"Subtitles corrected by MsSkater1245" "What the hell were you thinking, taking her that way?" " Annie wanted..." " What's this "Annie wanted"?" " Annie can't talk or think." " She can!" "If you looked, you'd know." "Please!" "She's all right." "Can't you just stop it?" "What?" "You know she's all right?" "What if the damn dog was rabid?" " It wasn't." "Mrs. Stanton told me." " And you believe her?" "Just like that?" "That woman's an idiot!" "A careless idiot." "Anyone can say anything, Sissy." "Maybe someday you'll learn that." "I saw the dog tag." "Why do you treat me like a fool?" "Stop it, can't you?" "Both of you." "She'll hear." "Do you wanna upset her?" "Come on, honey." "Give me a break." "You might as well... ." "Come on, guys!" "Wait up!" "I figured you could use something stronger." "I know I could." "Down the hatch, come on." "It's quick, isn't it?" "What they do." "And it doesn't hurt them?" "It's quick, it doesn't hurt." "They just go to sleep." "Come on, drink your drink." "You and I know Buddy never bit anybody before in his life." "It was her." "He sensed something in her." "Annie, please open the door." "Annie, open this door now!" "Drink, you'll feel better." "There's something wrong with her." "I don't just mean that she's autistic." "Please open the door!" "Turn the music down!" "Somebody'll call the damn cops!" "There's something about her that's wrong." "And Buddy sensed it." "Dogs know." "Oh, you bet." "Did you hear that?" "Music." "Someone has it really cranked out there." " What the hell...?" " It's an earthquake!" "It's not coming from the ground." "Come on!" "Run!" "Run!" "Come on!" "Come on!" " Please open the door!" " Now, Annie!" "Come on, hurry!" "Hurry!" " What's happening?" " I don't know!" "Annie, let us in!" "Annie!" "Annie, please, open the door!" "Kill it, Sissy!" "Just what the hell are you doing?" "What the hell...?" "Sister, look at this." "Sister, I got baby." "Yes, I know." "Annie what have you done?" "That concludes this year's course in the psychology of the unseen world." "I'd like to leave you with three thoughts if I may." "First, the investigation of psychic phenomena is an honorable pursuit in spite of its tattered reputation." "The second is that reality is not always quantifiable." "Our inability to count, weigh, sort or photograph some things does not mean those things are nonexistent." "Third and most important next week's exam will not be graded on the curve." "Seriously, I thank you all for your attention and to remind you of what someone famous once said:" ""The truth is out there." Enjoy your summer." "Professor Reardon, a question, please." "Question." "Your question?" "Rumor says you're investigating Rose Red, the Rimbauer mansion a psychic field trip." "Is that true?" " You are...?" " Kevin Bollinger, class of '03." "I don't recognize you." "Is it because the group is large or is this your first visit to our happy family?" " I'm a reporter for our newspaper." " Oh, my sympathies, Mr. Bollinger." "Is it true and if so, do you plan on using departmental funds or college general funds to finance your latest spook hunt?" "As any regular attendee of these classes will tell you I am extremely interested in Rose Red." "Talk about it all the time." "Have a picture of it on my office wall." "And one of Ellen Rimbauer." "But as Professor Miller can tell you, I've filed no request for funds to underwrite what you term a "spook hunt"." "If you feel like asking him to confirm that, he's up there." "A question, Mr. Bollinger." "Did Professor Miller suggest you stop by my class for your question instead of my office like a normal reporter?" "Never mind." "Let's consider the issue closed, shall we?" " You never answered my question..." " Thank you." "Exam next Tuesday at 2:00." "I'll see you then." "If I embarrassed you, Professor Reardon, I am sorry." "Don't believe it, Mr. Bollinger." "Carl Miller wound you up." "It was his intention that I be embarrassed." "I am not." "Even if you're not using college funds for your expedition won't you be using expensive psychology department equipment?" "Haven't you entered into an agreement with Steven Rimbauer...?" "Good afternoon, Mr. Bollinger." " Hi, Professor Reardon." " Hello." " Joyce, we have to discuss this." " I think not." "You'll have to discuss it sooner or later." "The department's patience with your shenanigans has grown quite short." ""Spooks." "Somebody call..."" "Professor?" "Can we discuss...?" "My office hours are clearly posted." "Can't you read?" "Sorry." " Oh, wait." "Miss Spruce, isn't it?" " Cathy Spruce, that's right." "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bite." "Office hours are at 2." "Try me then?" "Yes, Miss Reardon." "Out." "Out." "Far out." " Waterman residence." " Mr. Waterman." "Joyce Reardon." "Oh, hello, Miss Reardon." "I've been meaning to call, but..." "Joyce, please." " I've been busy." "I'm finalizing my list of participants for my Rose Red field trip." "I'd like you in." "Have you thought about it?" "Rose Red is a dangerous place for psychic experiments." "Joyce." "As I'm sure you must be aware." "With all due respect, Rose Red is a dead cell." "I'm sure it is." "If you're not psychic." "I'm sorry you feel that way." "I'll let you go and move on to the next name on my list." "I doubt there are many." "Not post-cognates of my caliber." "You might be surprised." "Good afternoon." "Wait, wait, wait, wait." "I didn't say no, did I?" "Didn't you?" " No." "But 5,000 is a trifle low." "If you offered a bit more, say 7,500, for instance?" "Mr." "Waterman..." " Emery, please." "5000 is my first, last and only offer." "And a generous one since there've been no phenomena in Rose Red for years." "Since they stopped the tours and took away the fresh meat." "Forgive me, but I find that ridiculous." "The funding for this is coming out of my pocket." "And 5000 is all I can afford." "So, what do you say, Emery?" "In or out?" "I'm in." "But if you want a videotaped debriefing afterward, I get extra." "Fine." "Memorial Day weekend." "Mark your calendar." "You send me a check, Joyce, and I will." "Good day." "Putz." "Poisoned?" "Guess not." "Emery." "Emery." "Hey, whoever you are save the warnings for someone who's not broke." "Okay?" "Emery!" "Emery!" "Emery!" "Here you are." "There's some more bags out in the car." "They're going out of business at Griffin's." "Everything's 25% off." "That's too much cream." "You'll make yourself fat." " "Er."" " Beg your pardon?" "Fatter." "I'm already fat." "Cream clogs up your arteries, Emer." "A little's okay, but that's too much." "Get my things out of the car." "I tell you I made a killing." " Mom, I was doing the bills just now." " Well, what about the bills?" "A lot of them are past due." "It's the credit cards, mom..." "I'm very careful with the credit cards." "I'm a very wise shopper." "I'll get your stuff." "Isn't this just the best bear?" "I'm gonna put him on the end of my bed with Hester and Fester." " What rhymes with Hester and Fester?" " Pester." "The woman from the college who wants to investigate Rose Red called again." "See?" "Something always turns up." "God provides." "I've always said so." " Rose Red is supposed to be dangerous." " If you take the usual precautions you'll be fine." "We'll pray, of course." "Were you able to get her up to 75?" " No, she's financing the expedition herself." " Or so she told you and you believed her, of course." " Wanna call her back?" "I have the number." " No." "A deal's a deal." "One of the few sensible thing your father ever said." "Did you tell her it would be extra for interviews after?" "Physicals, EKGs?" " Yes." " And no x-rays." "They give you cancer." "Run along and get my bags." "Then you can have your pie." "Office hours are over." "Come back tomorrow!" "I said office hou..." "Extra credit, Miss Reardon?" "I'll do anything." "Look good in a bathing suit, look great in one of those French maid's outfits." " Come in, you idiot." "And close the door." " All right." "Teach, you are looking good today." " ?" "wants to know how you're doing" " Well, I won't lie to you." "It's been a tough day." "But I have a call to make, a very important call." "So." "What?" "This is the Wheaton girl?" "The one you really want?" "Her sister." "Now, look." "If you cand sit over there and keep quiet, you can stay." "But if you feel an attack of "Monkey Shines" coming on you,just go." "Get out now." "You know, that's pretty tough talk considering it's my old homestead you wanna go exploring in ." "But I'll be good, D. I swear." "I won't do that." "Sorry." " Hello?" "Miss Reardon?" " Yes." "How are you?" "I'm alright, but you know how hard it is to keep people away from a phone in this place?" " Also, I'm on my break, so..." "Let's make this fast." " I, I could call you later." "No, I don't think so." "I, I still live at home to be near Annie and my father knows who you are and what you want." "He doesn't approve." "What are you saying?" "Annie won't take part?" "I'm saying that if I bring Annie to Rose Red the chances are good that I could never go home again." "That would be alright with me, but..." "Annie shouldn't be there without someone who understands her." "And your parents don't." "Wel..." "My mother is scared to death of her." "And my father... ." "Well, I think my father hates her." "What can I do?" "There's a school just outside of Tacoma for people like Annie." "No, there is no one like Annie, I don't think, but..." "It's a place for autistic teenagers." "A good place." "I might as well cut right to the chase, Miss Reardon. 5,000 isn't gonna be enough." " If you could promise 10, I might try to make this happen." " 10,000?" "Done." "I'll bring the check to you myself Um...this afternoon." "Where do you work?" "No, you need to slow down." "I just need to think about this." "My time is short, Miss Wheaton." "Please, call me Sister, why don't you." "Everyone does." "Mr. Rimbauer has agreed to open Rose Red to my group over the Memorial Day weekend." "It's only nine days away." "I need to know if I can count on Annie." "In fact, I'm having an orientation meeting this Monday night for the participants here at the university." "It would be great if Annie could join us." "You understand that if Annie goes to Rose Red, I go too, don't you?" "That's fine, of course." "When can I know, Miss Wheaton?" "Sister?" "I might be able to scrape up as much as $12,000 if that is... if you can make a solid commitment to the expedition right now." "I can't do that." "Goodbye, Miss Reardon." " Wait, when can I expect to hear from you?" " I'll be in touch." "Wait, the orientation Monday night?" " I don't know." "I don't think so." "$ 10,000?" "$ 12,000?" "You know, I'm starting to think I sold the old family homestead cheap." "You didn't sell it, you're renting it." "For a single weekend." " I've gotta have her." "I've gotta have Annie Wheaton." " Why?" "I've got the makings of a good group here, but they're candles." "Annie Wheaton is a searchlight." "If anyone can wake up Rose Red, she is the one." "I told you this before, D. Waking up Rose Red is not a good idea." "I want Annie." "I want Annie Wheaton." " Hello, dear." " Hey, Mom." "Hi, Dad." "Long day?" "You look tired." "I'll microwave you a TV dinner." "Oh, no, it's okay." "I had something to eat at the restaurant before." "Is Annie okay?" " Annie's fine." " Yeah, wearing out her ears again." "Not to mention ours." "If it isn't a "A Summer Place," then it's "Pennsylvania 6-9000."" "Same two over and over, all afternoon." " Guess she just likes it." " Yeah, I know that." "I just can't figure out why." "Thank God for small favors." "Annie." "Annie." "Come home with me, with us..." "Come with us, Annie." "We're waiting." "Please come home, Annie." "We're waiting." "Despite what some people may think, psychic powers telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, all the rest have no moral gradient." "They are neither good, nor bad." "Houses are different." "Shirley Jackson was right." "Some houses are born bad." "Houses like this one." "Houses like Rose Red." "I knew it was big, but that's... that's enormous!" "Well, fortunately for us, an enormous dead cell." "There've been no overt manifestations in Rose Red since 1995 or so." "I believe that some houses have their own inner life A life which may or may not be conscious." "If there was once consciousness in Rose Red, it manifested itself early." "The Seattle of 100 years ago was a different world ." "Probably more different than any of us can imagine." "Survival was an actual issue, not a TV show." "Fortunes were made often by bandits in tall hats." "You could get out of the way, or you could get run down, those were the options." "In the year 1906, you were on your own." "Rose Red was built by John P. Rimbauer  at the top of Spring Street at the center of Seattle as a wedding present to his wife." "Rimbauer was founder of Omicron Oil Company, until 1950, the biggest oil company in America." "1950 was the year Ellen Rimbauer disappeared." "The trouble with Rose Red started even before there was a house." "Construction crews worked 24 hours, 7 days a week." "But that wasn 't the problem." "The problem was that even before there was a house there  that piece of ground seemed to make people mad." "I mean, literally mad." "The teasmster made no effort to get away." "Just dropped the gun on the seat of his wagon and went down the street to a Seattle saloon." "This is where the police found him." "The teamster's name was Harry Corbin." "When he was tried, he claimed he remembered nothing from breakfast that morning till the time that he woke up in jail cell with a knot behind his ear." "The judge didn't believe him and neither did the jury." "He got 25 years." "I think Harry Corbin may have been Rose Red's first victim." "First male victim." "There's always been a difference between the way Rose Red treats the ladies and the gentlemen." " What do you mean exactly?" " In time, Nick." "All in good time." "John Rimbauer and Ellen Gilchrist were married on November 12, 1907." "He was 40, she was 20." "By the day they said their "I do"s, Rose Red had been under construction for a year  and already there had been three deaths." "In addition, the murder of Rimabauer's first foreman." "Take it up!" "One man was decapitated by a sheet of falling glass." "Another fell from a scaffold and broke his neck." "And the third  choked to death on a piece of apple." "This is the way Rose Red looked when it was completed in 1909." "And in case your memory needs refreshing, this is the way it looks today." "It's as if it metastasized." " Rose Red has how many rooms?" " I don't think anyone really knows." "You count on Monday and count 74, come back on Friday and come up with 87 or 97." " That's impossible, isn't it?" "." " That's Rose Red, sweetheart." "How many people have actually disappeared there, Miss Reardon?" "I'm sure there must be an accurate account of them." "Twenty-three since the end of the First World War." "You'll forgive me if I say I find that almost impossible to believe." "Of course you do." "Anyone would." "But I assure you it is true." "Five men and 18 women." "Rose Red has always been particularly fond of the ladies." "Oh, please, please, remember." "We are speaking of a house which is full endormant." "It better be because... $5000 isn't enough if it isn't." " Well, when was the last disappearance?" " 1972, almost 30 years ago." "And as I said before there have been no observable phenomena since..." " Who was it, the last one?" "Pam, Pam." "We've got a lot of ground to cover here." "I hardly think we need to focus on..." "A woman on the Historical Society's annual tour." "She was with the group and they went upstairs." "It wasn 't until the tour was over that they realized she wasn't with them anymore." "What's that?" "They didn 't find her but they did find her purse." " Finished?" " Yeah." "Thank you." "The lady's name was Liza Albert." "And since her disappearence the house has been closed to tours." "But no psychic energy for the house to feed on, it seems to have fallen into a sleep." " Then a coma." "And now... ." " It's a dead cell." " Exactly." " I wouldn't bet on that if I were you." "Rose Red wasn't finished by the time John and Ellen got married, but they were in no hurry to set up housekeeping." "They passed the time with an enurmous leisurely honeymoon." "They were gone a year." "They circled the globe on liners like this one." "The "Ocean Star"." "John Rimbauer's favorite part of the grand tour was Africa." "Ellen didn't enjoy it quite as much." "In fact, she nearly died." " Was it malaria?" " Probably not." "In her diary she called it "an unmentionable disease carried by men and suffered by women."" "Doesn't exactly look prostrate with worry, does he?" "But with or witout him, Ellen recovered, and when she and John finally took up residence in Rose Red she was pregnant." "January 1909, that would have been." "John thought the house was finished." "The Rimbauers!" "They're here!" "How beautiful you are, Rose Red..." "What he didn 't know is that the house would never be done." "Not in his lifetime, not in hers." "What makes Rose Red one of the world's most fascinating psychic artifacts is that the house continued to grow until its death in 1995 or '96." "Until 1950, changes and additions were made according to the will of Ellen Rimbauer." "And her will, ladies and gentlemen, was iron." "After 1950... ." "After 1950, Rose Red grew on its own." "In the fall of 1909, Ellen Rimbauer gave birth to a son." " Grampy." " Your grandfather, really?" "Yeah, yeah." "I'm afraid so." "In her diary she wrote, "I have called him Adam, for he is the first."" "Sukeena, who came back from Africa with her, saw her through the labor which was difficult." "Ellen never refers to Sukeena as her servant." "First, she calls her "my friend"." "And later, "my sister"." "When Ellen gave birth to a daughter with a withered arm  she blamed her African sickness and her husband's sexual appetites." "Although she wrote:" ""In my mind, they are one"." "To which she added: "Damn all men"." "John and Ellen's daughter was born in April of 1911." "And April was what they called her." "In the years following the birth's of Ellen's daughter, Ellen became convinced  that her fever, which recurred periodically, would kill her young." "That made her easy game for Madame Stravinski, as she called herself." "If you have anything to say to us you may use my body to speak." "Give us a sign." "Show us a sign." "Not even Sukeena could convince her that the old lady was a fraud." "Beloved spirits, we invite you to commune with us." "Show us a sign." "Fraud or not, Madame Stravinski  known to police in San Francisco and Los Angeles as Cora Frye  changed Ellen Rimbauer's life one night in August of 1914." "Sukeena!" "You must build." "What did she tell her?" "She said great-gran' wouldn't die until the house was finished." "Great-gran' told her it was finished." "And Madame S. told her: "It isn't finished until you say it's finished."" "Until you say." "Ellen took it seriously." "Probably she was right to." "Everything else aside, she never had another attack of her African fever." " Probably it was psychosomatic in first place." " Probably PMS, right, Em?" "I wouldn't be at all surprised." "A new wing-the first of many-started going up the next week." "What did her husband have to say about that?" "Nothing." "She gave him a son in 1909, a daughter in 1911." "The girl had an whitered arm, that's true, but son was fine and well." "And it was the son John Rimbauer cared about." "In his mind, I'd say, Ellen did fulfill her funcion and pretty much do as she liked." " Would you agree?" " Yes." "Besides  he had affairs of his own to tend to." "Ellen continued to make additions to the house until her disappearance in 1950." "Over 40 years of well-financed eccentricity." "When she rand out of conventional things to build she hired a series of contractors and architects to build unconventional stuff." "Such as?" "The so-called Tower Folly was completed in 1921." "John Rimbauer jumped to a death from it two years later." "Was it suicide?" "Or did he run into something he couldn't deal with?" "The certificate said:" ""accidental death"." "The gossip said suicide or ghosts." "In any case, during its active years, and they were very active women in Rose Red had a tendency to turn up missing." "And men had a tendency to turn up dead." " The bad days are over." " Oh, yes." "Yes, indeed." " Are you sure?" " Positive, mhm." "Then what exactly do you want from us, Miss Reardon?" "First of, let's all get on a first-name basis, shall we?" "That'll make things a little less difficult." "This can be a difficult field." "People either don't understand our goals or refuse to credit our findings." "Some people are actively cruel." "And... ." " Research goals?" " Yes, yes... yes, yes, yes." "My research goals specify measurable psychic phenomena." "Hard data in other words, telemetry readouts and anomalous energy levels, primarily." "I want readouts that even the most stupid, sarcastic, obtuse member of this so-called scientific department will have to accept." "And if I get a little crazy on the subject from time to time, please... please forgive me." "I've put in a lot of long days." "If Rose Red is a dead cell, how much proof can you expect to find there?" "If you apply electricity to the muscles in the leg of a dead frog the muscles will contract hours after the frog has died." "You people are my psychic equivalent of electricity." "My goal is modest." "A single twitch." "One single twitch." "If I get it. if I get it my reputation will be secure for the rest of my life." "More importantly, together we can help legitimize a branch of psychology which has been treated as a poor relation for far too long." "Why are you doing here, Mr. Rimbauer?" "What are your special talents?" "Just protecting family interests." "I promised the eminent professor one good shot at the old family mansion and then the developers await." "Tech-Star condominiums-the future." "You're gonna let them tear it down?" "It's a piece of history." " Well, history don't pay no rent and the kid is broke." " Hardly the most noble of motives." "Are we the team?" "The whole team?" " She hopes not." " Beg pardon?" "I was hoping for one more but that's starting to look iffy." "If I have to make do with you five, then I'll count myself lucky." "I'll see you this coming Friday at 2 p.m sharp." "I'm sure it'll be a Memorial Day weekend to remember." "Now if you could all please come here and join me." "I'd like to close with a circle." " This sort of thing went out with high-button shoes." " Joyce, is there anything particullar you'd like us to focus on?" " Oh, I guess just goodwill, good thoughts, each other." " That's lovely." "Say cheese!" " Vic?" "Are you okay?" " Fine." "I'm just gonna go make some room." "He looks a bit gray about the gills." "No, no, no." "Well, maybe half a glass but no more." "Just a minute, please." "The Huskies were caught completely off-guard by the weak side blitz." "See here, the linebacker starts to drops back in the flank, and then rushes the quarterback." "Nobody on the left side sees him coming." " 'Ello." "Uhm, yes." "Hello." "I'd like to speak with Rachel, please." "Is she there?" " Who is this?" "I'd like to speak with Rachel, please?" "I know who this is." "It's the crazy lady from the college, ain't it?" "How you doing, crazy lady?" "Daddy, is that call for me?" "Mr. Wheaton, my business is with your older daughter, I'd be greatful if..." "No, no, see, I think you got it wrong." "You have no business here." "Not with Sissy, not with Annie, not with any of us." "Don't you ever call here again, you got that?" "Daddy..." "That was my call!" " No, no." "That was just some crazy lady." " No, that was my call!" "And you have no right..." "Yeah, I do." "As long as you live in my house and you eat my food, I do." "Stop it, both of you." "I know what the crazy lady wants." "I knew that you've been talked to her behind my back." "Let me tell you this." "Annie's not going anywhere near Rose Red." " Mama?" " She doesn't say." "I say." "Mama, won't you help me once?" "Please!" "Just this once, will, please, you speak up?" "I've told you, I won't take sides between you and your father." "Mama, what about Annie's side?" "The Gatt School..." "What planet are you on?" "Are you gonna put her into Gatt School with 5000 bucks?" "Professor Reardon has already promised 12!" "I knew she was a crazy lady, what's your excuse?" "Like 20 grand's what it would take. 20 at least." "A year." "Rose Red is famous." "If something happens while we're there, it could be worth a fortune to Annie." "Oh, yeah, sure." "I can just see her on "Geraldo"." ""Hi." "I'm Annie Wheaton." "I'm gonna tell folks all about a haunted house."" " Stop it!" "Don't you mock her." " I'm saving her." "From crazy lady number one and crazy lady number two." "Now that is it, Sister." "This case is closed." "I don't wanna hear anymore about it." "Stop it, Annie!" "Stop it!" "Make her stop!" "What do you think, Dad?" "What do you think Annie wants?" "Stop it, Annie!" "George!" "Make her stop!" "For God's sake, George!" "Please, George, make her stop!" " We thought you were lost." " No." "Just misplaced." " May I propose a toast?" " Sure." "To Rose Red." "Rose Red." "Joyce, she's looking, still hoping for one more." "Six." "Six is the number." "A girl, a teenager." "And I think our dear professor will be in luck." "Is that something you see?" "What's your special trick, Pam?" "I'm what psychic journals call a touch-know." "It doesn't always work but sometimes when I handle things I see stuff or get feelings." "Of course, a lot of times there's nothing." "What about you, Vic?" "Two people, mid-20s." "She's in a blue dress." "He's in jeans." "He's blond, over-golded." "He's got a case of Roman hands and Russian fingers." "What in the world are you talking...?" "Let's go outside." "You wanna?" " Sure." " All right." "Trés chic, n'est-ce pas?" " You're precognitive!" "I can tell a hawk from a handsaw when the wind's in the northwest." " What about you, Cathy?" " Oh, I'm an automatic writer." " A Ouija board." " Yes, but I don't like the Ouija boards." "The channel's too wide and sometimes what comes through is very unpleasant." "This is... this is better." "Sometimes it's precog, sometimes it's astral." "Mostly it's just people to people." "Someone concentrate hard." "You, Pam." "Oh, okay, let's see." "I guess it's not going to work..." "Steve?" "What about you, St...?" "Nick." "He calls her Dee." "Now why does he do that, I wonder?" "Nick?" "I do a little of this, a little of that." "Sometimes I get lucky and things turn out okay." "What about our new friend, Emery?" "What do we know about him?" "Your friend, not mine." "Yeah, I think Emery is chiefly post-cognitive." "He sees the past." "Not the most comfortable of talents." "Here's to good good thoughts, goodwill." "Good thoughts, goodwil!" "Who are you?" "Why are you here?" "Where are you from?" "When are you from?" "Is it Rose Red?" "Read my lips." "Save the warnings for someone who's not broke!" "Okay?" "I remember that day." "She was happy, wasn't she?" " We all were." " Oh, man, would you look at this?" "Guess those were the days, huh?" "lgnorance is bliss." "Daddy, what Annie is isn't anyone's fault." "It's not hers, it's not mine, it's not yours." "I know, I know that." "But you're too busy thinking about what you want for Annie to think about what she can do." "Have you forgotten what happened after she got bitten by the Stantons' dog?" "How the stones came down?" "Or what she did to those pipes?" "After what she did tonight, how can you have any doubts about what she wants?" "Sweetheart, taking Annie into a genuinely haunted house?" "I mean, that's like using a cigarette lighter to see how full your gas tank is." "It's a chance." "That's what you don't understand." "It's a chance for her to get out..." "And for you to get out from under." "I just want what's best for Annie." "I know, Sissy, but you don't know what that is." "Believe me." "Come, Annie." "Come." "Shame you can't do the same with the other 40,000 or so, huh?" "People read it today and line their kitty litter boxes with it tomorrow." "I think they'll remember the photo." "Some will very likely take that out for inspection the next time that university bond issue comes up." "A photo like this could put a hundred worthwhile programs to beggary." "But... what do you care?" "Do you have a point, Carl?" "If so, get to it." "I have a lot to do." "Crystals to polish?" "Ouijas to wax?" "Did you put that kid, Bollinger, up to this?" "You did, didn't you?" "You told him where to go and when to point his camera." "Your paranoia's showing." "Oh, that's a nasty little cut." "Well, listen, I'm afraid I have a bit of bad news for you, old girl." "I am not old, not yet anyway." "And I am certainly not your girl." "What are you talking about?" "Executive committee's been in session regarding tenure." "What?" "Why?" "No one in the departure is up for tenure." "The only thing they could..." "You really are a bastard." "The commitee voted five to two to revoke your tenure." "We tried to contact you so you could attend the meeting." "You'll find a message on your machine if you just check." "I mean, actually, I'm surprised the spirits didn't tell you." "See, the general consensus is, it's time to stop the silliness." " I will fight you every step of the process." " Of course you will, and you'll lose." "Your days of haunting the Wimser Psychology Department aren't quite over, but I'm happy to say, they're numbered." " When I come back from Rose Red with proof, you..." " The rallying cry of crackpots and deluded religionists since..." "since the Stone Age: "The proof is out there."" "This is sad, really." "You used to be a respected writer and leturer in the field of child psychology but then you got bitten by this... virus!" "It's a legitimate field of psychological investigation!" "It's crap, it's sleaze, it's a spit in the eye of rational thought." "But the good news is:" "Rose Red will be your last goose chase as a member of this faculty." "You're an idiot and you're blind." "What if you found proof?" "Proof: photographs, audio recordings of clanking chains, telemetry." "What difference would it be?" "What good would it do?" "Have you even considered such thoughts?" "I feel remarkably well today, Carl, in spite of all your crap." "And this, this is the world we live in and experience with our five senses." "Skin, smooth and rational." "Where every cause has its effect and any effect can be predicted with the right data base at hand." "But there's a world under that world, Carl." "Blood, under the skin." "That's what rationalistic asses like you never see." "This world is liquid instead of solid." "Hot instead of just warm." "It is a world full of mysteries." "You don't like it, do you?" "No." "So don't give me your bull about bond issues and busted programs." "You're afraid of what's under the skin." "But I'm not." "Do you hear me, Carl?" "I'm not." " If you've given me something..." " Oh, yes!" "That's what it comes down to, doesn't it?" "." "The bottom line." "You're afraid of catching something." "Go on, get out of here!" "Go wash your face and then you can rush down to the infirmary and get an AIDS test." "When the semester's over, you're done." "You hear me?" "You're done here!" "You're finished teaching." "You're crazy!" "You're totally insane!" "Good day, old boy." "What are you looking at?" "!" "Go look at it somewhere else!" "We did it, didn't we?" "We really nailed her." "What's on your face?" "Never mind." "Never mind." "We have a great deal to talk about, young man." "The story's not over?" "It's just beginning." "It's just beginning." "From the Department of Questions Better Not Answered:" "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make any noise?" "Who cuts the barber's hair?" "Who leaves money under the tooth fairy's pillow?" "How come no one realizes Clark Kent is just Superman wearing glasses?" "Mhm..." "If I didn't own Rose Red, would I be in bed with you right now?" "Mhm..." "Hello?" " How was your day, dear?" " Give it back." "How was your day?" "Or would you prefer I just rolled over and made myself small?" "Well, they revoked my tenure." "Carl Miller dropped by the office to give me the news himself." " Wait, can they do that?" " Maybe, probably." "Bollinger's article in the paper made us look like the Stupid family, with me as the head Stupid." "Wanna turn off your light?" "Wow, you know, you're pretty damn calm about it." "I heard from Sister." "She accepted the 12,000 I offered." "When I come back from Rose Red with hard data there'll be four dozen universities willing to hire me." "First, I'm gonna write a book." "It's gonna sell 8 gazillion copies." "Um, you know, I once heard you say that the only certainty when dealing with the paranormal is that nothing is certain." "What if you spend three days in Rose Red and nothing happens?" "But it will." "Annie Wheaton is my guarantee." "She's, oh..." "Let's just say she's one of a kind." "You know, Rose Red is not a true dead cell." "Annie's gonna wake it up, Steve." "And if you would just let the house stand for another six months, the research possibilities..." "No!" "No." "It's coming down in July and I can't wait." "I..." "I cannot wait." "How can you hate it so much?" " It eats my relatives!" " I'm sorry." "Did you miss that in your research?" "It's just that it means a lot to me." "Yeah, too much, maybe." "Yeah." "You're gonna need some downtime when this is over." "Some serious R and R." " Well." "You have the cell phone." " Right here." " And you got plenty of film." " Of course, I have plenty of film, but, um..." "I don't know if this is such a good idea." "Don't tell me you're afraid." "No, of course I'm not afraid." "It's just big." "What if I get lost?" "You're about to step out of the real world just a couple of weeks." "That's where you have to get lost." "But if you nail this story, you can write your own ticket." "See, I thought that's what you wanted." "Why don't you come in there with me?" "Well, I do have a few things to do like running my department, overseeing finals..." "You just call me when you get pictures and either I or my wife will come get you." "She can't stand that Reardon bitch, either." "If they catch me in there, they're gonna tear me apart." "You know that, don't you?" "There's no reason why they should." "If you're just reasonably careful." "I guess." "Don't forget this." "Try and get a good picture of them being psychic." " Professor Miller, I don't think..." " Stiff upper." "Professor Miller!" "You're a step away from stardom, dear boy!" "Just get the pictures!" "Solarium, kitchen, tool shed back door, front door." "Oh, I thought this house was empty." "You would be Mr. Bollinger, I believe." "The reporter." "Yeah, I'm Bollinger, but how did you know?" "Come in, sir." "You're expected." "Ma'am?" "Where are you?" "This way, sir..." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Ma'am, I seem to have lost you." "Ma'am?" "Is anybody here?" "Ma'am?" "Screw this!" "Ok, very funny, but I wanna leave, all right?" "Let me out!" "Hey, I could use a little help in here!" "I'm in the greenhouse!" "Hey!" "Let me out!" "Let me out of here!" "Let me out!" "I'm out of here." "Come on." "Get a grip, Bollinger." "Hello?" "Who is this?" "Bollinger?" "Bollinger, is that you?" "Hello?" "Hey!" "They'll be here." "Come on." "Wait!" "Don't make me chase you, Emmy!" " Mom, I'm okay." " Oh, yes, you're always okay." "Now, listen to me." "If there's anything you can't handle anything beyond a few telesmic manifestations, call me and I'll come and get you." " I will, mom." "I have to go." " You call anyway so I know you're alright." " I will." "I always do." "I have to go, they're waiting!" " Well, let them wait!" "They won't do much without you, huh?" "Now turn around." " Mom..." " Turn around!" "And stay away from that blond girl." "She looks like a tramp." "Now give Mommy a kiss." "Oh, you're all over lipstick." "Fix yourself." "Well, friends, I see new frontiers in the abnormal psychology stretching right before us." "How exciting." "Especially if you move your bowels!" "Gosh, the day before summer camp must have been busy time at the Watermans' household." "Shut up!" "Off to the house on Haunted Hill, I see?" "And with about $ 100,000 worth of department equipment, I'd guess." "I've got all the proper paperwork, if you wanna see it, signed in all the proper places." "Signed by Rogers." "When I was on vacation, he was acting in my stead." "It's very clever of you." " Is there a point to any of this?" " Oh, I'm just trying to be pleasant." " If you'll excuse us, Professor Miller, we're in a bit of a hurry." " Yes, of course." "Places to go." "Ghosts to bust." "Isn't that right, Mr. Rimbauer?" "Yeah, more or less." "Yes." "Well, do try and keep the equipment in one piece." "Good luck." ""The Spirits have done it all in one night."" "Hm?" "That's what Scrooge says it when he wakes up a changed man." "That's waht Miller made me think of." "Scrooge on Christmas morning." "I don't trust him." "Hello, are... are you the group?" "The... the Rose Red group?" "Yes,um..." "I'm Pam Asbury." " This is Cathy Kramer." " Hi." " Victor Kandinsky." " Vic." "Just Vic." "Nick Hardaway." "And Emery Waterman." "And, um... you must be... ." "Oh, I'm Sissy Wheaton." "And this is Annie." "I was sure we were gonna miss you." "Traffic was horrible." " We're very glad you didn't." " Sister, or do you prefer Rachel?" "Oh, either is fine." "Oh, stop it, Annie." "Just quit it." "Good God, she's retarded." "If you keep your psychological evaluation of Miss Wheaton to yourself then we won't ask you any embarassing questions about your relationship with your mother." "Chin, chin." "Folks, I think we're ready." "You've reached Carl Miller." "Please leave a message after the tone." "Bollinger, I told you to keep the phone with you at all time." "All right, in any case, they've left the campus." "They should be there in 40 minutes, give or take." "So be ready." "And call me back." "There she is." "It seems to be looking at us." "It is, Cathy..." "It is." "Steve?" "Mommy?" "Where are you?" "Mommy?" "I'm scared." "Where are you, mommy?" "Steve?" "Steve, you okay?" "Huh?" "Yeah, sure." "Fine." "You wanna know a secret?" "I've never done anything like this before and I'm... pretty much scared to death." "Be not afraid." "Only believe." "Actually, we're lucky most of the electronic stuff was delivered earlier this week." " What are these?" " House plans, probably about as useful as a 14th-century map of Africa." "And here, a coil of rope." "How you doing, sweetie?" "You okay?" "Mommy, I'm scared." "Come, Stevie." "What is it?" "What can you hear?" " Steve?" " It knows we're here." "It wants us here." "God help us, it wants us here." "Come in." "Houses are alive." "This is something we know." "News from our nerve endings." "If we're quiet  if we listen  we can hear houses breathe." "Sometimes in the depth of night, we hear them groan." "It's as if they're having bad dreams." "A good house cradles and comforts." "A bad one fills us with instinctive unease." "Bad houses hate our warmth, our humanness." "That blind hate of our humanity is what we mean when we use the word "haunted"." "Steve?" "Are you all right?" "Yeah." "It stopped." "I heard it too." "But it stopped." "What did you hear?" "There were words." "It wasn't clear." "Did any of you...?" "I might have heard something." "Or it might have just been my imagination." " Steve, what was it?" " How would I know?" "I don't have a psychic bone in my body, as you well know." "You tested me yourself, so... there's no real..." "What?" "What are you looking at?" "Nothing." "Pam!" "Can you come here?" "Well, we might as well get started." "Will you uhm...?" "Uh... all right." "Emers, old boy, why don't you come and give us a hand?" "It seems to be the butler's day off." " Don't call me that." " Come on." "For $5000 you can at least carry a couple boxes, can you?" "." "I am not being paid for my services as a porter." "Pam, you alright?" "Hey, I thought this house was empty." "You would be Mr. Bollinger, I believe." "The reporter." "Yeah, I'm Bollinger, but how did you know?" "Come in, sir." "You were expected." "This way." "Come in, sir." "You were expected." "This way." "How old were you when you got lost in there?" "Eight?" "Nine?" " What are you talking about?" " The room with colored light." "The smell of sawdust." "What happened?" "What did you see?" "What?" "What frightened you?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "You know, don't you?" "But you're not saying." "What is it?" " It's cold." "Cold metal, that's all." " No, but you spoke." "There was something there, but it's gone." "I didn't like the way it felt." "The caretaker must have left it there after he let in the guys who brought the equipment." " He'll miss it." " Not after the summer." "In September there won't be a gate to open." "There's a flashlight for each of you." "I suggest you keep on or near you at all times." "Yeah." "The power's fine most of the time." "If it goes out, I don't suppose looking for the fuse box does much good?" "Nope." "Neither does calling Puget Sound Energy." " What about your equipment?" " Well, if the power goes, everything switches over to batteries." "I think we better get started." "Where's Annie?" "She's wonderful." "Friday afternoon, 3:17 p.m." "We've just experienced our first paranormal phenomenon: a phantom draft." "The only thing I insist on is that you don't go off exploring on your own." "The geography of Rose Red can seem unstable." "Well, maybe we should double up on sleeping arrangements." "I don't mind sharing with Cathy." "Or... or the three of us could go in together like summer camp." "I'll sleep with Emery, and after midnight we'll raid the fridge, won't we, Em?" "No, the bedrooms are perfectly safe." "The important thing is not to go out wandering." " I think you'll find this interesting." " Wow." "You could make Thanksgiving dinner for a hundred people in here." " Maybe after the place was fumigated." " You're such a charmer." "Was I talking to you?" "Ellen Rimbauer called this the Health Room." "We call it a solarium." "A railroad executive, named George Meader, friend and drinking buddy of John Rimbauer, died in here just after the end of the First World War." "According to a doctor, he was stung by a bee." "He died of an extreme allergic reaction." "As I told you, in Rose Red's heyday, men didn't fair well here." "That's not very reassuring to us." "You have nothing to worry about." "Just remember to use the buddy system when you moving through the house." " Now..." " Whoa, whoa, whoa." "What?" "What's this?" " Did the caretaker leave that too?" " I doubt it." " Well, then who?" " Press redial and see who answers." "Hello?" "You've reached Professor Miller of the Psychology department." "I'm unable to answer the phone at the present time." "Leave a message at the beep if you'd like." "But remember your Shakespeare:" " Who is it?" "Brevity is the soul of wit." "Hello, Professor Miller." "This is Joyce Reardon's friend, Steven Rimbauer." "We seem to have found a piece of your property here in Rose Red." "I'm fairly sure you didn't drop it, since we saw you an hour ago." "But I've got a good idea who did." "The guy who wrote the newspaper story." "Now, trespassing isn't a very serious crime, and ...abetting a trespasser is probably not serious, but I think your dignity is gonna take a hit at very least." "Guess who is gonna be the 'cover boy' in the next week's newspaper?" " You have a nice day." " Bravo, Steve, bravo." " You can't be certain that that is Professor Miller's cellphone." " Oh, of course it is." "If you want proof dial some of the number in memory." "I bet one of them is that son of a bitch Bollinger." "If the reporter had the phone, where is the reporter?" "Maybe the house ate him." "Isn't that what it's supposed to do?" "Eat people?" "No." "Probably something frightened him, the sort of thing neighter him, nor Professor Miller, believes in and he just ran off." " Perhaps he's still in the house." " If he is, then we'll find him." " Come on, folks, let's..." "Joyce, are you..." "You sure we shouldn't, you know, notify somebody?" "Why should we?" "If Bollinger's here, he's trespassing, just like Steve said." "And if we call the cops, then we'll have to find ourselves with half a dozen police ?" "through the house and roiling up the atmosphere, and then he'll win!" "That pig Miller will win, in spite of everything and I can't have it!" "Okay?" "I just won't." "I can't, I won't!" "It's okay." "He doesn't get to win." "And if we find Bollinger, we can give him a cup of tea and a good spank and send him on his way." " Sounds good to me." " Yeah, me too." "On with the show?" "On with the show." "It's a pity no one kept up those vines." "Yeah, well, there hasn't been a fulltime groundskeeper at Rose Red since Omicron Oil fell off the big board a quarter century ago." "I believe we're lingering in the kitchen because Joyce wants to tell you about my great-aunt, April." " Go on, Joyce." " Are you sure?" "Sure I'm sure." "I mean, that's what we're here for, right?" "Besides, it all was before my time." "April was 6 years old when she disappeared." "Her brother Adam was away in boarding school." " Boarding school at 8?" " It was Rimbauer's idea." "Oh, Ellen ranted and raved." "But John at least this put his foot down and kept it down." "He didn't trust Rose Red even then." "This was the last place April was ever seen." "Sukeena stepped into the pantry over there for what she swore was for no more than 30 seconds." "When she came out... ." "April?" "April, honey, where are you?" "April?" "Fifty men searched the house and grounds." "They found nothing." "Not so much as a lock of hair or a thread from her dress." "Great-grandfather, was convinced Sukeena had something to do with it, so he had her taken downtown." "Ellen objected in the strongest possible terms, but John declined to listen." " She's innocent!" " Ellen, stop it!" "Please, John!" "Sukeena!" "Sukeena was taken to this sort of small basement room you can probably imagine, and questioned for 50 hours." "No sleep, no food no bathroom breaks, no mercy." "I don't know." "She was gone." "I don't know." "She convinced them she didn't know about April's disappearance, but it cost her..." "I mean it cost her three teeth, a broken nose and a broken wrist." "Eventually, Ellen's maid was allowed to return home again." "I mean, the only home she had left, anyway." "So when do we get to go upstairs?" "I heard that's where the weird stuff is." "No time like the present." "Come on, everybody." "I didn't notice that one before." "Neither did I." "For the rest of the weekend, could you, please, try to remember who's running this expedition?" " Sure." " Thanks." "Nick, could you come here, please?" "If you could tie the end of your rope to that pole there." "It'll help us find our way back." "Couldn't we just go back and get the plans?" " In this house the plans don't always mean a lot." " It's only a safety measure, honestly." "So follow me, and prepare to be amazed." "Ellen called this the Perspective Hallway." "It was her first major addition." "And no architect designed it, either." "She made it up herself?" "Way to go, Ellen." "But she didn't." "Then who?" "Sukeena." " Her maid?" " Her companion." "It's so wild, like something in a fun house." "Oh, it's making my stomach turn." "I guess they're pieces built in perspective." "Camouflaging the real doors was Great-gram's idea." "She didn't want them to spoil the illusion." "Bollinger!" "Hey, Bollinger, are you in there?" "Whoa!" "Annie, no!" "No!" "You be quiet!" "You wanted this place to wake up." "I'd say you've been successful in that regard." "Does she ever get assertive, or does she always waffle like that?" "She doesn't talk much, but what she says, she means." " I'll say." " In the mid-60s a team of scientists spent some time investigating Rose Red and heard the house scream several times." "They recorded a couple of them, actually, although on tape they don't sound very impressive." " And what did they conclude?" " That they were hearing the sound of underground water." "Perhaps amplified by the old water drainage pipes that run under this part of Seattle." "Underground water?" "People faced with this sort of phenomena tend to protect their belief systems ferociously." "This hallway was the last place Ellen Rimbauer was ever seen, you know." "They moved in on January 15th, 1909." "Ellen marked the occasion each January 15th, by wearing the same white dress she wore on the day they arrived." "For many of those years, Ellen threw a party every January 15th and everybody who was anybody showed up." "Politicians, hoodlums, sports players, stars." "When the actress disappeared, the parties stopped." "Finish telling us about old Mrs. Rimbauer." "She disappeared on January 15th, 1950." "She was 70." "A maid saw her and wished her good evening  and she swept by as if she didn 't even hear her." "And that was the last time anyone ever saw of her." "Come on, lots more to see." "This is the gymnasium." "You'll notice that although the exercise equipment is out-of-date." "This room demands a particular form of exercise." " What...?" "How...?" " It's the mirror library." "It's not in the plans.I remember seeing it as a boy." "I was afraid to go in because I thought I'd fall." "They're not in the plans?" "How can it not be in the plans?" "Here's a camera." "Not good." "Not good at all." ""The property of Kevin Bollinger."" " Mr. Bollinger, Mr. Bollinger, are you in here?" " What's wrong?" "I said this might happen." "The lights will come back on." "In the meantime, use your flashlights." " I think we should go back downstairs." " Nonsense." "Oh, my...!" "Look." "Steve, roll tape, roll tape!" "Annie." "Annie, no." "Annie, don't touch it." "Annie, no!" "Annie, come home." "Come with me." "Stop her!" "Somebody's got to stop her!" "Are you okay?" " How did you know to do that?" " I don't know, I just did it." " Take it, I don't want it." " Here, give it to me." "Try and get some good pictures of them being psychic." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It's someone talking to Bollinger." " I bet I know who." " Is he alive?" "Can you tell?" "He was when he dropped this camera, and beyond that, I don't know." "I think we ought to get out of here, Joyce, really." "Okay, folks, let's head back downstairs." "Break time." "Thank God." "Wait." "It's not the same." " The hallway." " No, no, no." "Nonsense." "No, no." "He's right." "We should be going back the way we came, but we're not." " What in heaven's name is that?" " Steve, what's going on?" "The building started again." "You wanted to wake the place up." "Now you got what you wanted." " Who's building, and what?" " I don't know." "You're lying." "No, I'm not lying." "Is it too hard to remember?" "Or too frightening to remember?" "It's gone." "It stopped." "I suggest we go downstairs before it starts again." "Annie, I need your help." "Now put your hand here, and push from here." "Annie, what are you doing?" " Nick!" " Not now, Joyce." "Annie!" "That wasn't funny." "Okay, I know another way down from here and there might be something worth seeing on the way." " Are you sure you know the way?" " Yes." "Oh, my God." " "Oh, my God" is right." " More camouflaged doors, Stevie?" "Gram wasn't above using a trick twice." "This was a joke on her husband's business life." " Did he get it?" "I doubt it." "I don't even really get it." "Here's the real door right here." "Just, just press right there." "This house has everything but chow." "Joyce, it's this way." "Oh, of course, I knew that." "Better, Emery?" "Than nothing, I guess." "Too much mayo in the crabmeat." "What do you want, big boy?" "Bare-breasted nymphs to massage your feet and offering delicacies from silver platters?" "Stop it right now." "Stop harassing me." "There's a difference between joking and harassing Doesn't everyone know that?" "I learned plenty in high school, believe me from guys like him, and you." "Come on, come on, give it a rest." "Emery, I might be able to provide you with something better in a little while." "Tell us about the actress, Joyce." "I've always been a sucker for celebrities." "Well, that's her, on Ellen's wall of fame." "Deanna Petrie was a fairly big star in the '40s." "Musical comedies mostly." "She could dance  sing a little  and she was sexy as hell." "She was one of Ellen Rimbauer's favorite guests at her January 15th parties." "In 1946 she showed up in what Hedda Hopper called "The Cocktail Dress"." "It was what she was wearing when she disappeared." "She spent most of the night here, in the billiard room wowing guests with her many talents." "She left behind a single earring." "A maid found it the next day, but there was no girl to go with it." "Deanna's disappearance made Rose Red's reputation." "And now, Annie, if you've finished eating I have something to show you." "It's nice." "You'll like it." "I promise." "It's okay." "Go up, Annie." "Go up and see what you find." " It's not dangerous is it?" " No, not a bit." "Go on, Annie." "You okay, son?" "Yeah." "Sure, I'm fine." "Annie?" "But what in the world is it?" "Whatever it is, she likes it." "Cathy, you were right." "Revelation 12." "Oh, yeah." "No corporal presence in six centuries." "No psychic pulse." "Emery, are you thinking of dressing for dinner?" "You tell me." "Read my mind." "Annie, Glenn Miller." "That doesn't work." "I tried it while I was setting up." "Sorry, Annie." " Joyce?" " It's all right." "Got three loaded for Reardon." "Large, with two six-packs of soda." "Thank you." "I told you there'd be something you'd like better." "Loaded." "Excellent." "Miss Asbury?" "May I?" "Okay." " Do this often?" " Every chance we get." "How much?" " This is some place." "Is it haunted?" " Yeah by ghosts of delivery men who asked stupid questions and never escaped." "This is unbelievable." "What are you doing to me?" "She's terrific." "I wouldn't think you'd need a telemetry readout just to count heads." "Not human ones, certainly." " I'm real worried about Mr. Bollinger." " Don't bother, he'll show up eventually." "I wish I was as sure of that as you seem to be." "Where's Vic?" "Right here." "Anyone care to dance?" "Well, not me, I'm pooped." "Where have you been?" "I lost my book." "It's story time." "We've heard the one about the actress tell us about Rimbauer's partner, Mr. Posey." " Remember that séance I told about?" " Starring the famous gypsy psychic Cora Frye?" "Hmm..." "Yes." "That was 1914 and the war in Europe was heating up the American economy." "Omicron Oil was in clover." "Money was rolling in and John Rimbauer was tired of sharing it." "So in October of that same year, he gave Douglas Posey the bum's rush." "According to family legend, Uncle Posey had a taste for cowboys." "He liked chaps in chaps?" " Was he into roping or branding?" " Probably a little bit of both." "John Rimbauer bought him out at distressed sale prices." "He was told never to come back, to Rose Red but he did, once." "That was in 1915." "John was in Europe, and Adam and April were home with their mom." "Granddad never forgot Posey tossing him that Tom Mix hat of his." "He wanted it and threw a tantrum when his mother tried to take it away ." "And the rose. he never forgot April catching the rose." "Why did Posey wait a year to do it?" "And why here?" "Any ideas?" "Well, if you wanted answers you came to the wrong place." "Following the suicide, John and Ellen kept Adam out of Rose Red as much as possible." "And as I told you, he was at boarding school when his sister disappeared." "He knew damn well that something was very wrong here, even then." "The male descendants in the Rimbauer line have mostly stayed clear of the family mansion." "I wasn't here more than half a dozen times as a kid." "I got off on my own jutst once." "I was 8." "Oh wait I thought your father..." "No, no, my father hated this place." "He was afraid of it." "But it was my mother who brought me." "I forgot till today." "I blocked it out, I suppose." "Nick reminded me." "She probably couldn't find a babysitter." "What was she looking for?" "Antiques, loot." "I think she was drunk." "That's my memory of it, but she so often was in those days." "I know she and Dad were broke." "After we lost the oil company, it's been a family disease." "Broke-itis." "And while your mother was treasure hunting, you got lost." "Yeah." "It was no big deal, but..." "And you were upstairs before you realized how lost you were." "One floor above the mirror library." "Or was it three floors, or 10?" "Because when this place gets going when it feels lively when it has energy to draw on Rose Red can make itself as big as it wants counted." "But finally, you got to the top and that's where... ." "Oh, my God!" "What is it?" "Do you know?" "It's a cluster manifestation with psychic elements like an earthquake." "It's the house!" "It's coming alive!" "How many are there?" "Can you tell?" "Damn this thing!" "I'm not so sure that there is anyone here!" "I know that sounds crazy, but...!" "Be gone!" "Oh, Annie, don't touch it." " Go." "Annie." "Go ahead." "Go." "Annie, come." "I'd advise none of you to go wandering tonight." " You'd agree, wouldn't you, Steve?" " As a matter of fact, I would." "If we're quiet if we listen we can hear houses breathe." "Sometimes, in the depth of the night you can hear them groan as if they were having bad dreams." "Can I ask you something?" "Of course, Emery." "Will you come to bed with me?" "Look, isn't that your mom?" "That's not my mother." "That's just an old..." "Pam?" " Pam, what are you doing?" " Say cheese." "Say cheese, Emmy!" "Oh, man!" "Five grand wasn't enough, ma', not at all." "Twenty wouldn't have been enough." "Wanna get it on?" "We've got all night, Emery." " We've got forever." " You're not there." "Not there!" "But I am." "I'm your girl." "I'm your dream girl." "Not there, not there, not there, not there." "Say cheese!" " Who is it?" " Cathy." "Come on, hurry up." "What is it?" "It's Steve." "He found something amazing." "It explains so much." "Explains what?" "What are you talking about?" "Annie turn your record player off, Dad'll be pissed." "What is it?" "Did you open that?" "If you opened it, close it." "I can't sleep with the door open." "I'm afraid of the bogeyman." "Aren't you?" "No "ogeyman"." "No bogeyman?" ""Ogey" lady." "Bogey lady?" " Night-night." " Oh, you are gonna get it now." "Sorry, your call can't be completed." "Pay your bill and kiss my ass." "No luck?" "No." "My mother is gonna get crazy." "It's not a very long trip for her, even at the best times." "I'm sorry about that." "Yeah, well, I'm thinking about getting out of here before she shows up." "I get very tired of her, you know, showing up." "Also, Rimbauer gets on my nerves." "Joyce too." ""If you look to your left, you will see the ghosts of April Rimbauer and Douglas Posey." "Don't worry, they're perfectly harmless."" "And you know what?" "Under that phony tour-guide shtick she's as crazy as the Red Queen." ""Off with their heads."" "And that creepy kid with that creepy doll." "She's nuts too." "Rimbauer's just smart-ass "du jour"." "Well, what's this, your shrink routine?" "Just get it off your chest." "A dead cell, isn't that what Joyce called it?" "You wanna know about dead?" "I had a dead movie star in bed last night." " Deanna Petrie?" " Yeah." "It didn't last long, but it was a very physical manifestation." "I'm getting tired of Rose Red's tricks." "Joyce wants some of her 5000 back, I'll see her in court." "If my mom doesn't hear from me soon, she's really gonna go nuclear." "I will not try my call again later!" "Good morning, Annie." "All right then." " Good morning, Steve." " Good morning." " Is that Annie?" " Annie it is." "Would you like some eggs?" "It would be a pleasure." "No, thanks." " You seen Joyce?" " Yes." "She's fiddling with her equipment looking as if she last got a good night sleep circa 1972." "I'd tread carefully if I were you." " She's crabby, huh?" " Very." "Video's cloudy, the audio garbled no recorded telemetry of any use." " What's that?" " That's the wine cellar." "Isn't it marvelous?" "The door was open when I came down this morning." " Haven't you seen it before?" " No." "Rose Red hasn't just woken up it's become the "House  Garden's" version of Frankenstein's monster." " That's ridiculous." " Is it?" "Listen." " You heard much of that?" " Enough to worry me." "Bollinger's persistent nonappearance worries me too." "You would think, if he was still here and alive we'd run into him, wouldn't you?" " I don't know." "The longer we go without reporting his disappearance the more peculiar our position is if he turns up dead, or if he doesn't turn up at all." "Dom Perignon, 1949." "It was a very good year." "In my experience, they're all good years." "What goes better with scrambled eggs than champagne?" "Pull the cork, Steve." " Will you wet your whistle?" " It's a little early for me." " Cheers." " Cheers." "You know, this place is feeding off us." "And although I'm sure it finds us all rather tasty, its primary sources of nourishment are Annie and you." " I don't have a telepathic bone in my body." " I don't know what you were before you came here and the house almost ate you alive, but I know now that you're a powerfull psychic transmitter operating on Rose Red's wavelength." "It almost had you once." "It wants you back." "It wants Annie too." " You're crazy." " Crazy?" "Crazy?" "Maybe." "But I vouch that Joyce is crazier and she means to have proof even if someone has to die for her to get it." " You're wrong." " Really?" "Let's ask Mr. Bollinger, if we meet him again." " What are you doing?" " Trying to make sure Miller actually sent Bollinger here." " If he did, I'll call the police and report him missing." " Joyce won't like that." "According to you, she's not very happy anyway." "Hey, professor, what you doing here?" "Minding my business, as I hope you will yours." "Who locked this door?" "I imagine you locked it yourself, professor." "It being your office." "You must have the number, it's your cell phone." " Will you talk to him if he calls?" " I'd be delighted." "Thanks." "Guess who 's on the cover of next week's paper?" "You have a nice day." " Damn you..." "Damn you!" "Received at 8:42 a.m." "This is Steve Rimbauer again." "I need to talk to you about Kevin Bollinger." "He slit his wrists and wrote your name on the wall in his blood before he died." "And Joyce suggests you come out here before we call the police." "Maybe we can minimize this scandal, but  it's imperative you come the second you get this message." "End of message." "You have no more new messages." "Have a nice day, professor." "Yeah..." "Morning, Annie." "Good morning, Annie." "Good morning, Annie." "Good morning, Annie." "Good "orning"." "Steve." "Good morning, Steve." "Good "orning", Steve." "Right." "Knock yourself out." "That's pretty good." "She can also bend spoons, turn on lights, and set off car alarms." "Gee..." " I got babies." " Yes, very nice babies." "I got Adam." "I got April." "She never talks to strangers." "I'm impressed." "In fact, I'm stunned." "Well, I've never heard Glenn Miller playing out of a flower before." "You're... you're Rachel." "That's right, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Most people call me Sister or Sissy, for short." "I think I prefer Rachel." "So, this is a very big deal for Joyce, right?" "Well, the biggest." "Because of the disappearances, Rose Red is a white whale in the field of psychic research." "Now that Miller got her tenure revoked, it's more important." "If Joyce comes back with proof of paranormal activity, she'll be okay." "If not... ." "I had no idea things were so dire for her." "She's paying me a great deal of money." "Paying Annie, I should say." " I wonder if she can afford it." " I wonder too." "You really don't know?" "I thought you two were closer than that." "In some ways, we're close, in others, we're not in the same neighborhood." "Tell me about her." "She's 15." "She's autistic." "She loves "A Summer Place"." "She loves big bands." "She's also telepathic and psychokinetic." "Which are probably the least important things about her." " Can I show you something?" " Sure." "Everything was dead at this end of the room yesterday." "We all feel the house coming to life." "I think we all feel it." "Maybe, but the house didn't do this, Annie did." "It's the other side of what she is." "It's... it's not all frozen pipes and falling stones." "When I look at her, I don't see ruin." "I see roses." "When Annie was 5, a dog bit her." "Annie, make him go away!" "Annie, make him stop!" "Oh, Annie, make him go away!" "What happened?" "Oh, my God." "He bit her." "Your dog bit my sister!" "Oh, my God." "Buddy, get back in the house!" "I'm so sorry." "He's never done this before." "He's never bitten anyone." "It'll be all right, you'll see." "It'll be just fine." "Sister, look at this." "Sister, I got baby." "Hey." "Go on, now." "Stones from the sky just fell on the Standon's house." "Nowhere else on the street." "I mean it was the dog that hurt her and the dog would already been destroyed, but Annie..." "Annie didn't understand that." " Stop it." " Answer me!" "Are you proud of this?" " Stop it, daddy!" " No, I'm not going to!" "Come on, how could you be so stupid?" "How could you let a reporter get all of Annie's drawings?" "Annie came in while I was arguing with my father and  well  I guess you could say she lodged a protest." "She froze all the water in the house." "She's a big-time telekinetic, and that's all Joyce cares about." " Joyce is..." " No!" "No." "I..." "Thank you." "I do understand." "I mean I think even Annie understands why we're here, in her own way." "But for me the thing that's important about Annie, all that's important about Annie is that she responds to love with love." "It has to be a place for the Annies of the world doesn't it?" "I know it'd be nice to think so, but the world isn't always fair, that's all." "I know it." "For the lamb shall lead and feed them unto the living fountains of waters." "We must drink from the grape and not the grain." "Maybe later." "You sure?" "Could we...?" "What's she thinking?" "Any idea at all?" "Not the slightest." "Miss Asbury, you look lovely this morning." "If only I'd have known, I would've dressed for the occasion." "What's wrong, sweetheart?" " Miss Asbury?" "Pam?" " It's not much farther." "Who are you?" "Well, I might ask you the same thing, madam." " Patricia Waterman, Emery's mother." "Carl Miller, Professor Miller." "Nice to meet you, Professor." "Are you going in there?" " I'm afraid so." " Good." "I've come to get my boy." "Get the gate, would you?" "Come on!" "Put your back into it!" " What is it you found?" " Something amazing." "It explains so much." " Mybe we should tell the others." " We will." "But I wanted to show you first." "Daffy bitch!" "Em?" "Emery!" "What is wrong with you, woman?" "Look what you've done to my car!" "Emery!" "Emery!" "Come back!" "Emery!" "Woman!" "You think we gonna exchange insurance information?" "Where are you?" "Where... where are..." "Emers!" "Emery!" "Not there, not there, not there." "Emery!" "Emery!" "Emery, what's wrong?" "Stop running!" "Let me help!" "Pam?" "Pam?" "Woman!" "Where are you?" "Pam?" "Be not afraid, only believe." "Be not afraid, only believe." "Emery!" "Emery!" "Oh, my God." "It is her." "Woman!" "Where are you?" "Emery!" "Emers!" "Is that you?" "Emery!" "Only believe." "Only believe." "I don't believe it." "I don't believe." "I don't believe." "No!" " Emery!" " Help me, Mommy, I'm so scared." " Emers." " Help me, Mommy!" "Mrs. Waterman?" "Where are you?" "Someone help me." "She's alive." "Not there." "Not there." "Not there." "I don't want to go!" "Open the window!" "Open the window and let me in!" "Emery!" "I'm having a heart attack!" " Call 911." " Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin." "Not there." "Not there." "Not there." "Emery." "Look at me." "Please!" "Look at me!" "For God's sake, open the window." "Not there." "Not Mommy." "Not Vic." "Not the actress." "Not anyone." "Not there." "Not there." "In my hair, foul or fair." "Don't you dare." "No one there." "Peach or pear." "No one there." "In my hair, foul or fair." " Don't you dare." "No one there!" " What's going on?" " No one there." "Foul or fair!" " Vic!" "He came to you for help and you turned your back on him." "What the hell is going on?" "Sir?" "Pardon me, sir." " Yes?" " Are you here for Mr. Bollinger?" " Is he here?" " Oh, yes waiting for you in the solarium, sir." "If you're Professor Miller, that is." " He's all right?" "He's not hurt, or..." " I believe he's impatient to go home, sir but otherwise he seems quite well." "It's Rimbauer." "What is going on?" "I'm sure I cannot say, sir." "Ms. Reardon's party seems rather rambunctious." "Does it indeed?" "Take me to Bollinger." "Right away, sir." "How did I get up here?" "Ma'am, will you slow down a bit?" "Where are you going?" "Hello?" "Ma'am?" "Where are you?" "What the hell?" "A house is a place of shelter." "It's the body we put on over our bodies." "As our bodies grow old, so do our houses." "As our bodies may sicken, so do our houses sicken." "And what of madness?" "If mad people live within, doesn't this maden this creep into the rooms  and walls and corridors?" "The very boards?" "Don't we sometimes sense that madness reaching out to us?" "Isn't that a large part of what we mean when we say  a place is unquiet, festered up with spirits?" "We say haunted  but we mean the house has gone insane." "Somebody help me!" "I'm lost!" "Somebody help me!" "Oh, for chrissake." "Somebody help me!" "Where the hell did I come from?" "Your mommy was right." "I'm a tramp." "Somebody help me!" "Help me!" "Where is everyone?" " Nick, what's going on?" " It's Vic, I think he's dead, I'm not sure." "I'll try to get to him." "What's going on?" " He says Vic is dead." "Oh my God..." " That's ridiculous!" "How can he be dead?" " Joyce, get real." "I said I think Vic is dead." " Thank God!" "You." "You don't understand, my mother's here." "Unless the house is imitating her." "I supposed it could be." "At first I thought so, but... the more I think about, the more..." "And I got lost." "I've seen things you wouldn't believe!" "Not now, Emery!" "We shouldn't be here!" "Not any of us." "There's a bubble's forming, I think a kind of psychic bubble." "What in the world would your mother be doing here?" "She worries about me." "I'm worried about me, too, actually." "About all of us." "I saw Pam upstairs." "I think she's dead." " Where's Annie?" " I..." "I don't..." "It's stuck again." " It's not just stuck!" " Of course it isn't." "This is ridiculous!" "Emery, come here." "Is that your mother's car?" "Yeah, Mommy's little scootabout." " What did you say?" " Mommy's little scootabout." "Mommy's little scootabout." "That's what she calls it, okay?" "Sometimes we scoot about for ice cream, and sometimes we scoot to the movies..." "Stop looking at me." "I think mama's little scootabout is blocking another car." " Is anyone in it?" " Don't know, I can't tell." " I'm gonna check the kitchen door." " I'll go with you." "Steve!" "Not now, Dee." "Annie, are you out there?" "Steve, come look at this." "It's coming to life, isn't it?" "I think he's somewhere right outside there." "I didn't exactly see." "Oh, my God." "God, no!" "Open in the name of Jesus!" "Open in the name of God!" " Where's Pam?" " Emery said she's dead." "She was in Ellen Rimbauer's room." "She said things to me." "Bad things." "I'm not sure, but when I see people like that, they're usually dead." "This place is gonna kill all of us if we're not careful." "We were wrong to come." "That is a cowardly and mistaken thing to say." "Vic's dead, Pam's probably dead, and we can't get out." "You need a reality check, lady." " Joyce..." " Leave me alone!" "Annie, where are you?" "Annie, are you...?" "Oh, God!" "Annie, don't move!" "We've already established that doesn't work!" "You were saying?" "See?" "Just stuck, no big deal." "Mom, where are you?" " Is she alright?" " I don't know." "Go down to the kitchen." "Get a lemon." "If there's no lemon, bring the vinegar." "Go, hurry!" "What about the windows in the billiard room?" "You were pounding on them with your fists." "You don't think that the glass was stuck too?" "You be careful now." "Mom?" "Mama!" "Who's there?" "Oh, I shouldn't be doing this." "I shouldn't be doing this." "I shouldn't be doing this." "I shouldn't be doing this." "Screw it, I'm not doing this." "If there's someone there, stop fooling around!" "Who's there?" "If you need help, I'll help you!" "But if you only want to play games... ." " You stay away from me!" " Professor!" "Wait!" " Professor, wait!" " Stay away!" "Professor?" "Look at me." "Please, look at me." "You're no good to anyone, bub." "I've got an idea." "Why don't you go hang yourself?" "You could do it in the parlor." "Just like Posey, a ring around the rosy and not by the hair of your chinny chin chin." "Help me!" "Stay away!" " Is she awake?" " No, but her breathing's strong and regular." " Get Joyce." " Can't I stay with her?" "Get Joyce!" "She's a hell of a lot closer to a doctor than either of us." "Go!" " I saw Vic." " You can't have, Vic is..." "I know." "Vic was just another Rose Red mind-movie like Pam and Deanna Peatry." " But I also saw Miller, and he was real." " Miller?" "Are you talking about Professor Miller?" "None other." "Although I'm not sure the dean of Arts and Sciences would recognize him." "He's out there in the high grass." "He's running around like a madman!" " You're lying!" " No, he's not." "No, I'm not!" "My mother's somewhere behind the house." "I'm sure she is, but I can't get there, not now." " All right, look." "Calm down, Emery." " Don't tell me that!" "You don't know what I've seen, so don't tell me to calm down!" " I'll call 911." " I rather doubt it." "I think we all need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and then..." "Annie's... had an accident and she's unconscious." " Would you come?" " Where is she?" " This phone is working." "Who shall I call?" " The cops!" " An ambulance." " No one!" "Not yet." "To hell with you, Joyce!" "I'm getting out of here!" "Honey, are you okay?" "Can you hear me?" "Emery." "You're not there, you're dead." "Both of you are dead." " No, we're not." " We're not dead at all, Emery." "That's the beauty of it." "Please, Emery." "Life could be different for you here." "It could be better." "It would be nice, really nice." "I'll pass." "Rose Red is too much like the Roach Motel." "They check in, but they don't check out." "Not there!" "I'm hard up, girls, but not quite that hard up." "Annie, what is it?" "We seldom have company at Rose Red these days." "I insist you stay a little longer." "Look what it did to me." "We have to get out of here." "I'm afraid it's too late for that, Emers." " Here, Annie." " Annie, no." "Annie, be still and let her help you." "It's okay." "Sorry." "There you go." "You okay, honey?" "Think you can stand up?" "Let's try it." "There we go." "Great." "Yeah, it's okay." "Annie, look." "I know the song, and I know the feeling." "To be safe." "To be free to dream and to have all the time in the world to enjoy it." "Later on, I'll let you play with it all you want." "I promise." "Anie..." "Look at me, look at me." "Anie, if you ever want to play with that dollhouse, look at me right now." "Are you holding the doors and the windows closed?" "Don't give me that blank stare, you understand me perfectly well." "We understand each other." "Are you?" "It's what the house wants you to do and you just go right on doing it." "Soon, I'll take that dollhouse down and you can play with it all you want." "In fact, we'll play with it together and we'll take all the time we want." "Hey!" "Get off him!" "Get off him!" "Get off him!" "Hey, off him!" " It isn't gonna do any good." " So, what's next, Sherlock, you got any ideas?" "No, you?" "No, no!" "This place has always wanted me." "I found that out when I was 8.I should've stayed away." " Why didn't you?" " Because of Dee." "She needs someone to look after her so she doesn't just go floating up into the big nowhere." "I mean..." "Here they come again." "Get off of him!" "Get off him!" "Get off of him!" "I think the power went out 15 minutes ago." "I don't think it'll be on again tonight." "Don't you want to know about Bollinger and Mrs. Waterman or Professor Miller?" "Aren't you curious at all?" "What about them?" "Any sign?" "No, none." "I think I knew that, actually." "So, what is there to be curious about?" "Dee... we're all in the billiard room." "We need to talk." "Pam is also missing, and if Emery says she's dead, I think we have to believe him." "About Vic, of course, there's no question." "Joyce, do you understand what I'm telling you?" "Of course." "But since there isn't anything I can do about any of these people..." "Not now at any rate I'll continue with my observations." "I am a scientist, you know." "Or did you forget that?" "No." "No, I didn't forget that." "Miller did." "Running around like a madman." "I'd have liked to see that." "Thank God for battery packs." "Annie?" "Don't waste your breath." "She can't understand you." "Can't even hear you, not in the sense that we understand hearing." "There you are." "Would you like to come with me into the other room for a while?" "We could visit with Rachel and the others." "Do you hear me?" "You do, don't you?" "Annie, come, please." "You sure you won't come with us?" "All right." "Let's go." "This is the last one." "It may be a little old, but sorry." "Beggars can't be choosers." "Thanks." "I don't suppose you have any nail polish in there?" "Nail polish?" "No, I don't use it." "Why?" "Make a ?" "into a handkerchief and make her breathe it." "Or what about drain cleaner?" "Just a whiff of that stuff and bingo, out like a light." " What are you talking about?" " I'm talking about survival, darling." "Did I stutter?" "Well, I think you're insane." "Those things could kill her." "Oh, yeah?" "Gee!" "Having a good time, professor?" "Enjoying the idea of visiting your formal department head in the local nut barn?" "It'll try and take us tonight, you know." "One by one or all together." "Now, every time you open your mouth, you say something unpleasant, so why won't you just be quiet?" "And not just unpleasant, it's wicked." "Now, I know you have had an accident, Emery..." "An accident?" "That's right, I had an accident." "Unpleasant Emery knows something about our reporter friend." " Bollinger, what?" " I don't know, I don't think so." "No, no, no." "You wouldn't want to hear it from me." "Every time I open my mouth, something wickedy, wickedy wicked comes out." "Why don't you tell 'em, Nick?" "I'm tired of being wicked." "You do the dirty work." "Do you know something, or is he just talking?" " The mirror library, right?" " Yeah." "What about the mirror library?" "Kevin Bollinger is dead." "He brought Emery's mother into the house, and then hung himself in the mirror library." "Not so much a suicide as being Rose Red's latest victim." "What about Mrs. Waterman?" "I can't see her or Professor Miller." "What about you?" "I don't know." "Which means they're probably still somewhere around here." "They're somewhere in this place." "Yo said you want to talk?" "Well, let's talk now because I've gotta go check on the equipment." "Did you intentionally decide to sacrifice us or did you simply ignore the probability of our demise?" " I don't know what you're talking." " Yes, you do." "Or part of you does." "Supposing you never get your proof..." "Did you even think about that?" "Supposing the proof isn't here, to get what then?" "Supposing Rose Red is just a paranormal version of the Energizer Bunny and it just keeps growing and growing and growing..." "Stop it!" "And growing..." "You're crazy." "Can't you see that he's crazy?" "I'm not crazy, I'm a mind reader." "You know that and that's why I'm here." "Now sit down!" "Rose Red won't let you have what you want, Joyce." "It won't let anyone have what they want." "Ellen Rimbauer designed it to break hearts as hers was broken." "To hurt as she was hurt." "Well, then we have to get out of here before it can..." "What?" "Kill us?" "A real death would be merciful." "Because I doubt if even poor ol' Vic is really dead and that's the worst of it." "The very worst." "Alright, so how do we get out?" "There are no secret tunnels, at least not that I know of." "Oh, wake up." "She's the one who's keeping us locked in." "Yeah, her!" "Little Miss Mental Illness of 2-0-0-1." "Stop it!" "Losing his fingers has affected his mind." "You mustn't hold it against him." "Oh, wake up, sweetheart." "Wake up, all of you!" "It locked us in when she was awake, right?" "Then, after she knocked herself out everything opened up again." "It was like a cramp letting go." "We could've gotten away then if we'd understood what was happening and acted faster up on what we knew." "One of us did understand." "Joyce understood, didn't you, Joyce?" "And then when the little bitch woke up again..." "I can't..." "My hand hurts too much." "You know as much as I do." "You tell them the rest." "Tell us he's insane, start with that." "But he's not." "Why did you want psychics and telekinetics and automatic writers here, in the first place, Joyce?" "It was to recharge a cell that was never dead, merely dormant." "And we have all played our part, I think." "But Annie has been key." "But what Emery doesn't understand is that Steve has been key too." "Steve?" "Steve's about as psychic as a ham sandwich." "Please be quiet, Joyce!" "Don't you tell me to shut up!" "How dare you?" "He asked you to be quiet." "And do it, please!" "I..." "I, I want to hear this." "Everyone has some psychic capacity, Joyce." "I've read your books and articles." "You used to know that before all this psychic superstar infatuation stuff." "And I know that Miller isn't the only imagination-challenged idiot that you've had to deal with." " But you've become blinded and misguided." " I have not become blinded." "Whatever Steve's psychic ability in the outside world, here in Rose Red it's amplified to the power of 10." "Because he's blood, Ellen's blood." "You said yourself, Steve, you're the last of the Rimbauers." "Tell it anyway you want." "I'm not holding the doors shut, and turning the window glass into whatever it is now." "No, of course you're not." "Ellen's doing it." "Through Annie but also through you." "And don't sit there and say that you don't know it, or at least sense it." "She's not doing anything through me!" "I don't sense that!" "I..." "Hello, Stevie." " Mommy?" " No, Stevie, look, please." "Would you like to help me build, Stevie?" "I'll show you how." "Steve?" "Stevie, where are you?" "Go to her..." "Stop playing games, Stevie!" "... but come back." " We have to go right now!" " Come back and help me build." "Help me build, Stevie." "Steve, what's wrong?" "That was a false memory, the house planted it." " Are you sure?" " No, I'm not." "The time being, let's stick to the kid." "We take her out of the ecuation, if the doors are still unopened, we're gonna worry about Rimbauer then.." "No one is going to hurt this child." "Of course they're not." "And there's the rub." "We're in trouble, ladies and gentlemen." "Big trouble." "Hey." "You wanna play a game, Annie?" "You take 10 or 12 real deep breaths, and squat down, and blow on your thumbs." "You'll get all floaty, and then you'll go to the North Pole with Santa Claus and his 8 tiny reindeers." " The rest of us, meanwhile..." " Stop it!" "We'll scurry on out of here like the good little mice we are." " It's not funny." " Neither is this!" "Tell you what, Sissy." "Let's find some dry cleaning bags so we can wrap her up just until she passes out, or pinch her nose shut, just..." "No!" "How about you, handsome?" "You're the utility infielder on this team." "Can you knock her out with your mind?" "Five minutes would be enough for us to make like bees and buzz." "Hell, three." "I can see her thoughts, but it's the most peculiar thing..." " They're high." " Yes." "High above me as if she were a princess in a tower." "And she's waving, but there's no way to reach her." "At least not from me." "Annie, look at Nick." "What are we gonna do with you, little sister?" "How about this?" "The back of the head's the best place." "Just above the nape of the neck." "Hit her hard, the lights go out, hit her harder... ." "Oh, you ugly man." "You ugly little troll!" "Don't tell me you've never thought of it." "Come on, do us all a favor, do yourself a favor!" "Back of the head." "Or do you want to spend the rest of your life wiping your kid sister's ass?" "Stop it!" "Stop it." "Where are you going, Cathy?" "Uhm..." "I'm going to get a glass of iced tea." "I saw a nice big pitcher of it in the fridge." "Oh!" " You shouldn't go alone." " I'm not." "God goes with me, everywhere." "Get away!" "You killed my boy!" "You killed my Emery!" "I beg your pardon." "Would you mind awfully letting her go?" "I guess not." "Cathy, are you all right?" " I think so." "What about her?" " Oh my godness." "You really are a good Christian lady." "Well, is she all right?" "Is she even alive?" "Pulse is strong and steady." "You know who she is, of course." "Emery's mother?" "We'll have to tell him." "You don't want to?" ""Emers, your mother just popped out of the wine cellar like Jack out of his box and..." "Forget round the bend." "She's off the planet."" "How does that sound to you, given the condition he's in, already?" "Sounds very bad." "What should we do with her?" "Annie, can you open the doors?" "Can you open the doors and let us out?" "Annie, look at me." "No, don't touch her!" "Don't touch her!" "It wasn't her." "I thought it was April Rimbauer." "I'm sorry." "Damn this house." "If only there were a way to to get through to her to reach the Annie inside." "You talk to her with your mind." "I've seen you do it." "But it's not high, it's not where Annie lives." "If only there were a way to..." " What are you thinking about?" " I'm not sure." "Where are Nick and Cathy?" "They should've been back by now." "Why did she have to go off on her own anyway?" "That was extremely stupid." "This is wrong to me." "The woman is ill." "She's also dangerous to herself as well as to others." "Will those hold her?" "I don't prefer closed line, but I think so." "Besides, Emery gave me the impression that her interests run more to the Home Shopping Network than "Amazing Escapes"." "Drink up." "It will do you good." "Here's to damsels in distress." "And the knights who rescue them." "Coming in here alone was very stupid, but Emery so upset me." "Emery upsets everyone." "Look at her." "Well, I'm sorry, Cathy, but it's true." "I think she's coming around." "Now we only have to worry about Miller." "Mrs. Waterman." "Have you seen Professor Miller?" "Joyce's department head?" "You killed my boy!" "Mrs. Waterman, you've got it wrong." "Emery's fine." "Here, have a sip." "Liar!" "Limey jack-tar!" "Limey jack-tar?" "I've been called many things, but never that." "I'm afraid we are going to have to leave you alone for a little while, Mrs. Waterman." "Only till you feel yourself again." "Cathy, come here." "We're doing that." "It's feeding off us." "You must feel it too." "Of course I do." "Oh, dear Jesus, please get us out of here." "We have to get out of here." "Steve..." "Steve couldn't hold us by himself." "Not with me, you and Emery working against him." "No, the problem is Annie." "Emery was right about that." " Could you...?" " Could I... hurt her?" "I have the power." "But no, of course I couldn't hurt her." "What is it, Mrs. Waterman?" "Do you want to buy a vowel or spin again?" " That's not funny." " Sorry." "What are you trying to say?" "Anything?" "No." "But it's so cold." "It's coming from in there." "Close the door, then." "We're going to leave you, Mrs. Waterman, but not for long." "And you'll be perfectly safe." "Something's happened to her." "Rose Red has happened to her." "Come on, let's join the others." "Wait." "I'm sorry we can't make you more comfortable, Mrs. Waterman." "But we'll be back to get you soon." "I promise, I promise." " She's fried." " That's also unkind." "But it's also true." " This is not the way we came." " You're telling me." " Thank you." " You're welcome." ""Seattle Livery, 1924."" "But it's brand-new." "You'd have thought after all these years that she would have Rose Red eat at least one halfway decent carpenter." "Of course, the real question is, how does it go?" "What?" "What is it?" "The reincarnation of Emery's mother." " Nick." " Sorry, Cathy." "The truth is, just now, I'm rather scared." "Let's find the others." "We won't." "We're never gonna see them again." "Of course we are, I promise." "And I never break a promise." "Come on, Cathy." "Hey, where's Rimbauer and Frankenbaby's big sister?" "Went to look for Nick and Cathy, I imagine." "And then there were three little Indians sitting on a shelf." "I've gotta check the equipment." "It's quite delicate, you know." "Equipment which interfaces with the invisible world must by its very nature be quite delicate." "Come with me, Annie?" "Leave her with me, why don't you?" "I'll take care of her." "Come on, Annie." "Wanna play with your dominoes?" "One little Indian." "Down to one little Indian, all by himself." "Hey, Joyce, wait for me!" "What are you doing here, Cathy?" "Getting the... scared out of me, what else?" "For the rest of us, yes, but not for you." "My therapist said I was a compulsive quitter." "He said I keep starting things so I could stop them." " And what did you say?" " I stopped seeing him." "So, here I am." "Listen." "Nick?" "Run, Cathy!" "Run!" " Run!" " What about you?" "Oh, this is wrong!" "Jesus, give me strength!" "Nick?" "Nick?" "No!" "I'm not crazy." "I'm not crazy." "I'm not crazy." " I'm not crazy." "Help us." "We have to build." "Help us." "Help Rose Red." "Help us or die." "Oh, please." "Cathy." "Cathy." "Where am I?" "Sweet Jesus, help me!" "No!" "That can't be!" "Cathy." "Cathy." "Cathy." "Cathy." "No!" "Not now!" "John!" " Listen, I can explain, Ellen." "She enticed me..." " Still I entice you!" "You can explain it?" "Can you?" "Explain it to your whores!" "Explain it to them down in hell!" "Where does this one go to?" "Steve?" "It goes to the tower in the attic." "Come on." "Cathy, Nick!" "Where are you?" " Here!" "Live with us." "I'm here." "What is it?" "What do you see?" "I could hear her breathing." "And I can smell her." "Sometimes I see her with a doll, and sometimes with a hammer." " Maybe she's really the same." " What are you talking about?" "It's no one." "Never mind." "Come on." "That's for scaring me all these years ago." "And for trying to make me take the hammer." " How could Ellen be alive?" " Where has she been?" "A part of the house ordinary people can't see." "Her husband was no suicide." "She killed him." "A withered arm." " That wasn't Ellen." " Then who?" " April." " But that means..." "That Ellen's somewhere still around here." "Yeah." "Shh..." "You just hush now." "Help!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "I'm telling you, it was April Rimbauer." "Where's your proof?" "We all saw it." "How many Indians left by midnight, do you think?" "Please don't expect me to believe your 90-year-old great-aunt is a vampire living in the tower." " As a scientist, I just can't..." " Don't be deliberately obtuse!" "It's the house that's the vampire!" "I think you know that." "Obtuse?" "Oh, what a dreadfully big word for a college dropout, wouldn't you say?" "What a sharp tongue you have, Grandma." " Another country heard from." "Tell me, big Sis..." "Be quiet." "I don't want to talk to you!" "But I want to talk to you." "I'm curious." "How often do you dream of her dying?" "Tell the truth, shame the devil." "Stop talking like that!" "Why do you have to be so miserable?" "Because I am miserable, you over-Christianized idiot!" " Don't you touch her!" " If he does, he'll regret it!" "So strong and brave, threatening the man with four missing fingers!" "What good is she anyway?" "Just tell me that." "Does she even know she's alive?" " I doubt it." " Cut it out, Em." "Please!" "What can you do to me that's any worse than this house is gonna do to me before the night is over?" "I don't know." "Send you out of the room maybe." "How would that be?" "No, don't go out there alone!" "It's true enough!" "She's no good to herself, or to me, or to anyone." "All she can do is help the house kill us, and it wants to." "I'm not psychic, but I can feel that it wants to." "Yeah..." " We're running out of time, aren't we?" " Yes." "And that's why we have to stay together." "Come on." "Steve, you have to get through to Annie." "You're the only one who can do it." "I've tried." "Maybe I could on the outside, but whatever's in here has closed her off." "Maybe you..." "Help!" "No change in the temperature readout!" "No changes in any of them, either!" "Damn it!" "No!" "Emery!" "Unbelievable!" " It has to be you!" " No, I..." "Yes." "I forbid this!" "It's dangerous, you have no idea how dangerous!" " You can't interfere with my..." " Leave it alone, Dee!" "They can't open themselves to this house!" "It'll kill them all!" "We don't have any other options." "Here." "Here." "Do you wanna try, Annie?" "Yes, Annie, go ahead and try." "No." "Let's do it together, shall we?" " That's good." " You make her stop, I'm warning you." " Go on, Annie." " Yes, go on." "Make her stop!" "You're gonna get us all killed!" "Keep going, Annie!" "Stop it!" "You're tearing it apart!" "Stop it!" "It stopped." "Joyce?" "No!" "Joyce, what are you...?" "Not there, not there, not there!" "Come on, Joyce." "It's time to go." "Go?" "No, I'm all right." "I have a thousand things to do." "Annie, come on." " Dee, Dee, the house is open." "We have to leave." " Get out." "Take that traitor with you." "Joyce, please!" " Let's get out while we can!" " Joyce, listen to me!" "Get out!" "Steve!" " First thing I want is a morphine milkshake." " Emery." " Second thing I want..." " Come here, Emmy!" "I want to see if you've been cleaning your nails!" "I want to look behind your ears!" "I need to look at yo teeth." "And what about down there?" "Come to mama, Emmy, come to mama!" "Have you been doing that nasty thing again?" "I hear you in your room at night!" " Mommy hears everything!" " Help me, for God's sake!" "Help me!" "Emery, for once in your miserable life, fight her!" "Not there, not there, not there!" "Not there!" "Come to Mommy, Emmy!" "Emers, no!" "I'll always be there for you!" "After all, I'm your mother!" "Not there!" "Not there!" "Stevie." "Great-grandboy." "Take it." "You wanted it then and you want it now." "If you don't take it, you'll want it forever." "You'll never sleep without dreaming of it." "Take it." "Help me." "Help us." "Help Rose Red!" "Help us build!" "Steve, no!" "Please don't take it!" "He has no choice." "He's one of us." "Stevie." "I do have a choice." "I don't want this." "Here, you take it." "Let's get out of here!" "No!" "No!" "Steve!" "You took my Emers." "Say cheese." "Stay away from me!" "He's gone." "No!" "Stay away from me!" " Joyce." " I'll show you the garden." "There's lots to investigate." "You're right, Joyce." "I apologize." "There is another world." "It's quite wonderful." " And the best part is... ." " You'll never have to leave." " Stay back!" " Joyce, welcome home." "Bad." "Bad place." "Bad house." " Bad." " That's right, Annie." "Very bad." "Oh, dear God." "It's the stones again." "Make her stop!" "I can't." "And I don't want her to." "Come on." "God!" "I think it's over." "It'll never be over as long as the house stands." "Roses mean...?" "Roses mean remember." "That's right." "Roses mean remember." " Monday." " Monday, it is." "A wrecking ball arrives promptly at 7." "I'll keep an eye on her." "Annie, who's that one for?" "I like your dress." "It's very pretty." "Can you still reach her with your mind?" "No, but I don't have to." "We... we communicate pretty well, don't we, Annie?" "Subtitles by SDI Media Group." "Corrections made by MsSkater1245"