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Nola?
Barton!
It's me!
I can't get over it.
The thing was in the house.
It was in the house all the time. We searched the place...
but we weren't looking for anything that small, and we missed it.
We were spending our time checking out an Estonian musician.
Have you found out who it belongs to, the kid?
No. My guess is...
some crazy woman didn't want anyone to know she had a deformed child.
She's locked this kid up in an attic for years and never told anybody.
Wouldn't be the first time.
Hello.
Who's this?
Ruth Mayer.
Did you want to speak with Frank Carveth?
Ruth Mayer? From Krell Street School?
Yes.
Is this Mrs. Carveth?
Are you and my husband having your own private PTA meeting?
I won't even bother to answer that.
You bitch!
You're killing my family!
Our friend has very strange eyes.
They have irises, but no retinas.
I should think his vision of the world is very distorted.
I'm pretty certain he sees things only in black-and-white.
No colors.
The upper lip is cleft.
Real harelip...
but the palate is not.
And the tongue is too thick and inflexible for proper speech.
It has no teeth...
but you can get a pretty nasty bite...
from these strange, beak-like gums.
Why did it die?
I found some sort of collapsed, fleshy sac...
between the little fellow's shoulder blades.
It contains traces of a solid nutrient material...
a bit like the yolk sac of certain fish...
or a camel's hump.
Basically, it's a gas tank that was full at birth.
Once the hump material is completely assimilated...
I think the creature simply starves to death.
Runs out of gas, so to speak.
And that brings us to the last point of interest.
There's an external deformity.
I mean, apart from the lack of sexual organs.
It's extremely subtle and extremely provocative.
I wonder if either of you have noticed it.
- Has no navel. - No what?
No bellybutton.
- The thing has no bellybutton. - That's right.
And that means this creature has never really been born.
At least, not the way human beings are born.
Jesus.
You're the beginning of the end, Ms. Mayer.
The beginning of the end for me, my family, my dream.
So sad.
And I feel so guilty for my part in it. I wish it had never happened.
I wish we could be together again, just the three of us.
You're kidding yourself.
Right now, you're dreaming.
From what Frank tells me, it was lousy from the very start.
You never had anything real together.
It would be better for everybody if you...
If Frank divorced you and married me.
We'd still let you see Candy in the weekends.
That stinks!
We had a lot.
We had beautiful things, things that you couldn't understand.
And we'll have them again, if you'd just leave him alone...
and stop poisoning him against me and taking advantage of his Ioneliness.
Then he'd wait for me.
He'd help me to get better, instead of abandoning me.
He would do that, if you would just leave him alone.
Leave him alone!
Listen, I'm sorry. I called a few times. You didn't answer.
I didn't want to talk to your wife again, that's why. Once was enough.
- Nola called? What did she say? - Look, I have to go.
Your life is just a little too complicated for me right now.
I'll see you at the next open house.
Daddy.
What's the matter, sweetheart? Why aren't you sleeping?
I had a bad dream. A scary bad dream.
- What was the dream about, honey? - I'm afraid to tell you.
- Why? - The dream doesn't want me to.
Candy, listen to me.
I know what happened at Grandma's. I know what you saw there.
I just came from the police...
and when I was there, I saw the thing that hurt Grandma.
And, Candy, it's dead.
I saw it lying on a table, and the police were there, and it's dead.
It can't hurt you now.
And it can't hurt me or anybody else.
Do you understand me?
It's dead?
Yes.
It's all right now, baby.
What do you think?
How many people do we have at the main house?
Twenty-seven.
Okay, I want them out by this afternoon...
and the house closed.
It'll be hard on them, Hal, especially Mike.
Then do it gently.
But get them out.
All right.
- Put your suitcases in the compartment. - I don't want to go.
You have to go. Come on. I just want you to get on the bus...
You'll see the doctor.
I don't want to go.
- Don't make me leave. - I'm not making you leave.
Just be a good boy and get on the bus, all right?
- Hi, Jan. - Frank, hi.
Look, I think we've got ourselves a real live one.
Come on upstairs. There's somebody I want you to meet.
Is this the guy from Chicago?
No. He's a local boy.
He lives a lot closer to home than you expected.
Mr. Carveth is here to see you.
Look who's here.
Nola's old man.
- The queen bee's favorite drone. - Jeez, he's pretty far gone.
He'd be dynamite in court.
What did you mean when you said Nola's the queen bee?
She's the queen bee, all right. She's the star.
She's the one he's interested in, and the rest of us don't count anymore.
She doesn't even have to pay for it.
That's because she's the one who was born to prove...
that "psychoplasmics is the ultimate therapeutic device."
That's the quote, isn't it?
Can you be my daddy? He won't do it anymore.
And my real daddy won't do it.
And that bastard, Dr. Raglan, won't do it anymore.
You see, my real daddy rejected me.
And my surrogate daddy rejected me.
That's just fucking wonderful, don't you think?
Calm down, Mike. Cool it, and tell him what happened at Somafree.
Look...
I'll make a deal with you, okay?
Just be my daddy.
Please. I'll tell you anything you want to know.
I'll bleed for you. Want me to bleed?
No.
That's silly, right? Repulses you, I can see that.
You're not into it, so why do it, right?
Besides, nobody could do it like Dr. Raglan.
Not even real daddy.
And he knows it.
Dr. Raglan knows I'm addicted to him...
and he doesn't care.
He's such a hard man.
I was at that demonstration last Monday.
You and Raglan seemed very close. What happened?
He threw us out. All of us.
Locked the door.
It's true. I've been in touch with some of the others.
They've all been thrown out of Somafree, and all therapy suspended.
All except for your wife. She's still there.
Doesn't anybody know why?
Sure somebody knows. I know. He wants to be alone with her.
Dr. Raglan wants to be alone with your wife.
- 'Bye, Daddy. - 'Bye.
- Hi, Frank. - Hi, Wendy.
Quickly but quietly, children.
Rebecca, do you want to pass out the blue papers, please?
And Clayton, how about you pass out the purple ones?
Okay, let's see.
This person here?
You can do snowflakes, too. That's a good idea.
Help!
- What's the matter? - They're hurting Ms. Mayer.
The bad kids are hurting Ms. Mayer.
They knocked her to the floor and they're hitting her.
They're hitting Ms. Mayer. They made her fall down!
Candy!
It's all right. It's Hal.
Where's Chris? Chris usually wakes me up.
Chris had to go into the city.
You've been dreaming?
Yes. I was having a wonderful dream.
Wonderful.
And painful, at the same time.
My daughter was coming back to me.
And Frank.
And Ruth Mayer?
Was she in your dream?
Candy's teacher?
I don't remember.
Then maybe we should talk about her.
But I don't feel the need to talk about her.
You don't?
Why not?
I don't know.
I think I must be getting stronger, because somehow...
I just don't feel threatened by her anymore.
This is where my wife and kid lived for nine months...
before Nola moved out to Somafree.
This is the first time I've seen the place.
What are we doing here?
Tell me, again.
I don't know.
I thought Candy might come back here.
It's not a coincidence.
Those things, those creatures...
they all disappeared together.
They've got her.
You've got to help me. Somebody's following me.
- Somebody's always following me. - Did you find out anything?
- Did you find out why they moved you out? - I've got to have something to eat. Anything.
What did you find out? Why did they close Somafree down?
- Talk to me! Now! - Okay.
Raglan's onto something very big, something to do with the kids.
- He just got bored with the rest of us. - Kids? What kids?
The disturbed kids in the work shed...
the ones your wife's taking care of.
What have you done with my kid?
Where is she?
Carveth, what the hell are you talking about?
They took her.
They killed Ruth Mayer, and then they brought Candice back here.
They killed Ruth Mayer?
I want my daughter back, now.
Did they bring her back here, back to Nola?
I don't know.
If they brought her back here, then she'd be up there, in the attic.
That's where they live.
Frank, I've got a gun.
They'll kill you if you try to take her away from them.
Why?
Because they understand that she's one of them.
You're insane.
Frank, they exist. You've seen them.
They're just freaks. Deformed children.
You've got Nola taking care of them.
I'm sure she loves being their surrogate mother.
She's not their surrogate mother.
She's their real mother.
Their only mother.
- I'm not gonna listen. - They're her children.
More exactly, they're the children of her rage.
They're motivated only by her anger, whether that anger...
is conscious or subconscious.
I mean, when Nola got cross with Candy last weekend...
annoyed, really...
the brood beat her.
But when she released her rage against her parents, under therapy...
then they killed them.
I know, I didn't want to believe that...
but now they've killed Ruth Mayer...
and they could kill you or me, and she wouldn't even be aware of it.
I mean, she doesn't even know that Candy's here.
- I want Candice back. - Then do it my way.
Please.
It's the right way.
What do you want me to do?
I want you to go back into that hut...
and persuade Nola that you want her back...
that you want your family back.
I want you to play the role of apologetic lover and husband.
Why?
Because if you can keep Nola calm and happy...
then the brood's neutral.
If she's mellow, then I can just walk into that attic...
pick up Candy, tuck her under my arm and walk out.
Now, can you do that?
I don't know.
Frank, if things go wrong...
if Nola gets angry, if the kids get angry...
You understand?
I'm not going to be the only one to pay for that anger.
Raglan, I don't trust you.
What does it matter?
I'll move up there 30 seconds after you're in.
Frank, be nice to her.
Hal?
It's me, Nola. It's Frank.
Am I dreaming?
I thought you said you weren't going to come and see me while I was here.
I think that was a misunderstanding.
That's why I'm here.
I want us to understand each other.
You're the only woman in the world for me.
You always have been, you always will be.
It won't ever change.
I want you to know that.
I wish it were true. God, I wish it were true.
We lost touch.
That's the only reason all this ever happened.
All we have to do is make sure we don't lose touch again.
Isolation is part of my therapy.
What's been happening to me has been just too strange...
too strange for me to share with anyone from my old life.
Then make me a part of your new life.
Let me be part of it.
Show me, educate me, involve me.
I'm ready now. I wasn't before, but I'm ready now.
Candy?
Are you ready for me, Frank?
Are you really?
I seem to be a very special person.
I'm in the middle of a strange adventure.
Let me be with you.
I want to go with you wherever you go.
Do you?
Yes.
Then look.
Daddy?
Is it time to go to school yet?
No, sweetheart.
It's Dr. Hal.
And Daddy's downstairs talking to Mommy.
He wants to see you.
Oh, God, Nola.
No, I disgust you.
I sicken you.
You hate me.
You didn't come here because you love me.
You came here to take our daughter away and give her to somebody else.
I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't do that to you.
You go out of that door. You find your daddy.
You liar. You're lying.
You're lying! I know!
I know you so well, and it won't work.
I'd kill Candice before I let you take her away from me.
Do you hear me?
I'd kill Candice before I let you take her!
Make them stop.
They're doing what you want them to do.
You want them to kill Candice.
You make them stop, or I'll kill you.
Kill me.
We're going home, Candy.
We're going home.