Dad
Are you in your bedroom?
Chloe
Yeah, dad, what’s up?
Dad
Are all the doors in the house locked?
Chloe
Aren’t you downstairs?
Dad
Listen to me very carefully…
Dad
Look out your window.
Dad
Is there a man down there?
Chloe
You’re scaring me. What’s going on?
Chloe
OMG, dad, what is that?
Dad
DON’T take your eyes off him, Chloe!
Chloe
What do you mean HIM?!
Dad
And if he texts you, DO NOT answer. Promise me!
Chloe
What?! Why would it text me?
Chloe
Okay. But… if you’re not here…
Chloe
How do you know it’s out there?
Dad
That’s not important.
Dad
What matters is that…
Dad
You keep him in your sight.
Dad
As long as you’re looking at him…
Chloe
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!
Chloe
I’m going to the safe room.
Chloe
THEN DON’T CALL IT A SAFE ROOM!!!
Chloe
Do you know how hard it is…
Chloe
To text you AND watch it!
Dad
I’m on my way home now.
Chloe
I don’t understand any of this!
Dad
You just have to trust me.
Chloe
I do. But that thing…
Dad
I know it’s scary, sweetheart.
Chloe
I looked away for a second.
Chloe
Am I sure there’s not a…
Chloe
Disgusting, horrific monster…
Chloe
Staring up at me from…
Chloe
The edge of the forest right now?!
Chloe
Pretty positive, dad!
Dad
It’s inside the house.
Chloe
I looked away for less than second.
Chloe
I would have seen it crossing the yard.
Dad
You don’t know this thing.
Chloe
I want answers, dad. NOW!
Dad
Not until you’re safe.
Chloe
I am. I checked all the doors…
Chloe
They’re locked and the alarm is on.
Chloe
So what is this about?
Chloe
And why didn’t you call me?
Dad
I can’t call. I’m on the train.
Dad
There are people around me.
Chloe
What does that matter?
Chloe
If I’m in danger, CALL ME!!
Chloe
Then I’m calling 911.
Chloe
Where are they then?!
Dad
On their way. I promise.
Chloe
I can’t believe this.
Dad
Just hang tight. I’m with you.
Chloe
And why didn’t you tell me…
Chloe
You were going to the city?
Chloe
Why else would you be on a train?
Chloe
Unless you went to the penthouse…
Dad
I wanted to talk to her about the divorce.
Dad
But she wouldn’t see me.
Chloe
I just heard something slam.
Chloe
No, I think it was…
Chloe
There’s no way that thing could…
Chloe
Get in through the chimney, right?
Dad
It can do things you can’t imagine.
Dad
Just get out of the house!
Dad
Run to the neighbors.
Chloe
That’s a mile away!!
Chloe
That thing will run me down in a heartbeat!!
Chloe
I’m going to the safe room.
Chloe
I’m done listening to you…
Chloe
Until you start explaining!!
Dad
Your sister was kidnapped from that room.
Chloe
What are you talking about?
Dad
Before you were born.
Dad
That thing came into our house…
Dad
And it took her FROM the safe room!
Chloe
Is this some sort of joke?
Dad
No, Chloe. I’m dead serious.
Dad
Get out of that house?!
Chloe
Why? It’s a mansion.
Chloe
There are forty rooms…
Chloe
Lots of secret hiding spots.
Dad
It’s been there before.
Chloe
And you could never find me...
Chloe
When we played hide and seek.
Chloe
That’s where I’m going.
Chloe
My top secret hiding spot.
Dad
Okay. But don’t tell me where.
Chloe
Why? Can it read our texts?
Dad
But somehow it knows things.
Dad
Things no one should know.
Chloe
You said earlier it might text me.
Chloe
Does that mean it’s human?
Dad
But it lies and deceives like only we can.
Dad
It can be unimaginably cruel…
Dad
And it will use any means to get to you.
Chloe
You seem to know a lot about it.
Chloe
Except why it wants your children.
Dad
I told you it’s cruel.
Chloe
Crueler than you not telling me I had a sister?
Dad
It was fifteen years ago.
Dad
A year before you were born.
Chloe
I can’t believe mom never told me.
Dad
It was her idea not to.
Dad
Because it wasn’t her daughter.
Dad
Before I married your mom.
Dad
Chloe, are you all right?!!
Chloe
How the hell can I be okay?
Chloe
Everything you say is a lie!
Dad
We just never told you.
Chloe
I’m getting sick of asking…
Chloe
WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dad
Because my first wife killed herself.
Dad
That thing took our daughter.
Dad
It drove my wife insane.
Dad
So she shot herself. Okay?
Dad
And I might have followed her…
Dad
Had it not been for your mom.
Dad
She saved me from that nightmare.
Dad
And she wanted to spare you from it too.
Dad
I know. It was a terrible time.
Chloe
I think it may have found me.
