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that I didn't see it coming.

None of us did, okay?

You know, it's not all on you.

Are you still getting

those messages?

Yeah. What's the deal?

Did Stone not get over there?

You know, he didn't even

show up to class today.

I haven't spoken to him.

Hello?

Hey, Stone.

Hey, Izzie.

It's Mattie.

What's up, Mattie?

Are you still getting

those messages from Josh?

I haven't signed on.

I've just been kind of leaving

my computer alone.

Did you log off Josh's computer?

Did you turn it off?

Are you okay?

I just been kind of down,

you know?

Yeah, I know.

We all are.

Oh, my God.

You here to see the apartment?

Well, take a look.

New paint.

Gonna have new carpet.

You won't beat the rent.

Mm-mm!

The guy who lived here

was a friend of mine.

I need his computer.

Computer?

What'd you do with it?

I don't know nothing

about no computer.

His computer was

right over there,

with all the rest of his stuff.

Girl, you better get out

of my face

or I'm calling the police.

Why don't I call the police?

All right.

All right! Don't get crazy.

For two months,

that boy lived here

- and didn't pay his rent.

- You sold it?!

For two months...

what was I supposed to do?

Who did you sell it to?

Mm-hmm!

Dead cats,

and he done killed himself,

and here, now, you

come here bugging me

about a damn computer.

You tell him he still

owe me a hundred bucks.

The bank didn't take

his raggedy-ass check.

Dexter McCarthy.

What, it bounced?

I guess that doesn't

really matter,

since you bought

a stolen computer.

She seemed pretty honest to me.

Why are you e-mailing me?

E-mailing you?

I don't even know who you are.

That computer belonged

to someone I know.

You found his password.

Now you're messing

with the people

in his address book?

That's a really shitty

thing to do.

Really?

Come here.

That's not possible.

I have a procrastination

problem.

It hasn't been plugged in...

since you bought it?

No. Look, stolen or not,

the thing cost me

to get me a refund?

Your boyfriend can have

his computer back.

Keep it.

He doesn't need it anymore.

He's dead.

Classic.

What's that?

It's from Josh.

This is his handwriting.

When was it sent?

Seventeenth.

That's two days before he died.

Keeps what out?

He obviously went nuts,

that's all.

What about Stone?

What about him?

Wait, what's up with Stone?

He didn't sound like himself.

I can't explain it.

Kinda got the same feeling.

The same feeling as what?

As when I was at Josh's.

Later on in this broadcast,

we'll show how

you and your family

can stay healthy and germ-free

at home and in the workplace.

And here's Skip Warren

with a late-breaking story.

A spokesman

for the County Health Department

is calling a recent cluster

of suicides in the city

"tragic and very unfortunate,"

and he added that there's

no evidence to suggest

that they are connected

in any way.

Hey.

Go on.

It's okay.

Okay.

Go ahead, I got it.

How well did you

actually know this guy?

- Why?

- 'Cause he was into

some scary sh*t.

Can I show you something?

What are we looking for?

You'll see.

So, your friend,

was it an accident?

No.

Then what was it?

I'm not sure.

I thought it was just looping

the same clips over and over

again, but it's not.

They don't always

do the same thing.

It's some kind of Web-cam feed.

Ah, Bag Man. Watch.

Every time he tries

to take it off,

the image just cuts... it goes

right back to the beginning.

How did this get on there?

All I did was plug it in.

How long have you been

watching this?

No, I think the question is,

is how long have they

been watching me?

Damn it.

Yeah?

Look, look, man...

Turn it off. Turn it off!

Turn it off.

I can't believe

you showed me that.

It was your friend's computer.

Did he get off on the stuff?

Was he shooting those videos

and selling them on-line?

What was he doing?

Josh tied a phone cord

around his neck

and hanged himself...

that's what he was doing.

Mattie... Mattie,

don't you think

that your friend having

the video feeds

and then doing what he did

is not a coincidence?

And if those people,

if what they're doing,

if it's real,

- if they're all dead...

- You know what I think?

I think, no matter what...

Josh is still gonna be gone.

I think you need

to go back upstairs

and erase his hard drive.

I tried.

It won't let me.

I need to move on.

I'm sorry.

Don't you want to know why?

Hello, this is Louise Webber.

Leave your name and message

and I'll get back...

Oh!

Josh?

Josh, it's Mattie.

Mattie.

Are you there?

I feel all alone.

Josh?

Josh.

Something is wrong with me.

I have seen two people

kill themselves.

My psych professor stepped out

in front of a moving bus.

All in the last week.

Have you walked

around campus lately?

Every classroom is half-empty

and no one is talking

about it.

Something is following me.

It's in my dreams.

- I saw it on the bus.

- Come on, Mattie,

do you honestly feel

there are ghosts of some kind

walking around out there?

I don't know.

But something is wrong.

You're a very smart young woman.

I want you to add this up

for me.

A flu epidemic breaks out.

People are in a weakened state;

they're fearful of each other.

And then add a trigger event:

this coincidental clustering

of suicides.

The e-mail rumor mill

goes into overdrive,

and suddenly people are seeing

strange things in the shadows?

I'm not imagining this!

Why do you think

you came here again?

It certainly isn't

because you thought

that I would agree with you.

You knew what my response

would be; you knew that

you needed to hear it.

You can't articulate

what you think

is going on out there, Mattie,

because it isn't real.

So what am I supposed to do?

Just ignore everything

I'm feeling?

No. No.

You have to face what you

think is happening out there.

You have to stand ground,

take a good, long look,

and you'll see it's not there.

You're not real.

You're not real.

Stone?

- I don't want to die!

- Stone...

I don't want to do it myself.

S-S...

I don't want to die!

- Stone! What's happening!

- I don't want to die!

I don't want to do it myself!

Stone!

Oh, my God!

I'm ready to know.

What did you find?

Well, his hard drive

was fried,

but I was able to retrieve

most of the sh*t off of it.

Apparently your boy's

into stockpiling some

pretty serious viruses.

Why would he do that?

It's a power trip.

It's like keeping nukes

in your closet.

I found some other stuff that

I think you need to see.

When I booted the drive,

this is what came up.

Josh?

This message is

for Douglas Zeigler.

I'm Josh Ockmann, I'm the guy

who hacked into your system.

I'm sorry...

but now I got to talk to you.

He kept a video diary?

It's more like a play-by-play.

Zeigler, it's Josh again.

How can I convince you

to talk to me?

Whatever you had locked up

in your system,

I let it loose.

I let...

And now I don't know

how to stop it.

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