Our House Page #4

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- Yes.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

- Yo, yo!

- Hey.

[DOOR CLOSES]

What happened in here?

You forget to pay the bills?

Uh, new house rule.

Use as little power as possible.

[SCATTING]

Okay.

I'm not supposed to tell you

but..

...I think my Mom and Dad

might be back.

Yeah, right.

I'm serious.

- A... are they here right now?

- Yeah.

Where? Show me.

Well, the machine's not on.

- I think he's working on it.

- Convenient.

[DAG SCOFFS]

I'm telling the truth, Dag.

I swear to God.

- Mrs. Lightman?

- Shut... shut up!

[LAUGHS]

Come on. I'll show you

how to beat that level.

Becca!

Becca!

Show time!

I'm in the bath!

[CLOCK TICKING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

Quicker. Quicker.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Here we go.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SPLASHING]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[GASPING]

Why'd you do that?

[PANTING]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[YAWNS]

Hey. You okay?

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

Where's Lulu?

I gave her to Alice.

Oh.

I don't think

I've met Alice yet, have I?

She's shy.

I'm her only friend.

Oh, okay.

Um... alright.

Well, goodnight.

Ethan?

Hmm?

Does the machine work?

Not yet.

But it will. I promise.

Oh, hello.

Dude, check this out.

- You know your hot neighbor?

- Yeah.

Yeah, she's changing

in her bedroom

and curtains are wide open.

What?

Where?

She... she was, she was

right there. Um..

- You idiot!

- What?

Dude... dude, I swear.

- Come on. She was..

- Yeah.

What? You were getting turned on

by a hat rack?

Dude, it was

a woman's rack, okay?

Yeah, right.

Whatever. I'm gonna go

take a leak.

Yeah, make sure

that's all you do.

Ha, ha. Very funny, a**hole.

[WATER FLUSHING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

[EXHALES]

[DOOR CREAKS]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[STAIRS CREAKING]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

Dag?

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Dag!

Dag!

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[LAWN MOWER WHIRRING]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[DOGS BARKING]

[GASPS]

Jesus! Tom! Tom.

God, you scared me.

Hey.

I need to know.

What's that machine of yours

really do?

Well, um..

...the technical term

is electromagnetic induction...

Ethan!

Do not lie to me.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

Your machine..

...has a radius beyond

this house.

I thought it was

some mental thing.

Leftover guilt from,

from having moved on.

What have you seen?

My wife.

[CROW CAWING]

[EXHALES]

She killed herself..

...right here in this house.

Truth is..

...I've always felt

like she was still here..

...watching me.

Turns out I was right.

She never left me.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

- Alright. Have a good one.

- Bye.

See ya.

Hey, Ethan, do you have a sec?

Oh, yeah.

She's doing a lot better

since we last spoke.

Good. Yeah, she told me

she made a new friend.

Someone named Alice.

Oh. Yeah, she's mentioned Alice

to me too.

I, I assumed

she was a relative.

Why's that?

Well, Becca said

that she lives with you.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

Hey, Jacob, uh..

...do you believe in ghosts?

I... do... not.

Hey, Bec, can you tell me

a little bit more about Alice?

Well, she's really nice.

She used to live where we live.

- You mean at our house?

- Yep.

Did she start visiting after

Ethan turned on the machine?

I think so.

She's always hiding on me,

though.

Why?

'Cause she's afraid of Henry.

That's why I gave her Lulu..

...to protect her.

Who's Henry?

I don't know.

I haven't met him yet.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

Hannah!

Hey, Bec!

Come here.

I missed you.

- Hey, what's up?

- I missed you.

Hey, Matt.

Can you please take that inside,

and Becca?

- Come on, Bec.

- I'll be in there in a second.

You're staying for dinner,

right?

It's up to you.

- Yeah.

- Yes!

Um, I need

to show you something.

I had Adnan send me the video.

After watching it a few times,

I noticed something.

Okay, that'd be my shadow.

Yours, and what's that?

[EERIE MUSIC]

So, it's always done this,

since day one.

More power seems to intensify

the signal.

Oh, God. Hannah, I think the

signal's reaching beyond the house.

And since I've realized that,

I... I've been too afraid

to turn it back on.

I mean, Tom saw his dead wife.

It's one thing

bringing my parents back

but I'm pretty sure

everyone else

would rather

their loved ones stay dead.

But what makes you so sure

you're interacting

with your parents?

I mean, what if the machine

isn't bringing

people back exactly

just amplifying the energy

that's already there?

We're not just encountering an echo,

if that's what you're saying.

I mean, Becca's had entire

conversations with my parents.

- And Alice.

- Alice?

You just gave me an idea.

Who's Alice?

Let's find out.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

Uh... hm.

Your parents bought

the house

from a family..

Oh. It's..

The Szerbiaks.

And they moved to Michigan,

I think.

And before the Szerbiaks

it was..

Hm.

It was Diane and Frank Evans?

Frank worked

at my father's practice.

Do you remember anyone

ever living there named Alice?

Where did you hear that name?

I haven't looked at these

in so long.

That's me, Jo-Jo Gold

and Alice.

Alice lived at your house

with Mr. and Mrs. Gifford.

She was their foster child.

[SIGHS]

One day..

...she disappeared.

The police looked for her.

We all did.

But she was never found.

There was never any evidence

to prove anything

but the police

were convinced

that Mr. Gifford

had done something to Alice.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

Dag?

Technical difficulties.

I'm re-spawning.

[EERIE MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[DOOR CREAKS]

Do you remember

Mr. Gifford's first name?

Oh.

Uhm.

Henry!

Henry.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[DOOR CREAKING]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[SWORD CLANKING IN VIDEO GAME]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[CREAKS]

Found you!

[BECCA SCREAMS]

Help!

[BECCA SCREAMING]

[BECCA SCREAMING]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[BECCA SCREAMING]

Becca!

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

[GRUNTING]

[CREAKING]

[SCREAMING]

Becca!

[BECCA SCREAMING]

Stop!

[EERIE MUSIC]

[PANTING]

[DOOR CREAKS]

[GASPING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

Ethan!

Hey, are you okay?

- Hey. Hey, where's Becca?

- Yeah..

Ethan, Matt, help!

- Becca! Where are you?

- Becca?

- Becca!

- Becca!

Becca, where are you?

- Becca!

- Bec!

- Becca!

- Becca, are you okay?

- Where are you?

- Becca!

Ethan!

- Help!

- Oh, God.

- Help!

- Why are they doing this?

It's not them.

It's not Mom and Dad.

- What do you mean?

- It's not Mom and Dad!

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

No.

Ethan, help!

She's in here.

Help!

- Becca!

- Where am I?

Becca!

[INTENSE MUSIC]

Becca!

[BECCA SCREAMING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[SOBBING]

[GLASS SHATTERING]

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

[PANTING]

[GRUNTING]

[CREAKING]

It's a tunnel.

Becca!

Matt!

- What do you see?

- Bec!

[PANTING]

Hold on!

I'm coming!

[DOOR SHUTS]

Matt!

Are you okay?

[BANGING ON DOOR]

Tom?

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MATT BREATHING HEAVILY]

Matt, can you see Becca?

[DOOR CREAKING]

Becca!

Where are you?

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

Tom?

[PANTING]

Becca?

[INTENSE MUSIC]

Becca?

Matt!

I found her!

[MACHINE WHIRRING]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

Do not come any closer.

I mean it.

Look, you don't know

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