.

- It hurts, please don't. (man grunting)

- Please don't hurt me!

(crying)

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. - Shut up.

- [Maddy] Don't, hit me, Daddy.

- [Gayle] Please stop.

Would you shut up.

You're driving me fucking insane here!

I feel nothing!

(glass shattering)

- [Maddy] Please, please.

- [Gayle] Get dressed.

- He's coming.

- Who?

- Gayle.

(tense music)

(heart beating)

(moving to sinister drumming music)

(Julianne panting)

- [Gayle] Tick-tock, tick-tock.

(wind whistling)

- That was Gayle.

He was with Maddy.

- My heart.

I can't feel it.

Why does the madam let him in?

- [Sophie] He owns this place.

- I own this place.

- Hmm, that's not what Gayle thinks.

He owned this place for a very long time.

Very long time.

He owns Maddy.

- Couldn't you have--

- [Sophie] His family owns the mines.

We don't even own our bodies.

Be a ghost.

- [Julianne] I'll stop him.

You have to stop him.

(gentle music)

- [Sophie] There's nothing we can do.

- [Julianne] There must be something.

- [Sophie] Nothing we can do.

- [Julianne] There must be.

- [Sophie] Be a ghost.

- [Julianne] Hmm I must have been.

(gentle music)

Wake up.

- [Maddy] Have you ever been in love?

- Yes.

- [Maddy] He didn't mean to hurt us.

- [Julianne] Who?

- [Maddy] Secret.

- You've overstayed your welcome.

If you choose the stay, the girls will suffer.

- I'm not afraid of you.

You're not even real.

- Rather selective about what's real

and what's not, aren't we?

Just curious, how would you classify this?

(tense music)

(eerie music)

(woman crying)

- Maddy!

- [Maddy] It's snowing, snowing, Julianne, it's snowing.

- [Julianne] November 1902, the winter.

Must've been cold here.

(somber music)

- [Maddy] Everything in this dirty, sooty town is new.

- [Julianne] Why the snow?

- [Maddy] He's promised to make everything better.

- [Julianne] Silly girl.

Or did you love her?

(moving to lively music)

- [Maddy] Ashes, ashes.

(drumming music)

(somber music)

- [Maddy] Sophie loved Augustus.

She went crazy when he died.

♪ We all fall down ♪

(leaves rustling)

(lively music)

- [Man] Easy to let your imagination

get the better of you.

Care to run lines?

(motorcycle rumbling)

- [Thief] The spirit of empty places.

(lively music)

- Brian?

You okay.

- [Brian] Yeah, I just wanted to see ya.

- [Julianne] What is it?

- [Brian] Just a little more time.

- [Julianne] What is it?

(heart beating)

(woman vocalizing)

- [Brian] Just a little more time.

(dramatic music)

- What is it?

(panting)

What is it?

Brian?

(somber music)

- [Brian] Julianne.

(both panting)

(both moaning)

- [Julianne] They grew old together.

Months up at a time.

(eerie music)

- Nobody got sick, nobody died.

Nobody went away for a very long time.

They grew old together

(gentle music)

the man and the woman.

(people chattering)

Together, the man and the woman.

They traveled.

They had a child.

(somber music)

They opened a successful restaurant.

(gentle music)

They laughed.

- Often.

- Often.

They laughed often.

And when they grew old, they laughed even more.

Because they were in love, you see.

- That wasn't very exciting.

- [Maddy] Why are you so pessimistic, Priscilla?

- Give Gayle a year or two to teach her that one, sweetest.

- Priscilla.

- Tell us more about you, Julianne.

- I like it here with you.

- [Sophie] Tell us about your life before you came to us.

- Can't remember.

I'm really tired now.

- At least I died with drama.

Disappearing bit by bit so as not to frighten yourself

is so dull.

(women laughing)

(chair creaking)

♪ Oh, your dark heart ♪

(girl humming)

- [Julianne] I'm so silly, so silly, silly.

- [Maddy] Julianne, you all right?

- What month is it, Maddy?

- November.

- What year?

- 1902, silly.

- Yes, of course.

- Where's your boyfriend, Julianne?

The one you said you were in love with.

I don't care what Sadie says, I'm glad you're here with us.

- [Julianne] What does Sadie say?

- You'd rather die than see the truth.

- (chuckles) What truth?

- (chuckles) Secret.

I have a secret, too.

Promise not to tell.

None of the others would understand but I know you will

because you ran away.

I'm going away, too.

Very soon.

- Where are you going?

(gentle music)

- Some, uh, some better place.

(breathing heavily)

- With Gayle?

Maddy, is Gayle taking you?

- He brought me chocolates.

- [Julianne] (sighs) Love is, love is--

- [Maddy] Is what?

- [Julianne] Love is...

Just because a man loves you, brings you chocolates...

Gayle is not a nice man, Maddy.

(house creaking)

- [Maddy] I'd follow him anywhere.

- Follow him anywhere.

No.

You can't follow him!

- You don't know anything.

I don't believe you ever were in love.

- No, I was.

- Then describe him.

- [Julianne] Nothing?

- Describe it.

- [Brian] Nothing, it's nothing.

- [Julianne] Can I do something, Brian?

- [Brian] No, you can't.

- He was, he was, um...

We haven't spoken in days.

It's not nothing.

It was--

- [Brian] Nothing is exactly what it is.

Would you shut up?

You're driving me fucking insane here!

I feel nothing!

(tense music)

- I'm going away with him.

It hurts him when I'm with other miners.

(gentle music)

He loves me.

You wouldn't understand.

- [Brian] Were you hiding in the attic again?

Naughty girl.

- [Maddy] He needs me.

- [Brian] Watch out, Julianne.

(eerie music)

- [Lady Sadie] He'll be the ruin of you, Maddy.

(water dripping)

- [Woman] He'll destroy you.

(woman laughing)

They don't, they see it coming.

Because, Julianne, they're all working

to keep their boss happy.

- She went crazy when he died.

(somber music)

- [Maddy] Never leave me.

- [Brian] Julianne.

- [Woman] Julianne.

- [Woman] Wasn't supposed to kiss on the lips.

(women chattering)

- [Sophie] Gayle, he was drunk.

He was coming to take Maddy to the mine.

I was trying to forget.

- [Lady Sadie] Always a way--

- [Sophie] She took copper.

The mines.

Beautiful copper.

But when they burnt him poison, they killed everything.

Everything died.

(somber music)

(chair creaking)

Everyone is dead now.

- [Julianne] Sophie.

- There are no more bats, no more bats.

The bats all died.

- Bats, what bats?

- The trees died.

Maddy died.

Augustus came to warn us.

(crickets chirping)

- [Brian] Julianne.

- Warn you?

(gentle music)

- Gayle is coming!

Take Maddy away!

Augustus! - I know.

- Augustus is going to take me away from here.

- She trusted him. - Going to take me away.

- [Julianne] We were going to go everywhere in the world.

- Silly girl.

She died in the winter.

It was snowing.

She wasn't wearing any shoes.

- [Julianne] Sophie, Sophie, what happened to you?

- (crying) She wasn't wearing any shoes.

- [Gayle] I.

- Augustus!

(crying)

- Sophie.

Sophie, remember your miners' boots.

They make you brave.

Come on.

Now, you go.

Okay.

(gentle music)

Now you can go wherever you want in the world

or out of it.

(somber music)

It's time to move on.

- Everyone dies eventually.

- And you.

- And you?

Poor, poor Maddy.

Couldn't see the forest for the trees.

(Julianne sighing)

(ominous music)

- You did it.

You killed Maddy.

- Yes.

And if you're giving me credit for that,

don't forget Sadie.

Augustus I count as two seeing as Sophie eventually died

of a broken heart.

(tense music)

The hell with reality, right, Julianne?

- Why did you do it?

- Oh, let's keep pretending nothing's happened.

Everyone's alive and no one's lost their marbles.

- [Julianne] I won't let you steal her away.

(Julianne panting)

- Speaking of theft, what's this?

Maddy's got a visitor.

That morbid friend of yours

with a predilection for black.

- Thief.

(elevator bell ringing)

- Run along, little girl.

You still have time to prove yourself 100% ineffectual

at altering the past.

- You had a caller, Julianne.

He asked for you by name.

- What is it?

- (sighs) We need to speak, privately.

- Amuse yourselves upstairs, girls.

(man chanting)

- He was tall, dark, and handsome.

Perverse, too.

He was wearing a mask.

Sex and death.

She's a little confused.

(Priscilla laughing)

- Did he really come?

- A man was here, yes.

I offered him one of the others.

He said he had come for you.

- Huh, he thinks he can just come here and I'll go with him?

- Where there's a will there's a way.

Do you have a will, Julianne.

- Did he bring anything for me?

- I don't know.

- I'm wearing it now.

Thief says it's mine.

- [Lady Sadie] He spoke to Maddy.

- Sadie, you have to take Maddy away from here soon.

- What are you suggesting, Julianne?

That we run?

- Yes, run, get her out of here.

- But what about you, Julianne?

Thief came for you not for Maddy.

Who will save you?

- I will.

- [Lady Sadie] Prove it.

- How?

- In case you hadn't realized,

my dear girl, we're already good and dead.

You're the only one who still has a chance at living.

- Please, this isn't about me.

- Do something to prove you exist, that you are alive,

that you have as much to lose in the land of the living

as you seem to imagine you do in ours.

- Then you'll take her?

- Then we'll take her.

(Julianne sighs)

(birds chirping)

I'm trying a new recipe.

I need a guinea pig.

Dinner at my house tonight?

(jazzy music)

- Guinea pig?

- Yeah.

- So, who are we seducing tonight?

- Man from across the way.

- Until you moved in we were beginning to think

that he might be uh...

- Shh.

(giggles)

- He never paid me a visit.

- That's because he's sane and you're dead.

- And you?

He noticed you?

- I'm not dead.

- Your social life is.

Your choice of friends is frightening.

Get yourself a living friend, for God sake, Julianne.

(women laughing)

(light knocking)

- Remember, dearie, it rhymes with .

(Julianne chuckles)

(whip cracking)

- If it's...

- So, it's illegal to go into the mines?

(jazzy music)

- (chuckles) Yes.

- So what were you doing down there?

- Well, the first time I think I was half hoping

that I wouldn't find my way back out.

The night I went into the mine, I walked for hours.

Finally my lantern went out.

And then suddenly as if my mind

had completely short-circuited, (chuckles)...

(women giggling)

I started to see colors.

And the longer I stared at what I was sure

was a hallucination,

inspired by a lack of food and sleep,

the colors begin to explode

into a million geometrical configurations.

I had this idea that I wanted to take the light

from the phosphorescent rocks to make a night kaleidoscope.

- I'd love to see one of those.

- Me, too.

Been working on one a long time.

But it needs something.

- I'm sure you'll find it.

(gentle music)

Welcome to my brothel.

What do you think?

- I keep expecting the madam to walk in

and ask me for money.

(chuckles)

(gentle music)

(eerie music)

(gentle music)

- [Julianne] Squeeze him.

(women chattering)

(moving to dramatic music)

(gentle music)

(Julianne panting)

- What is it?

Brian?

What is it?

(Julianne crying)

Brian, where are you?

- (sighs) Oh.

I was dead to the world.

Julianne, are you all right?

- It was good for me.

Was it good for you?

- It was, it was more than...

- (scoffs) Lucky us.

We're neighbors.

We should do it again some time.

(sighs)

- I'm sorry for you, Julianne.

(women chattering)

♪ We all fall down ♪

- We're always the wave.

- [Maddy] Don't wake him.

- [Lady Sadie] We had a deal.

- [Priscilla] What happened that night?

- Leave me alone.

I can't remember, okay?

All of you just leave me alone.

- Oh, God, Julianne.

Not a nice thing to deny a ghost memories.

They are what keep us present.

- [Priscilla] Who else was there that night?

- [Julianne] Thief was there.

- Turn it. - Thief was there.

I was there.

- [Julianne] I was there.

- [Lady Sadie] Turn.

- I was there. (woman vocalizing)

- You were there.

You were there.

No, you weren't there.

- Ah, the bath.

- Julianne. - He lives

in the wind, Julianne.

- [Lady Sadie] You spent all night in the bath getting--

- [Julianne] So cold.

(dramatic drumming music)

(ice crackling)

(loud knocking)

- [Gayle] Maddy.

(lively music)

(wind whistling)

- He was in here.

- Gayle?

I wasn't crying.

Am I dead?

- He came to warn us.

Gayle, cut him.

- [Thief] What kind of a woman invites a man into her life

then runs away?

(ominous music)

- Thief!

- Gayle.

- Leave her alone!

- [Gayle] She trusts me.

(Julianne panting)

(dramatic drumming music)

(ice shattering)

- [Julianne] Take me, Thief.

- Come for Maddy.

- She's no challenge.

Let go of the girl.

(woman vocalizing)

A ghost.

Here you have woman of flesh.

Or can't you handle that?

- I've lost interest, Julianne.

- Your a balancing act between worlds

was always so intriguing.

But you slipped

and have fallen.

(tsking)

- What is it that you need, Gayle?

It is more than a girl like Maddy can give you.

Tell me, tell me what you need, Gayle.

(growls)

Run!

(mirror shattering)

(Sophie choking)

- How many pieces have you broken into?

(eerie music)

(chuckles)

- Leave her alone.

(dramatic music)

Maddy.

(panting)

(Maddy crying)

No!

Maddy?

- (Gayle mumbles)

(Maddy choking)

- Maddy?

No!

(gasps)

(eerie music)

(Julianne panting)

♪ Dreaming of you ♪

(Julianne gasps)

♪ That's all I do ♪ - Here it is, I found it.

(whiskers crackling)

♪ Night and day for you I'm pining ♪

- [Gayle] I want to look good for the funeral.

- Whose funeral?

- [Gayle] Mine.

- [Maddy] She didn't even go.

- [Gayle] Shh, Maddy.

- [Julianne] He's a murderer, Maddy.

- [Maddy] So if you're Gayle

and I'm her,

who does she think she is?

She doesn't see.

- [Gayle] She will.

You start with an empty shell.

Hush.

You end...

Hush, Julianne.

With an empty shell.

- [Julianne] Brian?

- How far will you take this, Julianne?

(somber music)

- [Julianne] Take me with you.

(panting)

- What's is left Julianne?

- (panting) Let me go, Thief.

Take me to what you stole. - And here we are.

I let you follow true love.

- I don't love you.

- I'm the only thing you've dared to love in months.

(eerie music)

You've fallen,

haven't you, my angel?

You're drowning in me.

- I'm drowning?

Where is he?

- [Lady Sadie] Where oh were, indeed.

(eerie music)

- [Thief] Isn't he?

One of many faces.

- I know who you are.

- [Thief] Of course you do.

- [Julianne] Is it my time to die?

- [Thief] Only you know that.

- Was it Brian's time to die?

- There was nothing you could've done.

- You shouldn't have left her alone.

- [Thief] He didn't want to stay.

- That's no excuse.

- [Thief] He wanted to set you free.

- You don't know.

He wouldn't have left me.

(gentle music)

I came home and then you, he stole you away.

He took your life.

- Who took my life?

- You owe me.

You owe me the truth.

- [Thief] Your already know it.

But I remember, he called me to him.

Many people do these days.

(phone ringing)

(answering machine beeping)

- [Julianne] Brian, pick up.

Don't sleep.

(somber music)

I'm coming, okay?

Don't sleep.

(phone beeping)

(Brian sighs)

(water splashing)

(water splashing)

(needle scratching)

(somber music)

(Julianne panting)

- Oh, my God.

(emotional music)

(crying) Oh God!

What have you done?

What have you done?

Oh no, no.

Oh no.

No, no.

You.

You took your life.

(gentle music)

- My life, Julianne, not yours.

- You quit.

- Yes, it was a relief.

By the end, I only felt life through you.

Only through you.

- [Julianne] I loved you (voice echoing).

In sickness and in health.

- [Brian] Till death do us part.

It was selfish and I am sorry.

But you knew me better than anyone.

You knew where I was headed.

- But I didn't want to know it

because I loved you, Brian.

And if I'd let myself understand how much you wanted this,

I'd have had to want it for you

and I couldn't.

So I let you do it alone.

I denied you.

Why are you smiling?

- Because you felt you would die without me.

But I know now as do you that you won't.

- And you?

What do you feel?

- I feel nothing.

- [Julianne] This is what you wanted.

Hmm?

(somber music)

- [Brian] Yes.

- The time for me to go now.

(chuckles) Already I'm forgetting how you looked.

Only glimpses.

And your mouth, your hands,

your eyes.

(eerie music)

(somber music)

- He gave his life to me

as did you.

For time.

(heart beating)

(women vocalizing)

(water dripping)

(Julianne panting)

- Julianne!

Julianne!

Shit!

- Avery, I'm sorry.

(gentle music)

(tinkling music)

(tinkling gentle music)

- [Avery] See how every fracture captures the light

and sends it in new directions?

- [Julianne] Hmm.

(insects chirping)

(door bell ringing)

(sighing)

(wind whistling)

(woman vocalizing)

(gentle music)

(moving to lively piano music)

(somber music)

♪ Meet tonight in dreamland ♪

♪ Away, longing for you dear, you only ♪

♪ In blissful dreams ♪

♪ Sweetheart, it seems one is never sad ♪

♪ And never lonely ♪

♪ And if you'll come with me to to stay ♪

♪ We'll live in dreamland ♪

♪ Night and day ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in dreamland ♪

♪ Your mama never told you ♪

♪ How you were supposed to treat a girl ♪

♪ Your papa never told you ♪

♪ Now you're alone out in the world ♪

♪ Sirens are screaming ♪

♪ Inside the winding sheets are pale ♪

♪ The devils are dreaming ♪

♪ Dreaming of a blue angel ♪

(somber music)