01x06 - Night of the Living Dummy

[bunniefuu]

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

It's time for them to learn the truth.

[BRATT] Previously on Goosebumps...

[BOOK THUDS]

Your mom's name's Sarah, right?

Your dad said she went to school here.

I was cleaning out my
basement the other day

and found this scrapbook. So...

[EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]

- [MARGOT] Mom?
- Hey, Harold.

You guys, my mom knew Biddle.

- Wait, how do you know that?
- It's all in here.

The way that it works,

is that if I'm in the location
that the page is about,

I see the vision, I see the past.

- [EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [HAROLD] I'm really scared.

I think someone's trying to hurt me.

[HAROLD SCREAMING]

There were other people in the house.

- [SCREAMING]
- [FIRE CRACKLING]

[YOUNG NORA] You found the case.

- [YOUNG BEN] I found it.
- [GROUP COUGHING]

[HAROLD SCREAMS]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Did we just find out our
parents are murderers?

Like what the hell was in that case?

[BRATT] Did you guys wanna
know what's in the case?

Come inside, I'll tell you.

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

[BRATT] Cool. The g*ng is all here.

Come on, come on, I'll
tell you all about it.

Here, sit here.

You could sit here.

- Thank you.
- Thanks.

Hey, if you're done with
that, I'll take it back now.

Yeah. By all means. I don't
want that thing anymore.

- [ISAIAH] Hey, Mr. Bratt?
- [BRATT] Yeah?

How do you have that case?

Oh, I'll explain everything.
Just... just sit down.

Go ahead. Sit.

Cool.

Do... do you guys want anything?

Any refreshments? I have cocoa powder.

- No, I...
- We're fine.

- Can you get on with it?
- Not cocoa powder.

[BRATT] Okay, sure. Um...

- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYS]
- All right. [CLEARS THROAT]

So it all started with
my great-grandfather

in .

Wait, how long is this story?

Can you just... Now I gotta start over.

Sorry.

[BRATT] The story begins

with my great-grandfather
in , in New York City.

[FILM REEL HUMS]

And now for a trick

I like to call

"bird of a feather flocks alone".

Now a bird, she may fly
wherever she pleases,

but how can a bird fly
when she's in a cage?

For that, she needs the
help of the magic cage.

- Abracadabra, ala-kazam, bananas!
- [YAWNS]

- Teleport-o!
- [BIRD WINGS FLAP]

That bird's not even the same color.

I want my money back.

[BELL RATTLES]

[BELL JINGLES]

[COINS CLATTER]

I need a new act. And not
just the regular old tricks.

I need the expensive stuff.

The stuff you sell to the big boys.

That isn't enough.

Oh, come on. I got a
wife and a kid. Please.

There's... there's gotta be
something in here I can get.

- I don't think so.
- [COINS CLATTER]

Try the nine-cent store.

[COINS CLATTER]

[FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLE]

[SLAPPY] Over here.

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

[EPHRAIM] What about that case?

- [DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
- [POT BUBBLES]

[DOOR CLICKS CLOSED]

- [CASE JOSTLING]
- [BETSY] Did you get paid for your show?

Yes, but I had to invest it...

- in this.
- [FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

His name is Slappy.

And look, it was embroidered right here,

beside his little vest.

A doll? You bought a doll?

You need to get a real job.

This is what I'm meant to do.

I know that.

[SIGHS]

Well, then I'm gonna have a bath

while we still have hot water.

Betsy. Betsy. Betsy!

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

Fantastic.

Don't worry, buddy.

[FOREBODING MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

"Karrano. Marri. Molonu.

Loma. Molonu. Karrano."

[SLAPPY JOSTLING]

What does that mean? [CHUCKLES]

[FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLING]

[WOOD CREAKING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[LIQUID SPLATTERING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS]

And now, a round of applause
for my new assistant, Slappy.

- [SINGLE APPLAUSE]
- [AS SLAPPY] Thank you, thank you.

I'm excited to amaze
you with some magic.

[EPHRAIM] Okay, great. Now, Slappy,

I need you to pick...

- [MAN COUGHS]
- ... a... a card. Put in there...

- [CARDS RUSTLE TO FLOOR]
- This is bad. You bum.

- [WOOD CREAKS]
- [SLAPPY] I agree.

This man is a true
mutton head. A simpleton.

A ninny. An ignorant, flumdiddly coot!

[AUDIENCE CHUCKLING]

[EPHRAIM] No. Wait a
minute. I'm not doing this.

He... he's doing this.

Dummy's doing this all by himself.

- [MAN ] Yeah, right.
- Oh, I'm the dummy.

What a loser.

- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
- Eh...

You don't want to be a loser
your whole life, do you?

No. Certainly not. But you... I don't...

Enough. Finish your act.

Hmm? Trust me.

[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS]

- [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHS AND CHEERS]

[SLAPPY LAUGHING]

We are your family

and you don't spend any
time with us anymore.

- [UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [AUDIENCES APPLAUD]

It's him or us, Ephraim. Him or us!

I choose... him.

[AUDIENCE ROARING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [CAR HORN BEEPS]
- [TRAFFIC HUMMING]

[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND WHISTLES]

[EPHRAIM] Unbelievable.
The theater was half empty.

[SIGHS] You know, if we added

an opening act, maybe a clown,

we could charge even more.

[EPHRAIM] We are the show.

[OWNER] Obviously, the
audience comes to see you.

But we've been doing this
for a long time, Ephraim.

If you ever want to
take the night off, or...

Why would I wanna take the night off?

I'm just... looking
down the road, Ephraim.

Tastes change.

The box office manager needs you.

I'll be back in just one second.

He's going to ruin our plans.

They're delivering it
tonight. Deal with him.

[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Oh, I thought I heard someone in here.

It's time, Ephraim. Use the spell.

Adanna. Meenu. Sanara. Kudarash.

What are you doing?

No! No!

[TRAFFIC HUMMING]

[BILLS RUSTLING]

[GRAVEDIGGER] I've never
robbed a mausoleum before.

[DOOR CREAKS, THUDS]

[SLAPPY] We had searched years for this.

Now it's here and it's
your turn to repay me.

Okay, look. About that.

I'm starting to have second thoughts.

[SLAPPY] We had a deal.
Stick with the plan.

Okay. Okay.

- [EPHRAIM GRUNTS] What now?
- [LID CLATTERS]

Look in the pocket.

[SLAPPY] Yes, that's it. Read it.

Aldu. Meinudi.

[INDISTINCT MURMUR]

- [ALARM BLARING]
- [SCREAMING]

[EPHRAIM] No, no. I
can't let this happen.

- [SLAPPY] Read it!
- I can't let you do this.

- You used me!
- [SLAPPY] What are you doing? No!

I gave you everything you wanted!

Stop this!

- [TRUNK CREAKS]
- [BIRDS SINGING]

[DOOR THUDS]

Everything's been arranged.

You are the proud new
owner of this lodge.

Have my boxes been delivered yet?

Yes, they're already
inside as you requested.

Would you like me to hire
someone to do the work for you?

No, I don't want any help.

In fact, I don't want
anyone here at all.

Okey-dokey. Well, if
you do need anything,

you just please don't hesitate
to give a call. Alrighty?

Can you tell your friends?

["WHERE OR WHEN" BY
THE FLAMINGOS PLAYING]

♪ It seemed we stood and
talked like this before ♪

♪ We looked at each other
in the same way then ♪

♪ But I can't remember where ♪

♪ Or when ♪

It's the end of the road.

♪ And loved before ♪

♪ But who knows... ♪

[BRICKS CLATTER]

I'm gonna make sure no
one finds you ever again.

♪ Where or when ♪

[SLAPPY] Oh, someone will find me.

Sorry, I'm just a little bit confused.

Well, just let him keep talking.

If you listen to the story,
you know, you might get there.

Okay. It's just... [LAUGHS]

Kids of this era with your
cell phones and YouTubes.

It's like, no focus.

You ca... you can't focus
on a really good story.

This is a good story.

- I was listening.
- Thank you.

Back to the story.

Everyone just relax,

'cause I'm about to get to
the best part. All right?

["CREEP" BY RADIOHEAD PLAYING]

[RHONDA] Oh, hello, Georgia Biddle.

[GEORGIA] Pleasure to finally meet you.

[RHONDA] I'm sorry it took
so long to track you down.

Ephraim Bratt left no family contacts.

Clearly. It took years to
track us down. Hi, I'm Barry.

You know, I never even
met my grandfather.

[RHONDA] Oh, Ephraim
kept very much to himself.

He was a bit eccentric.

Oh, uh, and this is our son, Harold.

What? Oh.

[FINGERS TAPPING]

- What have you got in there?
- My pet.

It... It's kind of his pet.

- They're worms.
- Worms? [CHUCKLES]

- Worms.
- Oh, eccentric.

You received our fax. The signed forms?

We did. All the probate
issues are resolved.

You are now the full owners.
Welcome to Port Lawrence.

Not quite the big city you're used to.

Oh, that's okay.

We, uh, we wanted a fresh start. Right?

- [RHONDA] Well, let me show you the house.
- [GEORGIA] Great.

[BARRY] Pretty house, huh?

We're gonna like it here.
You're gonna like it here.

Kids are the same everywhere.

No, they're not.

I promise you, they're not.

♪ What the hell am I doin' here ♪

♪ I don't belong here ♪

Huh.

- Oh, my gosh.
- [BARRY EXHALES SHARPLY]

[BARRY] I see a garage
sale in our future.

[GEORGIA] Either that or a house fire.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

[HAROLD BLOWS SOFTLY]

Harold, honey, come look at this.

Careful coming down. These
look a little bit rickety.

- No, they're actually...
- [BARRY] What's happening here?

[GEORGIA] They're kind of
solid. Oh, wow. Oh, my gosh.

[GASPS] Oh, well this,
this has potential.

We could make this a hangout spot

for you and your new friends.

Coat of paint. Maybe
some carpet. A boom box.

What do you think?

- Well, I'll need a TV obviously.
- [DRAMATICALLY] Obviously.

I could run some cable down here.

"I want my MTV," right?

Yeah. And a heat lamp for the worms.

Oh. You know, maybe now
that we're in a new place,

we could talk about
getting a different pet.

Say like, a golden retriever.

Golden retrievers are dumb.

Well, do worms even have brains?

Of course, they have brains.
They have five hearts.

How many hearts does a
golden retriever have?

[BARRY] Okay, uh, why don't you, uh,

pick out your new room, okay, bud?

Okay.

- Uh-huh.
- [GEORGIA] Namaste.

Thank you.

[FOOTSTEPS CREAK]

[SLAPPY WHISPERS] Over here!

[FOOTSTEPS CONTINUE]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Morning, Harebear.

Dad, please. I'm in high school now.

What? Come on. It's adorable.

You will always be my Harebear.

Yeah, but just not in public, okay?

All right. Deal.

Hey, kiddo, how are you feeling

about your first day at the new school?

- Honestly?
- Yeah.

I don't want to go.

No one is going to bully you here.

Your... your last school,

I mean, those were...

those were really bad kids.

It's not gonna happen
here. I promise it.

I even got you something to help.

Is it an invisibility cloak?

Yes, it... No, no.

Maybe for your birthday. Just open it.

- It's a Polaroid camera.
- [HAROLD LAUGHING]

You... you... you... you put
your... your film in right there.

And then the picture
just comes out instantly.

We used to bring 'em
to parties all the time.

Everybody loved them.

Dad, I know what a Polaroid is.

I just, I don't know how
it's gonna help me at school.

Two words: Photo. Club.

Maybe it will "lens" you a hand

and help you make some new friends.

- Dad, puns are not funny.
- Says who?

- Me. I just said it.
- [LAUGHS DRAMATICALLY]

Say "cheesy."

[BARRY GASPS]

[SHUTTER CLICKS, WHIRS]

Atta boy.

["CONNECTION" BY ELASTICA PLAYING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTERS]

♪ Riding on any wave ♪

♪ That is the luck you crave ♪

♪ They don't believe it now ♪

♪ They just think it's stupid ♪

♪ So got anything ♪

♪ Anyone could have done ♪

♪ Who would've cared at all ♪

♪ Not you ♪

♪ Another heart has made the trade ♪

♪ Forget it, forget it, forget it ♪

♪ I don't understand
how a heart is a spade ♪

♪ But somehow the vital
connection is made ♪

Uh, hi, is this the photo club?

Yeah. We take it pretty seriously.

How long have you
been doing photography?

Because I've been doing
it for quite a while.

Oh, how long?

Like, since the beginning
of this past summer.

Oh, well, I have this camera.

[CAMERA CLICKS]

Okay, you're in.

I'm Nora.

- I'm Harold.
- [SARAH] Oh, my gosh!

An SX- ? Is that vintage?

It's new. They just charge
more for it if it looks old.

- [CHUCKLES] Can I?
- What?

Look at the camera.

Oh, yeah. Sure.

[SHUTTER CLICKS, WHIRS]

I'm Sarah.

Haven't seen you around
here before, you new?

I just moved here. I'm Harold.

I'll see you next meeting.
We start right on time,

'cause we like to make
it home to watch X-Files.

- We are obsessed.
- Okay, cool.

I haven't seen that show,
but it's good to know.

[WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

- What?
- "You" what.

No, "you" what.

- No way. They're all too dark.
- I like the contrast.

[SARAH] This is all just
weird stuff from your basement.

[HAROLD] I don't want my photos
to look like everyone else's.

Sometimes I feel like I
see the world differently

and I just want these to show that.

You can say all the
artsy-fartsy stuff you want,

- the film's been fogged, dude.
- [CHUCKLES]

Wait, when did that happen?

When you didn't load it
into the camera correctly.

- You're the one who loaded it.
- I don't think so. You did.

Let's take it to Mulder and Scully.

You watched?

[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]

Hey, it's Eliza's birthday this weekend,

so we're having a party
at Bens. You should come.

Oh, no thanks.

[SARAH] Why wouldn't you come?

Your friends are...

- [SARAH] What?
- Cool.

- You're cool.
- I'm definitely not cool.

Yeah, but not cool can be cool.

Look, Ben's a quarterback.

Victoria is gonna be valedictorian.

Eliza's a cheerleader
and Nora is... scary.

Never tell her that, she
would die of satisfaction.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Just come, Harold. It's just a party.

Besides, I can tell you some stuff

about my friends that
are super not cool.

- [HAROLD CHUCKLES]
- [SARAH] I'll see you.

- [FOOTSTEPS TRAILING]
- [SCOFFS]

["I WOULD WALK ( MILES)"
BY THE PROCLAIMERS PLAYING]

♪ When I wake up ♪

♪ Yeah, I know I'm going to be ♪

♪ I'm going to be that man
who wakes up next to you ♪

♪ When I go out ♪
♪ Yeah, I know I'm gonna be ♪

♪ I'm gonna be the man
who goes along with you ♪

♪ If I get drunk ♪
♪ Well, I know I'm gonna be ♪

♪ I'm gonna be the man who
gets drunk next to you ♪

♪ And if I haver, hey,
I know I'm gonna be ♪

♪ I'm gonna be the man
who's havering to you ♪

♪ But I would walk miles ♪

♪ And I would walk more ♪

♪ Just to be that man who
walked a thousand miles ♪

♪ To fall down at your door ♪

[BARRY] Hey, how was the big party?

It was great.

More popular than ever.
I'm everybody's best friend.

- You didn't go.
- [HAROLD] I don't want to talk about it.

But I thought you
liked that girl, Sarah.

I do like her. Just, um...
She's never gonna like me back.

So, sorry, I know it
must be disappointing,

knowing that your son's a loser.

Harold, you're in high
school and everyone's a loser.

Sarah will come around.

It... it just... it's not
gonna happen overnight.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

It's not gonna happen on any night.

- [BRICKS CLATTER]
- [SLAPPY WHISPERS] There you go.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[BRICKS CLATTERING]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

- [GEORGIA SCREAMS]
- Oh, my God.

[BARRY] Honey?

[HAROLD LAUGHS] I found
him in the basement.

What is that?

It's a ventriloquist
dummy. His name's Slappy.

He's pretty cool, huh?

Yep. Yep. Sure is. No denying that.

Hi, I'm Slappy. [CHUCKLES]

Wow. That really is something.

Those things really give me the creeps.

That almost frightened me to death.

[LAUGHS] I gotta go
work on my technique.

- [AS SLAPPY] See you later, Mom.
- [GEORGIA WHIMPERS]

Hey, buddy.

Hmm. [CHUCKLES]

[PAPER RUSTLES]

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

Karru. Marri. Odonna.
Loma. Molonu. Karrano.

Well, that was a gas.

[WOOD CREAKS]

[WOOD CLATTERS]

- Gotta catch the bus.
- Oh, well, hold... Hang on.

You're taking that doll to school?

Yeah.

Uh, maybe you should just

leave it here for the day, bud.

Where kids your age can't see it.

Our semester project in theater
class is a performance art piece.

I thought I might as well
do something with Slappy.

[GEORGIA] You have such a nice voice.

Remember church choir? You should sing.

[BARRY] Or play guitar.
Everyone loves guitar or...

Literally anything else.

Nobody else is gonna do ventriloquism.

Honey, that's exactly
what we're afraid of.

[SCOFFS] Nobody cares
what I do, trust me.

I'm late for school. I'll see you after.

Okay. I love you.

Have a good day, Harebear.

Thanks.

Look, if it makes him happy...

The dummy makes him happy
here at home, great, fine.

But at school, it makes him a target.

What did you want me to do?

Wrestle the thing from his hands

before he left the house?

What's the worst that could happen?

[SIGHS]

[STUDENTS MURMURING]

[MISS DIETRICH] Whenever
you're ready, girls.

[STUDENTS WHISTLE AND CHEER]

Today, we will be performing a scene

from Glengarry Glen Ross.

Due to the gross overstep

of the school board's censorship,

we'll be replacing the
F word with flipping.

Protest noted.

[VICTORIA CLEARS THROAT]

[ELIZA EXHALES] A.B.C. A,
always, B, be, C, closing.

Always be closing.
What's my name, you ask?

Flip you, that's my name.

Flip you, mudder-flipping flippers!

I drive an $ , BMW.

That's my name,
mudder-flipping britches!

[MISS DIETRICH] Okay. Thank
you, Eliza and Victoria.

[STUDENTS LAUGH AND CHEER]

Okay, next we have... Harold.

Oh, a ventriloquist act! Fun.

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

[STOOL THUDS]

[AS SLAPPY] Hello, everybody.

This is my friend, Harold.

[CHUCKLES] Hi, everybody.

- [CLEARS THROAT] You suck.
- [SARAH] Shh!

- That's what your mom said.
- [STUDENTS LAUGH]

[HAROLD] I didn't say that.

I... I can't get this thing

off my arm. It's stuck.

Try having it up your ass.

[STUDENTS LAUGHING]

That's not my voice. This isn't funny.

[SLAPPY] I think we
can all agree on that.

[STUDENTS LAUGHING]

I'm not doing this.

[MOCKING] "I'm not doing this."

If there was any justice,
they'd let me walk around

and put him in a case forever.

[STUDENTS LAUGHING]

[STUDENTS APPLAUD AND CHEER]

[SLAPPY] See? With me,
you won't be a loser.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

So she turns around and looks at me.

Big smile on her face and she
says, "That's what I said."

[GROUP LAUGHS]

- [SARAH] Oh, my God, no.
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]

- Oh. See ya.
- See ya.

- Bye.
- [VICTORIA] Bye.

[STUDENTS MURMURING]

So are you gonna go
to the winter formal?

Hadn't really thought about
it. Are you going with Ben?

No, he's not my boyfriend.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I'll see you later.
Can't be late to class.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

- [LOCKER THUDS]
- [STUDENTS MURMURING]

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

[SLAPPY] How could you be so naive?

You can't trust her.

Sarah doesn't like you.
She feels sorry for you.

I'm the only one you can trust.

- [GASPING]
- [DOOR THUDS]

Something different about that girl.

[STUDENTS MURMURING]

- Nora! What's up?
- [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Harold's doll. I heard it talk.

It's a ventriloquist dummy.
That's what it's supposed to do.

No, no, Sarah. I heard
it talk on its own, okay?

Like it was alive.

It's okay. Just take a
deep breath. It's just a doll.

No! I know what I heard. I'm not crazy.

There's something about it. Okay?

There's something evil about it.

I don't know how to explain it.

[TENSE MUSIC BUILDS]

[SARAH] We'll talk about this later.

[HAROLD] Please, don't go.

[SARAH] Harold, what are you doing?

[SOBS] Let go of my arm.

[HAROLD] Sarah!

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

- [HAROLD] I'm running late.
- Hold... hold on a second, Harold.

- What?
- We, um... we heard you up late

talking to your doll.

Puppet.

We discussed it and we think

that you should leave "it" at home.

His name is Slappy and I have
to take him to school. I need him.

Right. You seem to have gotten
to know Sarah pretty well.

We think it would be a good
idea if you spent more time,

you know, with your new real
friends instead of your dummy.

They weren't my real
friends until Slappy.

I understand that now.

Your friends will still
be there without the doll.

Slappy! His name is Slappy, you witch!

- Hey, what has gotten into you?
- Harold!

Do not speak to your mother that way.

[GEORGIA BREATHING HEAVILY]

I hate you.

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

He's right.

He's right about everything.

I know it's dramatic, but
those things creep me out.

And I could have been imagining it,

but I think I saw it blink.

- [FIRE CRACKLING]
- Blink?

On its own.

Regardless. Harold has been
different since he found it.

[SIGHS] He's gonna freak out.

We'll tell him it was an accident.

It got too close to the fire

and then we'll just... buy him a car.

It's for his own good. He can't go

through what he went through last year.

It'll break him.

[WHISPERS] Yeah.

It's not burning.

I see that. I don't understand it.

I mean, it's made of wood,
how is it not burning?

What are you doing?

- [BACKPACK THUDS]
- Harold...

- You're k*lling him!
- He's a doll, Harold!

No, you don't understand! He's magic!

Would you just... It's for the best!

He is what's best for me!

[SLAPPY] It's time,
Harold. Use the spell.

Adanna. Meenu. Sanara. Kudarash.

Adanna. Meenu. Sanara.

- What's happening?
- Kudarash.

No.

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

He k*lled his parents.

So... so he is the m*rder*r.

Yeah. Yeah, you were...
you were totally right about that, yeah.

No, actually she's not
right at all about that.

- Harold's not a m*rder*r.
- How do you figure that?

- Obviously it, it's complicated.
- How is it complicated?

[SHOUTS] If you'd just shut up!

Just let me finish.

["MY LOVE" BY EN VOGUE PLAYING]

Okay, back to the story.

♪ Say no way ♪

- [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
- [SCATTERED CHEERS]

[MISS DIETRICH] Thank
you, ladies. Thank you.

And now we have senior, Harold Biddle,

and his dummy, Slappy.

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

[SLAPPY] Well, would you look at this?

I'm back slumming it at
another high school gig.

Not that I'm against school.

I happen to be very educated.

Can you give us an example, Slappy?

[SLAPPY] Do you know the
world's fastest land animal?

The answer is Eliza Etten
when she fled the scene

after nailing the principal's Oldsmobile

in the parking lot last year.

[AUDIENCE MURMURS, GROANS]

Ah, there's Ben Howard,

Port Lawrence's star quarterback.

Yeah. Do me, bring it on.

Who's a sloppier kisser, Sarah,

your golden retriever or Ben?

It's Ben.

- [AUDIENCE CACKLING]
- What the hell?

- [SLAPPY] Hey, Harold.
- Yes, Slappy.

I have a multiple choice pop quiz.

What's more pathetic?

Victoria thinking people are
still buying the Virgin Act

or Nora trying to hide the
fact that she is still a virgin.

That is quite enough.

Sarah, you really told
him all that stuff?

[MISS DIETRICH] You're going
straight to the principal's office

after this, mister.

- Off. Now!
- [FOOTSTEPS TRAILING]

[MISS DIETRICH] Okay, we're
gonna take a little break

and then we'll get set
up for Madeline Claire.

What the hell, Harold?
Those were secrets.

Then why did you tell me?

Really, Sarah? We trusted you.

And, to be clear, I am a virgin.

[HAROLD] Maybe you
shouldn't have trusted her.

You know this means I can't
be your friend anymore, right?

Being nice to me just made
you feel good about yourself.

Why would you say that?

Just the other day you
told me you were scared

and you needed help. What happened?

I just didn't understand it yet.

Understand what?

[HAROLD] The plan that is in motion.

This? This is all your fault, Sarah.

It's the puppet. Okay?
I saw it talk on its own.

I'm telling you, guys,
we're in serious danger.

Ever since he found
the dummy, he changed.

He told me he was scared.

Yeah, because it's evil.

We need to get that
thing away from Harold.

Look, I don't know about
any evil doll scaring people,

but I do know that it'll
probably drive Harold nuts.

- So let's do it.
- [FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

Yeah, let's get that dummy.

Tomorrow night.

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Who's there?

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

Hello?

Hello?

- [FOREBODING MUSIC BUILDS]
- [FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLING]

[DOOR CREAKS, THUDS]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[SLAPPY CLATTERS]

- Goodbye, you little idiot.
- Goodbye to you, little idiot.

[LIGHT BULB SHATTERS]

[ITEMS CRASHING]

[LAMP CLATTERS]

[ELECTRICITY HUMS, FADES]

[BEN] Nora was right.

[MATCHSTICK BRUSHES]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[CLOCK CLANKS, CHIMES]

[BEN] Guys! Guys! It's
true! The doll is evil.

[SARAH] We can't leave
yet, we gotta help Harold.

- [FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]
- Harold! We wanna help!

- [HAROLD SCREAMS]
- Harold!

Stay away from me!

[VICTORIA] He doesn't understand
we're trying to help him.

[HAROLD GRUNTING]

- There's smoke!
- [SARAH] Harold, we're trying to help you.

- [NORA] Come on! We gotta go!
- [VICTORIA] Come on!

[ELIZA] Come on, let's go!

- [SARAH] No, Harold!
- [FIRE ALARM BEEPING]

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- [GROUP COUGHING]

[HAROLD SCREAMING]

We have to get him out!

- Hey! Hey!
- [HAROLD SCREAMING]

- He's gone.
- [MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

- Harold's gone.
- No.

- [GROUP BREATHING HEAVILY]
- No. This isn't real.

I told you. You didn't believe me.

[VICTORIA] Now what? Do we call someone?

No, Biddle's dead, okay?

Doesn't mean we have
to ruin our lives too.

I can't go to jail, okay? Grab the case.

[HEAVY BREATHING CONTINUES]

[CASE THUDS]

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

- [CASE THUDS]
- [GROUP SCREAMING]

Did you think it was gonna be that easy?

[WOOD THUDS, CRACKS]

[GROUP WHIMPERING]

- [CASE SLAMS]
- [EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

Let's throw it in the fire.

It won't burn.

[VICTORIA] How do you know that, Nora?

- [RAIN PATTERING]
- [NORA] I just do!

We have to bury it where no
one's ever gonna find it, okay?

Okay, my family's
cabin in the mountains.

No, let's bury it in my dad's old mine.

Okay, it's closed down so
nobody will ever find it.

[BEN] Look, then we can never, ever talk

about what happened
here tonight again, okay?

[SIRENS WAIL IN DISTANCE]

Okay?

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

Come on.

So our parents went in to get
the puppet because it's evil.

- Yeah, totally valid, right?
- Yeah.

Yeah. And that's really
good, 'cause it means

they're not, like, real murderers.

- [MARGOT] Yeah.
- [LUCAS] Which is great.

Um... What?

Yes, they were actually real murderers.

That's the... that's the
whole point of the story.

Are you kidding? Your
parents were the evil ones.

Which is why Biddle's ghost

is getting back at them by haunting us.

- He's making me wanna k*ll my family.
- Yes.

And having Lucas listen to worms

and leaving James for dead.

Okay, you get it. Thank you.

[LUCAS] Okay. Yeah. But
this Harold Biddle kid

seems kind of, like, messed up.

And, like, our parents were
probably trying to help him.

Most of our parents, I guess.

No, listen to me.

- What does that mean?
- Yeah, what'd you mean by that?

- [BRATT] No!
- Means whatever you want.

- He didn't mean anything by it.
- No! No! Listen to me.

Your parents bullied Harold.

You understand? They
bullied him constantly.

They bullied him and
bullied him and bullied him.

And then they broke into his house

and they stole his best friend.

- Best friend?
- Yes! His best friend!

And they ended up k*lling
him in the process.

So, yeah, they're murderers.

I mean, weren't you even listening?

I gotta spell it out for you?

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

[SNIFFLES] Okay.

Mr. Bratt?

What?

How do you know all of this?

[SCOFFS] Right. The twist.

I know all this because
I'm not Mr. Bratt.

[FLAMES ROAR]

- I'm Harold Biddle.
- [GROUP SCREAMS]

["b*llet WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS"
BY THE SMASHING PUMPKINS PLAYING]

♪ The world is a vampire ♪

♪ Sent to drain ♪

♪ Secret destroyers ♪

♪ And a piece of the game ♪

♪ Even though I know ♪

♪ I suppose I'll show ♪

♪ All my cool and cold ♪

♪ Like ol' Job ♪

♪ Despite all my rage I am
still just a rat in a cage ♪

♪ Despite all my rage I am
still just a rat in a cage ♪

♪ Someone will say "What is
lost can never be saved" ♪

♪ Despite all my rage I am
still just a rat in a cage ♪

♪ Tell me I'm the only one ♪

♪ Tell me there's no other one ♪

♪ Jesus was the only son, for you ♪

♪ And I still believe
that I cannot be saved ♪

♪ And I still believe
that I cannot be saved ♪

♪ And I still believe
that I cannot be saved ♪