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Sorry.

I'm from the media. I was Asakawa's senior co-worker.

Her co-oworker?

Officer... isn't that a VCR?

VCR?

Welcome home!

What're you doing just standing over there?

You're late.

Yeah...

Where's Takanori?

He went to sleep already. He said he was going to stay up 'til you got home, but...

Oh.

I'm just gonna check on him.

Don't wake him up.

I know.

I'm sorry. I woke you up.

What is it?

The child died, too?

Yes.

Yeah, but he didn't die because of the accident.

He was already dead. Heart attack.

The police think that Asakawa Reiko was driving when she noticed that her son sitting in the back seat was dead. She took her attention from the road and that's what caused the accident.

Now Takayama, Asakawa Reiko, and even their son are dead.

Their son saw the video too, didn't he?

This has nothing to do with a video.

We know what exactly what caused his death.

And no matter how hard you look, you're not going to find any connection between dying because you watched some video, and a tumor in a person's arteries.

Isn't that right?

Dr. Takayama's talked to me about his son.

What did he say?

He said he regretted leaving any trace of his DNA in this world.

He regretted... leaving his DNA in this world?

Yes.

There isn't a father in this world that'd wish for the death of his son.

Mr. Andou.

What?

Dr. Takayama didn't want his son to die.

He was trying to HELP him. For Ms. Asakawa's sake.

He was looking for a way to help them.

But something happened when he died.

He... saw something.

As for what he saw... I just don't know yet.

Mr. Kou, can you take a look at this?

That mouse is glowing!

Yes. The fertilized egg of a mouse was injected with the genetic protein of a luminescent jellyfish.

It's for a classt.

You mean that "gene splicing" stuff? So it's already progressed this far... That's amazing.

I bet if you put your minds to it you could even "make" a human, huh?

Sorry.

Do you remember me?

Yes.

I'm Yoshino from NNB Broadcasting.

Is there something I can help you with?

As a matter of fact, there's something I'd very much like for you to see.

What's that?

This is a record of what Asakawa Reiko was working on.

Record?

Yes. She wrote about a videotape.

A videotape that kills you if you watch it.

Four people died of a heart attack at exactly the same time.

I now know that one week earlier, the four of them had watched a videotape at a lodge in Izu.

Asakawa was curious. She went to Izu and found the videotape for herself.

She watched it, and was sure that she too would die one week later.

Thus, aided by Takayama Ryuji, she began her investigations, trying to uncover everything she could about the videotape.

I don't know why... but even Asakawa's son saw the video.

From her information, the videotape was created by a girl named Yamamura Sadako, via her powers of psychography.

Sadako's mother, Yamamura Shizuko, was reportedly clairvoyant, which had the press all up in arms.

She was branded a fraund, a charlatan, and ended up committing suicide.

But as it turns out, her daughter Sadako was even more powerful. She had a miserable life, was treated like some sort of monster.

Sadako was killed by her father. Her own father.

Sadako had the power to lay a curse on someone, and to kill them with it. Through the power of her hatred.

Do you really believe that story?

Let me tell you about Asakawa. She thought whoever watched that video had to copy that tape and show it to someone else within seven days. If they wanted to live.

So to save her child, she went to her parent's house and showed it to her father. She even brought a VCR so she could copy the tape.

But one week later, her son died of a heart attack.

One week later... And what happened to her father?

He killed himself.

He'd written will. It said:

"Don't worry. The tape is my responsibility, and I've taken care of it.

This is Yamamura Sadako.

She was in a small acting troupe for a while, in Tokyo. when she lived in Tokyo. This photograph is from around that time.

There's one more thing.

This was found at the Asakawa house. It's a copy of the tape.

I pass it on to you.

Please, feel free to watch it if you like.

Is something wrong?

Have you watched it?

No.

What's weird is weird, even if you don't actually believe in it.

That's the kind of thing this video is. Don't you think?

But you're a doctor. I need some kind of scientific basis for what's happened. Please, help me.

If you find out anything, please give me a call. I'm counting on you.

Present?

Present...

You're saying that this is a present? From you to me?

Sadako!

Sadako!

Sadako!

Forgive me Sadako.

You were were never meant to be born into this world. Sadako!

Sadako!

I didn't come to you for help thinking you'd ask me to do something like THIS!

I'm a REPORTER. If I told a story like that, there'd be no difference between the nightly news and those "That's Incredible!" variety shows.

That's WHY I am telling you this. You can't report this to the public at all.

What ARE you talking about? Why do you think I've gone through all this trouble to research Yamamura Sadako's story?

That video... it's the embodiment of Sadako's hatred. Make no mistake-- if you watch it, you will die.

You are NOT right in the head. Do you realize what you're saying?

Why don't you watch it for yourself? Then you'll realize whether what I'm saying is true or not.

I'm not discussing this any longer. Please leave. If you'll excuse me.

Wait a minute!

What's your problem?

Please give me the videotape.

I gave it to you already.

I want YOUR copy so I can get rid ot it. I want to get rid of all the videotapes, and then I want to die.

You wanna die...? Video...

Give it to me!

You think I'd just hand it over to you? Get the f*** away from me!

Now wait just a minute! Give me that tape!

We are through talking. Will you please let go of me?!

You just don't get it, do you?

What are you THINKING about over there?

Say something, dammit.

You look even more depressed than usual. Lke you you're about to die or something.

Yeah...

You want me to inject you with some of that protein from the glowing jellyfish? If I did that, it might "brighten" you up a little, huh?

Laugh, why don't you?

The bodies of four students have turned up. They all died from the same medical condition.

The administrative autopsy was carried out in Yokohama. All of them died from heart attack. What's more, the cause of the attacks was a tumor in their bloodstream.

Oh...

This may end up being a virus, after all.

A virus.

But I don't get it. If it IS a virus, why didn't Asakawa Reiko also die from a heart attack?

Because the cause of death isn't a virus.

What is it, then?

A curse.

Gimme a break.

I have to apologize to you. The video DOES exist.

And I understand now what Takayama wants.

What Dr. Takayama wants?

I know what he wants me to do.

What's that?

To wipe that video off the face of this world.

Right before he died, he "saw" that things would turn out like this.

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