[LEAVES RUSTLING]
Emily, are you in here?
[CLICKS]
[DOOR RATTLING]
[BANGING]
- [GLASS SHATTERS] - [GASPS]
Emily! Emily!
[DOOR SLAMS]
Emily, are you in here?
[DOOR SLAMS]
[DOOR RATTLING]
[GUNSHOT]
[ELEVATOR THUDS]
[ELEVATOR RATTLING]
[THUDDING]
[SCREAMING]
- [GUNSHOT] - [MAN GRUNTS]
Daddy.
No, Mommy!
[GUNSHOT]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
What have you done with my daughter?
[WIND VANE CREAKING]
[CAR ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
Come on, sweetie.
[KEYS JINGLE]
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]
Come on, sweetie.
Come on in and see your new home.
It's a lot bigger than it looks in the pictures.
This is where I grew up.
What's that?
ANNIE: Oh. That's a lift. It's like an elevator.
We had it put in for Grandma.
It helped her get up and down the stairs.
Does it still work?
No, I don't think so.
Who's that?
That's Grandma.
- Is that you, Mommy? - Yeah.
That was right before I met your dad.
Come on.
This is the room I had when I was a little girl.
I like it.
Is Daddy gonna come live with us?
No, sweetie.
But he's gonna come visit you this weekend. Okay?
Okay.
Listen, I know this past year has been really hard for you.
But it's a new chapter
and everything is going to be better now. Okay?
[SIGHS] Okay.
- You trust me? - I trust you, Mom.
Okay, good.
All right, you stay here, okay? I'll be back.
Okay.
[DOOR CREAKS]
[CREAKING AND SCRAPING]
[SCRAPING CONTINUES]
ANNIE: Oh...
[ELEVATOR RATTLES]
[GASPS]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[DOOR SHUTS]
Hey, Annie, how are you doing?
Sheriff, why am I here?
Because your daughter's missing.
Yeah, so I should be back home trying to find her.
Why aren't you helping me?
Because your ex-husband, Paul, seems to think that
you might have tried to hurt or kill her.
You must be out of your mind.
I would never hurt my child.
That's what your ex-husband thought too,
right up until you shot him.
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
- Daddy! - [LAUGHING] Hey.
How's my little girl? Hmm?
EMILY: I missed you, Daddy.
PAUL: Oh, I missed you, too, sweetie.
Here. Look what I bought you.
- [BELL TINKLING] - Thank you.
Yeah, well, seeing as you're a little farm girl now. Huh?
I thought you were coming this weekend?
Yeah, well, uh...
I wanted to see how you were getting on.
You know you can call?
Yeah, all right. Next time I will.
Can I come in?
Yeah, of course.
PAUL: Here you go, go on.
Okay.
Go play with your cow.
It's been awhile since I've been in here.
Yeah.
Your mother never really was my greatest fan.
Do you blame her?
So, how's it feel, being home?
Yeah, I think it's going to be good.
A little weird, but it's a new start.
Well, you know what people say about moving home.
I hope that's wrong for you.
You, uh, get a job yet?
I'm gonna start looking this week
when we are settled.
- [FOOTSTEPS RUNNING] - You will get one soon enough.
[PAUL CHUCKLES]
Oh!
EMILY: Are you gonna stay with us?
PAUL: No, sweetie. I have to go to work.
But, uh, I'll be back this weekend. Okay?
- Okay. - Until then,
you take good care of this cow for me, okay?
- Okay, I will. - [BELL TINKLING]
I love you.
Look, uh...
I'm sorry you're back here again.
No, you're not.
It wasn't my fault.
You were cheating on me while my mother was dying.
You were having a nervous breakdown.
Is that an excuse?
Look...
I don't want to bring this up again. Okay?
I'm better now, and Emily and I are moving on.
Okay.
I'll see you later.
[DOOR OPENING]
When I was a little girl,
we used to play flashlight tag in these fields.
You ready?
[EMILY GIGGLES]
Yep.
- You're it! - Hey! No fair.
ANNIE: Gotcha!
EMILY: Man!
Tag! You're it.
[ANNIE LAUGHING]
You got me.
All right, Emily, turn your light off.
Emily!
Emily, turn it off!
Emily?
Oh, no.
Emily!
Emily, where are you?
Oh, my God!
Emily, stay right there. I'm coming.
Emily!
So the doors were open when you came down?
Yeah.
- Sure they were locked? - Yeah, I'm, I'm pretty sure.
Okay.
- Is anything missing? - No, n-nothing's missing.
Everything looks secure to me.
What about the doors?
The kitchen doors, were they locked?
They were locked, too.
Okay.
Did your daughter remember anything?
No.
Okay, well... [SCOFFS]
I don't know what else to say.
What about the lights in the field?
It's probably just some kids.
- So you just moved in? - Yeah, a couple of days ago.
- SHERIFF: And what's your name? - ANNIE: Her name is Emily.
You know, I have a little girl named Maggie.
Look.
My daughter ended up on the roof of the house last night.
And those were not kids in the field.
Do you remember how you got on the roof last night, sweetie?
It was nice to meet you, Emily.
ANNIE: Go on, sweetie.
Listen, you don't have to worry.
Call me if you remember anything.
We're here to help.
Thanks, Sheriff.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
What are you doing, Mommy?
I'm looking to see if there is anything in the field.
Why?
Because I saw lights again last night.
And there's scratching inside the house.
Anything there?
No.
Come on.
- Let's go back inside. - Okay.
ANNIE: Come on.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
I'm not talking about lizard people
or an alien invasion.
I'm talking about an indigenous
human-like race living invisibly among us.
What we're looking at here is some kind of lizard competitor
that we drove into hiding, and you are not alone.
Contact me and tell me what you've seen.
Let me help.
If you've seen something like this,
if you've encountered or just felt its presence,
you are not insane.
We drove them to hiding a millennia ago,
and it's evolved,
evolved to not only live secretly among us,
but to prey directly upon us.
Think about it. We live in a planet where every other species
has a hundred variations. And yet we...
What's happening, Mommy?
- You stay here, okay? - Okay.
[DOOR CREAKING]
[GASPS]
Emily, go up to your room and lock the door.
And don't open it until I say so.
- But, Mom... - Do it!
Hey!
I'm gonna call the police right now if you don't leave.
Oh, no.
Emily, open the door!
- [BANGS ON DOOR] - Emily!
What's wrong, Mommy?
[PANTING]
Was there anyone in here with you?
No, Mommy.
Come here.
- What's happening? - I don't know.
- So it was right after midnight? - Yeah.
- Could you make out anyone? - No, it was way too dark.
So you're about here, you turned...
And I saw someone staring at me from my bedroom window, yes.
And then they made their way towards Emily's room.
Did Emily see it?
No.
Look, I'm not making anything up, okay?
I know what I saw.
I believe you.
Do you?
Just so you know, I'm here to help you.
You keep saying that,
but I don't feel safe in my house right now.
Don't worry. We're gonna figure this out.
- [CAR APPROACHING] - Okay.
Hey, Sheriff. How's it going?
Good. And yourself?
Good, yeah.
Is, uh... Is there a problem?
Maybe you should talk to Annie.
I'll see ya.
Okay. Thanks.
SHERIFF: Come on, Annie.
Ever since you moved into that house,
you've been trying to tell me that
something's after you and your daughter.
You gonna take that back now, or do you still believe it?
I still believe there is something after us.
You know what I think?
I think that "something" doesn't exist.
Never did.
Emily lived in that house, too
and she said she'd never seen anything
like what you described.
I didn't do anything to her.
- Don't look at me like that. - Then tell me what's going on.
There's scratching in the walls.
It's probably just an animal.
I mean, you live in the country now.
It's not an animal.
It sounds like there is someone in between the walls.
I saw lights in the field so I went to check on them.
I turned around and there was someone
staring at me from my room.
Are you having another nervous breakdown?
- Never mind. - I'm serious.
You are acting just like your mother did before she...
Hung herself?
Yeah.
Well, I'm nothing like my mother.
You know, it's hard to put your mom in a state hospital.
And then find out that you may have been responsible
for her death.
Look, I...
I didn't mean it like that. All right?
She may have been right all along.
I knew you moving back into this house was a bad idea.
[EXHALES]
Well, this is all I have.
Mommy.
Oh, my God.
Sweetie, look at you.
Paper towels.
It's okay. We're going to get this cleaned up. Okay?
All right?
Here we go. All right.
It'll be all good.
I'll be back tomorrow to check up on you, all right?
- Okay. - Okay.
- [BELL TINKLES] - [PAUL CHUCKLES]
I'm going to the office.
If something happens, you call me. All right?
I will.
I don't think Emily should be living with you anymore.
- We're fine. - You're not fine, Annie.
- What are you gonna do? - [DOOR CLOSES]
Are you gonna take her away from me?
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
What's that, Mommy?
ANNIE: It's a monitor.
So I can watch you sleep at night.
Why was Daddy mad?
Because Daddy doesn't believe me sometimes.
I believe you.
Thank you, sweetie.
Come on. Time for bed.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [CREATURE SCREECHING] - [GASPS]
Mommy, can I sleep with you?
Of course you can, sweetie. Come on.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [THUDDING] - [GASPS]
[SCRAPING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[EXHALES]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
[CREAKING]
Emily!
Hello.
Hi. My name is Annie Knox and my daughter is missing.
This is the Sheriff Dickerson
on the way out to the Knox residence.
Oh, shit!
Oh, my God.
Hey.
Hey. Are you okay?
What are you doing out here, sweetie?
I'll take you home.
Come in here with me.
Okay, okay.
Okay, Emily, let's get you home.
Please don't take me home.
Oh, sweetie.
Oh, my God! Look at your nose. Are you okay?
Can you tell me how you got out the house?
- No, Mommy. - Oh, sweetie.
She came out of the field and I almost hit her.
Well, thank you, Sheriff, very much for bringing her back.
Come on, sweetie.
I am gonna have to ask you a couple questions.
Why is her nose all bloody?
She had a bloody nose earlier today.
I think she is getting sick,
but I'm taking her to the doctors tomorrow.
How did she get out of the house?
I don't know. The doors were locked.
Emily, do you remember?
I'm gonna have to report this to child services.
I didn't do anything to my daughter
if that's what you're insinuating.
Your daughter said she didn't want to come home.
Why would she say that?
We just moved in.
And I just got a divorce.
There is a lot of change and a lot for her to process.
She will be fine.
Now, can I go back inside, please,
and take care of my daughter?
I'll talk to you later.
Why did you buy two shotguns and a .38 last week?
- ANNIE: For home protection. - Protection against what?
Is it wrong to own guns?
We found one shotgun.
What happened to the other shotgun and the .38?
I don't know.
What were you shooting at inside your house?
No, Mommy.
[SCREECHING]
[SCREAMING]
Emily!
- [CONTINUES SCREECHING] - [CONTINUES SCREAMING]
[CRYING]
Something took my daughter.
It was not human.
She is still in that house and I'm going home to find her.
No, sweetie.
You ain't going nowhere.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN BACKGROUND]
I'm transferring you to Richmond. You leave tonight.
Come on.
You're wasting time.
She's already gone. Stop it with the lies.
Everyone knows you did it.
You must have buried her somewhere special.
They'll find your daughter and when they do...
Do you know what they do to child murderers in Mississippi?
The best thing you can do is tell us where she's at.
I told you what happened.
I hope a creature doesn't get you on the way there.
Shit! I can't see anything.
You're the one who killed her kid.
Hey, I'm talking to you.
Shut the fuck up!
Holy shit, look out!
[TIRES SQUEALING]
Aah!
[RAIN PATTERING]
[GROANS]
[MURMURS] Shit.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
- So that's it? - Yup.
- When did it happen? - Sometime in the night.
They must've lost the road in the storm.
Came down the embankment.
It happens.
SHERIFF: How many bodies did you find?
HUNT: Two, in the van.
Everyone else in back got thrown out.
Thrown out?
Yeah. The back doors are blown open.
[SHERIFF EXHALES]
I don't know, Sheriff.
There's a lot of ground to cover,
but I'm sure the bodies will turn up
somewhere down river.
Well, let's get a move on.
Yup.
[GLASS SHATTERS]
[WATER SPLASHING]
[ZIPPER SCRAPING]
[CLICKS]
[FLOORBOARD CREAKING]
[EXHALES]
[GASPS]
[THUDDING]
[LID RATTLING]
[DOOR OPENING]
[SCREAMS]
[GASPING]
See, I told you we'd find one downstream.
Is that...
Is that Annie Knox?
Yeah, definitely ain't Knox.
If she was dead,
we probably should have found her body by now.
Well, she's drowned for sure.
Yeah? You keep looking.
WALTER: Hey! Hey!
Let's see your ear.
Yeah.
Good. That's getting better, huh?
There's no trespassing.
I'm not trespassing.
My name is Annie Knox.
I know who you are, Ms. Knox.
Are you gonna tell me what is it you want?
Something took my daughter...
and I want you to help me get her back.
Well, then, you better come inside.
Please take a seat.
I've been following your case.
I must admit I'm fascinated.
- How did you find me? - The Internet.
That is not good.
They're gonna know you are alive now.
Which means they're gonna follow you straight to me.
You... You understand
that they are watching us all the time.
I need your help.
- Did you see it? - Yes.
Really?
I was sure they existed.
No one would listen, but you know it's out there.
Tell me what you saw.
I couldn't see much because of the light.
This blinding light coming from its eye.
No face just... Just light.
It's Dark Light.
This is a bad sketch, but did it look like this?
[ECHOING] Look like this, look like this.
Dark Light.
Bad sketch.
Did it look something like this?
Like this?
Ms. Knox?
Hey.
How long have you had the nose bleeds?
They just started.
I don't think we have much time.
Is this what took your daughter?
Yes.
It's a form of Humanoid thought to be extinct.
They mostly target children.
- Why? - Food.
They consume energy.
A child's energy is the purest they can use.
They harvest their "inner light,"
and they need that inner light for their species to survive.
Eight hundred thousand children disappear every year.
That's 2,000 a day.
So how do we kill it...
and get Emily back?
I don't know.
I need to see it for myself.
Your daughter should be somewhere near your house.
There must be a...
a way up to the surface there that they're sneaking through.
Come with me.
Help me.
If you really want to kill it...
there's something I need to show you first.
Okay.
Hey.
- I just wanted to say I'm sorry. - Sorry about what?
Sorry about your daughter.
Hey! Let me out!
How can I let you kill it?
My whole life, I have been searching for it,
and now, I have actual proof I can show the world
and they will understand.
Thank you.
- [BANGING ON DOOR] - Walter!
Come back!
Walter!
[SIGHS]
Oh, my God.
[CREAKS]
[DARK LIGHT GROWLS]
[SCREECHING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREECHING]
[WALTER SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[EXCLAIMS]
[DARK LIGHT SCREECHING]
- [DARK LIGHT SCREECHING] - [SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
[INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
Where?
Hey.
What'd you find?
Sheriff, you are not gonna believe this.
Now, we've been together a long time.
Yeah.
I've never seen nothin' like this before.
It's just up ahead.
[DEPUTY GRUNTS]
Holy shit.
When did you find him?
About 20 minutes ago.
- Was it some kind of animal? - No, I don't think so.
Who is he?
His name is Walter Sims.
He's a conspiracy theorist.
- Same guy from Knox's computer? - Yeah, that's right.
Found his car smashed in the woods over there.
Seems like he was running from something.
You got an address?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[CAR DOORS CLOSING]
Fuck.
Hey.
Hey, check that out.
Oh, this is one paranoid dude.
Sheriff, it's locked.
Yeah.
It's locked.
Stupid.
This guy is crazier than my ex-wife, Sharon.
Nobody's crazier than Sharon.
HUNT: Well, hey, Sheriff?
You believe in Bigfoot?
You know, my cousin, Terry,
saw one of them Big Feets down at the Lake of the Ozarks.
Came right out of the woods, ate up one of her chickens.
- You know, there-there's a whole... - Shh!
[WHISPERS] Check it out.
[CLATTERING]
[CREAKS]
Jesus.
[KNOCK]
HUNT: Hey, Sheriff. You better come check this out.
Be right there.
You are not gonna believe this.
Who is it?
Just wait till she takes off the hood.
Is that Annie Knox?
Yeah. It sure looks like her, Sheriff.
Where was Walter's car parked again?
[SCRATCHING]
[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]
[SCRAPING]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[CAR DOOR CLOSING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
- [DOOR SLAMS] - [ELEVATOR WHIRRING]
[RATTLING]
[CREAKING]
[RATTLING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREECHING]
Paul?
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
Oh, fuck!
Paul, is that you?
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[SCREECHING]
[GUNSHOT]
[SCREECHING]
[PANTING]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]
SHERIFF: Put the gun down.
Don't do anything stupid, Annie.
Sheriff, you don't understand.
Put the gun down or I will shoot you.
Drop it, Annie.
I'm not going to ask you again.
[SIGHS]
Okay.
[EXHALES]
[GASPS]
[DARK LIGHT GROWLS]
- [ROARING] - [SCREAMING]
[ROARS]
[ROARING]
[SCREECHING]
[CLATTERING]
[ROARS]
[FOOTSTEPS CLATTERING]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
[ELEVATOR WHIRRING]
[RATTLING]
[THUDS]
[ANNIE GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[EXHALES]
[SOFTLY] Oh, my God.
What the fuck?
Where are you?
[GASPS]
Oh, my God.
Paul.
- Paul! - [GASPS]
Are you okay? What happened?
I don't remember.
I was in the elevator and there was a bright light.
Where are we?
We're under the house.
Can you walk?
- Yeah. - Okay. Come on.
[PAUL GRUNTS]
Is Emily down here?
Yeah.
[DARK LIGHT SCREECHING]
- Did you hear that? - Yeah.
Come on.
[DARK LIGHT SCREECHING]
Careful, Paul.
Let's go.
[DARK LIGHT CONTINUES SCREECHING]
[ANNIE BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREECHES]
What's it doing?
It's sucking the energy from her.
[SNIFFS]
I'm so sorry I didn't believe you.
Tell Emily I love her.
[YELLS]
Emily.
Emily. Come on, wake up, it's Mom.
[SCREECHES]
Shit.
Emily.
Honey.
Oh, my God.
[SCREECHES]
Oh, God.
Emily!
Emily, come on, wake up!
[SCREECHES]
Oh.
Emily.
I knew you would come for me, Mommy.
Of course I'd come back for you.
Come on.
We gotta be quick.
[SCREECHES]
Here, honey.
Upstairs, okay?
[EXHALES]
- Annie? - Paul?
Daddy!
No!
[DARK LIGHT ROARING]
Emily, run!
[GROWLING]
[GUNSHOT]
[ELEVATOR WHIRRING]
Come on.
Go stand by the door.
Go on, honey, it's time.
Careful.
Cover your eyes.
- [DARK LIGHT SCREECHING] - [SCREAMING]
Emily, run!
No, Mommy, I'm not leaving without you!
[DARK LIGHT SCREECHING]
[SCREECHING IN PAIN]
[GUNSHOTS]
Emily, go!
Go! Go! I promise I'm coming.
[LIGHTER CLICKS]
[DARK LIGHT ROARING]
Come here.
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[EXPLOSION]
[ROARING]
Is it dead, Mommy?
Yeah, sweetie, it's dead.
[ROARING]