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This right here is a mess.

I mean, look at this.

This is... you've got cigarette butts.

You can't smoke on the job.

(Choking)

(screams)

(rock music playing)

(engine rewing)

Just because you can.

Just because you can.

Julian:

Oh, he was adopted?

It says Harlan's real parents

died when he was four.

Born in New York,

bounced around foster homes

until the Diehl family adopted him.

Well, yeah, a lot of poor families

do that for subsidy money.

Yeah, his real name was

Harlan Prince.

The son of the mysterious

Louis Le Prince.

- The mysterious who?

- Louis Le Prince.

I've never heard of him.

Well, that's why he's mysterious.

Oh. Wait, go back a page.

That... that's the farmhouse

on Henderson Road,

just past Southwood.

You know,

the one tucked behind the trees?

- Yeah.

- You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah yeah yeah, maybe.

I don't know.

Should we check it?

I'm pretty sure that my mom told me

that the house got signed over

to one of the Diehl brothers

after the murders.

If the house in that picture is

from the Diehl farm,

I'm telling you it's the same house.

She said that they leveled it

to sell the land.

There it is.

Yeah, you're right.

That's the same house.

Why would my mom lie about it?

(flies buzzing)

Shoot. We could've been shooting

here the whole time.

Oh sh*t, that's where

Harlan killed his sister.

Adopted sister.

- Julian:
Done.

- Okay, let's go.

This place is really

starting to freak me out.

Come on, we've gotta go inside.

(Creaking)

Hello?

Anyone here?

I don't know, Julian.

Maybe this isn't a good idea.

Julian:

This is gonna be such great footage.

Oh wow, there's the bathroom.

That's where he killed his mother.

Julian, come on.

- Julian.

- Riley, I'm almost done.

(Chiming)

- Wait. Shh.

Do you hear that?

Yeah, what is that?

I think it's coming from...

(chiming continues)

I've got this planet in my hands.

You know I'll listen if I can...

(Chiming continues)

This is a baby's room.

The reports never said

anything about a baby.

Oh, look at that thing.

(Camera shutter clicks)

It's creepy.

This'll be great for the project.

Okay, Julian,

I think we should just go.

(Screams)

Come on, Mom.

We're just doing research

- on our project.

- Riley:
Julian, it's okay.

Ms. Miller, I am so sorry.

Okay, Riley, you go on.

I'll take Julian back with me.

- Call me later, okay?

- Yeah.

- You can't be out here.

- Why not?

- Because it's trespassing.

- Oh, come on, Mom.

It's not like we're stealing anything.

We're doing research.

I don't care, Julian.

You don't get

to rewrite the law

when it doesn't suit you.

- How'd you even know where I was?

- I tracked your cellphone.

Wait, you what?

How'd you even know how to do that?

Look, until you move

out of the house,

you're my responsibility.

That means I get to know where you are.

Why, so you can scare

the sh*t out of me and my girlfriend?

So I can protect you.

(Sighs)

I don't need you to protect me, Mom.

All right?

I can take care of myself.

What happened to the Diehl family

is an ugly part

of this town's past, Julian.

No one needs you digging it up again.

No one needs to be reminded of it.

You're just gonna have to find something

else to research, you understand?

(Rock music playing)

Stupid American trash

I'm just American trash.

Stupid American trash.

(Engine stops) (music stops)

Riley:
Who is that?

Julian:

That is the mysterious Louis Le Prince.

Harlan's great-great-

great-great-grandfather,

and according to many historians,

the father of motion pictures.

I thought that was Thomas Edison.

Yeah, so did I, actually.

- Are you sure he's related to Harlan?

- Yeah, that's what it says.

Oh. Hey, check this out.

It's a still from "Roundhay Garden."

According to this,

it was the first movie ever made

by anybody ever.

How cool is that?

So what'd you find on the baby?

Uh, nothing.

There's no mention of it,

just the photo of the family.

God, she looks pregnant

in the photo, right?

Mmm, yeah, definitely.

(Chuckles)

What about a birth certificate?

If Harlan's sister had a baby,

- there has to be a record of it.

- Look, it's Rob Zombie.

(School bell rings)

- Riley:
Ugh.

Get a room, you guys.

Oh, we plan to.

Shiny Toy Guns tonight, buddy.

Are you serious?

You're gonna skip your classes?

- Yeah, we're gonna skip...

- Mmmmm.

...get a hotel, get shitfaced

and pass out in each other's arms.

Oh, I didn't realize

you were such a romantic, Bri.

Mmm, I have many secrets.

Speaking of secrets,

you should see the stuff

that Riley and I are

getting on Harlan Diehl.

Mmm, I'm sure it's all

so incredibly fascinating.

Check out these pictures.

I took 'em down at the farmhouse.

I think we should

go back there and reshoot.

(laughs) Dream on, Spielberg.

Sh*t. Damn it,

do you have my phone?

Riley:

Here, just call yourself.

Thanks.

(sighs)

(playing tune)

(crickets chirping)

Hello.

Quinn.

You have my phone?

Looks like it.

- Where'd you find it?

- Here.

Is it...

uh, where are you now?

Home.

So is it cool if I come by

and grab it in like an hour?

Yeah.

(Chimes)

(coughs)

You like doing this, don't you?

What?

Digging deeper into things.

- Yeah, don't you?

- I'm not sure.

Julian:

All right, there he is.

(Car door opens)

(door closes)

(engine stops)

(door opens)

- Hey, man.

What are you doing here?

You have my phone, remember?

(Inhales sharply) Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Awesome. Thanks, man.

I'll see you later.

(Car door opens)

(rock music playing)

Gonna come in and rent

a movie from me?

I can give you

some recommendations,

maybe even a discount.

(laughs) No thanks.

We don't like the same kind

of films, remember?

Oh, that's right, yeah.

"Freaky Friday."

- Why "Freaky"...

- What?

(Chuckles) I'll see you later.

- See ya.

(chuckles) Bye.

(Bells jingle)

- Yo.

Hey, what's up, man?

(Hums) (keyboard clacking)

Hey, Wylie, have you ever heard

of a guy named Louis Le Prince?

- Oh yeah, of course.

- Hmm. You ever see any of his films?

Well, he only made three,

but I wouldn't really call them films...

they was only like two seconds long.

We got a copy around here somewhere.

Hey, come over and help me restock this.

I gotta get out of here.

I got some sh*t to do.

So are they cool,

the Le Prince films?

- Not as cool as the legend.

- So what is the legend?

The legend is only something people

in the know would know...

that Louis Le Prince was the Devil.

(laughs) The Devil. Come on.

- Think about it...

Louis, Lucifer,

the Prince of Darkness.

Wait. What? Come on. Really, the guy's

evil because his name's weird?

Wylie:

A name tell a lot about a man.

Think about it...

Louis Cyphre, "Angel Heart";

John Milton,

"The Devil's Advocate";

Daryl Van Horne,

"Witches of Eastwick."

- They all devils, man.

- That's completely different.

They're movies. It's fiction.

What do you think legends are?

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