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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.
00:03:35Okay.
00:03:43Bye.
00:03:43Bye.
00:03:43Bye.
00:03:44Bye.
00:03:49Bye.
00:04:10Police department!
00:04:41Hey dispatch, so I'm here at this old manor on the welfare check but nobody's home.
00:04:46So tell that caller I'll try back in a few days.
00:04:59Hello, it'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 just stand by for confirmation.
00:05:16Show yourself or I'm going to enter the home!
00:05:43I'm going to enter the home.
00:05:54I'm going to enter the home.
00:06:06I'm going to enter the home.
00:06:36I thought you said this was some kind of cabaret.
00:06:40Hey, this 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.
00:06:50Alright, if you say so.
00:06:53So what do we do?
00:06:54Just 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.
00:07:10Kinda 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 Cara.
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.
00:08:02Try 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.
00:08:33Take 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.
00:08:44A shotgun?
00:08:45It's a figure of speech.
00:08:47Alright.
00:08:48Look Cara, 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.
00:09:00Fine.
00:09:21God 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.
00:09:41With the door open like that?
00:09:46Hello?
00:09:49Screw this.
00:09:50I say we just leave.
00:09:52Yeah I'm with Miles.
00:09:53We should go.
00:09:55I'll just be a moment.
00:09:56Make yourselves at home.
00:10:02See?
00:10:03She's here.
00:10:06Okay.
00:10:07That's not super weird or anything.
00:10:10Yeah 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.
00:10:20Okay.
00:10:39Let's go.
00:10:41Let's go.
00:10:43Let's go.
00:10:46Let's go.
00:10:51Let's go.
00:10:52This place is huge.
00:10:54I know right?
00:10:56Kara don't touch anything.
00:10:57I 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
00:11:50she just focused on making it a place to 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.
00:12:28Um.
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.
00:12:41We spoke on the phone about coming to do an interview.
00:12:45And these are my friends, Cara and Miles.
00:12:49Uh, the name of the project is, um...
00:12:53Urban Legends of Decadence.
00:12:55That's right.
00:12:56And it's about Dizzy Dishes.
00:12:58Your former club.
00:13:01We're seniors.
00:13:03History 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.
00:13:21Cara, 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.
00:13:37Shit.
00:13:38She's coming back to the show.
00:13:46So, um, 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?
00:14:08There's some, uh, bad weather coming through.
00:14:11If it's alright with you, I don't know.
00:14:15Maybe we could, uh, hurry this along.
00:14:19Uh, right.
00:14:20So, I have a list of questions, if that's alright with you.
00:14:26Um, um, we could start with, what happened to the Dizzy Dishes Club?
00:14:37That was your club?
00:15:03Hello?
00:15:04Hello?
00:15:04I don't know.
00:15:39What's this?
00:16:03What the hell is going on?
00:16:04What is that?
00:16:07Stop drinking that.
00:16:09I 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.
00:16:25And 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 rotting flesh smells like.
00:16:59Not to mention the weather's gonna turn and that hill was almost a 90 degree angle to
00:17:03get up here.
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?
00:17:15Okay.
00:17:16I'm with you.
00:17:19But I think we should at least say something.
00:17:23I'm at least gonna tell her we're gonna bring it back.
00:17:25Fine.
00:17:26But make it quick and meet us at the front door.
00:17:29Come on.
00:18:16Hello?
00:18:19Anyone up here?
00:18:27Hello?
00:18:42Hello?
00:18:46It'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. We only need it for a few days.
00:19:38Two days later.
00:20:20What'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, and the main road is flooded.
00:20:35Those turns we came up through, there'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 Cara, 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 gonna do that?
00:21:11I don't know.
00:21:12Big enough house, just pick a spot and stick together.
00:21:17You guys are talking like we're actually in danger.
00:21:24I'll let him know.
00:21:25One way in, one way out.
00:21:27Yeah.
00:21:29Yeah.
00:21:34...
00:21:42...
00:21:45...
00:21:47...
00:22:14Oh, 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.
00:22:41Hm?
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.
00:23:34And 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.
00:23:59One 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.
00:24:13But men like him don't take kindly to final answers, not from the kind of woman they believe was born
00:24:19to 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.
00:25:30Hera!
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 him?
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.
00:26:28So let's get the fuck out of here.
00:26:50Oh, shit.
00:26:55What?
00:26:56What is it?
00:26:57Our car is gone.
00:26:59What?
00:27:04Miles, what are you doing?
00:27:07Calling an Uber.
00:27:10No fucking rides out this far.
00:27:13Hang on.
00:27:14Who are you calling now?
00:27:16The police.
00:27:17The police?
00:27:18Jenna, our car is fucking gone and we're in this freak show's house.
00:27:22He's right. I 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.
00:27:52Together.
00:28:00Go.
00:28:01Go, go, go, go.
00:28:02Just go.
00:28:03Come on, go.
00:28:15What 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?
00:28:27Shh.
00:28:29Do y'all hear that?
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.
00:29:20Down the hill.
00:29:21Who the fuck cares?
00:29:22Just far away from here.
00:29:24Let's go through the window.
00:29:29Damn it.
00:29:31Let's 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.
00:29:55Front door's way too easy.
00:29:56The back.
00:29:59The back.
00:30:00I saw a door on our way in.
00:30:01The back.
00:30:04I don't know.
00:30:58Oh, shit, it's jammed.
00:31:00Great.
00:31:00What 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.
00:31:06Maybe 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
00:31:16the pieces behind.
00:31:17I learned early on that beauty is a currency I was never allowed to touch, and power is
00:31:22a game I was never allowed to play.
00:31:24So now when I see those women, perfect, polished creatures who glide the rooms, collecting
00:31:29admiration like pearls, I feel the old heat rise in me, a bitterness sharpened by years
00:31:34of being the sideshow no one loved but everyone wanted to own.
00:31:37And I hate them both now, the beautiful and the powerful, because they were born with the
00:31:42things I had to bleed for.
00:31:47It's just useless thoughts.
00:31:49She's right, Jenna.
00:31:51Any 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.
00:32:06I 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 voices down, okay?
00:32:37Keep your voices down, okay?
00:33:22Keep your voices down, okay?
00:33:32She's in there.
00:33:59She's in there.
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.
00:34:45She's going to find us again.
00:34:46That's what she's going to do to 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, guys.
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.
00:35:36I got this bitch.
00:35:42Come on!
00:35:45Let's go!
00:35:54Come on, dude!
00:35:55Let's go.
00:35:56Why the hell?
00:36:02Let's go.
00:36:03Come on, dude.
00:36:04Come on, dude.
00:36:06Let's go!
00:36:18what the hell are you doing jenna i learned long ago that the only way to silence the echoes of
00:36:27my
00:36:27past was to remove anything and anyone that dared to resemble it the swaggering men with too much
00:36:34money and too little soul i watched them carefully and when their presence stirred old scars i made
00:36:41sure they didn't linger each disappearance felt like reclaiming a piece of myself a quiet
00:36:46correction to a world that had once fed on my suffering but beneath the vengeance shimmered
00:36:51a deeper hunger the need to be remembered on my own terms so i began searching for a way to
00:36:58preserve
00:36:59my legacy something beyond the songs i once sang or the ashes i had risen from seeking a story a
00:37:06shrine a shadow that would outlive me one final act ensuring that i the creature they
00:37:11tried to bury would never be forgotten again what 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 i don't know
00:37:35okay
00:37:37i think she sees us spectators not as guests she thinks we're here to exploit her
00:37:47we told her why we came here it doesn't matter men have always taken advantage of her pretty
00:37:53girls like you mocked her reporters like me just came for her story they didn't come to understand
00:38:00me they came to dissect me knowing full well i was incapable of ever seeing my reflection in the
00:38:06mirror ever again
00:38:11jenna you're scaring me what are you saying she 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 we don't know unless we go look for ourselves
00:38:44you mean you 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 a chance
00:39:00I don't know.
00:39:36I don't know.
00:39:56I don't know.
00:40:26Do you see anything?
00:40:31Maybe she took him upstairs.
00:40:33The room down the hall.
00:40:36That's a long way.
00:40:42What?
00:40:44What is it?
00:40:48Jenna, you stop.
00:40:49You're scaring me.
00:40:56Kara!
00:40:59Kara!
00:41:01Kara!
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?
00:41:42Good to see you.
00:41:43I know that.
00:41:44I know.
00:43:09Please don't hurt me.
00:43:12Or my friend.
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.
00:44:07Fire birthed me.
00:44:09Fire shall unmake me.
00:44:16Is that why you can't look in the mirror?
00:44:23Fire.
00:44:24I don't know.
00:44:54I don't know.
00:45:25I don't know.
00:45:32Please don't hurt them.
00:45:34I'll do anything.
00:45:35I don't know.
00:46:04I don't know.
00:46:13I don't know.
00:46:15I don't know.
00:46:25I don't know.
00:46:54I don't know.
00:47:12I don't know.
00:47:35I don't know.
00:47:41I don't know.
00:48:01Miles.
00:48:04Help me get me out of this thing.
00:48:16You want me to read it?
00:48:18I don't know.
00:48:21I don't know.
00:48:46I don't know.
00:48:52I don't know.
00:48:58I don't know.
00:49:03I don't know.
00:49:27I don't know.
00:49:32I don't know.
00:49:42I don't know.
00:49:53those eyes sometimes in dreams and reflections staring through me as if I
00:49:59were nothing more than a thing he had misplaced and it's in those moments I
00:50:04remember exactly why I became what I am
00:50:14he was the one who lit the match
00:50:18tell me did you feel my pain when you read my words of course I did did they
00:50:31I don't know they didn't they didn't read it they don't they never do
00:50:47I swear when I get out of this I'm gonna fuck you up I'm gonna lock you in this
00:50:54house and burn the rest of you up you're gonna burn who you thought you had it
00:50:59bad you're gonna fuck it bad
00:51:21do you know what they did song boy should I tell her we didn't do anything we just
00:51:28came in for your project this is insane they didn't hurt you yeah they're just
00:51:35students they're my friends they were him they were her they're the ones that sat in
00:51:43the dark corners the ones who watched the ones who whispered the ones who left and
00:51:52you you brought them to my home we didn't know all right enough this is all
00:52:00bullshit just let us go and we'll call it even yeah you can have your stupid haunted
00:52:08house and that dumb diary
00:52:14what are you even gonna do scare us to death
00:52:18oh somebody he was just as strong as you
00:52:24just be slow and just be stupid
00:52:39go on
00:52:44no
00:52:53Jenna do something please I'm not hurting my friends
00:53:06no then you'll watch
00:53:17oh
00:53:18oh
00:53:19oh
00:53:19oh
00:53:19oh
00:53:20oh
00:53:21oh
00:53:24oh
00:53:25oh
00:53:25oh
00:53:34Let's go.
00:53:35Let's go.
00:54:06Nobody kicked down the door.
00:54:08Nobody smashed their window.
00:54:10Nobody screamed my name.
00:54:14Tonight, you're going to 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.
00:54:28I don't want to die.
00:54:30I don't want to die.
00:54:35Do you really know what it felt like?
00:54:38No.
00:54:39Please.
00:54:40I'm so sorry.
00:54:41I am so, so sorry for whatever they did to you.
00:54:44Okay?
00:54:44I'm sorry.
00:54:46I'm sorry.
00:54:49I screamed.
00:54:51I screamed until there was no air left.
00:55:02No!
00:55:03Take me!
00:55:03Take me instead!
00:55:04Please!
00:55:05Please!
00:55:07Please!
00:55:08Please!
00:55:12Please!
00:55:16Please!
00:55:18Please!
00:55:21Please!
00:55:28Please!
00:55:29Now...
00:55:30Now you know, don't you?
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 the way the world has been trying to break
00:55:52her all along.
00:55:54But if you knew what I'd endeared, you would understand that my madness is the only sane thing I have
00:56:01left.
00:56:04I will never forgive you for this.
00:56:09Forgive?
00:56:11The only important thing is that you never forget.
00:56:52I will never forget...
00:56:53That's a real pleasure.
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 just to arrive and find you
00:57:06still in bed
00:57:09well lucky you i was in the shower a close second and conveniently located only ten feet away from
00:57:15your room which is a total disaster by the way do you need something i came up here so i
00:57:24could
00:57:24check on you i'm your mother i worry about you there's nothing to worry about you've been very
00:57:31quiet i didn't want to make it a whole thing but yeah we broke up
00:57:44i'm sorry sweetheart even when you know it's coming at landshard yeah well like i said i
00:57:50don't want to make it a big deal okay okay well doesn't it seem strange that you're going on a
00:57:56day trip with your ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend okay first it's a project for our
00:58:05senior class and second miles and jenna aren't even dating they're not no they're not they're just
00:58:11friends friends you know when a man has female friends he's either lying to them or lying to
00:58:22themselves i'm late we can talk about this later well i i can't stay your father had a meeting
00:58:27nearby and he just dropped me off can you at least tell me what this project is about
00:58:34some cabaret cabaret well it's not there anymore i don't think i don't know i mean i'm sleeping my
00:58:42way through history cara what it's an 8am class on a monday okay well where is this little day trip
00:58:51taking you in 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 i don't know
00:59:10i just feel empty
00:59:15okay so the right people don't disappear when things get uncomfortable
00:59:21they grow with you and breakups don't mean you're alone they just show you who's always been there
00:59:35okay so what is the name of this cabaret um dizzy dishes
00:59:45dizzy dizzy dishes i know that sounds vaguely familiar
00:59:53yeah well i'll call you in a few days i'm really late okay
01:00:25dizzy
01:00:26dizzy
01:00:27dizzy
01:00:29tube
01:00:32i want it
01:00:35and if i want the next one
01:00:39i have to have
01:00:42whoopee
01:00:43whoopee
01:00:44whoopee
01:00:56whoopee
01:01:03Jenna.
01:01:06Jenna.
01:01:07Huh?
01:01:09She's late.
01:01:10It's a far drive.
01:01:12You know, Kara, she'll be here.
01:01:17You worried?
01:01:19Wait.
01:01:21No, I just...
01:01:22I want to get it right, you know?
01:01:25You're the top of your journalism class.
01:01:27Even if this project failed,
01:01:30you still have a job lined up after graduation.
01:01:32Yeah, but field reporter jobs are not 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.
01:01:57okay.
01:02:20Let's go.
01:02:24Let's go.
01:02:26Let's go.
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, yeah?
01:03:14I don't know.
01:03:38I don't know.
01:03:40I don't know.
01:04:11I don't know.
01:04:13You want someone to hear your story?
01:04:17Fine.
01:04:18I heard you.
01:04:19But I am not gonna die for him.
01:04:22I don't know.
01:04:27I don't know.
01:04:40I don't know.
01:04:54This is your final test.
01:04:58You killed my friends.
01:05:01Go on.
01:05:03Will 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.
01:05:17A fire. That shall unmake me.
01:05:21You want someone to help you reclaim your story.
01:05:25You're punishing the symbols of your abuse.
01:05:28You'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.
01:05:41But in the right light, it teaches.
01:05:45And maybe some girl with shaking hands will hear my story from your lips.
01:05:53And she'll find the strength to say no before the fire reaches her door.
01:05:59And maybe some man will hear you whisper my name.
01:06:05And he'll think twice before he darkens another doorway with his 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.
01:06:36That'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.
01:07:21I don't know.
01:07:23I don't know.
01:07:25I don't know.
01:07:27My father.
01:07:30My father.
01:07:32My father.
01:07:38My father.
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.
01:08:39It 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!
01:09:48Yoo-hoo!
01:09:49Yoo-hoo!
01:09:53Yoo-hoo!
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