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Now, I've been telling
you fellas for years

about how evil women are,
and tonight at the bar,

I met the most evil
woman there ever was.

I'm talking this chick was evil.

She walked in.

Oh, what the
hell was that?

Whoa!

Holy shit!

Hey, hey, did you
see what happened?

Hello?

Hey! Hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Yo, where the hell did you go?

Where... where
the fuck did you go?

What you trying to do, scare me?

You think you could scare me?

What do you think,
this is fuckin' funny?

Holy shit.

This morning's top story.

First responders in
MorrisCounty working to contain

a massive fire that broke
out in the early morning hours

at the mansion
of Dr. Joseph Cawl.

Once a renowned
archeologist and professor

at Alden University,

in recent years
is better known as

the charismatic leader ofnthe
infamous Hidden Wisdom cult.

Chief! Chief!

Was this a mass suicide?

Investigators have
yet to find any evidence

of an accelerant.

We do not know if
the Hidden Wisdom cult fire

was accidental or otherwise.

Hidden Wisdom's followers
and their leader Dr. Cawl

have long been under
a cloud of suspicion.

Speak to the people who
live on this quiet suburban
street

and you'll hear whispers
of supposed supernatural powers,

ghostly apparitions,

strange occult rituals
going late into the night,

worshiping at the images
of ancient pagan gods,

as well as rumors of all
manner of sexual perversions.

Even claims of
witchcraft and Satanism.

Bowing to public pressure,

authorities have
finallyreleased the identities

of the five survivors
of the cult

who resided in the
mansion with Dr. Cawl

and the other 18 victims.

Sources saythey
have not yet been ruled out

as suspects in what
is now being called

the Cawl Cult Murders.

You may remember
the investigation

into the sudden
disappearance

of Dr. Cawl's longtime
research partner,

neurophysicist
Dr. Leonard Bertram,

who went missing
after he and Cawl

had a very public
falling out.

Bertram is presumed dead
by police,

and Cawl himself was
initially named a suspect,

though no charges
were ever filed.

And yet rumors persist
that this eccentric,

though supposedly
altruistic cult,

was just a façade for murder
and perhaps even worse.

Authoritiesagain
tonight refuse to comment

on the mysterious
viral video

that supposedly
captures the Cawl cult fire
explosion

and what some are callinga
hooded demon with glowing eyes

who remains at large.

Welcome to "Knowledge Me."

I am your humble
host, Dr. Dre.

Now help me welcome
our guest for today's show,

psychology professor

and TV's most prominent
paranormal debunker,

the one, the only
Dr. Amara Rowen.

Thank you so much
for having me.

Now, your fans know you
and nicknamed you
"Amara-normal,"

but for people who don't
know who the hell that is,

tell us about yourself.

In short, when
I was young,

my mother was a member
of a reincarnation cult,

and before she died,

she promised me she would
come back from the beyond.

Of course, she didn't,

and my anger over her faith in
pseudo spiritual sophistries

led me to working as a
paranormal investigative
journalist,

and eventually I started
directing documentaries.

Just everybody's
been talking about

the Hidden Wisdom cult fire.

We've all seen that
infomercial at 2:00 a.m.

with Joseph Cawl
and his partner Dr. Bertram.

Let's go to the tape.

Knowledge is power.

Hidden knowledge
is hidden power.

Power over anything.

"How?" you ask.

Perspective
and perception.

Our perspective gives us
our perception.

For example, time.

First, think of the concept
of the present.

Is "now" one second?

Perhaps.

But there is such
a thing as a half second,

during which of those
half seconds is now.

What beliefs do you hold
about yourself, the world?

What's possible,
what's impossible?

With Hidden Wisdom, we can
change your perception,

not only of yourself, but
of time and reality as a whole.

Now, wait a minute.

This... this...
that just...

- That sounds like bullshit.
- Basically, yeah.

At your lower levels,
you've got your meditation,

your self-actualization,
your feelgood stuff.

But in the inner circle,

now these folks believe
that they could tap into

an ancient power,
an ancient energy.

Through our
groundbreaking studies

of the effects of
ancientsymbology on the brain
structure

and function in people
with a significant history

of unusual abilities
and experiences,

neurobehavioral scienceis
now able to advance

at a previously unheard of pace.

What about
the Hidden Wisdom five?

Are these just some
wacky, brainwashed kids

or are they
psycho killers?

I'm gonna give you the scoop.

These survivors have
reached out to me

to get their side
of the story out.

What?!

Of all people, why you?

Oh, I think that they feel
that if they can convince me,

the whole world is
gonna believe them.

Be part of the future.

Help us to unlock what is hidden

and what is hidden within you.

Hidden knowledge
is hidden power.

Imagine what we can
achieve together

when all that has been hidden
is hidden no more.

I'm back.

Okay, here's
the last of it.

Great. Thank you, Peter.

Some of the gear
is from the school.

The rest is my own rig.

And this was sitting
on your desk.

Hmm.

No address.

Okay, I managed to get a
feed from the school security
camera,

so we have exterior shots
to use for B-roll and all that.

I'm also signing into
two separate Zoom accounts.

One recording
Gallery View,

the other recording
Speaker View.

I'll be live switching
between speakers

as you do the interview,

so you'll have
options for the edit.

I'm also recording back...

Oh, and check this out.

That whole interview,

I will be roving

with this bad boy.

All right, Scorsese,
thank you very much.

Ah.

When the head
of the film department said

that they're recommending
you, I was expecting someone...

Not so old?

I didn't say that.

I get that a lot.

I enlisted fresh
out of high school,

and then I extended,

and then I re-upped
after my second tour.

So by the time I rotated
out of service and into college,

I'm a 29-year-old
freshman... part-time.

Undergrad, then grad school.

Mm. Time flies when you're
chasing your dreams.

We've got speed.

Now make sure you're set
to hide non-video participants.

Check.

Ready to rock?

No, but I never really am.

So once more into the breach.

Henry, hi.

Dr. Rowen.

It's so nice to see you again.

Thank you for being
our point person on this

and getting the cameras to
everybody, getting us all
together.

I really appreciate that, and...

Dr. Rowen, I don't
mean to be rude,

but we really don't have
time for pleasantries.

Let's get
everyone else on.

Tina? Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Yes!

Where are you?

Uh, I went to
my mom's school to hide.

It was getting too
bad at my place.

They were...

They found me.

Who found you, Tina?

You seeing this?

You see?

Let's hurry, okay.

I'm here.

What's with the candles?

I can hide in the darkness, too.

Who is it that you're
all running from?

Is it the media
or the FBI?

So you're the great Dr. Rowen.

Or shall we call
you "Amara-normal"?

Amara or Dr. Rowen is just fine.

Hold on, I'm coming.

Jesus!

Sorry I'm late.

Sorry.

Okay... hi.

Sorry about that.

Kaboom!

- Keith...
- You know,

"tequila" kind of sounds
like "ta kill ya," huh?

- What the hell are you doing?
- Making a cocktail.

I decided, why should I have to
deal with any more of this
sober?

Especially now
that I'm a celebrity.

Celebrity?

We're on the news every night.
It's close enough, okay?

Keith...

Have you been having...
you know, trouble?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, uh, but that's why
I have this, you know?

Hey, is Zoe coming
to this thing or what?

Your guess
is as good as mine.

Did she get a camera?

Yeah, she came by
my place to get one.

I got the feeling she was
moving around, staying low.

Which is definitely not
what the FBI told us to do.

Fuck the FBI.

All right
then, shall we begin?

Sooner the better.

I'm ready, let's go.

Great.

I'm Dr. Amara Rowen,

and I assume that Henry
filled you all in

with what I do.

Or maybe you've seen
some of my documentaries.

We all know
who and what you are.

I really like the one
about angels.

I wanna be very clear.

My goal here tonight is to get
your side of the story told.

The truth.

Wait... that's it?

We're just gonna talk?

Henry, you said that
she could help us.

Well, Tina...
she has to...

Is there anything in
those books that says a way

- to make it stop?
- Tina!

Dr. Rowen can't possibly help us

if she doesn't first understand
what the situation is.

Okay... may I ask

what is this problem
you're having?

The problem is that
the FBI and half the country

thinks that we started the fire

and murdered all of our friends.

They never once asked us
how we think it happened

or who we think
might have done it.

Second, the media is
portraying us and Hidden Wisdom

to be some sort of

insane
suicide murder cul...

Henry?

Peter, I'm not getting anything.

Henry, is there someone else
at your location?

No.

What did you see?

That brings us to our
biggest problem, Dr. Rowen.

The main reason
why we're all in hiding.

Are you in a secure
location, Dr. Rowen?

Am I secure?

Yeah.

I'm at the library
at my university.

There are locks
on the doors and windows.

Ugh, like that'll
make a difference.

Regardless, might I suggest
you check them, please?

What good will alarms and
locked doors do against these
things?

Let's hope we
don't have to find out.

Everything okay?

Yeah, I... I think so.

Okay.
Now, can you all tell me

why there's so much concern
for our safety?

Go ahead, Henry.
This was your idea. Tell her.

Joseph found a way
to draw upon certain

extra-dimensional energies.

Please tell me more.

Joseph drew from these energies
the night of the... tragedy.

Not only is that the true
source of the fire,

but it subsequently ruptured
an opening between our world

and whatever is beyond.

Those are some pretty
extraordinary claims.

Oh! See? I knew she
wouldn't believe us.

She's fucking useless.

To her, we're just
another bunch of kooks.

All right,
wait a second.

I'm not implying anything.

But you have to admit
what you guys are saying

seems pretty fantastical.

I mean, do you
have any evidence?

Proof?

All right.

We all knew it would
probably come to this.

Does everyone have their
V-Tech images on their
computers?

- Pulling it up now.
- Yeppers.

- I got it on my phone.
- All right.

Something simple, I believe.

Reaching out to Dr. Rowen
at her location.

What are you doing?

Don't worry, we're
just a bunch of weirdos.

- Nothing will happen.
- Denise.

Ready?

Is that it?

You're getting all this right?

Oh, yeah.

Okay, guys...
what just happened?

Welcome to Hidden Wisdom.

All right, uh...

Okay, um, I've...

I've experienced
something like this before

with claims of
poltergeist activity.

Maybe it's something that
science can't quite explain

and I can't debunk right now.

Right now?!

See? I told you she'd
find a way not to believe

her own fucking eyes!

Dr. Rowen, do you
want to help us?

Oh, fuck.

I'm happy to finally
meet you, Dr. Rowen,

insofar as a video call allows.

Thank you for joining us.

I understand that there
was a little bit of hesitation.

I decided to make
sure you were being told

the complete truth.

Information about our
group is being filtered through

a lot of chaos mind,

and Joseph's work
is way too important

to get lost in that noise.

Now that Joseph
is... gone,

and I understand you were
his research coordinator

and star pupil, are you
planning on taking up his work?

Oh God, is this gonna
turn into "The Zoe Show"?

Should we come back later?

Denise.

Wonderful to
see you again.

But it does sound like you
could use a cognitive reset.

Don't even fucking start.

Okay, okay.

Now that we're all here,

I'd like to first get an idea

of how each of you got...
involved in Hidden Wisdom.

Denise, why don't you start?

I was there.

Denise?

They don't like the light.

Um... anyway, I was there
at the beginning.

I needed a...
a few elective courses,

so I signed up for Joseph's
Alternative Archeology course.

Then he asked me
if I wanted to be a part of

a discussion group.

Henry was already
in the group, so was Zoe.

Though I never found
out why Zoe was,

she wasn't even a student
at the university.

Joseph called her his assistant.

We all just thought
she was there

because she was with
Joseph in a non-academic way.

In the same way I was with you
every now and again?

Wait, what?

What did you
get out of these meetings?

Joseph said...
I inspired the reset model.

Which is?

When... something or someone

is flawed, they can be reset.

And how did you inspire this?

I had mental
health issues.

I tried all of the
standard cures, but nothing
worked.

Even my family
had given up on me.

But then, working with Joseph
and using his techniques

without drugs, without therapy,

I was cured.

It seemed... miraculous.

Did all of you
have similar experiences?

Henry?

Um... I struggled with anxiety.

Whenever I came
to any kind of choice,

even ordering from a menu,
I would... freeze.

It was like a
panic attack.

And then I...

I couldn't do anything.

I wasn't smart enough
to get into college,

so I didn't attend
any of the little

dorm room circle jerks.

I came in later.

I attended one of his seminars

and was just one of those

screaming ass clowns
in the crowd.

So then what brought you there?

Uh, sleep paralysis.

Night terrors, whatever
you'd like to call them.

Every time I went to bed,
it was like a torture session.

So Joseph's Hidden Wisdom
seminar... helped you?

I can honestly say that
the greatest moment of my life

was when Zoe came up to me
in the crowd,

like an angel...

and said, "Joseph has seen you."

Two seconds later, she took me
up on stage to meet Joseph.

Okay, thank you, Keith. Tina.

I had

shadow people.

Shadow people?

Following me around...
all the time.

First time I saw them,
I was... six years old?

They would stand in the corner
of my room and watch me.

After a while, they
started to move things, slam
doors,

or make loud knocks or sounds.

Like when I took
my driver's exam,

I failed because
there were shadow people

standing around the parking lot.

When I graduated high school,
they were in the crowd, or...

Uh...

Uh, intimate situations.

I would see them... watching.

Do you have an idea who or
what these shadow people were?

Joseph said... he told me
that the Egyptians believed

that the soul was
divided into nine parts.

One of them is
the Shuyet, the shadow.

Joseph thought that
the shadow people

are the Shuyets
of everyone's dead souls.

Hungry and alone,

and all going
to a place beyond death

that's just as dark as they are.

How did Joseph help you?

He made them go away.

But, uh, since the fire...

They're back, aren't they, Tina?

Yes, they're back,
but they're different.

Now they don't just watch me.

It's like they're hunting me.

Ohh... Dr. Rowen, I am so
frightened all of the time.

Are they with you
right now, Tina?

No... but I think they're close.

How did you come
to Hidden Wisdom?

Did you go to one
of the seminars, too?

No, I'd heard
about Hidden Wisdom

from one of those commercials
they used to have.

Like this one?

Do you feel like
you're being held back in
life

by things you
can't control?

What if I told you there
existsna way to access knowledge

that can rebuild your life,
unlock your hidden power

to reach your full
potential for happiness?

It's called Hidden Wisdom.

The same power
drawn on by the ancients

to build their wondersn
can rebuild your life.

You, too, can wield the
hidden power of the universe.

Behold.

If you are seeking
what is hidden,

let us seek
it together.

Hidden Wisdom
is hidden power.

Let us break
through together.

Yep, that's it.

Then, like, out of
nowhere, I get a text from Zoe.

Zoe, can you
speak to that?

As Joseph was
exploring Hidden Wisdom,

his ability to sense
others like him increased.

When Joseph knew it was time
to help Tina find her alpha,

then it was time.

Understood.

Well... that brings
us to you, Zoe.

How did you first come
in contact with Joseph?

You're focusing on me
and us as individuals,

but you aren't seeing
that the real power

and real truth behind Hidden
Wisdom is in the collective.

And this... power,

this... truth is what exactly?

You'll accept it
in your own time. Petal.

- Denise?
- Is it them?

I don't know,
but I'm gonna find out.

Take the camera.

What is it?

It's coming
from the fireplace.

Be careful.

Maybe you should
just... leave it?

It was just a loose damper.
It's probably a squirrel or.

Maybe it's Santa.

Idiot.

Now, I'd like to ask you
what you know about the mystery

surrounding the disappearance
of Joseph's former partner,

Dr. Leonard Bertram.

Do any of you know
what happened to him?

I was told
he moved out of town.

Dr. Bertram did nothing
to forward his mail.

His former landlord said

he had to have his belongings
carted to a dumpster

after not hearing
from him for many months.

University staff said
his mail just piled up

for literally years.

He never officially quit,

and the police say it's
still an open investigation.

Dr. Rowen, how is this relevant

to what we're
doing here tonight?

Yeah, I don't see how

talking about ancient history
is helping us.

Your group is being accused
of arson and murder.

You say yourself
that these "shadow people"

that are supposedly hunting you

are manifestations of
the darkest part of ourselves.

I'm sorry, but psychologists
would say that sounds

an awful lot like
a guilty conscience.

Wait, are you
suggesting that Hidden Wisdom

also killed Dr. Bertram?

Oh, God, I told you.

If you could help me
establish that Dr. Bertram,

as you say,
left town on his own,

that your group is not dangerous

like the media portrays you

any of that could go a long way
in removing the shadow of guilt,

both literally and figuratively.

That's actually
a fair point, Dr. Rowen.

Now, I'd like to get
your reactions to something

that I uncovered
after combing through

hundreds of hours
of university recordings

of Dr. Cawl's
and Dr. Bertram's lectures.

As far as we know,
nobody's seen this until now.

Not even the police.

Leonard!

I didn't want to believe it
when the university said

you had come back
for this semester.

Why are you calling me, Joseph?

I already told you
how I feel. I'm done with it.

With you, Hidden Wisdom,
all of it.

And you should be too.

Leonard, I thought
if you had time to think...

There is absolutely
nothing to think about!

Bad enough I let myself
be talked into

those ridiculous videos.

It's a means to an end.

To what end?

At first it made sense,
but now...

Now you want me to help you
establish what, a new religion?

We're scientists!

For God's sake, man,

they're starting to call
the work that we were doing

a goddamn cult!

You know as well as I do

we're much morethan scientists.

It is our alpha
that burns brightest.

If not us, then who?

If not now, then when?

Can you... do you hear yourself?

Do you hear yourself?

This is why I left.

Okay, pause here
a second.

Zoe, Joseph mentioned alpha,

and you mentioned it
before, too,

in reference to
Joseph finding people.

What are alpha?

Very simply put,
the human brain generates

several kinds of waves.

One of these is the alpha wave.

Typically, human experience
of the alpha wave

is muddied by chaos thought.

The distractions
of modern society.

But when you apply
the Hidden Wisdom techniques

to quiet the chaos
and focus your alpha wave,

let it take over,
then you can solve

a great many neural imbalances.

Which is why Denise,
Henry, Tina, and Keith

were all able
to address problems

that conventional methods
in medicine could not solve.

Okay, let's keep going.

- You're just afraid.
- Yes!

I am, Joseph!
And you should be, too.

You're talking about
meddling with primal forces

of nature itself.

Ever since we ventured
to that other place,

I am afraid of what
it's done to you.

What it's done to me?

This is a once-in-a-millennia
discovery, Leonard.

It's the power that built
civilization itself.

And it's that same power

that destroyed allthe
civilizations that used it!

öbekli Tepe. Harappa.
Puma Punku. Rajasthan.

All those citieswere destroyed

thousands of
years ago, Joseph.

They were all literally wiped
off the face of the earth.

- Like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- - Okay, stop.

Joseph claimed they made
a once-in-a-millennia discovery.

How did a... archeologist
and a neurophysicist

end up working together?

Dr. Bertram was studying
the correlation

between alpha waves
and deviant sleep patterns.

Joseph was having trouble
sleeping

and participated
in one of Bertram's

improved synchronization

of rhythmic neuronal
activity studies.

When Joseph tried
focusing his mind on

the stone-carved images
from his lectures

in order to help
him fall asleep,

that is when
the discovery happened.

And that was?

These are called V-Tech images.

Antediluvian visual technology.

Joseph discovered that
these images focus the alpha.

The group silences
their chaos minds

and focuses on a given image.

Meditation on
a shared visualization.

Meaning what?

You might imagine everybody
in the world holding a candle.

Now, the light of a single
candle is soft and diffuse,

but if combined
with other candles

and then focused through a lens,

then you have
a blinding illumination.

Where did Joseph come up
with these images?

They were revealed to him
during his archeological digs.

Ancient symbols were
formally only available

to the ruler priests
of ancient civilizations.

These were taken
at öbekli Tepe in Turkey.

Carbon dating puts these
monoliths at 12,000 years old.

They were ancient when
the pyramids were built.

And these are some of
the most common V-Tech images.

They're drawings, of course,

but it's an exact match
of the ancient carvings.

But there's another
set of images, correct?

I see you've done
your homework, Dr. Rowen.

There is a second set,

only ever used by
the enlightened few.

The enlightened few are?

Those who have taken all
the classes, done a full reset,

and proven that they're
in control of their chaos mind.

Chumps like me.

So tell me, do the images
for the enlightened few

look anything like this?

Where did you get these?

Research.

That isn't even
all the pictures, though.

There's more.

Tina...

Are you saying there's
a third set of V-Tech images?

They were just for us.

The ultra, ultra inner circle.

- The 23.
- Tina!

Do you remember
the contracts you signed?

Your collateral.

None of that
matters anymore, Zoe!

People are dead.

You wanted
to tell the truth, and

we owe it to them, Zoe.

Okay, so what made
the 23 so special?

Was it just your training?

Henry said that everyone
is holding a candle

of alpha capability, but...
there are some very few people

who shine brighter than others.

And that increased perception
is often mistaken

for mental illness.

We're fucking X-Men.

Joseph said
we were very special.

The only ones who could
help him save the world.

Fossil records
show that there are

five recorded mass extinctions
on the planet,

and Joseph said that we
were gearing up for another one

at the end
of the Anthropocene epoch.

Joseph said we
had an opportunity,

a duty to forestall Armageddon

by seizing control
of reality's wheel.

Let's play the rest.

Look around you.

We've broken the world!

Things aren't going to get
better, it's only going to get
worse.

The human race is destroying
itself, but we can stop it!

I shall say thisone last time

in the hope that there remains
some last shred of the man

I used to know.

You're headed
for darkness, Joseph.

This power was notmeant
for our universe.

You must know that I really
don't need you, Leonard.

I can do this without you.

I have others now
to help me in my mission.

Damn it, man!

You're not a messiah!

You're not a God!

You will only cause
more destruction,

and I won't be
a part of it.

I swear by everything
that is holy,

I will do everythingin
my power to stop you!

Are you threatening me?

You're goddamn right I am.

So... thoughts?

Dr. Bertram left due to a schism
of differing beliefs, nothing
more.

Those on the faculty
who had always been jealous

of his work accused Joseph

of having something to do
with his disappearance.

Everyone just assumes that
the paper Dr. Bertram wrote,

the one that trashed Joseph's
theories and methods,

was the smoking gun motive
for Joseph to murder Bertram.

You ask me, from that video,

it sounds like Bertram was
the one making all the threats.

Leonard was always
jealous of Joseph's alpha.

Because of him, the scientific
community completely dismissed

and ultimately buried
this discovery.

Even when Joseph

tried to make them
understand its implications.

What implications?

That once you learn
how to control the alpha,

reality is as mutable
as a lucid dream.

I'm sorry,
but are you saying that

Joseph could somehow
alter reality? Come on.

Joseph had seen
your work, Dr. Rowen.

He said you had encountered
far too many falsehoods

to easily believe,
well... anything.

Petal.

I think something's outside.

- Don't go out there.
- Absolutely.

- Don't go out there.
- Why?

It's just a theory,

but there is a possibility
we may have, well, infected you.

- Oops.
- Infected?

With the demonstration.

The energies seem
to latch onto people, places.

That's how we think
the same energy

followed us from the house

and drew the attention
of the Shuyet.

Nice time for you to tell me.

After the demonstration.

Hey, you okay?

Yeah.

It's impossible.

It's an LED light.
LEDs can't explode.

They don't like the light.

So, Hidden Wisdom.

The classes,
the camps, the seminars,

the whole organization.

This was about gathering
candles of alpha energy

to save the world?

In order for that
to happen, though,

Joseph needed the full
inclusion of the 23.

But some of us weren't there.

But this brings us
to the moment of truth.

What actually
happened that night?

How is it that
all of you survived

while so many others didn't?

Well, uh...

Me and Denise, we, uh...

Look, shit had
been getting weird.

Considering what
I've just witnessed,

can you define weird?

Joseph changed.
He became more controlling.

He took our phones away,
he made us do hours of exercise.

Stress positions.

He would not let us sleep.

He decided when
we could have water.

Even when we were
allowed to eat,

we had to follow
Joseph's weird diet.

He wasn't just vegan.

We could only eat vegetables
that he personally gathered.

He said it was
to cleanse our auras

so that we could
better focus the alpha.

- Exactly so.
- "Exactly so."

Zoe, do you not understand
that what we're describing here

is fucking abuse?!

What's a little
short term discomfort

in comparison with the
opportunity to remake the world?

Anyway, Denise and I
decided it was time to bounce.

Oh, good thing we did,

or we would've been dead
like everyone else

who decided to stick it out
for Joseph's power trip.

You're weak, Denise,
and you always have been.

Intelligent, talented,
but so pathetically weak.

What about you, Henry?

Why weren't you there?

Like Tina said, things
had been getting... different.

Joseph and Zoe were meeting
behind closed doors.

The closer we got to this

world-changing,
cleansing visualization,

the more authoritarian
and desperate Joseph seemed.

I wondered if
I should just get out.

Then suddenly,

for the first time
in a long time...

I couldn't make
a decision.

I was paralyzed.

What did you do?

Chose the third option.

Snuck out so I could
get to a place

where I could
clear my chaos mind

and reset myself... on my own.

How like the rest of mankind,
selfish and unworthy.

In humanity's
most crucial moments,

you all stepped back into fear.

The same unhealthy patterns
that Joseph helped you overcome.

You all could have been gods,
and instead

you chose to crawl
in the mud with the worms.

Yeah. That's me,
the living worm,

and all of our chosen
friends are dead.

In your hour of need,
Joseph saved your lives.

When it came time
to help him on a mission

to serve humanity as a whole,

you didn't just abandon Joseph,

you abandoned the human race.

All of you proved
how base, how selfish,

how unworthy you all truly are!

If you're such a true believer,

then why are you here
instead of a morgue?

Uh... well, that might
be on me, actually.

You convinced
Zoe to leave?

No, he did not.

Look, I, um...

I never showed anyone these
before, but I...

I did take some pictures
with this... sneaky guy,

the night of the, uh, the thing.

These are from
the night of the fire?

It was the night Joseph
was gonna save our world.

The cleansing.

Yeah, see... we gathered
in the main room.

Joseph showed us
where to sit, how to sit.

And then he started putting
V-Techs up on the wall,

one at a time.

I remember being afraid.

I remember not
wanting to look, so I...

I closed my eyes really tight.

And when I opened them...

I was floating
above my own body.

I looked down at my body below,
sitting there,

but I wasn't... I wasn't in it.

And I could see the others
floating above themselves, too.

Then the room got dark.

And the walls disappeared,
and the ceiling, and...

I swear to you, I am not lying

when I say
I looked down at myself.

The floor was gone.

It was just darkness.

And we weren't alone.

There were other people there,
but th-they weren't people,

they were these shadows,
these figures.

You could just feel
them watching you.

Millions of them, stretching
out into that dark nothingness.

Wham!

I returned.

My heart was going at
a billion miles an hour.

And I knew the nightmare
wasn't over.

I knew I had to run.

Keith, you understand that

deprivation of food and water
and sleep can cause...

No, Doctor, don't do that.

I wasn't just seeing things,
it was more than that.

This was real.

I will say
Joseph often spoke about

the mind's ability
to travel beyond the body,

even so far as
mind-body transference.

And you believe that's possible?

If Joseph said it was possible,
then it was possible.

Keith, what happened next?

I stood up,
and nobody looked at me.

They were... they were all
in their own little worlds,

visualizing,
focusing their alphas.

But I had a feeling

something really bad was
about to happen, so I saw Zoe.

And she saved me,
so I knew I had to save her.

So I grabbed her up, I threw
her over my shoulder and

ran out of there with her.

And 10, 15 seconds later, boom.

Whole place explodes
into flames.

Were you harmed?

Mm, not really.

I just got these weird
scars on my back and neck.

Can you show me?

Yeah.

Keith, that...
That isn't burn scarring.

Those are Lichtenberg figures.

There's only one way
to get those.

If you're struck by lightning.

They were killed by lightning?

See, it wasn't Joseph,
it wasn't Bertram.

It wasn't even shadow people.

It was lightning
that started the fire.

If we can prove that,

it's gonna mean that
you're all innocent.

Thank you, Dr. Rowen!

- You saved us!
- That's it.

I guess you must
be right, Dr. Rowen.

- You really did
it. - That's boring.

Wait, wait, Keith,
hold on a second.

Can you angle the camera
closer on your back?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Were you wearing
or carrying something

with a V-Tech image?

Perhaps one of
the secret designs?

No, nothing
like that. Why?

You have a scar on your back

that looks exactly
like a V-Tech image.

It isn't one of the 23.

It's definitely V-Tech,
but it's... new.

Keith, what the fuck?

- Zoe, were you...
- No, I wasn't injured

in any way by the blast.

But how can that
be if Keith is so...

I mean...

- Fucked up?
- Yes.

Perhaps he shielded me
from the blast with his body.

My hero.

Hey, I saved your
fucking life, okay?

Keith, I wanna be very clear
so even someone

as cretinous as you
can understand.

Because of you, the collective
was broken, and everyone died.

The cleansing failed!

Humans are still on a path
to their own destruction.

I hope the scars you bear cause
an unceasing amount of agony

for the rest of your pathetic,
meaningless little life,

and serve as a constant
reminder at the continued
suffering

that you have brought
to this world.

Ugh, it's the damn
fireplace damper again.

Take the camera with you
so we know that you're okay.

They might still be out there.

Don't worry.

Dr. Sherlock Rowen
solved the case, remember?

Maybe now is a good time
for a bathroom break.

You know, the alcohol
comes in, it's gotta come out,
right?

Yes, let's...
let's take a break.

Okay?

We did it, Peter.

We found out what happened
before the damn FBI did.

And who knows?
Before this interview's over,

we may even find out
what happened to Bertram.

Oh, man, these poor kids.

What's wrong, Peter?

Did the equipment fail?

Did you record everything?

Equipment's fine.

We got everything covered
from multiple angles.

It's just...
those shadow people.

I think they're wrong.

My grandmother was full Choctaw.

She used to tell me about
these things when I was a kid.

She used to see them
after her father died,

but she didn't call
them the Shuyet

or whatever
they called it.

She called them...

Impa Shilup.

The soul-eater.

These black creatures

that pray upon
dark thoughts and depression.

She would say that many people
of the Choctaw nation

wouldn't even say the name,

for fear that an Impa Shilup
would crawl inside of them.

And feast upon their soul.

Yeah.

I don't know about all that,

but what I do know is that

when you suffer from sleep
deprivation like these guys

you see
a lot of scary shit, okay?

Shadows, objects coming
at you when you're awake.

It can be really disturbing.

And it seems to me like these
kids haven't slept in weeks.

Come here.

Look at the radar.

Not a single cloud
on the night of the fire.

And lightning does not strike
out of a clear sky.

So... where'd
the lightning come from?

Denise?

Ohh.

Ohh...

Are you okay?

Yeah. Nothing hurt,

but my ass and my pride.

Oh, my God. Denise!

- Peter, call the police.
- Why do I say?

Does anybody know where she is?

I know the town,
but I don't know the address!

Fuck.

Oh, God.

Can you guys hear me?

- Denise?
- Hello?

Her sound is off.

She can't hear you.

Please help me.

Oh, God.

Who the fuck is that?

- Okay, that's not good.
- Denise.

If anyone can hear me,
there is someone or something

in this house.

I need you guys
to call the cops.

The address is 23 Holt Drive
in West Kuciak, near Alden.

Hurry. I'm gonna try to
exit through the back entrance.

He's
following her.

God, D, run!

Oh, God.

Oh, my God, D,
he's right behind you!

- Denise!
- Denise, run!

- Denise, turn around!
- Denise!

- No, no, no, no, no!
- Denise!

Oh, God, oh, my God!

- Fuck.
- Peter.

What is up with that 911 call?

When I call 911, all I get is...

Denise?

Leonard
has come for you all.

There is only
one way to stop him.

To save your own lives,

you must perform
the visualization.

If you break the circle,

if you step away,

if you fail

you will all... die.

Ohh. My God, there.

So much better.

I'm all set.

What the fuck?!

Why are you fucking
with me like that?

Calm down! Everybody just
fucking calm down!

- - Peter, what is
the deal?!

Every time I call 911,
all I get is this.

If you break the
circle, if you step away,

if you fail,
you will all... die.

Ohh... fuck this.
I'm out, no.

Stop.

Do not go anywhere.
I want you here with us.

- No, you said...
- This is a scary situation.

We need to figure
this thing out together.

We need you.

Please, Keith.

Tina, thank God!
Are you okay, sweetie?

I went outside.

I didn't know where I was
going, and they were out there.

The shadow people
have come for us!

Tina, your camera.
It's on the floor.

Pick up your camera, it's
on the floor.

Tina?

Please.

No.

I truly did not
want it to come to this.

No, no, no, no, stop!

Stop! Stop!

- Tina!
- What now?

Somebody stop him!

Someone stop him! Tina!

No! No, no.

Is he gone?

Good evening.

Dr. Leonard Bertram?

Ah

you're good.

Why... why would
you murder Tina?

Now, let's not
forget poor Denise.

That's impossible.

They're over an hour
away from each other.

There's no way
you could have traveled...

Henry...

I helped unlock
the hidden wisdom.

I understand its power in ways
you shall never comprehend.

Of course,
it does come with a price.

Dr. Bertram,
why are you doing this?

Joseph brainwashed
these children into thinking

that they were going
to make a new world

of puppies and rainbows.

The truth is, Joseph
did not actually die.

He has become one
with an encroaching darkness,

an evil, if you will...
far beyond time and space.

And even with Joseph's
body gone from this place,

our world won't be safe

until all of his
inner circle are dead.

All those who tapped into
this Hidden Wisdom must die.

The door that Joseph
opened must be shut.

I'll see you... soon.

Dr. Bertram! D...

It appears you're
at a crossroads, Dr. Rowen.

If you still believe
this is all in our head

or just an elaborate hoax,
then... debunk us.

Go ahead. Run.

You heard Joseph.

If one of us leaves, we all die.

The voice on the phone,
in Denise's... throat,

you want me to believe
that's Joseph, right?

We can't all just sit here
waiting for him to find us!

If Leonard can shadow-step
from Denise to Tina,

then no matter where we
run or hide, he will find us.

We need to stop
Leonard ourselves.

Like Joseph said,
it's the only way.

No, Joseph is dead! Okay?

The dead do not just come back,

no matter how bad
we want them to!

Believe me, I know this!

The lightning strike
that killed Joseph

focused his psyche
into pure alpha energy.

So Joseph is what,
he's a ghost now?

An unscientific
term, but...

Zoe, you need to stop playing
games right now, goddammit.

Where are you going
with all of this?

There is only one way
to stop Leonard.

How?

A visualization.

A killer is stalking us
and you wanna fucking meditate?

Henry, I presume you have
the V-Tech images within reach?

Um... which one?

- The second set?
- Yes.

I'm not happy about
sharing them with an outsider,

but these are unusual
circumstances.

Dr. Rowen, I'm about to
share my screen with you.

You want me to join in?

Do not be afraid of
the chaos, Dr. Rowen.

I'm not afraid.

Good.

The more people doing
the visualization,

the greater the likelihood
of success.

I'm sorry, how is this
supposed to help us?

We find Leonard, we see
where he is and what he's doing.

If he can use the V-Tech
just to hunt us,

then we can do him
the same favor.

And when we find him, then what?

Whatever it takes.

We're gonna look
at a series of images.

With each, I want you
to clear your mind

and think of nothing
but the image.

The idea is to imprint
the image on your thought

strongly enough so that it
creates new neural pathways

in the mind.

This should focus your alpha.

If we're all doing
it at the same time,

we should get results.

I recommend you dim the lights.

Image one.

You are looking at the image.

It fills your vision.

All other thoughts
are noise, they're chaos.

They just...

Melt away.

Image two.

You are looking at the image,

but you are also
falling into it.

You are inside the image...
and the image is inside you.

Image three.

You realize that without
any other thoughts to distract,

the image becomes
the shape of thought.

- What do you see?
- What do you see?

What do you see?

Image four.

It's so real,
you could touch it.

The image is within you,
and you are within the image.

It's part of you.

- What do you see?
- What do you see?

What do you see?

- It looks like a street.
- Draw it, Dr. Rowen.

Draw whatever
the images show you.

Show us!

Image five brings
even more clarity.

The more you observe the image,

your perception
follows its contours,

its curves and lines.

Image six.

The more you examine the image,

the more you realize
you can see.

- What do you see?
- What do you see?

What do you see?

Dr. Rowen, show us!

Holy shit, that's...

Keith, it's right behind you!

- Keith, run!
- Keith, watch it!

Keith!

Uhh!

Uhh!

Three down, two to go.

If only you had listened.

No... no...

- Oh, God!
- Look.

A new V-Tech image.

What do you think this one does?

Oh, doing the visualization
of your own, eh?

You trying to find me
before I find you?

You are chaos.

That's all you are.

That's the spirit, Zoe.

Did I do that?

Did I just lead
Leonard to... to Keith?

Is all of this my fault?

Don't be afraid.

What you're experiencing
is to be expected.

All of us went through
this wondrous process

of accepting a new
perspective on reality.

This is your cognitive reset.

Your first steps
into Hidden Wisdom

into the truth.

No.

No, no. No.

You're a hypocrite.

How can you sit there
and talk about truth

when you've been lying
from the beginning?

Tell me about
your truth... Marie.

I'm sorry?

In my research, I found
your birth certificate.

Your real name is Marie.

And I found the names
of your biological parents,

including your father,

Dr. Joseph Cawl.

You're Joseph's daughter?

Congratulations
for sitting on that egg

as long as you did.

I suppose this is

the dramatically
appropriate moment

to give your documentary
an act three twist.

Don't you try
and turn this around, Zoe.

Amara, you
want the truth?

It's always
been about you.

You don't realize who you are.

Joseph was completely
right about you.

Your alpha is blinding.

You may even be
more powerful than he is.

The only truth is that
people like you are liars.

You twist innocent minds

until they don't
know the difference

between truth
and illusion.

You ruin lives, families,

all for your
pathetic need for relevancy.

Your mother did not
lie to you, Petal.

- What?
- She told me that she was

the only one
who called you that.

She said she loves you...

Petal.

My mother... is dead.

Energy cannot be destroyed,
only transformed.

Your mother still exists,

one with the universe.

Just like Joseph.

Your entire life has been a lie.

Let the chaos go.

Embrace us.

Believe in our power, our truth.

You have the
hidden wisdom within you

to not only save yourself,
but to save our world.

I'll be able
to see my mother again?

Oh, no.

The motion sensor alarm.

Leonard is here.

Henry!

Henry!

Dad?

- What are you doing over there?
- I, uh...

- I've been calling you!
- I'm on a video call.

- Your mother, she's losing her
mind. - I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Dad, I...
I just needed to get to a place

where I could get

Dad!

Oh, fuck!

Holy shit!

- I'm sorry, Henry.
- Oh, God!

I'm pretty sure
he wouldn't have understood

why you have to die.

Motherfucker!

Even as I
choke the life out of you,

I can see your alpha,
like a shimmering cloud.

Do you know why you had
such struggles with indecision?

It's because you have
pre-cognitive abilities, Henry.

You can see many paths
to the future.

Or at least
you... used to.

No, no, no, Dr. Bertram!
No, please, please!

We can figure something out! No!

- There is no other way.
- No!

It's up to us now, Amara.

He's going to be coming for us.

We don't have much time.

Amara.

He's going to kill us.

How do we stop him?

We need to do
a different visualization.

Much more dangerous,
much more powerful.

We need to use the secret images
of the 23 to remake reality,

so that none of this
ever happened.

Leonard,
the killings, everything.

Are you sure that
I have enough, uh, alpha?

Fear not.

Joseph will be with us,

and so will your mother.

First, we need an anchor.

An image or artifact
that is unique to our reality.

Peter, roll back the footage
to when Leonard

Leonard was encountering
Keith, at the very end.

There, there. Grab a screen cap.

Got it.

Okay, Zoe,
I'm sharing my screen.

All right, Amara.

I'm gonna move
through the images

much more quickly this time.

You're going to have
to find a way

to focus on them in turn...
Do you understand?

Yes, I do.

Okay, let's begin.

Remember this V-Tech image
burned into Keith's skin.

Let that be our
sui generis anchor.

Now, the
first image.

Whatever you two are
gonna do, do it faster.

We're running out of time.

Now the second image.

Now visualize
all the chaos

that Leonard
has brought upon us.

Oh, shit.

Get back!

Fifth image.

Visualize all
that Leonard has done.

See it become undone.

Seventh image.

Let these visions
fill your mind.

Allow them to become real.

Eighth image.

Shit. Come on.

Oh, shit.

Ninth image.

Tenth image.

Time's up.

Stand aside.

We're not done shooting.

Image 16.

Image 18.

Image 19.

- Peter!
- Uhh!

Stay focused, Amara. Is there
somewhere you can go to?

Run, Amara! Run!

Hurry! Amara, run!

Ohh!

They don't
like the light.

They don't like the light.

Okay, I... I'm... I'm safe,

but I don't know
for how long, though.

Then quickly clear your mind.

Focus.

Image 20.

Uhh!

Something's wrong.
Nothing's happening!

- Image 21.
- 21.

- 21.
- 21.

- Image 22.
- 22.

- 22.
- 22.

- Image 23.
- 23.

- Three.
- Three.

Uhh! Ohh.

It's so

beautiful.

It's time, Amara.

Think of the image
on Keith's skin.

Let that anchor take us home.

Damn you!

Daddy.

The visualization was a success.

I only did
as you directed me to.

Well done, Zoe.

Well done.

Now... shall we begin?