[drums and chanting]
[heavy breathing]
[drumming and chanting fade]
[drumming and chanting swell]
[Falke] Jakob. Come on.
Let me go. Let me go.
Let go.
Jakob, that's enough.
I don't like this.
[music fades]
[Amelia] Falke.
[voice echoes] Falke.
[theme music]
[distant crow caws]
MEET ME AT BAKKEN ON FRIDAY AT 2 P.M.
Calm down. Calm down. Relax.
-[Astrid shouts] -Sh, they hear it. They can hear it.
Let me go! Let me go!
-I'm sorry. -What do you want?
Sorry.
[breathes heavily]
-I'm sorry if I scared you. -Why have you been following me, huh?
Why are you following me?
You don't look like her.
Are you even sisters?
Who are you?
Do you see who I am? Can you guess who I am?
-Falke? -Bingo. Bingo.
They can hear us. They can hear us.
You have to come with me. Come. Come. Come on.
I won't hurt you.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
Come. Come.
Come with me. Come with me.
Come. Come in.
Come. Come, come, come.
Hurry. Hurry. Hurry.
This way. We're going up here.
Come on. Come up here. Come on.
Come up here. Come over here. They-they can't hear us in here.
The can't hear us in here.
Here. Here. Here.
Okay. Okay. Here.
Do you have your recorder with you? Do you have your recorder?
Record. Willing to record?
-[recorder beeps] -Okay. Good.
Okay.
You weren't ready earlier. Okay?
But now you have pieces. And you can understand my pieces.
-I don't get it. -Twenty-one.
-Okay. Twenty-one. -Yes.
Twenty-one of them disappeared? Twenty-one students?
No. Twenty-one pieces, so 21, 22, 23. Einundzwanzig...
I don't understand what pieces you're talking about.
-What are these pieces that... -No! Okay.
Twenty-three, 22, 21... oh!
Twenty--
-Have you heard the song? -Yeah, I have.
Then you know. You know it. The most important piece.
-The song is the most important-- -No! For fuck's sake! Not the song.
Not the song. No. Hey, don't-- Please don't go.
I've had volts through my brain.
They say that Ostara is Ida!
[Falke shushes]
Sit down. Sit down. Sh. Sh.
-Ida is Ostara? -Yes. And it was all written in the book.
-In what book? -Jakob's book. Right?
It had everything about the egg and Ostara.
But you...
You need to explain this better. What's this egg you're talking about?
The egg. The egg. She drank it. Drank it and then it happened.
-What happened? -Well, everything in the book.
Where is that book now?
It's gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone, gone.
B-But it came true.
For Jakob, he was... he was punished.
And Amelia lost, and I'm suffering, and Ida is...
Ida what?
Then Ida what?
Was sacrificed.
-What did you do to her? -I didn't. I haven't...
I would never hurt her.
What happened the night they disappeared?
It didn't happen then.
-It happened before that night. -Before that? On...
Was it on the island?
Yes, exactly. Now you get it. You get it.
What happened on that island?
I saw...
I saw what I saw.
And what I saw... It has no logic.
[drumming and chanting]
[Ida] Do it, Falke.
Do not be afraid.
[drumming and chanting end]
What happened to Ida?
I don't know... Ask Ida's mom.
-Ida's mom. My mom? -Yes, your mom, Ida's mom. Yes.
-Why my mom? -She knew it would happen.
-How could my mom have known that? -Because Ida was trapped.
She was trapped and Ida's mom, she was scared.
How could she have known?
I don't know, but she knew that Ida would disappear.
But...
I know that I'm right, but my pieces don't fit together yet.
I can't get any further.
My journey ends here. But-but you can.
You'll find the truth.
And where do I find that?
The driver.
The truck driver. He's got pieces.
Yeah, but he's in the hospital. I can't. I...
My point. My point exactly. He's closer. He's closer to you.
-He's insane. -And you're not?
Go talk to him.
[Astrid] Equinox.
Astrid. Sh, Astrid.
Listen to the song, Astrid.
Forwards and backwards.
[buck grunts]
[bucks grunt]
[heart rate monitor beeps]
Torben?
Torben, can you hear me?
It's Astrid.
You tried to tell me something last time.
Was it about the student truck?
Torben?
If you can hear me, won't you give me a little sign?
What are you doing here?
I wanted to ask him something.
I would like you to go.
Will he be okay?
[Doris] Will you please leave?
Torben, please give me a sign if you can hear me.
[Doris] He can't hear you. He can't hear anybody.
He's brain dead.
It's over.
There's no more life inside.
But isn't there a chance that he might wake up, or...
-We shut it off in the morning. -You can't do that.
-We can do exactly we want. -What if he...
Can I please have the rest of the time my husband has alone with him?
Yeah, but-but could he... What if he wakes up?
You don't get it?
You're the one to blame for this.
[heart rate monitor quickens]
[Astrid] He's moving.
He moved his fingers. Torben? He just moved. Please.
Will you please stop now?
How dare you?
[heart rate monitor slows]
Lene?
[vacuum running]
[vacuum shuts off]
[Lene] Astrid, is that you?
You knew something.
You knew that Ida would disappear.
What on earth are you saying?
She was never allowed out.
She always had to be in her room.
That simply isn't true, Astrid.
Your memory is wrong.
[Astrid] You were always arguing.
I don't think we fought more than...
any other teenage girl and their mom do.
You didn't really want her to go on graduation day.
I remember.
That's nonsense.
I just wanted her...
to look after herself.
That's not the same thing as saying that she couldn't go on the bus.
But you were so young,
and of course you remember things differently.
I was just looking out for her.
Like all mothers look out for their children.
Like I looked out for you.
But...
But you didn't take care of me.
You weren't there.
-No? -No.
But that wasn't my fault.
Astrid, I was the only one who believed in you back then.
And it was Dennis.
Dennis who took you away from me.
But I was sick.
[Lene scoffs]
You kept saying that I could find her.
-Yeah. -I was nine years old.
I was nine!
It has come back, hasn't it?
I can tell by looking at you.
I feel it. You're experiencing it again.
-I'm not sick. -No. I know that.
You are not sick.
There's nothing wrong with you.
You've always had a special connection to Ida.
Oh, yes.
You have a special gift.
And you need to believe in that.
There's nothing wrong with you. No.
[somber piano music]
[door knocks]
[Astrid sniffles]
-I'll go open. -Yeah.
[door knocks]
-[door opens] -[children greet indistinctly]
[doctor] Does it hurt when the light shines in your eyes?
I understand you have a lot of nightmares?
[eerie music playing]
[Astrid sniffles]
[doctor] Have you ever experienced them happening when you're awake?
I'm always awake when they happen.
[Dennis] No, they wake you up, that's right,
but they only happen when you're asleep.
No, I'm not asleep.
[doctor] I'm sure it feels like it's real, what you're experiencing.
Do you get headaches?
-No. -Look down at your stomach for me.
All the way down. Like that. And up.
This way. There.
-I just want to go home. -[doctor] Yeah.
Have you experienced right before the headaches, that...
[claps hands rhythmically]
...that you could hear or smell or feel something?
No, not before,
but sometimes there's the smell in the cave.
[prepares injection]
[doctor] Good.
Then I need you to lie down.
Come on, lie down. If you could just...
So, you'll feel a little sting.
Just take a deep breath now.
[breathes]
[winces]
[doctor] Would you please come on in?
The conclusion is that there's nothing there.
-[Lene] That's what I said. -[Dennis] That can't be right.
[doctor] It's good news. Your daughter's healthy and well.
-But I know something's wrong with her. -Listen to the doctor, Dennis.
[doctor] On the physiological side, there's nothing to see.
No trace of anything.
There's no tumor, she's not epileptic, and her blood work shows nothing unusual.
[Dennis] There's "nothing unusual."
It's very clear that there's something wrong with her.
[doctor] I understand your situation.
I know what you've been through. I'm sorry about that...
[voice fades]
[breathing heavily]
[indistinct moaning]
[rope tightening]
[fluttering sounds]
[echoing crashing sounds]
[heavy breathing]
[indistinct whispers]
[heavy breathing]
[growls]
Let me go! [echoes] Let me go!
Let me go.
-Astrid, look at me. -Just let me go.
-Sweetie, can you hear me? -Let me go.
Tell mom what's going on.
Let me go now.
[voice echoes]
Dad, you have to believe me.
I'm not making this up.
I was fighting to get away.
[Dennis] I know.
Just relax, okay?
I'm right here with you.
But you're not listening to me.
You know I am. I hear everything you're saying.
He has come to take me.
Sh, sh, sh.
Try to get some sleep now, okay?
Sh, sh, sh.
[somber music playing]
[breathes deeply]
[Falke on recorder] You weren't ready earlier,
but now you have pieces.
And you can understand my pieces. Yeah, 21.
[Astrid on recorder] 21 of them disappeared? 21 students?
[Falke] No. 21 pieces. 21, 22, 23,
-Einundzwanzig, 22... -[Astrid] I don't understand. What pieces?
[Falke] No! Okay.
JUNE 21
STUDENTS DISAPPEAR
Solstice.
WINTER SOLSTICE
Spring equinox. Summer solstice.
Twenty-three September. September 23.
MY BIRTHDAY
22 DEC DEAD WINTER SOLSTICE
21 GRADUATES GRADUATE CASE TRAGEDY
-[inaudible] -[eerie music playing]
[indistinct echoing voices]
[quiet breathing]
[Ida gasps]
[indistinct chanting]
[gasping]
[quietly breathes]
[breathes heavily]
[Ida moans]
[moaning and panting]
[shouts]
[shout echoes]
[eerie music fades to silence]
[sniffles]
Forwards and backwards.
[Jakob's song plays]
♪ Ostara ♪
-[music stops] -[music plays backwards]
[mysterious voice] Astrid, you're next.
[music stops]
[tape rewinds]
No.
[tape stops]
[music plays backwards]
[mysterious voice] Astrid, you're next.
[tape stops]
What's going on?
Dad, it's all connected. I'm...
I'm a part of all this.
-What's going on here? -I'm a part of this.
Just look at this.
Jakob, Amelia, and Falke were all on the island,
during equinox with Ida.
And Ida disappears.
And she's the only one who disappears, because Ida, she... she's the chosen one.
She's Ostara. She is...
She was... She was the goddess on the island.
I don't know exactly what happened or how it happened,
but there's something with these dates.
There's something about Falke. Falke keeps saying the 21st.
And the 22nd and the 23rd. He keeps saying that.
I've recorded that. Um...
-Jakob dies on December 22nd. -Okay.
On March 21st, they were on the island during equinox.
June 21st, they all disappear. And...
And this means that, um...
winter solstice, um... winter solstice
and spring... spring equinox, and the 21st is summer solstice,
and what's missing?
What's the thing that's missing?
-I have no idea. -It's autumn solstice.
It's the 23rd of September.
My birthday.
I'm also involved in this, Dad.
-Don't you see? -Honey.
You don't see it?
What if I've never been sick? What...
I need you to listen to this, Dad.
I really, really need you to listen. It's very important that you listen to me.
-Yeah. -No, no, no. Look at me. Look at me.
I need you to take this seriously.
-I am taking it seriously. -I need you to take me seriously now.
-You bet I'm taking you seriously. Right. -Okay. Listen to this.
I'll listen. I'll listen to it.
-Listen to this. -Yes.
-[loads tape] -Okay. Wait. Listen.
[rewinds tape]
-Here. Listen. -Yeah.
-[tape stops] -Wait.
-[music plays backwards] -Wait. Listen. Listen.
-Yeah. -Listen.
[music continues playing backwards]
Wait. It's there. One moment. Wait.
-[tape stops] -It was just there.
[music plays backwards]
Listen. He said, "Astrid, you're next." He said that to me.
He said it. It... It means that it's before...
Astrid, you need to listen.
You're not listening to me. You're not listening!
-[music continues playing] -No. You have to listen now.
-[music stops] -It was just there.
Listen to what I'm saying. Come here.
It... It made sense!
-Put it away. -It made sense before.
-Put it down. -It made sense.
Please put down the tape recorder.
Calm down. Sit down here. Sit down with me.
-Come on. -It was just there.
We'll sit down here together, okay?
-Come on. Just breathe. -[Astrid crying]
Now, you really have got to let go of this guilt.
Okay? You haven't done anything wrong.
You couldn't have done anything to save Ida.
You couldn't have done anything. It's not your fault.
And all of this Ostara is a fairy tale, honey.
It's just a story. You could not have done anything.
You have no blame in all of this. Sh.
-But it was there. -Just breathe. Nice and calm.
It was just there.
[weeps]
[man] We've had great success with this workshop we've built out here...
We've made some cool boxes.
Maybe you should go and take a look at the room.
[Dennis] Come, sweetie.
-Dad, I don't want to be here. -Come on. Get your stuff. Okay?
Come, sweetie.
So, this is your room. Just make yourself at home, okay?
Try to make it a place you like to be.
Let's go inside.
WELCOME ASTRID
-Why do I have to live here? -[Dennis] You're not gonna live here.
You're just going to stay here until you feel better, all right?
How am I gonna get better?
Well...
first off, they're gonna give you some medicine
to make the nightmares stop.
Right? And that's a good thing.
So I won't have nightmares anymore if I take the medicine?
No, you won't.
Everything will be okay.
But then how is Ida going to come back?
All of that we're going to figure out.
Okay?
It's all going to be okay.
Hey, what happened to Mikala?
I dropped her.
[phone rings]
-[phone picks up] -[David] Hey.
Hi.
-What's wrong? Something happened? -[sniffs]
Yeah.
I'm coming home now.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Don't apologize. Just come home.
Viola misses you a lot.
[somber music playing]
[phone beeps]
It's Astrid.
[Mathias] It's Mathias, Jakob's brother.
Hi.
This may sound strange, but I, uh...
I-- I received a letter for you.
For me?
Yes, I've got it here in the store. You can come by and pick it up.
I can't, unfortunately. I'm on my way home.
Okay, but it's from Jakob.
From Jakob?
Yeah, it's... sent from Romania.
A place called Marrakesh.
Sorry, could we make a stop on the way?
Here you go.
Thanks.
Jakob died in Romania?
Yeah.
So you knew where he was?
Why did you lie?
Because I got nervous when you showed up and stirred up the past.
I didn't like the thought of Jakob being dragged back
into all the stuff he just escaped.
The truth is that Jakob came by some time ago to borrow money again.
But there was something different about him.
He seemed more resolved.
Like he'd finally found peace of mind.
I don't believe he committed suicide.
Do you think somebody killed him?
Suicide doesn't make any sense, no.
He was happier than he'd been for ages.
Why would he go there to take his own life?
What was he doing there?
What is this place?
I don't know.
All he said was that he'd finally found what he'd been looking for all this time.
"Ostara flows in the blood as water flows in the river."
Does it mean anything to you?
No.
It's been torn out of a book.
-Promise to tell me what you find? -Hm.
JAKOB SKIPPER MARRAKESH ROMANIA
[Astrid] Hi, you've reached Astrid.
I can't pick up the phone right now,
but leave a message, and I'll get back to you.
-Bye. -[phone beeps]
What's happened? Where are you?
Call me, okay?
I did it. She has my pieces now.
[Jakob singing] ♪ Ostara ♪
Turn that shit off. Shut the fuck up!
[music stops]
Can you forgive me?
I'll make things right.
All in order. Order for all.
[indistinct]
[heart rate monitor beeping]
All in order. Order for all.
[heart rate monitor quickens]
[heart rate monitor silences]
[closing theme music playing]