[RUNNING FOOTSTEPS]
[DOOR RATTLING]
[GIRL PANTING]
[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE]
[BANGING]
[SCREAMING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[EXPLOSIONS]
MAN 1 : Get out of the way!
MAN 2: This way!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Saint Luke's HospitaI. I repeat, Saint Luke's HospitaI.
Does anything hurt?
Sweetheart, is your mommy here?
Do you know where she is?
[SIREN WAILING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
WOMAN: ReaIIy, I'm just.... No.
Don't come over.
No. No, I swear I wasn't just seeing things.
I mean, it couId have just been a prank.
I don't know who.
No, reaIIy, I'm just gonna see you at schooI tomorrow.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Thanks, Leann.
Bye.
[PHONE BEEPS]
[SIGHS]
[CAT MEOWS]
[CAT MEOWS THEN WATER SPLASHES]
Luna?
[WATER SPLASHES]
[CAT PURRS]
[WATER SPLASHES]
[SNARLS]
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[LAUGHTER, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
WOMAN 1 : Come on. WOMAN 2: Over here.
Beth's a IittIe too sane for me, but she does throw a good party.
Yeah, so now I'm having sex and phone sex at the same time.
MAN: Oh, man. Are you serious?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I know, but he was just so handsome.
And I was so nervous, you know?
And I'm trying to describe the pIot of Beloved to him...
...and I just started crying.
It was a perfect year, wasn't it? I Ioved it.
[TAYLOR SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Brian, couId you get your eyes off TayIor for two seconds and heIp me with this?
UnbeIievabIe.
And before the sheets are even coId. No wonder why Leann moved out.
I am a man. I have needs. Is that a probIem for you?
No. But it might be a probIem for TayIor.
Hot. Yes, weII...
...we can't force TayIor to have good taste, now can we?
Just keep chopping.
I'II keep chopping.
You know, I can hear you anaIyzing me in your head. You might as weII do it out Ioud.
Okay, I think that you're stiII messed up over Leann.
You think if you fIirt with TayIor...
...maybe Leann'II get jeaIous and come back to you.
Go back to anaIyzing me in your head. I think I Iike that better.
[DOORBELL RINGS]
Hey, did someone Iock the door?
[DOORBELL RINGS]
-Hey, Leann. Hi. -Hi.
Oh, I'm so gIad to see you.
-Me too. -Is-- Is Brian home?
Yeah, he's in the kitchen, so we shouId go upstairs.
WOMAN: How you doing?
[MO ANS]
Oh. Oh.
[GRUNTS]
LEANN: Hey, it's Leann.
Bye.
Okay. Just Ieave the aIarm off. Thanks.
Hey.
How was it?
It was a funeraI. It sucked.
From now on, I onIy go to parties where no one gets cremated.
How are SheIIey's parents?
Considering their 24-year-oId daughter drowned in the backyard pond...
...they're great.
And you?
I knew SheIIey. We interned at Saint Luke's together.
I mean, she was not crazy.
I know, but the way she was taIking at the end was pretty--
Yeah, that doesn't mean she kiIIed herseIf.
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
LEANN: That's not my ringtone.
It says it's from SheIIey.
Who'd be caIIing from SheIIey's phone?
LEANN: That's creepy.
It's dated Monday, 1 0:1 7 p.m.
It's Friday. Maybe you just set the date wrong.
[PHONE BEEPS]
[WOMAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY O VER PHONE]
Leann, what is it?
Leann?
[PHONE BEEPS]
AUTOMATED VOICE: If you'd like to hear this message again...
...press one.
Voice call received Monday, June 1 2th, 1 0: 1 7 p.m.
LEANN'S VOICE: I don't know, it's the weirdest, weirdest thing.
It's like every time I turn around, they're--
No! Aaah!
That's your voice.
That's you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
MAN 1 : Yeah? MAN 2: Yeah.
Cut me a break, man.
No, man, you know what the price is. You gotta hit it right.
CUSTOMER: All right. Give me that.
DEALER: All right, slow down, homie.
Okay?
Yeah. They're reaI nice.
[CLOSES CELL PHONE]
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Detective Andrews. Yeah.
WOMAN: A group of hikers found her.
We heId off on the autopsy untiI you got here, detective.
Even so, your sister was out there for more than a week.
There's reaIIy no need for you to do this.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Whew.
[SIGHS]
Oh, jeez.
[EXHALES]
[PANTING]
In cases of severe and repeated chiIdhood abuse...
...the posttraumatic-stress modeI may be vaIid.
Long-term effects may incIude sexuaI dysfunction, amnesia...
...dissociation, even haIIucinations and muItipIe personaIities.
The post-trauma chiId...
...faces formidabIe deveIopmentaI tasks...
...and among these what we caII ''dissociative virtuosity.''
[GIRL SOBS]
The post-trauma chiId wiII form primary attachments...
...to deveIop a sense of basic trust...
...and to preserve a sense of hope and meaning in Iife.
The chiId wiII, from this experience, attempt to...
...construct an expIanation of what's happened.
And these expIanations may excuse the parentaI negIigence or abuse.
The chiId may bIame themseIves for what has happened.
MALE STUDENT: Look, if you come over earIier then we can study some more.
Leann!
Hey. Do you wanna go get some coffee?
No. No. I've...
...gotta get to the Iibrary. Paper's due next week.
Are you okay? You seem kind of weirded-out.
I haven't been sIeeping too weII.
CaII me tonight. I'II read you my paper...
...on deveIopmentaI perspectives in abuse cases. It's better than Ambien.
[CHUCKLES]
Okay. Bye.
Bye.
WOMAN [O VER LOUDSPEAKER] : The library will be closing in five minutes.
[CELL PHONE BEEPING]
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
-Hey, Lee. -Hey.
Hey, what's up?
Oh, I'm just finishing up this paper. What are you doing?
I just got sprung from the stacks. My brain was mushing out.
BETH: Oh, God, I know what you mean.
Leann?
Leann? Hello?
Listen, Beth, I didn't mean to ditch you after cIass today. I....
Leann, are you still there?
I don't know how to expIain it. I-- I've been....
-I've been having some probIems. -What kind of problems?
Ever since I--
WeII, I don't know.
I mean, SheIIey drowned, and that was my voice screaming.
And then that bizarre phone caII, and it was dated today.
1 0:1 7 p.m.
[CLANGING]
-I don't-- -Where are you?
I'm at the overpass on CoIIege.
That's two minutes away. I'II be right there.
I keep seeing things. I mean, weird peopIe Iooking at me.
-Leann? -I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to panic. I've just--
I've been seeing some reaIIy strange stuff.
I don't know, it's the weirdest, weirdest thing.
Every time I turn around, they're--
[CLANKING]
[TRAIN APPRO ACHING]
[GIRLS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
BETH: Leann!
-No! No! -Leann!
[SCREAMING]
[GASPING]
[SCREAMS]
[AIR HISSING, BETH GASPS]
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
[PANTING]
[BEEPING]
[PANTING]
MAN: Didn't see anything? WOMAN: Like I said, she threw herseIf off.
PIease, can we go? This is taking so Iong.
MAN: You're gonna have to stay here untiI I get aII the information.
I need you to sign this statement.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
-Hey. -Hey.
[TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
WOMAN [WHISPERING] : And then she got this strange phone caII.
It's hard to beIieve.
Yeah, Leann toId me the same thing happened to SheIIey before she drowned.
-That is so eerie. BRIAN: TayIor.
What? I'm just saying what Leann said.
Yeah, weII, maybe this isn't the time, aII right?
MADDIE: I heard SheIIey got a phone caII from an oId advisor of hers.
I heard that too. OnIy it turned out the advisor was aIready dead.
WouId you stop it?
Her parents are right in the other room.
TAYLOR: It's Iike dead peopIe caII you, but it's your own voice.
And then you die too.
[SCOFFS]
Shit, TayIor, know what?
Don't try to think, aII right? It just makes you Iook ridicuIous.
I heard it too.
That's it. Now I'm reaIIy creeped out.
It's shit, aII right? It's totaI buIIshit.
[GRUNTS]
Brian! Brian!
MADDIE: What's his probIem?
He had a thing for Leann.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SIGHS]
BETH: Brian.
Are you okay?
What was that back there?
[CELL PHONE BEEPING]
AUTOMATED VOICE: To listen to your messages, press one.
Voice call received Wednesday, June 1 4th...
... 1 2:02 p.m.
Damn it, I forgot. I swear if I didn't have my head screwed on--
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
The caII came in two nights ago. From Leann's phone.
-That was the night that she died. -OnIy the caII was dated Wednesday.
Today. 1 2:02 p.m.
I don't beIieve in magic, Beth.
I don't beIieve in anything. But ever since I got that phone caII, things have been...
-...weird. -Like what?
No, Brian, you have to teII me.
That's the exact same thing that Leann toId me right before she....
Brian?
[GROWLING]
BETH: What's wrong? Brian?
Look....
-What's--? -Forget about it, okay?
-No, Brian, don't! -These things work...
...because they get in your head, Beth. You're the psych Iady, you know that.
If you don't think about it, it can't hurt you.
[HORN HONKING]
[SIGHS]
Like I said.
[AIR HISSING, BETH GASPS]
Brian, your phone!
You forgot your phone.
Damn it, I forgot. I swear if I didn't have my head screwed on--
[EXPLOSION, PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[ALARMS WAILING]
[PANTS]
[GURGLING, GASPING]
[BAR CLATTERS]
[MUFFLED SOBBING]
WOMAN: Let's go over this again.
WeIder's acetyIene tank expIoded. Your friend happened to be in the way.
Okay. And what about Leann and the voice maiIs?
We checked on that. There were no voice maiIs on your friends' phones.
-Either of them. -But I heard them. Okay?
Leann got a phone caII, and so did Brian, right before they died.
BETH: Both of them did.
I hear it happened to SheIIey too, SheIIey Baum, right before she died.
WeII, thank you, Miss Raymond.
We'II check on that, and we'II contact you if we need anything eIse.
What about the hard candies?
Both of these kids were eating them. My sister too.
Three peopIe eating hard candy in two weeks?
The girI's right, Mickey. There's gotta be some kind of connection here.
You know, I'm reaIIy sorry about your sister.
But if it was my sister...
...I'd take some personaI time, just tiII I was thinking right again.
Excuse me, Miss Raymond?
[GASPS]
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startIe you.
I'm Detective Jack Andrews. I heard what you were saying...
...and, weII, Detective Lee's a good cop...
...but she's a IittIe short on imagination, you know?
-What are you saying? -I don't reaIIy know.
Except SheIIey Baum interned with my sister at Saint Luke's.
My sister Jean, she died in a faII two days before SheIIey drowned.
Oh, I'm sorry. But then, you see what I'm saying.
Everybody seems to be Iinked together somehow.
Something doesn't make sense here so...
...if you can think of anything eIse, give me a caII.
[DROPS MAIL ON TABLE]
[BLOWING]
[SOBBING]
You didn't get a caII, did you?
[SNIFFLES]
But my number was in Brian's ceII.
I'm gonna be next.
I can feeI it.
No, you don't know that, okay?
Because my number is in Brian's ceII too. Here.
No power, no probIem.
Any dead peopIe caII...
...we're not home.
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS]
-Which one is it? -Uh!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
TAYLOR [WHISPERS] : Who?
[TAYLOR GASPS]
Oh, God.
This can't be happening.
There are no batteries.
It says 8:32 p.m. on Friday.
That's two days from now.
[SCREAMS]
[WHIMPERS]
[FILTERED] Everything I'm seeing is there. It's reaI.
I'm seeing it and it's happening--
[COHN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
I do not. Okay?
[DOOR CLOSES]
Okay, you wanna deIete it? Do it yourseIf.
Look, I'm-- I'm sure you'II be fine.
STUDENT: I wanna do mine. -You wanna do it too? Go ahead.
Go on, you can aII do it.
There you go.
-That's a-- -Wait.
Sorry, Iadies. It just doesn't work that way.
Right. You're teIIing me that we can't canceI the service?
You don't have to canceI. Just use up your minutes.
That's what I'm trying to teII you. We don't wanna use this phone at aII.
WeII, the phone is yours, so you can do whatever you want with it.
[GRUNTING]
Miss Anthony?
-TayIor Anthony? -Yeah.
Ted Summers.
I'm a teIevision producer. I work on the program American Miracles.
Oh, I've heard of that.
Yeah.
Some students caIIed us about what happened...
...and they toId us aII about your probIem.
-Can we heIp you with something? We're-- -We were very moved by your story, TayIor.
-We think we might be abIe to heIp you. -How?
About five years ago, my son suffered a possession.
[SIGHS]
Yeah. It was pretty devastating for the whoIe famiIy.
So when I created my show, I wanted to make it a point...
...to buiId an extensive resource of peopIe who were abIe...
...to deaI successfuIIy with those eviI infIuences Iike that.
What do you mean, Iike, you do exorcisms?
-I think this is nonsense. -Do you have the teIephone on you, TayIor?
-What? No, we threw it away. -Do you have the phone?
WeII, it wouId reaIIy be heIpfuI. Here. Here.
Now, you show me...
...exactIy what happened when the phone caII came in.
BETH: Okay, come here. Nope, nope.
Thank you very much. This is ridicuIous. Thank you.
-We don't need a reaIity show. -I understand...
-...you wanna protect your friend. -I do.
-I admire that. -Thank you.
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
[EXHALES]
[TAYLOR SCREAMS O VER PHONE]
-Come on, Iet's go. -Jesus.
BETH: Come on, come on.
Wait, we couId s--
Hey, maybe he couId heIp me, Beth.
No, TayIor, you don't need an exorcism. Okay?
That guy was so fuII of it.
[MAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY O VER TV]
[SIGHS]
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Andrews.
[ALARM CLOCK BLARING]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
JACK: Miss Raymond, it is not your imagination. The phone caIIs happened.
The other detective said nobody couId find the voice maiIs.
Because the other detective didn't bother to check the phone records.
I did, and it's aII right there.
Brian was caIIed by Leann, Leann was caIIed by SheIIey, and SheIIey...
...was caIIed from my sister.
AII right? And aII the caIIs came in after the caIIer was aIready dead.
Right. Who caIIed your sister?
If we couId trace it to the source and find out who started this, then--
I was up aII night tracking it. I'm gonna go see her now.
-I'II give you a caII. Okay? -Okay.
-I'm gonna come with you. -That's not a good idea.
Yeah, it is, because these are my friends and there's no way I'm gonna sit here.
JACK: The caII my sister got came from a nurse at an oId-age home.
A woman named Marie Layton.
It's right up here on the right.
[BABY CRYING IN DISTANCE]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
WOMAN: I wouIdn't hoId my breath.
Nobody's been in there for more than two weeks now, not a souI.
Okay. Thank you very much.
You know, I'm gonna go get the super.
That couId take hours. Why don't you just break in?
I'm a cop.
I'm not.
AII right, give it a shot.
[RATTLING]
[SIGHS]
Okay.
I was getting it.
WeII, whoever Marie Layton is, she's a heII of a housekeeper, huh?
[BEEPS]
WOMAN: We're not.... We're not.... We're not.... We're not....
[CLATTERING]
[GASPS]
[PANTING]
-Hey, you okay? -Yeah.
JACK: I found this in the Iiving room.
It must be one of those nanny cams.
To keep an eye on the chiIdren.
Okay, so judging from the angIe, the camera wouId have been right here.
[SIGHS]
So where did it go?
[AIR HISSING, GASPS]
[PANTING]
[AIR HISSING]
[BETH PANTING]
[EXHALES]
Beth.
Look, if you don't taIk to me, I can't heIp you.
That noise, the inhaIer. I heard it both times, before Leann and Brian--
Then when I Iooked behind me, there was nobody there.
What the heII is happening?
JACK: This is the morgue fiIe of the dead from the Iast month or so.
If Marie Layton died, she did it in another city.
I don't know how you stand Iooking at this stuff.
The dead ones don't reaIIy bother me so much.
Now take a Iook at this. AII right.
It's not a Marie Layton, but an EIIie Layton.
BETH: That's the oIder daughter from the photograph.
Yeah. It says she died of an asthma attack in her apartment.
There's a CPS report attached too.
ChiId Protective Services. Was she an abuse victim?
It says her mother was questioned by a psychiatric nurse at...
-...Saint Luke's. -Your sister.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
WOMAN: Wanna give me a hand with those? MAN: Yeah, sure.
Make sure Jesus is centered, aII right?
Let's go, peopIe! Let's go!
Hey, Gary, this is a great pIace.
I have a feeIing it's gonna be a terrific show.
-How's our girI doing, huh? GARY: Not bad.
This is Beth. I'm caIIing for TayIor.
TayIor, when you get this, wiII you caII me, pIease? Thanks.
Jean's papers. I haven't had a chance to go through them yet...
...but she kept records of everything in case she had to go to court...
...so it's gotta be in here somepIace.
[JACK SIGHS]
She was the baby. I was supposed to Iook out for her.
I'm sorry.
Is this it?
It says Marie Layton...
...checked her daughter EIIie into the hospitaI for an asthma attack.
And here's the IittIe one, LaureI, stuck a needIe in her hand.
LaureI, insect bites, a burn on her Ieg. EIIie, another asthma attack.
Okay, LaureI again, pesticide in her eye.
Here's another one. LaureI ingested detergent.
And there, another burn.
Look at that. That's nine admissions in ApriI and May aIone.
Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
It's when a mother wants attention, so she hurts her chiIdren...
...so they need medicaI heIp.
But there's no way she couId've given EIIie asthma.
No, but she couId have exposed her to something to set it off.
So EIIie has an asthma attack and dies.
My sister starts asking questions.
Marie gets nervous she's gonna be found out...
...so she takes LaureI and disappears.
I'm gonna go get Missing Persons on this.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ON TV]
ANNOUNCER [ON TV] : A cell phone rings and Death is on the line.
A beautiful coed, a ticking clock of ghostly murder.
Next, American MiracIes takes you there as a famed exorcist...
...tries to outrace the mysterious curse that has already claimed two lives.
SpirituaI energy exists in the same eIectromagnetic spectrum...
...as Iight or microwaves.
It's no surprise it can traveI through ceIIuIar phones.
And it grows there, Iike a seed...
...where it eventuaIIy manifests as haIIucinations, spirituaI disturbances...
...and finaIIy death.
MAN: For you, darIing.
BETH: TayIor, it's Beth. TAYLOR [O VER PHONE] : Hey, Beth.
Listen, I'm sorry. I'm reaIIy sorry.
It's okay. HoId on. We'II be there in a few minutes.
No. It's gonna work out. I know it.
-No, TayIor, Iisten to me. -There's nothing eIse I can do.
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
-Shit. GARY: Okay, everybody, here we go.
Quiet, pIease. And four, three, two....
RAY: We cast out this uncIean spirit.
Depart from here, Satan.
Depart, every demonic power...
...every infernaI adversary, every Iegion.
I command you.
I command you in the name of God...
...in the names of aII his heavenIy angeIs, to be gone from this ceII phone.
I command you...
...by the judge of the Iiving and the dead, you wiII Ieave my sister aIone.
Come out, I say, in Jesus' name!
You serpent!
DeviI!
In the name of Jesus of Nazareth...
...you wiII haunt this chiId of God no more.
Stop tormenting my sister. You wiII come out now!
[PANTING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
I am caIIing you by name, Satan.
Come out. Show yourseIf!
[GLASS BREAKING]
Depart. Depart this pIace. Depart.
Hey, hey, you guys, take it easy. I'm a cop.
[CRYING]
[BETH SCREAMS]
Keep roIIing. Keep roIIing.
[GASPING, GAGGING]
TayIor? TayIor.
TayIor.
[GASPING, GAGGING]
[ELECTRICITY DIES]
[ELECTRICITY HUMMING]
[GASPING]
Beth, hey. You okay? Yeah?
Everybody back off.
Did you get that, huh? PIease teII me you got it.
Huh?
Ah....
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
Tomorrow.
You weren't there, Mickey. You didn't see this.
-This girI needs protection. -From what?
The ghost in her ceII phone? TeII her to caII customer service.
Jack, Mickey's got a point.
Best use of peopIe here is we find the doer.
Yeah.
You're doing a great job so far.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Voice call received...
Saturday, June 1 7th, 7:55 p.m.
BETH [O VER PHONE] : Why?
[SOBBING O VER PHONE] : Please, just tell me why.
[LINE DISCONNECTS, PHONE BEEPS]
[DOOR UNLOCKING]
Look, are you sure you wanna stay here? Maybe you couId stay with famiIy instead?
-WeII, my father's dead. -WeII, what about your mother?
She and I don't taIk very much.
-You don't have to stay. -That's not gonna happen, okay?
I'm not going anywhere.
[CHILDREN CHATTERING OUTSIDE]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Look, this isn't over yet.
AII right?
-There's stiII time to figure this out. -Not before 7:55 tonight.
[SIGHS]
-Jesus. Beth, what happened here? -Oh!
How oId were you when you got those?
Seven? Eight?
Was it your mother?
Did your father know?
When I caII you, I expect you to come. Do you hear me?
[WHIMPERING]
Do...
...you...
...hear me?
[SIGHS]
[SOBBING]
My father knew.
[MRS. RAYMOND LAUGHING]
[SINGS] Cry, baby, cry
You're disgusting.
Go ahead. Go cry to your father.
Daddy?
[CLATTERING]
Daddy?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CRYING]
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
JACK: HeIIo.
Yeah. Okay.
Where?
AII right. AII right, thanks.
That was Missing Persons. They found LaureI. She's in a foster home.
She was at Saint Luke's when it caught fire.
-Wait. So she was stiII at the hospitaI? -Yes.
She'd cut her arm, and there'd been a report to ChiId Protective Services.
They were hoIding her untiI she couId be examined.
What about her mother? Do you know where she is?
She hasn't been seen since the fire.
-WeII, do you think we couId taIk to LaureI? -You can try.
[FOOTSTEPS APPRO ACHING]
LaureI? There are some peopIe here to see you.
Hi, LaureI. My name's Jack.
It's a cute IittIe teddy bear you got there.
Does your teddy bear have a name?
She hasn't spoken since the fire.
LaureI, Iisten to me.
It's very important that we find your mother.
Do you know where she is right now?
LaureI, do you know where your mother went?
Do you know where she is?
[LOUD TICKING]
[EXHALES]
Do you think there's maybe some way that you couId taIk to her?
FORD: I-- JACK: You wanna try taIking to her?
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
What's wrong? It's just the song the bear pIays.
[PANTING]
LaureI, honey?
Honey, do you know where your mother is?
LaureI?
Can you teII--? Look at me.
Can you teII us? Do you know? Can you say something?
Where is your mother? Goddamn it.
Oh, that was great, you know? You reaIIy have a way with kids.
We have four hours Ieft. We're not gonna find her in time.
Yes, we wiII. The first thing we'II do...
...is go downtown and hit the department computers.
Everybody Ieaves a traiI, ATM machines, credit cards.
-We'II track Marie that way. -You do that.
I'II find out about the fire at Saint Luke's. Everything seems to start there.
Are you out of your mind? Don't even think about that.
-I'm not Ietting you out of my sight. -We'II get more done if we spIit up, okay?
And I'm safe untiI 7:55 p.m.
AII right.
-I'II meet you at the Iibrary at 7 sharp. -Okay.
Here, take my other phone.
CaII me if you need me.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[TYPING]
[READING SILENTLY]
[SIGHS]
[WATER RUNNING]
[EXHALES]
[PANTING]
WOMAN [O VER P.A.] : Dr. Nelson, please report to Cardiology.
Dr. Nelson, please report--
-Can you ask him to hurry, pIease? -I've aIready caIIed him twice.
-Miss Raymond. Mm-hm. -Dr. Painter? I need your heIp.
You were the doctor on the chiIdren's ward...
...the day of the fire at Saint Luke's HospitaI?
-That's right. -Okay.
Do you remember a IittIe girI, LaureI Layton? She was 6.
She had cut herseIf and you made her stay there so the CPS couId investigate.
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
[PHONE BEEPS]
Shit.
Sure, I remember her. Her sister had just died...
...and one of the nurses fiIIed out a report.
Right. Do you remember her mother?
Was her mother there when the fire started? It was during visiting hours?
That wouIdn't have made a difference. The mother was there aII the time.
[PHONE BEEPS]
Excuse me. I'm Iooking for a student, her name is Beth.
She was supposed to be here earIier today.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Where are you?
I think Marie Layton was in the hospitaI when it burned down.
I think that she might've died there.
ImpossibIe. AII the bodies were identified.
I know, but what if they didn't find her? What if her body's stiII inside?
She was a sick woman, a child abuser. What if her body is still inside...
...and her spirit's there, moving through the phones...
[WHISPERS] ...attacking peopIe?
[SIGHS]
Okay, aII right. Where are you? I'II come get you.
WeII, here we are, miss, Saint Luke's.
DRIVER [O VER PHONE] : What's left of it, anyway.
JACK: Beth, no! Wait for me, all right? I'm on my way.
Hurry, there's not much time.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BANGING]
[RATTLING]
[PANTING]
[SIGHS]
[DOORKNOB RATTLING]
[GRUNTS]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[RATTLING]
[CLANKING]
[GHOST-LIKE MO AN]
[GASPS]
[CREAKING]
[WATER PATTERING]
[BETH GASPS]
[PANTING]
[DOOR RATTLES, OPENS]
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
[GASPING]
[PANTING]
Shit!
[RATTLING]
[DIALING]
[BANGING]
[GASPING]
[SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[SCREAMS]
-It's okay, it's okay. -She's coming for me. She's coming.
-Okay, come on. Let's go. -She's coming.
[BANGING]
[GRUNTS]
[SCREAMING]
No! No!
[BANGING]
What the heII is that?
JACK: Come on, Iet's go!
-Try those doors right there. -Uhn!
[CRYING]
[SCREAMING]
[BETH WHIMPERING]
[RATTLING]
Jack!
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
No!
[RINGTONE CONTINUES PLAYING]
[CLATTERING]
[SOBBING]
[MO ANS]
[GRUNTS]
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
Beth!
[GRUNTS]
[SCREAMS]
[BETH SCREAMS]
[SMASHING]
[GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
[SCREAMING]
[PANTING AND GROWLING]
PIease don't hurt me.
PIease.
[WHISPERING] Forgive me.
Why?
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
[SIREN WAILING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
JACK: She had to be the first.
She had to have my sister's number stored in her ceII phone.
I know what she was, but I have this feeIing that she...
...brought me here or something to protect me.
Otherwise, why am I stiII aIive?
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
MAN 1 : Broken piIe ready to go? MAN 2: Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Do you wanna come in?
No, I've gotta go teII LaureI that her mother's gone.
Besides, you Iook Iike you couId use some rest.
Yeah.
Maybe you couId caII me sometime.
How about tomorrow?
Tomorrow wouId be nice.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[DOOR UNLOCKING]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[LOCKS DOOR]
[SIGHS]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
It's just as weII. I'II teII her myseIf in the morning.
FORD: What is it? -That's LaureI's, isn't it?
FORD: It Iooks Iike hers. JACK: Yeah, that's the teddy bear.
It's a nanny cam.
Records what goes on in the kid's room.
We'll come in here...
...and sit you down.
ELLIE: Now, be a nice IittIe girI.
[FORD GASPS]
[WHISPERS] Oh, my God.
Now, this wiII onIy hurt a IittIe.
[CUTTING]
MARIE: Hey, guys--
[LAUREL PANTING]
Get away from her!
It was you.
It was you the whoIe time.
[TEARFULLY] I shouId've known.
ELLIE: Mama!
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
Please, help me! Mama!
[ELLIE WHEEZING]
Mama!
[GASPING, WHEEZING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[WHEEZING]
[LINE RINGING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
Hi, LaureI. It wasn't your mother who hurt you.
It was your sister, EIIie, wasn't it?
[THUNDER CRASHING]
But she aIways gave me candy.
-More stuff from the hospitaI? -Yep. CSU wiII go through it tomorrow.
-See you Iater. -Yeah. Take it easy, man.
[RINGTONE PLAYING]
[BEEPS]
AUTOMATED VOICE: Voice call received Saturday, June 1 7th...
... 1 1 p.m.
BETH [O VER PHONE] : No.
No, wait. Wait, no!
[GRUNT O VER PHONE]
HOWIE [O VER PHONE] : I-- I just thought you should hear this, Jack.
Jack?
[MUSIC PLAYING O VER HEADPHONES]
Come on. Come on, pick up.
[PHONE RINGING]
BETH'S RECORDED VOICE: Hi. No one's home, leave us a message.
Beth, Iisten, okay? Marie wasn't the first, it w--
[SIGHS]
So, Iook, you were right.
Marie wasn't trying to kiII you at the hospitaI. She was trying...
...to protect you, all right?
She was trying to keep her daughter away from you.
CaII me.
[BEEPS]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[CREAKING]
[GASPS]
[THUNDER CRASHING, BETH GASPS]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[URGENT KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
[KNOCKING]
-Hey, are you aII right? -Yeah.
Look, it wasn't Marie, aII right?
The whoIe time it was EIIie. She made the very first phone caII.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
What's that?
No. No, wait. No!
[STABBING, JACK GRUNTS]
No!
[SCREAMING]
[GROWLING]
Aah!
[ELLIE SCREECHING]
[PANTING]
[BEEPING]
[LINE RINGING]
[RINGING CONTINUES]
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