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doing to me?

Aah! Aah!

Aah!

Alec, stop it!

Don't take my picture!

No! Stop!

Stop it, Alec!

Please. Please.

No.

Stop it!

Penny?

Penny, the door's locked.

The key must have

dropped out somewhere.

Can you see it on the floor?

Penny!

Have you got your inhaler?

Sh*t!

Sh*t.

Coming!

Coming!

Oh, sh*t!

Penny, stand clear!

Uhh!

Where's your inhaler?

Here we go.

Exhale... and in, big one!

Good girl, and again.

And in.

There we go.

Let the medicine work.

OK. Deep breath.

Shhh, you're OK. You're OK.

There was a woman!

There was a woman.

No, it was just a bad dream.

No, I saw her.

It was just a dream.

What's happening?!

Don't worry, Harper. She's

just had an asthma attack.

Go on back to bed, darling.

No way. I'm sleeping

in your bed now.

You OK?

Yeah.

OK, so, who wants to

go to the beach today?

There's a town on the coast

called Whitby not far from here.

That's where Dracula landed.

They put him in in a coffin

because the sunlight

burnt his skin.

Shut up, Harper.

I'm telling you, we're at the

center of the creepy universe.

Since when do you

work all night?

I'm on the brink of something.

Where's the tea?

We don't have tea.

Don't tell me you

forgot the tea.

I didn't forget the tea

'cause we don't drink it.

There's coffee on the stove.

- Penny saw a ghost.

- What?

She had a nightmare.

She got wound up and

had an asthma attack.

It was a real f***ing ghost!

- Penny!

- Whoa!

What kind of language

is that, young lady?

It's the language of a

girl who's being neglected

by her father, which is

why you're taking them to

the bloody seaside today.

Today's no good.

Alec!

Alec, we agreed, you were

going to look after the kids

till they start

school next week.

And I will, most

days, just not today.

I'm in the middle of

something very important.

I'm very pleased for you.

And you can pick it up

where you left off when

they start school next week.

This isn't something that

you can pick up and drop off.

It's very important that

you position it exactly

in line with the study window,

10 yards from the house.

It's this distance here.

There were these cuts and

scars all the way up her arms.

I know I didn't dream it, Mum.

I really didn't.

No, I know it must seem like

that but sometimes we just

can't tell.

OK, then why was

the door locked?

The door wasn't locked.

Penny, the door

doesn't have a lock.

- The door was jammed.

- Jammed?

Old houses move over time.

Things stick.

OK, well, you know Emily?

Well, her uncle bought this

place near Manchester which

was haunted, and he got this

guy who came and sorted it out

in, like, one visit.

Now, have you been

tweeting about this?

Mum, we've got

to do something!

He's not like... he's not

like a priest or anything.

He just says he was

born with a gift.

Oh, my God, you've

contacted him.

No, Mum, not yet. Emily

just sent me the link

to his homepage so we

could check him out.

Let me see that.

You've got to be kidding.

What? He's super discreet!

Promise me that

you're not going to talk

about this online anymore!

My God, Mum!

This is my work

you're dissing, Penny!

I'm gonna get a reputation.

Fix yourselves some lunch. I'm

going to check on the guys.

Donnelly?

"Sorry we missed you."

What happened?

We have a little problem.

Ah! Wow!

My lad's not

normally superstitious,

and neither am I.

But we thought with the

history of the place and all,

you'd wanna keep it covered.

Thought you understood.

The history of the place

is exactly what we're

here to to restore.

Then I'm afraid

you're on your own.

But why is it such a big deal?

I've got a reputation, Mrs.

Hamilton.

Small, but enough

to keep me in work.

If word spreads that Sean

Donnelly has invited the wrong

kind of publicity,

I'll lose my business.

What kind of publicity?

There've always been rumors

that Radcliffe built the place

as some sort of temple, but

it was so long ago that

thankfully it's all

they are... rumors.

Now I'm not so sure.

But it's just a work of art.

No, it's the

work of the devil.

- Now, that is ridiculous!

- Is it?!

He killed his wife in some

sort of ritual, and to get her

revenge, she haunted him

day and night until he

threw himself from a window.

If I were you, I'd persuade

your American banker to tear

it all down and

start from scratch.

You've been in there all day?

How was the beach?

Alec, you missed

the phone engineer!

I'm sorry, babe.

Can you stop walking away from me?

I'm trying to talk to you!

Alec, this is important!

Listen.

Donnelly's just quit. I've

got to find someone else.

If we're gonna

make the deadline,

I really need you to pitch in!

- Would you sit for me?

- Alec, this is serious!

Just a couple sessions.

I can't do this on my own!

I'm right in the

thick of it, Meg!

Look, this is

our paycheck, OK?

It's our only paycheck

since your last show.

We don't have any money!

And I understand all that,

but what I'm doing will

change our lives forever.

Alec, I'm really glad for you.

I'm so happy that you've found

something new, but right

now, I just need your help!

OK.

OK?

OK.

Really?

Really?

I'll set aside some

time in the afternoons.

Thank God.

Hello?

Is that you, Petal?

Who is this?

Oh!

Aah! Aah! Aah!

Oh, God! Aah!

Alec!

Oh, you scared me. Ha ha ha!

What are you doing in here?

Well, I... I just... I was

answering the phone.

I guess the engineer must

have connected it after all.

The phone?

You didn't hear the phone?

Listen, I don't think we

should leave this light on.

Did you put this light on?

No, I thought you did.

OK, let's get out of here.

Let's not do this in here.

Can we go upstairs?

Alec, can we go? This room

really gives me the creeps.

I don't... I don't like it here.

No!

Alec, no, please! No!

I don't like it here. Please!

Please, no! Please, no!

Please, Alec!

Alec!

Hi. Thanks for coming back.

Just through there.

Just on the table

at the end there.

Unless that's been

converted to digital,

it's never gonna work.

It was working last night

but dead again this morning.

Well, I can't see

how that's possible.

It's not connected.

In fact, I can't even see a

telephone socket down there.

Madam?

OK, let's go.

Uhh!

Absolutely, Bradley, yep.

Not only are we on schedule

but we're also finding

some amazing stuff.

- Great.

- Yeah, it looks like

many original features

are still intact...

Excellent.

Which is why I imagine

you wanted to buy it

in the first place.

I didn't buy it.

I inherited it.

- You inherited it?

- Yeah. I thought you knew that.

No, I...

Yeah. The will showed

up after 150 years

buried in some trust somewhere.

The original owner has a

sister who turns out to be

my great-great-aunt.

And you just discovered that?

Yep. I guess Victorian

paperwork was just not all

it was cracked up to be.

I see.

The only condition is that

the house is maintained

in its original state.

Listen, I gotta jump

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