"Hi, Emily." "Didn't need to be like this, did it?" "Emily Gray." "First class honors, high school." "Graduated Vancouver." "Everything seems to have gone along pretty swimmingly until 1995, then 1996 comes along and... wow." "You tried to drown a little boy in the lake out of the blue." "You served five years for that you're out for only one and then this mess." "You want to tell me what's going on?" "I mean, you do, right?" "That's why you confessed." "I'm all ears, Emily." "You got something worth saying, let's hear it." "What the hell happened?" "What if I told you that I knew the meaning of life?" "The thing you have to understand is... either everything has meaning or nothing does." "Look around." "Life is just an accident, man." "A random collision of particles in space." "Any meaning it has is only one we've given it ourselves." "Just like a riddle." "What do the poor have that the rich want and God fears?" "Like death or love of God, the answer to the riddle all depends on how you look at things." "What the poor have, that the rich want, that God fears." "Simple." "Nothing." "That is so for real." "It's like everything is one big puzzle in your mind." "Hmm." "And every mind is different." "You were late." "I got sidetracked." "Buildings have alarms but there's no on-site security." "Go." ""What demands an answer but asks no question?"" "Okay, Sara, you ready for this?" "It's in kind of a strange place." "Thanks for the tip, Dad." "What's the next clue?" "You're holding it." "You're one strange puppy, you know that, lady?" "Three years in that store, you're the first person I've met into this shit that's not a kid or a freak like me." "Well, if you want to see the world differently you have to practice seeing it differently." "Whatever rows your boat, baby." "By the way, you've got three minutes to go." ""Just keep letters that win this race, then find your final resting place. "" "Letters that win this race." "First letters." "Phone number." "J" " K-L." "That win this race." "Find your final resting place." "Gotcha." "What is life?" "Who are we?" "Why are we?" "Why do things happen the way they happen?" "Today in our philosophy discussion we'll be looking at three key figures." "Aristotle, Descartes and Nietzsche." "Three different men with three very different views of the world." "Novak." "Hey, Novak." "I just want to tell you how moved I was by what you said the other day in class." "All that stuff about the nature of reality and everything." "It really touched me, you know?" "And I thought that maybe you and I could go out sometime and discuss it a little more in-depth." "Thanks, Curran, but I think I'll pass." "Oh." "I'm serious." "You know Marie, right?" "We've got this little study group going and we'd both very much value your input." "But I have to say, it's not so much a... metaphysical thing, as it were." "It's really more a hands on, you know?" "So how about it?" "Would you be interested in a group learning experience?" "Oh come on, it was just a question." "Curran, have you ever stopped to wonder why none of the little games you play ever work or do you just figure it's a hygiene problem?" "I'm only responding to all your dirty little signals, honeysuckle." "Well readjust your radar, Romeo." "Okay, so maybe I got you all wrong, but at least I'm not the one lugging some big dark secret around with me all the time." "Hmm?" "You've got a secret, Novak." "The whole school practically knows it." "Let me guess, I'm a closet nymphomaniac." "Oh, ah." "Twice a week you drive a car to school but then take the subway home at night." "And then back the next morning." "So that means you must be going somewhere you don't want your car to be seen." "Right?" "I guess little Miss Angel isn't such an angel after all." "So come on, tell me." "Where do you go when you catch the train?" "All right, people." "As most of you know, the lousy bastards that pay our minimum wage have sprung for the proceedings this evening." "Their way of saying thanks for doing a good job." "Lads, keep fooling them." "Go ahead and open it." "Did you manage to fit an entire security system in here this time?" "Or maybe just a shotgun?" " Look and see." " You know I took the revolver back." "There's no way I'd ever use that thing." "It's your birthday, will you get on with it?" "Dad, it's beautiful." "As a police officer I can tell you mace is effective up to six feet away." "How the hell's my girl doing anyway?" "You doing okay?" "The usual, I guess." "Studying a lot." "You going out?" "Seeing people?" "Mm-hmm." "You know, Sara, when all your friends went away for university and you decided to enroll here I thought maybe it was for the best." "After all you've been through it would give you some continuity." "Then your grades started to slip and I thought, well it's natural." "But to just sit at home, watch the world slip by." " Dad." " You have got so much." "A man is running late for work one day." "In his rush he forgets to grab his umbrella and his raincoat but he still manages not to get wet." "How?" "'Cause it never rained." "Ah." "I'm assuming you have a point." "You always want me to be so prepared against failure." "And burglary." "You have to let me live my life, though." "Find my own answers." "So while you're looking you can come over tomorrow night and see me and Lea." " We could go to the movies." " Get cozy and play happy family?" " Thanks, but I'll pass." " "Sara. "" "I don't need a replacement caregiver, Dad." "You married her, not me." "I've got an early start tomorrow." "I should just go." "Sara." "Your real present." " Is this Mom's?" " Yeah." "It's good to look for answers." "Sometimes you look too hard, you lose the ones you already have." "I'm okay." "The curse of human consciousness is that it longs to know only that which is unknowable." "For all our philosophizing, can the meaning of life ever truly be understood?" "With exams only two weeks away, let us hope for your sakes, that at least some of it can." "Look, Curran, it's not gonna happen, okay?" "Not here." "Not in a plane." "Not on a train." "I have my secrets, too." ""You ever hear stories" on TV sometimes that don't make any sense?" "Maybe a train derails for no reason." "Or an unexplained fire breaks out somewhere." "You know, a mystery." "A few years ago police found out about this invitation that was being sent around." "Some people got it in the mail or on the computer." "Even painted it on the side of their house." "The invitation was a riddle." "What do you mean?" "All I know is the answer led you to an abandoned building somewhere in the city." "If you could work out where it was, then you became part of a game." "The rules were simple." "You begin receiving riddles." "Anonymous ones." "Once you solved them all you had to do was return to the building and write the answer on the wall." "If you got a certain number of them right then one day you'd be shown "the design"." "It's this idea riddle freaks are into." "You know, that all those unexplainable events out there that no one can make any sense out of, they're all just part of one big riddle we don't understand." "Well, according to the game, if you played long enough one day you get a chance to see the answer to that riddle." "This... was the calling card of the game." "Want to tell me where you got if from?" "'Cause you really don't want to get involved." "Uh, just a friend." " It was a joke." " Funny kind of joke." "Yeah, funny kind of guy." "Believe me." "So what happened?" "You said the cops found out." "Yeah, that woman a few years ago tried to drown that boy in the lake." "It was all over the news." "Emily Gray?" "Yeah, when the cops questioned her about it all she would say was that it was part of the design." "Your joking me." "No, your friends joking, remember?" "I'm just hitting on you." "When 34-year-old Emily Gray attempted to drown her neighbor's child in the city harbor last year all of Toronto was left in a state of shock." "Tonight in an exclusive interview, we get a chance to speak with Emily for the first time." "He was just a little boy." "Dennis Reveni." "12 years old." "Why did you try to kill him?" "Cyclone hits a tropical island kills 45 people." "Train derails in Korea." "The brakes fail on a school bus in Calgary" "Why?" "What reasons are there for anything?" ""Near your house police" found an abandoned building with words spray-painted all over the walls." "Did you try to murder this boy as... part of some game?" "It was all part of the design." "When he looks in the mirror he knows" "I never sinned." "When it's ajar." "What has keys but no lock?" "Space but no room?" "You can enter but never go in?" "You can enter but never go in." "A keyboard." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Sara!" "I just heard." "What the hell's going on?" "Someone chased you?" "It was the cleaner." "He thought I was stealing." "I thought- I overreacted." "Miss Novak." "I think we found what scared you." "It was in the computer." "Source of the images." " Images?" " It's nothing." " A practical joke." " Sara, was this harassment?" " Dad." " I think we should file a report." "Dad, listen." "I am fine." "Really." "At least let me give you a ride home." "Oh God." "Are you all right, dear?" "I um..." "I have a study thing." "I forgot." " Now?" " Yeah, in the library." "I've got to go, okay?" "I will call you." "Sara." "Sara!" "Excuse me." "Sara." "Curran's friend, right?" "Yeah." "Do you know where he is?" "I need to talk to him." "So the rumors are true, I take it." "You're going through a younger guy thing." "I've been there." "Look, I don't know what you've heard," "I just need to ask Curran a question." "Right." "He was at the Chez M." "My work." "Curran dropped by last night." "I haven't seen him since." "You know, now you're trying a few new things out, maybe you could drop by too sometime." "I could show you a few tricks." "We've all got our secrets, honey." "Why'd you give this to me, Curran?" "If you saw me then I saw you." "Okay, Curran, what's your game?" "I know where you go when you catch the train." "What's up, man?" "Just thinking about that stuff we talked about the other day." "You know, life and stuff." "Yeah, well, meanings what you make it." "It's all in your head." "I know." "I know, and that is why" "I've come up with a little something." "You know, a riddle that has meaning if you look at it just the right way." "All right." "Go." "What's a ghost's favorite color?" "Boo." " Yeah." " Oh." "No, I know, I know." "But think about it." "Okay, think about it, because if that's true... then what would be a ghost's favorite thing to wear?" "Boo jeans, dude." "I know." "That's pretty for real." "Yeah, look..." "I've got to grab some stuff from the back." "Yeah, okay." "I'm glad he caught that on tape." "Ancient riddles." "Riddles of the mind." "Riddles for the spider." ""What has rivers but no water, forests but no trees, cities but no buildings. "" "Fine." "A map." "A map." ""Find Romeo's Girl and the word of fear will then be here. "" "Curran?" "Curran?" "Okay, so you know where I go when I catch the train." "What do you want?" "It's just a game." "No big deal." "Curran." "Curran?" "Curran." "Sara?" "Sara, what are you doing here?" "Oh fine." "Sara... come on." "Sara no." "Sara stop." " The police, we have to call them." " No, we can't call the police." " He's dead, Vern." " Sara!" "Sara!" "You were playing the game." "That's what you were doing here, right?" "Now we can't go to the cops." "Oh, we have to." "Someone is setting us up for this." "Do you understand?" "Do you understand!" "Now get in the truck." "Go home." "We'll meet tomorrow." "Go home." "Go home." ""A man lies dead" in the middle of the desert." "All he has with him is an unopened package." "The unopened package explains his death." "What's in the package?" ""What are you" mumbling about in here?" "Nine across." "Unopened package explains the man's death." "Bing!" "Parachute." "Oh." "I got to get to work." "Oh, honey, do me a favor, would you?" "Some of Sara's mail came here." "I thought if you returned them to her it might be a nice excuse to pop in say hi." " You never give up, do you?" " Huh?" "For God's sakes, Jeff." "She treats me like a rash." " That's not true, Lea." " "Isn't it?"" " Tom." " Sorry to bother you, boss." "There's been a situation." "You lied." " I'd never seen that before." " You were playing the game, Sara." "Don't you think that's close enough?" "Yesterday someone left a nice little message for me on one of my windows." "At the other end of it all was you and a corpse." "Now I might be a little slow here, but what the fuck is going on?" "About six months ago my car wouldn't start." "I was running late so I caught the subway." "It was just like you said, Vern." "Written by the tracks, this riddle." "I didn't know what it was." "I thought maybe it was from you so I answered it." "The answer led me to the abandoned building." "When I got there the rules to the game were spray-painted on the floor." "They were easy." "Write your answer to the subway riddle on the wall of the building." "That was it." "Then one day, maybe after one riddle or 100, you'd finally get to see it." "The reason behind everything we don't understand you would understand somehow." "So I did it." "I went back to the subway and they were there, and" "You answered them." "And you had no idea who they were from?" "Real good, Sara." "That's real good." "I didn't think anything would happen." "What do we do now?" "We?" "Look, I take full responsibility for this, okay?" "Really." "This whole time I was thinking you were just this chick into her intellectual thing but you know, normal." "Turns out you're a psycho." "Oh spare me the Miss naive act." "I saw that body too, remember?" "What?" "You think I did it?" "I found him like that." "Oh yeah, out of the blue there he was." " I was playing the game." " Answering riddles in the subway." "Crawling around in the dark, you said." "What you didn't say was why." "Come on, Sara." "Good-looking, educated girl like you." "I bet the boys are lining up a mile long for their piece of white bread." "But you decided to come down here instead." "Slum it with the likes of me." "Play your little mind games." "Well something doesn't smell quite right." "Why are you doing this?" "Why are you playing this thing?" " Why are you playing the game?" " I was in a car crash, okay?" "My mother was driving." "It killed her, I was thrown clear." "If there is a reason, a design," "I guess I just wanted to know what it was." "Sara, it's just a game." "It's not real." "What is a game, Vern?" "Something where you have to give the pieces back once your time's up." "Well guess what, it means it's all a game." "Life, everything, one big game." "We have to find out more about this thing." "Who else is playing it?" "Any idea where to start?" "Curran's friend saw him before he was killed." "She works here." "Novak, what the hell are you doing?" "Who's he?" "You're the one who knows all about my secrets." "Why don't you tell me." "Everyone's got secrets, honey, remember?" "I don't know what you're talking about, Novak." "You and Curran had something going on." "Your little swingers thing." "Now you're going to tell me about the rest of it." "What's my secret, Marie?" "If you're talking about what Curran said, he told me you were a stripper, okay?" "For another bar around here." "Someone gave him this card." "Some kind of VIP pass." " Was this it?" " "What are you?"" "Her pimp or something?" " A stripper?" " Romeo's Girl." "Place used to be a strip bar before it was abandoned." "So who's the person who gave him the card?" "I don't know." "He just said some guy." "Just some guy?" "Nothing else?" "All he said is he had been given the VIP pass for a club and some kind of password." ""I never sinned. "" "You know, you say the password, you get the special treatment." ""I never sinned"?" "You heard it before?" "He was just a little boy." "Dennis Reveni 12 years old." "Why did you try to kill him?" "When he looks in the mirror he knows" "I never sinned." "That's one very mixed up lady." "Something happened to her, Vern." "Straight A's through college, a good job, a family." "She was playing this thing and she went crazy." "Let's say something did happen to her." "Some kind of cult thing, maybe." "We've got worse things to worry about here." "Someone wanted us to find that body for a reason." "Well, according to her public access file," "Emily Gray was released from an asylum for the criminally insane last year." "They keep her in a halfway house just outside Toronto now." "Whatever's happening, it ain't over." "In breaking news parts of Toronto University are being sealed off today as police investigate a murder." "Known for the attempted drowning in 1992 of a small boy," "Emily Gray this morning has confessed to killing a student from the local university." "Why'd you do it, Emily?" "It was all part of the design." "Police are refusing all comments until a psychiatric assessment has been made." "Still hasn't said anything?" "Other than her initial statement, no." "And of course a request to see you." "We found the body in the bushes by the library." "It had been dragged there from some place else." "It's been identified." "The victim is who she claims." "Jeremy Curran." ""It was all part of the design. "" "In other words her wheel's spinnin' but the hamster's dead." "What about her lawyer?" "He's given clearance for you to talk to her." "He thinks maybe she's seen you on TV before." "She's making some kind of connection." "Okay." "Thomas, get a copy of her character profile." "Now, she phoned in initially, right?" "Let's get a recording of that too." "Damned if I know why she wants to talk to me, but I promise you this, she won't ask twice." "I know what's happening." "The Buddhist monks knew it all along." "What is the sound of one hand clapping or where does the room go once you leave it?" "They believed once you opened yourself up to enigmas you began to see the world differently." "You know who the figure on this card it?" "Neither did I, so I did some research." "Nemesis." "It's the closest translation they found for his name." "He was an Indian monk from around 400BC." "He broke away from his monastery to study the way of enigmas." "Two years later, he was executed for murder." "You wanna know how they caught him?" "He confessed." "Emily Gray." "Nemesis claimed, just like all the other mysteries of life, the murder in his confession could be understood through the contemplation of riddles." "In the years after his death a game was developed by his followers." "The players solved riddles and wrote their answers on the temple of prayer." "One day, if they were diligent, it was said they'd go to write their answers on the wall, only this time they would find a riddle waiting there instead." "The final enigma." "And if they solved it" "They would see the design." "Those that saw the design would then leave more riddles for others to follow." "So Emily Gray tries to drown the boy after she plays the game." "If she had drowned the boy, my guess is she would have confessed." "But she failed, so they lock her up." "When they finally let her out, she tries again." "This time she does kill someone, your friend, and then confesses." "Just like Nemesis." "Vern, what are you doing?" "What I should have done from the start." "What, you mean the police?" "First you want to leave them out of it, then when someone confesses you want to get involved?" "Sara, if you hadn't noticed, something's not quite right here." "According to your stripper friend, someone tricked Curran into going to that building." "It wasn't Emily Gray, it was a man, someone you know.." "Think about it." "The riddle you found in the subway." "Was it random?" "They had to know who you were, what you were into." "They even knew about me." "They left the riddle of the store." "Whatever's going on here, it's not just about Emily Gray." " We can't go to the cops." " Yeah, well watch me." "Vern..." "What if it's real?" "What if there's something happening that we can't explain?" "Don't you want to know the answers?" "You just don't get it, do you?" "Your mother died." "I'm sorry, that's messed up, but if you're looking for some kind of magic potion for your problems, just 'cause you had a rough ride, well guess what?" "You're not the only one." "Try watching two of your friends die in a construction fire that was your fault." "Try getting over that in a hurry." "We've withheld evidence of a murder here." "If we don't tell the cops what happened then our credibility's gone." "And that's all we've got right now." "We've got nothing but our word here." ""Find Romeo's Girl and the word of fear will then be here. "" "What are you talking about?" "Nothing." "Maybe you're right, maybe we shouldn't go to the cops." "Go home." "Get rid of anything to do with riddles, anything to do with the game." " You think we can cover this up?" " Just our part of it." "Get rid everything that connects you to this thing." "What about you?" "I gotta check something first." "Hi, Emily." "Didn't need to be like this, did it?" "Emily Gray." "First class honors, high school." "Graduated Vancouver." "Everything seems to have gone along swimmingly until 1995." "Then 1996- wow!" "You tried to drown a little boy in the lake out of the blue." "You served five years for that, you're only out for one and then this mess." "You want to tell me what's going on?" "I mean, you do, right?" "That's why you confessed." "I'm all ears, Emily." "You got something worth saying, let's hear it." "What the hell happened?" "What if I told you that I knew the meaning of life?" "That every leaf that falls, every bee you crush under foot" "It's all part of a design, so complex it looks like chaos." "But it's not." "Is there a Santa Claus too?" "Okay, you got me, what's the design?" "Describe the color red." "Some things you have to see for yourself." "Right." "So, how do I see this design?" "Look, Emily, if you want someone who's gonna pant and beg for what's going on in your head, you've got the wrong guy." "Either you tell me what this is all about or I'm out of here." "Right?" "What's the design?" "Okay." "That just about covers it." "Good luck with the padded cell." "Have you figured out why it happened yet?" "You're poor wife." "Three days in the hospital." "Her rib cage crushed by the steering wheel." "You haven't been able to make any sense out of it, have you?" "Who told you that?" "Just because somehow you got a hold of my file, doesn't mean to say I'm gonna roll over and play dead." "I hate to be the one to tell you this, lady but there is no design." "You're crazy." "Am I?" "Because I tried to drown a boy?" "Because I killed a student?" "Is that so wrong?" "Is an earthquake wrong when it kills?" "Or car?" "Or a flight of stairs?" "Why don't you just admit it, you don't understand why anything happens." "And you never will." "Congratulations, Emily, you're the only one in the whole wide world who knows the design." "Not the only one, Jeff." "There are many of us." "When I look in the mirror" "I know his name." "Another who has seen the design as I have." "Look a it in the mirror." "Look at what?" "Ask your daughter." " Hello?" ""Sara. "" " I need you to listen to me." " Dad." "Do you know anything about a woman named Emily Gray?" "What?" "She claims- you know something about a "design. "" "She looks in the mirror and she says she sees a name." "Do you know what that means?" "Does this mean anything to you, Sara?" "Yes." "Listen," "I want you to get in your car and go to the house, do you understand?" "I want you to go somewhere safe." "Sara." "Yeah." "Yeah, I'll go." "It'll be okay, I'll see you soon." "Dennis Reveni." "He was just a little boy." "Dennis Reveni." "12 years old." "Why did you try to kill him?" "When he looks in the mirror, he knows," "I never sinned." "I'm here." "So where's the word of fear?" "All right, I'm here." "This is what you wanted, right?" "I'm supposed to come here with the answer." "Well, here I am." "You win, man." "I thought you were the village idiot, okay?" "You win, man." "What do you want from me?" "You wanna kill me?" "Is that it?" "You wanna kill me too, you ghost." "A riddle." ""What eats to live but never drinks?"" "You want me to answer it?" "Is that it?" "You want me to come down here and write the answer to your riddle on the wall." ""What eats to live but never drinks?"" ""What eats to live but never drinks?"" "Sorry." "I was just this little boy and I was playing by the water." "And she came up and she tried to push me under." "She tried to kill me and I never understood why," "until I found this riddle." "When I answered it, I suddenly knew." "It's all part of the design, Sara." "You understand?" "No matter what we do" "Emily showed me, there's no right or wrong, there's only the design." "We kill because there's no reason not to." "You can't run away from it, Sara." "We all have our role to play in this." "I know mine." "Do you know what yours is?" "You'll see it soon." "Tom, is she okay?" "Whoa, boss, boss, boss..." " Just give her a minute." " What happened?" "A street kid attacked her." "We got two witnesses who saw" " Street kid?" " Died 10 minutes after we got here." "There was a struggle." " He had a gun." " Who was he?" "That's what we're trying to get from her now." "Sara," "I need you to think really clearly right now." "I want you to tell me exactly what happened." "I was attacked by a gunman." "His name was Dennis Reveni." "What was he doing here?" "You knew who he was." "When we searched the body, we found this in one of the pockets." "It appears he knew who you were." "Sara... you okay?" "Baby." "On the phone you said you knew something about all of this." "You gotta help us now." "What happened?" "Sara, please." "You know honey, we might never know why Mom died." "But if we knew all the answers, we wouldn't be human." "Maybe" "Maybe not knowing the answers, but going on living- that's what life's all about." "Tom." "Yeah?" "I'm gonna take her down to the station myself." "You okay?" "You want me to come with you?" " No, we'll be okay." " All right." "Sara!" "Vern?" "Vern, are you in here?" "Do you know the answers now?" "Do you understand?" "Is there really a design?" "It's all part of the design, Sara." ".. Come as you are sweetheart,.." ".. Come as you are.." ".. You know you've got nothing to prove.." ".. Put you to bed, you can.." ".. Let it all go.." ".. You've been playing too rough lately.." ".. You burn.." ".. Too bright.." ".. You live.." ".. Too fast.." ".. This can't go on too long.." ".. You're a tragedy starting to happen.." ".. Just as you are, perfect.." ".. Just as you are.." ".. Give you time you deserve.." ".. Don't make those promises.." ".. Don't tell me again.." ".. That dust is gonna settle.." ".. Your nerves.." ".. You burn.." ".. Too bright.." ".. You live.." ".. Too fast.." ".. This can't go on.." ".. Too long.." ".. You're a tragedy starting to happen.." ".. You burn.." ".. Too bright.." ".. You live.." ".. Too fast.." ".. This can't go on.." ".. Too long.." ".. You're a tragedy starting to happen.." ".. You burn.." ".. Too bright..."