[grandfather clock chiming]
[clock ticking]
[foreboding music playing]
[lights flickering]
[metal scraping]
[crickets chirping]
[metal scraping]
[foreboding music ends]
[unsettling music playing]
[exhales deeply]
[door closes]
[door opens]
-[thuds] -[grunts]
-[breathes heavily] -[thuds]
[exhales deeply]
[unsettling music ends]
[foreboding music playing]
[metal scraping]
-[car horn honking] -[gasps]
[distant whistling]
[screaming, groaning]
-[loud thud] -[foreboding music ends]
["Heads or Tails" by Shannon and the Clams playing]
♪ Do what I want ♪
[coach blowing whistle]
♪ Do what I want... ♪
[coach] Can't see your mark. Go, girls.
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I'm a real life hobo I prefer my life on the rails... ♪
-[coach] Let's go! -[Karen grunts]
-♪ Do what I want ♪ -♪ I keep a coin in my pocket ♪
[grunts]
♪ And my only friend Is head or tails ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I had a wife and a family I let them fend on their own... ♪
Come on.
♪ Do what I want... ♪
[coach] Let's go. Come on.
♪ And appreciate what They've been shown ♪
[grunts]
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ Sometimes I flip the coin Oh yeah I flip the coin ♪
[coach screams]
♪ Oh I flip the coin ♪
[coach blowing whistle]
♪ Yeah I flip the coin... ♪
[girl] Hey, Karen, your pigtails suck!
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ Do what I want Do what I want ♪
[song ends]
-[bus engine revving] -[indistinct chatter]
[Suzy] Karen sucks. You should just bring the bitch.
[chuckles]
Next time, seriously,
she hurts you, I hurt her. No doubt.
Dude, I could not give a shit about her.
Okay.
So, he picked Stanford?
-Mm-hmm. -Dick.
Why... Why... Why not Brown? It's like an hour away, right?
His dad went to Stanford.
We got in a huge,
-huge fight. -Oh, I heard.
-Are you serious? -Yeah. I mean,
everyone on the third floor heard.
-Fuck. -Yeah.
-Shit. -You two never fight.
Yeah, I know.
He's coming over tonight, later.
[indistinct chatter]
-Well, you look like shit. -[laughs]
[laughs]
[Suzy] Oh, you do. Sorry. [chuckles] Go to sleep.
[Tara] Bye, honey.
[Suzy] Wait, text me if he calls.
Aw. Thank you.
Tara!
[bus engine revving]
[Tara chuckling]
[foreboding music playing]
[cries]
[foreboding music continues]
-[screams] -[thuds loudly]
[gasps]
[indistinct chatter]
[breathes heavily]
[dragging footsteps]
[Tara coughing]
-[Jack crying over monitor] -[foreboding music ends]
-[door closes] -[Tara] I'm home.
Oh, you got him. Great.
-[Tara] Whoa, whoa, whoa. -[Emily] Tara, check the baby.
[Tara] Can you get him for me this time?
-No. -[Tara] Why not?
-[Jack crying] -'Cause it's your turn.
[Tara] Please. I'll give you five bucks.
-I don't care. -[Tara] I'll give you ten bucks.
-[door slams shut] -[Caleb] I don't care.
[cries]
[Tara] Hi, Jack. [shushes]
-[crying stops] -I'm here.
You're good.
Yeah. You're good.
-[cries] -[Tara] It's okay. [shushes]
-Never gonna hurt you. [shushes] -[cries]
[Tara] Promise I'll never hurt you.
Tara! Are you okay?
-Hurt who? -[Tara] Nothing.
-No-- Nothing, Mom. -[Jack crying]
Well, if he's hungry, you can just bring him down. Okay?
[Tara] He's not hungry. He just needs a change.
-And you're gonna change him? -[Tara] Yeah. Stop yelling.
-[coos] -[shushes]
♪ Hush little baby Don't say a word ♪
♪ I'm gonna buy you A mockingbird ♪
♪ And if that mocking bird Don't sing... ♪
[birds chirping]
-[suspenseful music playing] -[indistinct chatter]
[woman] What if Gina isn't coming back?
What do you mean?
Let's say there was a big fight.
Something not even a dozen roses could fix.
Where did you get that?
The more we know, the more we can help.
The babysitter.
I sent texts. I'm no molester.
What's the babysitter's name?
Tara Haldon.
Thanks for your time.
-[cutlery clattering] -[slurps]
[suspenseful music ends]
Mm. Go on.
I need the car this weekend.
Me and Suzy are gonna be babysitting again.
Not for that Gina Loeb.
You know I don't want you going over there anymore.
Mom, I told you I'm not.
I'm not babysitting for them anymore.
What happens when I'm driving, and we have one car?
I don't know what went on with you and Gina, but, um,
what's her husband's name again?
Mikhail.
Yeah.
He's got a tree he needs cut down.
Now can I take the job, or, uh,
I'll be violating some family feud?
That car will be a total P-O-S when I get to it.
Listen. You start saving now, you can buy a car.
When I was 16, I bought my own car.
And no P-O-S.
[Caleb] I said P-O-S, that's not a curse.
[crockery clattering]
Actually, you know what, Ben?
You should charge the Loebs double.
They're a bunch of rich stuck-ups.
I heard that Gina Loeb... [chuckles]
...spent a thousand dollars
on a baby stroller made of some sort of,
-I don't know, special steel. -[crockery clattering]
It's a step up from the wheelbarrow
you guys used for us.
Nah. No need for a wheelbarrow.
We locked you in your closet till you were six.
-Like Aunt Diane. -[crockery clattering]
[water pattering]
[whispers] You had to go there?
Listen, that's my sister...
and I've been thinking, you know, it's been, um,
six months, and I think we should all...
maybe take a trip up there
-on Saturday. -[Caleb] Sorry, Mom.
Remember Boy Scout project?
I got a job in Worcester.
[slurps]
Really, it won't take that long. I know you hate going, but...
I mean, she's family. It's... It's the right thing to do.
[cutlery clattering]
-[eerie music playing] -[door slamming shut]
You can say "piece of shit." I think you're old enough now.
[Suzy] So, you have to go to the prison?
[Tara] No, we're going to the psych ward.
Mom's gonna be hysterical the whole time.
It's fucking annoying.
Okay. Well, do you want company?
[Tara gasping] You'd do that for me?
Yeah. Sure, sure. Besides... [chuckles] ...obviously,
it kind of sounds like a Lifetime Movie.
Like My Killer Aunt starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. [laughs]
-Fuck you. -[keyboard clacking]
[knocking on door]
Yeah?
[Ben] Carl is downstairs. Yes? No?
Well, take me with you. I'll be your voice of reason.
Your Wi-Fi Jiminy Cricket.
[clicks tongue] Let me think about that for a second.
No.
My... My advice is just ditch him.
-No. -No. He's... He's a lost cause
-'cause he doesn't-- -Bye.
Love you.
[eerie music ends]
-[Ben] Oh, hey. -Hey.
[Ben] Um. Hang on. Um. Carl going away to Stanford.
He hasn't done this to hurt you, you know.
Yeah, well.
And... And... And I don't wanna give you a bunch of bullshit
about absence making the heart grow fonder because it doesn't.
It sucks and it hurts like hell, but, uh--
Oh, great. Do you also go to the orphanages on Father's Day
-and laugh at kids? -But absence also clarifies,
it validates, it tells you whether it's love or not.
And then if it is...
Stanford, Japan, the Moon, none of that matters.
-Yeah. -[Ben] Yeah.
Your mom told me about... uh, Pigtails.
-I don't wanna talk about that. -You just let me know
if I should talk to her parents.
No. I don't want you to talk to them.
I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you... ever.
Okay.
-I can take care of myself. -[foreboding music playing]
[foreboding music ends]
-[door closing] -[soft music playing]
[Tara sniffles]
-[clears throat] You all right? -[grunts]
Hey, what are you doing this weekend?
Oh, my God. Monday's Columbus Day.
Yeah, yeah.
[Tara chuckles]
No, I was thinking maybe if Suzy could cover for us...
we can get away like we did last--
What? You don't like that idea?
-No. I love that idea. -Yeah?
-I'd love to do that. -Mm.
[smooches]
What? Why are you looking like that?
You sure you wanna go to Stanford?
Oh, my God.
No.
-Why? What are you about to do? -How about now?
[smooches]
Mm.
-I said... -[Tara] Mm.
[Carl] Yeah.
[soft music ends]
[smooches]
How 'bout now?
[ominous music playing]
-[Carl] Why did you stop? -[Tara] What the fuck?
-[Carl] What? -[Tara] Wait.
-Someone's in my room. -[Carl] What you mean?
[Tara] Someone's in my room.
-[Carl] Hey, Tara, wait. -What?
-Aren't we celebrating? -Yes.
Wait. Come here.
[smooches]
Oh, my God. You don't get it.
-You'll never be-- -[door opening, closing]
[Tara] Fucking hell. What are you doing?
-[footsteps approaching] -[ominous music ends]
Can you stay out of my room?
I don't ask for much. That's all that I ask.
In return, I'll get straight A's, I won't get high,
and I'll never have to Google the word chlamydia. Okay?
Stop going in my room.
-[footsteps receding] -[Jack crying]
I don't know. You deal with it.
We are at Defcon Four. I repeat, we are at Defcon Four.
Not good with Carl?
No, Mom. Actually, things were really great with Carl.
Why do you just assume things are bad?
I'm just really annoyed...
because someone keeps on coming in my room
and touching my stuff.
Every single day, something of mine is either moved or missing.
No one's...
I mean, no one's coming in your room.
Yeah, I know. No one's coming in my room
and I'm just going fucking crazy, right?
If so, then... why?
I'm the happiest that I've ever been.
I have my coach, my teammates, Carl, they all like me.
I'm doing a great job.
How about your dreams?
[ominous music playing]
-What? -It's just that's how it... it...
it started with...
Diane, nightmares. And,
you know, the whole time she was happy.
-She was so happy. -I'm...
not her.
And I'm not saying you are. It's just...
it's just that--
it was just that she was 16 when it started,
and you're a year older, and...
it's just a family history.
You mean the Borden family curse?
[clicks tongue] The nursery rhyme...
is part of our family history.
You know, mental illness, it's... it's...
-it's not a curse. -No, it's not a curse.
-It's... It's a blessing. -I'm just saying that there...
there are things that you can do.
There's medication.
I'm not gonna do medication.
Why would you say that?
I'm not crazy.
Honey, I'm on your team.
So, here's what we're gonna do.
Let's just start with seeing Dr. Sanchez tomorrow
at 3:30 after practice.
I'm fine.
I'm honestly fine. I'm just tired because I just...
[clicks tongue] ... I haven't been sleeping that much
because, you know, I've been sewing all night
since Grandma sent the trunk of clothes. That's it.
Let's just see what the therapist has to say.
Okay? What do you think?
Will you please get out of my room now?
Yeah.
Will you please get out of my room?
I'm just gonna say I think you--
Please just leave me alone right now?
Please. Just give me a second.
I just think you're very talented.
[Tara] Please get out of my room.
[keyboard clacking]
[foreboding music playing]
[sewing machine whirring]
[moans]
[ominous music ends]
[crickets chirping]
[Lizzie] Tara...
[grunts]
[Lizzie] Tara...
[foreboding music playing]
-You're not real. -[Lizzie] Sure I am.
You're not real.
No. [exhales]
You're not real. You're not real.
[eerie whispering]
[heart thumping]
If it isn't real...
bring it down on your brother's head.
[heart thumping]
[sniffs]
[groans]
[axe thudding]
Your aunt wasn't afraid.
[foreboding music intensifies, ends]
[Ben whispering] Therapy isn't enough, you know that.
Didn't work with Diane, why would it work--
[Emily] Do not bring up my sister.
How dare you bring up my sister like that?
I'm trying to save her, too.
I will just go ahead and have a drink.
Honey, is that you?
[breathes heavily]
[door shuts softly]
[pants]
-[Lizzie] Tara. -[exhales]
-[Lizzie] Tara... -[breathes heavily]
[sighs]
-[knocking on door] -[Emily] Tara?
Yeah?
[Emily] You're late.
-Gotta go. Come on. -Okay. Just a minute.
[Emily] Tara, I am not driving you again.
Okay. You don't have to. Just one second.
[groans]
[scoffs]
I'm not crazy.
Tara...
you having a good day?
-[keyboard clacking] -No diploma.
Where'd you go? Online?
-Harvard. -[Tara] Hmm.
And you? Have you thought about college?
Maybe fashion.
I actually bought one of your dresses from your mom.
[chuckles] My dress pimp.
She told me about your aunt and family history.
She's concerned.
What? That I'm one step closer on my way to crazy town?
My family's curse?
[scribbling]
-And school? -[keyboard clacking]
[Dr. Sanchez] How are things going?
What are you typing?
Notes...
so I can review them later.
Just keep it off the cloud.
I don't want someone hacking you.
Your computer, I mean. Not with an axe.
That was a joke.
[Dr. Sanchez] I understand that you're going to see your aunt.
Mm-hmm.
[Dr. Sanchez] Tell me about her.
Well... [clicks tongue, inhales deeply]
...she suffocated her child when she was 16 years old.
And she's been locked up ever since.
She's the, uh, winner of our family's
"Black Sheep of the Year" award.
Twenty years running, actually.
You think it's humorous?
No, I don't. I'm...
not laughing.
There is an infant in your home.
I'm not saying you're schizophrenic.
You're just a stressed-out high schooler...
-[laughs] -...but,
mid-teens is when this disease first manifests.
-And its prodromal stage-- -Prodromal stage?
Are you serious?
[Dr. Sanchez] Beginning stage.
You may feel a certain euphoria, a sense of empowerment.
Things seem clear to you.
You feel amazing...
and you can be prone to fits of anger and violence,
experience multiple personalities...
use different voices, hear voices.
But it can be held in check with drugs and therapy.
[laughs] Mm-hmm.
I would never hurt my family.
Type that in your fucking keyboard.
-[screams] -[rapid thudding]
-[eerie whispering] -[ominous music playing]
[Lizzie] Tara...
Tara...
You're fine.
[Lizzie] Your aunt wasn't afraid.
Everything's fine.
-[speaking indistinctly] -[speaking indistinctly]
Tara Haldon?
He sent me some texts and...
and a photo.
Mikhail?
I make clothes.
I sell my stuff on Etsy, and he bought one of my pieces.
And he told me he wanted me to model it for him.
[chuckles] And then came the dick pic.
You do know what he did was illegal.
Yeah, you would have to arrest half this town.
-She knew. -[Det. Childs] Gina?
Mm-hmm.
[Det. Childs] Anyone else?
My mother. She knows about the text, not the photo, though.
[Det. Childs] And, uh, just your mom?
Yeah. My dad's...
a little more protective,
so I'd rather him not know at all.
Let's just stick with the babysitting.
I mean, you... you kept doing it. Why?
What? Are you saying I've something to do with this?
We're just doing our due diligence.
Hmm. Okay, are we done?
[suspenseful music playing]
[exhales deeply]
[sniffs]
You're going to Laurie's?
Laurie kinda sucks. I don't know.
But I mean, maybe.
[birds chirping]
You cutting through?
Yeah.
Text me if you go.
-Bye. -Bye.
[ominous music ends]
[eerie whispering]
[distant whistling]
[eerie whispering]
[twigs snapping]
[Karen] Hello?
Is anyone there?
[eerie whispering]
[twig breaks]
[screams, groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
[screams]
Help! Help me!
-[screams] -[heartbeat thumping]
[screams] Help! Help me!
[suspenseful music ends]
Can you pass me the lace?
I wish I sewed.
Or anything.
I mean, I don't do the sports thing, or...
the glee thing.
Hmm.
I know you would think you're...
sewing stuff and...
selling them. I don't know. You just have like this,
this real talent.
You okay?
[screams]
I think I'm gonna kill my family.
[ominous music playing]
[chuckles] You and every other teenager.
[Tara] No, I'm for real.
[Jack cooing]
[Tara] Don't say a word to anyone.
[Suzy] Okay.
What's going on?
I've dreamt about it.
I thought things were going good, great even, but...
the nightmares I've been having...
I'm scared.
This nightmare, I don't know. I just--
[Suzy] I think you should just stop worrying
about your fucked-up family and dreams.
[Tara] I know.
[Suzy] You know what? Besides, I think...
every daughter wants to kill their mother at some point.
-[Tara laughing] -[Suzy laughing]
[Suzy] Fucking tell me about it.
[Tara laughing]
[Suzy] Come here. Come here, my love.
-[wind whooshing] -[ominous music ends]
Hey, why are you up?
My service project for becoming a First Class Scout.
Oh, yeah. You're building something.
What do you-- What are you building?
Park benches.
Okay. [chuckles] Jesus.
[distant arguing]
What is it this time? [chuckles]
[Ben] God damnit. Please!
"You're never home."
"You don't help with the Jack."
He's mad she's not going to take them.
Them? Is that us?
[approaching footsteps]
Sounds like we're with Dad in the divorce.
[Ben] Caleb, come on.
Come on.
Oh, yeah. Right...
-today. -[Tara] Yeah.
You better check with your mother,
I don't know what the hell's going on.
-Caleb, come on. Let's go. -[Caleb] Wash it.
[footsteps receding]
-[rocking chair creaking] -[Jack cooing]
He's running hot.
[sighs] Do you want me to call a doctor?
No, no, no. It's only 101.
You're gonna be okay, right?
My tough little monkey...
-right, Jack? -I like your hair.
-What? -I like your hair.
Do you?
It's very vintage.
[rocking chair creaks]
Well, that sounds old.
Um, listen, I want you to go ahead
and go up and see Aunt Diane today.
What?
[suspenseful music playing]
Without you? I...
I don't wanna go alone. I don't even know her, Mom.
[Emily] You won't be alone. You said that Suzy wanted to go.
[chuckles] Yeah, she offered. I'm not gonna actually
-make her come with me-- -Jack has a fever.
She already knows that we're coming.
I'm not gonna disappoint that poor woman.
Ma, she killed her kid.
[Emily] You don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, I do. She's a murderer.
You don't know anything about that.
Ma, I really don't wanna go.
Oh, my God.
Will you please just do this for me?
-Please? -Okay, okay.
-Why do I have to beg you? -You're not. I'm going.
And don't call her a murderer.
She is a murderer.
-[doorbell ringing] -Just saying it like it is.
[suspenseful music ends]
[Det. Childs] Nice try. We saw you.
-[doorbell ringing] -[knocking on door]
[sighs]
[Tara] How can I help you?
As I understand it, this was your...
-Third. -...third...
altercation with Karen.
It happens in field hockey all the time.
And she's a bully.
Hmm.
I do think it's interesting that you knew Gina Loeb and Karen,
and both women are missing.
Are you implying that my daughter might have...
something to--
Because you know who else knew both of those women?
[Tara] Gina's husband.
Karen would babysit for them.
-Thank you both. -[Emily] You're welcome.
We will be in touch.
-Thanks for the coffee. -[Emily] Mm-hmm.
[Tara] I didn't do anything.
I didn't say you did.
I hope she's okay.
[Tara] Yeah, me too.
[foreboding music playing]
[Suzy] Well, to be honest, like...
I'm really not upset that Karen is missing. [chuckles]
[sighs]
She's probably on a fuck and coke bender
with Nick the Dick.
[chuckles]
What's going on?
-What is wrong with you? -Nothing's wrong with me.
I just...
[Suzy] I mean, what's the big deal? It's Karen.
-I mean, we hate that bitch. -I just don't know.
Sorry, I just really don't wanna talk about this right now.
[Tara] All right.
Love you. Be good.
I'll be here... just chillin.'
Like a villain.
[suspenseful music playing]
Um. Sorry, um, your sister couldn't...
make it. Jack's sick.
Sick?
[Tara] It's just a fever. It's nothing serious.
[Diane] And you? How are you?
Good.
Something's different about you.
I didn't see it before.
-I'm older now, so... -No, no, no.
That ain't it.
Yeah.
That look, I know what that is.
I've seen it before in myself.
It's happened.
Seen... Seen what?
It's like getting your period.
The women in our family
always seem to meet her at a certain age.
Your mom, too.
Oh, she's met her.
They told me she was a coping mechanism.
Someone for me to place the blame on.
You must have some dark, dark thoughts.
I'm not...
like you.
I would never hurt a child.
I would never... smother and bury a child.
You wanna know a secret?
He wasn't smothered.
Tradition demanded a bit...
more...
harshness.
Tradition?
[Diane] So naive.
It was an axe. [chuckles]
Funny thing is, I don't even remember doing it.
I blacked out.
You got the same evil rattlin' around in that pretty head.
I don't have any evil in me.
What I do have is...
freedom.
You think that I don't check in on my little sis?
On you? That adorable little baby?
I like the ghost decoration you got on your porch.
Very spooky.
I hope you rot in here, Diane.
[foreboding music ends]
-[yells] It's in your blood! -[groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Diane laughing maniacally]
[chanting] ♪ Lizzie Borden took an axe ♪
♪ Gave her mother 40 whacks ♪
♪ When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 ♪
I'll see her real soon!
[Suzy] Whoa!
-She just fucking attacked me. -Hey, breathe, breathe.
-She chopped up her son! -Breathe, breathe. Breathe.
-[breathes deeply] -Mm-hmm. One, two.
[breathes deeply]
Okay. You wanna tell me what happened?
She was...
She was about to tell me about how she...
she saw a woman when she was younger,
and my mom saw a woman too,
and I've seen a woman.
I saw a woman. I woke up in the middle of night
and there was a woman in my fucking room
and she's trying to make me kill my family.
-It's like, oh, boy... -Wait, honey, honey.
...fucking Lizzie Borden is trying to make me
-kill my family or something. -Wait, you saw a woman?
Mm-hmm.
That sounds like a little crazy even for me.
Mom!
-[suspenseful music ends] -[shouts] Mom!
-[shushes] -What the fuck...
-The baby's sleeping. -What the fuck's wrong with you?
When were you going to tell me?
-Tell you what? -You lied to me.
She fucking killed him with an axe.
A fucking axe? That's insane. Why didn't you tell me?
You didn't think maybe I'd want to know?
[shushes] Please just stop talking.
[breathes shakily] I can't. Just wait. [breathes deeply]
You lied to me.
[sighs]
[crickets chirping]
[cellphone vibrates]
[intense music playing]
[children giggling]
[bottle thudding]
[Tara] What about the hallucinations?
Aunt Diane said that you had them too.
Is that true?
-[intense music ends] -No.
I just... [breathes deeply]
I don't know, I was just trying to make her feel better.
She's my only sister.
And I didn't want her to feel...
so alone and so isolated.
So I just made it up.
She was a kid.
She had a kid.
And then, the whole time she's battling this...
disease.
[sighs]
So, are you gonna tell me what really happened?
[sniffs]
So she was...
prone to blacking out...
from drinking.
-And I came into her room. -[suspenseful music playing]
And she was passed out on the bed.
And there was...
an axe...
in her hand.
And the bedspread was pulled off the bed.
And there was...
this little bump...
underneath the sheet next to her.
And there was...
blood.
Lots of blood.
-[suspenseful music ends] -[door closing]
[Ben] Hello, I'm home.
[laughs] I'm crazy.
Please...
[door opening]
-...can we keep this our secret? -[footsteps approaching]
[Ben] Oh, hey.
-[Emily] You know... -[footsteps receding]
...you and your dad have yours, this one will be ours.
-Okay? -[Tara] What?
[tense music playing]
[keyboard clacking]
[tense music ends]
[phone ringing]
Hello.
[Tara] Are you still my alibi for tomorrow?
Uh. Yeah, yeah. Even my mom thinks you're coming over.
-I totally sold it. -[Tara] Good.
Check...
this bullshit out.
One second. [sniffs] Give me a beat.
-No. -[Tara] Yeah.
[Suzy] You are crazy then.
Okay, thank you so much.
Tara, I just don't want you to get hurt.
[Tara] I gotta go.
[sighs]
[suspenseful music playing]
[camera shutter clicking]
[Suzy crying]
Fuck.
[camera shutter clicking]
Tell her.
[moans]
[suspenseful music ends]
[indistinct chatter]
-[knocking on door] -Sweetie...
Daddy needs time alone. Go watch cartoons.
[knocking on door]
Sweetie, please.
I need ten minutes, that's it.
[knocking on door]
Enough. Enough!
-Told you-- -[blood squirts]
[Mikhail groaning]
Okay, I'm leaving. I'll be back tomorrow.
[Emily] Okay. Tell Suzy's mom I said hi.
Okay. Will do.
-[axe thudding] -[suspenseful music playing]
[axe thudding]
[car horn honking]
[Tara] Okay, I'm coming.
[birds chirping]
[indistinct chatter]
[Tara] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Your phone.
You're my best friend in the world.
-Thank you so much. -Love you.
-[car door closing] -[Tara] You need something,
you can call. Yeah, bye.
[Carl] Dude, what is... what is...
what is this place that we're going to?
[chuckles] I mean, like, there's a hundred hotels,
why you dragging me all the way out here?
[Lizzie] Tara.
[suspenseful music ends]
[Gail] Many think it was jealousy.
That she lost her father's attention to her step-mom.
-[instrumental music playing] -[Gail] Was she insane?
No one knows.
In 1893, she was acquitted of all charges
and the murders remain unsolved.
Legend has it, her spirit lingers here
looking for a new vessel to inhabit.
Oh, one second.
Remember, breakfast is served from seven to nine.
♪ Day is ending... ♪
Just go right up the stairs. Okay?
I'm so sorry.
We're operating a little short today
and I am working double duty. Oh!
-I really enjoyed listening. -[Gail] Oh, thank you.
-So, are you checking in? -[Tara] Yes, just one night.
Oh. [chuckles] Lucky you.
For 60 dollars more,
Lizzie Borden's room is available.
-[Lizzie] Tara. -Yes.
-[Gail] Right. -Really?
Yeah, really. A hundred percent really.
-Okay, good. Follow me. You bet. -Thank you.
[Carl] Great.
-It's right up here. -Shut up.
-[wind whooshing] -[clock ticking]
[instrumental music ends]
Follow me.
And for you, the most coveted room.
-[chuckles] -Oh, my gosh.
[gasps]
[Carl] Old.
So there's like no TV? No bathroom?
You share, right across the hall.
-Oh, great. -It's perfect.
Well... if you're interested,
we do a candlelight seance at eight o'clock.
Now, most of our guests are gonna be going into town
for the Oktoberfest,
so, it'll probably be just a small gathering...
[Lizzie] Tara.
We'll be there.
[Gail] All right, good. Okay, eight o'clock promptly,
and be ready for spooky time.
[Carl grunting]
[blows raspberry]
[clock ticking]
[floorboard creaking]
[metal scraping]
[sewing machine whirs]
It's her clothes.
[eerie whispering]
[Gail] The dresses? Yes.
Lizzie made many of her own clothes.
She was an expert seamstress.
Well, this blouse...
it's a replica of one of her pieces.
I always wear it on seance night.
Excuse me. I just need to make a phone call.
[Gail] Okay, we start in five minutes.
Thank you.
Will you do me a favor?
Can you go to my house
and grab all the old vintage clothes from my room
and there's a wooden box in the basement, too.
Can you just grab everything from there?
Wait, all the... all the frilly old stuff?
Yeah.
Just grab everything and put it in a trash bag
and just take it to your house, please.
Just get it out of my house, please.
And why?
I don't know. It's...
It's like a trigger or something.
Wait, fuck. What do I tell your mom?
[clicks tongue]
Divine inspiration hit,
and I want to work on stuff at your house.
[Suzy laughing] Sorry.
But, you know, the progression of this, right, is you asking me
-for a body part next. -[chuckles]
Yeah, well, you already have my heart.
I love you.
[Tara] Thank you. I appreciate it.
-Night. -[clock ticking]
[crickets chirping]
[grandfather clock chiming]
[Gail] What I try to do
is to summon a spirit of the Borden family.
We begin.
Mm.
I call upon the spirits of this house
to grant us a moment of your time.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Gail] I offer my consciousness as a conduit to this world.
-I beseech all. -[eerie whispering]
-I open myself to you. -[Lizzie] Tara.
[Gail] I offer... my aura as a path.
I call upon Lizzie Borden.
Join us at our table.
I offer my consciousness
-to you. -[Lizzie] Tara.
Take my hands. It might help.
Don't you dare touch me, old bitch.
Tara?
I killed you once. I'll kill you again.
[Gail] Tara?
I knew you were trouble the minute I met you.
Trying to replace my mother...
stealing my father from me.
[Gail] Tara, please. You're... You're scaring me.
If this is an act, I want you to stop.
[Tara] Here you are.
Here you are... here I am. It's all so...
it's so familiar. [sighs]
[Gail] Tara? Tara, come back here.
[glass shattering]
Tara?
-[Gail screaming] -[axe thuds]
You never loved my father. [chuckles] No, you didn't.
♪ Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her father 40 whacks ♪
♪ Mother, She gave her mother 40 whacks ♪
♪ Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother 40 whacks ♪
♪ When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 ♪
I... I-- This is an act. This is an act.
[scoffs, chuckles] Was this... Lizzie's axe?
-[Gail whimpering] Yes. -Yes.
This is my... axe.
-Please, please. -[music intensifies]
-[screams] Don't, don't-- -[suspenseful music ends]
[ominous music playing]
[woman screaming]
[Lizzie] Tara.
[Gail screaming]
Tara, no!
[Tara] Carl!
-[Carl] Watch out! Now! -[Gail] Are you insane?
What the fuck. What's wrong?
She was acting like she was possessed.
I never met anything in my life. This is just--
-[indistinct shouting] -I don't know.
[ominous music ends]
[Carl] What's wrong?
I think... I think I really need help...
you know?
What if I did something?
[foreboding music playing]
-[crickets chirping] -[dog barking]
-[doorbell ringing] -[foreboding music ends]
[Emily] Hey.
Sorry, she's sewing, you know how...
-[Emily] Yeah. -...she is. [chuckles]
She's in, uh, no answer the phone zone now.
[Suzy] Yeah.
-So, all the clothes? -[exhales] Yep.
[Emily] I mean, in the basement...
behind the furnace.
-Okay. -In the back.
[Suzy] Thank you.
[floorboard thudding]
[car engine rumbling]
[Suzy] This fucking place.
[exhales heavily]
-[exhales deeply] Okay. -[trash bag rustling]
[thudding]
[hinges squeak]
-[car engine rumbles] -[sighs]
[thudding]
-[Suzy screams] -[metal clangs]
-[choking, screams] -[blood squirts]
-[ominous music playing] -[Suzy screaming]
[thudding]
[ominous music ends]
[line ringing]
[Tara] She's not picking up. I don't know why.
[line ringing]
[cellphone ringing]
[voicemail] Hey, it's Suzy. Leave a message.
[cellphone beeps]
Hey, call me when you get this.
I'm getting... getting kind of worried.
[intense music playing]
Hey, Em. I-- Listen, I just want to say I'm... I'm sorry.
I... I... I've been crazed with work
and, um, haven't been home much, but...
No. You know what? No more excuses.
Running isn't the way. I know that now.
We need to face this, this whole thing.
Tara, your sister, this damn curse.
All of it. Head on.
All right, I'm heading home. We need to talk.
Okay. We need to help Tara.
[indistinct chatter over radio]
[dispatcher over radio] Sixty-five-fifty-five,
porter on scene. Body identified as missing woman Gina Loeb.
Possible dead body inside the house of Mikhail Loeb.
[Det. Childs] I'd say that dress knew it was a downer.
[police siren blaring]
[Tara] Carl, that's Gina Loeb's house.
-Is that Suzy's car? -What?
Pull up. Pull into the driveway right now.
-Pull into the driveway. -[Carl] Okay.
[crickets chirping]
Are you sure somebody's in the house?
My mom should be.
[Carl] You know I'll go in there with you.
I don't mind getting yelled at.
-I just want to find Suzy. -[intense music ends]
[cellphone ringing]
[Suzy] Hey, it's Suzy. Leave a message.
[cellphone beeps]
[suspenseful music playing]
Mom! Caleb!
-[door closing] -[Tara] Suzy!
[Carl] What about your dad? Where is he?
He's not supposed to be home until later.
Just my mom and Caleb.
And Jack.
-Baby Jack. -[Carl] Oh, fuck.
Wait!
[car engine revving]
[footsteps approaching]
[Tara] Caleb?
Caleb? Thank God.
-I'm sorry, Tara. -It's okay.
[Caleb] I thought I heard a phone.
Suzy's in the trunk. She's... She's dead.
-I thought of Jack. -[coos]
I heard someone coming, so I crawled up here with him.
What about Mom?
I need you to stay up here, okay?
Do you understand?
-Say yes. -Yes.
Take this. [sniffs]
Call 911.
[woman screaming]
Hey, Tara. Come on, come on.
-Tara, come on. Come on. -[Tara] What?
Someone's in here. Someone's in here. Tara.
Give me that stick.
I love you.
[line trilling]
[cellphone vibrating]
Hey, sport. What's going--
Caleb, hey. Wait, what? No, I can't make out...
Caleb, hang on.
Who hurt who? What?
In the attic? What are you talk--
Where's your mom? Put your mom--
Where's Tara?
Okay, hang on.
Caleb, listen to me. Listen carefully.
Just... Just stay quiet. Don't move.
I'm calling 911. Stay there.
No matter what you hear, don't move.
[police officer] 911, what's your emergency?
[tires screeching]
[floorboard creaking]
[sniffles]
-[Emily screaming] -[screams]
[Tara] Get away from him!
-[Emily screaming] -[thuds]
-[Carl sobbing] -[Tara] You okay?
-Are you okay? -No. I'm not okay.
-[cries] Fuck! -[Tara] You're gonna be okay.
No. I'm not okay. Fuck!
I'm not in the mood right now.
-[cries] -[Tara] Just hold on tight.
[shushes]
-[Carl speaks indistinctly] -[shushes]
[engine revving]
Come on, Em, pick up. Pick up!
Dammit. Goddammit.
[Carl speaking indistinctly]
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, Aunt Diane.
[Emily whistling]
[Tara] No.
[whistles, chuckles]
Hello, Tara.
[sighs] Ugh! Ah!
It feels so good. [sighs]
It has been... so long...
[exhales]
...living a lie.
Years and years of just...
hiding behind all those pills.
[Tara] Mom, why is there blood on you?
Dulling the pain.
-You don't like it? -Mom, stop.
-Let's play a game. -Mom, you're scaring me.
[Tara grunting]
-[screams] -[objects clattering, clanking]
[sighs]
[knife clinks]
-[screams] -[Tara grunting]
[grunts, groans]
[car horn honking]
[cars honking]
[tires screeching]
[Emily groans]
-[Tara] Mom? -[groans]
[panting]
Mom, this is not you. You're my mom.
You're Jack's mom. You're Caleb's mom.
You're my mom. Okay?
[cries]
-I don't know why. I'm sorry. -[exhales]
-[Emily crying] -[breathes heavily]
It's okay. You can't fight it alone.
[cries] I'm not alone, right?
I have you. Right?
[sniffs]
-I love you so much. -I love you, too.
You need help, Mom. [sniffs]
And I need help. We need help.
But what if I don't want help, huh?
[Tara groans]
[car horn honking]
Get out of the way!
[tires screeching]
[laughs maniacally]
You have a little bite, don't you?
You have a little bite.
Who could play spin the bar. [chuckles]
Oh, not you.
I think I'm gonna go find Caleb.
My little Boy Scout.
[gasps] Oh, and that sniveling baby, too.
All he does is cry and cry. He's like the other one.
[inhales sharply] But that one was an abomination. That one...
I quieted him.
-He was so quiet. -What other one?
What do you mean, what other one?
You think she did it?
-No. -[body thudding]
Do you think she could do it? [spits]
She can't do anything.
[laughs]
No, I did that.
I righted the affront to God.
I was a good girl. I did that!
You see, a child born of incest...nobody wants that.
My father betrayed my mother.
He's a bad boy, poop.
You're a bad girl
because you're trying to betray me
-with your father. -What are you talking about?
-What are you talking... -No, Mom.
...about, Mom? [crying mockingly] I know what I'm talking about.
I see you. I see you.
I see you trying to take my place.
My place!
You cannot take my place.
Do you think I'm fucking crazy?
Do you think I'm fucking blind?
No, I see everything.
Everything!
But it doesn't matter...
because all of you will get what you deserve.
[suspenseful music ends]
[axe thudding]
-[knocking on door] -Then do it.
[officer] It's the police. The police!
I'm not gonna kill you.
[officer] Open the door!
Okay.
[metal scraping]
[eerie music playing]
-[woman] Emily! -[Tara] Mom!
Mom!
-[tires screeching] -No, no, no.
[police siren blaring]
[screams]
-[gunshot] -[groans]
[groans]
[police siren blaring]
-[indistinct chatter] -[eerie music ends]
[mellow music playing]
[Tara] Is he gonna be okay?
[ambulance siren blaring]
Where's your sister?
Upstairs still.
Can I start the car?
My nine-year-old wants to start the car?
Yes.
[keys jingling]
Tara!
Hi.
Hey.
Hey, I hate to ask...
Don't worry. I took 'em.
I won't let her get to you.
[mellow music ends]
[Caleb] He doesn't even have his seatbelt on,
but he's about to win his, like, bajillionth Daytona.
-[imitates tires screeching] -[car horn honking]
Yeah!
Yes, I won!
-[clapping] -Hey, thanks.
[eerie whispering]
["Heads or Tails" by Shannon and the Clams playing]
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I'm a real life hobo I prefer my life on the rails ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I keep a coin in my pocket ♪
♪ And my only friend Is head or tails ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I had a wife and a family I let them fend on their own ♪
-♪ Do what I want ♪ -♪ You only count on yourself ♪
♪ And appreciate What they've been shown ♪
-♪ Do what I want ♪ -♪ Sometimes I flip the coin ♪
♪ Oh yeah I flip the coin Oh I flip the coin ♪
♪ Yeah I flip the coin ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I hop the Union Pacific Heading to Californ-i-a ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I rub the coin in my pocket ♪
♪ And I wonder Just what they say ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I was met With open arms, warm bed ♪
♪ And fam was back in my lap ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ She said, Don't leave us again ♪
♪ For that drink You use as a map ♪
-♪ Do what I want ♪ -♪ But then I flipped the coin ♪
♪ Oh yeah I flipped the coin Oh yeah I flipped the coin ♪
♪ Oh I flipped the coin oh ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ Sometimes a man gets an itch ♪
♪ To take a nip off A scotch or rye ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ With every sip There's a flip ♪
♪ Fate's been chosen No need to try ♪
-♪ Do what I want ♪ -♪ I love sleeping under stars ♪
♪ Watching woods And worlds zooming by ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ My life's the flip Of the coin ♪
♪ It's the freest way To live and die ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ Because I flipped the coin Oh yeah I flipped the coin ♪
♪ Oh yeah I flipped the coin ♪
♪ Yeah I flipped the coin ♪
♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I do what I want, yes I do ♪
-♪ I do what I want ♪ -♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I could have anything ♪
-♪ But I prefer nothing ♪ -♪ Do what I want ♪
♪ I don't need a house I don't need a hug ♪
♪ I don't need stuff I don't need love ♪
♪ I don't need things I don't need books ♪
-♪ I don't need you ♪ -♪ Do what I want ♪
-♪ I do what I want ♪ -♪ Do what I want ♪
[song ends]