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(ominous music)

(woman crying)

(footsteps)

(woman speaking Norwegian)

(boy responds)

(door opens and closes)

(man speaking Norwegian)

(woman vomiting)

Hey are you okay?

Is it sea sickness or morning sickness?

Can it be both?

From what I reckon it’s the boat guy.

I’ve got it covered.

I got one for you too.

Cheers.

[Emma] Cheers.

(ominous music)

(music intensifies)

[Isaac] This island is good things for a family, huh?

[Emma] Yeah I hope so, I mean it’s beautiful.

[Isaac] Holiday home.

[Emma] Yeah. [Isaac] Imagine.

[Emma] No.

(Isaac laughing)

[Isaac] How you feeling nauseous-wise?

[Emma] I’m okay, let’s just oh, fresh air will be good.

(Emma sighs)

Doesn’t look like we have squatters.

(Emma) That’s good.

So what do you think?

I think we’ll be lucky if we don’t spend

the night in jail for breaking and entering.

Okay.

Oh ye of little faith.

I would carry you across the threshold but

- Oh stop!

Well, is it all flooding back?

I don’t..uh...

Kinda.

It’s definitely smaller than I remember.

Yeah, everything is bigger when you’re a kid.

Whoa.

I remember this.

I used to stare at this for hours as a kid.

Well it’s not the best day to take a photo, but...

You know. - He’s fine with the rainbows.

Right? - Hmm.

Book of Genesis?

God’s reminder that he’s watching over us. - Oh okay.

- Yeah, what you sleep through Sunday school. - Yes.

(Isaac scoffs)

(ominous music)

(distorted voice chanting)

(storm sounds)

(thunder)

(howling winds)

(water dripping)

(water trickling)

(door creaking)

(music intensifies)

(faucet opening)

Don’t drink the water, it’s gross.

Left it running to see if it clears.

What’s up?

Hmm.

Oh.

It’s my dad.

I’d almost, forgotten what he looked like.

(underwater bubble noises)

(bar crowd chatter)

(rock music playing)

Hi,

do you speak English?

That depends.

Depends?

On what?

Do you speak Norwegian?

Oh, I don’t know.

I’m sorry.

So if I don’t speak English and if you don’t speak Norwegian

then how would we communicate?

(patron in Norwegian)

(bartender responds)

So you do speak English?

Of course I speak English everybody speaks English.

We raped your women.

You raped our linguistic Legacy.

Actually, we’re Americans.

I don’t think you guys made it that far.

What?

(Gunnar) Is this man bothering you?

His ignorance is bothering me.

That’s for sure.

Are you one of those indoctrinated zombies that still believes that

Christopher Columbus discovered America?

That depends on what you mean by discovered

many would argue that the Native Americans actually-

- We...

were smashing Cherokee feet

when Christopher Columbus is great great great

grandfather was still sucking on his mother’s tit.

Guys, come on.

There’s a lady present.

Well, uh,

unless there was an Immaculate Conception uhm,

pretty sure she knows what a good harpooning is by now.

That’s not the point.

(says joke in Norwegian)

(bar patrons laugh)

Come on we can go somewhere else for dinner.

Good luck with that.

We’re not going anywhere.

We’re hungry. They got to feed us.

Where’s your menu?

We don’t have a menu.

Of course, you don’t

but this is a fishing village.

So I assume you guys serve fish, right?

Well, we don’t serve chili dogs and pizza if that’s what you’re looking for.

No fish’ll do just fine

Do you have any calamari?

Calamari is not a fish.

Fish is a vertebrae,

calamari is an invertebrate.

A fish has a backbone.

It’s seafood, same thing. - Same thing?

Yeah, it’s seafood.

You guys serve food from the sea.

If you don’t serve calamari the- - We definitely don’t serve calamari.

Well then for the love of God,

what do you serve?

That depends.

Jesus Christ!

Jesus won’t help you here.

Come on.

Let’s go.

Yeah,

do what your lady says.

We’re not going anywhere.

I’m hungry

and you’re gonna feed us. - I’ll feed you to the sharks.

Isaac.

I want two plates of fish, a large beer and a lime and soda for the lady,

make it snappy.

That’s enough.

It’s time for you to go.

I’m not going anywhere.

It’s time for you to go.

No! Okay!

Okay, just stop! Just get off him!

You leave quietly and go back to where the hell you came from.

He is back where he came from.

What do you mean? - He was born here.

(Isaac groaning) [Gunnar] What’s your name?

Isaac.

Your family name. What’s your family name?

Pickman!

Pik-Man?

Yeah very Norwegian.

Most nights we can hardly move in here for all the pick men.

Jorstad.

That was his birth name, Jorstad.

Johan Jorstad’s son?

Yeah.

Jorstad.

Isaac Jorstad, why didn’t you say so?

(Isaac is flustered)

- Oh my God, you’re, you’re bleeding.

Ledvor, get the man a bandaid he’s bleeding!

Look, we’re sorry, okay.

We were just, just messing around.

I mean, it’s really not much else to do around here.

Yeah sleepy town restless nights, you, you know how it is.

What? Why don’t you get the lady a chair?

Could you see she’s with child?

Sorry.

What’s your poison?

Uh,

Beer, please.

[Gunnar laughing] - Beer?

Aquivat, the whole bottle.

Tonight we celebrate.

Welcome home.

[Emma] Okay.

Okay get in.

(Isaac mumbling drunkenly)

[Emma] Okay.

Uhm.

Come on.

Go upstairs now.

(Isaac drunkenly talking) [Emma] No, lie back.

[Emma] Back, back, back.

(Isaac groans)

[Isaac] Come here, come here. [Emma] No you’re good.

Hey, whoa, whoa.

You’re coming back right?

(raining)

(ominous music)

(distorted voice chanting in foreign language)

[Isaac] Where did you get breakfast?

Jesus. Don’t creep up on me, please.

(Isaac scoffs) What?

You are lucky you didn’t induce labor.

Where did you get breakfast?

Just the local store.

- Yup. - Because somebody,

has been dreaming away up there for hours.

What time is it?

Yeah, it’s way past your breakfast time.

Technically breakfast time’s whenever you break fast, so it is breakfast time.

Wow, you sound like one of your new friends.

What do you mean?

Fish is a vertebrate, calamari is an invertebrate.

Well actually squid is an invertebrate.

Calamari is squid served as food.

So it’s like saying

steak is mammal.

See what I mean there.

What a night though huh?

Great guys.

Yeah, great might be overstating it a bit...

interesting, I’ll give you that.

Well, you just wouldn’t get that kind of welcome back home.

No, you’re right.

My head though is killing me.

Well, that’s surprising.

How did you sleep?

Like a baby.

Oh, that’s good.

Unfortunately, whatever idiot coined that phrase clearly never spent any time

around babies or they’d know how badly they sleep.

Look who’s being pedantic now.

(knock on the door)

[Isaac] Hello.

Mr. Isaac Pickman.

I...yeah.

- Otherwise known as

Isaac Jorstad.

I guess.

I am Lensmann Renate Nygard.

Local sheriff.

I would like to ask you some questions.

I’m here,

legally.

This is my house.

I own it.

- Yes you do.

May I come in?

Of course, sorry.

(front door closes)

Should I

go put some clothes on? - That won’t be necessary.

Take a seat, please.

- Would you also like to

sit down.

[Renate] I’ll stand, thank you.

Look Sheriff if this is about what happened last night,

uh, then I just want to say that

that was an innocent misunderstanding, no harm was done and I...

certainly don’t want to press charges. - What happened last night?

The... argument in the bar.

This is the first I heard about it.

That’s not why I’m here.

Okay, so why are you here?

I assume it’s not just to welcome us to the neighborhood.

Unfortunately,

no.

[Isaac] So...

what did you want to ask me?

I wanted to ask you about your father?

My father?

Specifically the murder.

The murder?

I want you to tell me everything, you know about the murder.

Every detail.

My father murdered somebody?

- What? - What?

I want you to tell me everything you remember

about the night your father was murdered.

My father was murdered?

Well, there has never been a trial.

We are still very unclear about the events of that night.

[Renate] Personally, however, I am satisfied

that six separate blunt impact wounds to the back of the head

at least two of those being postmortem,

constitutes murder.

Uh.

What?

Who?

Who?

Who murdered my dad?

You don’t know?

Do I look like I know?

(Renate gasps)

Well,

this is uhm-

Who the hell murdered my dad?

You don’t remember anything

about the night your mother left with you?

Well my mom she woke me up and we, we left

we got, we got on a boat

and, and we just left.

And she took you to America. - It was her home.

And she never told you why she left? - Of course she did.

What did she say?

She told me that he left us.

He abandoned us and he...

he found a new family.

So she,

took me back to her old family.

And how is your mother?

She’s, uh,

She’s...She’s dead.

Oh.

I’m sorry.

[Isaac] That’s why we’re here.

The house was in the will and we’re

I’m, I’m...

Next of kin, so.

I see.

- So...

Who,

murdered my dad?

(heavy sigh)

[Renate] Mr. Jorstad,

I came here today,

because your father’s murder

has remained an open case for 25 years.

And I was hoping

that perhaps you might be able to help us.

Finally bring matters to a close.

Or, uhm,

perhaps even convinced your mother

to turn herself in.

(Isaac sobbing)

[Isaac] I, uh...

I’m sorry.

- That’s all right.

Well, uhm,

where did, where did she, uh,

do it.

Your uhm,

your foot would be

resting on his head.

We tried our best with the cleanup but some stains you just,

can’t wash away.

Look, I...

I can see that my assumptions were,

entirely misguided in this matter

and I apologize

that you had to find out like this.

Believe me,

I was just as shocked as you when I first heard.

Your mother and father were much loved in this community.

Why do you think she would do that?

I don’t know.

She told you that he found a new family.

And families are complicated.

Sometimes

people get jealous,

they feel betrayed

and often they lash out.

But family

is also the most important thing in the world

and in a way your mother and father were both part of mine.

I feel terrible about this.

I really do.

This is not.

Not a good welcome

to our community.

Let me try to make it up to you.

Why don’t you?

The three of you,

come to my house for supper tonight, and I can

fill you in on

some of the brighter aspects,

of your family history.

(items being bagged)

Hi.

Hi.

65 Krone, please.

Takk.

Dream well.

Thanks.

Yeah...

You too.

(Isaac clear his throat)

Are you sure this is the right place?

- Well looks like it?

If not, I need to hand in my Eagle Scouts badge.

(Emma gasps)

[Emma] Well that’s the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.

Creepier than my dad’s corpse stain?

(Isaac knocks on the door)

Oh apologies.

We have the wrong house.

My husband’s map reading skills are clearly

not as good as he thinks they are.

Nonsense.

If there is one thing a Norwegian knows how to do

it’s to navigate.

It’s in our blood.

Isn’t that right Isaac?

Speaking of blood, this is my daughter Astrid.

Pleasure to meet you.

It’s a pleasure to meet you.

[Emma] We got this for you.

But I hope it’s okay.

They didn’t have much in the store.

(Renate speaking Norwegian)

[Renate] You shouldn’t have.

This will go wonderfully with the trout.

Come in.

This looks amazing.

Thank you so much.

Yeah if it tastes as good as it looks, then we are in for a treat.

[Renate] It’s all Astrid.

I don’t know where she gets her domestic talent from

certainly not her mother.

(Isaac chuckles)

I must say I feel terribly underdressed

you both look so glamorous.

I think perhaps it is we who are overdressed.

It’s just that,

we don’t get much opportunity to entertain and...

Well,

it’s just so lovely to have company.

Dive in,

before it get cold.

Mmm, mmm.

That is divine.

Wow.

What did you, what did you put in this?

I’m afraid Astrid doesn’t talk too much.

Not since her father was taken from us.

Oh...

So...

when is the little one due?

Six weeks.

Yeah, so we’re well into her third trimester.

And will the baby be born here?

Here?

Oh, no, no, no.

No, we’re just here to make arrangements for the house and then

in a couple weeks we’ll head back so I can still fly.

(distorted voice chanting)

Wow.

That is a striking piece of art.

Oh.

Yeah,

that’s been

with my family for Generations.

Oh,

and what is the writing say?

Tré skuggans a strond hússins hinna dauou.

Old Norse. - Oh.

The tree of the shadow

on the shores

of the House of the Dead.

Okay.

But that’s a lot to wrap your teeth around.

So,

we just called him,

the Slumbering One.

[Emma] The Slumbering One.

(Renate) Hmm

Hinn sofandi.

Local myth.

Iceland has its elves.

Ireland has leprechauns.

The rest of Norway has its trolls and we have this lovely fellow.

And what is this Slumbering One do,

exactly?

The clue is in the name.

He sleeps.

Sometimes he dreams.

And that’s it.

I wish I could offer you something,

more exciting.

Well, you should rename him the lazy one.

Yeah, maybe we should.

(Isaac clears his throat)

The scarecrow outside.

No,

we don’t get too many crows around here.

Oh, I assumed it was there to scare something.

It’s very sinister looking,

if you don’t mind me saying.

No, I don’t mind.

My husband might.

Oh your husband?

Yeah, it was meant as a tribute

to my late husband.

Oh God, I’m sorry.

When a member is taken from us,

it is customary to erect a Tupilaq,

in the image of the Slumbering One.

To celebrate

the time permitted.

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you.

It was dark outside.

I probably didn’t see it very well.

No. No, that’s all right.

You didn’t offend in the slightest and

really it’s no prettier in the daylight.

It’s just another

antiquated community custom

dates back

more years than we have counted.

You’ll see them scattered all over town if you care to look.

My husband

was nothing if not a traditionalist.

Nobody built one of those to remember my dad.

No.

I’m so sorry they didn’t.

What are you doing tomorrow?

Uhm.

If you’d like to learn more about our community traditions,

you should really come and witness Altarisganga.

Altaris-What?

Annual Sacrament.

I’m surprised you don’t remember.

I presided over all six of your Altarisganga when you were a child.

Really? - And your mother

and your father and just about anyone else who has

called this place home for the last 30 years.

Wow.

Okay.

It’s settled you are coming tomorrow.

Skol.

Skol.

Cheers.

Cheers.

(ominous music)

(distorted voice chanting)

Well,

another interesting evening.

I can’t deny that.

Man people are so friendly here.

Not like back home.

Astrid was certainly friendly.

No, I think she was kind of simple.

Is that how you like them?

Well, I did marry you.

She couldn’t keep her eyes off you all night.

She’s only human.

And so are you.

Hey,

what’s this supposed to mean?

Don’t worry I don’t blame you.

I found it difficult not to stare myself.

She’s a very beautiful girl.

You...

are a very beautiful woman.

Come on let’s face it we both know

I’m a whale.

Sexiest goddamn whale in the entire goddamn ocean.

Thanks.

And you know, what sexy whales deserve?

If you’re gonna say good harpooning,

I’m actually gonna divorce you.

If you were planning on divorcing me you probably

should have done it before I became a property baron though.

No, that makes no sense. The best time for me

to divorce you is after you become a property baron.

Oh really, I see.

This is weird. - Weird is good.

No, I don’t think that your unborn child is gonna

think the same.

Well, we’ll use his college fund to pay for a therapist.

No.

Uh uh, no.

It’s just been a strange couple of days, okay?

We’re both tired and emotional.

Go take a cold shower if you need to.

Let’s just go to sleep.

Why don‘t we take a hot shower together instead?

Isaac go to sleep!

Isaac I’m pregnant!

I’ll be gentle.

Isaac I’m being serious.

Get off me!

Isaac.

Get off me!

(distorted voice chanting)

(Emma whimpering in pain)

[Isaac] How’d you sleep?

Like a baby.

How did you sleep?

Like the dead.

It’s alright for some.

(Ledvor reciting in Norwegian)

(Ledvor continues)

(Ledvor continues to recite)

(Ledvor finishes his chant)

[Emma] Okay I take it back.

This

is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.

Isaac,

come on!

[Whole Group] Hi Isaac! Come on!

Come,

we’re being called.

What?

She wants to come in.

You’re joking.

Come on, it will be fun.

Uh, hypothermia when you’re pregnant is not fun.

Suit yourself.

Are you serious?

(Whole group cheering)

[Group] Yeah! Isaac!

My dear child.

I cannot tell you

how grateful we all are for your return.

Thank you.

I will translate

so you know what you speak.

Repeat after me.

Oh mighty slumbering one.

Oh mighty slumbering one

I call to thee.

- I call to thee.

In calm.

In storm.

In sun

and snow.

In calm.

In storm.

In sun and snow.

Take my blood,

my flesh,

my body.

My soul.

Take my blood,

my flesh,

My body, my soul.

I come to thee.

- I come to thee.

My protector,

my destroyer,

My darkness,

My light.

My protector,

my destroyer,

my darkness, my light.

I come to thee.

I coming to thee.

In Darkest Day.

In Darkest Day.

And brightest night.

And brightest night.

(Renate sighs)

(distorted voice chanting)

[Emma] Ground control to Major Tom.

Can you hear me?

Huh?

Hi.

Hi. - You okay?

Yeah, I’m fine.

Just daydreaming

About what?

You know.

Everything.

Oh Christ, you haven’t been converted have you?

What?

Well you’re not going to start wearing robes and speaking in tongues,

right?

You know, it’s unbecoming to knock somebody else’s culture, right?

Are you being serious?

Not to mention incredibly close-minded.

Excuse me?

Now you wouldn’t dare

to belittle Christianity

or Judaism

or Islam.

In fact, you be the first one on the picket line defending their right to exist.

Who’s begrudging anybody’s right to exist.

No, it’s

hypocritical. - How am I a hypocrite?

Do you think that it’s rational to believe that a man can walk on water?

No.

Or that,

some Arabian warlord flew to the moon on a winged horse.

No.

- Or in a four-armed elephant God.

Okay, what are you talking about?

Hm.

I’m going to go for a walk.

- Okay. - Don’t wait up.

(front door closes)

(rock skips on water)

(Isaac) Jesus.

I’m sorry.

I didn’t realize there was anybody out there.

Aren’t you cold?

I’ll leave you in peace. Shall I?

Why do you think leaving will bring peace?

I just thought you might want to be left alone.

We will all have eternity to spend alone.

Some company

in the meantime can offer a pleasant distraction.

Don’t you agree?

Beautiful isn’t it?

You know how the Aurora Borealis is formed?

It occurs when charged particles

emitted from the sun

during a solar flare

penetrates the Earth’s magnetic shield.

And collides with atoms

and molecules in the atmosphere.

At least that’s what science tells us.

Science.

Absolutely.

Science might tell us how

what it fails to tell us is why.

Don’t you agree?

(Emma washing dishes)

(Emma screaming)

(Emma hyperventilating)

What’s the matter?

Just a nightmare.

What kind of nightmare?

I was doing the dishes,

and there was something in the sink

and it tried to drown me.

Of course you’d have a nightmare about doing the dishes.

Tak.

You’re welcome.

So,

what do you think?

Just how I like it?

Thank you. - Oh, no the house I mean.

- The house,

yes well it’s beautiful. - Isn’t it?

- They built these places to last. - They did.

It will certainly still be standing when we have all been and gone.

Do you mind?

No, of course.

Got to keep the blood sugar levels up. - Absolutely.

[Estate Agent] For how long has it been in your family?

Generations.

Yeah,

a wonderful

family home.

When are you due?

Five weeks.

So we’re a bit anxious about getting the ball rolling.

How quickly to places usually sell around here?

Places don’t come up that often on this particular island to be honest.

Which makes it all the more desirable right?

[Estate Agent] Maybe?

[Emma] What do you mean by maybe?

Well,

sometimes it’s difficult to judge these things.

Look,

we’re open to offers.

So somebody’s going to get the steal of the century.

- I grant you the house has got a lot going for it.

Mhmm.

Robust build.

About the best water pressure I’ve seen.

Spectacular location.

I mean

many of the community here,

have never even set foot on the mainland.

They have everything they need right here.

It’s a goddamn paradise.

People would die to live here.

It kind of represents the problem.

Call it...

superstitious nonsense

a lot of folks are adverse to living in a

murder house.

Yeah.

And that’s something that we have to declare?

I’m afraid so.

I know we have a reputation but there are limits.

So a new lick of paint and some double glazing and you never know.

We might just get lucky.

Thanks.

No, thank you

and dream well.

How is it?

Good, great.

Glad you’re enjoying it.

So...

I’ve been thinking about what the realtor was saying.

No.

Anything can be sold.

It’s about finding the right price.

What’s the right price?

Well, I don’t know.

We’ll just have to do more research

the way I see it is whatever we get is a bonus.

A bonus?

Mmm.

I mean, come on.

This place was unexpected.

It’s been sat empty for 25 years.

25 years.

If it sat for another 25 years - - A home shouldn’t be empty.

No, of course not.

What I’m trying to say is I don’t feel like we’ve lost anything.

I think we lost a lot.

But I think we gain more.

I don’t follow.

Why would we leave?

Why would we leave this place?

Are you serious?

What are we going to go back for?

Our friends.

Our family. - What friends, what family?

Our friends, our family.

Friends? You mean acquaintances.

Whose idea of a deep and meaningful conversation revolves

around the next pair of shoes they’re going to buy.

That’s not true. - And family who we see once a year.

At Thanksgiving just remind us why we spend the rest of the year avoiding them.

That’s not true either. - Yes it is don’t delude yourself.

Delude myself?

Wow, that’s rich.

Oh, I suppose you’re going to say we’ve got friends and family here.

I am, actually.

Oh my God, we’ve been here for a fucking week.

That’s beside the point.

- No, it’s not. - Yes. It is.

The point is we may have been here a week.

But in that time we’ve already experienced a greater sense of community

and acceptance than 25 years back home. - Speak for yourself.

I wouldn’t have to if you actually made an effort to assimilate.

Assimilate, I don’t have to fucking assimilate.

This is not my home.

But it could be.

I would rather slit my wrists than call this place home.

Well, that’s a little dramatic.

Okay, it’s dramatic.

All right.

So you’ll think about it?

No, I will...there is nothing to think about.

I’m gonna get some air.

[Emma sighs]

There’s a surprise.

Don’t wait up.

I won’t.

Okay, you know women.

You can’t live with them

and you can’t murder them without possible legal ramifications.

No but she just doesn’t get it.

She doesn’t understand the meaning of roots

Of, of, of community.

She...

I mean what better possible place could there be to raise a child?

I mean damn sight more desirable than a country where you don’t know.

From one moment to the next who’s gonna shove a gun in your face.

Where, where the meaning of life is to sit behind a desk trying to earn as

much money as possible.

The thing about women is that they don’t actually know what they want.

No, no, no, no.

- Women want to be dominated.

They might talk about equality, but they

certainly don’t respect those who offer it.

The only reason she wants to go is because you want to stay.

- Mmm, if you wanted to

leave she’d be begging you to stay gives her something to bitch about

But I do want to stay.

- Of course you do.

This is your goddamn home.

It is my home.

(men laughing)

To home! - To home!

To goddamn home.

Why are you standing there, come on.

Please. - Alright alright, alright.

Keep them coming. Keep them coming. Keep them coming.

(distorted voice chanting)

(Gunnar yelling in Norwegian)

Whooo!

I’m impressed.

You can’t be a corporate drone without picking up a certain skill set.

Isn’t this a little wasteful?

Can’t be very easy to find golf balls around here.

Don’t worry.

They always eventually

come back with the tide.

But thank you.

This place is fucking magical.

Magical.

That’s one way of putting it.

What do you mean?

Well,

some say

that the lights is God’s playful reminder

that the world will end in a fiery hell.

Doesn’t sound very playful.

The world

is indeed comic

but the joke

is on mankind.

(Isaac laughing)

[Gunnar] Isaac.

Yeah.

I need to show you something.

(loud distorted splash)

(door opening)

(door closing)

Isaac!

What are you doing?

(distorted voice chanting)

Isaac!

Isaac!

(distorted voice chanting)

(intense drum beats)

Isaac!

Isaac!

Isaac stop!

What the hell are you doing?

What does it look like I’m doing?

I don’t even know what it looks like you’re doing.

I’m building a Tupilaq.

Why?

Because it’s a cultural tradition.

Well genital mutilation is a cultural tradition.

Some traditions should probably just die out.

There you go again,

with that bigotry.

Where did you even get this stuff?

Gunnar gave it to me.

That was nice of him.

Yeah, it was.

No, one had the decency to erect one of these for my father.

I’m gonna make sure I don’t make the same mistake.

Right. - Yeah.

Do you need any help?

I’m definitely alright on my own.

Thank you.

Okay.

Well I’m going to go to the store so...

So I’ll leave you to it.

Yeah.

(child screaming)

What the hell was that?

Don’t worry. It’s just a child in his bed.

Well is he okay?

He doesn’t like the nightmares.

(child crying)

Right.

I’m sorry about the mess.

I’ll pay for it.

A woman in your condition shouldn’t be carrying these.

Oh no, I can manage.

Thank you.

I’m sure you can but doesn’t mean you have to.

Thanks.

Boy or girl.

Oh we’re not sure.

I thought they can tell by those scans these days?

We don’t want to know.

Well, why not?

I don’t know, we just thought as long as it’s healthy

then it’s not that important to us.

No preference?

No,

as long as it’s healthy.

Good.

What are you doing?

I’m gonna tell you the sex of the child.

Ah yes, yes.

Could you feel that?

Well I felt a kick but I’m always feeling a kick.

He’s just impatient to come out, that’s all. - He?

Oh, Yes.

Certainly he.

How do you know?

Do you think it’s lady like to kick with such force?

I think if you’re trapped anywhere being ladylike doesn’t really come into it.

Definitely a boy.

Boys are simply biologically stronger than girls.

No girl would kick with such force.

Hmm. Don’t worry child

you will be released into the world soon enough.

So I bumped into Gunnar

on my way back from the store.

Did you?

You know, you didn’t want to know the sex of our child.

It’s a boy.

According to Gunnar anyway.

That’s nice.

Hmm.

Apparently he‘s psychic.

I got work to do.

(Emma breathing in pain)

[Emma] Isaac!

(pained moans)

[Emma] Isaac!

[Emma] Isaac!

Isaac!

Oh, fuck!

He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming.

- No, no, no, uh...

Don’t panic, just breath. - Oh he’s coming!

(Emma breathing)

I gotta call an ambulance, okay.

No, no no, no!

I have to go!

He’s coming! He’s coming!

Alright, alright, alright!

Oh, Jesus!

Fuck I see the head! Oh my God!

Oh my God! Push!

Again, again!

That’s it baby, you can do it! You can do it!

Oh my God, that’s it!

Baby!

Oh my God!

Oh my God...

(newborn crying)

Oh my God...

He’s beautiful. - Let me see him.

- You did it!

He’s beautiful.

Let me see him.

[Emma] Please let me see him.

Isaac.

(newborn crying distorts)

(Emma screaming)

It’s beautiful, isn’t it?

[Emma] Look,

I know it’s been

difficult

over the last few days.

But we need to make a decision about going back home.

I thought you already made that decision for us both.

Well what I mean is-

- Am I part of the decision-making process now.

I mean an actual leaving date.

So what do you think?

Do you care what I think?

Of course, I care what you think.

I think you’re the most selfish woman I’ve ever met in my entire life.

And I think

you might just have lost her mind.

Actually, that’s not fair.

I’m being a little harsh.

I think it’s a tie

between you

and my mother.

Your mother was not selfish.

She was selfless.

She obviously left this place to protect her

child and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

With or without you.

[Isaac] Really? - Really.

How do you plan on doing that?

Are you serious?

Oh my God.

Do you know how hilarious you look when you try to act tough?

It’s like watching a goldfish imitate a shark.

I’ll tell you what I’m going to do.

I’m going to go up there and pack my bags and

get the fuck off of this godforsaken hellhole.

And you can stay

and play dress up with your little friends.

You’re not going anywhere.

[Isaac] I said you’re not going anywhere.

I’m packing my bags.

(Emma hits the wall)

Don’t touch me! - Don’t make me hurt you!

Touch me! - Be still!

Get off me!

You fucking bitch!

No.

You fucking bitch!

No!

Hello!

Hello!

Hello!

(Man shouting in Norwegian)

Thank God.

Can I help you?

Yes, you can help me.

I need to go, now.

I need to go to the mainland.

Come back tomorrow 9 a.m.

Oh, no, I need to go now.

Come back tomorrow 9 a.m.

It’s an emergency.

Mmhm.

What kind of emergency? - The kind that won’t wait until tomorrow?

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you see I’m not really equipped for emergencies.

I’m more of a turtle than a hare.

I have money.

You know, that’s good because I don’t do this for the joy of it.

I have anything you need and I can get more on the mainland.

I just need to go now, please.

And what are you some kind of fugitive?

You can’t have robbed a bank as this place doesn’t have one.

- Please.

Just name your price.

Where’s your husband?

He’s not coming.

Decided to stay this time, did he?

You know, he caused quite the commotion last time he left.

Place has never quite been the same since.

You know about that?

Well certainly did little to endear me to the local populace.

In hindsight, I probably should have acted with a bit more fortitude, but I was young

and she, she was quite a siren.

What can you do?

So you took her and you won’t take me.

No offense, but you’re not quite my type.

Look, I am pregnant, okay.

I need to go, now.

Hey, just name your price, okay. - Listen.

You could offer me all the pearls in the ocean, but I still couldn’t take you.

Why?

What are they going to do to you?

They?

I’m not scared of those peasants.

Then what are you scared of?

That.

(ominous music)

There’s a storm coming.

She doesn’t want you to leave, you know.

Trust me what she wants

she always gets.

(knocking on the window)

[Renate] Emma!

What’s wrong?

I’m so sorry, I didn’t know where to go.

and you’re a police officer so. - What’s happened?

I think he might be dead.

(Emma crying and feeling sick)

Here you go.

I’d offer you something stronger, but

the baby.

Thank you.

- Take a deep breath.

(Emma takes a deep breath in and out)

Okay now tell me.

Who do you think might be dead?

Isaac.

Why do you think Isaac is dead?

Because,

I hit him over the head.

He went insane.

I’m telling you, that house,

it is cursed or it is haunted by

his mother and his father, and now this.

Why do you think he’s gone insane?

Because he tried to attack me.

So it was self-defense.

Oh God, of course, it was self-defense.

You really think I would just go around

smacking someone over the head for the sake of it?

[Isaac] Who’s to say.

Who can fathom

what goes on in that tiny little head of yours?

Renate, Renate.

You need to get him out of here.

Okay,

he’s insane.

Renate.

Whatever he is told you okay

don’t listen to him. Listen to me.

You need to get a psychiatrist or someone

okay, because he’s gone in the head.

Whose fault is that?

Sweetie. - Renate please okay do something.

Cause he needs help.

Yeah?

Oh God.

I don’t feel to...

too good.

[Emma] What?

Uh, I...

Dream well, baby.

There’s something,

in the water.

You have no idea.

(Emma whimpering)

(Emma screaming)

Don’t struggle, baby.

He doesn’t like it when you struggle.

It’s unbecoming.

[Isaac] And you need

to accept your fate.

It’s I come to thee, not I run from thee.

At least the child gets it.

He’s been itching to get out of there ever since he got in.

Haven’t you son?

Well my boy.

Time

to fulfill

your destiny.

(Emma screaming louder)

This was never your son’s destiny.

This was always your destiny!

[indiscernible audio)

You should have just fulfilled it 25 years ago.

You have no idea

the suffering

you have cost us.

(chopping head)

(intense drums)

(screaming in Norwegian)

(speaking Norwegian)

(Emma crying)

(speaking Norwegian)

Don’t worry.

You’ll get used to it.