Anyone home?
Matty?
Steve?
What's all this?
I was not expecting company,
Well,
Hate to drop in out of the blue, it's just,
you know, the holidays,
You guys, uh, you can't stay here,
Excuse me?
We drove all this way just to see you,
You've uh, you've seen me and now you gotta go,
I don't wanna do this,
Have you stopped long enough ever to think that you want
and what other people want are very different things?
I don't care where you guys go,
but you, you can't stay here,
Oh for fucks sake, I have just as much
of a right to be here as you do,
Matt?
This was my idea, actually,
It's Christmas,
We really should get this checked out,
Eh, it'll be fine,
You smell good,
I smell the same,
It's still good,
Place looks great,
What did you expect?
Mentally?
I'm not sure where he is,
Physically?
He can only sit and brood for so long,
Says you,
I'm, I'm sorry that we're not at home,
He's gonna do what he's gonna do, always has,
They wouldn't wanna see him like this,
Oh, at some point he's gonna have
to learn to deal with these things on his own,
Getting frustrated isn't gonna make it any easier,
Something,,,
something feels wrong,
Uh, we decided to stay,
You've done a lot with the place,
Get any work lately?
Some new art,
Looks nice,
Yeah,
Ya doing some painting?
Some finger painting?
Karen's been doing some shadowing,
Yeah,
Some secretary stuff at Miller and Wages,
And I recently, uh, moved up to the new high school,
We've been thinking, um, that the time might just
be right to expand the family a bit,
Oh,
You know, um, if you're not too busy up here,
you are always welcome to come down,
We just redid the guest room, it's, it's nice,
Unless you're too busy here, you know,
I'm gonna go to the bathroom,
Yeah,
Miller and Wages?
It's just a job,
Excuse me,
Sure,
It's uh, it's eclectic,
What?
The decor, it's eclectic,
Yeah,
Sure, eclectic,
You all right?
Matt, could I talk to you
in the kitchen for a minute, please?
Could you just try?
- Yeah, - Yeah?
- Sure, - Please,
Yeah,
Okay,
Did anybody follow you here?
Huh?
What?
Steve, look,
Please?
We shouldn't of just shown up,
I'm sorry about that,
I just really haven't been there and
I don't want you to be alone,
Am I boring you?
Do you trust me?
Yeah, sure,
Really trust me?
I gotta show you something,
Okay,
Are you okay?
What were you doing?
What's wrong?
What?
Matt!
Something's wrong with Steve,
Um,
It's more complicated than that, uh,
I think he might be dangerous,
There's a man in the basement,
Someone, someone there?
Say something,
Please, can you, can you help me?
Ple-please,
Please, I just,
Please, I just wanna hear your voice,
I just need to get to my family,
The devil,
How does this even happen?
That-that-that, that's not important,
Not important,
Okay,
We need, we need to call someone,
Huh?
Call someone for help,
No,
We can't just leave him down there,
You've dragged us into this,
Look, our only option
is to remain very still
at least until we think,,,
Oh, remain very still,
Remain very still,
What, okay,
Steve, I love you, you know this,
but this is, this is,
Impulsive decisions
can go really wrong,
Yeah,
Matt I need, I need you with me on this,
You guys are not listening,
What do you think they would say?
If you called somebody right now
and told them what I just told the two of you,
what do you think they would say?
Would they believe you?
Would they believe us if we called someone
and said that you've somehow caught the devil
and he's behind your cellar door?
Would they believe us?
- No! - I know this sounds crazy!
I am not crazy!
I've been trying to convince myself that I was,
There's something just not right up here,
something's fucking loose or not in place,
There is something evil locked behind that fucking door,
It has conjured itself into the shape of a man,
I have seen it, I have felt it,
and I need both of you to believe me,
No,
I,,,
Honey, let's,
Can we just take a, take a deep breath a minute,
Are you serious?
I don't, I don't know, I,
Say, just,
Honey,
Let's just say for the sake of argument
that he's right,
It's the devil and he's caught him,
What's the plan?
You just keep him locked down there forever?
He,
I,
I know you both felt something down there!
Jesus, Steve, you,
Okay,
I, we, Matt, Matt!
We cannot be a part of this,
I am not fucking crazy,
I'm not,
What have you done?
Just,,,
stay here,
Matt!
Look,
I think that,,,
No,
Stop,
Listen to me,
I have stood by your side and your family's side
through everything, everything,
Any chance that we have for a normal life
just went out the window at that man's choices,
He's my brother,
No, this is not grieving, this is,,,
This, this feels different,
He believes this, it's,,,
No,
All I'm saying is, what if?
If you think even for one moment that,,,
You're right, okay?
This is a nightmare,
But I won't have him spend his life in prison,
He hasn't left us very many options, has he?
We just let him go,
We have enough in savings, we just cut the guy a check,
We don't even know who he is
or how long he's been down there,
We get Steve the help that he needs,
Oh, 'cause Steve's just gonna
let him waltz out of there, right?
Baby, there are crosses on the doors,
The windows are covered,
This is less about keeping someone in
as it is about keeping everyone else out,
Faith makes people dangerous,
He's not,
There's a gun upstairs and it's loaded,
I am tired,
May I?
What happened to us?
I don't know,
But it's gonna be okay,
I need you to believe me,
Then help me,
There's something in the air,
There is a presence and it takes on
many different forms but it has been around
for as long as anybody can remember,
You're a teacher,
Take an educated guess as to how many people
in this country this year alone faced a violent death,
My wife cheated on me, bang!
I just needed a little money, bang!
Today, I just didn't like the look
on a smug fucking face, bang!
It's a cycle,
Now, this man defines evil as a tangible force
meddling in our affairs with two very different agendas,
Now, there's man's evil in which man harms man
for the sake of greed and vanity,
And there's pure evil in which man harms man
for no other reason than to watch him suffer,
It's all curated,
You believe that?
Numbers and equations are only gonna
get you so far, Matt,
So I decide to go outside, walk down the street
and just shoot somebody in the face,
Well you wouldn't,
Even in today's highly enlightened society
there remains a certain stigma
against become a homicidal psychopath,
It's the instinct,
It's the idea,
Now, without the seed that
thought would never even register,
And keeping him down there?
I trapped the seed,
Let me show you something,
You did all this?
At first there's a lot of dead air,
bullshit to it all, but after awhile
you start peeling back layers,
It's a pattern,
How long has all this been going on?
Now, it's still too early to see the forest from
the trees, but uh, you listen to the news?
You watch TV?
Things are changing right before our eyes,
I mean, we are on the precipice of something,
Here, this, you know this story, right?
Buckler girl?
Mm hmm, missing for a month,
Then out of the blue she's back,
Well, I think give her enough time
others are gonna start showing up,
You know, you coulda called me before all of this,
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Even if man's evil was responsible for 99,9%
of this world's bullshit, that,01%?
Millions,
There's millions who even could
just for a second live without that pain,
You know what?
Never mind,
Who's been calling?
I think something's coming for him,
Yeah,
Sometimes I think I um, I uh see things and I hear things,
Who else have you told about this?
See, I don't think I had to tell anyone,
Good, bad, evil,
It's like, it's like you're building a road, all right?
Now, you don't know how far it goes,
but you know the destination,
Something gets in your path you're not just gonna give up,
I mean you're gonna find a way around
until you're back on course,
See, at first I thought, I thought I was off,
And people I'd never even met before
would just stop, stare at me,
But it wasn't them,
And then now, at this critical moment,
after two years, you two show up,
That's not why,
Well, that you know of,
Someone, something, I'm not even sure if
it is a thing, is coming,
All I know is you back a dog into a corner,
you take away his means of escape and he's gonna bite,
He doesn't wanna be down there anymore,
Where's Karen?
Is someone there?
Please say something, I just wanna hear your voice,
I'm here,
Please, c-c-can you help me?
Please?
Wa-wa-wa-wa-wait wait, please, please don't go, I need to,
Please hear me out,
I don't know what he thinks I've done, all right?
But he's never gonna let me leave here,
I can understand the uncertainty of it all,
but right now he's the only thing standing
between me and my loved ones,
I just need to get to my family,
You hesitate,
Why?
Oh, I see,
This is because of what I did to them, isn't it?
Open the door, Karen,
What'd you hear?
Get that fucking thing outta my face,
I know you felt it,
You were right,
You don't need us, you never did,
You can do whatever you want,
I'm not here for you, I'm here for her,
Fuck!
Nobody leaves,
I never liked that tree,
The ornaments were our grandparent's,
Steve used to put every single one up,
This, this was their thing,
Almost,
How does it feel?
Hmm?
Being hopeless?
Hmm?
You have a home,
They're what made me me,
It's in your eyes so I know you understand,
The way you look at my brother,
The way he looks at you,
He's there,
It was just an accident,
Wrong place, wrong time,
That doesn't change anything,
That man is not evil for what he did,
but it is evil that let it happen,
Evil is whatever hurts you the most,
Open it,
Prove it to yourself,
And then you can see and I can see whatever it shows you,
But I know something is coming,
This is for your own good,
Steve!
Where are you?!
Please help,
I can't stop the bleeding,
Steve,
Steve
I can't see anything,
Why can't I see anything?
I think I hear it,
Send help!
Something!
You're not real!
Please help me,
You're not real,
Please help me,
You're not real,
Steve,
It's okay,
I wasn't here before for you, but I am now,
It's gonna be okay now,
Just stay here, all right?
Matt!
Matt, wait, wait,
I went down there and something's not right,
I can't explain like Steve can, just,
It's gonna be okay,
I love you,
Matt!
Please, Matt,
Matt!
You have no idea what you're doing,
Why can you not just believe?
I'm not doing this with you,
You do what you do and it suits you so well
'cause you're required to take nothing on faith,
The man behind that door, he might be the devil to you,
But he is for sure not the devil,
- Oh, Matt, just,,, - No,
This, those papers, these people,
you were given the world and look
- what you've done to it, - No, no, no,
this was not about us, this is about everything else,
No, it's about them and none of this
is going to bring them back,
Let's say you're right, okay?
Then, well, we free 'em,
let 'em go and nothing changes, okay?
But what if you're wrong?
Move,
Get outta the way,
No,
Steve,
There's a bigger picture,
What have you done?
I didn't uh,
I didn't uh, I didn't mean for this to happen,
I just, I mean he just said he wouldn't stop, he,,,
He is always watching and always listening,
Just open the door and you can see something,
you can see-see-see her,
Even if you tell them, they won't believe you,
They don't want to,
But I know you do,
Yep, maybe it's for the best,
It's a funny thing, isn't it, Karen?
Finding yourself on the other side of the looking glass,
God, you've got all of this useless knowledge
and the only real certainty is that
you'll never fully understand why,
He's not quite gone yet, you know,
You can save him,
We can save him,
It's up to you,
Just open the door,
Well, so be it,
God, I almost gotcha though, didn't I?
Ah,
Well, fuck,
Well, she's always been a smart little thing,
Complainant describes by
148 North State Avenue, prioritize that scene,
Copy that,
- Let's roll, - Yeah,
Police!
Open up!
Hello?
Anyone home?
Holy shit,
Ben!
Holy shit,
Hello?
Is anybody there?
Yes, hello please, please help me,
Plea-please,
- Fuck, - Hello?
Please,
Please let me out,
She's still there, please,
Hello, hello?
Uh, hello?
Is, is someone there?
Please,
Plea-please,
Please help me,
Please,
Plea-please,
I just need to get to my family,