Mirrors Page #4

All the files in that place were in storage

with the cold-case evidence.

Why, because of the fire?

No, it's before the fire.

It's a totally different case.

Anna was a patient at St. Matthew's.

She was in the psych ward

run by a Dr. Kane.

Now get this,

she was only 12 years old when she died.

What?

When the nurses went on their rounds

first thing in the morning, October 6, 1952,

they discovered that all the patients

had left their rooms during the night,

and they'd all gathered in the main hall.

Ben, they were all dead, including the girl.

Apparently, they killed each other.

I mean, it was a slaughterhouse.

That's when they closed the place down.

Who knows what really happened?

- What about the doctor? Kane?

- Well, they arrested him.

They found him dead

first day of the hearing.

He slashed his wrists

with a piece of the cell mirror.

- Thanks for your help.

- Good luck.

Damn it!

Jesus.

"October 6, 1952."

"Anna Esseker is diagnosed with

severe schizophrenia,

"leading to withdrawal from reality,

delusional and violent behavior."

"Pennsylvania, August 1951."

They don't match.

Anna Esseker was discharged

from St. Matthew's Hospital October 4.

Two days before the massacre.

She's alive, isn't she?

You almost done, sweetie? Okay.

Why is Daddy acting so scared?

It's not normal.

He's way older than me.

And I'm not acting scared, but he is.

- Doesn't make any sense.

- Michael? What are you doing?

Nothing.

- Okay, well, we gotta get going, all right?

- Okay.

- Amy? Amy, what's wrong?

- Ben.

You have to come

to the house right now.

I'm so scared.

- Amy, what's wrong?

- I'm so scared.

- Amy, just tell me what happened.

- There's something in the house.

- Something in the mirrors.

- I'm on my way.

God damn it!

Come on.

- Dad? When are you coming back home?

- Really soon, sweetheart. Come here.

- I love you, Daddy.

- I love you, too, sweetheart.

I gotta go.

I'm afraid to stay here.

There's gonna be windows and mirrors

wherever you go.

Anything that causes a reflection

right now is dangerous.

At least inside the house

we've covered everything.

It's the safest place to be.

Amy, I'm so sorry.

No. It's not your fault.

I should've believed you.

Come here.

Ben, you do whatever it takes to end this.

- You hear me?

- I will.

I'll be right back.

Jesus.

Yes, sir?

Excuse me. Is this the Esseker farm?

- What is it, Jimmy?

- I don't know, Ma.

- What can I do for you, sir?

- I'm looking for Anna. Anna Esseker.

There's a man looking for...

You said Anna?

Yes, Anna Esseker.

An Anna Esseker, Ma.

Look, I'm sorry to bother you.

I must have the wrong place.

What is it you want with Anna Esseker?

I'm doing a research paper

on schizophrenia.

I became familiar with

Anna Esseker's case.

I just wanted to ask her some questions.

Go tell Grandpa there's a man here

who's asking about his sister.

Okay.

Thank you.

Grandpa?

You know, up to this day,

visions of Anna's fits

still haunt me at night.

I helped my father fix up this part

of the basement especially for her.

Her fits were too violent.

My mother couldn't

take her screams anymore.

We had every priest, doctor, healer,

coming in from all over the county,

but no one could help her.

So finally, a Dr. Kane from New York

answered my parents' cries for help.

He rejected the idea of demonic

possession, said he didn't believe in it.

He was convinced Anna suffered from

a rare form of personality disorder

and mirrors could help her.

He wanted Anna under his care,

at St. Matthew's.

My parents were very poor,

but he agreed to cover all the costs

of the hospital.

Where did she go after the hospital?

Don't you know?

She died there

with all of Kane's other patients.

Mr. Esseker, I read the file.

Anna left the hospital

two days before the massacre.

Dr. Kane altered the documents

so she could disappear.

Where did you get that document?

I need you to tell me where she went

after St. Matthew's.

She came back

and stayed with us for a while.

What do you mean for a while?

What happened? Why did she leave?

- I don't want to talk about that.

- Why did she leave?

Because strange things

started to happen in the house.

With Anna?

No, no, not with Anna anymore.

No, she was totally cured.

Strange things started to happen

with the mirrors, didn't they?

Mr. Esseker, I need to know where Anna

is now. It's a matter of life and death.

Do not make me threaten you.

We sent her somewhere

where mirrors are forbidden.

- Where the mirrors couldn't find her.

- Where? Where?

St. Augustine's Monastery,

on the road to Reedfield.

How can I help you?

I'm sorry to disturb you, Sister,

but I've come to speak with a member

of your community. Anna Esseker.

Is she expecting you?

No, not really.

If you're not listed, I cannot help you, sir.

Can you at least tell her

that I've come from New York

to speak with her?

I work with Dr. Kane

from St. Matthew's Hospital.

It's very important, please.

St. Matthew's closed down in 1952.

Who are you?

My name is Benjamin Carson.

I work as a night watchman

on Sixth Avenue in New York City

in the building that used to be

St. Matthew's Hospital.

What is it you want, Mr. Carson?

My family is in danger,

and what's threatening them

is asking for you.

I came all this way to ask you

why the mirrors that were left over

from St. Matthew's Hospital

are so desperate to find you.

Please, Miss Esseker.

If you don't help me,

I'm gonna lose the most important thing

to me in this world,

and that's my family.

Sit down, Mr. Carson.

The mirrors are merely windows

on our world.

It is not the wish of the mirrors to find me

but of what is imprisoned inside them.

What is imprisoned inside them?

At the time that I was at St. Matthew's,

Dr. Kane's therapy

for personality disorders

consisted of locking the patient up

in a mirrored room

for several days on end,

forcing them to confront their own image.

Dr. Kane was wrong about his theory.

There is no cure for schizophrenia,

Mr. Carson.

It was something else.

And whatever it was,

it left me and entered the mirrors.

Since that day,

it has been collecting

the souls of the people it kills.

I'm sorry,

but if I agree to go with you

and return back to that place,

I will make it possible for the demon

to cross the threshold

back into the real world.

Do you understand

what that means for my family?

You can't do this.

You need to come back with me.

I'm going to pray for you and your family.

That's all I can do right now, Mr. Carson.

I'm sorry.

God bless you.

Gary Lewis, Terrence Berry and many

other men have died trying to find you.

And because they failed,

their families died, too.

Two days ago my sister was murdered.

My family will be next

if you don't help me.

Please.

Please. Wait, wait.

This is my family.

This is my wife Amy

and my daughter Daisy

and my son Michael.

They're beautiful.

They're innocent.

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