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He thought that he could use me to stop Yamamura Sadako from carrying out her plan.

He's trying to get me destroy that video in exchange for granting my wish.

And what is your wish Mr. Andou?

What is it?

Takayama gave that video to me. As as a present.

Did you watch it?

Why?

You're wrong.

About what?

That's not what Dr. Takayama wanted.

It's the video. What else could it be?

He wants me to destroy the video. It's the only possible explanation.

Dr. Andou.

You have a phone call, from a reporter named Mr. Yoshino.

HE got in touch with me.

It's open.

There's something I want to ask you.

Something you want to ask?

Well, what?

The well that Sadako fell into... by chance, is there a chunk missing out of one side?

You watched the video?

No I didn't watch it. I have no reason to watch it.

Then how do you know? Asakawa Reiko didn't write about that in her notes.

I've had enough. To hell with this, all of it.

I'm giving you the video. Here, take this too. Now hurry up and get out.

You watched the video, didn't you?

No, I said! I haven't watched it.

Yamamura Sadako appears in my dreams.

I can't sleep.

Because I keepthose things on me.

I just want to hurry up and forget all about this. Please leave!

Mr. Yoshino? Mr. Yoshino?

Hey! Mr. Yoshino?

Mr. Andou?

Don't look. Let's go.

That's it

It's over now.

I'm a pathologist. Up 'til now, all I've had to do was slice up bodies.

But now I've helped save a few lives.

No, more than that. Tens, maybe hundreds of lives.

I've put an end to Yamamura Sadako's hatred.

I'm this video's last victim.

I'm so sorry, Mr. Andou.

You lost what's most important to you.

You've thought about dying many times over.

All this time, you've blamed yourself for letting your son die.

But being afraid to die is nothing to be ashamed of.

Nor is regretting that you watched the video.

How do you know that?

That I let my son die?

If I touch someone like this, I know what that person is thinking. Just a little.

You have a power... like Takayama's?

He was the only person that I could be with.

Dr. Takayama was the only one that ever understood me.

So I guess I can't lie to you.

I'm an idiot.

It's just like you said.

I just don't get it unless it's staring me in the face:

I'm scared of dying.

Please help me.

I don't want to die.

Why did I watch that video?

Why did Takayama make me do that?

Isn't it painful? Knowing how I feel?

There were times when I thought it was just an excuse.

When he said he regretted bringing a child in this world.

But he meant it.

Takayama had the ability to see the future, so why did he die the way he did?

Nobody knows what's going to happen to them.

Not Dr. Takayama. Not me.

No one knows.

Listen. I want you do to something for me.

Will you be with me until I die?

I'm sorry.

There's nothing to be sorry about.

I finally found it.

It's structurally different from the smallpox virus.

Never seen anything like it, have you?

So there WAS a virus?

It can't be...

That reporter, Mr. Yoshino-- he didn't die of a heart attack.

What?

He asphyxiated. I'm in the process of getting a sample.

I think he'll turn up symptoms of the virus as well.

His cause of death was different...

What does that mean?

What is it?

There's something I want to show you.

You're saying that watching a videotape can cause a virus to just spontaneously occur inside the body?

Well, it's interesting! The retinas take in genetic data that's encoded on the tape, kinda like how computers use optical communication to send and receive information. The data is then restructured inside the body, creating a virus.

Optical communication? That could be it!

You're talking the impossible, Andou. Think a moment.

If that's the case then why didn't Asakawa Reiko have the virus? She saw the video too, didn't she?

You're not making a whole lot of sense.

Yamamura Sadako? A girl who could kill people with a curse but fell into a well and died?

Who could believe a story like that? Listen, what killed those people was a virus with an unusually low contagion ability. Not some curse.

I thought so, too.

Until I watched the video for myself.

Until you watched the video?

You want to try taking a sample from my body?

Shut the f*** up.

Listen to me. when I watched the video, Sadako's memories entered my body.

I'm tellin' you, leave me the hell alone.

I saw a hospital in the woods. In Izu. That's where Sadako was killed... about 30 years ago.

Now you talk a hospital in Izu from around that timeframe, what does that make you think of?

Tuberculosis?

And something else.

And...

Smallpox.

Smallpox.

Mai!

Mai!

Sh*t! Where the hell did she go?

So how does it feel knowing you won't be dying anytime soon?

I have some good news. Your body turns up no traces of the virus.

Which would mean the virus has nothing to do with the video. Wouldn't you agree?

Take a look. It's a picture of the virus they took from Yoshino's neck.

There's a virus with a completely different structure mixed in with the others.

It's mutated. That's why his cause of death was different, too.

We are lucky that it has such a low chance of contagion. I have to study this virus in more detail, find out how it works. This might turn out to be a profound discovery.

Yeah... did something happen between you and Takano Mai?

What?

Don't worry. She'll turn up soon enough.

They're saying that the family wants to talk to you about how to proceed with the death certificate.

This is about the insurance, isn't it?

Probably.

Doctor?

I'll catch up with you later.

You smell like a dead body.

Mr. Maekawa!

We've been cursed.

I have never had a case like this before.

Wait a minute.

It can't be.

They appear to have found evidence indicating that she gave birth.

Gave birth?

Yes.

But we can't find the baby's corpse anywhere.

The building's air vent... it looked just like a well.

Miyashita?

Hey, Andou...

Yamamura Sadako's well... does it by chance have a chunk missing out of one side?

Miyashita...

Yoshino didn't watch that video after all... but he still got infected with the virus.

Why do you think that is?

It's Asakawa Reiko's notebook.

It's the only possible explanation.

I can see it.

The color of the well, the way it looks. I see it in my dreams. It's like I'm actually there.

All I did was read that notebook, but I can see the images in my head so clearly.

You're saying the virus is generated not just by the video, but by WRITING?

But that doesn't mean that EVERYONE dies. There's a way to save yourself.

A way to save yourself?

Asakawa left her own record behind. Just reading it is enough to infect the reader with the virus.

In other words, she aided the virus in its proliferation.

The virus'... proliferation?

She became Yamamura Sadako's HELPER.

Andou, tell me. What did you do?

I...

You're the only survivor. What did you do? Why did you survive!?

I am NOT Yamamura Sadako's helper!

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