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00:00Mom was obsessed with science-based parenting, so when my twin sister Mia and I were born, she strapped truth
00:06bands on us.
00:07Green light meant truth, red light meant a lie, but Mia's band, always green, even when she lied.
00:18Mia! What are you doing?
00:20Mom!
00:24What?
00:26Lily!
00:27Was it you?
00:27I saw her, Mom. It's Lily.
00:30No! Not me! Look! It was Mika!
00:36Mom, please! It wasn't me, I swear!
00:39Mom, Lily's lying. Look, my band, green. I'm telling the truth.
00:43I know, sweetie. Tech doesn't lie. You're an honest girl, and she's full of it.
00:48You broke it and tried to pin it on Mia. Bad behavior has a price, Lily.
00:52No, Mom. I'm sorry. Please don't...
00:56Bad behavior has a price, Lily.
01:00No, Mom. I'm sorry. Please don't...
01:06Mom, I swear...
01:08It wasn't me.
01:10Clean it up. Every single piece.
01:13Or you don't eat today.
01:16I'm Mommy's favorite daughter.
01:26Mom, I wasn't lying. Why don't you believe me?
01:31I think it's really good.
01:33It is.
01:39No treats for liars. You get the greens.
01:43Here you go, sweetie. Your favorite.
01:46Thank you, Mom. I love you.
01:49But, Mom, these make my stomach hurt like it's burning.
01:54Do I have to, please?
01:56So, you mean you're allergic to broccoli now?
02:01Show me your band.
02:03Show me.
02:07It's red. Lily's lying again.
02:09I knew it, Lily. Why can't you just be honest like Mia?
02:12No, Mom. I'm not lying. I promise it's true.
02:17I'm not...
02:18Enough! Eat it!
02:19Every single bite. I am so sick of your lies.
02:22She doesn't want to eat. Just leave it.
02:24Are you serious, Eric?
02:25The band is red.
02:26She's lying to us.
02:27No wonder Lily's turned out so bad.
02:29This is all your fault.
02:31Evelyn, are you serious?
02:33You're always too indulgent with her.
02:35No wonder she's so disobedient.
02:37Indulgent? I'm just trying to give her a half.
02:38Lily, this is all your fault.
02:41You made them fight.
02:42Mom, Dad, stop. I'm sorry.
02:44I'll eat it. I'll be good.
02:49I told you she was faking.
02:52She's completely fine.
02:53I can't say anything else.
02:55If I do, they'll just start fighting again.
03:01Mom! Hurry! I don't want to miss the fireworks!
03:03Lily, what are you doing? Hurry up!
03:06Mom, I think I'm going to puke.
03:08My stomach is killing me.
03:10Mom, I think I'm allergic.
03:12Give it a rest, Lily.
03:15Please, Mom. I need a doctor.
03:19You mean it?
03:20Lily! Where's your truth band?
03:23Wait, you took it off?
03:25Are you trying to cover it up?
03:26No. I was just washing my hands.
03:37Okay.
03:38The stomach ache.
03:40Truth or lie?
03:42It's true.
03:46Unbelievable!
03:47You're faking being sick just for attention?
03:51Mom, I'm telling the truth!
03:57It hurts! Mom! Mom, please stop!
04:01Payne is a good teacher.
04:02You're grounded.
04:03Stay in your room until that band turns green.
04:09Mom.
04:11Help.
04:15Mommy, did you come to save me?
04:23Almost forgot Mia's gloves.
04:26You done yet?
04:28You really have to ruin tonight?
04:30I'm not lying, Mom.
04:31She's pale.
04:33Maybe we should take her to the...
04:33Impressive, isn't it?
04:34Give her an Oscar already.
04:36Too bad the data says she's full of it.
04:39Fine.
04:40Let's just go.
04:41Mom, don't go!
04:42Mom, don't go!
04:44Mom!
04:48Mom!
04:51Mom!
04:52Mom!
04:52Mom!
04:53You stay put.
04:53Don't you dare come out until that light changes.
04:56Mommy.
04:58Please.
04:59I'm really hurting.
05:01It feels like I'm dying.
05:02Okay.
05:03Then go ahead.
05:07You're such a disappointment, Lily.
05:15All right, everyone.
05:17Let's go.
05:18We are not letting her ruin New Year's Eve.
05:21Finally!
05:22Fireworks!
05:26Mom!
05:27Help!
05:29Mom is right.
05:30I must be lying.
05:31I'm not really in pain.
05:33I'm fine.
05:34It doesn't hurt.
05:35I need to write my apology, or Mommy will be angrier.
05:40I'm sorry.
05:41I'm a liar.
05:42I messed up.
05:43But it hurts so bad.
05:46I wasn't lying, really.
05:49Mom, why don't you believe me?
05:53Are you sure Lily's okay?
05:55It's an act, Eric.
05:56Seriously, who's allergic to broccoli?
05:58Ten seconds!
06:01Five!
06:02Four!
06:03Three!
06:04Two!
06:05One!
06:06Yeah!
06:09It doesn't hurt anymore.
06:11I'm cured.
06:13I'm dead?
06:15Mom, I'm really dead now.
06:18I wasn't lying.
06:20Can you forgive me now?
06:22Those fireworks were gorgeous.
06:24Especially the smiley faces.
06:26Just like my little Mia.
06:27Mom, I'll be a good girl, I promise.
06:30Just don't be mad at me, okay?
06:33Jesus!
06:34Did we leave a window open?
06:36Freezing in here.
06:37I'm sorry, Mommy.
06:38I forgot.
06:39I'm already dead.
06:42I'm sure Lily's learned her lesson by now.
06:44Just let her out.
06:45She better.
06:46If Mom finds out I'm dead, will she be sad?
06:50Will she regret it?
06:56Oh, wow.
06:57Nice try.
06:58What, you think playing dead is going to get you a free ride to bed?
07:01Lily, you are ten.
07:03Not five.
07:04Act like it.
07:05Mom, I'm dead.
07:07Look at me.
07:08Touch me.
07:09I'm not breathing.
07:11Ugh, a professional sleeper.
07:14Still lying.
07:15I swear.
07:16She even lies in her sleep.
07:18See?
07:19Mine is green.
07:20Hers is still red.
07:21Typical.
07:22That's my good girl.
07:23Let her stay like that.
07:25Fine by me.
07:27Let's just put her in bed, Evelyn.
07:29It's way too cold to leave her at the desk.
07:31Why?
07:31So she can think she won this little standoff?
07:33Look at that light.
07:34She's still throwing a mental tantrum.
07:37I'm done.
07:37It's bedtime.
07:39We're visiting Grandma tomorrow.
07:43Mom, if you'd just come a little closer, if you'd just reached for my hand, you'd have
07:48felt it.
07:50I was already cold.
07:51If you never loved me, why have me at all?
07:59That's my favorite.
08:00Mom, is that for me?
08:06Mia, you're bacon and eggs.
08:08Liars don't deserve a nice breakfast.
08:11Mom, I'm dead.
08:13I don't need food anymore.
08:15Lily's still in there?
08:15She's got to be starving.
08:17She's spoiled.
08:18Let her.
08:18She needs to learn that her tricks don't work on me.
08:21Mom, Lily's room smells gross.
08:23Did she poop in there or something?
08:25What?
08:27Now Mom's going to hate me even more.
08:29Look at her.
08:30She actually sat in her own mess.
08:32Unbelievable.
08:34What a filthy girl.
08:41Lily!
08:42The bathroom is right down the hall.
08:44What is wrong with you?
08:45Evelyn, maybe we should just check.
08:48Not gonna happen.
08:49Let her sit in that stink.
08:50It's the only way she'll learn.
08:54We should really check.
08:55What if there's a dead rat in the vents?
08:57Open it, Dad.
08:59Please.
08:59I didn't soil myself.
09:01I'm dead.
09:03Don't make Mom hate me even more.
09:09What?
09:10Servers are down?
09:11Yeah, yeah.
09:12I'm on my way.
09:14Evie!
09:15Massive emergency at work.
09:16Gotta go.
09:16Might be stuck there a few days.
09:18I'll call you when I can.
09:19Wait, but what about Lily?
09:20So close.
09:22They were so close to finding my body.
09:25Mommy, Lily stinks.
09:27She's gross.
09:27I swear to God she won't win this.
09:29You like the smell?
09:30Keep it to yourself.
09:32You're not stinking up my house.
09:34Mom, no.
09:35At least look at me.
09:36Do you actually hate me?
09:39Come on, sweetie.
09:40Let's go to Grandma's.
09:43Oh, look at you.
09:46Mom is smiling.
09:48He never smiles like that when I'm around.
09:50Maybe it's better this way.
09:52I won't ever bother you again, Mom.
09:57So many new clothes.
09:59I only ever get Mia's hand-me-downs.
10:02All packed, Mia?
10:03Yep.
10:04Three days' worth.
10:05All folded.
10:06You're going on a trip.
10:08Yes!
10:09They're leaving!
10:10They have to check on me now.
10:12They'll find me!
10:17Mom!
10:18You forgot me!
10:19I'm still in there!
10:20Hey!
10:20Look at me!
10:22Mom, Lily's still stinking up her room.
10:24Should we let her out to shower?
10:26Not my problem.
10:27Your dad can let her out when he gets home tonight.
10:30Come on, let's go.
10:32Mom, wait!
10:33Dad said he's gone for days!
10:39Mom!
10:42Why?
10:43Why can't I leave?
10:46Mom!
10:47Don't leave me here!
10:48Mom!
10:50Mom!
10:52Someone, please find me!
10:59Snowball?
11:00Is that you?
11:02It is you!
11:03Wait, you can see me?
11:08No way!
11:09You can feel me too?
11:11That's amazing!
11:15I thought Mom sent you to the shelter.
11:19Give me the dog!
11:21Mommy!
11:22Snowball really didn't bite anyone!
11:25Mia is lying!
11:30Give me the dog!
11:38Mom!
11:40Mom!
11:40Mom, please!
11:42Don't send him away!
11:44Mom!
11:45Mom!
11:51Snowball, can you go get help?
11:53I'm trapped in there.
11:54And if no one finds me soon, I'm toast.
11:57Go!
11:58Get help!
12:07Snowball, you're dead too.
12:10Snowball, over here!
12:15At least we have each other.
12:26Snowball, no!
12:31I'm going to eat my body!
12:33What do I do?
12:39Evelyn, you home?
12:42That smell, is that me?
12:48Susan?
12:52Susan, what are you...
12:54Jesus Christ, the smell!
12:57What died in here?
12:59It seemed to be coming from your porch.
13:02What?
13:03It's definitely Lily!
13:06She must have made another mess.
13:08She's...
13:08What?
13:10Susan!
13:11Sorry!
13:11Seriously, just got back.
13:13I'll deal with it, okay?
13:14Alright.
13:15Let me know if you need anything.
13:18That girl has gone way too far this time!
13:23Evelyn?
13:26Ugh!
13:26What's that fung?
13:28Eric, are you really okay with this?
13:31Letting her turn our home into a lambsville?
13:33What are you talking about?
13:34I haven't been home in three days.
13:35What?
13:38About time.
13:42What?
13:43What is this?
13:44You locked her in for three days?
13:46No food?
13:47No water?
13:48Relax!
13:49She's completely fine!
13:50She stole my money, remember?
13:51Probably has a mountain of snacks in there.
13:53I didn't do it!
14:00Lily?
14:05Gross!
14:06Lily, what did you do?
14:09Lily?
14:09Hey!
14:10I'm talking to you!
14:11You hear me?
14:12What, we're playing dead now?
14:13Seriously?
14:14Get the hell up!
14:20Lily!
14:22Lily!
14:24Lily!
14:25Lily!
14:26Lily!
14:27Lily!
14:28Lily!
14:29Mommy, I told you.
14:31I wasn't lying.
14:32I proved it.
14:34Will you apologize to me now?
14:38No.
14:40No, this isn't real.
14:43What did you just say?
14:46She's faking.
14:47She has to be.
14:51Her truth band is red!
14:53You're crazy.
14:56You're fucking crazy!
14:57Mommy, even now that I'm dead, you still won't say sorry?
15:03Drop the axe, Lily!
15:05Get up!
15:05Get up!
15:06Get up!
15:06Get away from her!
15:07Right, stop pressing!
15:09Get away from her!
15:10Is everything okay?
15:11I heard...
15:16Doctor!
15:23Officer!
15:24Ma'am!
15:25She lied!
15:26She lies about everything!
15:28Just check the truth band!
15:30Truth band?
15:31You mean this right? Give it to me
15:34It's gonna turn green just watch any second now. My name is Evelyn. I'm Lily's mother
15:46Hell no, that's impossible now, you know how it feels mom
15:55Lily mom you can see me
16:01I told you she was lying
16:03Lily
16:06I knew it. I knew you were just faking. You're not dead. You're not tell them Lily tell these people
16:13I was only trying to help you
16:15What the hell is wrong with you that bags her that there's nobody there and stop it
16:23They can't see me mom, but then again you never really looked did you
16:39It hurts doesn't it and that's just a spark imagine the dial all the way up the way you liked
16:46it
16:46I wasn't even allowed to whimper you done already mom enough this crap was never meant to catch lies
16:55No, no, that's not right. The parenting guru. He said was the best
16:59It can't it catches life
17:01Look at the damn words. It's a cheap ass heart rate monitor ten bucks of plastic and sweat stencils
17:09Then the light goes red. That's it. It's not a lie detector. It's a stress meter
17:16You're full of it
17:19You're all in on this you just want to see me fail
17:23Look at your wrist screaming red. What are you lying to me right now, or are you just scared of
17:28best?
17:29Christmas Eve mom
17:32Remember I was on the floor
17:35Begging
17:37But you only had eyes for that red glow think about her appendix evelyn imagine it bursting like a bomb
17:44in her gut
17:46You saw her dying breath and called it a lie
17:49You shocked her until her heart just gave out
17:53You didn't just kill her
17:55You murdered her
17:57No, no, it wasn't me. I'm not a murderer
18:04Get it off! It's burning! Please! Get it off!
18:13Feb 14
18:15Sunny
18:15Mom made me eat broccoli again
18:18I told her I'm allergic
18:20My throat gets all tight
18:23I can't catch my breath
18:30Tomato juice? Really? That's the best you can do?
18:33You're a hell of an actress, Lily
18:36Makes me sick just looking at you
18:40I was throwing up blood
18:42My throat was on fire
18:45Mom said I was faking
18:47Then she zapped at me
18:49For 10 minutes straight
18:51I just wanted it to be over
18:53It was it was actual blood?
18:56Oh god, I didn't see it. I didn't know
18:59You would have seen it mom if you'd taken just one step
19:03But you love that band more than me
19:07June 1st
19:08Happy children's day
19:10Mia's tearing through the room
19:12Mom's favorite antique Vos goes spash
19:15I tried to tell her
19:16But the more I talked, the redder it got
19:19Mom kept the current on
19:20For 10 minutes
19:22I didn't scream
19:23I couldn't
19:24My heart would spike in that red light
19:26It just gets brighter
19:27Mom said look at her
19:30Not even a will
19:31Must not hurt that much
19:33You're a fucking monster
19:35No, even monsters care for their own
19:37You sick twisted bitch
19:39Your own kid Evelyn
19:41Your own goddamn blood
19:42How how could you treat her like some some lab rat?
19:4610 years dad
19:46You played deaf dumb and blind for 10 years
19:49Don't play the hero now
19:50You're just swinging so the feds don't lock you up as her plus one
19:58Not me
19:59Don't you look at me
20:00It was her
20:01Mia did it
20:02It was all her
20:03Mommy you're scaring me
20:05It's not my fault
20:06The risk
20:07Look at the light
20:08It's green
20:09Always green
20:1010 years of
20:12Of bullshit
20:13She played us all
20:14She broke it
20:15She set Lily up
20:18Officer you see
20:19She manipulated me
20:20I only believe the red because that that little sociopath kept hers green
20:25She's the liar
20:26She's the reason Lily's dead
20:29Cover
20:30Do your damn job and cover
20:33Poetic justice
20:34The golden duo
20:35Ripping each other's throats out the second the house of cards collapses
20:43Save the waterworks kid
20:44Let's see the arm
20:46No it's mine
20:47Mommy said I'm the honest child
20:49Don't touch me
20:52Let's see what's under the hood of this miracle truth bar
21:00Look at this garbage
21:02A dummy circuit some dime store leds and a couple of button patteries
21:06It's a flea market prize two bucks max
21:09This garbage was hardwired to stay green the second it left the factory that kid could have lied through her
21:14teeth could have committed murder wouldn't matter
21:16This garbage only knows one color
21:19Funny isn't it mom shocked the honest one until her heart gave out
21:22But for a little liar this piece of green garbage she's your saint
21:26Hell of a toy you had going here a real goddamn joke
21:30Fake
21:30I killed my honest girl over a toy just to protect a goddamn liar
21:42Susan told
21:43Now everyone knows I don't have to hide in the dark anymore in the smell
21:48I can hear the people they're so loud so angry for me
21:54Dad make them stop they're still yelling
21:57Mommy's still at the station
21:59We have to wait for her right?
22:01Wait for what?
22:02She's a goddamn psycho
22:03The firm they cut me loose news hasn't even hit and I'm already out I'm finished in this city
22:11You want to stay you want to go down with that murderer because I'm done
22:16Get rid of this damn thing. This is what started it. Look where this shit got us
22:24Move now before the mob decides to break down that door
22:30Run dad, but you're not getting away
22:34You're just trading one cage for another welcome to hell
22:44Lily baby look no greens no broccoli. I promise just the burger your favorite come on
22:53Just one tiny bite for mommy
22:57You bitch it knows the light knows you're lying again aren't you liars don't get to eat liars get punished
23:07Good tastes just like that broccoli did suffocating right mom hell of a show really
23:15But too little too late this penance won't buy me back
23:19Not for a heartbeat
23:34It hurts god it hurts
23:36I get it now lily is this how it felt i'm so sorry mommy finally finally knows
23:52Just just scream it hurts one more time baby
24:07Baby i'll believe you i swear to god i'll listen this time i'll save you just come back save it
24:13mom
24:14You're staining my way out you still don't get it do you the dead don't scream
24:26bed 44 evelyn chow time
24:33red it's red stop don't don't shock me i'll eat i'll eat
24:4010 years every single dingle day she's back in my hell all to punish herself
24:48rotting in my nightmares
24:52Right where she belongs
25:07hey
25:07snap out of it you senile bitch the booze took dad so where's the stash cough it up ma the
25:13sharks are coming for me
25:22god you're pathetic just like your honest girl was
25:26good riddance to both of you last chance give me the dough or i'm pulling the plug right now
25:33send you down to hell to rot with lily
25:44it was you you lied to me
25:48it was never green you lied you monster you murdered my lily give her back i'll kill you
25:56get off crazy
26:09you freaks the whole goddamn family you're all sick stay the
26:14fuck away we're calling the cops
26:33hard to kill isn't she too bad walking's over the rest of her life a wheelchair a catheter bag
26:41and a tin cup the green light just turned red mia you spent a lifetime on borrowed luck the bill
26:47comes due
26:54mommy you're here i missed you so much i'm so sorry sweetie i'm so so sorry for everything
27:01come here come here i've got you i'm never letting go oh no no no lily come back come back
27:09to me
27:14wake up mom
27:16you can cry an ocean of regret but you're never holding me again
27:25really baby you came back i smashed it the remote it's dead no more shocks i swear i'll be good
27:34just please don't beat me
27:45it's a little late to break the toy once the game is over mom
27:48death doesn't do do-overs i'm done mom the hate it's just too heavy i don't love you don't think
27:58i ever
27:58did next time if there is one let's just be strangers
28:10no more red lights no more shocks to the heart
28:14no more fighting to be the favorite or bleeding for the truth just silence
28:23bed 44 evelyn time for your morning meds
28:27dead but you're not going to go like me
28:33no longer
28:33no more
28:34no more
28:35no more
28:36no more
28:37no more
28:37no more
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