"[SKATEBOARD ROLLING]" "[CRASHING SOUND]" "(Ronnie (voiceover)) Louisiana..." "spells and voodoo dolls." "A storm at the levee, a witch in the woods." "Bullshit." "nat least, that's what I thought." "I couldn't run from the pain." "None of us can." "The storm at the levee..." "the witch in the woods." "Now I'm a believer." "I believe in her." "Genes spread like a virus, npassed down through generations." "And there's no escaping it." "I hate Louisiana." "I was born here, but I'm not from here." "They said, "I'm so sorry you lost a father."" "I didn't lose a father today." "I lost him when I was five." "College graduation, law school graduation..." "not even a letter," "not even a call." "Clyde was never there to make me a man." "No, I walked that road alone." "[BELL RINGS]" "I don't need him, and I'm not going to run from that." "I don't run from reality." "But no matter how far we go, inevitably, it's our choices that determine who we become, and what becomes of us." "[RECORD PLAYER SCRATCHES, THEN BEGINS PLAYING BLUES MUSIC]" "[HORROR MUSIC BEGINS PLAYING]" "[CRASHING SOUND]" "[SCREAM]" "Is there any way out of here?" "[DOOR UNLATCHES, MUSIC IS PLAYING]" "[MOTOR NOISES]" "(Ronnie (voiceover)) This is Sheriff Steve." "I've only been here a day, but he acts like we're best friends." "In reality, he's actually the only positive thing about this place." "(Ronnie) Morning, Steve." "Oh, hey, good afternoon, Ronnie." "(Ronnie) Clouds are coming in." "Yeah, strange weather." "What the hell you doing up there, Ronnie?" "Don't do anything you're going to regret, now." "You mean something that you'd regret." "Yeah." "Yeah, I guess I would have to clean it up." "[LAUGHS]" "Hey, you want a beer?" "Nah, I can't drink while I'm on duty." "Well, it was a nice memorial service." "I know y'all weren't that close, but..." "(Ronnie (voiceover)) It's hard to get close" "when you move with your mom, and he's not there." "Worked out better." "(Steve) How long you figure on staying?" "(Ronnie) As long as it takes." "So what's it like being a big lawyer in the big city?" "I don't know." "It's just what I do." "I'm sorry." "Fuck... unless you have kids..." "you don't have any kids, do you?" "That's that whole fatherhood thing." "When you're a father, you want one of two things... either have your son carry on the family business, or carry on the family name." "And you've done that..." "you've done that, hands down." "You're here." "I'm sure he's up there, looking down right now and smiling." "Smiling down at you." "I'm sure of it." "[BLUES MUSIC PLAYS]" "(Ronnie (voiceover)) So he was writing me letters the whole time?" "It doesn't change anything." "It doesn't matter." "I never got one damn letter... that's bullshit." "I'm supposed to call?" "I'm supposed to come back?" "A son doesn't chase his own father..." "that's backwards." "I don't need him." "I never needed him." "I got through this on my own." "I worked." "I worked hard..." "five graduations." "He wasn't there." "I didn't need him and I don't need him now." "[CRYING]" "[MUSIC PLAYS BACKWARD]" "[DOOR LATCHES]" "[ELECTRICAL NOISES]" "[DISTORTED VOICE]" "[DOOR CLOSES]" "[GROWLING]" "[PANICKED BREATHING]" "[PANICKED BREATHING] [KNOCKING]" "(mysterious voice) Good evening, Ronnie." "Let me in, hon." "[BANGING]" "[BANGING]" "I can smell you up there, you stink, you stupid pig." "[PANTING AND KNOCKING]" "You know what I want!" "[MOANING]" "[CAR STARTS]" "[BANGING]" "What I want!" "(Ronnie (voiceover)) The dream, the letters." "What happened to my dad?" "What happened to my father?" "I can't go." "[MUSIC SWELLS, THEN STOPS]" "Maybe it has something to do with my father Clyde's death." "This marks the Boulevard of Broken Dreams..." "Lily." "He mentioned that in the letters." "He mentioned that..." "he mentioned the Boulevard of Broken Dreams in the letters." "[BREATHING HEAVILY]" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "[CATCHING BREATH]" "Good afternoon, sir." "My name is Joe." "Good afternoon, sir." "Joe..." "Boissier..." "from the Boissier Parish." "And, uh..." "And I was hiking..." "Good afternoon, sir." "Uh..." "How can I help you?" "Am I interrupting something?" "No, no." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, yeah, what can I do for you?" "Okay, because you've got your drawers on." "Okay." "What can I do for you?" "You're standing there in your underwear, all right." "My name is... it's Joe." "And, well, what was I doing?" "I was hiking..." "I was hiking back here, with my group." "You were hiking?" "Sure as shit." "I didn't know anyone hiked around here." "Okay, uh... uh, so anyway, I was with my friends... and we got separated." "So, um... could I... is there a way that I could maybe..." "Use my phone?" "Sure, thank you kindly." "Yeah, sure." "Come in." "[DOOR CLOSES]" "I'm just going to go upstairs, grab my phone." "Okay, thank you." "[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]" "What's with all the titty pics?" "(Ronnie) I don't know..." "it's my dad's place." "Yeah... your dad got a weird house." "What trail were you hiking?" "I don't remember." "The the one back on that ridge line." "(Ronnie) Okay." "I'll get you some water." "(Jake) Oh, thank you." "(Ronnie) You know, the sheriff's a good friend of mine." "I'll call him up, he'll help you find your group." "You don't got to call the sheriff." "(Ronnie) No, no, no, it's okay." "He's a nice guy, you'll like him." "That's fine, thank you." "No need to call the sheriff." "I'll call myself." "(Ronnie) He's a really good guy, he'll help you." "No, you don't need to call him." "(Ronnie) It's really no trouble, honestly." "Thank you, I'll take the phone." "That's fine, thank you very much." "I'm going to call my friends." " He comes by a lot." "Don't call the sheriff, give me." "He's a personal friend." "It's okay." "You going to give me the phone or not?" "I know him personally." "Set the fucking phone down, goddamn it." "Pass me the phone." "Now sit your ass down." "Sit down, you ain't got to be so slow about it." "Can I put my hands down?" "Put them down then, shit." "What do you want?" "I saw you out there, digging around." "You took a woman's purse, I need it back." "Purse?" "You don't strike me as a purse guy." "It ain't about..." "Fuck." "I want that goddamn purse back." "I saw you out there with it, give it back." "I don't have your purse, okay?" "I need that purse back, now." "Okay, just, just, just, just..." "calm down." "Okay." "It's going to be fine." " I am calm." " All right..." "This is calm." "Do you want to see angry?" "Okay, relax, relax." "This isn't going to help, but I can help you." "Okay?" "Okay, so tell me your master plan." "How does shooting me get your purse back?" "All right, then what?" "Something strange is happening here..." "in this house." "Like what?" "You've got rebels out here stealing your shit?" "I've seen that." "It's a person." "Who?" "I don't know." "I'm sorry?" "Who, or she, or what." "I don't care, let's go." "You know, the place you saw me is the Boulevard of Broken Dreams." "I saw that on the map." "(Jake) We was in the woods, it wasn't in the city." "What are you rambling about?" "(Ronnie) There's a map, and on the map is the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and that's where you were." "What the hell you looking at?" "You're gonna to talk to me, talk to me." "You talking to the goddamn bookshelf." "My father must have known where it was." "Your father knew what?" "Where's your father at?" "Maybe he got it." "My father..." "Your father took my purse, then." "Spit it out then, goddammit." "You're stalling now." "Clyde's dead." "I don't care who Clyde is." "If he died, that's his problem." "You've overstayed your welcome." "Leave my house now." "I over-what?" "I'm not going anywhere." "You're going to help me, right now." "Get out." "Get up, off your ass, and get out of my house." "Oh, you're crazy." "Okay, well, maybe beating your ass ain't going to do nothing." "But I'm going to do it anyway." "[FIGHTING SOUNDS]" "(Jake) Get back here." "There's a photo thing in that purse." "A little girl made it." "I've got to get it back." "I don't think we should go out there." "It's all gonna be snakes and shit... don't know what we're walking into." "It's Louisiana..." "there's snakes." "That's not what I mean." "Don't know if Jake's got something planned out there, or where he went..." "I think it's just stupid to walk into something without knowing what we're walking into." "Yeah... maybe you should go." "Want to go home?" "Hey, give him the keys." "Take the keys." "Go home..." "we'll get a ride home." "I know these woods real well." "Want to go?" "Give me that gun, now." "I'll take it." "How long we gonna be out there?" "For a while." "As long as it takes." "Stop fidgeting." "Where in the world you go, Jake?" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Okay." "What is this thing you're sitting on?" "I'm not sure." "It was here when I got here." "Look like somebody trying to put up a circus." "Why come you just run out the house like that?" "I could have shot you right in the back." "With an empty gun?" "Good plan." "You are a smarty-pants." "It was unloaded." "My apologies for the unloaded gun... and pushing you in the pool like that." "You know, where I'm from, a man usually accepts another man's apology." "Why are you here?" "I told you why." "I need something." "I don't have your purse." "Look, I'm..." "I'm just going to wait around a little bit, okay?" "You can sit there if you want, but I need to stay." "I ain't no trouble." "I can't even load a gun." "(Ronnie) You want to stay, then I need your help." "There are things occurring here that I just don't have a rational explanation for." "I'll help you find what you need," "but then you have to help me figure out what's going on." "(Jake) So if I help you," "you're going to help me get my purse back?" "(Ronnie) Come here, let me show you something." "This is what she wants." "How the hell did a witch own the land, anyhow?" "(Ronnie) One more thing to show you." "I think it ties everything together." "Let me grab my rifle." "Where the hell we goin'?" "Ain't nothing out here but photo things, but no photos in 'em." "It's out here somewhere." "You don't see it?" "(Ronnie) You know, I still don't know what you're looking for." "It's a goddamn purse." "(Ronnie) Big, small..." "It's pink." "Like a girl's purse." "I've done my part." "I told you the purse wasn't here, or I don't have it." "You all right?" "My name ain't Joe." "It's Jake." "Jake Simons." "You ever wonder how you got to a certain point?" "Yeah." "We're here now." "(Ronnie) I know it sounds crazy, but there it is." "You can use my help, I can use yours." "Now it's up to you." "(Jake) You got anything to drink?" "I don't care what it is." "Shit, I'll drink cheap scotch from a gas station." "[NATURE SOUNDS]" "[GROANS]" "God damn it." "Yup." "Okay." "(Ronnie) You get enough to drink last night?" "I bet you already called the sheriff." "Hey." "What's your problem, boy?" "(man 2) I don't have a problem." "No?" "Okay." "What do you know about this creek, then?" "It ain't just a creek, it's man made." "Somebody diverting water somewhere... probably from that lake a mile up." "Which way would he go, if, uh... he was running away." "Which way would you go?" "I'd go east." "Excuse..." "I think there's a boot print there." "See it, there?" "Hey, way to go, Twiggy." "He done something right." "Even a dog can find a dog turd." "[SOUND OF RUNNING WATER]" "What are you doing over there?" "(Ronnie) I'm researching." "(Jake) Well I don't goddamn research, I'll tell you that." "I don't research." "I do..." "I do shit." "I'ma make it happen." "I'm not sitting here all day." "Sitting here ain't helping nobody." "Can we lose the music?" "(Ronnie) Hey." "Hey, come look at this." "(Jake) I don't have time for no games." "(Ronnie) No, no, no, no, no." "(Jake) We're gonna get this bitch." "Listen, we have to look at this..." "I'll put a bullet right in her head." " Look at this, okay?" "No I'm not looking at." "We're going out there, and you're going to show me where my stuff is." "This is what's going to get your purse back." "You know these woods better than I do, don't just fucking sit there." "This is how we're going to trap her." "(Jake) I'm going, get up." "Joe, just sit down, and we'll work it out." "I'm leaving, I'm up out of here." "Damn it, Joe!" "Sit down!" "That's good." "Okay." "What you got to say, man?" "Look, I'm sorry I lost my cool, okay?" "I can't lift this." "I need your help." "What is that?" "It's the platform we were on." "You see the siren?" "This lets us know she's here." "We put gas there... (Jake) That don't make no goddamn sense to nobody." "What is this right here?" "(Ronnie) It says motion detector." "What is this pulley?" "What does any of this do?" "It burns her." "This look like a goddamn mess to me... charts, writings," "I don't understand none of that." "You tell me what this is." "I don't know exactly what it is, but look at this." "That's her, right?" "You see that?" "You think I'm stupid." "I..." "(Jake) You explain to me how that's supposed to help me." "Just... just work with me on it." "We'll get it." "It'll just take a little while." "You know what I think about you, Ronnie Baker?" "I think you a goddamn coward." "You don't ever call me fucking stupid again." "You got that?" "You're stalling." "You're full of shit, and I'm fucking out of here." "(Ronnie) Hey, I'm not a coward." "Yeah, whatever." "Thanks for the information." "Hey, Ronnie." "Hey, Steve." "How are you?" "Oh, the usual." "You know." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "Fine." "Is this your friend?" "Yeah, this is, uh..." "this is Harold, a childhood friend of mine." "Oh, okay." "Nice." "Never seen him around." "Harold, is it, huh?" "Hello, sir." "So y'all going to do a little hunting, or shooting?" "Rabbit hunting." "Rabbit hunting?" "I'll be damned." "Really?" "Boy, you shoot a rabbit with that big old gun, and you're going to send his furry ass to hell in about 50 pieces." "[SHEEPISH LAUGHTER]" "Yeah..." "Yes sir, no shit." "I'll..." "let me run inside, and I'll grab the .22." "(Steve) That makes sense." "Sure does." "Ronnie Boy." "We had a little incident last night in town." "And..." "I don't want to alarm you, or anything, but a girl was hurt pretty bad." "Well, I just come out here to see if you may have..." "So, we're still gathering information." "Just kind of wondering if you knew anything, or heard anything, or if anybody come knocking at you?" "No, just..." "just me and Harold." "Harold, huh?" "What?" "Did my-my dad ever, uh... did you ever respond to any calls from here?" "Why do you ask that?" "I was looking through some of his stuff, and there's some really odd things." "So I was kind of curious if he called, or said anything." "Well, I wasn't going to mention it." "When your daddy started making calls to the station about some lady or some old woman going through his stuff or stealing things, we didn't think much of it." "But, uh..." "I guess the boys thought he was joking around, so they started calling him Crazy Clyde and all kinds of stuff." "You thought he was crazy?" "No, I didn't say that." "I didn't say that." "Well, did you come to check, to verify what he was complaining about?" "We try to keep an open mind about things." "They say if you don't blink you won't miss it." "So I try not to blink." "Oh, hey." "Well, I'll check back with you later." "See ya." "Childhood friend, my ass." "[CAR STARTING]" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "(Ronnie (voiceover)) When the sheriff told me a girl got hurt," "I started piecing the puzzle together with Jake and the purse, and some guys he mentioned." "I don't know..." "Jake doesn't strike me as one who could really do something that bad, so I figured I need him as much as he needs me." "So I decided not to say anything." "And thank goodness I didn't, because this night changed everything." "[STRANGE BREATHING SOUNDS]" "[MYSTERIOUS VOICE]" "(witch) Ronnie." "[FALLING SOUNDS] Ah!" "(witch) Are you mad about the purse?" "I'll leave it here on the floor for you." "(shouting) On the floor, Ronnie!" "I love you, Ronnie." "I hate you, Ronnie." "I hate you, Ronnie." "Get off my land!" "Oh come on, Goddamn it." "[STRAINING]" "She could have killed me." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Look at me." "Look at me." "I hate you!" "I'm surprised you're still here." "(Jake) Somebody had to make sure you... didn't choke on your own spit." "If my head wasn't spinning, I'd mistake your crassness as maybe caring." "[EERIE AMBIENCE SWELLS]" "[SMASHING SOUNDS]" "(Jake) Aw, come on." "(Ronnie) I told you what we have to do." "You don't listen." "Baker, check that out." "It's empty." "(Jake) Look closer." "Lad looks real young." "And that girl's prairie chicken for sure." "(Ronnie) We've got to build it, man." "We gotta finish the contraption." "I know you hate it, but we've got to do it." "There isn't another way." "(Jake) There's got to be a better option. (Ronnie) There's not." "Is this working for you?" "I don't know what else to do." "Listen, I don't know, um... exactly what to do, but..." "There's got to be a better option." "Well..." "Clyde knew what to do." "He wrote that elaborate contraption, the plans." "He even built half of it." "That's the way." "Dammit." "(Ronnie) It's the only way." "So trust me." "Okay." "There is no other way." "(Jake) After the first night, why didn't you just leave?" "(Ronnie) I had a professor who said there's... no such things as a mystery." "Every phenomenon has some explanation." "The question is, how far are you willing to go to discover it?" "You sound like you went to college." "(Ronnie) You sound like you dropped out of high school." "I did." "I only made it to the second year." "I used to run with these older kids, and they knew about this old man..." "had some battery thing," "so we broke into his house, and we stole it." "I remember sitting on my bed, that thing in my lap," "and this force... come over me, like... what did you just do?" "So I dropped it back on his porch." "And I knocked, and I ran." "When those kids found out what I'd done... they were pissed off, for sure." "And I was scared of them." "(Ronnie) So you never went back?" "(Jake) No, I never went back." "Who do you think is in this photo?" "Well, that's Clyde, for sure." "That girl looks real young." "Hey, come look at this for a second." "What does this look like to you?" "You know, you like an idiot out here in all those clothes," "in this heat." "You know, Clyde taught me only a few things, and one of them was, was when you leave the house, wear your Sunday best." "Now tell me what this looks like." "It's obviously a box, right?" "See?" "It's a box." "Okay." "But what are the springs for?" "You're supposed to attach it to it." "Spring into place." "Somebody's supposed to go in there." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "One, two, three." "We're sure we want to do this?" "Jake's been like a brother to us." "Hey, Skinny." "Just shoot the fucking gun." "Oh shit." "Goddamn right." "[GUN COCKS]" "Adios, Jake." "[GUN SHOTS] [CRIES OF PAIN]" "[FALLING SOUNDS]" "Now, go, stay low." "Stay low." "Go inside the house, distract him." "Hey, Skinny, go in there and turn it on." "All right." "I'm going to see Jake inside." "Help out Skinny." "Okay." "Shit." "All right, just wait here." "All right, they're coming." "All right, I'll kick his ass." "I'll kick his ass good, all right." "Yep." "[BLUES MUSIC PLAYING]" "Well, good evening." "Where's Jake?" "We saw him in here." "Well, Jake left." "Y'all scared the shit out of him." "Well, where'd he go?" "He went that way." "Well what the hell's out there?" "Out there?" "Oh, witches, snakes, gators, Jake." "You just tell me where Jake Simons is, and you don't need to get hurt." "Do you need a lantern?" "No, I do not need a goddamn lantern." "Would you like to read a great book?" "No, I don't want to read a great book." "Shut your fucking mouth, and tell me where Jake Simons is, right now." "Oh, hi." "Hope you don't mind me coming in your humble abode." "Door was open, I took the liberty." "Would you mind if we drop your music a little?" "No, I love this record." "Hm." "[MUSIC STOPS]" "Hm." "Hm." "Don't touch that." "Robert E. Lee." "We're just looking for a friend of ours." "Saw him in here." "Where he at?" "Well, like I was telling your employee..." "I ain't his Goddamn employee." "Please, adults are speaking." "Forgive me, you were saying?" "He left." "Really?" "Hm." "Where he at?" "Why he leave?" "We just want to..." "uh, talk to him." "He probably left because of the gunfire." "Yeah, maybe." "Jake has something of ours." "We just want to talk to him about it, that's all." "Well, like I said, he's... he went that way." "Oh, okay." "Now... why didn't you run?" "Well, were you shooting at me?" "[LAUGHS]" "Oh, no... maybe." "Mm." "See..." "Make a deal with somebody, don't freak out midway." "Grab her purse, and then run off, like a little bitch." "Okay, thank you." "I'll remember that." "Please do." "Now, where is the purse?" "Don't make me ask twice." "I loathe asking twice." "Right there." "That was easy." "I'll watch him." "(Ronnie) There's no money in it." "A witch, Lily Grace..." "she has it." "[LAUGHS]" "You bat shit, boy?" "There ain't no witches." "No?" "Okay." "The boss man says stay here." "Just wait here for a minute." "All right, he'll come out." "Kick his ass, all right?" "Kick his ass." "This dude ain't going to tell us shit." "Okay." "Hey, hey, there's Jake out there." "Go get him." "Hey, Skinny!" "Shit, who... hey, who is that?" "Come back..." "what the hell's going on?" "Yo, where's everybody going?" "No, stay here, stay here, all right?" "Boss man says stay here, okay?" "Hey, boss man, you in here?" "Can't see a damn thing." "[DOOR CREAKS]" "[ALARM GOES OFF]" "Ow!" "Holy shit, what the hell?" "What the hell is this?" "Bright lights." "It's like sixth of July in here." "Hey, Twiggy." "Oh shit, what the hell is wrong with you?" "(witch) Who are you?" "Another bastard here to steal from me?" "No, no, no, I'm here..." "I'm here for Jake." "That's it." "(witch) Get out of here!" "You get out of here." "Listen, I don't want to hurt you." "Ah!" "Jesus!" "[CRACKING SOUND]" "Jake!" "Goddamn it." "Where you at, boy?" "(witch) You smell like you've had a rough night, young man." "You did this?" "[HEAVY, LABORED BREATHING]" "[SCREAMING]" "(Ronnie) I know what you want." "Come outside." "[SCARED BREATHING]" "Ronald, heads up!" "[RATTLING SOUND]" "It's time!" "Reach in." "Take it." "It's your fault." "I did everything I could." "[CRIES OF PAIN]" "You lied!" "(Ronnie) Look at you." "You wanted this." "I hate you, Ronnie!" "Your father was a crook!" "You took a father from me." "It's your fault." "I did everything I could." "Shit!" "(Ronnie) She took it, Jake." "(Jake) You're a sick son of a bitch." "(Ronnie) She took it, Jake." "She had your purse, Jake." "She had it." "I helped you get it back." "Oh, Ronald." "Don't do this!" "I know you took the purse." "You used me, I get it." "I don't know anything about a purse." "I don't know what you're talking..." "lose my cool." "It's a two man job." "I can't lift this, I need your help." "Trust me, there is no other way." "This isn't for you." "Ronald, think about what's happening." "She killed my dad." "I know it." "I have to." "Only person killed Clyde was Clyde." "You saw her, Jake." "Don't you understand what this thing is?" "Are you saying she a witch now?" "This dude is loony as hell." "You bat shit, boy?" "We try to keep an open mind about things." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Okay, I get it." "You're crazy." "Where's the purse?" "It's over there." "That was easy." "What are you scanning for?" "I don't know." "I'll be damned." "Somebody's supposed to go in there?" "[SCREAMS]" "I won't let you do this." "You're going to kill us both." "Put it down." "I'm not going to watch a man do this to himself." "She'll never leave us alone." "She will never give up." "Yes she will." "You can make it stop." "I was a good son." "Put it down." "Look at yourself!" "(Clyde (voiceover)) My son, Ronnie." "Life can really suck." "Nit's a dark and confusing place." "I'm sorry." "You don't have to forgive me." "But forgive yourself." "Don't let this hold your heart hostage." "Don't descend into darkness." "We all feel defeat." "NEverybody has a pain inside him." "NNobody knows exactly what to do." "NMy hope is that you rise above." "Be better than this..." "be better than me." "Be happy." "Defeat her." "Don't build it." "NThere's always a better option." "There's always a better way." "I gave a name to my pain." "(Jake) Ronald, man, put it down." "This ain't the answer." "(Ronnie) You're a liar." "And a coward." "This isn't for you!" "Ow!" "(Ronnie) You ask if she's real?" "I ask, is reality an illusion?" "[BLUES MUSIC PLAYING]"