I hate television.
It gives me headaches.
You know, I heard there were so many magnetic
waves travelling through the air because of
TV and telephones.
They were losing like ten times as many brain cells as you were supposed to.
Like all the molecules in our heads are all unstable,
and all the companies know about it,
but not doing anything about it.
It's a big conspiracy.
You can pick something, I don't care.
Any idea how many electro waves
travelling through our head... every second?
I've got a better one.
Have you heard about that videotape, that kills you
when you watch it?
What kind of tape?
A tape. A regular tape. People rent it, I don't know...
You start to play it...
and it's like somebody's nightmare,
Then suddenly, this women comes on,
smiling at you, right.
Seeing you through the screen
and as soon as it's over
your phone rings.
Someone knows you've watched it.
And what they say is: You will die in seven days.
And exactly seven days later...
Who told you that?
Somebody from Riviera...
Who told you?
What's your problem?
I've watched it.
It's a story, Katie.
No, me and Josh, we saw it last weekend.
I thought you were with your parents?
I wanted to tell you...
You were with Josh all weekend?
Some of his friends got this place up in the mountains.
They were trying to record a football game,
I guess the reception was so bad...
What are you talking about?
Listen to me!
We played the tape
the game wasn't there.
It was...
What? Wh-what was it?
It was something else.
We thought it was some kind of sick joke.
But then the phone ring.
It was a week ago.
A week ago tonight!
You are just trying to scare me.
Oh my God, Katie! Are you okay?
You... freak!
You totally fell for it!
No.
So?
Did you guys, you know, do anything?
Like what?
Oh my God! You totally did! You a ho! Tell me now!
There really is a tape?
This is so lame!
Embry residence.
Hi mom.
Yeah, that's Becca.
We were about to go to sleep.
Okay. Yeah, I will.
Okay! Yeah, yeah I will!
No, I won't.
Bye, mom!
Becca quit being a bitch! Where is the remote?
Becca, quit it!
Becca, can you hear me?
Listen Harvey, you punctilious prick! You touch my column
and I'm coming down there and poking your eye out
with that little red pencil you like so much!
Harvey!
Shit!
Hey.
I'm sorry I'm late.
No worries.
I open the car.
Have you got a moment, miss Kellar?
Uhm... sure.
Call me Rachel.
Please, sit down.
He certainly is very independent, isn't he?
Yeah, he sure is.
I never have to tell him to do anything.
Well if that's a problem, you'd be the first teacher in history to say so.
Miss Kellar...
Rachel.
I know that Aidan recently lost his cousin.
Yes. And I'm doing what I can to find
him some good day-care.
No, that's not what I meant. By all means, take your time.
I know they were very close, Aiden and his cousin.
They spent a few nights a week together.
Did he talk to you about her death?
Well... like you said, he's not the talkative type.
That doesn't mean that he has nothing to say.
He knows I'm there.
Yes, I'm sure he does.
But he may be expressing himself in
other ways.
I'd like to show you something.
That's his cousin.
It's Katie.
Miss Kellar,
I'm bothered by these drawings.
Ehh... listen.
I appreciate your concern, but...
my son lost his best friend three nights ago.
He's just trying to deal with it.
Yes I understand, but these pictures...
Are Aidans way of working it out,
of expressing himself, like you said.
He'll be okay.
You say she died three nights ago.
Yeah, that's right.
Aidan drew these last week.
What?
Nothing.
Should we eat something?
I'm kinda tired.
Okay.
Sweet dreams.
We don't have enough time.
Oh, honey.
I know I've been working a lot.
And I'm sorry, but I promise you
I'm gonna make it up to you.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about time before we die.
You have lots of time!
So you know when I'm going to die?
No... no one does.
But I know you don't have to worry about it.
Katie knew. She told me.
Katie told you she was gonna die?
She said she didn't have enough time.
Goodnight, Rachel
No, shit!
Aidan!
God damn it.
Honey, have you seen my black dress?
Aidan!
Have you seen my black... dress?
It's a little wrinkled.
It's fine.
Kids don't have strokes,
unless they are on drugs. So then why the closed coffin?
Ruthie... I'm so sorry.
You're all right, Dave?
Yeah, I'm fine.
How are you?
He sleeps all day.
Doesn't move.
It's too much for him.
Doesn't make any sense, Rachel.
I spent four hours on the Internet, and I couldn't find one single case
of a sixteen year old girls heart just stopping!
I spoke to three different doctors and not one
of them could tell me exactly,
what happened to my daughter.
She was close...with you.
And Aidan.
She confided in you.
Yeah, but she never said anything.
Nothing that would explain what happened.
You can find out.
It's what you do. Isn't it? Ask questions?
Rachel, please!
I saw her face...
I knew about that. I mean, she was a little intense but
she wasn't crazy.
They don't put you in budies and a straightjacket if you just freaked out!
Something scared the shit out of her.
Hi.
So who's in the mental hospital?
Becca. Katie's friend.
All right. She was the one who was...
there... When it happened.
So, what do you think they were doing up there?
Ah, thanks.
I remember I was that age,
me and my girlfriend just to sneak up to my room
get high.
Do you think she was maybe into....
It's not about that.
It's about the tape.
Calhan... don't even.
What tape?
The one that kills you when you watch it.
Oh, please!
What was on the tape?
I haven't seen it, obviously.
But Katie told you she saw this tape?
Not Katie. I heard it from her boy...
You heard it from who?
She was dating this guy, Josh.
He goes to Riviera. It was kind of a secret.
Kind of?
Where is he? Josh, is he here?
Josh is dead.
What?
What happened?
Supposively he killed himself.
The same night that Katie died.
Aidan!
What are you doing in here?
Come on.
We shouldn't be in her room.
It's not her room anymore.
NEXT DAY PREMIUM PHOTO PROCESSING.
BACK BAY TEEN DIES IN HIGH-RISE FALL.
10:00 p.m.
ONE CAR ACCIDENT KILLS TWO; CAUSE NOT DETERMINED.
10:00 p.m.
Time of death way is all I wanna know.
The name is Katie Embry. Pull the report and make a time.
It's okay, I hold.
Punctilious prick?
Nice alliteration, huh?
You're fired.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are!
No, I'm not.
I'm cooking a to goody story.
What is it?
Yeah, I'm still here.
Okay, so what's the time of death?
10 p.m.
Hi. I was wonderi...
Pick a card. Any card.
Go ahead.
Put it back.
Don't let me see it.
The card?
No.
Damn.
I was wondering if you'd remembered someone from
a week ago?
Was there a problem?
It's my niece, she...
sort of ran out on her parents.
No.
I have some photos here. That's her...
and her friends.
I think they stayed here a night or so.
Yeah, they were in cabin twelve.
They didn't pay.
They had a number of complaints.
About the TV mainly.
Uh... receptions never good here.
That's why we bought tape players, for videos.
Quite a selection.
Mostly they are hand-me-downs left by other guests.
Anyway...
they didn't pay.
Kids like that sometimes don't.
Miss?
You know...
I'm kind of tired. I'm thinking I might take a nap before
I drive back.
I take cabin twelve.
Hey!
This is your card, right?
That's it!
Seven days...
Thursday.
Day 1.
I'm going to school!
What do you think?
Pretty cool effect.
What has it to do with the tape?
Take my picture.
Are you gonna look at me at least?
This is the same camera?
No, scan the rest.
So, what do you think?
I thought you said this was about a tape.
I'm thinking maybe you shouldn't see it.
Ah no, I should know more about it first.
Isn't that why I'm here?
So you can benefit from my wisdom.
Four kids are dead, Noah.
Not from watching a videotape.
C'mon, show it to me.
Roll credits.
That was a very student film.
Uhm... it's a lot scarier at night.
Gonna get that?
So, you been working a lot?
I'm not tired, Noah!
Okay.
That tape didn't scare you?
No, not really. Sorry.
Four people are dead!
Emb, like I should...
Four people who watched it!
C'mon, we watched it! We're hanginī.
It takes a week...
Right.
I'm just gonna go downtown, I've got to pick up some cameras up from this guy and then gotta prep this thing that i might do next week...
Noah!
Would you say that I'm gullible?
No.
Easily rattled?
Definitely not. You are a little highly strung, maybe.
You ain't not much of a dresser.
Who made it? Where did it come from?
Right.
Let me copy it, see what I can do.
Thanks.
AUDIO VISUAL RESEARCH ROOM.
Friday.
Day 2.
You sure this is the copy?
Yeah, why?
The numbers are all screwed up.
Same problem got copied, I guess.
It's impossible.
The numbers of the control track, they put on the
tape whenever it's recorded, which means
theoretically, there shouldn't be any images.
Hey, Noah! Can you pretend for one minute that I
don't read video geek magazine?
Okay. When you record a tape
the makeup of the tracks is like a signature for whatever did the recording, like a Camcorder
VCR, whatever.
So the control track can tell us where it came from.
But to not have one, I mean, that's like being born without fingerprints.
Then, how did this get recorded?
I don't know.
But, I'm gonna find out.
Take a look.
You should be able to see the camera here in the reflection.
The angle is straight on, but you don't.
What's that?
Looks like she's walking away, whoever she is.
No, I mean up there at the top.
Oh, that's just the tracking. I can fix that.
Whoa. Sorry.
Wait. Go back.
There's something there.
You're right.
It's some more picture.
Hold on.
I'm gonna stretch the alignment.
It's working!
Keep going! No no no! Let me do it! C'mon!
It won't go any further! Let me do it! Shit!
Hey, Noah! I picked up the cameras!
They are in really good shape.
Did you set the weepers i did on the Guatemala stuff. They came out kinda... overexposed.
You working?
This is a friend,
Rachel Keller.
She writes for the PI. Rachel, this is Beth, my assistant.
I prefer partner in crime.
She is a journalism student at Kirkland, actually.
I stay out of your way. I'm not even here.
Hey, Rachel is researching the story.
These video hoax's. It's really interesting.
You know video. Why don't you come look at this thing with the tracking?
No, I'll wait. I really should go.
I gotta go!
Good to meet you.
You're taking the tape?
I don't want her to see it.
Whooa, you don't want her to see it. What about me seeing it?
You had no problem showing it to me.
I did have a problem.
You're angry.
I'm not angry.
Oh no, what are you then?
In a hurry.
Well I'm sorry but I'm not gonna get all worked up over some high school rumour.
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking, this is the part where I see
you are a flake, never finishes anything.
Then you say, I'm an obsessive bitch... needs to lighten up.
Then I storm out, all pissed off. Kicking myself for ever thinking that you could just...
grow up!
So why don't we just cut to that part right now and save ourselves
a lot of grief?
All right. Bye!
Watch out, missy!
Bad luck. You don't need that.
Saturday.
Day 3.
Becca?
We're almost there!
Do you remember anything about that night?
That night with Katie?
Do you remember...
how she died?
Becca?
She told you about a videotape, didn't she?
She was afraid, wasn't she?
Something was happening to her.
Becca!
How did she die?
Please.
I need to know.
And you will...
She'll show you.
Who?
Who will show me?
Not now.
Four days.
Just don't force her, she'll get pissy with you!
Your tracking, your monitor, your printer, if you need it.
So, what are we watching, home movies or something?
I, really rather watch it alone.
Really!
Whatever.
Come on.
Come on!
A lighthouse!
PRINT.
Shit!
Hello! Is it somebody...
Something you needed help with?
Hey...you you got a...you a...
Sunday.
Day 4.
This seems to be the lot of it.
Thank you.
AMERICAīS LIGHTHOUSES.
Moesko Island.
MOESKO ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE.
Anna Morgan.
ANNA MORGAN HOSTS HORSE SHOW.
Oh my God...
Mysterious sickness strikes Morgan Ranch horses.
Investigators search for answers after second horse drowning.
MORGAN RANCH STILL SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS: FURTHER TESTING NEEDED.
HORSES RECOVERING AFTER BREEDERīS SUICIDE.
ANNA MORGAN, 44, AWARD WINNING HORSE BREEDER.
...have jumped...
...suffered from hallucinations...
Eola County Psychiatric Hospital.
What happened to you, Anna?
Monday.
Day 5.
Take a double light.
$15,33
You gonna die.
My cousin was two packs a day. He used a patch, never looked back.
Have a nice day.
You too.
Sorry I'm late.
No, no problem.
Everything...okay?
Oh yes. He was an angel.
I went in to tell him it was bedtime and he was already under the covers.
And then he read me a bedtime story.
Really? Yeah, and then he drew my picture.
Here you go.
Thanks... sure.
Hey Ruthie, it's me, I'm sorry to call so late but I need
a favour.
I have to go up state to to the story. And I need
you to watch Aidan for me.
Oh, Rachel I don't know...
How long will you be gone?
It's just for two days, I promise. This is a bad time for me.
Rachel?
Rachel, are you there?
Hold on just a sec...sorry...
Rachel? Is this about Katie?
Ruthie?
Aidan?
No!
Why, Baby? Why, why!
I couldn't sleep.
Where is she, Rachel?
Leave him alone!
Rachel?
Noah!
Listen to me, Rachel.
I need to talk to you, okay?
I believe you.
Rachel, are you there?
He watched the tape.
Who...who watched the tape?
Our son!
Tuesday.
Day 6.
You take my picture.
I've seen you.
... in the yard at school. You were there.
Rachel and I were...
Young.
Momīs told me that to me.
The thing is...
I don't think I make a good father.
Maybe it was because my own was... such a...
disappointment.
Then I didn't anyone else to do it either...
be a father.
It's kunundrum.
Yeah it is.
Time to go, mister.
I'm not finished.
I just wanna make one for you.
You could almost draw a line through her life.
On one side there was this happy woman,
who spends her time with her husband.
Riding horses, everything sheltered, protected and comfortable.
Her face... there's light, there's pride.
And then one day something happens.
And she takes this hard corner and the light
goes out. And then she ends up at Eola County Psychiatric.
All alone.
What happened to her?
I don't know yet.
But it has something to do with the horses.
I think we should go to the island together.
It's Tuesday, Noah!
I only have one day left.
I need you to go to the hospital and find out as much as you can
about Anna.
The images on the tape will leave us somewhere.
Katie saw them all to, I think.
Before you die you see the ring.
Shit!
Hey, Rach, wait!
RIDER INJURED AT HORSE SHOW.
ANNA MORGAN WAS HOLDING HER DAUGHTER IN HER ARMS THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
Daughter?