Once Upon a Crime (2025) Movie Script
[gentle ambient music]
[gentle rock music]
[haunted music]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying and whimpering]
Let me go, please, let me go!
You know the deal.
As soon as your father pays
the ransom, you can walk away.
[Hostage gasping for air]
Why are you doing this?
[Kidnapper] It's nothing personal.
Your daddy's got a lot of money.
He can miss it.
[Hostage crying]
Now hopeful, he'll miss you.
I'm begging you, please let me go.
Hey.
Listen.
I did 15 years in Angola.
You know, Louisiana State Penitentiary?
I ain't got no feelings for
anyone anymore, or sympathy.
Save your breath.
[Hostage crying]
[suspenseful music]
You know, you remind me
a little of my daughter,
you look a little like her too.
When she used to wake up
in the middle of the night,
I'd have to tell her a story
to put her back to sleep.
You have a daughter?
How would you feel if
someone kidnapped her?
Well, if I had the money,
I'd pay to get her back.
Now, you wanna hear a
story to pass the time?
- Fuck you.
- Okay.
Here's a story.
Here's a story about another
girl that was kidnapped.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
Don't you understand how
they're manipulating you?
Can't you see how they're
taking advantage of you,
how they're twisting the truth
around everything you believe?
Don't you see how they're hurting you?
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage grunting]
[kidnappers yelling]
[Hostage crying out]
We're not gonna hurt you.
- Someone help.
- We're not gonna hurt you.
- Why are you kidnapping me?
- If you keep on screaming,
and keep it on, I'm gonna gag you,
and I don't wanna do that.
[Hostage crying and whimpering]
I'm not gonna tell you again.
Shut your mouth.
Listen, listen.
We're here to help you.
We're not here to hurt you.
We have a long drive, it's a few hours,
do you wanna be gagged
back, or can you stay calm?
[Hostage whimpering]
- No!
[Hostage continuing to whimper]
Last chance.
You were in such a bad state,
and you had no direction in life.
You were always searching for
love, searching for people,
who would accept you, when
it's been us, all along.
We are the ones who love you.
We are the ones who accept you.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying out]
- Hey, I know,
I know what you're going through.
All right?
[Hostage crying]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying]
I know right now you
think we're the enemy,
but deep down, deep down, you
know, we're here to help you.
We are here to save you.
They filled your head with
lies and cruel fabrications.
I know you're scared.
I know you're confused,
I know you're angry,
but we're here to help you.
We're gonna save you.
[suspenseful music]
[chains rattling]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage screaming]
[suspenseful music]
[footsteps echoing]
- How is she?
- Can we see her?
Not yet.
Give us a little time.
I don't have any more time.
She's been gone almost a year.
They've had her for almost a year.
Who knows what they filled her head with?
I just wanna talk to her.
I just wanna like, hold her in my arms,
and let her know that she's safe here,
and we all love her, and
everything's gonna be okay.
Will you tell that we're here,
and that no matter what
she's been through,
no matter what kind of
garbage they've tried
to fill her head with, just
tell her that we love her,
and none of that matters.
Will you please just, just
let her know that we love her.
I will.
And she knows, deep down, she knows.
[suspenseful music]
[footsteps echoing]
You can't keep me here.
You can't kidnap me like this.
You can't keep me against my will.
I made a mistake last time,
but I found the people
that really love me.
I found the people that
truly care about me.
I mean, you can't take me away from them.
They're my real family.
They really care about
me, not like you, people.
I don't care what you say,
the lies you try to fill
my fucking head with,
I am not staying here, okay?
I wanna go home now to my true family.
Do you understand me?
I'm not gonna listen to you again.
I'm not.
I wanna go home now to my true family.
Do you fucking hear me?
I wanna go home!
Now!
Your mother wants to see you.
She is not my real mother.
Of course she is.
Mother is a selfless, loving person,
who always sacrificed her wants and needs
for the wants and needs
of her child, okay?
Keep these strangers away from me.
You're angry, you're
scared, you're confused.
Your mind is filled with
uncertainty and chaos.
They brainwashed you.
They clouded your judgment
and your thinking.
And it's our job to help you see clearly
again.
- Stop trying to reprogram me.
I'm not.
We just wanna reacquaint
you with the real you.
- Your father's also here.
- He is
not my father.
- He is.
- No, he isn't.
- He is, he is your father.
[suspenseful music]
- Let them try.
[suspenseful music]
[chains rattling]
[Hostage muttering quietly]
[suspenseful music]
Sweetie.
Sweetie.
I'm so overwhelmed right now.
My heart.
I'm so happy to see
you, safe, back with us.
You're a stranger to
me, you're not my father.
[Father sighing]
Of course I am.
How can I love you this much?
My real family loves me,
people are not my family,
and people are like these
manipulator people...
[Hostage crying]
[chains rattling]
Honey, I don't know what they told you,
I don't know what those people,
I don't fully understand
the tactics they use,
the mind altering
techniques they use, but...
But they teach, they teach you
to ignore your inner heart.
- Who...
- To ignore your inner voice.
No, I know who I am,
I know who they are,
and I know who you are, you people are...
Liars.
- You hear
what she's saying?
What they did to her?
[suspenseful music]
Don't scream.
Just don't scream.
[suspenseful music]
Honey...
The reason why they teach you
to ignore your true
feelings is because truth,
the truth is an obstacle
to their fantasy bubble.
No, no, they're the truth,
they're the only love I've ever...
No, listen to me, baby.
They have twisted your perceptions
of everything and every one.
[suspenseful music]
That's why they have you living
in this horrible fantasy,
so you don't see the
reality until it's too late.
My mother died.
Shut up, just shut up.
Help.
- Don't,
don't talk like that.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
[Hostage muttering quietly]
[suspenseful music]
She sounds...
She sounds insane.
You gotta help her.
Please.
[suspenseful music]
Go outside.
[somber music]
It's called love bombing.
[somber music ending]
What?
What is that?
It's what they do when
they first steal you.
It's how they trap you.
So many of us felt so
unloved, so unwanted,
so useless, to the point where...
To the point where you
feel like you can't be loved?
And that is a fucked up place to be.
Trust me, it's...
Nothing else matters at that point.
- Except your love bomb.
- How wonderful you are.
How beautiful you are.
Smart you are, how important you are,
and they listen to you, to
your ideas, to your views,
and when they do, you realize,
it's the first time anyone
is actually listening,
like really listening,
and it feels so good.
So they just tell you
what you wanna hear?
No, they're telling you
what you need to hear.
And they're so interested in
everything you have to say,
it's...
It's addicting.
If you're someone, someone like me,
someone who never felt
like you belonged anywhere,
when you're with them, it feels like...
[suspenseful music]
Home.
That you're finally home.
And once you feel that
way, you never wanna leave.
You'd rather die.
I would rather die.
Do you hear me?
[Hostage crying]
I'm dying.
[suspenseful music]
You can't really see it clearly,
because, for the first time in your life,
it feels like...
I don't know, like you could finally see,
if that even makes any sense.
Nothing makes sense.
I just want her back.
I just want her back to normal.
Back to the way she was.
I know.
I know.
We're trying.
Problem is, they
don't actually love her,
they're just manipulating her.
They do not love her.
They only care about using her for...
The devil only loves himself, you know?
[suspenseful music]
How can you look at me?
How can you look at me, and tell me
that we don't love you?
Because my real family
told you all are...
Who you all are.
Why, you are liars and deceivers...
I can't do this.
We told you this was
going to be difficult.
You can't just expect her to shake it off.
The poison they've injected into her mind,
it takes time to come out.
It's just like a drug addict.
Most heroin addicts take
days to weeks to detox.
But mental addiction,
that could be even worse
than physical addiction.
We're gonna fix her,
but we can't just expect
it to happen right away.
[suspenseful music]
You know me.
You know that I would never lie to you.
Okay?
I'm just trying to do what's good for you.
You are my best friend.
I trusted you.
[suspenseful music]
I believed that you cared about me.
I do.
I do care about you, okay?
That's why I'm trying to help you realize,
this was nothing more than a cult.
This is a cult.
That's what my real
family said about you.
About all of you.
You need to trust me, okay?
They just, they filled
your head with lies,
and misinformation.
- I trusted you.
You need to trust me now.
[suspenseful music]
- You kidnapped me.
- We rescued you.
You kidnapped me.
- We saved you.
- You saved me
from my own own family.
- We are your family.
[suspenseful music]
Look, I've been through
what you're going through,
I remember what it's
like to believe one thing
about your life, and then
have your entire world
turned upside down...
- Right in front of me...
Tied up here like a hostage.
[suspenseful music]
You're not a hostage.
We're just setting you free.
[suspenseful music]
You're insane.
[suspenseful music]
We were gonna get married.
[Hostage muttering quietly]
[suspenseful music]
What I am,
who I am
is the person that loved you,
the person that cherishes you,
[suspenseful music]
The person that wants to
spend his life with you.
Why would I spend the rest of my life
with someone who lied to me?
We liberated you from people
who didn't even want you.
You told me that you loved me.
Did you mean it?
[suspenseful music]
I can't...
I can't...
[suspenseful music]
My head is killing me.
Can I just...
I need food or something.
[suspenseful music]
I can't think about this right now.
Let me go talk to them.
[somber music]
Can she eat?
Not yet.
No food, no water.
That's cruel.
No, it's effective.
We need her to long for the
most basic things in life.
Food, water, sleep,
we need to clear out all the web of lies
that she's been filled with.
Cruel to be kind.
This isn't a game.
Yeah, okay.
[footsteps echoing]
They'll feed on anyone
with low self-esteem.
But she didn't have that.
I guess deep down, she did.
You know, believe it or not,
women are more susceptible.
Excuse me?
I don't think so.
I mean, with all due respect,
we're the smarter of the species.
This isn't an insult.
Young women often taught
to seek the attention
of men and wait for rescue.
So for many young women,
helps 'em feel like they're
seizing their destiny.
It's ridiculous.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Sometimes they do it
as a way of lashing out
against religion, or who knows.
You're saying that they feed on the fact
that someone feels rejected, or lost,
or confused in their life.
Who hasn't felt lost or confused
at some point in their life?
I mean, we're in this for the long haul.
Whatever it takes, right?
Of course.
Whatever it takes.
[suspenseful music]
We wanna feed you.
We wanna give you water.
But first, you need to find the truth.
[suspenseful music]
- Fuck you.
Oh, my head is killing me.
All you need to do is find the truth.
[suspenseful music]
- Fuck you.
[suspenseful music]
We want to help you.
Do you understand that
these are your parents?
[suspenseful music]
- I need water.
Please.
- Give her
a little water, please.
This is your mother.
Do you understand that
she's your only mother,
and she's the only one who
cares for you and loves you?
Uh, please, can we
give her a little water?
Please?
[suspenseful music]
Our days we have truth and
truth our pleasure depends,
it makes for us a world of friends,
a pious love from humane hearts,
death only can depart, it lives in unity,
and preserves a good
conscience and honest heart,
and if our conscience be our
guide, we will do our part,
all that lies in our nature,
until nature opens our heart.
[suspenseful music]
[gentle music]
It's okay, baby.
Take some sips.
[gentle music]
Your father isn't eating either.
As long as you don't eat, he won't eat.
[gentle suspenseful music]
"You have brains in your head,
you have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own, and
you know what you know,
"and you are the girl who
will decide where to go."
[gentle suspenseful music]
I brought you Dr. Seuss,
because I know you love it.
[suspenseful music]
I just really miss you.
[suspenseful music]
And I wish that you would
see that you're just fighting
everybody who loves you,
and everything you care about the most,
and everything that you need the most.
Would you read it again?
[suspenseful music]
"You have brains in your head,
you have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose."
[suspenseful music]
People that took you,
they can take you again.
And they will.
So we gotta get your head on straight,
get you back to normal.
If they take you again,
we might not be able to
get you back next time.
[suspenseful music]
Mom.
[suspenseful music]
- Sweetie.
I'm sorry.
[suspenseful music]
I don't care where we go or what we do,
I just want us to be together.
Me too.
You want some more food?
No, I'm good.
When can I sleep in a bed?
Soon, Babe.
Soon.
With you?
Yeah.
If that's what you want.
Yes, that's what I want.
I want you to just hold
me, and never let me go.
This could have just all been a bad dream.
Yeah, of course.
That's all I want.
That's what all of us want.
[suspenseful music]
What are you scared of?
Being taken again.
[suspenseful music]
Being tricked again.
[somber music]
It's just so confusing.
[somber music]
I don't wanna go through that again.
Then what do you want?
[somber music]
I wanna be surrounded by my friends,
my family...
[somber music]
I don't ever wanna be taken again.
[somber music]
Good.
Let's make sure that doesn't happen.
We're gonna take you home,
where you'll be safe forever.
[somber music]
How do we know?
I mean, how do we know that she means it,
rather than just telling
us what we wanna hear?
I guess we don't.
I wanna believe her, I really do,
but there's no way to know.
We just gotta hope she's
been deprogrammed correctly.
[footsteps echoing]
[Friend sighing]
I don't know.
I feel like she's gonna be okay,
I mean, a couple of days ago,
she had this look on her face,
like just hate and defiance, and...
I don't know.
She seems peaceful again and innocent,
and we just have to protect her.
We always have to protect her.
How do we know they're not
gonna try to take her again?
Oh, they'll try.
They're never gonna stop.
So how do we keep her here?
We don't.
We'll move her to one
of our other compounds,
maybe across the country.
[suspenseful music]
They're all filled
with microphones, cameras,
we'll make sure she's conforming.
How do we make her stay?
I'll get her pregnant.
I can get her pregnant too.
[suspenseful music]
Whatever our spiritual
leader wants, we will do.
I can raise her babies,
and if she still wants
to leave at that point,
her children can replace her.
We won't need her anymore.
Whatever Baguan Kapoor
needs, we will all do.
[suspenseful music]
[Together] Whatever Baguan
Kapoor needs, we will all do.
[suspenseful music]
That was a horrible story.
I liked it.
Had a little twist at the end.
You're never gonna let
go, you're a fucking liar.
Believe me.
I'm a man of my word.
I do have a story about a liar though.
You wanna hear it?
Please, please, just let me go.
It's about a Mountebank.
Do you know what that is?
Come on, we got time before your old man
coughs up the dough.
Let me tell you another one.
[suspenseful music]
I don't know if it's because
I never really took care of myself...
[suspenseful music]
I mean, come on.
I've been drunk more times in
my life than I've been sober.
[suspenseful music]
Or maybe it's because I was
never really a good person.
[suspenseful music]
Women...
[suspenseful music]
Drugs.
[suspenseful music]
Let my parents down more
times than I could count.
[suspenseful music]
In and out of jail,
[suspenseful music]
In and out of rehab.
[suspenseful music]
Maybe I deserved it.
Or maybe it's all just random.
[suspenseful music]
Whatever it is,
[suspenseful music]
I do have two little girls now,
[suspenseful music]
And I'm...
[suspenseful music]
I'm finally being a
good dad, a good person.
[suspenseful music]
And dying really isn't gonna
help my family right now.
[suspenseful music]
Dying will fuck up everything.
[suspenseful music]
So I searched online for months.
[suspenseful music]
I found you.
[suspenseful music]
You are the only person that can heal me.
[suspenseful music]
Please...
[suspenseful music]
Please, take my cancer away.
[suspenseful music]
[wheelchair rolling]
[somber music]
[prayer chanted in foreign language]
[suspenseful music]
Hello.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for allowing us to help you.
My daughter, she's very sick.
All my family, we put up a collection,
and we're going to pay
you what you ask for.
Once you transfer the money,
he will heal her.
[suspenseful music]
My husband is doing it now.
[suspenseful music]
Everyone says he's lying, he's a scam,
but we did extensive research on him,
and we found he's a true miracle.
[suspenseful music]
What is her disease?
Oh, she got amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, ALS,
and it's very severe.
[Anjali speaking in foreign language]
[Mother speaking in foreign language]
- He will save her.
- How?
I don't understand.
He's both blessed
and cursed with a gift,
much like when a sponge
absorbs all the water,
Jericho, he absorbs all the illnesses.
Ah.
He's a true miracle man.
[suspenseful music]
The transfer has been successful.
[prayer chanted in foreign language]
Let the blessing begin.
[suspenseful music]
What is her name?
Her name is Anjali.
[suspenseful music]
Jericho.
[suspenseful music]
Bless Anjali.
Bless her.
[suspenseful music]
[Jericho grunting]
[suspenseful music]
What happened?
[suspenseful music]
You have been blessed.
We have delivered the
most sacred all miracles.
In three days, she'll be
completely disease-free.
Oh, thank you.
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
[somber music]
[footsteps echoing]
[somber music]
Where did you get the money?
Don't worry about it.
I got it.
That's all that matters.
You were gonna buy a car.
Yeah, but I realized
nothing else in life matters
when someone you love is suffering.
All I wanted was to be
the hot girl in your life.
The one that made all your
ex-boyfriends go crazy.
[Partner laughing]
See, this is why you're amazing,
to have to deal with what
you're going through,
and you make me laugh.
[Partner laughing]
Fuck, there's just so many
shitty people in the world.
Why does this have to happen to you?
Why do horrible things
happen to the best people?
I'm just lucky.
Well, this is gonna work.
It is.
- A witch doctor.
Really?
Those don't exist.
- Trust me.
I'm not stupid.
I've been speaking to
people all over the country.
This is the real deal.
[knocking on door]
[suspenseful music]
Are you ready?
All my life, I felt alone,
and I have a really big family,
but I always felt like
no one understood me,
no one could ever love me.
[somber music]
And then I found you.
And I don't ever wanna leave you.
[somber music]
You're not going anywhere.
He's gonna fix this.
Babe, miracles don't exist.
Hey, I'm straight, and
I'm in love with you.
So they do exist.
[somber music]
[knocking on door]
[footsteps echoing]
[suspenseful music]
- Her name?
- Well, let me tell you
her medical history and what
happened.
- Her name.
Well, her name is Samara,
and she has glioblastoma.
It's a brain tumor.
[somber music]
He's blessed, and he can help you.
But first, you must pay.
So he creates miracles,
and heals the sick,
but only for those who could afford it?
Doesn't sound like a savior to me.
We travel the world.
We are always traveling,
trying to help those
that medical science cannot.
Jericho, he needs 24 hour a day care.
We can leave if you want us to.
No, please.
We appreciate you, and we need you.
We need you.
We're just scared.
[somber music]
Here.
[suspenseful music]
[prayer chanted in foreign language]
Let the blessing begin.
[suspenseful music]
Jericho, heal Samara.
[suspenseful music]
Heal her.
[suspenseful music]
Will this work?
Please, she's everything to me.
She's my world.
Please tell me this will work.
[suspenseful music]
It always works.
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful music ending]
[birds chirping]
Excuse me.
I'm so sorry.
I need to speak with you.
- We are very busy.
- Wait, please.
I know who you are.
[suspenseful music]
I followed you.
[suspenseful music]
Look, I need your help.
[suspenseful music]
My mom has stage four cancer.
[suspenseful music]
No one is helping her.
Nothing is helping her.
[suspenseful music]
There is a price.
[suspenseful music]
I know that...
We don't have it, but listen to me.
She's my everything.
[suspenseful music]
She's all I have.
[suspenseful music]
We've been to doctor after doctor,
[suspenseful music]
And no one can help her.
[suspenseful music]
Look, we have, we have nothing.
[suspenseful music]
We have no money, no family to turn to,
we live in a studio apartment together.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
[suspenseful music]
Look, if you cannot
pay, we cannot help you.
[suspenseful music]
Please, okay?
I'm begging you, I'm begging you.
[suspenseful music]
My mother is dying.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
[suspenseful music]
I can get you the money someday.
I'm sorry.
[suspenseful music]
I have pancreatic cancer.
You see, I've lived a really bad life.
I ran away when I was 13,
had babies that were taken from me.
I did drugs,
drugs did me.
I mean, my father beat me, abused me.
Yeah, in that way.
My mother ignored it, ignored me.
Come on.
My life was fucked from
the day I was born.
And then a year ago, I don't know,
I started finding reasons to live.
I fell in love, I got clean,
I found religion,
I found reasons to wake up.
And now my life is
excruciating abdominal pain
that radiates to my back, paralyzing me.
He can cure you.
I sold everything I own.
I took every penny I ever
had, and pleaded, begged.
I did that GoFundMe shit,
where people from junior
high school donate $25
to save my sorry ass.
I figured...
Come on.
I'm gonna die anyway, right?
So fuck it.
Take it away.
Take this away, please.
[suspenseful music]
I've been suffering all my life.
Please don't let me die like this.
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful music]
I'm not going away.
Leave us, child.
I can't help you.
- I have $4,000.
- That's not enough.
Is there anything,
anything that you people do
that doesn't involve money?
My mother is dying.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
[suspenseful music]
[door creaking]
[footsteps echoing]
He touched me.
It's been 24 hours.
Every second, every fucking
second feels like an eternity.
And I'm waiting.
[suspenseful music]
Am I feeling better?
Is the cancer going away?
[suspenseful music]
Fuck, man, this is terrifying.
And I thought facing
cancer was the scary part.
But now it's like,
like wondering if I'm gonna
get it all over again.
[suspenseful music]
Son.
Why in God's holy name would you think
this Mountebank could help you?
What?
What did you say?
They'd been around for centuries.
Unscrupulous charlatans.
Con men.
A person who deceives others
into thinking he can be cured.
Since the 16th century,
these con artists have preyed
upon the weakness of others,
giving them false hope,
selling their phony medicines.
[suspenseful music]
No.
I think you're wrong.
You...
You didn't see this guy.
You didn't see him.
[suspenseful music]
He's crippled.
[suspenseful music]
He's a fucking vegetable.
[suspenseful music]
He's not a con man.
[suspenseful music]
He creates miracles.
He's a true healer.
[suspenseful music]
[upbeat rock music]
[glasses clanking]
Woo, yeah, baby.
This is what I'm talking about.
What a fantastic month this has been.
I mean, you see the fucking
score just this week alone?
[Jericho laughing]
- I know, baby.
I know, I told you.
I told you.
- Oh,
I don't know how you do it.
I really don't.
[rock music quietly playing]
Oh...
Chat rooms and fake reviews.
[Jericho laughing]
Move into one town, clean them out,
and move on to the next.
New name, new Airbnb.
It's all so easy, baby.
[rock music quietly playing]
Oh, wow.
I love you.
I mean, you make me money,
you make me breakfast, and
you make me feel like dancing.
I'm gonna dance the night away
Yeah.
- Yeah.
Whoo.
This...
This is the life I've been wanting.
I mean, no more trailer parks,
no more knocking over 7-Elevens,
[rock music quietly playing]
It's...
[Jericho quietly whispering]
[Jericho laughing]
Yep, yeah, baby.
And we sure as shit
do not have to eat in the
Waffle House for dinner no more.
[rock music playing]
And you know, you're ain't
too bad in the sack either.
[laughing in unison]
Good thing you kidnapped me.
No, no, no.
I saved you.
There's a difference, I mean,
I have kidnapped plenty of bitches before,
but none of them deserve to be saved.
You, my little cupcake, deserve me.
[rock music playing]
All right, listen.
It's been a couple days,
and we need to find a new spot,
and get the hell out of here.
Alarm's about to go off.
[rock music quietly playing]
I think you might be right, my dear.
Let's pack our bags, and get outta Dodge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[rock music fading out]
I don't understand.
Are you sure you're not feeling better?
I feel worse.
[Mother speaking in foreign language]
[Anjali speaking in foreign language]
Oh my God.
Your mother is a fool.
I wanted to help you so
bad that I've become blind.
They lied on my face, and
I couldn't see it coming.
[somber music]
God...
Don't worry.
[somber music]
Everything will be fine.
But you should understand,
there are no miracles.
[somber music]
There are only liars and sickness.
Listen to me.
You need to stay strong.
I failed you.
I fucking failed you.
You tried.
And I will take my last breath
knowing how hard you tried.
[somber music]
Will you just give me
a chance to apologize?
We have nothing to talk about.
I was in the process of
getting my life together,
and I was gonna make it up to you.
I promised myself that
once the cancer was gone,
I was going to spend my
life making it up to you.
And Mom, what happened?
[somber music]
Cancer isn't gone,
[somber music]
And it isn't going anywhere.
[somber music]
So you're just disappointing me again?
[somber music]
Yeah.
[somber music]
I guess I am.
[somber music]
It's funny.
[somber music]
It's so funny.
[somber music]
My life is so fucking funny.
[somber music]
I dreamed I was a butterfly,
fluttering around in the sky.
[somber music]
And then I awoke...
[somber music]
Now I wonder,
am I a woman who dreamt
of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly, dreaming
that I'm a woman?
What are you talking about?
I thought...
I thought my life was going to change.
I believed the miracle was real.
[somber music]
I dreamed I was a butterfly.
[somber music]
But now I'm awake.
[somber music ending]
[suspenseful music]
There's a sucker born every minute.
I used to say that all the time.
You know why?
Because it's true.
It's fucking true.
There really is.
[suspenseful music]
More like every second.
[suspenseful music]
And I would laugh at all those idiots,
'cause they didn't even realize,
they didn't even know
that they were idiots.
And now?
- Now you're the idiot?
You got that right.
I don't know what I was thinking.
How could I possibly think
this freak was legit?
[suspenseful music]
Hope is the last to die.
Alex, you cannot give up hope.
If you lose hope, you lose everything.
[suspenseful music]
Well, I've lost it.
[suspenseful music]
- You all packed, Babe?
- Yep.
- Let's get outta Dodge.
- Let's go.
[knocking on door]
You expecting someone?
No.
Just get in the chair just in case.
[Partner clearing throat]
Going somewhere?
I didn't pay for a ticket,
so no need to perform for me, Jericho.
Well, this week, you're
Jericho, last month, Simon,
and before that, Lazarus.
[suspenseful music]
How you use these holy names
to spread your treachery is astounding.
[suspenseful music]
Why'd you let her in here?
I didn't.
I don't know how the hell she got in here.
When you think of angels,
you often think of the glowing,
friendly helpers that carry messages
between God and man, right?
And that perception isn't wrong.
Throughout the Bible,
angels do act primarily as messengers.
You got exactly 10
seconds to get out of here
before I put two in your head.
Yes.
We bring answers to prayers,
provide encouragement and comfort,
and protect and care for righteous humans.
Last chance, biatch.
But that's not all we do.
In the Scripture, there are angels
that carry out the judgment of God
to humanity, through violence.
In some cases, that judgment is death.
Shoot her.
She's insane.
Shoot her.
I can't.
It's not working.
[suspenseful music]
Angels are capable of
incredible destruction,
and can destroy a city with
the mere gesture of hands,
as we can see in 2 Samuel 24:16.
And because we are spiritual
beings, once sent on a mission,
we cannot be stopped by human means.
[suspenseful music]
What are you talking about?
[suspenseful music]
[Partner speaking in foreign language]
What?
[suspenseful music]
Avenging angels.
In Genesis 18, God came to Abraham
with two angels declaring His intention
to pass judgment on the cities
of the Sodom and Gomorrah,
a great outcry against the
cities had reached God,
and He called their sin
therein, "Very grave."
We can pay you whatever you want.
Before He acted,
however, Abraham pleaded
that the cities be spared,
so that the righteous were not
slain alongside the wicked.
God agreed to allow His angels
to investigate the cities,
promising to spare them if
He found 50 good people.
Abraham pleaded that number down to 10.
I am asking for one.
What are you talking about?
Tic-toc.
Tic-toc.
Your 24-hour timeline has begun.
[suspenseful music]
What the hell are you talking about?
You must go back to the people
that you just preyed upon.
The weakest, most desperate people,
who came to you with their
last glimmer of hope.
And because they now know
that you've deceived them,
you must find one, only one,
who is willing to forgive
you for what you've done.
Abraham asked for 10 good people,
I am asking for one extraordinary person.
[suspenseful music]
You...
You're kidding, right?
You're fucking kidding, right?
You think any of them would forgive me?
That's like, that's like
asking Mary, mother of Jesus
to forgive Judas.
Uh-uh.
She did forgive Judas.
She embraced him.
Remember, you have 24 hours.
Not a second more.
Not a second.
[suspenseful music]
What if nobody forgives?
[suspenseful music]
Pain.
The most unbearable
pain one can comprehend.
[suspenseful music]
[Angel speaking quietly]
This...
This is bullshit, right?
I mean, she's just crazy...
[suspenseful music]
Right?
[suspenseful music]
Where'd she go?
[suspenseful music ending]
Get out.
You cheated us.
You lied to us.
Please.
You don't understand.
- You didn't heal her.
You don't understand.
I wanted to help her.
I needed to help people.
She believed you could heal her.
I believed you could help her.
But how can you lie to a sick child?
Get out.
Listen to me.
I have a daughter too, and
she means everything to me.
She's the only good thing,
the only good thing that
I've ever done in my life.
What do you want me to do?
You want more money from me?
- I want...
- You want me
to believe your lies?
- I need you to forgive me.
Please.
- Forgive you?
No, never.
You would have to kill me
before I ever forgive you.
Just get out.
- Look, listen, listen.
Just...
- Just get out.
Just get out.
- Please.
Just get out.
[suspenseful music]
You're kidding, right?
Tell me that you're kidding.
I'm calling the police.
And then I'm gonna beat
the shit out of you.
We'll give you all the money back.
Please.
Please.
- Wow, okay.
So scam us.
Give us this cool belief
that I'm gonna get better,
take everything that we have,
and then you want us to forgive you?
[suspenseful music]
Just think of how an
amazing person you would be,
how pure your soul would
be if you forgave somebody
who wronged you like we did.
I would rather rot in
hell than to forgive you.
Never.
I don't believe in shit.
Never have.
But somehow, somehow you
got me to believe that,
"Oh, this was gonna work."
So now, not only do I hate
you, but I hate myself,
and I have to die mad at myself.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
I'm begging you.
Fuck you.
[suspenseful music]
[Alex laughing]
You need me.
You need me?
Please.
You have no idea how urgent this is.
This is...
This is amazing.
You robbed me.
You flat out fucking
robbed me of my money,
of my dreams.
[suspenseful music]
I was drowning, and you
threw me a fucking life vest
with holes in it,
and now you need me to forgive you?
If you have any more goodness in you,
you need to bring it out now.
Whatever was good inside me has died.
And my body's about to catch up.
I need you.
[Alex laughing]
[suspenseful music]
I have been many, many things in life,
but needed was never one of them.
No one has ever needed me.
How sad is that?
[quiet suspenseful music]
And now you, both of you,
two people who stumbled
upon a train wreck,
only to set that wreck on fire?
[quiet suspenseful music]
You need me?
It's difficult to explain.
Please, we need you to forgive him.
We need you to do it now.
Right now.
Please.
Forgive.
[suspenseful music]
To forgive is to let go
of anger and resentment,
to let go of something that hurt you,
[quiet suspenseful music]
To stop feeling anger or
resentment towards someone.
[quiet suspenseful music]
Please, you are my only hope.
You are my final hope.
I have asked to be forgiven
more times than I can count.
I have.
[suspenseful music]
I have cried, and pleaded, and
begged people to forgive me.
[suspenseful music]
I understand second chances,
and third chances.
[suspenseful music]
I know what it's like to
destroy people's lives,
and have them shut you out.
[suspenseful music]
But...
[suspenseful music]
As I am needed,
[suspenseful music]
And I am your only hope,
[suspenseful music]
I say yes.
[suspenseful music]
Yes.
[suspenseful music]
You are forgiven.
[suspenseful music]
Yes, yes.
Oh...
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Where is she?
Evangeline.
- She forgave him.
[suspenseful music]
- Where are you?
Yes.
She forgave you.
[suspenseful music]
But you're two minutes late.
Oh, no, no, no.
No way.
We had a deal.
The deal is 24 hours,
and not a second longer.
It is a rule that cannot be broken.
[suspenseful music]
This is bullshit.
[suspenseful music]
You set us up.
[suspenseful music]
What happens now?
Now, you'll fulfill your own prophecy.
You promised these people
that you could absorb their disease,
[suspenseful music]
Cure their illness,
[suspenseful music]
And so now you will.
[suspenseful music]
Mama.
Mama.
I don't feel sick anymore.
I don't feel sick.
Oh God.
Oh God...
[Mother speaking in foreign language]
[Jericho screaming]
[suspenseful music]
Babe, come here, babe.
[suspenseful music]
- What is it?
- I feel, I feel normal.
I feel amazing.
I feel perfectly free...
- Oh, my God.
[suspenseful music]
[Jericho screaming]
[suspenseful music]
What happened?
[suspenseful music]
Why do I feel healthy?
[suspenseful music]
Why do I feel better than I have in years?
[suspenseful music]
Am I not sick anymore?
[suspenseful music]
What happened?
[suspenseful music]
You expected a miracle,
and you got one.
[suspenseful music]
"Avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath,
for it is written, 'Vengeance
is mine' saith the Lord."
[suspenseful music]
[somber music]
See?
Sometimes the bad guy loses.
You know, these stories
are really helping me.
Could you tell me another one?
Oh, what are you getting
at, a Scotland Syndrome thing?
Okay.
I'll tell you another one,
but it's a bad sign your
father didn't deposit
that money yet.
One more.
If he hasn't paid, I'm gonna
turn into a really bad man.
Okay.
Speaking of bad men, here's
a story about Ben Crane.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
[Hostage] Please, please leave me alone.
Please.
- Here,
girl.
- Please, please.
No.
- Oh, I love it
when you scream.
- No.
[Hostage crying]
- You can scream
all night long, baby.
All night long
- No, no, no.
Please, please leave me.
Would you like me to give you something
to really scream about?
[Hostage crying]
Do you like me to show you a world,
[Hostage whimpering]
where the fear,
the pain that you know
will be just happy memories?
For what you're going to see,
what you're going to feel?
Let me show you that world.
[Hostage crying]
- Oh, no.
[Hostage shrieking]
[suspenseful music]
Hey.
Hey.
You need to listen to me.
You need to fight, or you need to run.
I couldn't run.
I didn't have the chance to run away.
But you do, so get up and run.
Or fight.
Fight this son of a bitch.
Hey, do you hear me?
Wake up.
[suspenseful music]
So you served five years,
and then were released during a retrial
to the lack of evidence?
- Correct.
Five years for...
I never did anything wrong.
I read through all the reports.
Your wife was strangled.
Suffocated, not strangled.
Cause of death was asphyxiation,
that I had nothing to do with.
Your DNA, your fingerprints,
they couldn't match it.
However, that's not why you're here.
You claim your wife was raped and killed
by some sort of malevolent
presence, a ghost, spirit?
[somber music]
- Those weren't
my exact words, and they
weren't my wife's words,
but that's what it was.
And she knew who it was.
Okay, the ghost, we'll use ghost,
for lack of a better term,
that was attacking her.
- Raping her.
Why do you use the term
rape?
- Because that's literally
what he was, what he did.
You taught science
at a community college.
Do you know how this sounds to people?
Like I'm insane.
Oh, I know.
I'm very aware of how I sound.
I spent five years in jail
for allowing myself to sound crazy.
Well, it sounds like
you're desperately trying
to manifest someone,
something, other than yourself,
for hurting your wife,
because of either deep-rooted guilt,
or perhaps a continued
perseverance of your innocence.
[somber music]
Interesting.
Let me explain something to you.
I walked into my bedroom,
and I saw my wife's
nightgown getting lifted up.
And I heard her scream in fear, and agony,
and something that was
not visible to the eye
attacked her physically, sexually.
Now, you may think I'm a fucking nut job,
but just for one minute, gimme
the benefit of the doubt.
If I'm not lying, and I'm
not crazy, what was that?
[somber music]
There are some dreams
called vivid dreams
that make it very difficult
to differentiate the dream from reality.
Now, vivid dreams occur
outside of REM sleep
are like a movie, in
which you're an actor.
You see it, you feel it,
you believe it to be real,
when in reality, it's not.
[somber music]
- I know what dreams are.
I know what reality is.
This was no dream.
This was...
It was a living nightmare.
[somber music]
[Hostage screaming]
Help me!
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying and gasping for air]
[suspenseful music]
- Help me!
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
[Ben humming "Hush Little Baby"]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
Hush little baby, don't you cry
Please...
Please don't do this to me, please.
Are you listening to me?
I said, hush little baby.
- I remember...
- Don't you cry...
Being so scared.
[suspenseful music]
I didn't know where I was,
[suspenseful music]
Or what he was gonna do with me.
[suspenseful music]
[water dripping]
[Hostage whimpering]
Wait a minute.
I didn't say that right.
[Hostage gasping]
Let me try again.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
Daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird
[Hostage whimpering]
Who would want a fucking mockingbird?
Do you like to be mocked?
[suspenseful music]
I don't.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
I don't.
[suspenseful music]
He went from being so
calm to brutally violent.
[suspenseful music]
He smiled, and then he raped me.
[suspenseful music]
I don't understand how
therapy can help with this.
[suspenseful music]
You are one of the lucky ones.
- Who the hell are you?
- You think you suffer,
but at least you're still here.
I wish I was you.
I wish I was you.
What do you want from me?
I just wanna be free.
Don't you wanna be free too?
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
Three days.
[birds chirping]
I think it was three.
I lost track
of being raped over and over again.
It seemed like an eternity.
I kept thinking when
he was doing it to me,
"What did I do wrong?
What did I do to deserve this?"
[birds chirping]
Look, I mean, we can sit here
and rehash the most horrible
events of our lives,
over and over again,
but it has been over 25
years, and he's dead.
Maybe a part of me, a part of you,
a part of all of us died with him.
But I've moved on.
And you know, I came here out of respect,
but I have no intention of
wandering down memory lane again.
[birds chirping]
Tell us, why did you ask to meet?
You won't believe me.
You're gonna think I'm crazy.
But...
[birds chirping]
I was in bed a few days ago, alone,
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful music]
And I sensed him.
He's dead.
No, he wasn't physically there,
but I sensed him.
I smelled him, he had
a very distinct smell.
[suspenseful music]
Yeah, I remember that smell.
[suspenseful music]
It's like this horrible
mix of beer essence
and sweat coming off his breath,
and out of his pores.
That fucking disgusting smell haunted me.
I remember that smell.
You know, I stopped being
able to go into bars,
because the slightest hint of his scent
caused me to have this
horrific panic attack.
That smell.
That was the smell.
It filled my room.
It made me choke.
It made me cry.
It was just a bad memory.
No.
[suspenseful music]
You will listen to me.
You both listen to me.
I smelled that son of a bitch.
Not a dream, not a fucking memory,
he was there.
- No, he's dead.
There's something...
Oh my God, I can't even believe
you're saying this right now.
A few days ago, I was alone,
and I swore, there was
someone watching me.
I mean, I felt it so much so,
that I had to pull the
covers up over my head.
No, it was just your imagination.
No, it was Ben Crane.
No, don't say his name.
That was my first thought, as well.
No, he's dead.
I mean dead, like rotting
in the ground dead.
Don't ever say his name again.
I've never been irrational.
I have never strayed from the
path of logic and science,
but I smelled him.
He was there.
Great.
So you're smelling that monster.
And I'm having nightmares
about some insane girl.
[suspenseful music]
- Excuse me?
- Yeah, it's nothing,
I mean, I just had a couple of nightmares
about some tormented girl.
[suspenseful music]
- With dark hair.
Yeah.
I mean, screaming at me,
but not like she was angry at me,
I mean, more like she...
Like she needs you
to help her.
- Yeah.
And wait...
What?
- She's been in my dreams too.
[suspenseful music]
You're both dreaming
about the same girl,
and I'm crazy, because I smell Ben Crane.
Don't say his name.
There's something really
horrible that is happening.
It's happening to us.
[suspenseful music]
Again.
[suspenseful music]
[keyboard clicking]
[suspenseful music]
[phone ringing]
Yeah.
What's that?
No, not tonight.
Sorry.
I just found this article,
this phenomenon actually exists.
[suspenseful music]
Let me...
Let me call you back.
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret crying]
[chains clanking]
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret shrieking]
[suspenseful music]
[chains clanking]
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret screaming]
[suspenseful music]
Don't cry, Margaret.
[Margaret screaming]
[suspenseful music]
You don't see me crying,
do you?
[Ben laughing]
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret crying]
Do they call you Margaret, or Maggie?
You look like a Maggie.
[Ben laughing]
[suspenseful music]
Maggie, I've got
something to say to you
Please, let me go.
Go
But I don't want you to go.
[Margaret crying]
You led me away from home
Just to stop me from being alone
Please, please.
You broke my heart
And that's what really hurts
[Ben laughing]
[Margaret screaming]
[suspenseful music]
- Ah.
[Margaret crying]
[chains clanking]
Please, please, please.
Let me go.
[Margaret crying]
- Do you want me to hurt you?
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret crying]
Do you want to feel pain?
No.
[suspenseful music]
No.
- I can make you
love the pain.
[Margaret crying]
[suspenseful music]
- No.
- You're gonna love this.
[suspenseful music]
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage screaming]
[evil whispering]
[sounds abruptly stopping]
I guess out of sight, out of mind,
you know, if I didn't talk about it,
or think about it, then it didn't exist.
If a tree falls in a forest,
and no one's around to hear it,
does it make a sound?
For you, it doesn't.
But in reality, the
tree does make a sound.
Well, it's a philosophical riddle.
- I was raped.
- Oh.
Many years ago.
I'm so sorry.
The man was killed in prison.
That sounds like an all
around horrible situation.
I'll assume that's why you're here.
No, it's not.
I've been able to handle
the trauma rage hell
that I went through.
I was raped again.
Only this time, no one was there.
So you had a flashback to the rape.
No, listen to me.
I know I sound insane.
I was raped.
Horribly, violently.
And no one was in the room with me.
But somehow, somehow,
I also know that that filthy
animal, Ben Crane, was there.
The man that died?
I know it doesn't make any sense.
I know that.
Actually...
[suspenseful music]
- Help me!
- Who are you?
I cannot rest.
We're connected forever by hate, by pain.
What do you want from me?
Stop him.
Stop who?
You know who.
I cannot rest until he is gone.
He's dead.
His body is dead.
[suspenseful music]
So what are you talking about?
I met a woman that has,
is currently going through what you...
I can't even believe I'm doing this.
She's going through what you
claimed happened to your wife.
What?
[suspenseful music]
Here's her number.
Maybe you're both having
psychotic episodes,
but maybe, maybe there's
something more to it.
[suspenseful music]
- Thank you.
- By the way,
this never happened.
Got it.
Get away from me.
I'm trying to warn you.
[Sufferer laughing]
You are not real.
You are hallucination.
You're a figment of my
scarred imagination.
I'm one of his victims, just like you,
and I'm here to warn you.
He's coming back for you.
No, no, no, no, no, what?
I need medication.
Immediately.
You're scared to even say his name.
No, he's dead.
He's here now waiting for you.
Really?
Where?
Where?
You've gotta be kidding, 'cause
I don't see him anywhere.
Speak his name.
Stop it.
I am not dealing with a
fucking candy man here,
[suspenseful music]
And I'm not afraid of him.
Yes, you are.
That's why he is able to get to you.
You're scared to even say his name.
[suspenseful music]
Ben Crane.
[Sufferer gasping]
[suspenseful music]
Help me.
Only you can save yourself.
[suspenseful music]
- So a man arrives in hell.
- He's greeted by the devil.
- He's greeted by the devil.
- And the devil says to him...
- The devil says to him...
- You must choose
your torture.
- Choose your torture.
Because that will be
the torture.
- Because this will be
your torture for eternity.
- And so the man goes...
- So...
- Through hundreds of means.
- Through hundreds.
- And he sees people being
whipped...
He sees people being
- Burnt and tortured.
- Burnt and tortured.
- But he can't decide.
- But he can't decide.
- It's a tough choice.
- It's a tough choice.
- Until...
- Until...
- He gets to...
- He gets to...
- Where just gross...
- Disgusting...
Disgusting man
sitting on a couch,
watching football...
- Watching football
on TV.
[suspenseful music]
[Ben and Spirit's words echoing]
So he looks at the devil...
So the man
He says...
- This is what I wanted.
- This is what I wanted.
- The devil says ..
- The devil says...
- Are you sure?
- Are you sure?
- And the man says...
- Man says...
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, yes.
- And so...
- So...
- The devil goes...
- The devil
goes up to the couch by the man,
and taps the cheerleader on the show...
- Says, you may stop...
- And says, you may stop...
You may stop now, my dear.
[Ben speaking mumbled]
[Spirit laughing]
[Ben and Spirit laughing in unison]
[suspenseful music ending]
This is Danny on the phone.
His wife suffered like we did.
Did anyone believe you?
[Danny] No.
I even went to jail.
So not only did I have to witness
the love of my life being tormented
and abused by something I couldn't stop,
but it killed her.
I was so numb that prison
didn't even affect me.
What happened to us was a long time ago,
but we've been able to stay in touch.
Sort of a support group for each other.
Yeah, but now, for reasons
I don't fully understand,
it's starting again.
[Danny] And you said he was killed.
He was.
Yeah, I'm a realist, I think
with a clear, logical mind,
but things are happening
that none of us can explain.
[suspenseful music]
[Danny] They call it incubus syndrome.
They think it's a mental disorder,
a form of psychosis, schizophrenia,
but what happened to my
wife was not in her mind.
[suspenseful music]
You're preaching to the choir.
He attacked me just the other night.
[suspenseful music]
- Who is he?
- Ben Crane.
I know it's Ben Crane.
He's been back and attacking all of us.
I mean, how can...
How do you stop something
that you can't even see?
[suspenseful music]
[light flickering]
[suspenseful music]
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
I know you're in here.
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
You took everything from me.
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
Now it's time for some fucking playback.
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
[lights flickering]
- Hello, Danny.
Oh, Danny boy
The pipes, the pipes are calling
[lights flickering]
[suspenseful music]
I'm gonna kill you once and for all.
[Spirit] Do not meddle with
things you do not understand.
[Spirit laughing manically]
[suspenseful music]
By the way, Emily says hello.
I'll send you back to hell.
[suspenseful music]
- You're gonna put
a little cheese in that box,
and catch you a little mouse?
[Spirit laughing manically]
I'm no mouse,
and I'm not going back there.
[suspenseful music]
Hello?
They found Daniel dead
in his home last night.
What?
A heart attack, they think.
That wasn't a heart attack.
I don't know what you guys
have been involved with,
but whatever it is, be careful.
Please, be careful.
[suspenseful music]
I don't understand.
It makes no sense.
I don't understand.
Why would it be that way?
It doesn't make any sense.
[suspenseful music]
Don't you see?
We are his way in.
No, I don't understand.
How often do you think about him,
feel fear, because of what he's done?
I mean, not a day goes by
that I don't think about it.
That's what he wants us to be, right?
He's listening to, and
feeling your thoughts,
and your fears.
So as long as we remember him,
and the way he like hurt
us, and tortured us,
he can come back?
But it's not that easy.
[suspenseful music]
We can say that we're not afraid,
but we actually can't be.
We can say we're gonna forget about him,
but we actually have to.
Then we will.
[suspenseful music]
Then we will.
[suspenseful music]
I smell him.
[suspenseful music]
I smell him.
[suspenseful music]
Ben Crane.
[suspenseful music]
Ben Crane.
We are no longer scared of you.
[suspenseful music]
You've tormented us for the last time.
No more.
No more, you motherfucker.
No more.
[suspenseful music]
You no longer infest our minds.
You no longer linger at
the backs of our souls.
We are no longer afraid of you.
Do you hear me?
[suspenseful music]
He's choking me.
[suspenseful music]
I can't breathe.
- Ben.
Ben.
[suspenseful music]
I forgive you.
[suspenseful music]
I forgive you, Ben.
[suspenseful music]
I've been researching you
for the past 25 years,
[suspenseful music]
And I know that you too have been abused.
[suspenseful music]
You're just as scared
as we are, Ben Crane.
[somber music]
You're a victim, just like we are, Ben.
You've suffered.
[somber music]
I forgive you, Ben.
[somber music]
I forgive you.
[somber music]
I forgive you.
[somber music]
The smell.
Smell is gone.
[somber music]
I don't feel him in here anymore.
[somber music]
Forgiveness.
[somber music]
Darkness can't drive out darkness.
Only light can do that.
Hate can't drive out hate.
Only love can do that.
[somber music]
Is it over?
[somber music]
Yes, it's finally over.
[knocking on door]
[somber music]
[door creaking]
[suspenseful music]
Hello, sweetheart.
Did you miss me?
[suspenseful music]
[Ben laughing]
[suspenseful music]
Okay, kid, time's up.
Your old man didn't pay.
He must not love you.
Well, no, actually, I'm a bitch,
and a horrible person.
Fuck.
[Kidnapper grunting]
What the fuck?
[somber music]
[suspenseful music]
[knife clanking]
[suspenseful music]
Hi, daddy.
I know you wouldn't pay for me,
so here's the deal.
I want half of what he's asking for,
and once I get the money,
I will completely vanish,
and you will never see me again.
But if you don't pay,
not only am I going to
tell the entire world
that you said no,
but I'm going to spill every
secret that I know about you.
[suspenseful music]
So you'll pay?
[suspenseful music]
Damn right, you will.
[suspenseful music]
Hey, listen, I'm gonna
give you about 15 minutes
to deposit that money into
my off shelf shore account.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, you're not dead yet?
[suspenseful music]
I have an idea.
Why don't I tell you a story?
You wanna hear a story?
[suspenseful music]
Once upon a time...
[suspenseful music]
Hey sweet girl, why
don't you come over
I've got something special for you
Hey baby girl, why don't get closer
I'm not the one that's calling for you
But if you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up under my floor
If you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up
under my floor board
Oh yeah
If you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up under my floor
If you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up
under my floor board
[haunted electronic dance music]
Under my floor board
[haunted electronic dance music]
Under my floor board
[haunted electronic dance music ending]
[gentle rock music]
[haunted music]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying and whimpering]
Let me go, please, let me go!
You know the deal.
As soon as your father pays
the ransom, you can walk away.
[Hostage gasping for air]
Why are you doing this?
[Kidnapper] It's nothing personal.
Your daddy's got a lot of money.
He can miss it.
[Hostage crying]
Now hopeful, he'll miss you.
I'm begging you, please let me go.
Hey.
Listen.
I did 15 years in Angola.
You know, Louisiana State Penitentiary?
I ain't got no feelings for
anyone anymore, or sympathy.
Save your breath.
[Hostage crying]
[suspenseful music]
You know, you remind me
a little of my daughter,
you look a little like her too.
When she used to wake up
in the middle of the night,
I'd have to tell her a story
to put her back to sleep.
You have a daughter?
How would you feel if
someone kidnapped her?
Well, if I had the money,
I'd pay to get her back.
Now, you wanna hear a
story to pass the time?
- Fuck you.
- Okay.
Here's a story.
Here's a story about another
girl that was kidnapped.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
Don't you understand how
they're manipulating you?
Can't you see how they're
taking advantage of you,
how they're twisting the truth
around everything you believe?
Don't you see how they're hurting you?
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage grunting]
[kidnappers yelling]
[Hostage crying out]
We're not gonna hurt you.
- Someone help.
- We're not gonna hurt you.
- Why are you kidnapping me?
- If you keep on screaming,
and keep it on, I'm gonna gag you,
and I don't wanna do that.
[Hostage crying and whimpering]
I'm not gonna tell you again.
Shut your mouth.
Listen, listen.
We're here to help you.
We're not here to hurt you.
We have a long drive, it's a few hours,
do you wanna be gagged
back, or can you stay calm?
[Hostage whimpering]
- No!
[Hostage continuing to whimper]
Last chance.
You were in such a bad state,
and you had no direction in life.
You were always searching for
love, searching for people,
who would accept you, when
it's been us, all along.
We are the ones who love you.
We are the ones who accept you.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying out]
- Hey, I know,
I know what you're going through.
All right?
[Hostage crying]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying]
I know right now you
think we're the enemy,
but deep down, deep down, you
know, we're here to help you.
We are here to save you.
They filled your head with
lies and cruel fabrications.
I know you're scared.
I know you're confused,
I know you're angry,
but we're here to help you.
We're gonna save you.
[suspenseful music]
[chains rattling]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage screaming]
[suspenseful music]
[footsteps echoing]
- How is she?
- Can we see her?
Not yet.
Give us a little time.
I don't have any more time.
She's been gone almost a year.
They've had her for almost a year.
Who knows what they filled her head with?
I just wanna talk to her.
I just wanna like, hold her in my arms,
and let her know that she's safe here,
and we all love her, and
everything's gonna be okay.
Will you tell that we're here,
and that no matter what
she's been through,
no matter what kind of
garbage they've tried
to fill her head with, just
tell her that we love her,
and none of that matters.
Will you please just, just
let her know that we love her.
I will.
And she knows, deep down, she knows.
[suspenseful music]
[footsteps echoing]
You can't keep me here.
You can't kidnap me like this.
You can't keep me against my will.
I made a mistake last time,
but I found the people
that really love me.
I found the people that
truly care about me.
I mean, you can't take me away from them.
They're my real family.
They really care about
me, not like you, people.
I don't care what you say,
the lies you try to fill
my fucking head with,
I am not staying here, okay?
I wanna go home now to my true family.
Do you understand me?
I'm not gonna listen to you again.
I'm not.
I wanna go home now to my true family.
Do you fucking hear me?
I wanna go home!
Now!
Your mother wants to see you.
She is not my real mother.
Of course she is.
Mother is a selfless, loving person,
who always sacrificed her wants and needs
for the wants and needs
of her child, okay?
Keep these strangers away from me.
You're angry, you're
scared, you're confused.
Your mind is filled with
uncertainty and chaos.
They brainwashed you.
They clouded your judgment
and your thinking.
And it's our job to help you see clearly
again.
- Stop trying to reprogram me.
I'm not.
We just wanna reacquaint
you with the real you.
- Your father's also here.
- He is
not my father.
- He is.
- No, he isn't.
- He is, he is your father.
[suspenseful music]
- Let them try.
[suspenseful music]
[chains rattling]
[Hostage muttering quietly]
[suspenseful music]
Sweetie.
Sweetie.
I'm so overwhelmed right now.
My heart.
I'm so happy to see
you, safe, back with us.
You're a stranger to
me, you're not my father.
[Father sighing]
Of course I am.
How can I love you this much?
My real family loves me,
people are not my family,
and people are like these
manipulator people...
[Hostage crying]
[chains rattling]
Honey, I don't know what they told you,
I don't know what those people,
I don't fully understand
the tactics they use,
the mind altering
techniques they use, but...
But they teach, they teach you
to ignore your inner heart.
- Who...
- To ignore your inner voice.
No, I know who I am,
I know who they are,
and I know who you are, you people are...
Liars.
- You hear
what she's saying?
What they did to her?
[suspenseful music]
Don't scream.
Just don't scream.
[suspenseful music]
Honey...
The reason why they teach you
to ignore your true
feelings is because truth,
the truth is an obstacle
to their fantasy bubble.
No, no, they're the truth,
they're the only love I've ever...
No, listen to me, baby.
They have twisted your perceptions
of everything and every one.
[suspenseful music]
That's why they have you living
in this horrible fantasy,
so you don't see the
reality until it's too late.
My mother died.
Shut up, just shut up.
Help.
- Don't,
don't talk like that.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
[Hostage muttering quietly]
[suspenseful music]
She sounds...
She sounds insane.
You gotta help her.
Please.
[suspenseful music]
Go outside.
[somber music]
It's called love bombing.
[somber music ending]
What?
What is that?
It's what they do when
they first steal you.
It's how they trap you.
So many of us felt so
unloved, so unwanted,
so useless, to the point where...
To the point where you
feel like you can't be loved?
And that is a fucked up place to be.
Trust me, it's...
Nothing else matters at that point.
- Except your love bomb.
- How wonderful you are.
How beautiful you are.
Smart you are, how important you are,
and they listen to you, to
your ideas, to your views,
and when they do, you realize,
it's the first time anyone
is actually listening,
like really listening,
and it feels so good.
So they just tell you
what you wanna hear?
No, they're telling you
what you need to hear.
And they're so interested in
everything you have to say,
it's...
It's addicting.
If you're someone, someone like me,
someone who never felt
like you belonged anywhere,
when you're with them, it feels like...
[suspenseful music]
Home.
That you're finally home.
And once you feel that
way, you never wanna leave.
You'd rather die.
I would rather die.
Do you hear me?
[Hostage crying]
I'm dying.
[suspenseful music]
You can't really see it clearly,
because, for the first time in your life,
it feels like...
I don't know, like you could finally see,
if that even makes any sense.
Nothing makes sense.
I just want her back.
I just want her back to normal.
Back to the way she was.
I know.
I know.
We're trying.
Problem is, they
don't actually love her,
they're just manipulating her.
They do not love her.
They only care about using her for...
The devil only loves himself, you know?
[suspenseful music]
How can you look at me?
How can you look at me, and tell me
that we don't love you?
Because my real family
told you all are...
Who you all are.
Why, you are liars and deceivers...
I can't do this.
We told you this was
going to be difficult.
You can't just expect her to shake it off.
The poison they've injected into her mind,
it takes time to come out.
It's just like a drug addict.
Most heroin addicts take
days to weeks to detox.
But mental addiction,
that could be even worse
than physical addiction.
We're gonna fix her,
but we can't just expect
it to happen right away.
[suspenseful music]
You know me.
You know that I would never lie to you.
Okay?
I'm just trying to do what's good for you.
You are my best friend.
I trusted you.
[suspenseful music]
I believed that you cared about me.
I do.
I do care about you, okay?
That's why I'm trying to help you realize,
this was nothing more than a cult.
This is a cult.
That's what my real
family said about you.
About all of you.
You need to trust me, okay?
They just, they filled
your head with lies,
and misinformation.
- I trusted you.
You need to trust me now.
[suspenseful music]
- You kidnapped me.
- We rescued you.
You kidnapped me.
- We saved you.
- You saved me
from my own own family.
- We are your family.
[suspenseful music]
Look, I've been through
what you're going through,
I remember what it's
like to believe one thing
about your life, and then
have your entire world
turned upside down...
- Right in front of me...
Tied up here like a hostage.
[suspenseful music]
You're not a hostage.
We're just setting you free.
[suspenseful music]
You're insane.
[suspenseful music]
We were gonna get married.
[Hostage muttering quietly]
[suspenseful music]
What I am,
who I am
is the person that loved you,
the person that cherishes you,
[suspenseful music]
The person that wants to
spend his life with you.
Why would I spend the rest of my life
with someone who lied to me?
We liberated you from people
who didn't even want you.
You told me that you loved me.
Did you mean it?
[suspenseful music]
I can't...
I can't...
[suspenseful music]
My head is killing me.
Can I just...
I need food or something.
[suspenseful music]
I can't think about this right now.
Let me go talk to them.
[somber music]
Can she eat?
Not yet.
No food, no water.
That's cruel.
No, it's effective.
We need her to long for the
most basic things in life.
Food, water, sleep,
we need to clear out all the web of lies
that she's been filled with.
Cruel to be kind.
This isn't a game.
Yeah, okay.
[footsteps echoing]
They'll feed on anyone
with low self-esteem.
But she didn't have that.
I guess deep down, she did.
You know, believe it or not,
women are more susceptible.
Excuse me?
I don't think so.
I mean, with all due respect,
we're the smarter of the species.
This isn't an insult.
Young women often taught
to seek the attention
of men and wait for rescue.
So for many young women,
helps 'em feel like they're
seizing their destiny.
It's ridiculous.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Sometimes they do it
as a way of lashing out
against religion, or who knows.
You're saying that they feed on the fact
that someone feels rejected, or lost,
or confused in their life.
Who hasn't felt lost or confused
at some point in their life?
I mean, we're in this for the long haul.
Whatever it takes, right?
Of course.
Whatever it takes.
[suspenseful music]
We wanna feed you.
We wanna give you water.
But first, you need to find the truth.
[suspenseful music]
- Fuck you.
Oh, my head is killing me.
All you need to do is find the truth.
[suspenseful music]
- Fuck you.
[suspenseful music]
We want to help you.
Do you understand that
these are your parents?
[suspenseful music]
- I need water.
Please.
- Give her
a little water, please.
This is your mother.
Do you understand that
she's your only mother,
and she's the only one who
cares for you and loves you?
Uh, please, can we
give her a little water?
Please?
[suspenseful music]
Our days we have truth and
truth our pleasure depends,
it makes for us a world of friends,
a pious love from humane hearts,
death only can depart, it lives in unity,
and preserves a good
conscience and honest heart,
and if our conscience be our
guide, we will do our part,
all that lies in our nature,
until nature opens our heart.
[suspenseful music]
[gentle music]
It's okay, baby.
Take some sips.
[gentle music]
Your father isn't eating either.
As long as you don't eat, he won't eat.
[gentle suspenseful music]
"You have brains in your head,
you have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own, and
you know what you know,
"and you are the girl who
will decide where to go."
[gentle suspenseful music]
I brought you Dr. Seuss,
because I know you love it.
[suspenseful music]
I just really miss you.
[suspenseful music]
And I wish that you would
see that you're just fighting
everybody who loves you,
and everything you care about the most,
and everything that you need the most.
Would you read it again?
[suspenseful music]
"You have brains in your head,
you have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose."
[suspenseful music]
People that took you,
they can take you again.
And they will.
So we gotta get your head on straight,
get you back to normal.
If they take you again,
we might not be able to
get you back next time.
[suspenseful music]
Mom.
[suspenseful music]
- Sweetie.
I'm sorry.
[suspenseful music]
I don't care where we go or what we do,
I just want us to be together.
Me too.
You want some more food?
No, I'm good.
When can I sleep in a bed?
Soon, Babe.
Soon.
With you?
Yeah.
If that's what you want.
Yes, that's what I want.
I want you to just hold
me, and never let me go.
This could have just all been a bad dream.
Yeah, of course.
That's all I want.
That's what all of us want.
[suspenseful music]
What are you scared of?
Being taken again.
[suspenseful music]
Being tricked again.
[somber music]
It's just so confusing.
[somber music]
I don't wanna go through that again.
Then what do you want?
[somber music]
I wanna be surrounded by my friends,
my family...
[somber music]
I don't ever wanna be taken again.
[somber music]
Good.
Let's make sure that doesn't happen.
We're gonna take you home,
where you'll be safe forever.
[somber music]
How do we know?
I mean, how do we know that she means it,
rather than just telling
us what we wanna hear?
I guess we don't.
I wanna believe her, I really do,
but there's no way to know.
We just gotta hope she's
been deprogrammed correctly.
[footsteps echoing]
[Friend sighing]
I don't know.
I feel like she's gonna be okay,
I mean, a couple of days ago,
she had this look on her face,
like just hate and defiance, and...
I don't know.
She seems peaceful again and innocent,
and we just have to protect her.
We always have to protect her.
How do we know they're not
gonna try to take her again?
Oh, they'll try.
They're never gonna stop.
So how do we keep her here?
We don't.
We'll move her to one
of our other compounds,
maybe across the country.
[suspenseful music]
They're all filled
with microphones, cameras,
we'll make sure she's conforming.
How do we make her stay?
I'll get her pregnant.
I can get her pregnant too.
[suspenseful music]
Whatever our spiritual
leader wants, we will do.
I can raise her babies,
and if she still wants
to leave at that point,
her children can replace her.
We won't need her anymore.
Whatever Baguan Kapoor
needs, we will all do.
[suspenseful music]
[Together] Whatever Baguan
Kapoor needs, we will all do.
[suspenseful music]
That was a horrible story.
I liked it.
Had a little twist at the end.
You're never gonna let
go, you're a fucking liar.
Believe me.
I'm a man of my word.
I do have a story about a liar though.
You wanna hear it?
Please, please, just let me go.
It's about a Mountebank.
Do you know what that is?
Come on, we got time before your old man
coughs up the dough.
Let me tell you another one.
[suspenseful music]
I don't know if it's because
I never really took care of myself...
[suspenseful music]
I mean, come on.
I've been drunk more times in
my life than I've been sober.
[suspenseful music]
Or maybe it's because I was
never really a good person.
[suspenseful music]
Women...
[suspenseful music]
Drugs.
[suspenseful music]
Let my parents down more
times than I could count.
[suspenseful music]
In and out of jail,
[suspenseful music]
In and out of rehab.
[suspenseful music]
Maybe I deserved it.
Or maybe it's all just random.
[suspenseful music]
Whatever it is,
[suspenseful music]
I do have two little girls now,
[suspenseful music]
And I'm...
[suspenseful music]
I'm finally being a
good dad, a good person.
[suspenseful music]
And dying really isn't gonna
help my family right now.
[suspenseful music]
Dying will fuck up everything.
[suspenseful music]
So I searched online for months.
[suspenseful music]
I found you.
[suspenseful music]
You are the only person that can heal me.
[suspenseful music]
Please...
[suspenseful music]
Please, take my cancer away.
[suspenseful music]
[wheelchair rolling]
[somber music]
[prayer chanted in foreign language]
[suspenseful music]
Hello.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for allowing us to help you.
My daughter, she's very sick.
All my family, we put up a collection,
and we're going to pay
you what you ask for.
Once you transfer the money,
he will heal her.
[suspenseful music]
My husband is doing it now.
[suspenseful music]
Everyone says he's lying, he's a scam,
but we did extensive research on him,
and we found he's a true miracle.
[suspenseful music]
What is her disease?
Oh, she got amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, ALS,
and it's very severe.
[Anjali speaking in foreign language]
[Mother speaking in foreign language]
- He will save her.
- How?
I don't understand.
He's both blessed
and cursed with a gift,
much like when a sponge
absorbs all the water,
Jericho, he absorbs all the illnesses.
Ah.
He's a true miracle man.
[suspenseful music]
The transfer has been successful.
[prayer chanted in foreign language]
Let the blessing begin.
[suspenseful music]
What is her name?
Her name is Anjali.
[suspenseful music]
Jericho.
[suspenseful music]
Bless Anjali.
Bless her.
[suspenseful music]
[Jericho grunting]
[suspenseful music]
What happened?
[suspenseful music]
You have been blessed.
We have delivered the
most sacred all miracles.
In three days, she'll be
completely disease-free.
Oh, thank you.
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
[somber music]
[footsteps echoing]
[somber music]
Where did you get the money?
Don't worry about it.
I got it.
That's all that matters.
You were gonna buy a car.
Yeah, but I realized
nothing else in life matters
when someone you love is suffering.
All I wanted was to be
the hot girl in your life.
The one that made all your
ex-boyfriends go crazy.
[Partner laughing]
See, this is why you're amazing,
to have to deal with what
you're going through,
and you make me laugh.
[Partner laughing]
Fuck, there's just so many
shitty people in the world.
Why does this have to happen to you?
Why do horrible things
happen to the best people?
I'm just lucky.
Well, this is gonna work.
It is.
- A witch doctor.
Really?
Those don't exist.
- Trust me.
I'm not stupid.
I've been speaking to
people all over the country.
This is the real deal.
[knocking on door]
[suspenseful music]
Are you ready?
All my life, I felt alone,
and I have a really big family,
but I always felt like
no one understood me,
no one could ever love me.
[somber music]
And then I found you.
And I don't ever wanna leave you.
[somber music]
You're not going anywhere.
He's gonna fix this.
Babe, miracles don't exist.
Hey, I'm straight, and
I'm in love with you.
So they do exist.
[somber music]
[knocking on door]
[footsteps echoing]
[suspenseful music]
- Her name?
- Well, let me tell you
her medical history and what
happened.
- Her name.
Well, her name is Samara,
and she has glioblastoma.
It's a brain tumor.
[somber music]
He's blessed, and he can help you.
But first, you must pay.
So he creates miracles,
and heals the sick,
but only for those who could afford it?
Doesn't sound like a savior to me.
We travel the world.
We are always traveling,
trying to help those
that medical science cannot.
Jericho, he needs 24 hour a day care.
We can leave if you want us to.
No, please.
We appreciate you, and we need you.
We need you.
We're just scared.
[somber music]
Here.
[suspenseful music]
[prayer chanted in foreign language]
Let the blessing begin.
[suspenseful music]
Jericho, heal Samara.
[suspenseful music]
Heal her.
[suspenseful music]
Will this work?
Please, she's everything to me.
She's my world.
Please tell me this will work.
[suspenseful music]
It always works.
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful music ending]
[birds chirping]
Excuse me.
I'm so sorry.
I need to speak with you.
- We are very busy.
- Wait, please.
I know who you are.
[suspenseful music]
I followed you.
[suspenseful music]
Look, I need your help.
[suspenseful music]
My mom has stage four cancer.
[suspenseful music]
No one is helping her.
Nothing is helping her.
[suspenseful music]
There is a price.
[suspenseful music]
I know that...
We don't have it, but listen to me.
She's my everything.
[suspenseful music]
She's all I have.
[suspenseful music]
We've been to doctor after doctor,
[suspenseful music]
And no one can help her.
[suspenseful music]
Look, we have, we have nothing.
[suspenseful music]
We have no money, no family to turn to,
we live in a studio apartment together.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
[suspenseful music]
Look, if you cannot
pay, we cannot help you.
[suspenseful music]
Please, okay?
I'm begging you, I'm begging you.
[suspenseful music]
My mother is dying.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
[suspenseful music]
I can get you the money someday.
I'm sorry.
[suspenseful music]
I have pancreatic cancer.
You see, I've lived a really bad life.
I ran away when I was 13,
had babies that were taken from me.
I did drugs,
drugs did me.
I mean, my father beat me, abused me.
Yeah, in that way.
My mother ignored it, ignored me.
Come on.
My life was fucked from
the day I was born.
And then a year ago, I don't know,
I started finding reasons to live.
I fell in love, I got clean,
I found religion,
I found reasons to wake up.
And now my life is
excruciating abdominal pain
that radiates to my back, paralyzing me.
He can cure you.
I sold everything I own.
I took every penny I ever
had, and pleaded, begged.
I did that GoFundMe shit,
where people from junior
high school donate $25
to save my sorry ass.
I figured...
Come on.
I'm gonna die anyway, right?
So fuck it.
Take it away.
Take this away, please.
[suspenseful music]
I've been suffering all my life.
Please don't let me die like this.
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful music]
I'm not going away.
Leave us, child.
I can't help you.
- I have $4,000.
- That's not enough.
Is there anything,
anything that you people do
that doesn't involve money?
My mother is dying.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
[suspenseful music]
[door creaking]
[footsteps echoing]
He touched me.
It's been 24 hours.
Every second, every fucking
second feels like an eternity.
And I'm waiting.
[suspenseful music]
Am I feeling better?
Is the cancer going away?
[suspenseful music]
Fuck, man, this is terrifying.
And I thought facing
cancer was the scary part.
But now it's like,
like wondering if I'm gonna
get it all over again.
[suspenseful music]
Son.
Why in God's holy name would you think
this Mountebank could help you?
What?
What did you say?
They'd been around for centuries.
Unscrupulous charlatans.
Con men.
A person who deceives others
into thinking he can be cured.
Since the 16th century,
these con artists have preyed
upon the weakness of others,
giving them false hope,
selling their phony medicines.
[suspenseful music]
No.
I think you're wrong.
You...
You didn't see this guy.
You didn't see him.
[suspenseful music]
He's crippled.
[suspenseful music]
He's a fucking vegetable.
[suspenseful music]
He's not a con man.
[suspenseful music]
He creates miracles.
He's a true healer.
[suspenseful music]
[upbeat rock music]
[glasses clanking]
Woo, yeah, baby.
This is what I'm talking about.
What a fantastic month this has been.
I mean, you see the fucking
score just this week alone?
[Jericho laughing]
- I know, baby.
I know, I told you.
I told you.
- Oh,
I don't know how you do it.
I really don't.
[rock music quietly playing]
Oh...
Chat rooms and fake reviews.
[Jericho laughing]
Move into one town, clean them out,
and move on to the next.
New name, new Airbnb.
It's all so easy, baby.
[rock music quietly playing]
Oh, wow.
I love you.
I mean, you make me money,
you make me breakfast, and
you make me feel like dancing.
I'm gonna dance the night away
Yeah.
- Yeah.
Whoo.
This...
This is the life I've been wanting.
I mean, no more trailer parks,
no more knocking over 7-Elevens,
[rock music quietly playing]
It's...
[Jericho quietly whispering]
[Jericho laughing]
Yep, yeah, baby.
And we sure as shit
do not have to eat in the
Waffle House for dinner no more.
[rock music playing]
And you know, you're ain't
too bad in the sack either.
[laughing in unison]
Good thing you kidnapped me.
No, no, no.
I saved you.
There's a difference, I mean,
I have kidnapped plenty of bitches before,
but none of them deserve to be saved.
You, my little cupcake, deserve me.
[rock music playing]
All right, listen.
It's been a couple days,
and we need to find a new spot,
and get the hell out of here.
Alarm's about to go off.
[rock music quietly playing]
I think you might be right, my dear.
Let's pack our bags, and get outta Dodge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[rock music fading out]
I don't understand.
Are you sure you're not feeling better?
I feel worse.
[Mother speaking in foreign language]
[Anjali speaking in foreign language]
Oh my God.
Your mother is a fool.
I wanted to help you so
bad that I've become blind.
They lied on my face, and
I couldn't see it coming.
[somber music]
God...
Don't worry.
[somber music]
Everything will be fine.
But you should understand,
there are no miracles.
[somber music]
There are only liars and sickness.
Listen to me.
You need to stay strong.
I failed you.
I fucking failed you.
You tried.
And I will take my last breath
knowing how hard you tried.
[somber music]
Will you just give me
a chance to apologize?
We have nothing to talk about.
I was in the process of
getting my life together,
and I was gonna make it up to you.
I promised myself that
once the cancer was gone,
I was going to spend my
life making it up to you.
And Mom, what happened?
[somber music]
Cancer isn't gone,
[somber music]
And it isn't going anywhere.
[somber music]
So you're just disappointing me again?
[somber music]
Yeah.
[somber music]
I guess I am.
[somber music]
It's funny.
[somber music]
It's so funny.
[somber music]
My life is so fucking funny.
[somber music]
I dreamed I was a butterfly,
fluttering around in the sky.
[somber music]
And then I awoke...
[somber music]
Now I wonder,
am I a woman who dreamt
of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly, dreaming
that I'm a woman?
What are you talking about?
I thought...
I thought my life was going to change.
I believed the miracle was real.
[somber music]
I dreamed I was a butterfly.
[somber music]
But now I'm awake.
[somber music ending]
[suspenseful music]
There's a sucker born every minute.
I used to say that all the time.
You know why?
Because it's true.
It's fucking true.
There really is.
[suspenseful music]
More like every second.
[suspenseful music]
And I would laugh at all those idiots,
'cause they didn't even realize,
they didn't even know
that they were idiots.
And now?
- Now you're the idiot?
You got that right.
I don't know what I was thinking.
How could I possibly think
this freak was legit?
[suspenseful music]
Hope is the last to die.
Alex, you cannot give up hope.
If you lose hope, you lose everything.
[suspenseful music]
Well, I've lost it.
[suspenseful music]
- You all packed, Babe?
- Yep.
- Let's get outta Dodge.
- Let's go.
[knocking on door]
You expecting someone?
No.
Just get in the chair just in case.
[Partner clearing throat]
Going somewhere?
I didn't pay for a ticket,
so no need to perform for me, Jericho.
Well, this week, you're
Jericho, last month, Simon,
and before that, Lazarus.
[suspenseful music]
How you use these holy names
to spread your treachery is astounding.
[suspenseful music]
Why'd you let her in here?
I didn't.
I don't know how the hell she got in here.
When you think of angels,
you often think of the glowing,
friendly helpers that carry messages
between God and man, right?
And that perception isn't wrong.
Throughout the Bible,
angels do act primarily as messengers.
You got exactly 10
seconds to get out of here
before I put two in your head.
Yes.
We bring answers to prayers,
provide encouragement and comfort,
and protect and care for righteous humans.
Last chance, biatch.
But that's not all we do.
In the Scripture, there are angels
that carry out the judgment of God
to humanity, through violence.
In some cases, that judgment is death.
Shoot her.
She's insane.
Shoot her.
I can't.
It's not working.
[suspenseful music]
Angels are capable of
incredible destruction,
and can destroy a city with
the mere gesture of hands,
as we can see in 2 Samuel 24:16.
And because we are spiritual
beings, once sent on a mission,
we cannot be stopped by human means.
[suspenseful music]
What are you talking about?
[suspenseful music]
[Partner speaking in foreign language]
What?
[suspenseful music]
Avenging angels.
In Genesis 18, God came to Abraham
with two angels declaring His intention
to pass judgment on the cities
of the Sodom and Gomorrah,
a great outcry against the
cities had reached God,
and He called their sin
therein, "Very grave."
We can pay you whatever you want.
Before He acted,
however, Abraham pleaded
that the cities be spared,
so that the righteous were not
slain alongside the wicked.
God agreed to allow His angels
to investigate the cities,
promising to spare them if
He found 50 good people.
Abraham pleaded that number down to 10.
I am asking for one.
What are you talking about?
Tic-toc.
Tic-toc.
Your 24-hour timeline has begun.
[suspenseful music]
What the hell are you talking about?
You must go back to the people
that you just preyed upon.
The weakest, most desperate people,
who came to you with their
last glimmer of hope.
And because they now know
that you've deceived them,
you must find one, only one,
who is willing to forgive
you for what you've done.
Abraham asked for 10 good people,
I am asking for one extraordinary person.
[suspenseful music]
You...
You're kidding, right?
You're fucking kidding, right?
You think any of them would forgive me?
That's like, that's like
asking Mary, mother of Jesus
to forgive Judas.
Uh-uh.
She did forgive Judas.
She embraced him.
Remember, you have 24 hours.
Not a second more.
Not a second.
[suspenseful music]
What if nobody forgives?
[suspenseful music]
Pain.
The most unbearable
pain one can comprehend.
[suspenseful music]
[Angel speaking quietly]
This...
This is bullshit, right?
I mean, she's just crazy...
[suspenseful music]
Right?
[suspenseful music]
Where'd she go?
[suspenseful music ending]
Get out.
You cheated us.
You lied to us.
Please.
You don't understand.
- You didn't heal her.
You don't understand.
I wanted to help her.
I needed to help people.
She believed you could heal her.
I believed you could help her.
But how can you lie to a sick child?
Get out.
Listen to me.
I have a daughter too, and
she means everything to me.
She's the only good thing,
the only good thing that
I've ever done in my life.
What do you want me to do?
You want more money from me?
- I want...
- You want me
to believe your lies?
- I need you to forgive me.
Please.
- Forgive you?
No, never.
You would have to kill me
before I ever forgive you.
Just get out.
- Look, listen, listen.
Just...
- Just get out.
Just get out.
- Please.
Just get out.
[suspenseful music]
You're kidding, right?
Tell me that you're kidding.
I'm calling the police.
And then I'm gonna beat
the shit out of you.
We'll give you all the money back.
Please.
Please.
- Wow, okay.
So scam us.
Give us this cool belief
that I'm gonna get better,
take everything that we have,
and then you want us to forgive you?
[suspenseful music]
Just think of how an
amazing person you would be,
how pure your soul would
be if you forgave somebody
who wronged you like we did.
I would rather rot in
hell than to forgive you.
Never.
I don't believe in shit.
Never have.
But somehow, somehow you
got me to believe that,
"Oh, this was gonna work."
So now, not only do I hate
you, but I hate myself,
and I have to die mad at myself.
[suspenseful music]
Please.
I'm begging you.
Fuck you.
[suspenseful music]
[Alex laughing]
You need me.
You need me?
Please.
You have no idea how urgent this is.
This is...
This is amazing.
You robbed me.
You flat out fucking
robbed me of my money,
of my dreams.
[suspenseful music]
I was drowning, and you
threw me a fucking life vest
with holes in it,
and now you need me to forgive you?
If you have any more goodness in you,
you need to bring it out now.
Whatever was good inside me has died.
And my body's about to catch up.
I need you.
[Alex laughing]
[suspenseful music]
I have been many, many things in life,
but needed was never one of them.
No one has ever needed me.
How sad is that?
[quiet suspenseful music]
And now you, both of you,
two people who stumbled
upon a train wreck,
only to set that wreck on fire?
[quiet suspenseful music]
You need me?
It's difficult to explain.
Please, we need you to forgive him.
We need you to do it now.
Right now.
Please.
Forgive.
[suspenseful music]
To forgive is to let go
of anger and resentment,
to let go of something that hurt you,
[quiet suspenseful music]
To stop feeling anger or
resentment towards someone.
[quiet suspenseful music]
Please, you are my only hope.
You are my final hope.
I have asked to be forgiven
more times than I can count.
I have.
[suspenseful music]
I have cried, and pleaded, and
begged people to forgive me.
[suspenseful music]
I understand second chances,
and third chances.
[suspenseful music]
I know what it's like to
destroy people's lives,
and have them shut you out.
[suspenseful music]
But...
[suspenseful music]
As I am needed,
[suspenseful music]
And I am your only hope,
[suspenseful music]
I say yes.
[suspenseful music]
Yes.
[suspenseful music]
You are forgiven.
[suspenseful music]
Yes, yes.
Oh...
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Where is she?
Evangeline.
- She forgave him.
[suspenseful music]
- Where are you?
Yes.
She forgave you.
[suspenseful music]
But you're two minutes late.
Oh, no, no, no.
No way.
We had a deal.
The deal is 24 hours,
and not a second longer.
It is a rule that cannot be broken.
[suspenseful music]
This is bullshit.
[suspenseful music]
You set us up.
[suspenseful music]
What happens now?
Now, you'll fulfill your own prophecy.
You promised these people
that you could absorb their disease,
[suspenseful music]
Cure their illness,
[suspenseful music]
And so now you will.
[suspenseful music]
Mama.
Mama.
I don't feel sick anymore.
I don't feel sick.
Oh God.
Oh God...
[Mother speaking in foreign language]
[Jericho screaming]
[suspenseful music]
Babe, come here, babe.
[suspenseful music]
- What is it?
- I feel, I feel normal.
I feel amazing.
I feel perfectly free...
- Oh, my God.
[suspenseful music]
[Jericho screaming]
[suspenseful music]
What happened?
[suspenseful music]
Why do I feel healthy?
[suspenseful music]
Why do I feel better than I have in years?
[suspenseful music]
Am I not sick anymore?
[suspenseful music]
What happened?
[suspenseful music]
You expected a miracle,
and you got one.
[suspenseful music]
"Avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath,
for it is written, 'Vengeance
is mine' saith the Lord."
[suspenseful music]
[somber music]
See?
Sometimes the bad guy loses.
You know, these stories
are really helping me.
Could you tell me another one?
Oh, what are you getting
at, a Scotland Syndrome thing?
Okay.
I'll tell you another one,
but it's a bad sign your
father didn't deposit
that money yet.
One more.
If he hasn't paid, I'm gonna
turn into a really bad man.
Okay.
Speaking of bad men, here's
a story about Ben Crane.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
[Hostage] Please, please leave me alone.
Please.
- Here,
girl.
- Please, please.
No.
- Oh, I love it
when you scream.
- No.
[Hostage crying]
- You can scream
all night long, baby.
All night long
- No, no, no.
Please, please leave me.
Would you like me to give you something
to really scream about?
[Hostage crying]
Do you like me to show you a world,
[Hostage whimpering]
where the fear,
the pain that you know
will be just happy memories?
For what you're going to see,
what you're going to feel?
Let me show you that world.
[Hostage crying]
- Oh, no.
[Hostage shrieking]
[suspenseful music]
Hey.
Hey.
You need to listen to me.
You need to fight, or you need to run.
I couldn't run.
I didn't have the chance to run away.
But you do, so get up and run.
Or fight.
Fight this son of a bitch.
Hey, do you hear me?
Wake up.
[suspenseful music]
So you served five years,
and then were released during a retrial
to the lack of evidence?
- Correct.
Five years for...
I never did anything wrong.
I read through all the reports.
Your wife was strangled.
Suffocated, not strangled.
Cause of death was asphyxiation,
that I had nothing to do with.
Your DNA, your fingerprints,
they couldn't match it.
However, that's not why you're here.
You claim your wife was raped and killed
by some sort of malevolent
presence, a ghost, spirit?
[somber music]
- Those weren't
my exact words, and they
weren't my wife's words,
but that's what it was.
And she knew who it was.
Okay, the ghost, we'll use ghost,
for lack of a better term,
that was attacking her.
- Raping her.
Why do you use the term
rape?
- Because that's literally
what he was, what he did.
You taught science
at a community college.
Do you know how this sounds to people?
Like I'm insane.
Oh, I know.
I'm very aware of how I sound.
I spent five years in jail
for allowing myself to sound crazy.
Well, it sounds like
you're desperately trying
to manifest someone,
something, other than yourself,
for hurting your wife,
because of either deep-rooted guilt,
or perhaps a continued
perseverance of your innocence.
[somber music]
Interesting.
Let me explain something to you.
I walked into my bedroom,
and I saw my wife's
nightgown getting lifted up.
And I heard her scream in fear, and agony,
and something that was
not visible to the eye
attacked her physically, sexually.
Now, you may think I'm a fucking nut job,
but just for one minute, gimme
the benefit of the doubt.
If I'm not lying, and I'm
not crazy, what was that?
[somber music]
There are some dreams
called vivid dreams
that make it very difficult
to differentiate the dream from reality.
Now, vivid dreams occur
outside of REM sleep
are like a movie, in
which you're an actor.
You see it, you feel it,
you believe it to be real,
when in reality, it's not.
[somber music]
- I know what dreams are.
I know what reality is.
This was no dream.
This was...
It was a living nightmare.
[somber music]
[Hostage screaming]
Help me!
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage crying and gasping for air]
[suspenseful music]
- Help me!
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
[Ben humming "Hush Little Baby"]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
Hush little baby, don't you cry
Please...
Please don't do this to me, please.
Are you listening to me?
I said, hush little baby.
- I remember...
- Don't you cry...
Being so scared.
[suspenseful music]
I didn't know where I was,
[suspenseful music]
Or what he was gonna do with me.
[suspenseful music]
[water dripping]
[Hostage whimpering]
Wait a minute.
I didn't say that right.
[Hostage gasping]
Let me try again.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
Daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird
[Hostage whimpering]
Who would want a fucking mockingbird?
Do you like to be mocked?
[suspenseful music]
I don't.
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage whimpering]
I don't.
[suspenseful music]
He went from being so
calm to brutally violent.
[suspenseful music]
He smiled, and then he raped me.
[suspenseful music]
I don't understand how
therapy can help with this.
[suspenseful music]
You are one of the lucky ones.
- Who the hell are you?
- You think you suffer,
but at least you're still here.
I wish I was you.
I wish I was you.
What do you want from me?
I just wanna be free.
Don't you wanna be free too?
[suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]
Three days.
[birds chirping]
I think it was three.
I lost track
of being raped over and over again.
It seemed like an eternity.
I kept thinking when
he was doing it to me,
"What did I do wrong?
What did I do to deserve this?"
[birds chirping]
Look, I mean, we can sit here
and rehash the most horrible
events of our lives,
over and over again,
but it has been over 25
years, and he's dead.
Maybe a part of me, a part of you,
a part of all of us died with him.
But I've moved on.
And you know, I came here out of respect,
but I have no intention of
wandering down memory lane again.
[birds chirping]
Tell us, why did you ask to meet?
You won't believe me.
You're gonna think I'm crazy.
But...
[birds chirping]
I was in bed a few days ago, alone,
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful music]
And I sensed him.
He's dead.
No, he wasn't physically there,
but I sensed him.
I smelled him, he had
a very distinct smell.
[suspenseful music]
Yeah, I remember that smell.
[suspenseful music]
It's like this horrible
mix of beer essence
and sweat coming off his breath,
and out of his pores.
That fucking disgusting smell haunted me.
I remember that smell.
You know, I stopped being
able to go into bars,
because the slightest hint of his scent
caused me to have this
horrific panic attack.
That smell.
That was the smell.
It filled my room.
It made me choke.
It made me cry.
It was just a bad memory.
No.
[suspenseful music]
You will listen to me.
You both listen to me.
I smelled that son of a bitch.
Not a dream, not a fucking memory,
he was there.
- No, he's dead.
There's something...
Oh my God, I can't even believe
you're saying this right now.
A few days ago, I was alone,
and I swore, there was
someone watching me.
I mean, I felt it so much so,
that I had to pull the
covers up over my head.
No, it was just your imagination.
No, it was Ben Crane.
No, don't say his name.
That was my first thought, as well.
No, he's dead.
I mean dead, like rotting
in the ground dead.
Don't ever say his name again.
I've never been irrational.
I have never strayed from the
path of logic and science,
but I smelled him.
He was there.
Great.
So you're smelling that monster.
And I'm having nightmares
about some insane girl.
[suspenseful music]
- Excuse me?
- Yeah, it's nothing,
I mean, I just had a couple of nightmares
about some tormented girl.
[suspenseful music]
- With dark hair.
Yeah.
I mean, screaming at me,
but not like she was angry at me,
I mean, more like she...
Like she needs you
to help her.
- Yeah.
And wait...
What?
- She's been in my dreams too.
[suspenseful music]
You're both dreaming
about the same girl,
and I'm crazy, because I smell Ben Crane.
Don't say his name.
There's something really
horrible that is happening.
It's happening to us.
[suspenseful music]
Again.
[suspenseful music]
[keyboard clicking]
[suspenseful music]
[phone ringing]
Yeah.
What's that?
No, not tonight.
Sorry.
I just found this article,
this phenomenon actually exists.
[suspenseful music]
Let me...
Let me call you back.
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret crying]
[chains clanking]
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret shrieking]
[suspenseful music]
[chains clanking]
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret screaming]
[suspenseful music]
Don't cry, Margaret.
[Margaret screaming]
[suspenseful music]
You don't see me crying,
do you?
[Ben laughing]
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret crying]
Do they call you Margaret, or Maggie?
You look like a Maggie.
[Ben laughing]
[suspenseful music]
Maggie, I've got
something to say to you
Please, let me go.
Go
But I don't want you to go.
[Margaret crying]
You led me away from home
Just to stop me from being alone
Please, please.
You broke my heart
And that's what really hurts
[Ben laughing]
[Margaret screaming]
[suspenseful music]
- Ah.
[Margaret crying]
[chains clanking]
Please, please, please.
Let me go.
[Margaret crying]
- Do you want me to hurt you?
[suspenseful music]
[Margaret crying]
Do you want to feel pain?
No.
[suspenseful music]
No.
- I can make you
love the pain.
[Margaret crying]
[suspenseful music]
- No.
- You're gonna love this.
[suspenseful music]
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
[Hostage screaming]
[evil whispering]
[sounds abruptly stopping]
I guess out of sight, out of mind,
you know, if I didn't talk about it,
or think about it, then it didn't exist.
If a tree falls in a forest,
and no one's around to hear it,
does it make a sound?
For you, it doesn't.
But in reality, the
tree does make a sound.
Well, it's a philosophical riddle.
- I was raped.
- Oh.
Many years ago.
I'm so sorry.
The man was killed in prison.
That sounds like an all
around horrible situation.
I'll assume that's why you're here.
No, it's not.
I've been able to handle
the trauma rage hell
that I went through.
I was raped again.
Only this time, no one was there.
So you had a flashback to the rape.
No, listen to me.
I know I sound insane.
I was raped.
Horribly, violently.
And no one was in the room with me.
But somehow, somehow,
I also know that that filthy
animal, Ben Crane, was there.
The man that died?
I know it doesn't make any sense.
I know that.
Actually...
[suspenseful music]
- Help me!
- Who are you?
I cannot rest.
We're connected forever by hate, by pain.
What do you want from me?
Stop him.
Stop who?
You know who.
I cannot rest until he is gone.
He's dead.
His body is dead.
[suspenseful music]
So what are you talking about?
I met a woman that has,
is currently going through what you...
I can't even believe I'm doing this.
She's going through what you
claimed happened to your wife.
What?
[suspenseful music]
Here's her number.
Maybe you're both having
psychotic episodes,
but maybe, maybe there's
something more to it.
[suspenseful music]
- Thank you.
- By the way,
this never happened.
Got it.
Get away from me.
I'm trying to warn you.
[Sufferer laughing]
You are not real.
You are hallucination.
You're a figment of my
scarred imagination.
I'm one of his victims, just like you,
and I'm here to warn you.
He's coming back for you.
No, no, no, no, no, what?
I need medication.
Immediately.
You're scared to even say his name.
No, he's dead.
He's here now waiting for you.
Really?
Where?
Where?
You've gotta be kidding, 'cause
I don't see him anywhere.
Speak his name.
Stop it.
I am not dealing with a
fucking candy man here,
[suspenseful music]
And I'm not afraid of him.
Yes, you are.
That's why he is able to get to you.
You're scared to even say his name.
[suspenseful music]
Ben Crane.
[Sufferer gasping]
[suspenseful music]
Help me.
Only you can save yourself.
[suspenseful music]
- So a man arrives in hell.
- He's greeted by the devil.
- He's greeted by the devil.
- And the devil says to him...
- The devil says to him...
- You must choose
your torture.
- Choose your torture.
Because that will be
the torture.
- Because this will be
your torture for eternity.
- And so the man goes...
- So...
- Through hundreds of means.
- Through hundreds.
- And he sees people being
whipped...
He sees people being
- Burnt and tortured.
- Burnt and tortured.
- But he can't decide.
- But he can't decide.
- It's a tough choice.
- It's a tough choice.
- Until...
- Until...
- He gets to...
- He gets to...
- Where just gross...
- Disgusting...
Disgusting man
sitting on a couch,
watching football...
- Watching football
on TV.
[suspenseful music]
[Ben and Spirit's words echoing]
So he looks at the devil...
So the man
He says...
- This is what I wanted.
- This is what I wanted.
- The devil says ..
- The devil says...
- Are you sure?
- Are you sure?
- And the man says...
- Man says...
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, yes.
- And so...
- So...
- The devil goes...
- The devil
goes up to the couch by the man,
and taps the cheerleader on the show...
- Says, you may stop...
- And says, you may stop...
You may stop now, my dear.
[Ben speaking mumbled]
[Spirit laughing]
[Ben and Spirit laughing in unison]
[suspenseful music ending]
This is Danny on the phone.
His wife suffered like we did.
Did anyone believe you?
[Danny] No.
I even went to jail.
So not only did I have to witness
the love of my life being tormented
and abused by something I couldn't stop,
but it killed her.
I was so numb that prison
didn't even affect me.
What happened to us was a long time ago,
but we've been able to stay in touch.
Sort of a support group for each other.
Yeah, but now, for reasons
I don't fully understand,
it's starting again.
[Danny] And you said he was killed.
He was.
Yeah, I'm a realist, I think
with a clear, logical mind,
but things are happening
that none of us can explain.
[suspenseful music]
[Danny] They call it incubus syndrome.
They think it's a mental disorder,
a form of psychosis, schizophrenia,
but what happened to my
wife was not in her mind.
[suspenseful music]
You're preaching to the choir.
He attacked me just the other night.
[suspenseful music]
- Who is he?
- Ben Crane.
I know it's Ben Crane.
He's been back and attacking all of us.
I mean, how can...
How do you stop something
that you can't even see?
[suspenseful music]
[light flickering]
[suspenseful music]
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
I know you're in here.
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
You took everything from me.
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
Now it's time for some fucking playback.
[evil whispering]
[suspenseful music]
[lights flickering]
- Hello, Danny.
Oh, Danny boy
The pipes, the pipes are calling
[lights flickering]
[suspenseful music]
I'm gonna kill you once and for all.
[Spirit] Do not meddle with
things you do not understand.
[Spirit laughing manically]
[suspenseful music]
By the way, Emily says hello.
I'll send you back to hell.
[suspenseful music]
- You're gonna put
a little cheese in that box,
and catch you a little mouse?
[Spirit laughing manically]
I'm no mouse,
and I'm not going back there.
[suspenseful music]
Hello?
They found Daniel dead
in his home last night.
What?
A heart attack, they think.
That wasn't a heart attack.
I don't know what you guys
have been involved with,
but whatever it is, be careful.
Please, be careful.
[suspenseful music]
I don't understand.
It makes no sense.
I don't understand.
Why would it be that way?
It doesn't make any sense.
[suspenseful music]
Don't you see?
We are his way in.
No, I don't understand.
How often do you think about him,
feel fear, because of what he's done?
I mean, not a day goes by
that I don't think about it.
That's what he wants us to be, right?
He's listening to, and
feeling your thoughts,
and your fears.
So as long as we remember him,
and the way he like hurt
us, and tortured us,
he can come back?
But it's not that easy.
[suspenseful music]
We can say that we're not afraid,
but we actually can't be.
We can say we're gonna forget about him,
but we actually have to.
Then we will.
[suspenseful music]
Then we will.
[suspenseful music]
I smell him.
[suspenseful music]
I smell him.
[suspenseful music]
Ben Crane.
[suspenseful music]
Ben Crane.
We are no longer scared of you.
[suspenseful music]
You've tormented us for the last time.
No more.
No more, you motherfucker.
No more.
[suspenseful music]
You no longer infest our minds.
You no longer linger at
the backs of our souls.
We are no longer afraid of you.
Do you hear me?
[suspenseful music]
He's choking me.
[suspenseful music]
I can't breathe.
- Ben.
Ben.
[suspenseful music]
I forgive you.
[suspenseful music]
I forgive you, Ben.
[suspenseful music]
I've been researching you
for the past 25 years,
[suspenseful music]
And I know that you too have been abused.
[suspenseful music]
You're just as scared
as we are, Ben Crane.
[somber music]
You're a victim, just like we are, Ben.
You've suffered.
[somber music]
I forgive you, Ben.
[somber music]
I forgive you.
[somber music]
I forgive you.
[somber music]
The smell.
Smell is gone.
[somber music]
I don't feel him in here anymore.
[somber music]
Forgiveness.
[somber music]
Darkness can't drive out darkness.
Only light can do that.
Hate can't drive out hate.
Only love can do that.
[somber music]
Is it over?
[somber music]
Yes, it's finally over.
[knocking on door]
[somber music]
[door creaking]
[suspenseful music]
Hello, sweetheart.
Did you miss me?
[suspenseful music]
[Ben laughing]
[suspenseful music]
Okay, kid, time's up.
Your old man didn't pay.
He must not love you.
Well, no, actually, I'm a bitch,
and a horrible person.
Fuck.
[Kidnapper grunting]
What the fuck?
[somber music]
[suspenseful music]
[knife clanking]
[suspenseful music]
Hi, daddy.
I know you wouldn't pay for me,
so here's the deal.
I want half of what he's asking for,
and once I get the money,
I will completely vanish,
and you will never see me again.
But if you don't pay,
not only am I going to
tell the entire world
that you said no,
but I'm going to spill every
secret that I know about you.
[suspenseful music]
So you'll pay?
[suspenseful music]
Damn right, you will.
[suspenseful music]
Hey, listen, I'm gonna
give you about 15 minutes
to deposit that money into
my off shelf shore account.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, you're not dead yet?
[suspenseful music]
I have an idea.
Why don't I tell you a story?
You wanna hear a story?
[suspenseful music]
Once upon a time...
[suspenseful music]
Hey sweet girl, why
don't you come over
I've got something special for you
Hey baby girl, why don't get closer
I'm not the one that's calling for you
But if you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up under my floor
If you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up
under my floor board
Oh yeah
If you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up under my floor
If you go down in my basement
You're gonna wind up
under my floor board
[haunted electronic dance music]
Under my floor board
[haunted electronic dance music]
Under my floor board
[haunted electronic dance music ending]