One Missed Call Page #2

- These things work...

...because they get in your head, Beth.

You're the psych lady, you know that.

If you don't think about it,

it can't hurt you.

Like I said.

Brian, your phone!

You forgot your phone.

Damn it, I forgot. I swear if I

didn't have my head screwed on...

Let's go over this again.

Welder's acetylene tank exploded.

Your friend happened to be in the way.

Okay. And what about

Leann and the voice mails?

We checked on that. There were no

voice mails on your friends' phones.

- Either of them.

- But I heard them. Okay?

Leann got a phone call, and so did Brian,

right before they died.

Both of them did.

I hear it happened to Shelley too,

Shelley Baum, right before she died.

Well, thank you, Miss Raymond.

We'll check on that, and we'll contact you

if we need anything else.

What about the hard candies?

Both of these kids were eating them.

My sister too.

Three people eating hard candy

in two weeks?

The girl's right, Mickey. There's gotta be

some kind of connection here.

You know,

I'm really sorry about your sister.

But if it was my sister...

...I'd take some personal time,

just till I was thinking right again.

Excuse me, Miss Raymond?

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.

I'm Detective Jack Andrews. I heard

what you were saying...

...and, well, Detective Lee's a good cop...

...but she's a little short

on imagination, you know?

- What are you saying?

- I don't really know.

Except Shelley Baum interned

with my sister at Saint Luke's.

My sister Jean, she died in a fall

two days before Shelley drowned.

Oh, I'm sorry.

But then, you see what I'm saying.

Everybody seems to be

linked together somehow.

Something doesn't make sense here so...

...if you can think of anything else,

give me a call.

You didn't get a call, did you?

But my number was in Brian's cell.

I'm gonna be next.

I can feel it.

No, you don't know that, okay?

Because my number is in Brian's cell too.

Here.

No power, no problem.

Any dead people call...

...we're not home.

- Which one is it?

- Uh!

Who?

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

This can't be happening.

There are no batteries.

It says 8:
32 p. m. On Friday.

That's two days from now.

Everything I'm seeing is there. It's real.

I'm seeing it and it's happening...

I do not. Okay?

Okay, you wanna delete it? Do it yourself.

Look, I'm... I'm sure you'll be fine.

I wanna do mine.

- You wanna do it too? Go ahead.

Go on, you can all do it.

There you go.

- That's a...

- Wait.

Sorry, ladies.

It just doesn't work that way.

Right. You're telling me

that we can't cancel the service?

You don't have to cancel.

Just use up your minutes.

That's what I'm trying to tell you.

We don't wanna use this phone at all.

Well, the phone is yours, so you

can do whatever you want with it.

Miss Anthony?

- Taylor Anthony?

- Yeah.

Ted Summers.

I'm a television producer. I work

on the program American Miracles.

Oh, I've heard of that.

Yeah.

Some students called us

about what happened...

...and they told us

all about your problem.

- Can we help you with something? We're...

- We were very moved by your story, Taylor.

- We think we might be able to help you.

- How?

About five years ago,

my son suffered a possession.

Yeah. It was pretty devastating

for the whole family.

So when I created my show,

I wanted to make it a point...

...to build an extensive resource

of people who were able...

...to deal successfully

with those evil influences like that.

What do you mean,

like, you do exorcisms?

- I think this is nonsense.

- Do you have the telephone on you, Taylor?

- What? No, we threw it away.

- Do you have the phone?

Well, it would really be helpful.

Here. Here.

Now, you show me...

...exactly what happened

when the phone call came in.

Okay, come here. Nope, nope.

Thank you very much.

This is ridiculous. Thank you.

- We don't need a reality show.

- I understand...

...you wanna protect your friend.

- I do.

- I admire that.

- Thank you.

- Come on, let's go.

- Jesus.

Come on, come on.

Wait, we could s...

Hey, maybe he could help me, Beth.

No, Taylor, you don't need an exorcism.

Okay?

That guy was so full of it.

Andrews.

Miss Raymond, it is not your

imagination. The phone calls happened.

The other detective said

nobody could find the voice mails.

Because the other detective

didn't bother to check the phone records.

I did, and it's all right there.

Brian was called by Leann, Leann

was called by Shelley, and Shelley...

...was called from my sister.

All right? And all the calls came in

after the caller was already dead.

Right. Who called your sister?

If we could trace it to the source

and find out who started this, then...

I was up all night tracking it.

I'm gonna go see her now.

- I'll give you a call. Okay?

- Okay.

- I'm gonna come with you.

- That's not a good idea.

Yeah, it is, because these are my friends

and there's no way I'm gonna sit here.

The call my sister got

came from a nurse at an old-age home.

A woman named Marie Layton.

It's right up here on the right.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Nobody's been in there for

more than two weeks now, not a soul.

Okay. Thank you very much.

You know, I'm gonna go get the super.

That could take hours.

Why don't you just break in?

I'm a cop.

I'm not.

All right, give it a shot.

Okay.

I was getting it.

Well, whoever Marie Layton is,

she's a hell of a housekeeper, huh?

We're not... We're not...

We're not... We're not...

- Hey, you okay?

- Yeah.

I found this in the living room.

It must be one of those nanny cams.

To keep an eye on the children.

Okay, so judging from the angle, the

camera would have been right here.

So where did it go?

Beth.

Look, if you don't talk to me,

I can't help you.

That noise, the inhaler. I heard it

both times, before Leann and Brian...

Then when I looked behind me,

there was nobody there.

What the hell is happening?

This is the morgue file of the dead

from the last month or so.

If Marie Layton died,

she did it in another city.

I don't know how you stand

looking at this stuff.

The dead ones don't really

bother me so much.

Now take a look at this. All right.

It's not a Marie Layton,

but an Ellie Layton.

That's the older daughter

from the photograph.

Yeah. It says she died of an asthma attack

in her apartment.

There's a CPS report attached too.

Child Protective Services.

Was she an abuse victim?

It says her mother was questioned

by a psychiatric nurse at...

...Saint Luke's.

- Your sister.

Wanna give me a hand with those?

Yeah, sure.

Make sure Jesus is centered, all right?

Let's go, people! Let's go!

Hey, Gary, this is a great place.

I have a feeling

it's gonna be a terrific show.

- How's our girl doing, huh?

Not bad.

This is Beth. I'm calling for Taylor.

Taylor, when you get this,

will you call me, please? Thanks.

Jean's papers. I haven't had a chance

to go through them yet...

...but she kept records of everything

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