Evil Things (2017) s01e03 Episode Script
Evil Eye & The Attic
1 [ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ GIRL LAUGHS .]
[ MACHINE BEEPING .]
What is this? [ GASPS .]
LINDSAY: No! There was just something that just wasn't right.
Why can't I see? [ SCREAMS, CRIES .]
LINDSAY: Sometimes, a split-second decision changes your entire life.
You're healing well from the transplant surgery.
[ GASPS .]
I started to think that maybe everything I believed in was wrong.
I'm sorry.
- [ GASPS .]
- please stop.
I probably should have stopped when I realized someone was being watched.
WOMAN: You're next.
Who's there? There's someone in the house.
[ WOMAN SCREAMS .]
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
You were in a motorcycle accident.
LINDSAY: [ GASPS .]
No! Lindsay.
Tell me, why did you reach out? So I contacted you guys because I had this terrible thing happen to me when I was in Romania, and it's still affecting me to this day.
It's practically ruined my life, and I guess I'm still searching for answers.
After I graduated, my parents gave me a gift to travel around Europe for two months.
[FOLK MUSIC PLAYS.]
My dad said it was a reward for getting into law school, but I know the real reason was that they were trying to push me out of my comfort zone.
[ MAN SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
My mom and dad were adventurous people, but for some reason, I wasn't.
[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS .]
MAN: There's a library around the corner.
I was trying to stay away from touristy spots and other Americans, but I wasn't expecting to meet Alex.
Hi, I'm Alex.
Lindsay.
First American I've met in Romania.
Oh.
Yeah, I've been here five weeks.
What about you? Five hours.
Uh, cheers.
[ GLASS, BOTTLE CLINKS .]
Alex was just one of those people, you know? When I met him, I felt really comfortable around him immediately.
Seven weeks? Seven weeks is a long time to be alone.
Yeah, it is.
And? And? You said your father was trying to break you out of your comfortable little shell.
Has it worked? Well, first of all, I don't have a shell.
My dad doesn't know what he's talking about.
And even if I did, what's so wrong with being a little cautious? I could be dead by now if I wasn't.
What? Nothing.
[ CHUCKLES LIGHTLY .]
And sometimes a split-second decision changes your entire life.
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
LINDSAY: What's this? MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye.
Why can't I see? No! Easy.
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
[ COUGHING .]
Water.
[ COUGHING .]
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
Oh, no, no, no, [ SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
Doctor.
What is this? - [ SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
- where am I? Doctor! Why can't I see? [ SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
MAN: Lindsay.
Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
You were in a motorcycle accident.
LINDSAY: It had been almost a week since I had met Alex in the bar when I woke up in the hospital.
No.
No.
No.
No! Aah! I thought, "You know what? Maybe, my dad is right.
" Maybe, I do need to take some chances.
" So I climbed on the back of his motorcycle.
I remember reaching for my hat, and when I turned around It knocked us off balance, and we went into another lane, and a car hit us.
Very bad injury.
The doctor said that I was lucky to be alive because I hadn't been wearing a helmet.
My left eye was punctured by a piece of glass, and I ended up having to undergo an emergency cornea transplant.
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
Alex died.
And it was my fault.
Eventually, my eye healed.
The doctor said it was freakishly fast.
And I went home to law school to try to get on with my life.
Until that night in the library.
[ SIGHS .]
[ SHELF RATTLES .]
[ CLANGS IN DISTANCE .]
Hey! I'm still in here.
Hello? [ BOOKS FALL, CLATTER .]
LINDSAY: I remember thinking, "Hey, things fall off shelves for all sorts of reasons, right?" But then, I just got this feeling like someone was watching me.
It was hard to make the details out in the dark, but there was definitely an older man standing there.
I'm calling the cops.
I called security.
They came.
And no one was there.
[ BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE .]
After what happened in the library, I just started studying at home instead.
WOMAN: Want a vodka soda? No, thanks.
[ SCOFFS .]
Seriously? You work too hard.
Come out tonight.
We have an exam at 10:00 A.
M.
tomorrow.
Are you ready? No.
Do you think this outfit looks slutty? [ CELLPHONE CLICKS .]
Not really.
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING .]
[ EXHALES DEEPLY .]
[ SIGHS .]
[ SIGHS .]
[ SCOFFS .]
I fell asleep.
I'm still not ready for our stupid test.
Just getting home? [ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
Mara? You okay? [ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
What is this? Why can't I see? MAN: You were in a motorcycle accident.
[ LINDSAY SCREAMS .]
[ SHELF CLATTERS .]
I'm calling the cops.
[ DOOR CLOSES .]
Mara? You okay? [ RATTLES .]
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ GASPS .]
What are you doing? [ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
LINDSAY: I was positive my eyes were playing tricks on me because I saw the same man that I had seen in the library standing in my hallway.
You think some creepy guy from the library followed you home and broke into our apartment without opening the windows or using the door, and then just disappeared? I don't know.
If you think someone broke in, call the cops.
[ SIGHS .]
I don't know.
I-I'm not sure what happened.
Maybe, your subconscious is creating imaginary friends 'cause you don't have any real ones.
Or maybe your Romanian boyfriend is back from the dead to haunt you.
Sorry.
That was messed up.
[ SIGHS .]
LINDSAY: After that, I realized I never really dealt with what happened in Romania.
[ SNIFFLES .]
And when Mara brought it up, it all came flooding back LINDSAY:What is this? the accident Where am I? My eye MAN: Please stop this if you want to see Alex.
Why can't I see? If I hadn't reached for my hat he would still be alive.
[ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
I'm sorry.
LINDSAY: That was the exact moment that I started to think that, maybe, everything I believed in was wrong.
What if I was seeing Alex? The next day, I was still pretty on edge about everything that had happened the night before and about everything that had been going on.
[ KNOCK ON DOOR .]
Almost done.
I'll be out in five minutes.
[ DOOR LATCH OPENS .]
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
Mara? [ GASPS .]
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
LINDSAY: I know my eye was bleeding.
I saw it.
I felt it.
And then it was gone.
And at that point, I'm trying to figure out if it's my eye or my mind 'cause something's wrong.
You're healing well from the transplant surgery, but it makes sense that your left eye would be weaker than your right.
Have you been getting headaches? No.
Uh, but I have been seeing things.
Floaters? Maybe.
Well, most of us have those.
We're going to get you a low-prescription contact lens to bring both eyes to 20/20.
Okay.
And be sure to get plenty of rest.
It's an important part of the healing process.
LINDSAY: What was I supposed to say, that I'm going insane? I blamed it on stress and studying too much and not sleeping.
I made up my mind that it was, I think What are they called? Like, it was one of those lucid dreams, or I was so tired that I was hallucinating.
[ GUNSHOT .]
LINDSAY: Aah! [ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
LINDSAY: No! MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
You're healing well from the transplant surgery.
I've been seeing things.
[ GUNSHOT .]
LINDSAY: Aah! [ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ DOOR CLOSES .]
I saw somebody get shot in my house right in front of me.
I called the cops, and they came, and they didn't find anything No body, no blood.
I was completely lost.
I thought I was going insane, and I considered dropping out of school.
I was grasping at straws.
MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
LINDSAY: Aah! American doctors couldn't help me.
You were in a motorcycle accident.
So I did the last thing that I wanted to do, and I went back to Romania.
I can assure you, the only drugs we gave you were sedatives and painkillers, nothing that will stay in your system.
What about my donor? Who was it? That's confidential, of course.
[ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
Please.
I'm begging you.
Give me something.
It took some convincing.
[ SIGHS .]
You have this man's cornea.
But he finally showed me the file, and it was a man that had been in a Romanian prison.
What did he go to jail for? Why do you need to know these things? Because I'm seeing things.
I'm seeing entire moments and scenes played out in front of me.
One minute, things are there, and the next, they're gone.
It is obvious you study law and not medicine.
Things seen are not stored or processed in the cornea, but in the brain.
You did not receive brain transplant.
It isn't possible for you to be seeing anything connected to the donor.
[ GASPS .]
[ GUNSHOT .]
Aah! I've seen this man.
Who is that? Your donor murdered his father.
How did my donor die? Probably execution.
Thank you.
LINDSAY: I know this sounds insane, but the things that I was seeing were directly related to the man whose cornea I had.
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING .]
[ GUNSHOT .]
LINDSAY: [ GASPS .]
I realized it was probably never gonna end.
I never believed in any of that stuff.
I always thought that was made up.
I thought those were stories.
But after what happened to me in Milwaukee, I just want people to know that these things are real.
We had just moved to the midwest, but I was having a real hard time with the move and leaving my family.
[ THUMP IN DISTANCE .]
[ THUMP IN DISTANCE .]
I was supposed to be home alone.
But I was positive that I heard something roaming around in the attic.
[ DOOR OPENS .]
Hello? [ GASPS .]
Oh, geez.
James was always a little bit of a klutz.
[ SIGHS .]
I thought you were still at work.
Hey there, Ted Bundy.
What's with the knife? [ CHUCKLES .]
I didn't even realize I was still holding it.
Yikes.
TORI: My husband, James, mainly fell in love with the house because we could afford it.
Plus, it had this huge attic space that James said he would renovate for when my parents would visit.
[ SIGHS .]
Do you think it'll be done by Thanksgiving? [ SIGHS .]
I don't know.
Do you think it'll be warm enough for when my parents get here? I don't know, Alex trebek.
Any more questions? Dinner in 20.
[ SIGHS .]
[ BIRD CHIRPS .]
It was a pretty typical, dusty, old attic.
It had a lot of potential, but there was just something that just wasn't right.
[ LIGHT THUMP .]
Someone had built a wall a few feet from the exterior wall of the house, and there was no door to get in, just a wall.
There was obviously empty space behind it.
I figured that could be space that we could use.
So [ CRASHES .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
TORI: The house felt cold and uncomfortable when I was alone there.
Hello? Aah! Do you think it'll be done by Thanksgiving? [ CRASHES .]
It was just a bunch of old boxes.
I figured it was probably old clothes or something.
[ FLASHLIGHT CLICKS .]
TORI: I had never seen a window crack like that.
Once second, it was fine.
And the next, it was broken and in this weird kind of pattern, not shattered, but also not just a single crack, either.
And I hadn't seen or heard anything.
[ EXHALING SHARPLY .]
[ BLOWS .]
JAMES: They were VHS tapes, dozens of them probably five boxes full All labeled just meticulously with dates on the spines.
It didn't make any sense to me.
I knew there was an older couple that lived there before us.
So why would they be hiding old videotapes behind a fake wall? They're probably just old episodes of "Magnum, P.
I.
" [ CHUCKLES .]
Whatever they are, someone sealed them up like Fort Knox.
How did this window crack? Old glass? Hey, what are you doing? You want someone's old creepy home movies? This box is disgusting.
I'm throwing it in the trash.
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING, DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE .]
JAMES: I had never had a hard time sleeping before that night.
You know, I just laid awake and kept wondering what was on those tapes.
I couldn't stop thinking about it.
So I went outside and grabbed the tapes out of the trash.
I dug out an old VCR from a box, and I set it up in the attic.
That way, you know, Tori wouldn't know what I was doing.
[ TV TURNS ON .]
[ VCR WHIRS .]
I know.
I probably should have stopped when I realized someone was being watched.
But I just couldn't.
I watched for over three hours.
And I knew I had to get to bed.
[ ALARM BEEPING .]
[ ALARM SHUTS OFF .]
James isn't a morning person.
I don't remember a time where he was up before me.
James? JAMES: Hey.
What are you doing? I was just doing some attic stuff.
- You're up early.
- Yeah.
I just want to get everything done before Thanksgiving.
I'm gonna make some coffee.
Hm.
Something about the way he was acting, he just seemed a bit off.
At that time, I hadn't started working yet and was trying to stay busy because James wasn't home much.
It was tough.
The house felt cold and uncomfortable when I was alone there.
[MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO.]
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING .]
[MUSIC CONTINUES.]
[ DOOR CLOSES .]
[ GASPS .]
Geez! I could have cut my finger off.
I'm sorry.
Hey, bubbles for the bubble bath.
You're a dork.
I know.
And you wanted to buy the house without the tub.
I did not.
[ BOTH CHUCKLE .]
We had this thing that we did once a week where we tried to make time for each other, where we said strictly no cell phones, no work talk, just us.
I think I'm gonna do a little bit more work upstairs tonight.
Why don't you come to bed with me? I just, you know I need to just keep working on it until it's done.
You know, Thanksgiving's almost here.
And what? Nothing.
What? I said, "Nothing.
" TORI: I thought James was acting a little weird and a bit distant, but I figured it was just the pressure of the move and trying to finish up the attic.
[ VCR CLICKS .]
JAMES: It had been about three days since I had found the tapes, and even though nothing much was really happening in the videos, I was spending every minute I could get away from Tori just watching them.
It was like an addiction.
I can't explain it.
[ GLASS CRACKLING .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
They're probably just old episodes of "Magnum, P.
I.
" JAMES: I think I'm going to do a little bit more work upstairs tonight.
[ GLASS CRACKLES .]
[ INDISTINCT NOISE IN DISTANCE .]
WOMAN: You're next.
TORI: [ IN DISTANCE .]
Aah! Hey, what's going on? There's someone in the house.
What? Someone touched me, like, touched my face, and when I woke up, I saw a woman leaving the room.
- Where? - Leaving the room, like, right out the door.
[ VOICE BREAKING .]
I don't have my contacts in.
Are you sure you weren't dreaming? [ NORMAL VOICE .]
No.
There's someone in the house.
Okay, okay.
TORI: I know what I felt and what I saw.
I was wide awake.
I felt a hand on my face, and I saw a woman in a dark dress.
JAMES: [ IN DISTANCE .]
All the windows and doors are still locked.
Tori, the alarm's still set.
No one's here.
[ SIGHS .]
But I'm blind without my contacts, so by the next morning, I just tried to convince myself that it was all in my head and that it wasn't real.
There were actually a lot of unanswered questions that morning.
Where were you last night? Oh, I fell asleep on the couch.
Hey, uh, my bosses want me to do this dinner thing with a client tonight.
After last night, I feel bad, but It's fine.
Go.
You know, I feel like it would be weird for me to pass up the opportunity.
TORI: Of course, I didn't want to be home alone.
I get it.
You should go.
But I was hurt and angry, and I regretted it as soon as I said it.
So there I was again, alone in that house.
I was still searching for a job and just trying to stay busy, but I kept thinking about the night before.
It was getting really late, and James wasn't home yet.
And so I drank a couple glasses of wine just to try and relax.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ON TV.]
JAMES: I don't want to make excuses, but it was like something had control over me like I was being possessed, and I couldn't fight it.
I watched those tapes for maybe 50 hours.
And it was just boring Just nothing happening.
It was, like, her picking up around the house.
[ GLASS CRACKLING .]
[ DOOR LATCH OPENS .]
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
JAMES: Now, he was crossing a line.
He picked the lock.
I should have stopped watching right then.
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
You want someone's creepy home movies? What are you doing? JAMES: I was just doing some attic stuff.
WOMAN: You're next.
There's someone in the house.
[ LOCK RATTLES .]
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
He picked the lock.
JAMES: I should have stopped watching right then.
There was something inside of me, and I couldn't.
James? TORI: I don't know what woke me up, but the room had gotten really cold.
No, no, no, don't do it.
Don't do it.
[FLOORBOARD CREAKS.]
TORI: [BREATHING SHALLOWLY.]
Who's there? Aah! [ GASPS .]
Oh! [ GASPS .]
Aah! [ SCREAMING .]
I could feel a pair of ice-cold hands holding my ankles and dragging me.
I sat there, frozen, for what seemed like an hour and didn't know what to do.
[ POLICE RADIO CHATTER .]
JAMES: All five boxes of the tapes were the same, just a different woman being murdered in the end.
Some previous owners of the house, an old couple, they had taken on a boarder years ago.
By the time that we bought the house, he was already in prison for armed robbery.
He was scheduled to get out in a year, but the tapes made sure that he didn't.
He never said why he killed those women.
TORI: I know that some people believe that negative energy can attach itself to things.
I used to think that those people were crazy, but now Hey.
I guess I'm one of them.
I'm gonna head to bed.
From the very first time when James started watching these tapes, he became a completely different person.
He says it was because something took control of him.
I'm not sure, but what I know is, whenever he watched those tapes, terrible things happened to me, things I can't explain.
I've seen what it can do, and I saw what it did to us.
[ GIRL LAUGHS .]
[ MACHINE BEEPING .]
What is this? [ GASPS .]
LINDSAY: No! There was just something that just wasn't right.
Why can't I see? [ SCREAMS, CRIES .]
LINDSAY: Sometimes, a split-second decision changes your entire life.
You're healing well from the transplant surgery.
[ GASPS .]
I started to think that maybe everything I believed in was wrong.
I'm sorry.
- [ GASPS .]
- please stop.
I probably should have stopped when I realized someone was being watched.
WOMAN: You're next.
Who's there? There's someone in the house.
[ WOMAN SCREAMS .]
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
You were in a motorcycle accident.
LINDSAY: [ GASPS .]
No! Lindsay.
Tell me, why did you reach out? So I contacted you guys because I had this terrible thing happen to me when I was in Romania, and it's still affecting me to this day.
It's practically ruined my life, and I guess I'm still searching for answers.
After I graduated, my parents gave me a gift to travel around Europe for two months.
[FOLK MUSIC PLAYS.]
My dad said it was a reward for getting into law school, but I know the real reason was that they were trying to push me out of my comfort zone.
[ MAN SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
My mom and dad were adventurous people, but for some reason, I wasn't.
[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS .]
MAN: There's a library around the corner.
I was trying to stay away from touristy spots and other Americans, but I wasn't expecting to meet Alex.
Hi, I'm Alex.
Lindsay.
First American I've met in Romania.
Oh.
Yeah, I've been here five weeks.
What about you? Five hours.
Uh, cheers.
[ GLASS, BOTTLE CLINKS .]
Alex was just one of those people, you know? When I met him, I felt really comfortable around him immediately.
Seven weeks? Seven weeks is a long time to be alone.
Yeah, it is.
And? And? You said your father was trying to break you out of your comfortable little shell.
Has it worked? Well, first of all, I don't have a shell.
My dad doesn't know what he's talking about.
And even if I did, what's so wrong with being a little cautious? I could be dead by now if I wasn't.
What? Nothing.
[ CHUCKLES LIGHTLY .]
And sometimes a split-second decision changes your entire life.
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
LINDSAY: What's this? MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye.
Why can't I see? No! Easy.
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
[ COUGHING .]
Water.
[ COUGHING .]
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
Oh, no, no, no, [ SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
Doctor.
What is this? - [ SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
- where am I? Doctor! Why can't I see? [ SPEAKING ROMANIAN .]
MAN: Lindsay.
Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
You were in a motorcycle accident.
LINDSAY: It had been almost a week since I had met Alex in the bar when I woke up in the hospital.
No.
No.
No.
No! Aah! I thought, "You know what? Maybe, my dad is right.
" Maybe, I do need to take some chances.
" So I climbed on the back of his motorcycle.
I remember reaching for my hat, and when I turned around It knocked us off balance, and we went into another lane, and a car hit us.
Very bad injury.
The doctor said that I was lucky to be alive because I hadn't been wearing a helmet.
My left eye was punctured by a piece of glass, and I ended up having to undergo an emergency cornea transplant.
[ MONITOR BEEPING .]
Alex died.
And it was my fault.
Eventually, my eye healed.
The doctor said it was freakishly fast.
And I went home to law school to try to get on with my life.
Until that night in the library.
[ SIGHS .]
[ SHELF RATTLES .]
[ CLANGS IN DISTANCE .]
Hey! I'm still in here.
Hello? [ BOOKS FALL, CLATTER .]
LINDSAY: I remember thinking, "Hey, things fall off shelves for all sorts of reasons, right?" But then, I just got this feeling like someone was watching me.
It was hard to make the details out in the dark, but there was definitely an older man standing there.
I'm calling the cops.
I called security.
They came.
And no one was there.
[ BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE .]
After what happened in the library, I just started studying at home instead.
WOMAN: Want a vodka soda? No, thanks.
[ SCOFFS .]
Seriously? You work too hard.
Come out tonight.
We have an exam at 10:00 A.
M.
tomorrow.
Are you ready? No.
Do you think this outfit looks slutty? [ CELLPHONE CLICKS .]
Not really.
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING .]
[ EXHALES DEEPLY .]
[ SIGHS .]
[ SIGHS .]
[ SCOFFS .]
I fell asleep.
I'm still not ready for our stupid test.
Just getting home? [ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
Mara? You okay? [ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
What is this? Why can't I see? MAN: You were in a motorcycle accident.
[ LINDSAY SCREAMS .]
[ SHELF CLATTERS .]
I'm calling the cops.
[ DOOR CLOSES .]
Mara? You okay? [ RATTLES .]
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ GASPS .]
What are you doing? [ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
LINDSAY: I was positive my eyes were playing tricks on me because I saw the same man that I had seen in the library standing in my hallway.
You think some creepy guy from the library followed you home and broke into our apartment without opening the windows or using the door, and then just disappeared? I don't know.
If you think someone broke in, call the cops.
[ SIGHS .]
I don't know.
I-I'm not sure what happened.
Maybe, your subconscious is creating imaginary friends 'cause you don't have any real ones.
Or maybe your Romanian boyfriend is back from the dead to haunt you.
Sorry.
That was messed up.
[ SIGHS .]
LINDSAY: After that, I realized I never really dealt with what happened in Romania.
[ SNIFFLES .]
And when Mara brought it up, it all came flooding back LINDSAY:What is this? the accident Where am I? My eye MAN: Please stop this if you want to see Alex.
Why can't I see? If I hadn't reached for my hat he would still be alive.
[ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
I'm sorry.
LINDSAY: That was the exact moment that I started to think that, maybe, everything I believed in was wrong.
What if I was seeing Alex? The next day, I was still pretty on edge about everything that had happened the night before and about everything that had been going on.
[ KNOCK ON DOOR .]
Almost done.
I'll be out in five minutes.
[ DOOR LATCH OPENS .]
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
Mara? [ GASPS .]
[ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
LINDSAY: I know my eye was bleeding.
I saw it.
I felt it.
And then it was gone.
And at that point, I'm trying to figure out if it's my eye or my mind 'cause something's wrong.
You're healing well from the transplant surgery, but it makes sense that your left eye would be weaker than your right.
Have you been getting headaches? No.
Uh, but I have been seeing things.
Floaters? Maybe.
Well, most of us have those.
We're going to get you a low-prescription contact lens to bring both eyes to 20/20.
Okay.
And be sure to get plenty of rest.
It's an important part of the healing process.
LINDSAY: What was I supposed to say, that I'm going insane? I blamed it on stress and studying too much and not sleeping.
I made up my mind that it was, I think What are they called? Like, it was one of those lucid dreams, or I was so tired that I was hallucinating.
[ GUNSHOT .]
LINDSAY: Aah! [ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
LINDSAY: No! MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
You're healing well from the transplant surgery.
I've been seeing things.
[ GUNSHOT .]
LINDSAY: Aah! [ BREATHING SHALLOWLY .]
[ DOOR CLOSES .]
I saw somebody get shot in my house right in front of me.
I called the cops, and they came, and they didn't find anything No body, no blood.
I was completely lost.
I thought I was going insane, and I considered dropping out of school.
I was grasping at straws.
MAN: Please stop this if you want to see from your eye again.
LINDSAY: Aah! American doctors couldn't help me.
You were in a motorcycle accident.
So I did the last thing that I wanted to do, and I went back to Romania.
I can assure you, the only drugs we gave you were sedatives and painkillers, nothing that will stay in your system.
What about my donor? Who was it? That's confidential, of course.
[ EXHALES SHARPLY .]
Please.
I'm begging you.
Give me something.
It took some convincing.
[ SIGHS .]
You have this man's cornea.
But he finally showed me the file, and it was a man that had been in a Romanian prison.
What did he go to jail for? Why do you need to know these things? Because I'm seeing things.
I'm seeing entire moments and scenes played out in front of me.
One minute, things are there, and the next, they're gone.
It is obvious you study law and not medicine.
Things seen are not stored or processed in the cornea, but in the brain.
You did not receive brain transplant.
It isn't possible for you to be seeing anything connected to the donor.
[ GASPS .]
[ GUNSHOT .]
Aah! I've seen this man.
Who is that? Your donor murdered his father.
How did my donor die? Probably execution.
Thank you.
LINDSAY: I know this sounds insane, but the things that I was seeing were directly related to the man whose cornea I had.
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING .]
[ GUNSHOT .]
LINDSAY: [ GASPS .]
I realized it was probably never gonna end.
I never believed in any of that stuff.
I always thought that was made up.
I thought those were stories.
But after what happened to me in Milwaukee, I just want people to know that these things are real.
We had just moved to the midwest, but I was having a real hard time with the move and leaving my family.
[ THUMP IN DISTANCE .]
[ THUMP IN DISTANCE .]
I was supposed to be home alone.
But I was positive that I heard something roaming around in the attic.
[ DOOR OPENS .]
Hello? [ GASPS .]
Oh, geez.
James was always a little bit of a klutz.
[ SIGHS .]
I thought you were still at work.
Hey there, Ted Bundy.
What's with the knife? [ CHUCKLES .]
I didn't even realize I was still holding it.
Yikes.
TORI: My husband, James, mainly fell in love with the house because we could afford it.
Plus, it had this huge attic space that James said he would renovate for when my parents would visit.
[ SIGHS .]
Do you think it'll be done by Thanksgiving? [ SIGHS .]
I don't know.
Do you think it'll be warm enough for when my parents get here? I don't know, Alex trebek.
Any more questions? Dinner in 20.
[ SIGHS .]
[ BIRD CHIRPS .]
It was a pretty typical, dusty, old attic.
It had a lot of potential, but there was just something that just wasn't right.
[ LIGHT THUMP .]
Someone had built a wall a few feet from the exterior wall of the house, and there was no door to get in, just a wall.
There was obviously empty space behind it.
I figured that could be space that we could use.
So [ CRASHES .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
TORI: The house felt cold and uncomfortable when I was alone there.
Hello? Aah! Do you think it'll be done by Thanksgiving? [ CRASHES .]
It was just a bunch of old boxes.
I figured it was probably old clothes or something.
[ FLASHLIGHT CLICKS .]
TORI: I had never seen a window crack like that.
Once second, it was fine.
And the next, it was broken and in this weird kind of pattern, not shattered, but also not just a single crack, either.
And I hadn't seen or heard anything.
[ EXHALING SHARPLY .]
[ BLOWS .]
JAMES: They were VHS tapes, dozens of them probably five boxes full All labeled just meticulously with dates on the spines.
It didn't make any sense to me.
I knew there was an older couple that lived there before us.
So why would they be hiding old videotapes behind a fake wall? They're probably just old episodes of "Magnum, P.
I.
" [ CHUCKLES .]
Whatever they are, someone sealed them up like Fort Knox.
How did this window crack? Old glass? Hey, what are you doing? You want someone's old creepy home movies? This box is disgusting.
I'm throwing it in the trash.
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING, DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE .]
JAMES: I had never had a hard time sleeping before that night.
You know, I just laid awake and kept wondering what was on those tapes.
I couldn't stop thinking about it.
So I went outside and grabbed the tapes out of the trash.
I dug out an old VCR from a box, and I set it up in the attic.
That way, you know, Tori wouldn't know what I was doing.
[ TV TURNS ON .]
[ VCR WHIRS .]
I know.
I probably should have stopped when I realized someone was being watched.
But I just couldn't.
I watched for over three hours.
And I knew I had to get to bed.
[ ALARM BEEPING .]
[ ALARM SHUTS OFF .]
James isn't a morning person.
I don't remember a time where he was up before me.
James? JAMES: Hey.
What are you doing? I was just doing some attic stuff.
- You're up early.
- Yeah.
I just want to get everything done before Thanksgiving.
I'm gonna make some coffee.
Hm.
Something about the way he was acting, he just seemed a bit off.
At that time, I hadn't started working yet and was trying to stay busy because James wasn't home much.
It was tough.
The house felt cold and uncomfortable when I was alone there.
[MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO.]
[ CRICKETS CHIRPING .]
[MUSIC CONTINUES.]
[ DOOR CLOSES .]
[ GASPS .]
Geez! I could have cut my finger off.
I'm sorry.
Hey, bubbles for the bubble bath.
You're a dork.
I know.
And you wanted to buy the house without the tub.
I did not.
[ BOTH CHUCKLE .]
We had this thing that we did once a week where we tried to make time for each other, where we said strictly no cell phones, no work talk, just us.
I think I'm gonna do a little bit more work upstairs tonight.
Why don't you come to bed with me? I just, you know I need to just keep working on it until it's done.
You know, Thanksgiving's almost here.
And what? Nothing.
What? I said, "Nothing.
" TORI: I thought James was acting a little weird and a bit distant, but I figured it was just the pressure of the move and trying to finish up the attic.
[ VCR CLICKS .]
JAMES: It had been about three days since I had found the tapes, and even though nothing much was really happening in the videos, I was spending every minute I could get away from Tori just watching them.
It was like an addiction.
I can't explain it.
[ GLASS CRACKLING .]
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
They're probably just old episodes of "Magnum, P.
I.
" JAMES: I think I'm going to do a little bit more work upstairs tonight.
[ GLASS CRACKLES .]
[ INDISTINCT NOISE IN DISTANCE .]
WOMAN: You're next.
TORI: [ IN DISTANCE .]
Aah! Hey, what's going on? There's someone in the house.
What? Someone touched me, like, touched my face, and when I woke up, I saw a woman leaving the room.
- Where? - Leaving the room, like, right out the door.
[ VOICE BREAKING .]
I don't have my contacts in.
Are you sure you weren't dreaming? [ NORMAL VOICE .]
No.
There's someone in the house.
Okay, okay.
TORI: I know what I felt and what I saw.
I was wide awake.
I felt a hand on my face, and I saw a woman in a dark dress.
JAMES: [ IN DISTANCE .]
All the windows and doors are still locked.
Tori, the alarm's still set.
No one's here.
[ SIGHS .]
But I'm blind without my contacts, so by the next morning, I just tried to convince myself that it was all in my head and that it wasn't real.
There were actually a lot of unanswered questions that morning.
Where were you last night? Oh, I fell asleep on the couch.
Hey, uh, my bosses want me to do this dinner thing with a client tonight.
After last night, I feel bad, but It's fine.
Go.
You know, I feel like it would be weird for me to pass up the opportunity.
TORI: Of course, I didn't want to be home alone.
I get it.
You should go.
But I was hurt and angry, and I regretted it as soon as I said it.
So there I was again, alone in that house.
I was still searching for a job and just trying to stay busy, but I kept thinking about the night before.
It was getting really late, and James wasn't home yet.
And so I drank a couple glasses of wine just to try and relax.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ON TV.]
JAMES: I don't want to make excuses, but it was like something had control over me like I was being possessed, and I couldn't fight it.
I watched those tapes for maybe 50 hours.
And it was just boring Just nothing happening.
It was, like, her picking up around the house.
[ GLASS CRACKLING .]
[ DOOR LATCH OPENS .]
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
JAMES: Now, he was crossing a line.
He picked the lock.
I should have stopped watching right then.
[ DOOR CLOSES, LATCH CLICKS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
[ MUSIC BOX PLAYS .]
You want someone's creepy home movies? What are you doing? JAMES: I was just doing some attic stuff.
WOMAN: You're next.
There's someone in the house.
[ LOCK RATTLES .]
[ DOOR CREAKS .]
He picked the lock.
JAMES: I should have stopped watching right then.
There was something inside of me, and I couldn't.
James? TORI: I don't know what woke me up, but the room had gotten really cold.
No, no, no, don't do it.
Don't do it.
[FLOORBOARD CREAKS.]
TORI: [BREATHING SHALLOWLY.]
Who's there? Aah! [ GASPS .]
Oh! [ GASPS .]
Aah! [ SCREAMING .]
I could feel a pair of ice-cold hands holding my ankles and dragging me.
I sat there, frozen, for what seemed like an hour and didn't know what to do.
[ POLICE RADIO CHATTER .]
JAMES: All five boxes of the tapes were the same, just a different woman being murdered in the end.
Some previous owners of the house, an old couple, they had taken on a boarder years ago.
By the time that we bought the house, he was already in prison for armed robbery.
He was scheduled to get out in a year, but the tapes made sure that he didn't.
He never said why he killed those women.
TORI: I know that some people believe that negative energy can attach itself to things.
I used to think that those people were crazy, but now Hey.
I guess I'm one of them.
I'm gonna head to bed.
From the very first time when James started watching these tapes, he became a completely different person.
He says it was because something took control of him.
I'm not sure, but what I know is, whenever he watched those tapes, terrible things happened to me, things I can't explain.
I've seen what it can do, and I saw what it did to us.