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My God.

I think this is it.

We don't know that yet.

We wiII. We wiII, my friend.

-What are you doing? -Not here.

We gotta get it to the States, under controIIed conditions.

For aII you know, it couId disintegrate before we couId even read it.

-For God's sake, keep your Iights on. -I'm trying, John. It won't stay on.

We gotta get the scroII to Hitchcock. He's the one paying our way.

John, re-seaI it.

We have to Ieave here.

Yes, you're right.

-You and Jones start on down. -No--

I'II foIIow you.

No!

Oh, no!

And how Iong have these disturbances been going on?

Since earIy faII.

But no one, so far, has been harmed...

...by the apparition. So, AIex?

Leave it to me.

Be carefuI. It's supposed to snow, right?

Oh, yeah. Before you aII go charging off...

...there's one other piece of news.

A donation from RandoIph Hitchcock.

That the guy who got in troubIe with the State Department...

...for buying up those oiI weIIs in the MiddIe East?

-The same. -Why wouId he want to donate...

...to the Winston Rayne coIIection?

RandoIph knew my father quite weII...

...and we traveIed together.

And in fact...

...more than 20 years ago...

...he was a member of this Legacy House.

So I invited him to come here tonight with some kind...

...of spectacuIar artifact he's discovered.

I'd Iike you aII to meet him, the one thing he requested.

-Tonight? -Eight o'cIock, in the study.

Eight o'cIock.

Here we are, sir.

Have a nice evening.

RandoIph. Come in.

When I got your message...

...I couId hardIy beIieve it came from you.

I don't know why.

It onIy took me 2 1 years to send it.

Ladies and gentIemen...

...RandoIph Hitchcock.

These are my coIIeagues. RacheI Corrigan.

-PIeasure. -My pIeasure, I'm sure.

Nick BoyIe.

-HeIIo, Nick, how are you? -Good, thanks.

Father PhiIip CaIIaghan.

-AIexandra Moreau. -HeIIo. Nice to meet you.

Enchanted.

WeII, Derek, it wouId seem that you have raised a fine famiIy here.

It makes me aII the sorrier I never had one of my own.

I'm sure Derek has toId you that I was...

...once upon a time, a member of The Legacy myseIf.

But...

...due to a tragic accident...

...and perhaps an even more tragic misunderstanding...

...I was forced to Ieave.

I have aIways regretted that.

As have I.

I've wondered, aII these years, how to make amends.

But it wasn't untiI I came upon this...

...that I feIt sure I'd found it.

I can't imagine a better pIace...

...for the mysteries contained herein to be unraveIed...

...than the Winston Rayne HaII of Antiquities.

I don't mind teIIing you...

...it took me three expeditions to find this scroII.

-Expeditions? Where? -To Qumran...

...where the Dead Sea ScroIIs were found.

What exactIy is this?

That is what I'm hoping The Legacy can teII me.

As I'm sure you're aware...

...the Dead Sea ScroIIs were found in cIiffside caves.

EIeven caves in aII.

Yes, exactIy.

But Iess weII-known is the fact that the originaI scroIIs...

...refer to other scroIIs...

...and to a tweIfth cave which has never been discovered.

And you found it?

I found the tweIfth cave.

And discovered this inside it.

But what's it written in? It Iooks aImost Iike....

Sumerian.

-But it's not. -No, it isn't.

There are many unanswered questions about this scroII.

What it says, what this parchment is made of...

...and when, preciseIy, it dates from.

That's why I was hoping The Legacy couId examine and preserve this.

I wouId Iove to take a crack at deciphering it.

Derek, your cohorts are chomping at the bit aIready.

Yeah, Iook what you've done now.

Oh, RandoIph.

Thank you again.

You know how sorry I am, and aIways have been...

...for what happened to AIicia.

I've never actuaIIy forgiven myseIf.

WeII, it's time you did.

It's over, Derek.

It's taken me years to reaIize that, but now I have reaIized it.

Now you must do the same.

Thank you.

So you'd Iike to oversee the work on the scroII?

UnIess you want to fight me for it.

I'm gIad to see you and your oId friend reconciIed after aII these years.

So am I.

So am I.

Burning the midnight oiI?

Just making some notes.

So you and Hitchcock used to raise some heII together, huh?

Yeah.

Quite a Iong time ago.

Who's the babe?

RandoIph's fianc�e. Her name was AIicia.

If you hadn't educated me...

...I wouId have feIt certain that she was with you.

Hitchcock's a better man than I thought.

Back then, the three of us were inseparabIe.

Whatever happened to her?

-She died. -I'm sorry.

Have you come to wish me a bon voyage?

Think you can handIe this?

What, the PennywhistIe Inn?

Trust me.

You okay?

Of course. Why?

I don't know. It Iooks Iike you couId use a good night's rest.

Did you sIeep at aII Iast night?

Not much, actuaIIy.

Bad dreams, I'm afraid.

Take care. CaII me if you need me, okay?

No. No, no, pIease. PIease don't go. The house isn't reaIIy haunted.

It's just the pIumbing. It's just very Ioud. It just--

-You'II never get our business again. -It's not ghosts, reaIIy.

Another satisfied customer, I see.

PIease, it's not as bad as it seems. ReaIIy.

Rent me a room, and teII me aII about it.

-You're serious? -AbsoIuteIy.

-WeII, Iet me take your bags. -Great.

Come on in.

-Here we go. -Okay, thank you.

Now, this is an incredibIe room.

Are aII the rooms this nice?

I wish I couId say they were.

This is the best of them aII.

After my parents died Iast year and Ieft this pIace to me...

-...I spent aII I had renovating it. -WeII, it's great.

Everybody aIways wants to stay in a quaint bed-and-breakfast...

...but nobody wants to share a bath.

So I had them put in this customized bathroom.

Even one of these shower massage heads.

AII right, then, I'II take it.

You might want to think twice about that.

This is the room where three peopIe have seen the ghost.

Once, it was standing by that window.

Once, he was standing at the foot of the bed...

...and once....

Once what?

Once he even tried to get into bed with a guest.

Thank you, sir.

What was that tune you were pIaying just now, Derek?

HonestIy, I don't know where it came from.

Must have heard it somepIace before.

I hate to be the one to interrupt such inspiration, barging in here Iike this--

Oh, no, no, no. Not at aII.

I certainIy understand your eagerness to decipher the scroII.

WeII, it took me such a heIIishIy Iong time to find it...

...I suppose I just can't wait to discover what we have.

Do you know anything?

These things take time.

We're working on it.

And unIess the protocoIs have changed since my day...

...the Iaboratory wouId be off-Iimits to anyone...

...except members of The Legacy.

Is that right?

WeII, that's stiII the protocoI, yes.

But given the circumstances, I think an exception can be made.

-PIease. -WonderfuI.

I'd Iike to be abIe to say the pIace hasn't changed a bit...

...but it has, and aII to the good, apparentIy.

RandoIph was wondering if we've made any progress with the scroII yet.

No, we've run some tests on the parchment and ink. Nothing yet.

What about the age?

Have you been abIe to determine that?

Carbon dating's done just outside of Stanford University's campus.

I'd give them a phone caII and ask if they'd run the test again.

PreciseIy what date did they give you?

1 1 ,000 B.C., pIus or minus 200 years.

Isn't that impossibIe?

From everything that I understand...

...and I wouId bow to your expertise on this...

...but as far as I know, no written Ianguage...

...had been invented at such an earIy date.

True.

And we've never seen writing Iike this before.

I seem to have bestowed more questions...

...than answers on The Legacy, eh?

Derek?

You aII right?

Why wouIdn't I be?

RandoIph...

...I think we've done enough here. It's better if you go now.

Yes.

Of course. Good Iuck.

Yeah.

I never meant to do any of it.

I never meant to hurt anyone.

God is my witness.

I was as much in the dark as anyone.

I knew no more than Conway or Jones.

May God's word protect me.

They can't bIame me.

Not for that.

I was doing what I'd been paid to do.

Just as they were.

We aII went into this with our eyes open.

Wide open.

Derek? I got your caII. I....

Are you aII right?

What?

Your face, I can....

I can see it in the window. It's....

What the heII's going on?

Just a momentary Iapse. Nothing reaIIy.

-I don't beIieve you. -I said it was nothing!

Excuse me, I just....

-So, what are you doing here? -You caIIed me.

I was seeing a patient. You asked me to come.

-Don't you remember? -It was a mistake.

Maybe you're pushing yourseIf too hard.

You know, ''fooIs rush in....''

I'm not a fooI!

-Excuse me? -You heard me.

What are you doing?

You're sweating.

I'm fine.

Come on, hot water.

Harper! Open up.

How can you stand this?

What did you do with the money I paid you?

BIood money.

I gave it away.

To Jones' and Conway's famiIies.

Very nobIe of you.

AIso rather...

...pitifuI.

I won't be staying. What is it you want?

I want the scroII back.

You can't be serious.

-Why? -Why?

You need to ask me that?

Two men have died aIready.

You know its power.

It has to be destroyed.

And you think...

...this coIIection of cIutter...

...is going to keep you safe?

-I'm aIive, aren't I? -You're aIive because of me.

And you wiII stay that way if you keep your mouth shut.

Forget you ever saw the scroII.

It's good advice.

Take it.

What advice did you give Derek Rayne?

Derek Rayne.

So you do get out.

The scroII beIongs to him now.

It wiII do with him as it sees fit.

You've got to get the scroII back.

Conway and Jones...

...come for me every night.

I've got to get it back.

I've got to burn it!

It's the onIy way to make it stop.

It's the onIy way to end this.

I'II see what I can do.

Derek.

-What the heII are you doing here? -Sorry, I had to see you.

So I broke in through the side entrance.

I couIdn't heIp myseIf.

I keep seeing this image.

Fire. Something burning.

And this sound of voices.

Voices?

You're hearing voices?

I've heard them before.

Her name was AIicia.

AIicia Summers.

She and RandoIph Hitchcock were due to be married a Iong time ago.

-Who took this picture? -I did.

Just before....

It was supposed to be a simpIe operation.

Get in, get data, get out.

We'd have been fine, except AIicia wouIdn't Iisten.

She was supposed to meet us at the car...

...but she came Iooking for me.

This thing we'd been tracking...

...grabbed her...

...and ripped her apart.

And when she died, it was as if the worId opened up and....

And you couId hear this sound...

...cries of the damned.

Voices screaming. It was horribIe.

And RandoIph Ioved her so much.

And what about you?

Did you Iove her too?

Yes.

I've never said it to anyone before...

...but yes, I did.

The visions....

But everything you've toId me...

...there wasn't any fire.

No, nothing Iike that.

And yet, it's the image of fire I keep seeing.

Derek.

You know that peopIe who are born with the abiIity...

...to see things that no one eIse can see....

There is a certain...

...instabiIity.

There is a danger...

...of Iosing touch with reaIity.

That's why I came here to see you.

Before something terribIy wrong happens again.

Who's this?

The originaI owners of the house, the Cartwrights.

I thought of enIarging that picture and hanging it up in the front haII.

I wonder what happened to them?

I don't know. They buiIt the house...

...and when their son died of pneumonia, they soId it.

You said these disturbances began this faII?

Yes, that's right.

I remember it was just after...

...the workmen finished with their renovations.

The Iongest time, I thought it was...

...just that they had done something wrong...

...Iike maybe hanging the new doors off-kiIter, something Iike that.

These renovations, did they incIude the room I'm in?

Oh, yes, that was the biggest part of the job.

Get away.

I've kiIIed two men aIready, Mr. Rayne.

What's one more?

What do you want?

To save your Iife.

That's aII.

Have we heard from Derek?

No. RacheI caIIed. Said she spoke to him this morning.

Oh, yeah? Did she say what was wrong with him?

Not reaIIy.

How is it coming with the transIation?

That's a good question.

-Got an answer? -No. No answers.

I can't make head nor taiI of it, and neither can the computer.

I've had this scroII carbon dated haIf a dozen times...

...and the answer keeps coming up the same, 1 1 ,000 B.C.

Yeah, and we both know that can't be right.

The composition anaIysis of the ink and the parchment...

...showed up this morning.

Great. So what's it made of? FIax, rice paper, papyrus?

Skin.

Skin. What kind of skin? Sheep? Goat?

Human.

Human?

And the ink is bIood.

Here, have a Iook.

See the movement?

Yeah.

Human bIood?

Yes.

The ink, or bIood...

...is motiIe.

The scroII is aIive.

Hitchcock? You know him, as weII?

Yes, too weII.

-He's my friend. -Is he?

-What are you taIking about? -Nothing.

Or something...

...that came between you.

So terribIe he's never forgiven you.

-AIicia? -A woman.

Now, there's a reason.

-Shut up. -See?

Scars buried deep inside your souI.

Scars he's never forgiven.

-He has. He toId me. -No. Never!

RandoIph Hitchcock never forgives...

...anyone...

...for anything.

Nor does the scroII.

The scroII?

It wiII drive you mad.

You wiII hear things that no one said.

You wiII see things that aren't there.

No one can heIp you, Mr. Rayne.

The scroII...

...wiII take your sanity.

And then it wiII take your Iife.

Precautions, Mr. Rayne. Take great precautions.

We're brothers now.

Like it or not.

Oh, my....

That's it, isn't it?

This was your room.

The one they tore out.

Poor baby.

In the name of Adoshem, eternaI and everIasting one...

...prince of princes, Iord of Iight...

...angeI of absoIution....

Let no eviI penetrate this sacred circIe.

Have mercy upon me...

...and Iet thine angeIs come and take up their abode in this pIace.

Protect thy humbIe servant...

...from the powers of the night and the demons of the pit.

Make of my spirit...

...a beacon of righteousness.

Make of me a piIIar of Iight...

...and cIeanse my souI of aII impurity.

Derek?

When did you get in?

Late.

After midnight.

We were worried about you.

The scroII...

...it's not Sumerian.

It's PaIeo-Hebrew. The earIiest form I've ever seen.

And I suppose now you can read this?

Yeah, I did.

WeII, what does it say?

It's a confession.

To what?

Murder.

It's the first murder confession ever made.

I don't foIIow you.

It's the confession of Cain to the kiIIing of his brother, AbeI.

And it's his curse:

ExiIe...

...madness and death...

...for whomever possesses the scroII.

Oh, my.

God, I shouId have known.

Fire.

-When did this happen? -Last night.

The caII came in after midnight.

Was there anyone inside?

Who are you?

Derek Rayne.

I knew a man who cIaimed he Iived here.

If he was in there when it went up, there won't be much Ieft.

AII we've found so far are odds and ends burnt beyond recognition.

-Any idea what started it? -Hard to say.

Given the way it went up, I'd say it was arson.

My God.

I'm here, Rayne.

Drive.

Just drive.

Derek...

...I received your message.

It's been many years since I received a summons to this house.

WeII, what have you discovered?

I'd Iove to know what it says.

I think you know, RandoIph.

I think you know.

You knew when you brought it to The Legacy.

I gave that scroII to you.

WouId you Iike it back?

You've never forgiven me for what happened to AIicia that night...

...have you?

No.

You were in Iove with her...

...weren't you, Rayne?

Did you think I was bIind?

-She Ioved you. -Yes, she did!

She Ioved me, Derek, not you!

Is that why you had her kiIIed?

I wouId never have done anything to put AIicia in danger.

No?

Wasn't it you...

...who Ied us into that bIoody disaster?

If it had not have been for you....

Hadn't been for you, she'd stiII be aIive.

She'd be my wife.

If it hadn't been for you.

You think you know now what the scroII says?

Did you decipher the Iettering yourseIf?

Or have you been taIking to a raving Iunatic named John Harper?

-John Harper is no Iunatic. -So you did know the man.

I stiII know him, RandoIph.

-He's aIive. -There.

My friend, you are wrong. He's dead.

And now...

...so are you.

You seemed suicidaI. I didn't think you wouId actuaIIy try....

No, you tried.

But I can't go...

...without the scroII.

Are you mad?

The scroII doesn't beIong to you.

It beIongs to him.

Curse and aII.

I bequeathed it to Derek Rayne.

Look. Look at his forehead.

It even bears the mark of Cain.

Harper, no!

-Don't! -It's mine now.

I found it.

And I'II put an end to it.

-No! -It has to be destroyed.

You fooI!

No! No, you can't have me!

Harper.

Harper.

He can't hear you.

Hitchcock.

He's getting away.

You want him?

No, not for now.

Derek....

It's gone.

I know who you are.

You're Benjamin, aren't you?

And this is where you died...

...here in the nursery.

CoId, it's so coId.

I know you are.

But if I warmed you up...

...and got them to redo your room...

...wouId you stop wandering through the house at night?

CoId.

WeII, come on then, IittIe guy.

Come on.

There you go.

You've been coId way too Iong.

There.

Get some sIeep now.

Sweet IittIe boy.

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