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00:01:59This is 12. Go ahead.
00:02:02We've had three welfare check requests on the same address.
00:02:05Neighbor reports lights on for days.
00:02:08Mail piling up.
00:02:09Also no response at the door.
00:02:11Okay.
00:02:12Well, that's not my zone today.
00:02:14I know, but patrol's tied up on a rollover and a domestic across town.
00:02:18You're the closest unit with keys to the neighborhood.
00:02:24Who lives there?
00:02:25I don't see any records in the system.
00:02:30So you're asking me to roll on a welfare check and I'm not even on the clock yet?
00:02:33I wouldn't ask if it could wait, but the neighbor says there's a TV on and something knocking inside, like
00:02:39a loose door and maybe some screaming from inside.
00:02:41Are you logging this?
00:02:43Already started the call.
00:02:44You'd be supplemental, not primary.
00:02:48All right.
00:02:49I'll go up there.
00:02:50I'll bang on the door.
00:02:51I'll look in the windows, check the place out.
00:02:53And I won't enter unless there's cause.
00:02:55Copy that.
00:02:56I'll notify fire and EMS to stage nearby, just in case.
00:03:00Send me the address.
00:03:07Hmm.
00:03:26Yeah.
00:03:41Hmm.
00:03:43Hmm.
00:03:45Hmm.
00:03:46Hmm.
00:03:51Hmm.
00:04:10Police department!
00:04:40Hey dispatch, so I'm here at this old manor on the welfare check but nobody's home.
00:04:45So tell that caller I'll try back in a few days.
00:04:58Hello?
00:05:00It's the police department.
00:05:04Yeah we got a call that someone might need some help in there.
00:05:11Hey dispatch, I have a possible 146.
00:05:13Just stand by for confirmation.
00:05:16Show yourself or I'm going to enter the home!
00:05:29No!
00:05:32No!
00:05:34No!
00:05:35No!
00:05:40No!
00:05:42No!
00:05:53No!
00:05:54No!
00:05:58No!
00:06:00No!
00:06:00No!
00:06:18I don't know.
00:06:36I thought you said this was some kind of cabaret.
00:06:40This is clearly a house.
00:06:43Yeah, Jenna, are you sure this is the right place?
00:06:47This is the address she gave on the phone.
00:06:50All right, if you say so.
00:06:53So what do we do, just go up and knock?
00:06:55I guess.
00:06:57I mean, she knows we're coming, right?
00:07:00I don't know.
00:07:08This place feels weird.
00:07:10It kind of gives me the creeps.
00:07:13The title of the project is Urban Legends of Decadence.
00:07:16I think feeling the creeps is part of the whole experience.
00:07:20That's right, Kara.
00:07:21I think if we don't feel nervous, we're probably doing something wrong.
00:07:24Let's just go up and see if anyone's home.
00:07:27You first.
00:07:29We'll all go up together.
00:07:31Yeah.
00:07:37We'll all go up together.
00:07:39Now you're supposed to be the jack Kreese.
00:07:43I won't wait.
00:07:44I turned down.
00:07:47I thought you were supposed to be the guy in a house,
00:07:48let me go up together.
00:07:51Oh,í–‰.
00:07:55Thank you for the matter.
00:07:58Here you go.
00:08:02Try again.
00:08:11Well, maybe no one's home.
00:08:25That's not weird or anything.
00:08:29Well, what do we do?
00:08:31Go inside, take a look around.
00:08:35I mean, no one ever comes here because of the history of the place.
00:08:38She probably wants company.
00:08:40Or she could invite us in and shoot us.
00:08:42With what?
00:08:43I don't know. A shotgun?
00:08:45It's a figure of speech.
00:08:47All right. Look, Kara, are you going to be this jumpy the whole time we're here?
00:08:51Yeah, maybe you should just wait in the car.
00:08:55I'm not waiting in the car.
00:09:00I'm not waiting in the car.
00:09:22God, what is that smell?
00:09:23Smells like smoke.
00:09:26Not cigarettes, though.
00:09:29Anyone home?
00:09:34It's Jenna.
00:09:36We spoke last week on the phone.
00:09:40Maybe she's really not home.
00:09:42With the door open like that?
00:09:46Hello?
00:09:49Screw this.
00:09:50I say we just leave.
00:09:51Yeah, I'm with Miles.
00:09:53We should go.
00:09:54I'll just be a moment.
00:09:56Make yourselves at home.
00:10:02See?
00:10:03She's here.
00:10:05Okay.
00:10:07That's not super weird or anything.
00:10:11Yeah, for real, Jenna.
00:10:13Guys, let's just have a look around.
00:10:16Hang out for a sec.
00:10:18She said she'd be down in just a second.
00:10:22Okay.
00:10:24Okay.
00:10:51This place is huge.
00:10:54I know, right?
00:10:56Kara, don't touch anything.
00:10:58I wasn't gonna touch anything.
00:10:59Hey.
00:11:01She got banned from Feta Kappa for a reason.
00:11:03Oh, my God.
00:11:04She might be listening to you.
00:11:10I wonder what's in here.
00:11:34I'm confused.
00:11:35Is this or is this not the right place?
00:11:37The article on the internet said the club burned down to the studs.
00:11:42She spent her entire life fortune on rebuilding it.
00:11:46When Prohibition happened and the clubs had to close down, I guess she just focused on making it a place
00:11:52to live?
00:11:55She should have spent a little more on an interior decorator.
00:12:00Oh, shit.
00:12:04There's bad weather on the way.
00:12:07I don't want to get stuck up here.
00:12:09We need to hurry this up.
00:12:11Yeah, it's been a minute.
00:12:12Where the hell is she?
00:12:13Can you two just calm down?
00:12:15This is what we came here to do.
00:12:18Besides, I'm not just gonna go up there and ask her to hurry.
00:12:21Why the hell not?
00:12:24Because I'm already here.
00:12:27Hi.
00:12:30This is so silly, but I don't know what to call you.
00:12:34The phone number was listed under N. Lee.
00:12:39I'm Jenna.
00:12:40We spoke on the phone about coming to do an interview.
00:12:45And these are my friends, Kara and Miles.
00:12:49The name of the project is...
00:12:53Urban Legends of Decadence.
00:12:55That's right.
00:12:56And it's about Dizzy Dishes, your former club.
00:13:02We're seniors, history majors.
00:13:05Can I interest you in a drink?
00:13:08I'm fine, thanks.
00:13:10I'll take one.
00:13:11I mean, if you're offering.
00:13:14Me too.
00:13:15That'd be great.
00:13:21Kara, what the hell?
00:13:22What?
00:13:23I'm not taking a drink from that creep show.
00:13:25Why not?
00:13:26I don't know.
00:13:26What if she laces it with something?
00:13:28It's already weird enough.
00:13:30Okay?
00:13:30Just take it.
00:13:31You don't have to drink it.
00:13:34Whatever.
00:13:38Shit, she's coming back to the show.
00:13:47So, as you know, we are working on our thesis for our final semester.
00:13:53And the story, your story, was one of the options.
00:13:58And when we heard about it, I mean, wow.
00:14:04How could you not want to know more?
00:14:07If there's some bad weather coming through, if it's all right with you, I don't know.
00:14:15Maybe we could hurry this along.
00:14:19Uh, right.
00:14:21So, I have a list of questions, if that's all right with you.
00:14:26Um.
00:14:28Um.
00:14:30We could start with...
00:14:33What happened to the Dizzy Dishes Club?
00:14:36That was your club?
00:14:51Hello?
00:14:51Hello?
00:14:51Hello?
00:14:51Hello?
00:15:03Hello?
00:15:04Hello?
00:15:15I don't know.
00:15:39What's this?
00:16:03What the hell is going on?
00:16:05What is that?
00:16:07Stop drinking that.
00:16:10I think it's a journal.
00:16:13And I think it's hers.
00:16:16Oh yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
00:16:19What does it say?
00:16:22It's dated.
00:16:24And every page is all about the club.
00:16:28This is what we need.
00:16:30This is what we came here for.
00:16:31I thought we came here so we could speak with her.
00:16:34Yeah, but this is even better.
00:16:36I mean, as long as she doesn't mind us taking it with us.
00:16:39Taking it?
00:16:40Borrowing it.
00:16:41We'll bring it back.
00:16:43Well, whatever you want to do, just do it already.
00:16:45I want to get the hell out of this place.
00:16:47Kara, can you please calm down?
00:16:49Calm down?
00:16:51Look at this place, Jenna.
00:16:53That smell.
00:16:55I had a pet die last year and I know what running flesh smells like.
00:16:59Not to mention the weather's going to turn and that hill was almost a 90 degree angle to get up
00:17:03here.
00:17:04Let's go.
00:17:05Hey, okay.
00:17:07I say we just take the journal and go.
00:17:10I mean, she gave it to us for a reason, right?
00:17:16Okay, I'm with you.
00:17:19But I think we should at least say something.
00:17:23I'm at least going to tell her we're going to bring it back.
00:17:25Fine.
00:17:26But make it quick and meet us at the front door.
00:18:03I'm at least going to tell her we're going to bring it back.
00:18:17Hello?
00:18:19Hello?
00:18:20Anyone up here?
00:18:28Hello?
00:18:47It's me, Jenna.
00:18:52Thanks for the journal.
00:18:55I was just coming to ask, um, do you mind if my friends and I borrow it?
00:19:06We'll bring it right back.
00:19:07We only need it for a few days.
00:19:08We'll bring it back.
00:19:11Amen.
00:19:22We'll bring it back.
00:19:25We'll bring it back.
00:19:32We'll bring it back.
00:19:33I don't know.
00:20:21What's wrong?
00:20:22I was about to ask you the same thing.
00:20:24Nothing.
00:20:26I'm cool. Let's go.
00:20:28Wait, we can't leave now.
00:20:30It's raining cats and dogs out there.
00:20:32And the main road is flooded.
00:20:35Those turns we came up through,
00:20:37there's no way we can make it back down with it raining like this.
00:20:41It says it should clear up in a few hours.
00:20:46Hours?
00:20:47Did you say a few hours?
00:20:49Look, Kara, don't get all hysterical right now.
00:20:52So what do you want to do?
00:20:56Okay, you're acting really weird.
00:20:59What the hell happened up there?
00:21:00Nothing.
00:21:01I asked if I could borrow her journal.
00:21:03She said yes.
00:21:06So what do we do?
00:21:07Just wait it out?
00:21:08And where are we going to do that?
00:21:11I don't know.
00:21:12Big enough house, just pick a spot and stick together.
00:21:16You guys are talking like we're actually in danger.
00:21:24I'll let him know.
00:21:25One way in, one way out.
00:21:28Yeah?
00:21:29Yeah.
00:21:33Yeah.
00:22:13Oh, shit.
00:22:15What is it?
00:22:17Flood warning was extended another two hours.
00:22:22How long have we been in here?
00:22:25Forty minutes.
00:22:27Feels like it's been a week.
00:22:29That smell is killing me.
00:22:32For real.
00:22:36Jenna.
00:22:38Earth to Jenna.
00:22:40Hello.
00:22:41Hmm?
00:22:42How can you sit there all calm like that?
00:22:46I mean, the storm, that smell, none of it has you the least bit worried.
00:22:52Dizzy dishes.
00:23:01I had no name.
00:23:03None that anyone knew, anyway.
00:23:06Half woman, half something else.
00:23:09A sideshow act dragged from one cold carnival tent to another.
00:23:14People paid nickels to stare, to laugh, to shrink back when my shadow didn't match my shape.
00:23:20But I learned early that if you can't be beautiful, you'd better be unforgettable.
00:23:25I wandered into the city and found a smoky little club where married men shed their vows like overcoats.
00:23:32I told the owner I could sing, and when he heard me, the room didn't see a freak anymore.
00:23:38They heard a pretty girl.
00:23:40The name they gave me when my voice started pulling secrets out of their chests.
00:23:47What else does it say?
00:23:49The wealthy ones, with gold bands and wandering hands, gathered nightly, drinking deep and hunting for someone to blame for
00:23:58their loneliness.
00:23:58One of them, a smooth talker, dead eyes, money dripping off him like sweat, decided I belonged to him.
00:24:07Backstage, he cornered me, whispering about what he could buy and what he expected in return.
00:24:12I told him no, but men like him don't take kindly to final answers, not from the kind of woman
00:24:18they believe was born to obey.
00:24:21A week later, the club went up in flames.
00:24:24Gasoline in the walls, curtains blooming fire like flowers.
00:24:28They say he stood outside watching it burn, match still warm in his fingers.
00:24:34Some swear I died there on that stage, swallowed by the smoke.
00:24:37Others claim they saw me slip into the alley, vanishing into the night like a rumor with teeth.
00:24:43To this day, the old-timers swear that if the moon is low and the street is quiet, they still
00:24:48hear someone singing.
00:24:50Dizzy dishes and pretty girl, the freak who refused to bow.
00:24:58They burned her alive in the club.
00:25:02And she built a home.
00:25:03This home, her home from the ashes.
00:25:28I don't like this.
00:25:29I don't like this at all.
00:25:30Kara.
00:25:31No, Jenna.
00:25:33We don't even know what to call her, and she is obviously the singer in that journal.
00:25:37Not to mention, why would she just hand that over to you like that?
00:25:41Maybe she was ashamed to tell us.
00:25:44Ashamed?
00:25:47Putting all that shit aside, which we can't.
00:25:52What's all this nonsense about being half-im?
00:25:55It's not literal.
00:25:56And you know this how?
00:25:57Maybe it is.
00:25:58I don't know.
00:26:01Some days, I don't even feel like a human.
00:26:04Just a shape stitched from other people's cruelty.
00:26:08And the more I look, the less of myself I seem to find.
00:26:12Oh, that's good.
00:26:14Anything in there about how she kills three college kids for asking too many fucking questions?
00:26:18Guys, enough.
00:26:20Listen.
00:26:26The storm has passed.
00:26:28Let's get the fuck out of here.
00:26:50Oh, shit.
00:26:55What?
00:26:56What is it?
00:26:57Our car's gone.
00:26:59What?
00:27:04Miles, what are you doing?
00:27:06Calling an Uber.
00:27:09No fucking rides out this far.
00:27:13Hang on.
00:27:14Who are you calling now?
00:27:16The police.
00:27:16The police?
00:27:18Jenna, our car is fucking gone and we're in this freak show's house.
00:27:22He's right.
00:27:23I don't want to be here anymore.
00:27:33No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:27:34What is it now?
00:27:36It's dead.
00:27:38Try yours.
00:27:42Shit, I left it in the car.
00:27:45Jenna, try yours.
00:27:47I left it in the living room.
00:27:51I say we all go get it.
00:27:53Together.
00:28:00Go.
00:28:01Go, go, go, go.
00:28:02Just go.
00:28:03Come on.
00:28:03Go.
00:28:05Go.
00:28:14What are you doing?
00:28:16Being safe.
00:28:17By barricading the door with us in the room?
00:28:19That's what they do in the movies.
00:28:21Did you find it?
00:28:22No, it's not here.
00:28:23Keep looking, car.
00:28:24Go help.
00:28:25It's gone.
00:28:25How is that possible?
00:28:29Do you all hear that?
00:28:31Go, go, go, go.
00:28:33Go, go, go.
00:28:45Go, go.
00:28:46Go, go, go.
00:29:06It's coming from inside the walls.
00:29:08I have to get the fuck out of here!
00:29:13What about the car?
00:29:14Shit, I forgot about the car.
00:29:17We'll walk.
00:29:18Walk where?
00:29:19I don't know, down the hill.
00:29:21Who the fuck cares, just far away from here.
00:29:24Let's go through the window.
00:29:29Damn it!
00:29:31Just walk from the outside.
00:29:34Break the glass.
00:29:41No, wait!
00:29:42If she hears us, then she'll know that we left.
00:29:45Jenna's right.
00:29:46We need to sneak out of here so she doesn't know we're gone.
00:29:49How?
00:29:50We just saw her in the stairs.
00:29:52She can easily get to the front door.
00:29:53That's probably locked like these.
00:29:54The front door's way too easy.
00:29:56The back.
00:30:00The back.
00:30:00I saw a door on our way in.
00:30:01The back.
00:30:32The back.
00:30:58I saw a door on our way in.
00:30:59Great. What do we do now?
00:31:03What else does it say in that thing?
00:31:04What does that matter right now?
00:31:06I don't know. Maybe we can figure out why we're locked in here.
00:31:09They mistook my silence for weakness.
00:31:12My strange face for an invitation to use me, shape me, take what they wanted and leave the pieces behind.
00:31:17I learned early on that beauty is a currency I was never allowed to touch and power is a game
00:31:22I was never allowed to play.
00:31:24So now when I see those women, perfect polished creatures who glide the rooms, collecting admiration like pearls,
00:31:31I feel the old heat rise in me, a bitterness sharpened by years of being the sideshow no one loved
00:31:36but everyone wanted to own.
00:31:38I hate them both now, the beautiful and the powerful, because they were born with the things I had to
00:31:43bleed for.
00:31:47It's just useless thoughts.
00:31:49She's right, Jenna. Any ideas?
00:31:53I think she's punishing us for what happened to her.
00:32:03But we had nothing to do with whatever happened.
00:32:05It doesn't matter. I think that she's been waiting here for someone to come back and remember her.
00:32:10Look, fuck that journal and fuck this lady, alright?
00:32:14I say we keep moving and find a door window that's open.
00:32:18Keep your forces down, okay?
00:32:25First, like me.
00:32:29Roll the t Swburn.
00:32:37Just talk with visitors on the front street.
00:32:42I said that it can be gone back and thought about it.
00:32:44Take your mentors out at times.
00:32:44Even a obvious brings back down a bit,
00:32:45like you said to me,
00:32:46I saw him.
00:32:48Please explain them.
00:32:49Somebody said that the matrix couldn't sound me,
00:32:49then you were able to hang out and tell me about it,
00:32:49please?
00:32:50They did not fit,
00:32:51they could be helpful.
00:32:51I was watchingasc vibrating tickets from her as I was saying,
00:32:53I don't know.
00:33:32She's in there.
00:33:53She's in there.
00:34:23She's in there.
00:34:27She's in there.
00:34:29She's in there.
00:34:30Carrie.
00:34:31Hey.
00:34:32Hey.
00:34:32Breathe.
00:34:34I think she's having a panic attack.
00:34:37What do we do?
00:34:38Is there anything we can give her?
00:34:39Kara, hold your shit together.
00:34:43Fuck you, Miles.
00:34:44She's going to find us again.
00:34:46That's what she's going to do with us.
00:34:48Well, you overreacting isn't going to help us find a way out of here now, is it?
00:34:53Shh, shh.
00:34:53Guys, shh.
00:34:56Do you hear that?
00:35:01It's coming from out there.
00:35:12Okay, so this is what we're going to do.
00:35:14Let's go back to the front door.
00:35:16Try that again, okay?
00:35:27Miles.
00:35:29Go.
00:35:30Run!
00:35:31No, we're not leaving you.
00:35:32Get in there!
00:35:32Come on!
00:35:35Don't worry.
00:35:35I got this bitch.
00:36:18What the hell are you doing?
00:36:20Jenna!
00:36:23I learned long ago that the only way to silence the echoes of my past was to remove anything
00:36:29and anyone that dared to resemble it.
00:36:32These swaggering men with too much money and too little soul.
00:36:36I watched them carefully.
00:36:38And when their presence stirred old scars, I made sure they didn't linger.
00:36:42Each disappearance felt like reclaiming a piece of myself.
00:36:45A quiet correction to a world that had once fed on my suffering.
00:36:49But beneath the vengeance shimmered a deeper hunger.
00:36:54The need to be remembered on my own terms.
00:36:56So I began searching for a way to preserve my legacy.
00:36:59Something beyond the songs I once sang or the ashes I had risen from.
00:37:04Seeking a story, a shrine, a shadow that would outlive me.
00:37:08One final act ensuring that I, the creature they tried to bury, would never be forgotten again.
00:37:16What does that all mean?
00:37:19I think she sees us as objects.
00:37:24Another group here to take pieces of my life, my pain, my body, my story, and give nothing back.
00:37:30Give back? Give what back?
00:37:32I don't know.
00:37:35Okay.
00:37:37I think she sees us as spectators, not as guests.
00:37:44She thinks we're here to exploit her.
00:37:47We told her why we came here.
00:37:49It doesn't matter.
00:37:51Men have always taken advantage of her.
00:37:53Pretty girls like you mocked her.
00:37:56Reporters like me just came for her story.
00:37:59They didn't come to understand me.
00:38:01They came to dissect me, knowing full well I was incapable of ever seeing my reflection in the mirror ever
00:38:06again.
00:38:11Jenna, you're scaring me. What are you saying?
00:38:14She said no and she was punished for it.
00:38:17She opened her heart, her voice, her gift, and she was literally set on fire.
00:38:29What about Miles?
00:38:34I think we have to go find Miles before she kills him.
00:38:39He could be dead already.
00:38:41We don't know unless we go look for ourselves.
00:38:44You mean you want to go out there?
00:38:48If we stay here, she will find a way in. I guarantee it.
00:38:54We have to take the chance.
00:39:37It's not even worse.
00:39:40I don't know.
00:40:27Do you see anything?
00:40:31Maybe she took him upstairs.
00:40:33The room down the hall.
00:40:36That's a long way.
00:40:41What?
00:40:44What is it?
00:40:48Jenna, you stop.
00:40:49You're scaring me.
00:40:56Kara!
00:40:59Kara!
00:41:00Kara!
00:41:02Kara!
00:41:03Open the door!
00:41:05Kara!
00:41:06Get over here!
00:41:07Quick!
00:41:08There's a way out!
00:41:09Miles!
00:41:10Hurry!
00:41:11I can't hold the door much longer.
00:41:13I found a way out.
00:41:15Miles, is that you?
00:41:18Miles?
00:41:24Miles!
00:41:28Almost there.
00:41:29A little further out.
00:41:33That's it.
00:41:33Hurry.
00:41:35You're almost there.
00:41:38Miles?
00:41:40How do I know that's really you?
00:41:44Let's go.
00:41:48Why don't you go?
00:41:52Boom.
00:41:55What?
00:41:59It's going to be over here.
00:42:12I know so many what I know.
00:43:09Please don't hurt me.
00:43:12Or my friends.
00:43:19If you just let us go, we'll forget any of this ever happened.
00:43:24We'll forget about all of it.
00:43:36You want us to remember?
00:43:45That's why you gave me this.
00:43:55If someone hears me, truly hears me, they must carry my pain into the world.
00:44:06Fire birthed me.
00:44:09Fire shall unmake me.
00:44:16Is that why you can't look in the mirror?
00:44:23Fire birthed me.
00:44:24Fire birthed me.
00:44:39Fire birthed me.
00:44:47Fire birthed me.
00:44:59I don't know.
00:45:32Please don't hurt them.
00:45:34I'll do anything.
00:45:35I'll-
00:45:36Shh.
00:45:36Shh.
00:45:37Shh.
00:45:37I don't know.
00:46:18I don't know.
00:46:40They'll be awake soon, and then it's showtime!
00:46:47Well, you came here for a story.
00:46:50Not like this.
00:47:11Anna?
00:47:21What?
00:47:22What the fuck?
00:47:24Jenna, come help me.
00:47:31What is this?
00:47:32Jenna, what the hell is this?
00:47:34I don't know.
00:47:36We were in the other room, and we came out, and you were gone, and I came down.
00:47:40Jenna?
00:47:40I don't know.
00:48:02Miles.
00:48:04Help me.
00:48:04Get me out of the sea.
00:48:16Do you want me to read it?
00:48:20Like out loud?
00:48:38He has eyes like something already gone to rot.
00:48:42Dead flat.
00:48:45I'm so blue waiting for you to take me.
00:48:50I can't go on like this.
00:48:52Give me a kiss and then maybe.
00:48:59Hungry in a way that no living man should be.
00:49:03I remember how he cornered me in the dim hallway behind the stage.
00:49:08His breath thick with whiskey and certainty.
00:49:12His hands claiming what he believed he was owed.
00:49:16He didn't speak like a man.
00:49:18He spoke like someone reciting a script he had read a hundred times before.
00:49:25Confident that no one would ever challenge him.
00:49:28Oh fuck this!
00:49:29Fuck you too!
00:49:32Jenna don't read another word.
00:49:33Don't satisfy this fucked in half bitch!
00:49:40And when I pushed back.
00:49:41When I told him no.
00:49:43Those dead eyes lit for the first time.
00:49:45Not with life but with anger.
00:49:47The kind of anger that makes a man destroy what he cannot possess.
00:49:52I still see those eyes sometimes in dreams and reflections staring through me as if I were nothing more than
00:50:00a thing he had misplaced.
00:50:02And it's in those moments I remember exactly why I became what I am.
00:50:14He was the one who lit the match.
00:50:18Tell me.
00:50:20Did you feel my pain when you read my words?
00:50:23Of course I did.
00:50:26Did they?
00:50:27Did they?
00:50:31Did they?
00:50:32I don't, I don't know.
00:50:33They, they, they didn't, they didn't read it.
00:50:35They, they don't.
00:50:36They never do.
00:50:46Oh, I swear.
00:50:48When I get out of this.
00:50:50I'm gonna fuck you up!
00:50:52I'm gonna lock you in this house and burn the rest of you up. You're gonna burn who you thought
00:50:59you had it bad
00:50:59You're gonna fucking burn
00:51:12Please, we'll go. Okay, we'll go. We won't say anything I swear
00:51:22Do you know what they did, Songboy?
00:51:25Jenna, tell her we didn't do anything. We just came here for your project. This is insane. They didn't hurt
00:51:33you. They're just students. They're my friends.
00:51:37They were him. They were her. They're the ones that sat in the dark corners. The ones who watched. The
00:51:47ones who whispered. The ones who laughed.
00:51:52And you. You brought them to my home. We didn't know.
00:51:58Alright, enough. This is all bullshit. Just let us go and we'll call it even, you know? You can have
00:52:06your stupid haunted house in that dumb diary.
00:52:14What are you even gonna do? Scare us to death?
00:52:19Oh, Songboy. He was just as strong as you. Just as loud. And just as stupid.
00:52:30Okay.
00:52:41Go on.
00:52:45No.
00:52:48Go on.
00:52:53Jenna, do something, please!
00:52:56Please!
00:52:58I'm not hurting my friends!
00:53:04No?
00:53:07Then you'll watch.
00:53:17Jess.
00:53:22No!
00:53:23No!
00:53:25Oh, no!
00:53:27No!
00:53:27No, no, no!
00:53:29No!
00:53:29No!
00:53:30No!
00:53:34No!
00:53:54Doors chained, windows barred.
00:54:02My throat full of smoke, nobody kicked down the door, nobody smashed a window, nobody screamed
00:54:10my name.
00:54:14Tonight, you're gonna have a better seat than I ever had.
00:54:18You don't have to do this.
00:54:20Isn't this what you wanted?
00:54:22No!
00:54:23I didn't want this!
00:54:25Any of this!
00:54:26Jenna, please, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, please.
00:54:35Do you really know what it felt like?
00:54:38No, please, I'm so sorry, I am so, so sorry for whatever they did to you, okay?
00:54:44I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:54:49I screamed, I screamed until there was no air left.
00:55:02No, take me, take me instead, please, please.
00:55:05no, take me, hold on, please, please.
00:55:12Don't.
00:55:19No...
00:55:23Who's dropping it?
00:55:27No?
00:55:27No!
00:55:28¿No?
00:55:29No.
00:55:30No!
00:55:31No, no no, no.
00:55:33No, no, no...
00:55:35You'll carry this with you, songbird.
00:55:42You're insane.
00:55:45Insane?
00:55:46Insane is what they call a woman when she finally breaks
00:55:50the way the world has been trying to break her all along.
00:55:54But if you knew what I'd endeared,
00:55:56you'd understand that my madness
00:55:59is the only sane thing I have left.
00:56:05I will never forgive you for this.
00:56:09Forgive?
00:56:11The only important thing is that you never forget.
00:56:53Mom?
00:56:55Do you have any idea what time it is?
00:57:01If I thought that I was going to come all the way up here
00:57:05just to arrive and find you still in bed...
00:57:09Well, lucky you. I was in the shower.
00:57:11A close second and conveniently located only ten feet away from your room,
00:57:15which is a total disaster, by the way.
00:57:20Do you need something?
00:57:21I came up here so I could check on you.
00:57:26I'm your mother. I worry about you.
00:57:29There's nothing to worry about.
00:57:30You've been very quiet.
00:57:36I didn't want to make it a whole thing, but...
00:57:39Yeah. We broke up.
00:57:44I'm sorry, sweetheart.
00:57:46Even when you know it's coming, it lands hard.
00:57:49Yeah, well, like I said, I don't want to make it a big deal.
00:57:52Okay?
00:57:53Okay, well, doesn't it seem strange that you're going on a day trip
00:57:57with your ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend?
00:58:02Okay, first, it's a project for our senior class,
00:58:05and second, Miles and Jenna aren't even dating.
00:58:08They're not.
00:58:09No, they're not. They're just friends.
00:58:13Friends. You know, when a man has female friends,
00:58:17he's either lying to them or lying to himself.
00:58:22I'm late. We can talk about this later.
00:58:25I can't stay. Your father had a meeting nearby and he just dropped me off.
00:58:30Can you at least tell me what this project is about?
00:58:34Some cabaret.
00:58:35Cabaret?
00:58:36Well, it's not there anymore, I don't think.
00:58:40I don't know. I mean, I'm sleeping my way through history.
00:58:43Cara.
00:58:44What? It's an 8am class on a Monday.
00:58:48Okay.
00:58:49Well, where is this little day trip taking you?
00:58:52In case I need to come up here and rescue you.
00:58:57It's upstate, about three hours from here.
00:59:04You know, it's all right to not be all right.
00:59:07I don't know.
00:59:10I just feel empty.
00:59:15Okay.
00:59:15Okay. So, the right people don't disappear when things get uncomfortable.
00:59:21They grow with you.
00:59:24And breakups don't mean you're alone.
00:59:26They just show you who's always been there.
00:59:33Thanks, Mom.
00:59:35All right. You get help.
00:59:37Okay. So, what is the name of this cabaret?
00:59:43Um...
00:59:44Dizzy Dishes?
00:59:46Dizzy...
00:59:48Dizzy Dishes.
00:59:50You know, that sounds vaguely familiar.
00:59:53Yeah, well, I'll call you in a few days. I'm really late.
00:59:58Okay.
01:00:24Okay.
01:00:26Dizzy?
01:00:28Dizzy Dishes.
01:00:33I want to make woopy.
01:00:36And if I want to make woop,
01:00:41I have to have...
01:00:42Whoop-a-doo, whoop-a-doo, whoop-a-doo, whoop-a-doo, whoop-a-doo, whoop-a-doo.
01:01:03jenna
01:01:06jenna
01:01:07huh
01:01:09she's late
01:01:09it's a far drive
01:01:11you know kara she'll be here
01:01:16you worried?
01:01:19wait
01:01:21no i just
01:01:22want to get it right
01:01:23you know
01:01:25you're the top of your journalism class
01:01:27even if this project failed
01:01:29you still have a job lined up after graduation
01:01:32yeah but field reporter jobs are
01:01:34not easy to come by
01:01:35not to mention a little competitive
01:01:37and you already have one
01:01:39what are you two talking about?
01:01:42you're late
01:01:43i'm here
01:01:45congratulations
01:01:47okay
01:01:49they say we get going?
01:01:52agreed
01:01:57delete
01:01:57i'm here
01:02:08you're looking forward to it
01:02:09but didn't leave you
01:02:09as long as you are
01:02:10as long as you are
01:02:10I'm not sure
01:02:11but i don't want taker
01:02:29I thought you said this was some kind of cabaret.
01:02:33This is clearly a house.
01:02:35This is the address she gave on the phone.
01:02:39You first.
01:02:42We'll all go together.
01:02:43Yeah?
01:02:50We'll all go.
01:03:23We'll all go.
01:03:52We'll all go together.
01:04:05Where are you?
01:04:09You killed my friends!
01:04:13You want someone to hear your story?
01:04:17Fine.
01:04:18I heard you.
01:04:19But I am not going to die for him.
01:04:47But I am not going to die for him.
01:04:54This is your final test.
01:04:58You killed my friends.
01:05:00Go on.
01:05:04Will that even kill you?
01:05:08Death took my pulse, but not my purpose.
01:05:11And after you've crossed that line, it becomes real hard for you to be killed again.
01:05:16A fire.
01:05:18That shall unmake me.
01:05:21You want someone to help you reclaim your story.
01:05:25You're punishing the symbols of your abuse.
01:05:28And you're grooming me to be your storyteller.
01:05:32A life is a small thing to surrender when you've already had it stolen from you once before.
01:05:38But ash settles where it pleases, but in the right light, it teaches.
01:05:45And maybe some girl with shaking hands will hear my story from your lips, and she'll find the strength to
01:05:54say no before the fire reaches her door.
01:05:59And maybe some man will hear you whisper my name, and he'll think twice before he darkens another doorway with
01:06:10his wanting.
01:06:14I can't stay along.
01:06:16Let the world forget my face.
01:06:18Let it forget my voice.
01:06:21But let it never forget what happened to me.
01:06:25And what I won't allow to happen again.
01:06:32All right.
01:06:33I think I'm ready now.
01:06:36But that's the thing.
01:06:38You won't die.
01:06:41This is the only skin that they never managed to scar.
01:06:46Bodies burn.
01:06:48Voices fade.
01:06:50But a story.
01:06:52A story has always outlived every fire that was ever lit against it.
01:07:02A story.
01:07:21What?
01:07:25This was a story.
01:07:34Oh
01:07:57I don't know.
01:08:28They say a story dies the moment the last person forgets it.
01:08:34Pain remembers, even when people choose not to.
01:08:38It coils itself into the bones of old houses, waits in the mirrors that don't forgive, sleeps
01:08:45beneath the ashes of places that should have stayed safe.
01:09:02So if my voice lingers in the walls, if my shadow follows you home tonight, do not be afraid.
01:09:09It is only because I want you to see what I never could.
01:09:29Yoo-hoo!
01:09:31Yoo-hoo!
01:09:46Yoo-hoo!
01:09:48Yoo-hoo!
01:09:49Yoo-hoo!
01:09:53Yoo-hoo!
01:09:58Yoo-hoo!
01:10:00Yoo-hoo!
01:10:01Yoo-hoo!
01:10:01Yoo-hoo!
01:10:04Yoo-hoo!
01:10:06Yoo-hoo!
01:10:08Yoo-hoo!
01:10:11Yoo-hoo!
01:10:12Yoo-hoo!
01:10:13Yoo-hoo!
01:10:15Yoo-hoo!
01:10:16Yoo-hoo!
01:10:17Yoo-hoo!
01:10:17Yoo-hoo!
01:10:18Yoo-hoo!
01:10:21Yoo-hoo!
01:10:28Yoo-hoo!
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