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00:00La primera noche en nuestra nueva habitación,
00:02yo caí en la cama para mi espalda y vi a la cara de moverse.
00:08La siguiente día, la policía llevó la mamá de la cama.
00:11Su衣服 se quedó deshazón y su cabello era un maldito.
00:15Después de eso, ella no se quedó en la cama.
00:18Cada día, ella se quedó en la cama de la cama y le dijo dadas.
00:22I locked the door. I know, I locked it.
00:24Seven days later, she jumped from the balcony of our new apartment.
00:31Dad found that man beat him so badly, he was critically injured
00:36and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
00:39And I was sent to live with my uncle.
00:44Every night, his face came back in my dreams.
00:51Then I was high of mises, high of hell for an end for my stuffed rabbit.
00:56Three moomers were putting the bed together in the master bedroom.
00:59I dragged over a little school and sat in the bedroom doorway.
01:05Josie, what are you doing sitting here?
01:07I kept my eyes on the three men in the room, counting.
01:11Three go in, three come out.
01:13Did moving wear you out so much, you're talking nonsense?
01:16I pulled away from her hand.
01:18I never looked away from the master bedroom.
01:21Three men, one in a gray t-shirt, one in a cap,
01:24and one crouched by the bed tightening screws.
01:26It was him, Jack Merson.
01:29A little piece missing from his left ear.
01:31That face was in my nightmares every single night.
01:35Mr. Merson, thank you.
01:37You guys have been working so hard.
01:39It's nothing.
01:40Handling a move on your own with a kid isn't easy.
01:45We'll take care of the heavy stuff.
01:47Want us to assemble this wardrobe too?
01:49Yes, please.
01:50Her dad got stuck at work today.
01:53He probably won't be home till late.
01:55My hand clenched.
01:56That was it.
01:57Mom said it casually, and he filed it away.
02:02Dad's coming home today!
02:06Everyone turns to look at me.
02:08Mom smiles.
02:09Of course dad's coming home.
02:11He'll just be a little late.
02:12I was so scared my voice came out high and shaky.
02:15No!
02:16Soon!
02:17Dad's coming back any minute!
02:20She misses her dad.
02:22I ran to the bed and crouched down to look underneath.
02:24Kids can get anxious when they move into a new place.
02:27Empty.
02:28Nothing there.
02:29What are you looking for, kiddo?
02:31I stared at him and warned him, one word at a time.
02:34You can't go under there.
02:38Go where?
02:40I patted the bed frame.
02:43Under the bed.
02:48What kind of cartoons has this kid been watching?
02:51What, you think there's a monster under the bed?
02:53Jack laughed too.
02:54He even lifted the bed frame before it was fully secured.
02:57See?
02:58I'm way too big to hide under there, right?
03:00The whole space under the bed was exposed now.
03:04Josie, don't make a fuss.
03:06My nose prickled.
03:07But I knew he wasn't under there now.
03:09And I knew why mom didn't believe me.
03:11But I'd already seen what would happen to mom the next day.
03:14Curled up in a hospital bed, scratching the back of her hand bloody.
03:17Anna, look at me.
03:18This isn't your fault.
03:19Even when five-year-old I ran to hug her, she'd tremble on reflex.
03:23I stood in the doorway and cried for a long time.
03:27After that, I never dared hug mom without warning again.
03:32At the memory, I climbed back onto my little stool.
03:37I won't make trouble.
03:38I'll just watch.
03:40Okay.
03:41Then sit a little farther back,
03:43so you don't get hurt by any of the tools.
03:51The new apartment was full of boxes.
03:54Clothes were piled in the living room.
03:57There were still unopened pots in the kitchen.
04:00You had to turn side A's just to walk.
04:03The movers kept going back and forth.
04:06One went downstairs,
04:07then another came back up carrying more stuff.
04:10I figured out fast that just counting heads wasn't enough.
04:13They never stopped moving.
04:14If he went into the kitchen,
04:16I stood in the doorway.
04:18If he headed for the main bedroom,
04:19I grabbed my little stool and followed.
04:25Josie?
04:26How come you've been following Mr. Merker around all day?
04:30Maybe the kid likes me.
04:34I shouted back immediately,
04:36I don't like you.
04:39Josie, that's not polite.
04:41I didn't regret it for a second.
04:43I just don't like him.
04:45Why don't you like him?
04:47I opened my mouth.
04:48I wanted to tell her about my other life.
04:51I wanted to tell her about Jack Merson.
04:55But I couldn't make it make sense.
04:57He keeps looking at you.
04:59All I could do was grab Mom's hand.
05:02He keeps looking at you.
05:05Why would I be looking at Mrs. Brooks?
05:07Josie, have you been watching any scary videos lately?
05:09My eyes filled with tears.
05:11I'll sleep with you tonight, okay?
05:13And I shook my head.
05:17We're not sleeping in that bed.
05:20We just bought that bed.
05:23If you won't sleep there, where are we supposed to sleep?
05:26At a hotel.
05:29Why?
05:32There's a bad man here.
05:40You can't say that.
05:41They're working hard helping us move, and that's rude.
05:44My eyes stung and tears spilled over.
05:47Mom, I'm scared of him.
05:49Mrs. Brooks, that's normal.
05:51Kids get scared.
05:52My little girl used to be scared of strangers, too.
05:54I'll finish up quick and get out of your way.
05:56Then she'll feel better.
05:58He sounded so normal.
06:00That made it even worse.
06:01I'm really sorry.
06:03It's fine.
06:06Oh, Lord, close my eyes.
06:11Come out!
06:13Come out!
06:15Don't worry, I was just picking it up.
06:18Josie!
06:18He can't hide in there!
06:20This fell in there.
06:21I'm trying to pull him back out.
06:22He can't hide in there, Mom!
06:24He can't hide!
06:25Josie, tell me, what's really wrong?
06:26I buried my face in her shoulder and soaked her shirt with tears.
06:30I had a dream.
06:32You couldn't find me.
06:37How could I ever not find you?
06:39No, not me.
06:40I was crying so hard.
06:42No, Dad and I would never leave you, Josie.
06:44You were gone.
06:45Dad was gone, too.
06:46Josie was all alone.
06:49I looked up at her.
06:51Then make Dad come home right now.
06:56Mom finally gave in.
06:58She held me and called Dad.
07:00Noise blared in the background on his end.
07:03I shouted into the phone.
07:05Dad, come home right now!
07:07Josie, what is it?
07:08You miss Daddy?
07:09Hurry!
07:10Come home now!
07:11It was the first time I'd ever talked to Dad like that.
07:15I don't know what's gotten into her today.
07:16She's really scared of the movers.
07:18It's her first move.
07:19There are strangers everywhere.
07:20She's nervous.
07:20Be good, Josie.
07:21I'll come home as soon as I'm done.
07:23Tears spilled out.
07:24Dad had said the same thing in my first life.
07:27That night, he didn't get home until after one.
07:30The street outside was packed with police cars.
07:33He came tearing up the stairs, missing a shoe.
07:37After that, Dad would just sit on the hospital stairwell and stare.
07:40Every day, he blamed himself.
07:44Josie, if only I'd come home earlier that day.
07:47She called me.
07:48She asked when I'd be home.
07:50No, right now.
07:52Dad could hear something was wrong.
07:55Josie, are you crying?
07:56Mm-hmm.
07:58Did someone hurt you?
07:59I looked at Jack.
08:01He was taking empty boxes out with the other two movers.
08:05Someone keeps looking at Mom.
08:07Dad's voice changed instantly.
08:09Who?
08:12Don't listen to her.
08:13She's just imagining things.
08:14The movers are working.
08:16You're sure everything's okay?
08:17No, nothing's wrong.
08:18Josie's just really scared of one of the movers.
08:20Text me the moving company's number and that man's name.
08:24You really believe her?
08:25Mom looks surprised.
08:26Just send it to me.
08:27Dad's voice drops low.
08:29If she's this scared, there's a reason for it.
08:34I cried even harder.
08:36This time, Dad believed me a little sooner.
08:39Even that little bit was enough.
08:42Mrs. Brooks, when's your husband getting back?
08:45Mom is holding her phone.
08:47This time, she doesn't answer him the way she did before.
08:51Soon.
08:52Jiangping pauses for half a second.
08:55Oh.
08:56He lowers his eyes and already packing up to work, but I saw his mouth tighten at one corner.
09:01By 5.30, most of the furniture is in place.
09:04The other two movers are already packing up their tools, but Jack goes back into the main bedroom.
09:09I follow him in right away.
09:11He crouches by the bed and lowers his upper body toward the space underneath.
09:15I scream.
09:17Get out!
09:22One of the bed legs is a little loose.
09:24He gives the bed leg a shake to show Mom.
09:27It really does rattle a little.
09:30I can shim that for you.
09:31This time, Mom doesn't say I'm making trouble.
09:34She speaks immediately.
09:35Mr. Mercer, that's fine.
09:36We can handle the rest ourselves.
09:38No trouble at all.
09:40No, really.
09:41She's had a rough day, and I want to get her settled so she can rest.
09:45Jack didn't push it.
09:46He got up and brushed off his pants.
09:48For the first time all day, I relaxed a little.
09:51At 6 o'clock, the three men headed out with their tools.
09:54I ran straight for the door.
09:55One, the one in the hat.
09:56Two, the one in gray.
09:58Jack was last.
09:59There, see?
10:00I'm leaving.
10:01You're not scared now, right?
10:02I looked up at him.
10:03You can't come back.
10:05Fine.
10:05I won't.
10:07Josie, don't run!
10:10I didn't stop.
10:12All three men got on the elevator, and I stood right by the doors.
10:15One, two, three.
10:17Three men.
10:18Jack Mercer was in the back.
10:20The doors closed slowly.
10:22The numbers kept going down.
10:24I watched until it stopped on the first floor.
10:25You're better now.
10:26You're going to scare me half to death.
10:28I finally nodded.
10:29Mm-hmm.
10:29I hugged her.
10:31Mom, lock the door.
10:32Okay.
10:33And the deadbolt, too.
10:35Okay.
10:36Lock the windows, too.
10:38Mom smiled and said okay.
10:40She checked every window.
10:42Then she shut the front door, locked the deadbolt, and lashed the security chain.
10:46She even tugged on it twice so I could see.
10:48See?
10:49Nobody can get in now.
10:49You can relax.
10:50I stood in the entryway, and tears welled in my eyes.
10:54Mom said that last time, too.
10:55But that day, she kept asking.
10:58But I locked it.
10:58But how did he get in?
11:01I threw my arms around Mom and held on tight.
11:04I'm not showering today.
11:07You spent all day moving.
11:09You're covered in dust.
11:10No.
11:11Then I'll go first, and you wait by the door, okay?
11:13I shook my head again.
11:16Then we'll shower together.
11:18That was the only way I'd agree.
11:21Before we went into the bathroom, I ran back to the master room and crouched down.
11:24I switched on Mom's phone flashlight and checked under the bed, inch by inch.
11:27Nothing.
11:28Then I opened the closet.
11:30Freshly unpacked clothes were hanging inside.
11:31No one.
11:32I checked the curtains behind the door and beside the bed.
11:35Every spot was empty.
11:38Josie, in that dream, was someone hiding in the apartment?
11:46Tell me.
11:47I'm right here.
11:48I bit my lip and tears spilled out.
11:51Under the bed, I pointed at the bed.
11:54Someone's hiding under the bed.
11:55Mom's gonna cry.
11:56There'll be so much blood.
11:57Her fingers went ice cold before she reached for my hand.
11:59Don't be scared.
12:00There's nobody under the bed right now.
12:01By the time we finished showering, it was almost 8 o'clock.
12:04Mom cleared a space in the living room and laid out a new thin floor mattress.
12:08Neither of us went back into the master bedroom.
12:11Dad texted.
12:12He wasn't working late tonight.
12:14He'd be home early.
12:15When Dad gets home, we'll have him seal up the space under the bed.
12:18Feel better now?
12:20Mm-hmm.
12:21I nodded.
12:22The hair dryer was loud.
12:24I sat in Mom's lap and smelled her shampoo.
12:27The tension that had glitched my body all day finally began to ease.
12:31The phone rang.
12:32Our takeout had arrived.
12:35I grabbed her right away.
12:36Mom, don't go!
12:38It's just in the lobby.
12:39Have the delivery guy bring it upstairs.
12:42He can't.
12:43This building needs a key fob to get in.
12:45I still wouldn't let go.
12:46She thought for a second.
12:48Then come with me.
12:50We went down together.
12:51There and back, it took 7 minutes.
12:54Mom teased me the whole way.
12:57Know why I insisted on this apartment complex?
12:59Security's tight.
13:00Strangers can't get in.
13:04I didn't say anything.
13:07When we got home, the door was still locked.
13:09Mom opened it with her key.
13:11The living room looked exactly the same.
13:14I froze in the entryway.
13:16My heart started pounding.
13:17I didn't know why.
13:18It just felt like something was different.
13:20Josie, come eat.
13:21I didn't move.
13:23There were three pairs of disposable shoe kippers on the shoe rack by the door.
13:26The movers had left them there earlier.
13:28Mom was going to throw them out tomorrow.
13:30Three pairs.
13:31One gray, one white, one blue.
13:32I stared at them for a few seconds.
13:34Something felt off.
13:37Jack Merkin wore the blue pair.
13:39He'd already left.
13:40And the shoe covers were still here.
13:43Josie, why are you still standing there?
13:44Come on!
13:45I checked the door again.
13:47Deadbolt locked.
13:48Security chain latched.
13:49Everything was secure.
13:51Dad was coming home early, too.
13:52I let out a long breath.
13:54Maybe I was just too scared.
13:56It was 9.30 p.m.
13:58Dad texted.
14:03Mom was getting sleepy.
14:04She lay down with me on the mattress in the living room, holding me.
14:07Every light in the apartment was on.
14:09We'll wait right here for Dad.
14:11Once he gets home, you won't be scared anymore.
14:13I lay against her, but I still couldn't sleep.
14:16The A.C. sent a faint brass through the room.
14:18The curtain shifted.
14:19The fridge in the kitchen kicked on with a low hum.
14:21The new apartment was too quiet.
14:23Every tiny sound stood out.
14:24Then I smelled something.
14:25Cigarette smoke.
14:26Faint, but there.
14:27Mom and Dad don't smoke.
14:29Of the three movers, only Jack Mercer did.
14:31That afternoon, he'd smoked in the fire stairwell.
14:33When he came back, his clothes smelled exactly like this.
14:38Then why does our apartment smell like smoke?
14:41What is it, Josie?
14:46I didn't answer.
14:48I slipped on my slippers and edged toward the master bedroom.
14:52Josie?
14:53Mom called after me.
14:54When I got to the door, the light was off, but the door was cracked open.
14:58I remembered it clearly.
15:00After I brought out the pillow, Mom had shut it.
15:03I was too scared to go in, so I reached over and flipped on the light.
15:08The bed was empty.
15:09The closet was closed.
15:11The window was shut.
15:12I crouched down and shined my flashlight under the bed.
15:15Nothing.
15:16I was about to cry.
15:17Had I really remembered wrong?
15:20Are you scared again?
15:22Dad'll be back any minute.
15:23I nodded and started to stand up.
15:26Deep under the bed, the black dust ruffle shifted a little, as if a faint draft had stirred it.
15:31But there was no draft under the bed.
15:33I went still.
15:34Then it lifted again.
15:35Once.
15:35Then again.
15:36Like something underneath was breathing.
15:39I didn't dare scream.
15:40My hands and feet went ice cold.
15:42Mom was still behind me.
15:43When she saw me freeze, she started to look down, too.
15:46I grabbed her leg.
15:48Mom, I have to pee.
15:51The bathroom's right outside.
15:53Carry me.
15:55Josie, you're five.
15:56Pick me up.
15:58My voice went sharp and high.
16:00Mom looked down at me, and her face changed.
16:02She didn't ask questions.
16:03She just picked me up, phone still in her hand.
16:09I tightened my arms around her neck.
16:11The other bathroom, not the one by the bedroom.
16:20What is it?
16:22I was so scared, my arms and legs felt weak.
16:25There's someone under the bed.
16:29Did you see him?
16:30The bed skirt moved.
16:32Someone's breathing under there.
16:39Hello?
16:40There may be a stranger hiding in my apartment.
16:42My five-year-old daughter and I are locked in the bathroom right now.
16:46She gave them our address.
16:47The police told us not to come out.
16:52The second she sent the text, there was a soft thump outside,
16:56like a knee hitting the bed frame.
16:58I slapped a hand over my mouth.
17:00Mom pulled me into her arms right away.
17:03Then it came again.
17:04Thump.
17:05Then I heard a faint scraping sound from the main bedroom.
17:09Someone crawled out from under the bed.
17:11Mom held me tighter and tighter.
17:13Her heartbeat pounded against my ear.
17:15It went quiet for a second.
17:17Then footsteps.
17:19Slow, out of the bedroom, through the living room, closer and closer.
17:24Then they stopped outside the bathroom door.
17:29The lock holds.
17:31Whoever's out there doesn't force it.
17:32He just turns the handle gently.
17:34Once, then again.
17:36Mom is shaking, but she keeps me behind her.
17:39Mrs. Brooks.
17:40My stomach clenched.
17:42Jack Merson.
17:43It was him.
17:44Mrs. Brooks, it's me.
17:46I think I left my phone in your apartment.
17:48I just came back to get it.
17:50Mom doesn't say a word.
17:52You've got it wrong, okay?
17:53I knocked.
17:54Nobody answered.
17:55And the door was already cracked open, so I came in.
17:58Mom looked down at me.
18:00Something changed in her eyes.
18:02She locked the door before we left to pick up dinner.
18:04When we got back, she used her key.
18:06Jack Merson was lying.
18:08Mrs. Brooks, open the door.
18:10I'll grab my phone and leave.
18:12Where is your phone?
18:15Under the bed.
18:17All the color drained from Mom's face.
18:19Jack Merson seemed to realize he'd said the wrong thing.
18:22Then it went dead quiet outside the bathroom.
18:25I grabbed Mom's shirt as hard as I could.
18:28I screamed.
18:31Don't be scared.
18:33As she said it, she dragged the plastic laundry hamper over and jammed it against the door.
18:37Then Jack Merker started ramming it.
18:40Every hit landed in my chest.
18:41He wasn't pretending anymore.
18:43Open the door!
18:44What the fuck are you two playing at?
18:50Mom had gone white, but her voice stayed steady.
18:53I already called 911.
18:56Mrs. Brooks, how much longer till the cops get here?
18:59Cold flooded through me.
19:01Mom looked up at the little bathroom window, then lifted me toward it.
19:05Josie, can you call for help?
19:07I nodded.
19:09Help!
19:10There's someone in our apartment!
19:12Help my mom!
19:15What floor?
19:18I shouted through my tears.
19:2115th floor!
19:24I heard Jack cursing outside.
19:27He started slamming the door even harder.
19:30Mom set me down.
19:32Hairline cracks began to splinter the door frame.
19:37I'm downstairs.
19:38The police are here too.
19:40Please hurry!
19:42Bang, the door bucks inward.
19:44Jack's hand shoots through the gap.
19:46I scream.
19:48Mom grabs the metal shower head by the sink and smashes his hand with it.
19:52He curses and jerks it back.
19:54My whole body was shaking.
19:57Then Mom dropped down and held my face in both her hands.
20:00Josie, look at me.
20:01I looked up.
20:03Her eyes were red too.
20:04I won't let him touch you.
20:06Her words cut straight through me.
20:08After what happened to Mom, she'd hold me and say she was sorry over and over.
20:13She thought she hadn't protected me.
20:15But she had.
20:16She fought for me.
20:18I threw myself into her arms.
20:21I'll protect you too, Mommy.
20:26Okay.
20:27We'll do it together.
20:29Another bang hits from outside.
20:31The bathroom lock finally gives a little.
20:32Then an even louder slam comes from the front door.
20:36Someone is shouting.
20:38Police!
20:39Stay where you are!
20:40Jack panics and runs for the living room.
20:43Anna!
20:44Josie!
20:46I finally burst into tears.
20:49Dad!
20:51The next second, everything outside explodes.
20:54Someone slams into the door.
20:57Someone yells, hold him.
20:59Furniture crashes over.
21:01Mom keeps holding me until an officer shouts from outside the bathroom.
21:05You're safe now.
21:06You can open the door.
21:08Her hand is still shaking.
21:10She has to twist the lock twice before the door opens.
21:13When the bathroom door opens, Dad is right there.
21:16He's Deathly Plale.
21:18The second he sees Mom and me, he rushes over and pulls us both into his arms.
21:23Are you hurt?
21:24Did he touch either of you?
21:28Over Dad's shoulder, I look into the living room.
21:31Two officers have Jack pinned face down on the floor, his hands twisted behind his back.
21:35He's still yelling.
21:36You've got it wrong.
21:37I just came back from my phone.
21:39Those two are crazy.
21:41When Mom hears that last part, she flinches.
21:44Dad spins around, and the officers hold him back.
21:47Stay back.
21:48Dad's eyes are bloodshot, terrifyingly red.
21:51But he stops.
21:52Then he turns back to us.
21:54Mom first, then me.
21:56I won't do anything.
21:57I'm staying with you.
21:59That one sentence breaks me.
22:00I can't stop crying.
22:05In my first life, Dad didn't stop.
22:08After Mom died, he took a knife and went after Jack Mercer.
22:12When the police got there, Jack was covered in blood.
22:16Before they took Dad away, he knelt down and hugged me one last time.
22:21Josie, I'm so sorry.
22:24I grabbed his shirt as hard as I could.
22:27The police pulled me away.
22:29Don't go!
22:30Dad, don't go!
22:31I never saw him again after that.
22:33But now Dad is right in front of me.
22:35The bad man is the one the police take away.
22:37And Mom is still here.
22:39I hold on to him as tight as I can.
22:41Dad, you can't hit him!
22:43What?
22:45You can't go hurt the bad guy.
22:48I say it again through tears.
22:49Let the police get the bad guy, Dad.
22:52You can't go!
22:54I'll listen to you, Josie.
22:56The police found a black backpack in the master bedroom.
23:00Inside were Jack Mercer's clothes, his hat, and other disturbing items that had no business
23:06being in a client's home.
23:07More importantly, they found a key in his pants pocket.
23:12That's our key!
23:15The new apartment came with three physical spare keys.
23:18They were in the entryway drawer, and Mom hadn't given any of them out yet.
23:23When Jack moved the shoe cabinet, he stole one.
23:27Building management pulled the security footage right away.
23:33At 6 p.m., the three movers rode down together in the elevator.
23:37I remembered right.
23:38There were three of them.
23:39But at 8.03, after Mom and I went downstairs to pick up our takeout,
23:43Jack came back to the apartment building alone.
23:45He was wearing a cap and a different jacket.
23:47He got into the parking garage by slipping in behind a resident's car on the 15th floor.
23:51Then he used security cameras, caught him in the fire stairwell, on to open our door.
23:56When he came in, Mom and I were still downstairs.
23:59So the first time I looked under the bed, no one was there.
24:03By the time we got back, he was already hiding underneath it.
24:10I ran over and grabbed her leg.
24:12Mom, don't be scared.
24:15I knew what she was afraid of.
24:17A stranger in her new home, hiding under her bed.
24:19Even if you stop it in time, that kind of fear doesn't just disappear.
24:23The investigation moved faster than we expected.
24:26The other two movers had no idea.
24:28They said Jack had been acting weird that day.
24:31They remembered one thing he'd asked at lunch.
24:35Her husband's not coming home tonight.
24:40Why do you care if he comes back?
24:47Jack Mersel just smiled.
24:49Didn't say a word.
24:53After the move, he said maybe he'd left his phone upstairs and told them to go on without him.
24:58He said maybe he'd left his phone upstairs.
25:00Another mover offered to help, but Jack refused.
25:03I'll go back up and check myself.
25:06What made it even sicker were the photos.
25:10Mom bending over a box.
25:11Police recovered several pictures Jack had secretly taken on moving day.
25:15Holding me on the balcony.
25:18Pouring water for them in the kitchen.
25:21Secretly taken.
25:22And one showing the bed they had just set up in the primary bedroom.
25:27Under that one, he typed a line himself.
25:38When Dad saw that,
25:40the veins on the back of his hand bulged.
25:42He got up and headed for the door.
25:44Mom stopped him.
25:45Ethan, don't go.
25:47I won't go.
25:50I slipped my hand into his.
25:52He closed his hand around mine and held on tight.
25:56In the interview room, Jack kept insisting he only went back for his phone.
26:04Then the police put the spare key in front of him.
26:09Why did you have the client's spare key?
26:13He changed his story.
26:15I grabbed the wrong one.
26:17Then they showed him the security footage.
26:19He said he was only trying to sneak the key back.
26:22Finally, the police laid out everything from his bag, one item at a time.
26:26That's when he went pale.
26:28And even then, he still said,
26:32I hadn't even done anything yet.
26:34They're both fine, aren't they?
26:38After Mom heard Jack say that, Mom stayed quiet for a long time.
26:43On the drive home, she suddenly asked,
26:45And do people really think that if the worst didn't happen, then it doesn't matter?
26:53I don't care what anyone else thinks.
26:56I'm scared.
26:57Every time I close my eyes now, I see him under the bed.
27:00Then we'll move.
27:02In the back seat, I remembered what she'd said before.
27:05New apartment, new curtains.
27:07She spent six months picking this place.
27:10The night before we moved, she was too excited to sleep.
27:12I asked softly,
27:13Mom, do you not like the new apartment anymore?
27:18Then I said,
27:19The bad man is bad.
27:21The apartment isn't.
27:22On the drive home, she suddenly asked,
27:24I just knew that in my last life, Mom blamed herself until the day she died
27:28for opening the door,
27:29for not checking under the bed.
27:31She kept trying to find the one thing she'd done wrong,
27:34blamed herself until the day she died.
27:37But there was only one person who was actually wrong.
27:40I grabbed her hand.
27:42And Mom isn't bad either.
27:43After Mom heard Jack say that, Mom stayed quiet for a long time.
27:47On the drive home, she suddenly asked,
27:49Of course Mom isn't bad.
27:51Then don't blame yourself, Mom.
27:54The car stayed quiet for a long time.
27:56Mom turned her face toward the window.
27:58Her shoulders trembled.
28:00Dad reached over and took her hand.
28:02No one said anything after that.
28:05In the end, we moved back to our old apartment for a while.
28:36Mom needed time.
28:37I'd climb into their bed.
28:42Josie, are you scared too?
28:44I shook my head.
28:45I'd wake up in the middle of the night and stare under the bed.
28:47Not when you're here, Mom.
28:48For a long time.
28:49I'd still see those eyes.
28:51When I turned my head, Mom was there.
28:53Dad too.
28:54And I'd close my eyes again.
28:56On the day of the hearing, Jack Mercer's family came to see Mom.
29:00His wife was crying when she said,
29:02He has children.
29:04He has older relatives depending on him too.
29:07He made one stupid mistake.
29:10Nothing even happened to you.
29:13Mom was sitting there,
29:14and all the color drained from her face.
29:17Get out.
29:18Dad went straight to the door.
29:19Can't you just give our family a chance?
29:22My daughter is five.
29:26That night, she found someone hiding under the bed.
29:29She was so scared, she couldn't even scream.
29:32She thought if she did, he'd hurt me first.
29:34Ever since then, she checks under the bed every night before she goes to sleep.
29:41She's only five.
29:42You're asking me to go easy on your husband,
29:44and who gives my daughter back,
29:46the fearless little girl she was before that night?
29:48The room went completely silent.
29:50Mom wiped away her tears.
29:53I won't forgive him.
29:54Please leave.
29:57I threw my arms around Mom.
30:00She looked down at me.
30:01Josie, I won't make excuses for bad people anymore.
30:04I nodded hard.
30:06Bad people are bad.
30:08That's right.
30:09The court sentenced him.
30:11The day they took Jack Mercer away,
30:13he didn't even dare look at us.
30:15I didn't look at him either.
30:17He didn't matter anymore.
30:18The next spring, Mom was the one who said we should go see the new apartment again.
30:22We got a new bed, and had the old wardrobe taken apart and removed.
30:26This time, Dad put it together himself.
30:28Halfway through, he was sitting on the floor with the instructions, still totally lost.
30:33Do you actually know what you're doing?
30:36I'm just being thorough.
30:38I crouched by the bed and glanced underneath without even thinking.
30:41Dad notices.
30:42He doesn't say, don't be scared.
30:44He doesn't say, it's over now, either.
30:46After he fits the last bedside into place,
30:48he drags over a few storage bins.
30:52We'll fill up this whole space.
30:54No one will ever be able to hide under here again.
31:02I nodded.
31:06Josie, it's okay if there's nothing there.
31:08I looked at her.
31:09If you're scared, you can check.
31:11If it's safe, then you go to sleep.
31:13You don't have to force yourself to forget.
31:15I didn't really understand, but I nodded anyway.
31:18That night, the three of us were back in the new apartment for the first time.
31:23Dad made a terrible dinner.
31:25Mom said he used too much salt.
31:27While they brickered, I slipped the vegetables I hated into Dad's plate.
31:31Josie Hart?
31:33I played dumb immediately.
31:34Wasn't me.
31:36I like them.
31:39The apartment was noisy and normal.
31:41Before bed, I still ran into the master bedroom.
31:45I checked the closet.
31:47Then behind the curtains.
31:49Then crouched down and looked under the bed.
31:52Just a few storage bins Dad had shoved under there.
31:55I stayed there a long time.
31:58Mom didn't rush me.
31:59She waited in the doorway.
32:01I slowly stood up.
32:03Mom.
32:03Yeah?
32:04It's safe now.
32:06Then it's bedtime.
32:07I ran over and took her hand.
32:09Then we passed the front door, and I stopped.
32:12A year ago, three meavers came in through that door.
32:14I sat on my little stool and counted.
32:16Three went in.
32:17Three had to come out.
32:21It took me a while to understand.
32:23Getting our home back wasn't just about knowing the bad man was gone.
32:27Mom was still here.
32:29Dad was still here.
32:30And fighting over the dishes.
32:32Are we gonna move again?
32:34That depends on when your dad starts making the big bucks.
32:38Why am I getting dragged into this again?
32:42I laughed, and Mom laughed too.
32:45That night, I slept in my own little bed.
32:48My rabbit plus fell on the floor again.
32:51I opened my eyes and looked at it for a few seconds.
32:54Then I slowly leaned over the edge.
32:57It was dark under the bed, so I turned on my nightlight.
33:01Nothing.
33:04I reached down, picked up my rabbit, and lay back down.
33:08In the next room, I could hear Mom and Dad talking softly.
33:11The curtains in our new apartment moved in the breeze.
33:14The little light in the living room stayed on.
33:15I hugged my rabbit tight.
33:17This time, the space under the bed was just that.
33:20A space under the bed.
33:21And our new apartment finally felt like home.
33:23Two years later, I was seven.
33:25Life moved faster than I thought.
33:27Dad got a new job closer to home.
33:29It paid a little less, but he made it home for dinner every night.
33:32Mom didn't sleep with all the lights on anymore.
33:34The closet check went from three times to once.
33:37Sometimes she'd just tug the door shut as she walked past.
33:42I thought things were slowly getting better.
33:44Until that afternoon.
33:46I followed her gaze.
33:48There was a manly envelope on the packet shelf in the lobby.
33:51No sender.
33:53No recipient.
33:54Just a name in black marker.
33:56Mrs. Brooks.
33:58Josie, wait here for me.
34:00She wanted me to stay outside the lobby.
34:02I didn't.
34:03I followed her in.
34:05When we got home, she locked the door.
34:08Put on the chain lock.
34:10Then sat down on the couch and opened the envelope.
34:13It was a photo of our old apartment balcony, taken from below.
34:17Clothes were hanging out there.
34:19One of them was mom's light blue cardigan.
34:22There was a line on the back too, written in black marker.
34:25I ran over immediately.
34:27I couldn't make out much of it, but I recognized the last words, watching you.
34:32A chill went through my whole body.
34:34Jack Merson was still in prison.
34:35Did he write it, or was it somebody else?
34:38Dad gets off work early that day.
34:40He looks at the photo and the envelope, and his face turns afghan.
34:46He calls the police immediately.
34:49The police showed up fast.
34:51They took the envelope and the photo.
34:53They said they'd pull the apartment complex security footage and told us not to worry for
34:56now.
34:57But I couldn't get that photo out of my head.
35:00I knew Jack Merson was in prison, but the words, still watching you, kept burrowing into my
35:07head.
35:07So I started checking under the bed again.
35:10Every night before I went to sleep, again if I woke up in the middle of the night, and
35:15again in the morning.
35:17Josie, are you done checking?
35:19I nodded.
35:20She stroked my hair.
35:22Then get some sleep.
35:23She didn't say it's okay.
35:24She just said, get some sleep.
35:26That made me feel like she was taking my fear seriously.
35:28A week later, the police got back to us.
35:32The security footage showed the envelope had been left on the package shelf three days earlier
35:37in the afternoon.
35:38The person was wearing a mask and a baseball cap.
35:41Tall, thin, with a slight lip in the right leg.
35:44So it wasn't Jack Merson?
35:46Could he have had an accomplish?
35:48We questioned him again.
35:49Jack Merson denied sending anyone, and so far we haven't found any clear connection.
35:53Mom sat there without saying a word.
35:55The second she heard a limp in the right leg, she started twisting the hand of her shirt.
36:01Josie, why don't you go draw in your room for a little while, okay?
36:06I'm not leaving.
36:07I was scared something would happen to Mom where I couldn't see her.
36:11I'd rather know what they were saying, even if it scared me.
36:18Do you remember if one of the other two movers had a slight limp in his right leg?
36:22Are you sure?
36:23I'm not sure.
36:25But that day, while Jack was tightening screws by the bed, one of the movers was out on the
36:30balcony smoking, wearing a cap.
36:32When he turned around, I noticed something was off about the way he walked.
36:35My heart jumped.
36:36The mover and the cap.
36:37I counted three of them.
36:38The guy in gray, the guy in the hat, and Jack.
36:40The one in the hat barely spoke all day.
36:42But I remember him smoking on the balcony.
36:45Mom, was he helping Jack?
36:47The police said he didn't know, but...
36:50I'm having the moving company send over everyone's information from that day again.
36:58The next day, the moving company sent over files on all three men.
37:02Jack Mercer, Leon Grant, the one in gray, and Cal Hayes, the one in the hat.
37:08In his file photo, Cal was wearing that same work cap, smiling stiffly.
37:12His file said he'd worked for the company for seven years.
37:14No disciplinary record.
37:16I kept staring at his picture.
37:17He looked so ordinary, I probably wouldn't have recognized him on the street.
37:21But something about where he stayed that day felt wrong.
37:24During the move, everyone else kept going in and out.
37:27Cal stayed out on the balcony most of the time.
37:29He barely went into the master bedroom.
37:34Is Cal Hayes still working there?
37:36Yeah, but he took a couple days off.
37:38Said he had a family matter.
37:40I'm going over there.
37:42I'm coming with you.
37:43What about Josie?
37:46Josie?
37:47Can you stay with Grandma this afternoon?
37:48I knew she was trying to protect me, but I didn't want to stay behind by myself and wait.
37:53I want to go with you.
37:55I won't run around.
37:56I'll stay in the car.
37:59Okay.
38:00But you do not get out of the car.
38:05The moving company's office was in an old warehouse lot, the second unit in a row of metal buildings.
38:10Dad parked farther away.
38:12He and Mom went in, and I pressed against the window to watch.
38:15About 20 minutes later, they came back out.
38:18Dad looked grim.
38:19Mom got in the back seat.
38:20When the door shut, I heard her let out a quiet breath.
38:23Cal didn't come in today either.
38:25His work worker said he called out three days ago and hasn't been back, and no one can reach him.
38:29Not even his boss.
38:32But what about his apartment?
38:33His boss said they checked.
38:34He'd already moved out.
38:36The car stayed quiet for a long time.
38:38Dad glanced at me in the rearview mirror.
38:41He never used to let me hear stuff like this.
38:43But that day, he didn't tell me to cover my ears.
38:45It doesn't matter why.
38:47If he's vanished, that's even more reason to think something's wrong.
38:49That night, Mom did three things.
38:52She put up two more security cameras.
38:54One facing the front door.
38:56One facing the balcony.
38:57She switched all the curtains to heavy ones, so no one could see in.
39:02Then she moved my little bed from the guest room into the master bedroom, right beside theirs.
39:10Josie, I won't let anyone hide in here again.
39:12I believed her.
39:16But I still woke up that night.
39:17Not from a nightmare.
39:19A sound woke me.
39:20Soft.
39:21So soft.
39:22Like fabric dragging across the floor.
39:24I opened my eyes.
39:26The master bedroom light was still on.
39:28Mom and Dad were both fast asleep.
39:30The sound was coming from the living room.
39:32I held my breath, climbed out of bed, and patted barefoot to the bedroom door.
39:37It was cracked open.
39:38I looked through the gap.
39:40I listened a few more seconds.
39:41Just the fridge humming.
39:43Then I turned to go back and saw the mat by the front door was crooked.
39:47Mom always nudged that mat straight when she came in.
39:50Before bed, she always checked it.
39:51But now it was crooked.
39:52A strip of gray floor was showing.
39:54Every hair on my body stood up.
39:56I crept back to the bed, climbed in, and hid under the blanket.
39:59I didn't wake Mom and Dad.
40:00I was scared that if I made a sound, and someone really was out there, they'd rush in.
40:05I kept my eyes shut, but I kept listening.
40:07I didn't hear the sound again before morning.
40:10The next morning, I told Mom about the mat.
40:13She opens the security camera app on her phone and reviews the entire night's footage.
40:17On screen, the living room stays empty the whole time.
40:20No one comes in.
40:21No one moves through.
40:22The mat never leaves its normal position.
40:25Mom rewinds and watches it again.
40:27She slows the playback down and goes frame by frame.
40:30At 2.17, the footage glitches for a second.
40:41Did anyone come in or out of our building last night?
40:43Building management checked the key fob entry log.
40:47There were no unfamiliar entries.
40:49What about the fire stairwell?
40:51Do you need a key fob to access it?
40:53The fire stairwell has no access control.
40:57If he came up through the fire stairwell, he wouldn't need a key fob.
41:01Mom got up and went to the balcony.
41:04She pulled back the heavy curtains and checked the window latch.
41:08It was fine.
41:10No signs it had been forced.
41:12Then she crouched down and found something in the corner.
41:19A cigarette butt.
41:21Half smoked, then stubbed out.
41:24No one in our family smokes.
41:34The police got there even faster this time.
41:37They took the cigarette butt.
41:39The evidence tech said there was saliva on it,
41:42so they could run a DNA test.
41:44But it'll take time.
41:49Have you had any trouble with anyone lately?
42:00I stood in the living room and looked down through the balcony window.
42:03From fifteen fleeds up, the people below looked tiny.
42:07But that man could make it up fifteen flights.
42:12He came up the fire stairwell, stood on our balcony, smoked a cigarette,
42:20and watched us sleep through the curtains.
42:24That cigarette butt felt like a nail in my heart.
42:27That night, I checked under the bed again.
42:33And not just there.
42:35Behind the living room couch.
42:38The kitchen cabinets.
42:42The AC unit on the balcony.
42:45Only when every spot was empty did I climb back into my little bed.
42:50Mom turned off the main light and laid back down with the nightlight on.
42:59Josie, tomorrow we're going to stay somewhere else.
43:02For a few days.
43:05I hugged my rabbit plush.
43:08The nightlight made a little moon on the ceiling.
43:11Mom, did that person know us already?
43:15What do you mean?
43:16On moving day, he called you Mrs. Brooks.
43:19He knew you.
43:24The mover in the hat.
43:27The first day he came, I opened the door.
43:31And he looked at me.
43:33Then he said,
43:36Mrs. Brooks, have we met somewhere before?
43:41My heart started pounding.
43:43Then what?
43:45I said, no.
43:48He said,
43:51maybe I remembered wrong.
44:02I curled up under the covers.
44:04The halo from the nightlight shifts across the wall.
44:08What if he remembered right?
44:17Josie, whoever he is, I'll find him.
44:21I turn over and reach for her hair.
44:26We'll find him together.
44:28The next day, we don't go to Grandma's.
44:32Mom goes through everything and finds the contract for moving day.
44:37The moving company has a number for Cal Hayes.
44:42Dad calls it, but it's disconnected.
44:46Then he checks the attachments and finds a copy of Cal's driver's license.
44:59Josie, look.
45:01His date of birth is listed right here.
45:04I lean in.
45:07July 12, 1989.
45:10He's 37 this year,
45:12but Mom just stares at the date.
45:15July 1995.
45:17Grandpa told me once,
45:19a family in our old neighborhood lost a child.
45:24Lost a child?
45:25In 1995, a six-year-old boy was playing in the apartment complex
45:29and disappeared that afternoon.
45:31His family searched for years.
45:35They never found him.
45:38Mom's voice drops low.
45:40That family's last name was Hayes.
45:47When Dad gets home, Mom tells him what she thinks.
45:50The old resident's Facebook group from that apartment complex is still active.
45:54I'll ask around.
45:56An hour later, he gets a reply.
46:00The missing boy's father was Daniel Hayes,
46:03and his mother was Fiona Hayes.
46:06Their son, Caleb Hayes,
46:09was five when he disappeared.
46:11And that day,
46:13the apartment complex where our new place is now
46:16hadn't even been finished yet.
46:21Do you remember the first thing Cal said that day?
46:27He said,
46:28Mrs. Brooks,
46:29have we met somewhere before?
46:31If he really is that missing boy,
46:34he may have been adopted and given a different name.
46:37But you two lived in the same area as kids.
46:40He'd seen you before.
46:44When you moved into the new apartment,
46:48he recognized you.
46:54I sit there listening,
46:56and a chill runs down my spine.
46:59So he's been looking for us.
47:02This whole time,
47:04Mom holds me tighter.
47:06I don't know.
47:07The police look into the missing child case.
47:09The original report is still in the file.
47:12And Cal Hayes' photo is still in the system.
47:15A little black and white picture.
47:19Round face.
47:22Small cap.
47:24I hold it next to Cal's personnel file photo.
47:30The features aren't exactly the same,
47:33but the face shape is close.
47:37The eyes are the closest match.
47:42Round and bright in both photos.
47:49Jack Merson didn't get back into our apartment
47:51just because he stole the key that day.
47:54Someone who knew us helped him.
47:57Cal Hayes may not have broken in with Jack,
48:00but he told him things about our family.
48:04He knew Mom would be home alone that night.
48:07He knew where the new apartment was.
48:10He knew a lot.
48:19But why him?
48:21Why would he help Jack?
48:23Dad flips through the case file.
48:26The police found something.
48:28After Cal moved out,
48:29he left a few personal things behind.
48:32One was an old newspaper.
48:35There was a missing person notice in it.
48:37Placed by Fiona Hayes,
48:39she'd been running it for years.
48:50What if he was never sold at all?
48:55What if someone just took him
48:56and he got away later?
48:59Maybe he'd been looking for his birth parents
49:01all this time
49:03and never found them.
49:06Then he came to our place for the move
49:08and he saw you.
49:10You were the daughter of someone
49:12from his old neighborhood.
49:14Maybe he thought
49:15you could help him
49:18find his family.
49:22I kept turning that over
49:24in my head.
49:26Then why didn't he just
49:28say so?
49:33I don't know.
49:36But he's gone.
49:37He left here.
49:40A month later,
49:42the police found Cal Hayes
49:43in a nearby city.
49:45He was staying at a small motel.
49:47Police found no evidence
49:49he was deliberately hiding.
49:54He'd taken a job in another city.
49:58The day they brought him back
49:59for questioning,
50:01he sat in the interview room,
50:06completely calm.
50:16I didn't mean any harm.
50:19I just wanted to see you.
50:24I took it from downstairs.
50:26I know I shouldn't have.
50:28It brought back things
50:30from my childhood
50:30and I couldn't handle it.
50:35Dad asked why he helped
50:37Jack Mersel.
50:47After the move,
50:48Jack Mersen asked if the husband
50:50was coming back that night.
50:52I said I didn't know.
50:55He said he needed to go back
50:57for his phone.
50:57I told him to go by himself.
51:00He did.
51:03After what happened,
51:05I realized what he'd done.
51:08I got scared.
51:12I thought if I told you,
51:15you'd think I was just as bad.
51:22Mom looked at him.
51:24What about the cigarette butt?
51:28I smoked on the balcony.
51:30I left as soon as I finished.
51:34Mom stared at him.
51:37You didn't climb inside?
51:39No.
51:40Mrs. Brooks,
51:42I wouldn't climb through a window
51:43into someone else's home.
51:45The police confirmed
51:46he never went inside.
51:48He'd crouched outside
51:50the balcony railing
51:51to stub out the cigarette.
51:55And the ash fell onto
51:57the AC unit.
51:58He really didn't come in.
52:02But he stood outside the door,
52:04behind the curtain,
52:06and smoked a whole cigarette.
52:09Cal Hayes didn't go to prison for it.
52:11The police warned him.
52:13You know what I have to do with him.
52:16He never actually entered the apartment,
52:18made no threats,
52:19and had no tools on him.
52:21But the photo and the letter
52:23still left Mom deeply shaken.
52:28When we got back
52:29from the police station that day,
52:31Mom went to the balcony
52:33and pulled all the curtains open.
52:36Sunlight poured into the living room.
52:40She stood there a long time.
52:45Then Dad came and stood beside her.
52:49Anna,
52:50that shook you up, didn't it?
52:55No.
52:56I just keep thinking
52:58both of them were so alone.
53:04Jack wanted to hurt someone.
53:06Cal wanted to find someone.
53:08They made very different choices,
53:10and both choices hurt us.
53:14But we're the ones who ended up scared.
53:16I stood in the kitchen doorway,
53:19hugging my rabbit plush and listening.
53:21I was seven.
53:23I understood a lot by then.
53:25I lifted the bunny over half my face
53:28and peeked out with one eye.
53:38Josie, put the bunny down and come here.
53:42I walked over,
53:44and she pulled me into the sunlight with her.
53:47Come soak up some sun.
53:50That night,
53:51I didn't check under the bed.
53:54I lay in bed and rolled over,
53:56looking at the rug by the main bedroom door.
53:59Mom had straightened it again.
54:01The balcony curtain was cracked open a little.
54:05At night,
54:06when the wind came in,
54:08it swayed softly,
54:10like it was breathing.
54:12I thought about my five-year-old myself again,
54:15sitting on a little stool,
54:17counting the three movers.
54:20Three went in.
54:23Three came out.
54:27Back then,
54:28I thought if I counted right,
54:30we'd be safe.
54:35But later,
54:37I understood.
54:38What kept me safe was never getting the numbers right.
54:41It was Mom's hand shaking as she pulled me behind her
54:45when she faced Jack.
54:50It was Dad's voice going raw when he told the police,
54:54I'm not leaving.
54:55I'm staying with you.
54:57And every night I was scared,
55:00they sat by my bed,
55:02waited for me to check under it,
55:04and said,
55:06go to sleep.
55:09The night that man stood on the balcony smoking,
55:13he never came inside.
55:16The next morning,
55:17Mom opened the curtains,
55:19and sunlight spilled across the floor.
55:22I close my eyes.
55:24My bunny plush lies beside my pillow,
55:27and this time it doesn't fall to the floor.
55:32In the next room,
55:34Mom and Dad are talking softly,
55:36still deciding what groceries to buy tomorrow.
55:43The AC hums gently in our new home,
55:47and the little nightlight in the living room stays on.
55:50I find my bunny's soft ear,
55:53and hold it tight in my hand.
55:57Before I close my eyes,
55:59I look under the bed one more time.
56:02There's nothing there except a few storage bins
56:05Dad shoved underneath,
56:07with a little dust on them.
56:09I roll over,
56:11feeling safe,
56:12and pull the blanket up to my chin.
56:16The space under the bed is just that,
56:18a space under the bed,
56:20and our new home is finally just our home.
56:24Mmm.