[eerie music]
[screaming]
[wind howling]
[eerie music]
[suspenseful music]
[upbeat dance music]
♪ I wonder why, I wonder how
[laughing]
- Come on Franny, make with the directions.
- It's second on the left.
- What's the matter?
Having second thoughts?
- No.
- Hey what happens if we raise the dead?
[laughing]
- That's the whole object of the exercise Jonathan.
[laughing]
♪ Time to win, time to die
- It's the next alleyway on the corner on the right
♪ There's a time to live
♪ But isn't it strange
[screaming and laughing]
[people chatter]
[suspenseful music]
- Come on get out of the way, get out of the way.
I want get bloody on with it.
- That's right get your act together woman.
♪ Why are we waiting
[laughing]
- Nice one, any chance of a fry up Franny?
- So where is it Franny?
This door to the netherworld.
[oohing]
- Over there in the corner.
You'll have to move the table.
- We'll need pieces of paper, for the letters.
- Come on you bugger.
Ah.
[eerie music]
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
[laughing]
- You got shut down there as a kid?
- It was only for a few minutes.
But it felt like a lifetime.
- No wonder you thought you saw a ghost.
- [Susie] I've written out the letters Franny.
- [laughs] You're not scared are you?
- Of course not.
- For God's sake, what self respecting spirit
would want to be seen with a bunch like us?
[laughs]
Shit.
Come on Franny.
[wind howls]
[eerie music]
- [Jonathan] Maybe it'll give us our final results.
[laughing]
- [Seb] Nothing as bad as that.
- You're too late anyway,
they're probably already in the post.
- Someone's trying to get through.
[rumbling]
- We're right over the central line.
[laughing]
- Well done Susie, you've summoned up a tube train.
- Now try for a cross channel ferry.
[laughing]
- [Susie] Six to summon and one to control.
Come on Franny.
[eerie music]
[glass scraping]
- Non, we have a Frenchman here [laughs].
- Shh, shh.
[speaking in foreign language]
- Who can remember their Latin?
- It's a line for Horace.
It means I shall not altogether die.
Wait there's more.
- What is it?
What's she saying?
- Prophecy.
It wants to prophesi.
[eerie music]
[glass scraping]
- Francesca, people want to order.
- Yes papa.
[people chattering]
What would you like?
We've got orange, freshly squeezed orange.
Fanta, coke, lemonade, milkshakes.
Milkshake.
We've got vanilla, raspberry, lime, chocolate.
Chocolate.
And you'd like.
[suspenseful music]
Espresso.
No!
[screams]
[siren blaring]
[glass smashes]
[brakes squeal]
[electricity buzzing]
[water splashing]
[eerie music]
- Goodnight Francesca.
- Miss Monsanto, you can't possible manage that on your own.
Here.
- Goodnight Declan.
- Come off it, I'm only offering a helping hand.
- That's what worries me.
- Listen I know you archeologists are far too high minded
to fraternize with us mere librarians.
- That's rubbish.
- Well slow down then.
[coughing]
Whoever he is, he can wait.
If you wanted a date,
you didn't have to go and join an orchestra.
- I'm just doing a favor for a friend.
But I don't know why I have to explain myself to you,
you're worse than my father.
- Well I'll take that as an invitation to meet the folks.
Must be love after all.
- Will you.
[suspenseful music]
Max?
- [Announcer] Departure Platform 10B.
The East Coast Service delayed to Banbury
is now ready to board on Platform Four.
Apologies for the late running of this service.
- [Edward] No, no, no.
- [Oliver] Edward.
- I hate you, I hate you.
- Are you alright?
Do you see what happens? - Yes I think so.
- I'm so sorry about that.
Let me give you a hand.
- Oh no, I don't.
Yes thank you.
[romantic music]
- I should carry this.
We went to the zoo today.
- Did you like it?
- I got to ride on a camel.
Did you know a camel could kill you?
- Where would you like to sit?
- Oh no this isn't our train.
- Oh.
- We're on the other one.
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentleman
this train will shortly be departing for York.
Any customers not wishing to travel--
- Made it just in time, come on Edward.
- [Announcer] Please leave the train now.
- Thank you very much.
- Pleasure.
- [Meredith] Why didn't you ask his name?
- What's the point?
He's probably married anyway.
- Well his wife might have dropped dead.
You never look on the bright side Franny.
If you see him again, you go for it.
[rattling]
Clemmy, stop that.
Now!
- I saw Max Gabriel today.
What's wrong with him?
- You've not heard?
He's got leukemia.
[drill buzzing]
- Here we are, "balding 50, not fat if stomach held in.
"Nice bottom, washes quite regularly."
Ooh yuck.
"Female seeks to delight in Midlands."
Bit out of your area that.
"Distressed student urgently needs funds."
"Girl with Cello.
"Are you the girl seen struggling down the platform
"of Kings Cross station carrying on cello on Thursday."
- [Assistant] Miss Lowe please.
- Good luck.
- May I?
- Sure.
- Thanks.
- [Franny's Mom] In an advertisement?
- I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
He was getting another train.
But he definitely wasn't a weirdo, I could tell.
- Just don't tell your father that I knew anything about it.
He has enough on his plate,
leaving this place and everything.
- I wish he didn't take it so hard.
- Impossible, he is so good.
He is determined to show your father
that he can build a business just as well in the new place.
But I wish he did not insist on taking every last thing
in this place with us.
When they told us our lease was up,
I thought it meant we could lease all new.
But, no.
- Now is there anything in the cellar Luigi.
- No, but better to check.
[eerie music]
There's a light switch there somewhere.
[water splashing]
[phone ringing]
- Hello.
- [Oliver] Hi, how was the concert?
- Oh, um, I don't play.
I was just carrying it for a friend.
- [Oliver] Look, I um, I kept thinking about you,
I hope you don't mind.
- I'm amazed I saw the ad.
- [Oliver] It was Edward's idea.
- Um, before we say anything else.
I was wondering--
- [Oliver] I'm not um, I'm not attached to anyone.
- Oh.
[romantic music]
- Go on tell me more.
- There's nothing more to tell.
- Please, please, please.
- We've talked about nothing but me all evening.
- That's because you're an incredible,
wonderful, beautiful woman.
- Stop it.
Let's change the subject.
I don't know anything about you.
- Well my name is Oliver Halkin
and I'm a fortune teller.
- A what?
- No, I'm trying to make it sound more interesting
than it actually is.
I'm a statistician.
I try and predict the risk level for the insurance business.
No, not with a crystal ball,
just a boring old calculator.
- Don't believe a word of it darling.
- Seb!
- Well, look at you.
- Oh, this--
- I hardly recognized you with your clothes on.
Who's this?
- This is Oliver, a friend of mine.
- Still with the relics.
- Yeah.
- No kids or weddings.
- No.
- [Seb] Not yet.
- Did you hear about Max?
- Yeah.
Max and Jonathan in the same month.
I couldn't get to the funeral but I did send some flowers.
- But Max hasn't?
- [Seb] No Jonathan's.
Oh.
Didn't you know?
God I'm sorry.
He was in Washington, he got mugged and they shot him.
Out on an apex and back in a box.
- That's awful.
Jonathan.
- [Man] Seb.
- I've got to go.
I wish I could chat for longer.
Let's keep in touch Franny.
Life is too short.
[melancholy music]
- [laughs] Thank you.
- I've called a taxi for you.
- I'm sorry.
It was all going so well.
- Well it doesn't have to end here.
Look, if I'd invited you down to spend the weekend with us.
Would you have said yes?
- Ask me.
[romantic music]
[suspenseful music]
[moaning]
[whispering in foreign language]
[gun fires]
[retching]
[whispering in foreign language]
[glass smashing]
[explosion booms]
- Franny.
[whispering in foreign language]
[screaming]
- [Woman] Number 26 Franny.
[gasps]
[suspenseful music]
- I could kill you.
- Why?
- You live here?
- Well mostly in this part.
I have to open the rest to the public,
just to keep it going.
- It's about time, I've been waiting ages.
Mrs. Beakbane,
says could you call at the estate office when you get back?
- Did she what about?
- Lord of the Manor stuff.
- Right, I better get up there.
Half an hour, I promise.
- I'm sure Edward can look after me.
[suspenseful music]
- [Edward] Do you like it here?
- [Franny] Yes I do.
- Good, I had to twist daddy's arm
to make him see you again.
- What do you mean?
- He thought you were nice, but he's very shy.
- So what did you do?
- I told him to put the advertisement in.
He didn't think it would work.
Do you know what that's called?
- It's lavender.
[speaking in foreign language]
- And that's [speaking in foreign language].
- [Franny] Do you study Latin?
- I like the sound of the words.
This is the chapel.
What religion are you?
- I'm a Catholic.
- Really?
- All my family are.
- [Edward] I expect you can still come in.
That's our family motto over the door.
[speaking in foreign language]
It means--
- I shall not altogether die.
[eerie music]
- Every Marquis of Sherfield's buried here.
Except for one.
- Your dad.
- He's not dead yet.
I mean the second marquis.
Nobody knows where he is.
Shock everyone then disappear forever.
That's the kind of life to have.
Here's my mother.
Are you planning to sleep with my daddy?
[eerie music]
- So what's the story with the second marquis?
- Oh right.
So what's Edward been telling you then?
- Why?
- Well you see the second marquis
was the black sheep to end all the black sheep.
He was a satanist, a sadist and a pedophile
and those were his good points.
- So which one's he?
- Oh no, there's no portrait.
No, no.
They burned them all when he was murdered.
That's the reason the whole family
had to move out of London.
What did Edward actually say?
- There's no need to worry Oliver.
We were just talking.
He showed me the chapel.
- I sometimes think he has an unhealthy fascination
for the gory detail.
- That's what children are like.
Weren't you?
- Yeah I suppose so.
I probably worry too much.
Maybe I'm the one who needs a shrink.
It's alright, it's just something that happened
after his mother died.
Edward has a behavioral problem.
I'm assured it's all part of the grieving process.
Let's talk about you.
- I'm really very ordinary.
- Really?
[romantic music]
[moaning]
[eerie music]
- I saw somebody die when I was in France.
It was a girl, swimming.
A motorboat went right over her.
- [Franny] Did it upset you?
- I didn't really know her.
Then I saw my friend Dominic
get three of his fingers cut off.
- Ew.
- He trapped them in a car door
and they couldn't get it open.
- Oh you're making my toes curl.
- No, it's true.
I was there.
- I didn't say you weren't.
- I'm always seeing bad things happen to people.
Sometimes I dream it,
then I find out it's actually happened.
Isn't that spooky?
- Imaginations a powerful thing.
- I don't imagine it.
I keep records.
- Edward is this something that started when your mom died?
- These are the plum trees.
The Victoria's are the best.
- Are they edible?
- Ripe ones are.
Have any of your friends died?
[suspenseful music]
- Yes.
But that was nothing to do with you.
Don't worry Edward, there's nothing wrong with you.
- But, but was it before you met me or after?
[screams]
- [Franny] Oh there's a wasp in it.
[groans]
- You know it doesn't look as bad as it probably feels.
- I hope not.
- I'll call the doctor.
You're not allergic or anything are you?
Well I'll call him anyway.
Not the best way to end the weekend is it.
I hope it hasn't put you off.
- Ow.
- I'll be back in a minute.
- [Franny] Max.
[eerie music]
- Right come on children, put your coats on.
Your mommy's will be here soon.
[peaceful cello music]
[clock chiming]
[suspenseful music]
[engine revving]
[brakes squealing]
[engine revving]
[horn blaring]
[crashing]
- [Teacher] Come on, once you've got your coats on.
[fire crackles]
[sobbing]
[screaming]
[explosion booms]
- Franny, Franny it's me.
It's Phoebe.
- Hi.
- [Phoebe] I've got to talk to you Franny.
- [Franny] What about?
- Oh come on.
And then there were three.
Meredith dead.
Jonathan dead.
Max died.
And Susie.
- [Franny] What happened?
- Fire has damaged her eyes.
She's completely blind now.
See three of us left.
- Out of what?
- Out of the people at the seance.
[suspenseful music]
- I know all about the scrapbook,
so don't worry about it.
- But he'd cut a piece out about someone I knew.
- Well if it's a bizarre death, he clips it.
I've been through it all with the doctors.
It's supposed to be his way
of trying to make sense out of something senseless.
You see, um,
no child should ever have to see what he saw.
He watched his mother die.
- Can you talk about it?
- Well she was on her way to meet us and um,
and she was um, killed crossing the road.
It was all over in a second.
I wasn't even sure if Edward had taken it all in.
He was very young.
[suspenseful music]
[screams]
- No!
- Mom!
[glass smashing]
- Oh, Edward.
I thought you were at school.
- Oh school's finished.
My aunt brought me last night.
Daddy's gonna take me back to Meston.
He's gone to get the papers.
- Did you hear us come in?
- You haven't got any underwear on.
- I know.
- [Edward] Won't you get cold?
- I didn't expect you to be here.
[suspenseful music]
- [Edward] I wish you were coming back with us.
- I can't Edward.
There are things I have to do.
- I still wish you were coming.
I can tell you things.
- I heard about your mother.
I'm so sorry.
- It was long time ago.
[sign rattling]
[suspenseful music]
- I think I might have been there when it happened.
- I know.
You were the waitress.
Daddy hasn't remembered.
I haven't told him.
- Why not?
- I don't want to upset him.
It might scare him off you.
- And you wouldn't want that?
- I don't know how to explain it.
I do have these bad thoughts about people sometimes.
And then things, things just happen.
[suspenseful music]
- You've got to give me an honest answer Edward.
Some of these thoughts seem to be about people I know.
Have you ever had them about me?
- I don't mean them.
It's like,
like they come from someone else.
- Do you know who?
- Francis.
Francis Halkin.
The second marquis.
[speaking in foreign language]
[wind howling]
[sign rattling]
[suspenseful music]
[sign rattling]
[screams]
- This is the only Halkin we have on this site.
I think there's some books and silverware up in Oxford.
Most of the stuff has either stayed with the family
or found its way into private hands.
- But this is the piece that belonged to the second marquis?
- It's a maleficarum,
an instruction manual for satanic rituals.
Date of around 1615.
Family tradition held that it was written on human skin.
- Is that true?
- I don't know.
The second marquis was executed by Cromwell's soldiers
in the cellar of his own home.
The same room he used for satanic rituals
and rogering young boys.
They hot collared him.
You know what that means?
- Like Edward II.
- Thereby proving that the way to a mans heart
truly is through his stomach.
At least when you're using a poker.
I can imagine he went down cursing.
This book was discovered in a,
if you'll pardon the expression, the family seat.
Hidden in one of the walls by the brother who'd inherited.
Turned up when the house had to be demolished
after the fire.
- But the house is still standing?
- Oh not the country house.
This was the town house, it stood in the city.
- Where in the city?
- Poulter's Alley.
[eerie music]
- What?
Phoebe.
Oh my God.
I'm so sorry.
- Miss Hawkin's won't be ready for visitors for a while yet.
Are you her sister?
- No.
- Look, she's still coming around from the anesthetic.
- [Phoebe] Franny.
Franny.
- [Nurse] Really she's in no state.
- Oh Franny.
Warn Seb.
Find Susie.
Ask her about the prophecy.
He's gonna try and get us all.
[sobbing]
- [Nurse] Please, if you'll just come with me.
- Right, fine, see you.
Car to the main doors please Janet.
City Airport in 20 minutes.
- Um, Mr. Holland please.
[suspenseful music]
[phone ringing]
- Sebastian Holland's office.
- I'll go up.
- Excuse me miss you need a pass.
- It's alright he knows who I am.
[lift dings]
- Hello young man.
What are you doing here?
- [Janet] Mr. Holland?
[screams]
[screaming]
[crashing]
[gasps]
[sobbing]
[eerie music]
[suspenseful music]
- I don't want to do this.
I don't know as much as you think.
- You knew enough to run the seance Susie,
you were in charge.
- And what was that?
It was a glass and some cards.
It was a game.
- You didn't think so at the time.
And I don't believe you think so now.
Six of us are dead or damaged.
And I'm the next one in line.
You said, all our futures were in the message.
If only you could work out how.
Well God almighty, you've got enough to go on now.
What's supposed to happen to me?
- I don't know.
I don't want to know.
I'm scared Franny.
[sobbing]
I remember I couldn't work it out.
Nothing I could see in it made any sense except for mine.
And you know what that was?
Just one word.
Dark.
- But it wasn't wrong Susie.
He was telling us what he was going to do to us.
We're the ones who let him out.
Edward's the source of his power
and Halkin's using him to get rid of all the witnesses.
- Then what?
- Then there'll be nothing to stop Francis Halkin
coming back into this world.
- [Susie] What do you want to ask?
- I want my prophecy.
I want to know what he has planned for me.
[glass scraping]
[eerie music]
Two.
Six.
26.
- Does that mean anything?
I'm frightened Franny.
He's very close.
- It's alright.
[glass smashes]
[screaming]
[glass smashing]
It's alright.
What happened?
- It's not me Franny.
Not me.
It's you.
[suspenseful music]
[phone ringing]
- Yes.
- [Franny] It's Francesca.
- Look Edward's gone missing.
I thought it might be him.
- [Franny] Have you called the police?
- Yeah they're here now.
- [Franny] I won't keep you.
I know you'll be worried.
But I've got to say something.
- Come over.
- I can't.
We're all in danger Oliver.
Francis Halkin's been using Edward
but he's been getting to him through me.
I'm the one who's possessed.
I'm his way back into the world.
And I've got to stop him.
Goodbye Oliver.
[phone beeps]
- Come on girl.
Let's settle this.
[sign clattering]
[wind howls]
[suspenseful music]
[speaking in foreign language]
- It means-- - I know what it means.
I can't imagine a worse place to play the Ouija.
All that hideous energy latent in these walls.
And seven children who knew no better,
pulling it all into focus.
- I'm sorry.
For everything.
- Don't judge yourself Francesca.
It's not for you to take the blame alone.
- What will we do?
- We're going to say a requiem mass
for the soul of Francis Halkin.
- Will that work?
Just a few prayers?
- As compared to what?
The power of seven drunks and a wine glass?
I think we're in with a chance.
[rumbling]
- Tube train.
Central line.
[eerie music]
[cans clattering]
- The consciousness of a young child
is not fully developed until at least the age of seven.
Here the evil forces saw a child who is not only young,
but was also a direct descendant of the second marquis.
By using you as a channel,
it could slowly enter the mind of that child.
Test the boy out without him realizing
until he became used to it.
Accepting him as a part of himself.
- Then what?
- Then there would come a point,
where he no longer had any need for you.
[wind howling]
Are you ready Francesca?
[eerie music]
Protect us O Lord, we beseech Thee.
[crane creaking]
Protect us O Lord, we beseech Thee.
Here us O Lord as we humbly beg Your mercy.
That the soul of Your servant.
Francis Edward Alvin Halkin
whom you have called from this life,
may be brought by You to a place of peace and light.
[crane creaking]
Receive O Lord, the soul of Your servant Francis.
For whom Your blood was shed.
Grant him eternal rest
and perpetual light shine upon him.
[crashing]
- Spode!
- O God it is your nature to have mercy and to spare.
Grant Your servant Francis--
[preaching drowned out by glass smashing]
[crashing]
[eerie music]
[coughing]
- Father Spode.
He's in here with us.
Father Spode.
- Protect us O Lord, we beseech Thee.
Lamb of God You take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
May this mingling of the body and blood
of our Lord Jesus Christ
bring the eternal life to us who receive it.
This is the blood of Christ.
Grant that our brother Francis may take his seat with Christ
at his eternal banquet
who lives and reigns forever and ever.
- Father?
Edward.
- It is not only evil that can
work its way through the lives of other Franny.
[eerie music]
[coughing]
It's alright now.
Isn't it Franny?
- When's Edward coming home mommy?
- He'll be home at the end of term.
He'll play with you then.
- He won't.
He never wants to.
When daddy dies, will Edward be a Lord?
- When your dad dies, which won't be for a long time Charles
then Edward will inherit the title.
- What if Edward dies before that happens?
- Nothing's gonna happen to Edward, Charles.
- Would I have to be Lord Sherfield then?
- Charles, end of subject.
- What would the next lord have to be called?
- What do you mean?
- Say it would be me.
[eerie music]
What number would I be?
- 26.
You'd be the 26th marquis of Sherfield.
[crashing]
[glass smashing]
[eerie music]