"[ RUNNING FOOTSTEPS ]" "[ DOOR RATTLING ]" "[ GIRL PANTING ]" "[ SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE ]" "[ BANGING ]" "[ SCREAMING ]" "[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]" "[ EXPLOSIONS ]" "MAN 1:" "Get out of the way!" "MAN 2:" "This way!" "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "Saint Luke's hospital." "I repeat, Saint Luke's hospital." "Does anything hurt?" "Sweetheart, is your mommy here?" "Do you know where she is?" "[ SIREN WAILING ]" "[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]" "WOMAN:" "Really, I'm just...." "No." "Don't come over." "No." "No, I swear I wasn't just seeing things." "I mean, it could have just been a prank." "I don't know who." "No, really, I'm just gonna see you at school tomorrow." "[ CHUCKLES SOFTLY ]" "Thanks, Leann." "Bye." "[ PHONE BEEPS ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "[ CAT MEOWS ]" "[ CAT MEOWS THEN WATER SPLASHES ]" "Luna?" "Luna?" "[ WATER SPLASHES ]" "[ CAT PURRS ]" "[ WATER SPLASHES ]" "[ SNARLS ]" "[ CELL PHONE RINGING ]" "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "[ LAUGHTER, INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "WOMAN 1:" "Come on." "WOMAN 2:" "Over here." "Beth's a little too sane for me, but she does throw a good party." "Yeah, so now I'm having sex and phone sex at the same time." "MAN:" "Oh, man." "Are you serious?" "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "I know, but he was just so handsome." "And I was so nervous, you know?" "And I'm trying to describe the plot of Beloved to him and I just started crying." "It was a perfect year, wasn't it?" "I Ioved it." "[ TAYLOR SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ]" "Brian, could you get your eyes off taylor for two seconds and help me with this?" "unbelievable." "And before the sheets are even cold." "No wonder why Leann moved out." "I am a man." "I have needs." "Is that a problem for you?" "No." "But it might be a problem for taylor." "Hot." "Yes, well we can't force taylor to have good taste, now can we?" "Just keep chopping." "I'll keep chopping." "You know, I can hear you analyzing me in your head." "You might as well do it out loud." "Okay, I think that you're still messed up over Leann." "You think if you flirt with taylor maybe Leann'll get jealous and come back to you." "Go back to analyzing me in your head." "I think I Iike that better." "[ DOORBELL RINGS ]" "Hey, did someone lock the door?" "[ DOORBELL RINGS ]" " Hey, Leann." "Hi." " Hi." "Oh, I'm so glad to see you." " Me too." " Is" " Is Brian home?" "Yeah, he's in the kitchen, so we should go upstairs." "WOMAN:" "How you doing?" "[ MOANS ]" "Oh." "Oh." "[ GRUNTS ]" "LEANN:" "Hey, it's Leann." "Bye." "Okay." "Just leave the alarm off." "Thanks." "Hey." "How was it?" "It was a funeral." "It sucked." "From now on, I only go to parties where no one gets cremated." "How are Shelley's parents?" "Considering their 24-year-oId daughter drowned in the backyard pond they're great." "And you?" "I knew Shelley." "We interned at Saint Luke's together." "I mean, she was not crazy." "I know, but the way she was talking at the end was pretty" "Yeah, that doesn't mean she killed herself." "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "LEANN:" "That's not my ringtone." "It says it's from Shelley." "Who'd be calling from Shelley's phone?" "LEANN:" "That's creepy." "It's dated Monday, 10:17 p.m." "It's Friday." "Maybe you just set the date wrong." "[ PHONE BEEPS ]" "[ WOMAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PHONE ]" "Leann, what is it?" "Leann?" "[ PHONE BEEPS ]" "AUTOMATED VOICE:" "If you'd like to hear this message again press one." "Voice call received Monday, June 12th, 10: 17 p.m." "LEANN'S VOICE:" "I don't know, it's the weirdest, weirdest thing." "It's like every time I turn around, they're" "No!" "Aaah!" "That's your voice." "That's you." "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "MAN 1:" "Yeah?" "MAN 2:" "Yeah." "Cut me a break, man." "No, man, you know what the price is." "You gotta hit it right." "CUSTOMER:" "All right." "Give me that." "DEALER:" "All right, slow down, homie." "Okay?" "Yeah." "They're real nice." "[ CLOSES CELL PHONE ]" "[ CELL PHONE RINGS ]" "Detective Andrews." "Yeah." "WOMAN:" "A group of hikers found her." "We held off on the autopsy until you got here, detective." "Even so, your sister was out there for more than a week." "There's really no need for you to do this." "[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]" "Whew." "[ SIGHS ]" "Oh, jeez." "[ EXHALES ]" "[ PANTING ]" "In cases of severe and repeated childhood abuse the posttraumatic-stress model may be valid." "Long-term effects may include sexual dysfunction, amnesia dissociation, even hallucinations and multiple personalities." "The post-trauma child faces formidable developmental tasks and among these what we call "dissociative virtuosity."" "[ GIRL SOBS ]" "The post-trauma child will form primary attachments to develop a sense of basic trust and to preserve a sense of hope and meaning in life." "The child will, from this experience, attempt to construct an explanation of what's happened." "And these explanations may excuse the parental negligence or abuse." "The child may blame themselves for what has happened." "MALE STUDENT:" "Look, if you come over earlier then we can study some more." "Leann!" "Hey." "Do you wanna go get some coffee?" "No." "No." "I've gotta get to the library." "Paper's due next week." "Are you okay?" "You seem kind of weirded-out." "I haven't been sleeping too well." "Call me tonight." "I'll read you my paper on developmental perspectives in abuse cases." "It's better than Ambien." "[ CHUCKLES ]" "Okay." "Bye." "Bye." "WOMAN [ OVER LOUDSPEAKER ]:" "The library will be closing in five minutes." "[ CELL PHONE BEEPING ]" "[ CELL PHONE RINGING ]" " Hey, Lee." " Hey." "Hey, what's up?" "Oh, I'm just finishing up this paper." "What are you doing?" "I just got sprung from the stacks." "My brain was mushing out." "BETH:" "Oh, God, I know what you mean." "Leann?" "Leann?" "Hello?" "Listen, Beth, I didn't mean to ditch you after class today." "I...." "Leann, are you still there?" "I don't know how to explain it." "I" " I've been...." " I've been having some problems." " What kind of problems?" "Ever since I" "Well, I don't know." "I mean, Shelley drowned, and that was my voice screaming." "And then that bizarre phone call, and it was dated today." "10:17 p.m." "[ CLANGING ]" " I don't" " Where are you?" "I'm at the overpass on College." "That's two minutes away." "I'll be right there." "I keep seeing things." "I mean, weird people looking at me." " Leann?" " I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to panic." "I've just" "I've been seeing some really strange stuff." "I don't know, it's the weirdest, weirdest thing." "Every time I turn around, they're" "[ CLANKING ]" "[ TRAIN APPROACHING ]" "[ GIRLS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY ]" "BETH:" "Leann!" " No!" "No!" " Leann!" "[ SCREAMING ]" "[ GASPING ]" "[ SCREAMS ]" "[ AIR HISSING, BETH GASPS ]" "[ TRAIN HORN BLARING ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ BEEPING ]" "[ PANTING ]" "MAN:" "Didn't see anything?" "WOMAN:" "Like I said, she threw herself off." "please, can we go?" "This is taking so long." "MAN:" "You're gonna have to stay here until I get all the information." "I need you to sign this statement." "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" " Hey." " Hey." "[ TALKING INDISTINCTLY ]" "WOMAN [ WHISPERING ]:" "And then she got this strange phone call." "It's hard to believe." "Yeah, Leann told me the same thing happened to Shelley before she drowned." " That is so eerie." "BRIAN:" "taylor." "What?" "I'm just saying what Leann said." "Yeah, well, maybe this isn't the time, all right?" "MADDIE:" "I heard Shelley got a phone call from an old advisor of hers." "I heard that too." "only it turned out the advisor was already dead." "would you stop it?" "Her parents are right in the other room." "TAYLOR:" "It's like dead people call you, but it's your own voice." "And then you die too." "[ SCOFFS ]" "Shit, taylor, know what?" "Don't try to think, all right?" "It just makes you look ridiculous." "I heard it too." "That's it." "Now I'm really creeped out." "It's shit, all right?" "It's total bullshit." "[ GRUNTS ]" "Brian!" "Brian!" "MADDIE:" "What's his problem?" "He had a thing for Leann." "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "BETH:" "Brian." "Are you okay?" "What was that back there?" "[ CELL PHONE BEEPING ]" "AUTOMATED VOICE:" "To listen to your messages, press one." "Voice call received Wednesday, June 14th  12:02 p.m." "Damn it, I forgot." "I swear if I didn't have my head screwed on" "[ LINE DISCONNECTS ]" "The call came in two nights ago." "From Leann's phone." " That was the night that she died." " only the call was dated Wednesday." "Today. 12:02 p.m." "I don't believe in magic, Beth." "I don't believe in anything." "But ever since I got that phone call, things have been..." " ...weird." " Like what?" "No, Brian, you have to tell me." "That's the exact same thing that Leann told me right before she...." "Brian?" "[ GROWLING ]" "BETH:" "What's wrong?" "Brian?" "Look...." " What's-- ?" " Forget about it, okay?" " No, Brian, don't!" " These things work because they get in your head, Beth." "You're the psych lady, you know that." "If you don't think about it, it can't hurt you." "[ HORN HONKING ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "Like I said." "[ AIR HISSING, BETH GASPS ]" "Brian, your phone!" "You forgot your phone." "Damn it, I forgot." "I swear if I didn't have my head screwed on" "[ EXPLOSION, PEOPLE SCREAMING ]" "[ ALARMS WAILING ]" "[ PANTS ]" "[ GURGLING, GASPING ]" "[ BAR CLATTERS ]" "[ MUFFLED SOBBING ]" "WOMAN:" "Let's go over this again." "WeIder's acetylene tank exploded." "Your friend happened to be in the way." "Okay." "And what about Leann and the voice mails?" "We checked on that." "There were no voice mails on your friends' phones." " Either of them." " But I heard them." "Okay?" "Leann got a phone call, and so did Brian, right before they died." "BETH:" "Both of them did." "I hear it happened to Shelley too, Shelley Baum, right before she died." "Well, thank you, Miss Raymond." "We'll check on that, and we'll contact you if we need anything else." "What about the hard candies?" "Both of these kids were eating them." "My sister too." "Three people eating hard candy in two weeks?" "The girl's right, Mickey." "There's gotta be some kind of connection here." "You know, I'm really sorry about your sister." "But if it was my sister I'd take some personal time, just till I was thinking right again." "Excuse me, Miss Raymond?" "[ GASPS ]" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." "I'm Detective Jack Andrews." "I heard what you were saying and, well, Detective Lee's a good cop but she's a little short on imagination, you know?" " What are you saying?" " I don't really know." "Except Shelley Baum interned with my sister at Saint Luke's." "My sister Jean, she died in a fall two days before Shelley drowned." "Oh, I'm sorry." "But then, you see what I'm saying." "Everybody seems to be linked together somehow." "Something doesn't make sense here so if you can think of anything else, give me a call." "[ DROPS MAIL ON TABLE ]" "[ BLOWING ]" "[ SOBBING ]" "You didn't get a call, did you?" "[ SNIFFLES ]" "But my number was in Brian's cell." "I'm gonna be next." "I can feel it." "No, you don't know that, okay?" "Because my number is in Brian's cell too." "Here." "No power, no problem." "Any dead people call we're not home." "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "[ LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS ]" " Which one is it?" " Uh!" "[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]" "TAYLOR [ WHISPERS ]:" "Who?" "[ TAYLOR GASPS ]" "Oh, God." "Oh, God." "This can't be happening." "There are no batteries." "It says 8:32 p.m. on Friday." "That's two days from now." "[ SCREAMS ]" "[ WHIMPERS ]" "[ FILTERED ] Everything I'm seeing is there." "It's real." "I'm seeing it and it's happening" "[ COHN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ]" "I do not." "Okay?" "[ DOOR CLOSES ]" "Okay, you wanna delete it?" "Do it yourself." "Look, I'm" " I'm sure you'll be fine." "STUDENT:" "I wanna do mine." " You wanna do it too?" "Go ahead." "Go on, you can all do it." "There you go." " That's a" " Wait." "Sorry, ladies." "It just doesn't work that way." "Right." "You're telling me that we can't cancel the service?" "You don't have to cancel." "Just use up your minutes." "That's what I'm trying to tell you." "We don't wanna use this phone at all." "Well, the phone is yours, so you can do whatever you want with it." "[ GRUNTING ]" "Miss Anthony?" " taylor Anthony?" " Yeah." "Ted Summers." "I'm a television producer." "I work on the program American Miracles." "Oh, I've heard of that." "Yeah." "Some students called us about what happened and they told us all about your problem." " Can we help you with something?" "We're" " We were very moved by your story, taylor." " We think we might be able to help you." " How?" "About five years ago, my son suffered a possession." "[ SIGHS ]" "Yeah." "It was pretty devastating for the whole family." "So when I created my show, I wanted to make it a point to build an extensive resource of people who were able to deal successfully with those evil influences like that." "What do you mean, Iike, you do exorcisms?" " I think this is nonsense." " Do you have the telephone on you, taylor?" " What?" "No, we threw it away." " Do you have the phone?" "Well, it wouId really be helpful." "Here." "Here." "Now, you show me exactly what happened when the phone call came in." "BETH:" "Okay, come here." "Nope, nope." "Thank you very much." "This is ridiculous." "Thank you." " We don't need a reality show." " I understand..." " ...you wanna protect your friend." " I do." " I admire that." " Thank you." "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "[ EXHALES ]" "[ TAYLOR SCREAMS OVER PHONE ]" " Come on, Iet's go." " Jesus." "BETH:" "Come on, come on." "Wait, we could s" "Hey, maybe he could help me, Beth." "No, taylor, you don't need an exorcism." "Okay?" "That guy was so full of it." "[ MAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "[ CELL PHONE RINGS ]" "Andrews." "[ ALARM CLOCK BLARING ]" "[ DOORBELL RINGS ]" "[ KNOCK ON DOOR ]" "[ DOORBELL RINGS ]" "JACK:" "Miss Raymond, it is not your imagination." "The phone calls happened." "The other detective said nobody could find the voice mails." "Because the other detective didn't bother to check the phone records." "I did, and it's all right there." "Brian was called by Leann, Leann was called by Shelley, and Shelley was called from my sister." "All right?" "And all the calls came in after the caller was already dead." "Right." "Who called your sister?" "If we could trace it to the source and find out who started this, then" "I was up all night tracking it." "I'm gonna go see her now." " I'll give you a call." "Okay?" " Okay." " I'm gonna come with you." " That's not a good idea." "Yeah, it is, because these are my friends and there's no way I'm gonna sit here." "JACK:" "The call my sister got came from a nurse at an oId-age home." "A woman named Marie Layton." "It's right up here on the right." "[ BABY CRYING IN DISTANCE ]" "[ KNOCKING ON DOOR ]" "WOMAN:" "I wouldn't hold my breath." "Nobody's been in there for more than two weeks now, not a soul." "Okay." "Thank you very much." "You know, I'm gonna go get the super." "That could take hours." "Why don't you just break in?" "I'm a cop." "I'm not." "All right, give it a shot." "[ RATTLING ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "Okay." "I was getting it." "Well, whoever Marie Layton is, she's a hell of a housekeeper, huh?" "[ BEEPS ]" "WOMAN:" "We're not...." "We're not...." "We're not...." "We're not...." "[ CLATTERING ]" "[ GASPS ]" "[ PANTING ]" " Hey, you okay?" " Yeah." "JACK:" "I found this in the living room." "It must be one of those nanny cams." "To keep an eye on the children." "Okay, so judging from the angle, the camera would have been right here." "[ SIGHS ]" "So where did it go?" "[ AIR HISSING, GASPS ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ AIR HISSING ]" "[ BETH PANTING ]" "[ EXHALES ]" "Beth." "Look, if you don't talk to me, I can't help you." "That noise, the inhaler." "I heard it both times, before Leann and Brian" "Then when I Iooked behind me, there was nobody there." "What the hell is happening?" "JACK:" "This is the morgue file of the dead from the Iast month or so." "If Marie Layton died, she did it in another city." "I don't know how you stand looking at this stuff." "The dead ones don't really bother me so much." "Now take a look at this." "All right." "It's not a Marie Layton, but an Ellie Layton." "BETH:" "That's the older daughter from the photograph." "Yeah." "It says she died of an asthma attack in her apartment." "There's a CPS report attached too." "child Protective Services." "Was she an abuse victim?" "It says her mother was questioned by a psychiatric nurse at..." " ..." "Saint Luke's." " Your sister." "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "WOMAN:" "Wanna give me a hand with those?" "MAN:" "Yeah, sure." "Make sure Jesus is centered, all right?" "Let's go, people!" "Let's go!" "Hey, Gary, this is a great place." "I have a feeling it's gonna be a terrific show." " How's our girl doing, huh?" "GARY:" "Not bad." "This is Beth." "I'm calling for taylor." "taylor, when you get this, will you call me, please?" "Thanks." "Jean's papers." "I haven't had a chance to go through them yet but she kept records of everything in case she had to go to court so it's gotta be in here someplace." "[ JACK SIGHS ]" "She was the baby." "I was supposed to look out for her." "I'm sorry." "Is this it?" "It says Marie Layton checked her daughter Ellie into the hospital for an asthma attack." "And here's the little one, Laurel, stuck a needle in her hand." "Laurel, insect bites, a burn on her leg." "Ellie, another asthma attack." "Okay, Laurel again, pesticide in her eye." "Here's another one." "Laurel ingested detergent." "And there, another burn." "Look at that." "That's nine admissions in april and May alone." "Munchausen syndrome by proxy." "It's when a mother wants attention, so she hurts her children so they need medical help." "But there's no way she could've given Ellie asthma." "No, but she could have exposed her to something to set it off." "So Ellie has an asthma attack and dies." "My sister starts asking questions." "Marie gets nervous she's gonna be found out so she takes Laurel and disappears." "I'm gonna go get Missing Persons on this." "[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ON TV ]" "ANNOUNCER [ ON TV ]:" "A cell phone rings and Death is on the line." "A beautiful coed, a ticking clock of ghostly murder." "Next, American miracles takes you there as a famed exorcist tries to outrace the mysterious curse that has already claimed two lives." "spiritual energy exists in the same electromagnetic spectrum as light or microwaves." "It's no surprise it can travel through cellular phones." "And it grows there, Iike a seed where it eventually manifests as hallucinations, spiritual disturbances and finally death." "MAN:" "For you, darling." "BETH:" "taylor, it's Beth." "TAYLOR [ OVER PHONE ]:" "Hey, Beth." "Listen, I'm sorry." "I'm really sorry." "It's okay." "hold on." "We'll be there in a few minutes." "No." "It's gonna work out." "I know it." " No, taylor, listen to me." " There's nothing else I can do." "[ LINE DISCONNECTS ]" " Shit." "GARY:" "Okay, everybody, here we go." "Quiet, please." "And four, three, two...." "RAY:" "We cast out this unclean spirit." "Depart from here, Satan." "Depart, every demonic power every infernal adversary, every legion." "I command you." "I command you in the name of God in the names of all his heavenly angels, to be gone from this cell phone." "I command you by the judge of the living and the dead, you will leave my sister alone." "Come out, I say, in Jesus' name!" "You serpent!" "devil!" "In the name of Jesus of Nazareth you will haunt this child of God no more." "Stop tormenting my sister." "You will come out now!" "[ PANTING ]" "[ TIRES SQUEALING ]" "I am calling you by name, Satan." "Come out." "Show yourself!" "[ GLASS BREAKING ]" "Depart." "Depart this place." "Depart." "Hey, hey, you guys, take it easy." "I'm a cop." "[ CRYING ]" "[ BETH SCREAMS ]" "Keep rolling." "Keep rolling." "[ GASPING, GAGGING ]" "taylor?" "taylor." "taylor." "[ GASPING, GAGGING ]" "[ ELECTRICITY DIES ]" "[ ELECTRICITY HUMMING ]" "[ GASPING ]" "Beth, hey." "You okay?" "Yeah?" "Everybody back off." "Did you get that, huh?" "please tell me you got it." "Huh?" "Ah...." "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "Tomorrow." "You weren't there, Mickey." "You didn't see this." " This girl needs protection." " From what?" "The ghost in her cell phone?" "Tell her to call customer service." "Jack, Mickey's got a point." "Best use of people here is we find the doer." "Yeah." "You're doing a great job so far." "AUTOMATED VOICE:" "Voice call received..." "Saturday, June 17th, 7:55 p.m." "BETH [ OVER PHONE ]:" "Why?" "[ SOBBING OVER PHONE ]:" "Please, just tell me why." "[ LINE DISCONNECTS, PHONE BEEPS ]" "[ DOOR UNLOCKING ]" "Look, are you sure you wanna stay here?" "Maybe you could stay with family instead?" " Well, my father's dead." " Well, what about your mother?" "She and I don't talk very much." " You don't have to stay." " That's not gonna happen, okay?" "I'm not going anywhere." "[ CHILDREN CHATTERING OUTSIDE ]" "[ FOOTSTEPS ]" "[ KNOCK ON DOOR ]" "Look, this isn't over yet." "All right?" " There's still time to figure this out." " Not before 7:55 tonight." "[ SIGHS ]" " Jesus." "Beth, what happened here?" " Oh!" "How old were you when you got those?" "Seven?" "Eight?" "Was it your mother?" "Did your father know?" "When I call you, I expect you to come." "Do you hear me?" "[ WHIMPERING ]" "Do you hear me?" "[ SIGHS ]" "[ SOBBING ]" "My father knew." "[ MRS. RAYMOND LAUGHING ]" "[ SINGS ] Cry, baby, cry" "You're disgusting." "Go ahead." "Go cry to your father." "Daddy?" "[ CLATTERING ]" "Daddy?" "[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]" "[ CRYING ]" "[ CELL PHONE RINGS ]" "JACK:" "Hello." "Yeah." "Okay." "Where?" "All right." "All right, thanks." "That was Missing Persons." "They found Laurel." "She's in a foster home." "She was at Saint Luke's when it caught fire." " Wait." "So she was still at the hospital?" " Yes." "She'd cut her arm, and there'd been a report to child Protective Services." "They were holding her until she could be examined." "What about her mother?" "Do you know where she is?" "She hasn't been seen since the fire." " Well, do you think we could talk to Laurel?" " You can try." "[ FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING ]" "Laurel?" "There are some people here to see you." "Hi, Laurel." "My name's Jack." "It's a cute little teddy bear you got there." "Does your teddy bear have a name?" "She hasn't spoken since the fire." "Laurel, listen to me." "It's very important that we find your mother." "Do you know where she is right now?" "Laurel, do you know where your mother went?" "Do you know where she is?" "[ LOUD TICKING ]" "[ EXHALES ]" "Do you think there's maybe some way that you could talk to her?" "FORD:" "I-- JACK:" "You wanna try talking to her?" "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "What's wrong?" "It's just the song the bear plays." "[ PANTING ]" "Laurel, honey?" "Honey, do you know where your mother is?" "Laurel?" "Can you tell-- ?" "Look at me." "Can you tell us?" "Do you know?" "Can you say something?" "Where is your mother?" "Goddamn it." "Oh, that was great, you know?" "You really have a way with kids." "We have four hours left." "We're not gonna find her in time." "Yes, we will." "The first thing we'll do is go downtown and hit the department computers." "Everybody leaves a trail, ATM machines, credit cards." " We'll track Marie that way." " You do that." "I'll find out about the fire at Saint Luke's." "Everything seems to start there." "Are you out of your mind?" "Don't even think about that." " I'm not letting you out of my sight." " We'll get more done if we split up, okay?" "And I'm safe until 7:55 p.m." "All right." " I'll meet you at the library at 7 sharp." " Okay." "Here, take my other phone." "Call me if you need me." "[ ENGINE STARTS ]" "[ TYPING ]" "[ READING SILENTLY ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "[ WATER RUNNING ]" "[ EXHALES ]" "[ PANTING ]" "WOMAN [ OVER P.A. ]:" "Dr. Nelson, please report to Cardiology." "Dr. Nelson, please report" " Can you ask him to hurry, please?" " I've already called him twice." " Miss Raymond." "Mm-hm." " Dr. Painter?" "I need your help." "You were the doctor on the children's ward the day of the fire at Saint Luke's hospital?" " That's right." " Okay." "Do you remember a little girl, Laurel Layton?" "She was 6." "She had cut herself and you made her stay there so the CPS could investigate." "[ CELL PHONE VIBRATING ]" "[ PHONE BEEPS ]" "Shit." "Sure, I remember her." "Her sister had just died and one of the nurses filled out a report." "Right." "Do you remember her mother?" "Was her mother there when the fire started?" "It was during visiting hours?" "That wouldn't have made a difference." "The mother was there all the time." "[ PHONE BEEPS ]" "Excuse me." "I'm looking for a student, her name is Beth." "She was supposed to be here earlier today." "[ CELL PHONE RINGS ]" "Where are you?" "I think Marie Layton was in the hospital when it burned down." "I think that she might've died there." "impossible." "All the bodies were identified." "I know, but what if they didn't find her?" "What if her body's still inside?" "She was a sick woman, a child abuser." "What if her body is still inside and her spirit's there, moving through the phones..." "[ WHISPERS ] ...attacking people?" "[ SIGHS ]" "Okay, all right." "Where are you?" "I'll come get you." "Well, here we are, miss, Saint Luke's." "DRIVER [ OVER PHONE ]:" "What's left of it, anyway." "JACK:" "Beth, no!" "Wait for me, all right?" "I'm on my way." "Hurry, there's not much time." "[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]" "[ BANGING ]" "[ RATTLING ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "[ DOORKNOB RATTLING ]" "[ GRUNTS ]" "[ DOOR OPENS ]" "[ DOOR CREAKING ]" "[ RATTLING ]" "[ CLANKING ]" "[ GHOST-LIKE MOAN ]" "[ GASPS ]" "[ CREAKING ]" "[ WATER PATTERING ]" "[ BETH GASPS ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ DOOR RATTLES, OPENS ]" "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "[ GASPING ]" "[ PANTING ]" "Shit!" "[ RATTLING ]" "[ DIALING ]" "[ BANGING ]" "[ GASPING ]" "[ SCREAMING ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ SCREAMS ]" " It's okay, it's okay." " She's coming for me." "She's coming." " Okay, come on." "Let's go." " She's coming." "[ BANGING ]" "[ GRUNTS ]" "[ SCREAMING ]" "No!" "No!" "[ BANGING ]" "What the hell is that?" "JACK:" "Come on, Iet's go!" " Try those doors right there." " Uhn!" "[ CRYING ]" "[ SCREAMING ]" "[ BETH WHIMPERING ]" "[ RATTLING ]" "Jack!" "Jack!" "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "No!" "[ RINGTONE CONTINUES PLAYING ]" "[ CLATTERING ]" "[ SOBBING ]" "[ MOANS ]" "[ GRUNTS ]" "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "Beth!" "[ GRUNTS ]" "[ SCREAMS ]" "[ BETH SCREAMS ]" "[ SMASHING ]" "[ GRUNTS ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ SCREAMING ]" "[ PANTING AND GROWLING ]" "please don't hurt me." "please." "[ WHISPERING ] Forgive me." "Why?" "Why?" "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "[ SIREN WAILING ]" "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "JACK:" "She had to be the first." "She had to have my sister's number stored in her cell phone." "I know what she was, but I have this feeling that she brought me here or something to protect me." "Otherwise, why am I still alive?" "[ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ]" "MAN 1:" "Broken pile ready to go?" "MAN 2:" "Yeah." "[ INDISTINCT CHATTER ]" "Do you wanna come in?" "No, I've gotta go tell Laurel that her mother's gone." "Besides, you look like you could use some rest." "Yeah." "Maybe you could call me sometime." "How about tomorrow?" "Tomorrow would be nice." "[ THUNDER CRASHING ]" "[ DOOR UNLOCKING ]" "[ ENGINE STARTS ]" "[ LOCKS DOOR ]" "[ SIGHS ]" "[ THUNDER CRASHING ]" "[ DOOR CREAKING ]" "It's just as well." "I'll tell her myself in the morning." "FORD:" "What is it?" " That's Laurel's, isn't it?" "FORD:" "It looks like hers." "JACK:" "Yeah, that's the teddy bear." "It's a nanny cam." "Records what goes on in the kid's room." "We'll come in here and sit you down." "ELLIE:" "Now, be a nice little girl." "[ FORD GASPS ]" "[ WHISPERS ] Oh, my God." "Now, this will only hurt a little." "[ CUTTING ]" "MARIE:" "Hey, guys" "[ LAUREL PANTING ]" "Get away from her!" "It was you." "It was you the whole time." "[ TEARFULLY ] I should've known." "ELLIE:" "Mama!" "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "Please, help me!" "Mama!" "[ ELLIE WHEEZING ]" "Mama!" "[ GASPING, WHEEZING ]" "[ THUNDER CRASHING ]" "[ WHEEZING ]" "[ LINE RINGING ]" "[ THUNDER CRASHING ]" "[ DOOR CREAKS ]" "Hi, Laurel." "It wasn't your mother who hurt you." "It was your sister, Ellie, wasn't it?" "[ THUNDER CRASHING ]" "But she always gave me candy." " More stuff from the hospital?" " Yep." "CSU will go through it tomorrow." " See you later." " Yeah." "Take it easy, man." "[ RINGTONE PLAYING ]" "[ BEEPS ]" "AUTOMATED VOICE:" "Voice call received Saturday, June 17th  11 p.m." "BETH [ OVER PHONE ]:" "No." "No, wait." "Wait, no!" "[ GRUNT OVER PHONE ]" "HOWIE [ OVER PHONE ]:" "I" " I just thought you should hear this, Jack." "Jack?" "[ MUSIC PLAYING OVER HEADPHONES ]" "Come on." "Come on, pick up." "[ PHONE RINGING ]" "BETH'S RECORDED VOICE:" "Hi." "No one's home, leave us a message." "Beth, listen, okay?" "Marie wasn't the first, it w" "[ SIGHS ]" "So, look, you were right." "Marie wasn't trying to kill you at the hospital." "She was trying to protect you, all right?" "She was trying to keep her daughter away from you." "Call me." "[ BEEPS ]" "[ THUNDER CRASHING ]" "[ CREAKING ]" "[ GASPS ]" "[ THUNDER CRASHING, BETH GASPS ]" "[ DOORBELL RINGS ]" "[ URGENT KNOCKING ON DOOR ]" "[ KNOCKING CONTINUES ]" "[ KNOCKING ]" " Hey, are you all right?" " Yeah." "Look, it wasn't Marie, all right?" "The whole time it was Ellie." "She made the very first phone call." "[ KNOCK ON DOOR ]" "What's that?" "No." "No, wait." "No!" "[ STABBING, JACK GRUNTS ]" "No!" "[ SCREAMING ]" "[ GROWLING ]" "Aah!" "[ ELLIE SCREECHING ]" "[ PANTING ]" "[ BEEPING ]" "[ LINE RINGING ]" "[ RINGING CONTINUES ]"