1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:05,964 --> 00:00:08,925 [eerie music playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:17,934 --> 00:00:19,269 [thunder crashing] 5 00:00:29,738 --> 00:00:31,448 [woman] I'm really worried about him. 6 00:00:31,531 --> 00:00:34,367 [man] Me too. I've never seen him this upset. 7 00:00:34,451 --> 00:00:36,202 -[woman] I know. -[man] He's taking it hard. 8 00:00:38,288 --> 00:00:40,415 [woman] You know what he said to me? 9 00:00:40,498 --> 00:00:43,334 He said he'll never write another story ever again. 10 00:00:43,418 --> 00:00:45,003 -[man] He said that? -[woman] Yeah. 11 00:00:45,086 --> 00:00:46,796 [screaming] 12 00:00:47,756 --> 00:00:50,717 [crying] This is lame! Stupid! 13 00:00:51,843 --> 00:00:53,261 [crying] 14 00:00:53,344 --> 00:00:55,513 [breathing heavily] 15 00:00:55,597 --> 00:00:57,474 -[glass shatters] -[panting] 16 00:00:57,557 --> 00:00:59,309 [crying] 17 00:00:59,392 --> 00:01:01,394 I'm gonna burn all this stupid stuff! 18 00:01:01,978 --> 00:01:03,438 [breathing shakily] 19 00:01:05,565 --> 00:01:07,692 [crying] 20 00:01:10,695 --> 00:01:13,948 [woman] I'm so afraid that tonight is gonna, like, stifle him 21 00:01:14,032 --> 00:01:15,950 or be this wound that haunts him. 22 00:01:16,659 --> 00:01:17,619 Poor little guy. 23 00:01:17,702 --> 00:01:19,037 [man] He's a creative kid, 24 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,748 but maybe we let his obsession with horror get out of hand. 25 00:01:21,831 --> 00:01:22,665 [woman sighs] 26 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:26,086 [man] I guess I can see how they could consider it a little weird. 27 00:01:26,169 --> 00:01:30,298 Maybe it would be easier if he was just more, I don't know, normal. 28 00:01:34,844 --> 00:01:36,471 [woman] I think I heard something. 29 00:01:36,554 --> 00:01:37,597 [man sighs] 30 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:40,433 Alex? 31 00:01:40,517 --> 00:01:41,893 I didn't hear anything. 32 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:44,521 [sighing] 33 00:01:48,233 --> 00:01:49,776 -[grunts] -[elevator dings] 34 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,447 [elevator rumbling] 35 00:01:57,909 --> 00:01:59,786 -[elevator thuds loudly] -[screams, pants] 36 00:01:59,869 --> 00:02:01,037 [elevator dings] 37 00:02:02,997 --> 00:02:05,583 [electricity buzzes intermittently] 38 00:02:05,667 --> 00:02:07,043 [breathing shakily] 39 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:14,300 [sighs] 40 00:02:18,179 --> 00:02:19,180 [elevator dings] 41 00:02:20,390 --> 00:02:21,266 [Alex] Ugh. 42 00:02:22,058 --> 00:02:24,394 [man 1 on TV] It was all gonna be so perfect, Lucy… 43 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:28,106 [distant screams on TV] 44 00:02:28,189 --> 00:02:30,900 [man 1 on TV] …just like one big, happy family. 45 00:02:33,611 --> 00:02:34,654 Your boys 46 00:02:36,447 --> 00:02:37,574 and my boys. 47 00:02:37,657 --> 00:02:40,451 [boy on TV] Great. The bloodsucking Brady Bunch. 48 00:02:40,535 --> 00:02:41,911 [Alex] Lost Boys? 49 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:43,413 I still want you, Lucy. 50 00:02:43,496 --> 00:02:44,455 [screaming] 51 00:02:45,456 --> 00:02:47,750 [man 1 on TV] I haven't changed my mind about that. 52 00:02:48,501 --> 00:02:50,712 [man 2 on TV] I didn't invite you this time, Max. 53 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:51,713 [Lucy] Michael. 54 00:02:54,507 --> 00:02:55,717 Michael, no! 55 00:02:56,718 --> 00:02:58,803 -[Michael growls] -[Lucy screaming] 56 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:00,847 Michael! 57 00:03:01,389 --> 00:03:03,266 -[grunting] -[screaming] 58 00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:13,568 -[boy] Don't you touch my mother! -[Lucy] Sam, don't! No, Sam! 59 00:03:13,651 --> 00:03:15,778 [movie continues indistinctly] 60 00:03:16,404 --> 00:03:18,656 [voices whispering] 61 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:20,825 [suspenseful music playing] 62 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:24,412 [creaking] 63 00:03:25,496 --> 00:03:27,498 [suspenseful music intensifies] 64 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:31,711 -[door slams] -[music stops] 65 00:03:31,794 --> 00:03:34,255 [dramatic music playing] 66 00:03:34,339 --> 00:03:35,340 [Alex gasps] 67 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:52,941 Where am I? 68 00:04:00,531 --> 00:04:02,033 -[door rattles] -Hello? 69 00:04:02,116 --> 00:04:03,451 [door rattles] 70 00:04:13,586 --> 00:04:14,504 Hello? 71 00:04:14,587 --> 00:04:15,713 Anyone? 72 00:04:15,797 --> 00:04:17,006 I'm trapped! 73 00:04:17,507 --> 00:04:18,341 Mom! 74 00:04:18,967 --> 00:04:20,009 Dad! 75 00:04:22,595 --> 00:04:25,515 [grunting] 76 00:04:29,394 --> 00:04:31,271 [breathing shakily] 77 00:04:34,816 --> 00:04:38,528 [woman cackling] 78 00:04:38,611 --> 00:04:40,947 -Hello? Help! -[electricity buzzes] 79 00:04:41,906 --> 00:04:44,993 [woman] What is your name? 80 00:04:45,868 --> 00:04:46,995 A… Alex. 81 00:04:48,246 --> 00:04:50,039 Alex Mosher. 82 00:04:50,790 --> 00:04:52,166 [panting] 83 00:04:52,250 --> 00:04:53,251 [woman whispers] Alex. 84 00:04:53,334 --> 00:04:56,087 -[electricity buzzes] -[woman giggling] 85 00:04:56,671 --> 00:04:58,047 -[Alex gasps] -[woman] Alex! 86 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:00,258 [whimpering] 87 00:05:02,093 --> 00:05:06,222 [woman laughing] 88 00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:07,724 [inhales deeply] 89 00:05:18,276 --> 00:05:21,362 [gasps, yelps] Please, please. 90 00:05:21,863 --> 00:05:23,156 [whimpering] 91 00:05:26,409 --> 00:05:27,243 [whispers] Boo. 92 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:28,494 [breathes shakily, gulps] 93 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:30,496 Let's get this over with. I'm a busy witch. 94 00:05:30,580 --> 00:05:32,123 Are you useful in any way? 95 00:05:32,206 --> 00:05:33,458 Uh, I… [grunts] 96 00:05:33,541 --> 00:05:34,625 [breathes shakily] 97 00:05:35,501 --> 00:05:36,461 Do you see them? 98 00:05:36,544 --> 00:05:39,339 The apartment lured them in. 99 00:05:40,923 --> 00:05:42,425 That's what the apartment does. 100 00:05:44,802 --> 00:05:45,887 Those children, 101 00:05:46,929 --> 00:05:48,598 they were not useful to me. 102 00:05:49,932 --> 00:05:51,309 Do you understand? 103 00:05:51,392 --> 00:05:52,894 So let's try this again. 104 00:05:52,977 --> 00:05:57,732 Is there anything special about you at all? 105 00:05:57,815 --> 00:05:59,984 Any reason I should let you live? 106 00:06:01,819 --> 00:06:03,696 -And get up. -[whooshing] 107 00:06:04,489 --> 00:06:05,448 [witch] Come closer. 108 00:06:05,531 --> 00:06:09,869 [eerie whooshing and creaking] 109 00:06:10,536 --> 00:06:12,580 Goodbye, Alex. 110 00:06:14,665 --> 00:06:16,542 [witch chuckles] 111 00:06:16,626 --> 00:06:20,588 [hesitates] I do write scary stories. 112 00:06:22,757 --> 00:06:23,674 [Alex grunts] 113 00:06:25,885 --> 00:06:29,806 Did you say "scary stories"? 114 00:06:29,889 --> 00:06:31,891 -[growling and rumbling] -[Alex gasps] 115 00:06:31,974 --> 00:06:33,309 What's… what's that? 116 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:35,853 [growling and rumbling subside] 117 00:06:35,937 --> 00:06:36,854 No more questions. 118 00:06:38,064 --> 00:06:41,109 My Nightbooks. It's where I wrote my stories. 119 00:06:42,902 --> 00:06:45,029 What are you doing with these so late at night? 120 00:06:45,113 --> 00:06:46,155 I was… 121 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:49,992 I was gonna burn them in the boiler room downstairs. 122 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:52,537 Burn them? So they're not any good. 123 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:54,038 -No. -Goodbye, Alex. 124 00:06:54,122 --> 00:06:56,374 They're good. They're very, really, really good. 125 00:06:56,457 --> 00:06:57,291 [breathes shakily] 126 00:06:57,959 --> 00:06:59,210 Nightbooks, huh? 127 00:07:00,753 --> 00:07:03,381 The title better not be the scariest thing about them. 128 00:07:03,464 --> 00:07:06,551 I'm going to need a story every night. 129 00:07:06,634 --> 00:07:10,596 The story better be good, and it better be scary, 130 00:07:11,431 --> 00:07:14,100 or it's the last thing you'll ever do. [giggles] 131 00:07:15,143 --> 00:07:16,144 [door slams shut] 132 00:07:31,325 --> 00:07:33,035 -[objects clattering] -[gasps] 133 00:07:36,664 --> 00:07:38,791 [clicking] 134 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:41,752 -[Alex panting] -[clicking continues] 135 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:45,465 [scraping] 136 00:07:45,548 --> 00:07:46,591 [clicking stops] 137 00:07:48,885 --> 00:07:50,470 [breathing shakily] 138 00:07:50,553 --> 00:07:51,554 [clicking] 139 00:07:51,637 --> 00:07:54,599 [rattling] 140 00:07:54,682 --> 00:07:56,100 [breathing shakily] Hey. 141 00:07:57,518 --> 00:07:58,936 [clicking stops] 142 00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:02,315 -[thudding] -[Alex gasps] 143 00:08:02,398 --> 00:08:05,902 [clicking] 144 00:08:05,985 --> 00:08:07,069 [clicking stops] 145 00:08:27,632 --> 00:08:28,799 [gasps] 146 00:08:28,883 --> 00:08:30,843 -[meows] -[Alex] It's a little kitty. 147 00:08:30,927 --> 00:08:31,969 [purring] 148 00:08:32,053 --> 00:08:33,638 Mischievous little thing. 149 00:08:35,556 --> 00:08:36,682 How'd you get in here? 150 00:08:36,766 --> 00:08:40,561 -[hissing] -[Alex screaming] 151 00:08:40,645 --> 00:08:41,771 [grunts] 152 00:08:43,064 --> 00:08:43,940 [growling] 153 00:08:45,358 --> 00:08:46,651 [hisses] 154 00:08:46,734 --> 00:08:47,777 [gasps] 155 00:08:50,238 --> 00:08:51,531 -[cat meows] -[thudding] 156 00:08:51,614 --> 00:08:53,074 [Alex gasps] 157 00:08:53,157 --> 00:08:55,910 -[cat meowing] -[rattling, shaking] 158 00:08:55,993 --> 00:08:57,495 [cat hisses] 159 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:02,875 -[hissing and growling] -[screaming] 160 00:09:06,796 --> 00:09:08,673 [creaking] 161 00:09:20,726 --> 00:09:22,311 [Alex] What is this place? 162 00:09:40,746 --> 00:09:41,872 Where's the TV? 163 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:44,584 [menacing music playing] 164 00:09:51,048 --> 00:09:53,259 [Alex] And where'd the front door go? 165 00:09:53,342 --> 00:09:55,845 [low rumbling] 166 00:10:00,182 --> 00:10:02,685 [eerie voices gasping] 167 00:10:08,357 --> 00:10:10,693 [distant screams echoing] 168 00:10:10,776 --> 00:10:14,322 [breathing shakily] 169 00:10:15,906 --> 00:10:17,033 [screams fade] 170 00:10:20,077 --> 00:10:21,203 [yelps] 171 00:10:26,375 --> 00:10:27,460 Oh my God. 172 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:29,045 You scared me. 173 00:10:38,429 --> 00:10:41,307 -[faucet turns] -[water running] 174 00:10:41,390 --> 00:10:42,683 -[girl sighs] -[water stops] 175 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:45,436 What? 176 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:47,772 -[Alex] You're a kid. -[girl] And you're a genius. 177 00:10:49,106 --> 00:10:50,650 I'm Alex. Who are you? 178 00:10:50,733 --> 00:10:53,069 [sighs] You're gonna be chatty. Great. 179 00:10:53,694 --> 00:10:54,695 I'm Yasmin. 180 00:10:56,530 --> 00:10:58,074 Are you a prisoner too? 181 00:10:58,574 --> 00:11:00,159 No, I'm on vacation. 182 00:11:00,785 --> 00:11:01,869 Okay, food's here. 183 00:11:02,578 --> 00:11:04,246 Hope you like peanut butter. 184 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:05,539 I used to. 185 00:11:06,749 --> 00:11:08,876 Anything in these cabinets is off-limits. 186 00:11:08,959 --> 00:11:12,088 Don't ever think Natacha won't miss this piece of popcorn. 187 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:14,256 -Lenore tells her everything. -[Lenore growls] 188 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:15,925 Come out, you evil skin-bag. 189 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:17,343 -[Lenore hisses] -[gasps] 190 00:11:17,426 --> 00:11:19,929 -[Lenore growls] -[Yasmin sighs] 191 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,431 [Alex] And that's the invisible cat? 192 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:25,643 You say cat. I say Natacha's little spy-beast. 193 00:11:27,019 --> 00:11:28,270 And Natacha is… 194 00:11:29,438 --> 00:11:32,108 Keep up. Natacha is the witch. 195 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:35,611 Lenore is that wrinkled, hairless thing that follows you around all day, 196 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:37,363 popping up out of nowhere. 197 00:11:37,446 --> 00:11:39,949 She ratted me out over a stinking cup of noodles. 198 00:11:40,032 --> 00:11:41,075 I hate that cat. 199 00:11:43,494 --> 00:11:46,706 Don't just stand there. Help me clean this up before Natacha gets home. 200 00:11:49,083 --> 00:11:50,751 Where is she, Natacha? 201 00:11:50,835 --> 00:11:52,878 I don't know where she goes or what she does, 202 00:11:52,962 --> 00:11:54,547 but she can go anywhere she wants. 203 00:11:54,630 --> 00:11:57,842 Talk about the ultimate passport, this apartment is it. 204 00:11:57,925 --> 00:12:00,803 Come on. We both have work to do. I'll get you set up. 205 00:12:00,886 --> 00:12:02,513 Ultimate passport? 206 00:12:02,596 --> 00:12:05,641 The apartment travels all over the world, luring kids in. 207 00:12:06,142 --> 00:12:08,144 I'm from New York. Brooklyn. 208 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:11,313 I live in Washington. Washington, DC. 209 00:12:12,273 --> 00:12:14,650 Or I did before. 210 00:12:16,444 --> 00:12:18,279 I wonder if we're still in Brooklyn. 211 00:12:18,362 --> 00:12:19,780 The apartment moves? 212 00:12:20,364 --> 00:12:21,866 When it needs fresh meat. 213 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:26,120 Not literally. Jeez. 214 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:29,790 Thought you wrote scary stories. 215 00:12:31,876 --> 00:12:32,710 Not anymore. 216 00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:37,757 [door creaks] 217 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:39,633 Ta-da. 218 00:12:40,217 --> 00:12:41,719 [ethereal music playing] 219 00:12:49,143 --> 00:12:50,269 Whoa! 220 00:12:52,646 --> 00:12:54,398 This is so cool. 221 00:12:54,899 --> 00:12:57,067 [echoing] How is… 222 00:12:57,151 --> 00:12:58,986 I mean, wow! 223 00:13:00,154 --> 00:13:01,155 It can't be. 224 00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:04,992 Hello! 225 00:13:09,330 --> 00:13:10,873 How is this even possible? 226 00:13:12,124 --> 00:13:14,043 The apartment can do two things. 227 00:13:16,587 --> 00:13:18,172 It lures suckers like us in, 228 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:21,091 and it has room to hold… 229 00:13:22,051 --> 00:13:23,719 This is so cool. 230 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:26,305 …well, anything. 231 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:28,974 The Empty Classroom and Other Creepy Stories. 232 00:13:29,475 --> 00:13:31,227 Nightdreams and Daymares. 233 00:13:32,353 --> 00:13:33,521 Whispered Tales. 234 00:13:34,063 --> 00:13:35,731 She does like stories. 235 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:39,777 I thought you said you weren't into that kinda stuff anymore. 236 00:13:40,361 --> 00:13:43,697 -I'm not. It's my friend. -Oh, it's your friend? 237 00:13:43,781 --> 00:13:46,408 He, uh… he'd like all this stuff. 238 00:13:47,993 --> 00:13:49,078 But me? Nah. 239 00:13:49,161 --> 00:13:51,705 -He's, like… he's really lame. -Yeah, he sounds lame. 240 00:13:52,998 --> 00:13:54,375 Hmm. Cool. Okay, yeah. 241 00:13:54,458 --> 00:13:58,671 So she makes me read her a stupid scary story every night, 242 00:13:58,754 --> 00:14:01,465 but she says everything in here's already been read. 243 00:14:04,635 --> 00:14:05,469 Everything? 244 00:14:07,930 --> 00:14:09,849 Good thing you're a storyteller. 245 00:14:11,058 --> 00:14:13,227 She needs you, so get to work. 246 00:14:13,811 --> 00:14:16,397 You heard her. She wants a scary story tonight. 247 00:14:16,981 --> 00:14:19,191 Every day, write as many stories as you can. 248 00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:20,192 I don't write-- 249 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:21,360 Cut the crap. 250 00:14:21,443 --> 00:14:24,613 I heard you last night, talking about your Nightbook thingies. 251 00:14:25,322 --> 00:14:26,490 Oh, those. 252 00:14:27,324 --> 00:14:29,285 I'm over the whole writing thing. 253 00:14:29,368 --> 00:14:32,496 Then you better get over getting over it and crank out some new tales, 254 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:33,706 'cause if you don't-- 255 00:14:33,789 --> 00:14:35,583 She'll kill me. I know. 256 00:14:36,166 --> 00:14:38,168 You'll be lucky if she kills you. 257 00:14:38,711 --> 00:14:40,212 This is your life now. 258 00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:45,718 Forget your family. Forget your friends. Focus on being useful to Natacha. 259 00:14:45,801 --> 00:14:46,802 You wanna live? 260 00:14:48,095 --> 00:14:49,805 Write scary stories. 261 00:14:50,472 --> 00:14:51,390 [sighs] 262 00:14:53,434 --> 00:14:55,227 I'm not gonna write anything, 263 00:14:55,769 --> 00:14:57,354 'cause I'm getting out of here. 264 00:14:57,438 --> 00:14:58,647 [Yasmin] You're gonna die. 265 00:14:59,607 --> 00:15:01,108 -[door slams shut] -[sighs] 266 00:15:01,191 --> 00:15:05,279 -[rain pattering] -[thunder rumbling] 267 00:15:05,362 --> 00:15:07,907 [Alex] Come on, open. 268 00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:09,450 Where are you? 269 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:11,660 [door rattling] 270 00:15:28,969 --> 00:15:29,929 Another exit. 271 00:16:03,671 --> 00:16:04,797 [Alex panting] 272 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:10,344 -[electrical crackling] -[Alex grunts, groans] 273 00:16:11,637 --> 00:16:12,554 Damn. 274 00:16:14,056 --> 00:16:15,265 Every time. 275 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:18,769 You all try and run. 276 00:16:18,852 --> 00:16:20,396 There's no escape. 277 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:22,773 You understand? 278 00:16:22,856 --> 00:16:23,691 [Alex grunts] 279 00:16:24,942 --> 00:16:26,652 [distorted] You understand? 280 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:31,407 [Natacha's footsteps recede] 281 00:16:32,032 --> 00:16:33,659 [Alex sighs] 282 00:16:39,415 --> 00:16:41,542 [purring] 283 00:16:43,210 --> 00:16:48,215 Hmm. Were you purposely making me wait? 284 00:16:50,092 --> 00:16:52,803 -No. I… I was doing the dishes. -Sit there. 285 00:16:57,975 --> 00:17:00,060 [chair scraping] 286 00:17:00,144 --> 00:17:01,311 [Lenore meows] 287 00:17:05,941 --> 00:17:09,111 -Should I just start reading? -[Lenore purring] 288 00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:11,572 [Alex sighs] 289 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:13,866 [exhales deeply] 290 00:17:15,659 --> 00:17:16,660 [inhales deeply] 291 00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:19,705 [dramatic music playing] 292 00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:21,874 Give me a minute to get settled. 293 00:17:21,957 --> 00:17:23,208 I mean, honestly! 294 00:17:23,292 --> 00:17:25,627 [breathes deeply] 295 00:17:31,050 --> 00:17:31,967 What is that? 296 00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:36,430 Do you know what happens to children who ask too many questions? 297 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,267 Do you wanna find out? 298 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,731 -[spraying] -[inhaling deeply] 299 00:17:49,651 --> 00:17:51,987 So, Storyteller, 300 00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:56,200 you tried to escape today. 301 00:17:57,618 --> 00:18:01,789 Yasmin, too, had a little rebellious streak. 302 00:18:02,372 --> 00:18:05,876 But I am curious about one thing. 303 00:18:06,418 --> 00:18:11,548 Why burn your stories? 304 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:14,134 [growling and rumbling] 305 00:18:14,218 --> 00:18:15,219 [Lenore meows] 306 00:18:17,888 --> 00:18:19,389 What is that? 307 00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:22,101 Read. Now. 308 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,021 -[growling and rumbling subside] -[meows] 309 00:18:29,858 --> 00:18:32,111 [Alex] "When… when Todd's best friend Jenny died, 310 00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:34,530 his heart shattered into a thousand pieces." 311 00:18:34,613 --> 00:18:36,865 Shattered heart? I like it already. 312 00:18:37,491 --> 00:18:40,202 [dramatic music playing] 313 00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:46,875 [Alex] "Everyone avoided the Foster Playground at night." 314 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,293 "They all knew the legend." 315 00:18:48,377 --> 00:18:51,797 "In the hour before daylight, the dead kids would come out and play." 316 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,299 Nope. No, no, no. Sorry, nope. 317 00:18:54,383 --> 00:18:58,220 Everyone knows that ghosts haunt places that are personal to them, 318 00:18:58,303 --> 00:19:00,180 not public places. 319 00:19:00,264 --> 00:19:02,266 Uh, are… are you sure? 320 00:19:03,725 --> 00:19:05,185 I'm sure. 321 00:19:05,269 --> 00:19:06,353 [thunder crashes] 322 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,313 Get on with it. 323 00:19:09,231 --> 00:19:12,776 [Alex] "Todd walks to the playground. He gets to the gate." 324 00:19:13,485 --> 00:19:16,238 "And as soon as his foot crosses the threshold, 325 00:19:17,072 --> 00:19:18,240 children…" 326 00:19:18,782 --> 00:19:22,161 -[Todd gasping] -[Alex] "…squealing, playing." 327 00:19:24,413 --> 00:19:27,374 "Suddenly, a boy shoots out of the slide." 328 00:19:27,457 --> 00:19:31,420 "Maybe he's ten or so, dressed like a newsie from the '20s." 329 00:19:31,503 --> 00:19:33,338 Rude. You could at least say hi. 330 00:19:33,422 --> 00:19:34,298 Hey… hey. 331 00:19:34,798 --> 00:19:36,091 I… I mean… I mean hi. 332 00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:39,094 I'm looking for my friend, Jenny. 333 00:19:39,178 --> 00:19:41,805 [Alex] "…Todd says, while looking for any sign of her." 334 00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:45,350 To find her, you have to play. 335 00:19:45,434 --> 00:19:49,188 [Alex] "The newsie whistles, and half a dozen dead kids surround Todd." 336 00:19:49,271 --> 00:19:53,692 "Their skin is deathly white. Some of their clothes date back decades." 337 00:19:53,775 --> 00:19:56,278 "They push Todd on a swing, higher and higher--" 338 00:19:56,361 --> 00:19:57,446 [Natacha] Stupid! 339 00:19:57,529 --> 00:20:01,491 Everyone knows ghosts don't have actual physical hands, 340 00:20:01,575 --> 00:20:04,328 so they could never push him on a swing. 341 00:20:04,411 --> 00:20:05,412 Amateur. 342 00:20:05,996 --> 00:20:06,997 [Alex sighs] 343 00:20:09,124 --> 00:20:11,960 The playground is… it's an interdimensional plane, 344 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:14,421 a mix between the spirit world and the real world. 345 00:20:14,504 --> 00:20:17,299 Oh, so you're a quantum physicist now? 346 00:20:20,260 --> 00:20:22,638 -Whatever. Continue. -[Lenore meows] 347 00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:27,976 [hesitates] "And then the children laugh, 348 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:30,479 and they pull Todd to a rusty merry-go-round." 349 00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:34,024 "They spin him around and around, faster and faster, 350 00:20:34,107 --> 00:20:35,776 making Todd dizzier and dizzier." 351 00:20:35,859 --> 00:20:38,320 "Then the ghosts force Todd onto a seesaw." 352 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:39,571 "He holds on tight." 353 00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:41,823 "Suddenly, Todd realizes what they're up to." 354 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:45,327 "Any living child still on the playground when the sun rises 355 00:20:45,410 --> 00:20:48,247 is cursed to remain there forever." 356 00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:51,166 "He stumbles towards the gate, desperate to get out, 357 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:54,378 but his world is spinning, and he's tripping over his own feet." 358 00:20:54,461 --> 00:20:57,172 "The sun's almost up. He's nearly out of time." 359 00:20:57,256 --> 00:20:59,716 "All the ghost children watch in suspense." 360 00:21:00,384 --> 00:21:02,010 "Todd's not going to make it." 361 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:05,180 "Until suddenly, someone grabs him and pulls him towards the exit." 362 00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:06,390 "It's Jenny!" 363 00:21:07,724 --> 00:21:10,018 "'Jenny, I… I wanted to see you.'" 364 00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:11,853 "'Get out of here,' Jenny says, 365 00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:13,855 not stopping for a happy reunion." 366 00:21:17,150 --> 00:21:19,903 "Seeing his old friend again makes Todd's heart hurt." 367 00:21:19,987 --> 00:21:22,572 I miss you. I don't wanna let you go. 368 00:21:22,656 --> 00:21:23,782 [Alex] "But in death, 369 00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:26,785 Jenny discovered something that Todd is about to learn." 370 00:21:26,868 --> 00:21:28,662 Friends never let go, Todd. 371 00:21:30,205 --> 00:21:32,040 [Alex] "Because friends never forget." 372 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,835 [Jenny] I'll always be with you, 373 00:21:35,669 --> 00:21:36,586 here. 374 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:38,922 [dramatic music playing] 375 00:21:53,729 --> 00:21:56,815 [growling and rumbling] 376 00:21:56,898 --> 00:21:58,442 A happy ending? 377 00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:02,863 -[meows] -[distorted] Are you out of your mind? 378 00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:04,740 No happy endings, you fool. 379 00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:11,496 Jenny… Jenny's dead. She's… she's trapped on the playground forever. 380 00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,999 -It's not happy for her. -[Natacha breathing heavily] 381 00:22:14,624 --> 00:22:17,294 [spluttering] Ghostly hands go on Todd's back. 382 00:22:17,377 --> 00:22:19,671 He… he… he glances behind him, 383 00:22:19,755 --> 00:22:22,007 and he's pulled into the playground. 384 00:22:22,090 --> 00:22:24,676 He… he screams for help, but it's no use. 385 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,846 His ghostly soul is trapped there to this very day. 386 00:22:28,347 --> 00:22:29,473 [thunder crashing] 387 00:22:29,556 --> 00:22:31,558 [grunting] 388 00:22:34,770 --> 00:22:37,522 -[grunts, pants] -[growling and rumbling subside] 389 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:38,815 [sighs] 390 00:22:43,070 --> 00:22:46,239 [breathlessly] Happy endings are a dangerous thing. 391 00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:48,283 Never forget that. 392 00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:49,493 [shudders] 393 00:22:49,576 --> 00:22:53,163 Did you at least like the story? I mean, until the ending? 394 00:22:53,246 --> 00:22:57,084 [sighs] Writers, always so insecure. 395 00:22:57,167 --> 00:22:59,503 You're still alive, aren't you? 396 00:23:11,264 --> 00:23:14,226 I'm mystified by you, Storyteller. 397 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:21,400 This beautiful darkness dances inside your brain. 398 00:23:22,025 --> 00:23:23,693 You should celebrate it. 399 00:23:24,861 --> 00:23:26,071 But you run from it. 400 00:23:26,571 --> 00:23:27,406 Why? 401 00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:30,742 I just… 402 00:23:32,869 --> 00:23:35,122 [sighs] I… I wanna be like everyone else. 403 00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:40,544 You wrote all this today? 404 00:23:40,627 --> 00:23:43,922 Uh, I had… I had trouble writing today. 405 00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:45,507 What? 406 00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:49,428 It's just hard to concentrate with someone staring at me all day. 407 00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:57,102 I told you, show him the library and then get out. 408 00:23:57,185 --> 00:23:58,061 Wait! Wait! 409 00:23:58,145 --> 00:23:59,563 [breathing shakily] 410 00:24:00,230 --> 00:24:01,481 Not her! Not her. 411 00:24:03,650 --> 00:24:05,402 You were disturbing him. 412 00:24:05,485 --> 00:24:09,322 -[meows] -It is very important that he writes. 413 00:24:09,406 --> 00:24:11,992 You know how important it is. 414 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,411 Wait! 415 00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:19,291 It… it wasn't her fault either. 416 00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:22,586 [meows meekly] 417 00:24:23,378 --> 00:24:27,048 Well, if it wasn't Yasmin's fault, and it wasn't Lenore's fault, 418 00:24:27,132 --> 00:24:30,302 then whose fault was it? 419 00:24:31,761 --> 00:24:35,098 Mine. I'll… I'll write faster. 420 00:24:36,766 --> 00:24:39,102 [Natacha] Lenore won't bother you again. 421 00:24:39,603 --> 00:24:41,605 No more excuses, Storyteller. 422 00:24:41,688 --> 00:24:43,148 [meows] 423 00:24:45,358 --> 00:24:46,359 [sighs] 424 00:24:50,947 --> 00:24:52,866 [sighs] Are you okay? 425 00:24:54,367 --> 00:24:55,535 Leave me alone. 426 00:24:55,619 --> 00:24:58,705 [splutters] Yasmin, I'm sorry. 427 00:24:58,788 --> 00:25:01,333 I wasn't trying to get you in any kind of trouble. 428 00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:05,378 Yasmin, I'm sorry. I didn't know about the "no happy endings" thing. 429 00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:09,674 Todd shouldn't have gone back for Jenny. 430 00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:13,970 -He was stupid. -No, he wasn't. 431 00:25:14,054 --> 00:25:16,306 He was her friend, and that's what friends do. 432 00:25:16,806 --> 00:25:18,517 Maybe in fairy tales. 433 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,269 But in here? She's right, you know. 434 00:25:22,479 --> 00:25:24,189 Happy endings don't exist. 435 00:25:31,738 --> 00:25:33,949 [clinking] 436 00:25:39,955 --> 00:25:40,872 [sighs] 437 00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:42,874 [squishing] 438 00:25:44,084 --> 00:25:44,918 What? 439 00:25:45,418 --> 00:25:46,836 What… what is that? 440 00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:54,219 [farting and splashing] 441 00:25:54,302 --> 00:25:56,972 [breathing heavily] 442 00:26:00,725 --> 00:26:01,560 [purring] 443 00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:04,563 [meows] 444 00:26:06,356 --> 00:26:07,649 This place sucks. 445 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:12,487 [Alex sighs] 446 00:26:13,154 --> 00:26:16,491 She wants stories? Fine. I'll give her some stories. 447 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:17,951 [groans] 448 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:29,588 Yes! Yes, a haunted desk! 449 00:26:29,671 --> 00:26:32,757 Haunted by the spirit of somebody who died working at it. 450 00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:35,468 No, no, it's stupid. They're gonna think it's stupid. 451 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:37,220 How long you been here for? 452 00:26:37,721 --> 00:26:38,972 Looks like a while. 453 00:26:39,681 --> 00:26:40,974 How'd they get you? 454 00:26:41,057 --> 00:26:43,893 They got me with a piece of pie and Lost Boys. 455 00:26:46,354 --> 00:26:47,480 [grunts in frustration] 456 00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:50,650 [sighs] 457 00:26:51,568 --> 00:26:53,028 Once upon a time, 458 00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:55,780 Alex stared up at the ceiling. 459 00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:58,742 Then the ceiling fell on him 460 00:26:59,909 --> 00:27:01,828 and put him out of his misery. 461 00:27:02,454 --> 00:27:03,330 The end. 462 00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:10,629 What's up there? 463 00:27:12,213 --> 00:27:13,840 [panting] 464 00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:33,318 [sighs] 465 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,208 It's the oldest book in here. 466 00:27:48,958 --> 00:27:51,544 This thing's gotta be, like, a thousand years old. 467 00:27:56,508 --> 00:28:00,095 "Kinder und Hausmärchen." 468 00:28:06,184 --> 00:28:07,352 "Rumpelstiltskin." 469 00:28:11,981 --> 00:28:13,566 "Sleeping Beauty"? 470 00:28:15,318 --> 00:28:16,277 Wow! 471 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:21,449 "Hansel and Gretel." 472 00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:25,745 Is that a ballpoint pen? 473 00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:27,455 [ominous music playing] 474 00:29:00,029 --> 00:29:01,531 Wow. "Frankenstein." 475 00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:11,416 Oh my God. 476 00:29:13,501 --> 00:29:14,335 It's writing. 477 00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:21,009 "If I don't make it out of here, I need someone to know what happened, 478 00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:23,720 even if it's only the characters in these books." 479 00:29:23,803 --> 00:29:25,221 "I saw a unicorn." 480 00:29:25,847 --> 00:29:28,183 "People said they didn't exist, but there it was." 481 00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:32,437 "I followed it into this apartment, and now I'm trapped by a witch." 482 00:29:33,021 --> 00:29:34,564 "She's mean and scary." 483 00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:49,120 "I just have to do what the witch tells me to 484 00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:51,164 until Mom and Dad find me." 485 00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:54,209 "There are other kids here. Most of them are nice." 486 00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:57,170 "I'm scared, but at least I'm not alone." 487 00:29:57,253 --> 00:29:58,588 [door thudding] 488 00:30:03,343 --> 00:30:04,511 Dinner in an hour. 489 00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:06,179 Hey, Yasmin, 490 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,139 do you like unicorns? 491 00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:11,518 Yeah, 'cause that's so me. 492 00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:15,230 Oh, I thought maybe that's how she got you. 493 00:30:16,022 --> 00:30:17,357 Natacha, I mean. 494 00:30:18,066 --> 00:30:20,026 You're right. It's none of my business. 495 00:30:20,109 --> 00:30:24,072 And I bet you weren't lured in by a stupid movie and a piece of pie. 496 00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:26,115 Stupid pumpkin pie. 497 00:30:28,743 --> 00:30:29,786 Fine. 498 00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:32,288 It was doro wat. 499 00:30:33,623 --> 00:30:35,333 What the hell is doro wat? 500 00:30:36,459 --> 00:30:41,214 Chicken, onions caramelized in spiced butter, paprika, garlic, 501 00:30:41,297 --> 00:30:43,508 ginger, berbere spice. 502 00:30:44,717 --> 00:30:45,552 My āyatē… 503 00:30:46,594 --> 00:30:49,556 My grandmother and I used to make it before she died. 504 00:30:50,807 --> 00:30:53,309 We even grew all the herbs and veggies ourselves. 505 00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:57,146 Anyways, I smelled doro wat, 506 00:30:57,230 --> 00:31:01,442 and I just so badly wanted to see my āyatē again. 507 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:06,781 But it wasn't her. 508 00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:09,325 It was a witch, 509 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:11,911 an evil, wicked witch. 510 00:31:14,664 --> 00:31:16,332 How's that for a happy ending? 511 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,420 [door slams shut] 512 00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:27,218 [Natacha sighs] 513 00:31:33,683 --> 00:31:35,768 [Alex] "With the fangs came the hunger, 514 00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:38,396 and Katie discovered that her hunch was right." 515 00:31:38,479 --> 00:31:41,482 "To a vampire, blood does taste like candy." 516 00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:46,738 Everybody knows it takes two days to grow full fangs. 517 00:31:46,821 --> 00:31:48,239 You're stupid. 518 00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:56,664 [Alex] Here, Lenore, a peace offering. 519 00:31:57,165 --> 00:31:59,626 [meows, hisses] 520 00:32:05,715 --> 00:32:06,966 [mutters] Story. 521 00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:09,010 [sighs in frustration] 522 00:32:09,093 --> 00:32:12,263 There's gotta be more writing from that Unicorn Girl. 523 00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:15,183 "…but it's too late. The roller coaster plunges down the drop." 524 00:32:15,266 --> 00:32:18,478 "Steel snaps, metal shrieks, 525 00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:21,689 humans scream, 526 00:32:22,649 --> 00:32:25,818 and the grim reaper's dog laughs at the carnage." 527 00:32:26,569 --> 00:32:29,739 The grim reaper doesn't have a pet. 528 00:32:30,406 --> 00:32:31,950 Isn't that right, Lenore? 529 00:32:44,754 --> 00:32:45,964 [yells] 530 00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:47,757 This is gonna take forever! 531 00:32:51,844 --> 00:32:56,849 [water pouring] 532 00:33:04,607 --> 00:33:08,277 "They saw their son's footprints in the snow, leading into the woods." 533 00:33:08,361 --> 00:33:11,280 "Then they saw a pair of smaller footprints, 534 00:33:11,364 --> 00:33:12,532 teddy-bear-sized." 535 00:33:12,615 --> 00:33:13,491 [Natacha sighs] 536 00:33:13,574 --> 00:33:16,035 "And they never saw their precious son again." 537 00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:19,372 [Natacha] Possessed teddy bears? Really? 538 00:33:19,956 --> 00:33:21,874 Took me right out of the story. 539 00:33:21,958 --> 00:33:26,045 Every good story hints at truth. 540 00:33:26,629 --> 00:33:29,799 The more truth, the more powerful the story. 541 00:33:30,591 --> 00:33:34,512 From now on, get your facts straight. 542 00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:38,641 [intense music playing] 543 00:33:46,899 --> 00:33:47,734 Yes! 544 00:33:48,234 --> 00:33:49,861 [breathing heavily] 545 00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:53,281 "I don't know how long I've been here." 546 00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:56,367 "I still have the necklace Mom and Dad gave me." 547 00:33:56,951 --> 00:33:59,245 "I used to touch it to remember them, 548 00:33:59,328 --> 00:34:00,955 but I stopped." 549 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:02,665 "It made me cry." 550 00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:04,584 "I'm tired of crying." 551 00:34:07,628 --> 00:34:09,881 "I have what I need to escape tonight." 552 00:34:09,964 --> 00:34:12,675 "I'm finally going to see them again, Mom and Dad." 553 00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:14,635 "I wonder if they'll even know me." 554 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,596 "Can people forget their kids?" 555 00:34:19,015 --> 00:34:20,391 -"Escape"? -[Yasmin] Alex? 556 00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:22,852 [yelps, grunts] 557 00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:24,604 Oh my God! [gasps] 558 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,277 You did not just throw a book at me! 559 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,154 Uh, no. You just surprised me. 560 00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:34,238 I dropped it. 561 00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:36,282 Hold on. I'm coming down. 562 00:34:38,117 --> 00:34:41,954 Hey, Yasmin, wait until you see what I found. 563 00:34:43,998 --> 00:34:46,250 Hey, what's wrong? 564 00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:00,515 This is Natacha's night nursery. 565 00:35:00,598 --> 00:35:01,641 Night nursery? 566 00:35:01,724 --> 00:35:04,352 Yeah. Sunlight is bad for magical plants. 567 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:05,269 Come on. 568 00:35:22,912 --> 00:35:24,539 What's all this for? 569 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:27,667 Ingredients mostly, for Natacha's potions. 570 00:35:32,505 --> 00:35:34,423 Don't touch anything. 571 00:35:36,634 --> 00:35:37,844 [squealing] 572 00:35:39,053 --> 00:35:40,012 What's that? 573 00:35:40,596 --> 00:35:41,848 Demon silk. 574 00:35:41,931 --> 00:35:44,058 Enough questions. Help me with this. 575 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:47,186 I watered the vine with rat's blood instead of bat's blood. 576 00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:50,690 Now, Shredder eggs are growing on it. If one of them hatches, 577 00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:53,484 it can destroy the night nursery, and Natacha will kill me. 578 00:35:55,319 --> 00:35:56,904 -[hisses] -[Alex and Yasmin gasp] 579 00:35:57,488 --> 00:35:59,949 -[Yasmin] I'm taking care of it, Lenore. -[meows] 580 00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:02,743 [sighs] 581 00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:08,666 [exhales deeply] 582 00:36:10,668 --> 00:36:11,752 [grunts] 583 00:36:13,254 --> 00:36:15,464 [breathing heavily] 584 00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:18,843 -[crunching] -[Yasmin gasps softly] 585 00:36:22,096 --> 00:36:26,100 [whispering] Okay. Put it gently on the ground. 586 00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:28,644 Be careful. Don't jostle it. 587 00:36:29,395 --> 00:36:30,229 Be careful. 588 00:36:30,313 --> 00:36:31,731 [breathes deeply] 589 00:36:35,818 --> 00:36:37,737 Okay, now what? 590 00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:41,449 Stomp it as hard as you can. 591 00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:43,284 -[purring] -[dramatic music playing] 592 00:36:44,285 --> 00:36:45,786 [crunching and splattering] 593 00:36:48,331 --> 00:36:49,332 Good. 594 00:36:55,671 --> 00:36:58,132 [Alex] Where's the blue mist come from? Do you make it? 595 00:36:58,216 --> 00:37:00,259 The mist, do you think it keeps Natacha young? 596 00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:03,054 It's none of our business. 597 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:06,098 I mean, she's really pretty, but her books are ancient, 598 00:37:06,182 --> 00:37:08,601 and the apartment looks like a granny decorated it. 599 00:37:10,728 --> 00:37:13,564 [Yasmin screams, distorted] 600 00:37:17,401 --> 00:37:20,613 [Alex, distorted] No! 601 00:37:20,696 --> 00:37:22,782 [meows, distorted] 602 00:37:22,865 --> 00:37:23,866 [panting] 603 00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:25,243 [breathing heavily] 604 00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:26,911 I thought for sure it was gonna-- 605 00:37:27,411 --> 00:37:29,121 [screaming] 606 00:37:29,205 --> 00:37:31,582 [Shredder gurgling] 607 00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:32,833 [gasps] 608 00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:37,838 [Alex panting] 609 00:37:39,298 --> 00:37:42,176 [gurgling] 610 00:37:43,469 --> 00:37:45,346 [screeching] 611 00:37:45,429 --> 00:37:47,682 [screams] No! 612 00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:49,767 [Alex screams, grunts] 613 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:52,103 -[panting] -[Yasmin] Did you get it? 614 00:37:52,979 --> 00:37:54,105 It's getting away! 615 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:56,691 [Yasmin and Alex panting] 616 00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:57,858 -No! No! -No! 617 00:37:58,651 --> 00:38:01,696 It's cutting down the Shredder eggs! Stomp on them! 618 00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:05,491 [Yasmin and Alex grunting] 619 00:38:14,417 --> 00:38:15,876 [Yasmin shudders] 620 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,003 Sorry. 621 00:38:18,754 --> 00:38:19,755 [Yasmin gasps] 622 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,675 That's all the Shredder eggs. 623 00:38:22,758 --> 00:38:24,593 [Shredder screeching] 624 00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:27,096 [Yasmin] There it is! Don't let it get away! 625 00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:30,933 [Alex and Yasmin grunting and panting] 626 00:38:32,935 --> 00:38:34,478 [gasps] Alex, look out! 627 00:38:37,481 --> 00:38:38,316 Thanks, Yas. 628 00:38:38,899 --> 00:38:40,693 [spluttering] I mean, Yasmin. 629 00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:45,239 Wait. Where is it? 630 00:38:47,908 --> 00:38:49,368 [Shredder screeches] 631 00:38:50,953 --> 00:38:51,871 [scurrying] 632 00:38:51,954 --> 00:38:52,955 [both gasp] 633 00:38:54,582 --> 00:38:55,916 [breathing heavily] 634 00:38:56,917 --> 00:39:00,004 We need to find it and kill it before it destroys the whole place. 635 00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:06,344 -[Shredder scurrying] -[electricity booms] 636 00:39:08,637 --> 00:39:10,598 [scoffs] Well, that's just great! 637 00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:13,601 [breathing shakily] 638 00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:15,478 [Shredder chitters, screeches] 639 00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:17,188 [scurrying] 640 00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:18,898 [both panting] 641 00:39:26,947 --> 00:39:29,492 [Yasmin panting] 642 00:39:29,575 --> 00:39:30,618 [Shredder screeches] 643 00:39:30,701 --> 00:39:33,496 [Yasmin and Alex breathing heavily] 644 00:39:33,579 --> 00:39:34,997 -[Shredder screeches] -[gasps] 645 00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:36,665 [Shredder chittering] 646 00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:40,753 [chitters, screeches] 647 00:39:40,836 --> 00:39:43,422 -[yelling] -[screaming] 648 00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:47,510 [Alex] Get it off me! 649 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,183 [yelps] Oh God! 650 00:39:54,266 --> 00:39:57,645 Oh God. [breathing heavily] 651 00:39:57,728 --> 00:39:59,855 I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. 652 00:40:03,692 --> 00:40:04,610 [grunts] 653 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:20,918 [Yasmin] It's gone. 654 00:40:21,669 --> 00:40:23,921 I don't know where it went. [breathes shakily] 655 00:40:25,923 --> 00:40:27,258 [chittering] 656 00:40:29,635 --> 00:40:30,970 [gasps, yelps] 657 00:40:33,597 --> 00:40:34,723 [screaming] 658 00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:38,269 -[screeching] -[Yasmin screaming] 659 00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:44,358 [meowing] 660 00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:45,317 Let's go! 661 00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:48,654 -Come on! -Wait. 662 00:40:49,238 --> 00:40:51,365 [Lenore yowling] 663 00:40:51,866 --> 00:40:54,493 [meowing] 664 00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:56,829 [chittering] 665 00:40:56,912 --> 00:40:57,830 [screeches] 666 00:41:00,541 --> 00:41:01,667 [meows] 667 00:41:01,750 --> 00:41:04,753 [Alex grunts, breathes heavily] 668 00:41:05,629 --> 00:41:06,505 [meows sadly] 669 00:41:08,048 --> 00:41:11,552 [meowing] 670 00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:12,636 [Alex] Gotcha. 671 00:41:13,512 --> 00:41:15,014 Now let's get out of here. 672 00:41:15,097 --> 00:41:16,599 [Lenore purrs, meows] 673 00:41:23,522 --> 00:41:26,108 [Alex breathes heavily] 674 00:41:27,443 --> 00:41:28,777 [gurgles, chitters] 675 00:41:28,861 --> 00:41:29,987 [both panting] 676 00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:32,114 -[thudding] -[both screaming] 677 00:41:37,203 --> 00:41:39,747 [breathing heavily] 678 00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:44,126 [grunting and gasping] 679 00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:48,130 [Natacha hums] 680 00:41:54,512 --> 00:42:00,392 You useless little twits. 681 00:42:01,477 --> 00:42:04,647 You've been misbehaving in my garden. 682 00:42:05,773 --> 00:42:10,653 This will hurt you far more than it hurts me. [chuckles] 683 00:42:10,736 --> 00:42:13,781 [crying] Please, I… I can explain. 684 00:42:13,864 --> 00:42:16,617 [Natacha] And I would let you 685 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:17,952 if I cared. 686 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:19,453 [Yasmin and Alex whimpering] 687 00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:21,705 Do try to keep your eyes open. 688 00:42:22,748 --> 00:42:25,042 I would hate to have to start over. 689 00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,463 -[rumbling] -[Yasmin gasping] 690 00:42:30,714 --> 00:42:35,344 [distorted] Can't you do anything right? I said keep your eyes open! 691 00:42:35,427 --> 00:42:36,887 [gasping] 692 00:42:40,224 --> 00:42:41,267 [choking] 693 00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:43,185 It was my fault! 694 00:42:44,311 --> 00:42:46,272 I begged Yasmin to take me to the nursery. 695 00:42:46,355 --> 00:42:50,234 I thought the creepy plants might help me think of something cool to write about. 696 00:42:50,317 --> 00:42:51,527 [crying] 697 00:42:51,610 --> 00:42:54,780 She made me promise not to touch anything, but I did. 698 00:42:57,241 --> 00:42:59,535 Don't hurt her. Please. 699 00:43:00,911 --> 00:43:03,205 [Yasmin choking] 700 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:07,251 [Yasmin and Alex grunt, pant] 701 00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:11,046 [crying softly] 702 00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,925 That is very brave of you, Storyteller, 703 00:43:15,676 --> 00:43:18,345 to lie right to my face. 704 00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:23,142 [cries mockingly] 705 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,355 [laughing] 706 00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:29,857 I almost killed you. 707 00:43:32,484 --> 00:43:35,070 If I didn't need you to clean up the mess, I would've. 708 00:43:35,821 --> 00:43:37,323 No more chances. 709 00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:40,117 [crying] 710 00:43:43,329 --> 00:43:46,123 Yas, you okay? 711 00:43:46,707 --> 00:43:47,583 Look, 712 00:43:49,168 --> 00:43:51,211 I'm sorry I got you involved. 713 00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:56,884 From now on, you help yourself. I'll help myself. 714 00:43:57,384 --> 00:44:02,681 [spluttering] Yas, we can get out of here, together. 715 00:44:02,765 --> 00:44:04,141 It's not Yas. 716 00:44:05,559 --> 00:44:06,560 [cries] 717 00:44:09,021 --> 00:44:10,105 It's Yasmin. 718 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:19,657 [Alex breathing shakily] 719 00:44:29,166 --> 00:44:30,876 [Yasmin cries softly] 720 00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,048 [rustling] 721 00:44:37,341 --> 00:44:38,592 [rustling] 722 00:44:40,552 --> 00:44:41,637 [rustling] 723 00:44:53,148 --> 00:44:55,150 [scurrying] 724 00:45:10,999 --> 00:45:13,210 -[screeching] -Shredder! 725 00:45:14,878 --> 00:45:15,879 [yells] 726 00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:21,802 [scurrying] 727 00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:25,431 [chitters, screeches] 728 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,227 [grunts] Gotcha! 729 00:45:30,310 --> 00:45:32,146 -[Shredder screeching] -Okay. 730 00:45:32,229 --> 00:45:34,231 [box rattling] 731 00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:39,111 -[Shredder screeching] -[Alex] Here we go. Okay. 732 00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:40,529 One… 733 00:45:40,612 --> 00:45:42,656 [breathing heavily] …two, 734 00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:44,908 three! 735 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,120 [Shredder chittering] 736 00:45:48,203 --> 00:45:50,080 -[screeching] -[screams] 737 00:45:50,706 --> 00:45:54,084 Get… get off me! Get off me! Get off! 738 00:45:55,335 --> 00:45:57,421 -[screeching] -[Alex] No! No! No! 739 00:45:57,504 --> 00:46:01,508 -[Alex grunting] -[Shredder screeching] 740 00:46:03,385 --> 00:46:05,387 [Alex breathing heavily] 741 00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:11,059 Oh my God. 742 00:46:11,143 --> 00:46:13,771 No! No! No! No! No! No! No! 743 00:46:17,858 --> 00:46:19,693 Ugh! My Nightbooks. 744 00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:20,778 [grunts] 745 00:46:41,632 --> 00:46:43,133 -[Alex] Watch out. -[Lenore meows] 746 00:46:43,217 --> 00:46:44,802 Lenore's here somewhere. 747 00:46:45,552 --> 00:46:48,222 -She's hurting. -[Yasmin] You look terrible. 748 00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:52,267 -You've been here all night? -Yeah, all night. [sighs] 749 00:46:53,727 --> 00:46:56,814 I made this. It'll help with the scrapes and cuts. 750 00:47:00,651 --> 00:47:03,153 You made this for me? 751 00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:06,532 Yeah, it's my own concoction. 752 00:47:07,658 --> 00:47:11,036 It's a kind of aloe from a harpy plant, some dried corpse-hair vine. 753 00:47:13,956 --> 00:47:16,375 That's good. Really good. 754 00:47:16,458 --> 00:47:17,292 Thanks. 755 00:47:19,586 --> 00:47:20,963 Uh, Lenore? 756 00:47:21,046 --> 00:47:22,130 [Lenore meows] 757 00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:25,425 -Come here. -[Lenore meows] 758 00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:27,386 -[purring] -[Alex grunts] 759 00:47:27,469 --> 00:47:29,137 Look what Yas made for us. 760 00:47:29,221 --> 00:47:30,764 Didn't make it for her. 761 00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:33,892 [Alex] There you go, all better. 762 00:47:33,976 --> 00:47:35,394 It's okay. Here we go. 763 00:47:35,477 --> 00:47:36,311 No. 764 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,482 [Lenore meowing and purring] 765 00:47:43,068 --> 00:47:44,319 I'm in trouble. 766 00:47:44,403 --> 00:47:46,697 I… I… I don't have any stories. 767 00:47:46,780 --> 00:47:49,908 What do you mean you don't have any? You said you had a bunch of them. 768 00:47:49,992 --> 00:47:52,452 I did, but a Shredder, it got into my room. 769 00:47:52,536 --> 00:47:56,498 And I killed it, but it destroyed all of my Nightbooks, 770 00:47:56,582 --> 00:47:57,749 except for this one. 771 00:47:57,833 --> 00:48:00,377 I was reading to Natacha from those Nightbooks. 772 00:48:00,460 --> 00:48:04,464 I've got nothing now. I… I have to escape. I have no choice! 773 00:48:04,548 --> 00:48:08,010 There are two ways out. The front door where you came in and the back door-- 774 00:48:08,093 --> 00:48:12,347 The back door! It goes outside. I saw Natacha go through there. There's-- 775 00:48:12,431 --> 00:48:15,183 But Natacha's the only one that has the keys to that door. 776 00:48:15,267 --> 00:48:18,061 You need to get over this escape nonsense and write something. 777 00:48:18,145 --> 00:48:20,105 -I've been trying! -Try harder! 778 00:48:20,188 --> 00:48:21,815 I can't write! 779 00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:26,153 -[sighs] -Look, Natacha will find out tonight. 780 00:48:26,236 --> 00:48:29,531 -I'll be useless to her. She'll kill me. -She won't just kill you. 781 00:48:37,331 --> 00:48:38,707 There were four of us. 782 00:48:38,790 --> 00:48:41,585 Eli, Little Hwan, Claire, 783 00:48:42,252 --> 00:48:43,086 and me. 784 00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:48,842 Hwan was too young, but the rest of us took turns reading to Natacha. 785 00:48:50,135 --> 00:48:52,763 Afterwards, we'd all huddle together at night 786 00:48:54,514 --> 00:48:56,183 and dream about escaping. 787 00:48:56,892 --> 00:48:59,353 [hesitates] You're saying these are… 788 00:49:03,148 --> 00:49:05,108 Last night, I almost joined them. 789 00:49:06,693 --> 00:49:08,946 One day, the kitchen sink got clogged. 790 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,199 Natacha's magic couldn't fix it. 791 00:49:15,369 --> 00:49:18,956 That's because I blocked the pipe myself with starstell moss. 792 00:49:21,625 --> 00:49:23,210 The moss resists magic. 793 00:49:25,921 --> 00:49:29,424 [crying] I wanted to force Natacha to call the plumber. 794 00:49:33,011 --> 00:49:35,806 I taped a note under the sink for him to find, 795 00:49:35,889 --> 00:49:37,432 begging him to get help. 796 00:49:38,809 --> 00:49:39,643 But… 797 00:49:41,853 --> 00:49:42,980 he never came. 798 00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:47,192 Natacha found the note, didn't she? 799 00:49:47,275 --> 00:49:51,154 Claire spent her last moments convincing Natacha that she did it… 800 00:49:53,198 --> 00:49:54,116 not me. 801 00:49:57,119 --> 00:50:00,038 Claire lied to save me. 802 00:50:02,499 --> 00:50:05,419 Like… you did. 803 00:50:07,796 --> 00:50:09,589 'Cause that's what friends do. 804 00:50:14,678 --> 00:50:18,348 [breathes shakily] I used to love writing scary stories, 805 00:50:18,432 --> 00:50:22,519 but then I decided to stop. 806 00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:25,230 And now that I have to write… 807 00:50:27,858 --> 00:50:30,235 the… the ideas won't come to me anymore. 808 00:50:39,244 --> 00:50:40,704 Did Hwan wear a watch? 809 00:50:42,581 --> 00:50:45,125 [Yasmin] Yeah. A big, blue plastic one. Why? 810 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:49,671 -And Claire, those earrings? -[Yasmin] They were her aunt's. 811 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:51,965 Why? 812 00:50:53,675 --> 00:50:55,761 There's a way out of this place. 813 00:50:55,844 --> 00:50:59,306 -"I have what I need to escape tonight." -"Escape," Yasmin. 814 00:50:59,389 --> 00:51:02,059 "I'm finally gonna see them again, Mom and Dad." 815 00:51:02,142 --> 00:51:04,352 "I wonder if they'll remember me." 816 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:06,396 "Can people forget their kids?" 817 00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:09,816 Unicorn Girl never took this off, 818 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:12,319 and none of the kids in the cabinet are wearing it. 819 00:51:14,237 --> 00:51:15,447 [chuckles] 820 00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:18,617 You're right. And if she's not in the cabinet, then-- 821 00:51:18,700 --> 00:51:20,911 She did it. She escaped. 822 00:51:20,994 --> 00:51:24,039 I've been piecing together her notes. There are bits here and there. 823 00:51:24,122 --> 00:51:27,042 She hid them throughout the books, so in case Natacha found out-- 824 00:51:27,125 --> 00:51:28,960 She wouldn't know her full plan. 825 00:51:32,297 --> 00:51:33,673 Okay, what's your plan? 826 00:51:35,675 --> 00:51:38,178 Your plan sucks. We're not gonna find this today. 827 00:51:38,261 --> 00:51:40,013 You need to write a story for tonight. 828 00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:41,807 -Like right now. -[Alex sighs] 829 00:51:41,890 --> 00:51:43,183 What do we do? 830 00:51:43,266 --> 00:51:46,770 It'd take, like, a thousand years to search all these books. 831 00:51:49,940 --> 00:51:51,024 A thousand years. 832 00:51:52,317 --> 00:51:53,985 The thousand-year-old book. 833 00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,572 The pen marks in the old book! 834 00:51:57,656 --> 00:51:59,991 [breathing heavily] 835 00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:12,838 Come on. Please be here. 836 00:52:15,465 --> 00:52:17,634 Is this the original "Hansel and Gretel"? 837 00:52:17,717 --> 00:52:19,261 [Alex] Grimm's Fairy Tales. 838 00:52:19,344 --> 00:52:21,263 [Yasmin] That's totally unrealistic. 839 00:52:21,346 --> 00:52:24,057 No one would just eat candy off of a strange house. 840 00:52:27,727 --> 00:52:29,437 [gasps] I was right! More writing! 841 00:52:29,521 --> 00:52:31,690 [Yasmin] It's a recipe for a sleeping potion. 842 00:52:34,359 --> 00:52:35,443 "It smells awful." 843 00:52:35,527 --> 00:52:38,572 "I need to figure out how to hide the stink so she'll drink it." 844 00:52:38,655 --> 00:52:41,825 "I'm so close. I'll put her to sleep and steal her keys." 845 00:52:41,908 --> 00:52:43,368 "I wish I had magic." 846 00:52:43,451 --> 00:52:46,788 "I'd turn her into a toad or a snail and laugh at her all day long." 847 00:52:46,872 --> 00:52:50,167 "Then I would turn her into a centipede and rip off her legs." 848 00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:51,960 "All hundred legs, 849 00:52:52,043 --> 00:52:53,044 one at a time." 850 00:52:55,463 --> 00:52:58,175 I'll keep looking. You have to write a story. 851 00:52:59,801 --> 00:53:01,845 [hesitates] I don't think I can. 852 00:53:01,928 --> 00:53:04,806 You're the only one who can. You've gotta buy us more time. 853 00:53:06,016 --> 00:53:07,559 You don't think I'm weird? 854 00:53:11,479 --> 00:53:12,314 That I… 855 00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:16,234 I like to write scary stories? 856 00:53:17,903 --> 00:53:18,778 Weird? 857 00:53:20,363 --> 00:53:21,823 Who called you that? 858 00:53:23,617 --> 00:53:25,702 Well, they're right. You are weird. 859 00:53:27,370 --> 00:53:28,788 I mean, look at you. 860 00:53:30,665 --> 00:53:34,377 But the thing that makes you weird makes them ordinary. 861 00:53:35,253 --> 00:53:38,131 And no one likes to be ordinary. Ordinary sucks. 862 00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:41,551 So ordinary people are gonna try and take that away from you… 863 00:53:43,553 --> 00:53:45,180 by calling you names like 864 00:53:46,932 --> 00:53:49,476 -Tryhard or-- -Creepshow. 865 00:53:52,103 --> 00:53:54,231 Yeah, or Creepshow. 866 00:53:58,360 --> 00:53:59,444 Thanks, Yasmin. 867 00:54:02,739 --> 00:54:03,657 It's Yas. 868 00:54:07,118 --> 00:54:08,745 Do you have those ingredients? 869 00:54:09,704 --> 00:54:11,122 [Yasmin] Yeah. Yeah, I do. 870 00:54:11,206 --> 00:54:13,792 But she's right. Suckleweed stinks. 871 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,586 How did she mask the smell? 872 00:54:17,087 --> 00:54:19,297 She must've found another ingredient. 873 00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,634 [Yasmin] The only other person who would know is Natacha, 874 00:54:22,717 --> 00:54:24,219 but she would never tell us. 875 00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:27,138 I do have an idea. 876 00:54:27,806 --> 00:54:30,058 I could write a story to trick her into giving us 877 00:54:30,141 --> 00:54:32,269 the final ingredient of the sleeping potion. 878 00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:35,397 [Yasmin] You know what happens if she figures out what we're up to? 879 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,399 [Alex] I know what happens if we don't try. 880 00:54:37,482 --> 00:54:39,317 [Yasmin] What's the name of the story? 881 00:54:41,278 --> 00:54:45,073 [dramatic music playing] 882 00:54:45,156 --> 00:54:46,408 [Natacha] Not that one. 883 00:54:47,158 --> 00:54:48,702 You're happy with that one. 884 00:54:51,037 --> 00:54:52,580 I don't like you happy. 885 00:54:53,164 --> 00:54:56,751 I want a story that'll make you squirm. 886 00:54:58,086 --> 00:54:59,879 Here's the story I want. 887 00:55:01,589 --> 00:55:04,718 Why burn your Nightbooks? 888 00:55:04,801 --> 00:55:05,635 Uh… 889 00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:07,762 You thought I forgot about that, didn't you? 890 00:55:08,805 --> 00:55:09,723 I was… 891 00:55:09,806 --> 00:55:13,476 I was… I just… I was… [sighs] 892 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,730 -[dish clattering] -[meows] 893 00:55:18,148 --> 00:55:19,190 [Yasmin gasps] 894 00:55:19,274 --> 00:55:21,109 Uh… Oh my God. 895 00:55:21,693 --> 00:55:23,611 I'm so sorry. I'm so stupid. 896 00:55:23,695 --> 00:55:26,239 Yes, you are. I've only been saying that for years. 897 00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:27,866 Now you get it. [sighs heavily] 898 00:55:27,949 --> 00:55:29,409 Where was I? 899 00:55:29,492 --> 00:55:31,411 You were about to tell me to start reading. 900 00:55:31,494 --> 00:55:34,497 Oh yes. Well then, what are you waiting for? 901 00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:35,498 Get on with it. 902 00:55:38,668 --> 00:55:41,588 -[spraying] -[inhaling] 903 00:55:41,671 --> 00:55:44,299 [Alex] "For generations, the evil sorcerer of Quantel 904 00:55:44,382 --> 00:55:48,136 sent children to mine jewels from the mouth of the great monster." 905 00:55:48,219 --> 00:55:50,847 [dramatic music playing] 906 00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:55,685 [Alex] "A thousand years ago, 907 00:55:55,769 --> 00:55:58,646 the evil sorcerer had a chance to kill the odious beast, 908 00:55:58,730 --> 00:56:03,234 but instead he used a powerful potion to keep the monster unconscious, 909 00:56:03,318 --> 00:56:05,070 to make himself rich." 910 00:56:05,153 --> 00:56:08,198 "Odious." Good word. 911 00:56:10,408 --> 00:56:12,911 [Alex] "Every morning, the sorcerer funneled his potion 912 00:56:12,994 --> 00:56:15,288 down the monster's fifth ear, 913 00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:17,582 and the beast remained unconscious." 914 00:56:17,665 --> 00:56:19,876 "The recipe was as old as time." 915 00:56:19,959 --> 00:56:23,129 "Dissolved rat's bones, dry-aged widow orchid, 916 00:56:23,213 --> 00:56:25,215 powdered beetle shells." 917 00:56:25,298 --> 00:56:29,344 "But the most important ingredient, however, was bindweed." 918 00:56:29,928 --> 00:56:31,346 "Bindweed was the only thing 919 00:56:31,429 --> 00:56:33,973 that could hide the powerful stench of the potion." 920 00:56:34,057 --> 00:56:37,852 "Without it, the rancid smell would rouse the great monster." 921 00:56:37,936 --> 00:56:41,314 "But one day, the sorcerer went to harvest more bindweed, 922 00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:45,235 and he discovered that the entire field had withered and died." 923 00:56:45,735 --> 00:56:48,113 "The potion smelled worse than ever." 924 00:56:48,196 --> 00:56:51,366 "Putrid, rank, malodorous--" 925 00:56:51,449 --> 00:56:54,244 Oh, yes, yes, yes. Understood. It stinks. 926 00:56:54,327 --> 00:56:59,457 [Alex] "The sorcerer would have to kill the great monster once and for all." 927 00:56:59,541 --> 00:57:03,336 "He reluctantly raised his mighty staff to kill the beast, 928 00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:07,048 but a peasant girl came to him and promised a solution to his problem." 929 00:57:07,132 --> 00:57:10,677 I know a replacement for bindweed. Your jewel harvest can continue. 930 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,555 Foolish child. You know nothing of real magic. 931 00:57:13,638 --> 00:57:17,016 I can prove it. And if I do, I want a bag of jewels. 932 00:57:17,517 --> 00:57:20,270 If it works, you will get two bags. 933 00:57:20,353 --> 00:57:23,606 If not, you will give me your life. 934 00:57:24,691 --> 00:57:26,526 [Alex] "The peasant girl stepped forward 935 00:57:26,609 --> 00:57:29,821 and poured a mysterious dark liquid into the jug." 936 00:57:31,364 --> 00:57:33,575 "The evil sorcerer sniffed the potion." 937 00:57:33,658 --> 00:57:36,703 "The smell disappeared. The sorcerer couldn't believe it." 938 00:57:37,287 --> 00:57:40,874 "It smelled like daisies, roses, lilacs on a spring morning--" 939 00:57:40,957 --> 00:57:42,167 [groans impatiently] 940 00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:46,504 [Alex] "The evil sorcerer poured the potion 941 00:57:46,588 --> 00:57:48,965 into the monster's ear and waited." 942 00:57:49,048 --> 00:57:52,051 "The beast let out a long… [in low voice] …grumble 943 00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:53,928 then went still again." 944 00:57:54,012 --> 00:57:59,058 "Yes! But the peasant girl had removed more than just the smell from the potion." 945 00:57:59,684 --> 00:58:02,312 "She'd also erased all of its magic." 946 00:58:02,896 --> 00:58:05,648 "The sorcerer's potion was rendered useless." 947 00:58:06,316 --> 00:58:08,860 "The peasant girl nodded to something behind him." 948 00:58:08,943 --> 00:58:10,737 [monster growling] 949 00:58:10,820 --> 00:58:13,823 [Alex] "The eyes of the great monster were open." 950 00:58:13,907 --> 00:58:15,658 "The sorcerer shrieked." 951 00:58:15,742 --> 00:58:18,703 [Alex] "The peasant girl watched it all, smiling." 952 00:58:18,786 --> 00:58:22,665 "The evil sorcerer had sent her baby brother into that cave, 953 00:58:22,749 --> 00:58:24,334 and he never returned." 954 00:58:24,834 --> 00:58:26,878 "The peasant girl cared nothing about jewels." 955 00:58:26,961 --> 00:58:28,880 "She got what she wanted, revenge." 956 00:58:28,963 --> 00:58:30,381 "And so she walked away 957 00:58:30,465 --> 00:58:34,385 as the monster's sharp teeth chomped down on the shrieking sorcerer, 958 00:58:34,469 --> 00:58:36,971 silencing him forever." 959 00:58:39,015 --> 00:58:42,352 "Just as the peasant girl thought she'd gotten away with it all, 960 00:58:42,435 --> 00:58:44,229 a black shadow loomed over her." 961 00:58:44,312 --> 00:58:47,440 "It was the monster's giant foot, right above her." 962 00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:48,816 -"Splat." -[meows] 963 00:58:48,900 --> 00:58:49,776 "The end." 964 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:51,694 "And not a happy one." 965 00:58:54,155 --> 00:58:55,031 Bindweed? 966 00:58:55,865 --> 00:58:58,409 Yeah, me and Yasmin researched for hours. 967 00:58:58,493 --> 00:59:01,079 I know how important it is to get all the details right-- 968 00:59:01,162 --> 00:59:03,581 -[Natacha] No. -No? 969 00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:06,709 No. 970 00:59:06,793 --> 00:59:08,253 [purring] 971 00:59:08,962 --> 00:59:09,796 I-- 972 00:59:09,879 --> 00:59:12,090 Of course I made up the potion's ingredients, 973 00:59:12,173 --> 00:59:16,386 but I was sure that bindweed hides odors. 974 00:59:17,804 --> 00:59:21,391 -I really thought we got it right. -Well, there's your mistake. 975 00:59:21,474 --> 00:59:22,684 You worked with her. 976 00:59:23,643 --> 00:59:27,355 Bindweed keeps liquid from separating. 977 00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,902 Everyone knows cinaroot hides smells, 978 00:59:32,986 --> 00:59:34,988 not bindweed. 979 00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:40,827 Cinaroot, of course. 980 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,958 Is that cinaroot with an "S" or a "C"? 981 00:59:47,458 --> 00:59:49,919 ["Cry Little Sister" by Gerard McMahon playing] 982 01:00:03,808 --> 01:00:07,270 ♪ The last fire will rise ♪ 983 01:00:07,353 --> 01:00:10,565 ♪ Behind those eyes ♪ 984 01:00:10,648 --> 01:00:13,651 ♪ Black house will rock ♪ 985 01:00:13,735 --> 01:00:18,906 ♪ Blind boys don't lie… ♪ 986 01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:19,824 Okay. 987 01:00:20,742 --> 01:00:22,410 Let's do some science stuff. 988 01:00:35,381 --> 01:00:36,716 [sniffs] 989 01:00:37,508 --> 01:00:39,302 Tonight, we're getting out of here. 990 01:00:39,969 --> 01:00:40,970 [song ends] 991 01:00:41,971 --> 01:00:44,599 [ticking] 992 01:01:02,742 --> 01:01:05,161 [tense music playing] 993 01:01:08,456 --> 01:01:09,624 [Alex sighs] 994 01:01:16,756 --> 01:01:18,174 [Alex] Good night, Natacha. 995 01:01:22,053 --> 01:01:23,179 [gasps] 996 01:01:23,262 --> 01:01:25,223 Oh my God. What's happening? 997 01:01:25,807 --> 01:01:28,643 It's turning green. I can't bring this out there. 998 01:01:35,358 --> 01:01:36,818 Some kind of reaction? 999 01:01:38,653 --> 01:01:40,405 Maybe the acidity of the lemonade-- 1000 01:01:40,488 --> 01:01:44,242 The service here is terrible. [sighs] 1001 01:01:44,325 --> 01:01:45,326 I don't have a story. 1002 01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:46,786 We put two drops in the glass. 1003 01:01:46,869 --> 01:01:49,414 -Let's put two in the pitcher. -Will it put her to sleep? 1004 01:01:49,497 --> 01:01:51,791 [Yasmin and Alex whispering] 1005 01:01:52,583 --> 01:01:54,502 [breathing heavily] 1006 01:01:56,421 --> 01:02:00,383 [inhales and exhales deeply] 1007 01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:21,571 [Natacha] Hmm. 1008 01:02:24,198 --> 01:02:26,117 [breathing shakily] 1009 01:02:35,168 --> 01:02:36,669 Where is my lemonade? 1010 01:02:37,628 --> 01:02:38,463 It's coming! 1011 01:02:40,381 --> 01:02:42,800 What? I put it right here. 1012 01:02:45,470 --> 01:02:47,346 -Where is it? -What are you talking about? 1013 01:02:47,430 --> 01:02:49,807 Where is the potion? This has to happen. 1014 01:02:54,729 --> 01:02:55,646 She knows. 1015 01:02:58,191 --> 01:02:59,609 [chair scraping] 1016 01:03:03,362 --> 01:03:05,239 [humming] 1017 01:03:11,704 --> 01:03:12,538 Uh… 1018 01:03:14,248 --> 01:03:15,249 So, uh… 1019 01:03:16,417 --> 01:03:17,335 [exhales] 1020 01:03:17,418 --> 01:03:18,544 [hums nervously] 1021 01:03:19,879 --> 01:03:21,464 So it's… 1022 01:03:23,883 --> 01:03:24,801 It's gotta… 1023 01:03:28,137 --> 01:03:28,971 It's… 1024 01:03:31,641 --> 01:03:32,558 Hmm. 1025 01:03:32,642 --> 01:03:34,101 [scats nervously] 1026 01:03:35,394 --> 01:03:36,312 Let's see. 1027 01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:38,356 So, um… 1028 01:03:39,607 --> 01:03:41,442 [sighs, hums nervously] 1029 01:03:43,277 --> 01:03:45,738 Any day now, Storyteller. 1030 01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:49,659 Yeah, yeah. It's, uh… it's here somewhere. 1031 01:03:53,788 --> 01:03:55,414 Spit it out. 1032 01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:56,791 Oh, okay. 1033 01:03:59,794 --> 01:04:00,878 [meows] 1034 01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:04,423 -I just gotta find it. -Read! 1035 01:04:04,507 --> 01:04:05,800 -[rumbling] -[meows] 1036 01:04:07,260 --> 01:04:08,719 [chuckles] Here it is. 1037 01:04:09,929 --> 01:04:10,847 Hmm. 1038 01:04:11,514 --> 01:04:13,349 [Alex] Uh… [sniffs] 1039 01:04:14,267 --> 01:04:19,605 So, um, this one is, um, called "The Cuckoo Clock." 1040 01:04:19,689 --> 01:04:22,358 [dramatic music playing] 1041 01:04:26,737 --> 01:04:30,783 [Alex] When Scott's parents bought the cuckoo clock at an estate sale, 1042 01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:35,329 he thought it was just another old-timey piece of junk. 1043 01:04:35,913 --> 01:04:40,084 But there was something strange about the clock. 1044 01:04:40,167 --> 01:04:42,420 Every hour on the hour, 1045 01:04:42,503 --> 01:04:44,547 the little cuckoo would pop out, 1046 01:04:44,630 --> 01:04:48,551 and, uh, Steve started to notice-- 1047 01:04:48,634 --> 01:04:50,595 Who's Steve? 1048 01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:53,014 I thought you said his name was Scott. 1049 01:04:53,097 --> 01:04:55,892 [laughs nervously] Sorry. Right. Uh, typo. 1050 01:04:55,975 --> 01:04:59,103 So… so Scott noticed that, uh, the cuckoo 1051 01:04:59,186 --> 01:05:02,356 seemed to look a little bit different every time it appeared. 1052 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,108 Like, its eyes would-- 1053 01:05:04,191 --> 01:05:05,443 [screams, pants] 1054 01:05:05,526 --> 01:05:07,653 -What is this? -Uh… 1055 01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,032 Where are all your stories, 1056 01:05:11,115 --> 01:05:14,243 the ones that you're supposed to be writing every day? 1057 01:05:14,785 --> 01:05:17,371 -I'm sorry. I'm sorry. -Where are your new stories? 1058 01:05:17,455 --> 01:05:19,790 The Shredder, it got into my backpack. 1059 01:05:19,874 --> 01:05:20,833 [breathing shakily] 1060 01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:24,045 The Shredder ate your homework? 1061 01:05:24,128 --> 01:05:27,798 [spluttering] Uh, it's true. It escaped from the night nursery. 1062 01:05:27,882 --> 01:05:30,343 -[distorted] Quiet, girl. -[breathing heavily] 1063 01:05:30,426 --> 01:05:32,511 Thorns in my side… 1064 01:05:32,595 --> 01:05:35,473 -[crying] No! -…since the moment you arrived. 1065 01:05:35,556 --> 01:05:37,183 I'll make you the recipe. I-- 1066 01:05:37,266 --> 01:05:41,812 Please. You can barely follow a recipe. 1067 01:05:41,896 --> 01:05:43,356 He writes for you! You need him! 1068 01:05:43,439 --> 01:05:46,025 [spluttering] I'll write the best story for you! 1069 01:05:46,567 --> 01:05:48,152 Hmm, let's face it. 1070 01:05:48,235 --> 01:05:49,654 [Yasmin crying] 1071 01:05:49,737 --> 01:05:51,781 This is long overdue. 1072 01:05:51,864 --> 01:05:53,783 [Yasmin crying] Please, no! No! 1073 01:06:22,144 --> 01:06:22,979 What? 1074 01:06:25,356 --> 01:06:27,066 Don't touch her. Don't touch. 1075 01:06:27,149 --> 01:06:29,610 [Yasmin and Alex breathing heavily] 1076 01:06:35,449 --> 01:06:38,411 [meowing] 1077 01:06:43,624 --> 01:06:45,418 -[Alex] Lenore. -[meows, purrs] 1078 01:06:45,501 --> 01:06:46,752 [Alex] You okay? 1079 01:06:47,336 --> 01:06:48,796 What's… what's happening? 1080 01:06:49,296 --> 01:06:50,840 [meows sadly] 1081 01:06:50,923 --> 01:06:53,050 [Alex] Oh no. What's wrong with you? 1082 01:06:54,343 --> 01:06:55,803 [splutters] Something's wrong. 1083 01:06:57,013 --> 01:06:59,181 Poor little thing. What happened to you? 1084 01:06:59,265 --> 01:07:01,308 Lenore put our potion in the bottle of mist. 1085 01:07:01,892 --> 01:07:03,894 [sighs] I can't believe it. 1086 01:07:08,315 --> 01:07:10,818 She must've gotten a dose of the sleeping potion. 1087 01:07:13,446 --> 01:07:14,655 She's a prisoner, 1088 01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:16,407 just like us. 1089 01:07:18,367 --> 01:07:21,245 -Thank you, Lenore. -Alex, we did it. 1090 01:07:21,746 --> 01:07:23,372 -We beat her. -[chuckles] 1091 01:07:27,918 --> 01:07:28,794 [meows] 1092 01:07:30,129 --> 01:07:32,006 How's that for following a recipe? 1093 01:07:32,089 --> 01:07:34,300 [adventurous music playing] 1094 01:07:42,016 --> 01:07:43,893 Wait. Where do you think it goes? 1095 01:07:45,436 --> 01:07:46,270 Home. 1096 01:08:14,048 --> 01:08:15,591 [chuckles] 1097 01:08:17,635 --> 01:08:19,553 Never thought I'd see trees again. 1098 01:08:24,183 --> 01:08:25,017 Look. 1099 01:08:30,523 --> 01:08:31,607 [chuckles] 1100 01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:34,318 I'm never gonna eat peanut butter ever again! 1101 01:08:34,401 --> 01:08:36,487 [Alex] You can forget about pumpkin pie for me! 1102 01:08:36,570 --> 01:08:39,532 First food when I get back? Vanilla milkshake! 1103 01:08:42,201 --> 01:08:45,955 Whoa, whoa, wait, Alex. Hold up. Hold up. Just wait a second. 1104 01:08:51,335 --> 01:08:52,545 That's widow's grub. 1105 01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:54,713 That's sunken lily. 1106 01:08:56,006 --> 01:08:57,007 Why is that here? 1107 01:09:11,063 --> 01:09:12,606 No, no, no. Alex! Alex! 1108 01:09:13,274 --> 01:09:15,151 Alex! Alex! 1109 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:18,696 The door, it wasn't the way out. 1110 01:09:20,156 --> 01:09:21,866 We're still in the apartment. 1111 01:09:27,121 --> 01:09:28,539 [rustling] 1112 01:09:28,622 --> 01:09:30,749 [hooves pounding] 1113 01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:33,919 [hooves pounding] 1114 01:09:37,381 --> 01:09:38,424 [hooves pounding] 1115 01:09:41,802 --> 01:09:43,220 [both scream] 1116 01:09:43,304 --> 01:09:44,597 [unicorn screeches] 1117 01:09:47,474 --> 01:09:48,392 [panting] 1118 01:09:48,475 --> 01:09:49,935 [snorts] 1119 01:09:50,019 --> 01:09:53,480 [screaming] Evil unicorn! 1120 01:09:53,981 --> 01:09:54,815 Run! 1121 01:09:55,816 --> 01:09:57,401 [Alex and Yasmin screaming] 1122 01:10:00,362 --> 01:10:01,447 [Alex] Run! 1123 01:10:01,530 --> 01:10:03,365 [Yasmin] Alex, it's getting closer! 1124 01:10:03,449 --> 01:10:05,618 [Alex] It's too fast! 1125 01:10:06,368 --> 01:10:08,287 [snorts, growls] 1126 01:10:08,370 --> 01:10:10,164 [Alex and Yasmin screaming] 1127 01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:12,833 [unicorn whinnies] 1128 01:10:12,917 --> 01:10:14,168 [Yasmin] Oh my God. 1129 01:10:15,711 --> 01:10:18,589 [unicorn growls] 1130 01:10:20,049 --> 01:10:23,052 -[Alex] What just happened? -[Yasmin] Maybe something spooked it? 1131 01:10:23,844 --> 01:10:25,846 [both breathing shakily] 1132 01:10:25,930 --> 01:10:28,557 [ethereal tinkling] 1133 01:10:28,641 --> 01:10:30,142 [eerie music playing] 1134 01:10:32,186 --> 01:10:34,855 [Alex and Yasmin whimpering] 1135 01:10:36,398 --> 01:10:37,358 [Yasmin] Alex? 1136 01:10:52,456 --> 01:10:54,458 [wind blowing] 1137 01:10:56,210 --> 01:10:57,086 [Yasmin gasps] 1138 01:10:57,169 --> 01:10:59,421 [voices whispering] 1139 01:10:59,505 --> 01:11:02,216 "Every good story hints at truth." 1140 01:11:05,177 --> 01:11:06,178 Oh my God. 1141 01:11:06,762 --> 01:11:10,391 "Hansel and Gretel" was real. 1142 01:11:12,393 --> 01:11:13,269 Yas? 1143 01:11:13,352 --> 01:11:15,354 -[voices echoing] -We're in "Hansel--" 1144 01:11:15,437 --> 01:11:17,773 It smells so delicious. 1145 01:11:21,944 --> 01:11:22,945 [sighs] 1146 01:11:24,154 --> 01:11:25,698 -Yas? -[chuckles] 1147 01:11:26,740 --> 01:11:29,118 So hungry. 1148 01:11:35,749 --> 01:11:36,875 Yas! 1149 01:11:55,352 --> 01:11:57,646 [fire crackling] 1150 01:12:07,906 --> 01:12:09,867 We… we shouldn't be in here, Yas. 1151 01:12:09,950 --> 01:12:11,535 [fire roaring] 1152 01:12:11,618 --> 01:12:14,455 [Yasmin chewing] 1153 01:12:18,584 --> 01:12:19,418 Yas? 1154 01:12:22,129 --> 01:12:22,963 Hello? 1155 01:12:27,634 --> 01:12:29,762 Yas, what's wrong with you? 1156 01:12:32,222 --> 01:12:33,057 Yas? 1157 01:12:34,183 --> 01:12:35,809 [eerie music crescendos] 1158 01:13:09,718 --> 01:13:13,013 [children laughing, screaming] 1159 01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:20,979 [growling and rumbling] 1160 01:13:21,063 --> 01:13:21,980 Yas? 1161 01:13:24,691 --> 01:13:25,776 Lenore? 1162 01:13:25,859 --> 01:13:27,361 [breathing heavily] 1163 01:13:33,867 --> 01:13:34,701 Yasmin? 1164 01:13:44,002 --> 01:13:44,962 [echoing] Hello? 1165 01:13:47,089 --> 01:13:48,173 Yasmin! 1166 01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:55,389 Yasmin! 1167 01:13:57,516 --> 01:13:59,351 [eerie growling] 1168 01:14:01,061 --> 01:14:02,312 [breathing shakily] 1169 01:14:02,396 --> 01:14:03,355 I'm… I'm okay. 1170 01:14:03,981 --> 01:14:05,315 This is probably fine. 1171 01:14:09,445 --> 01:14:14,533 -[growling and rumbling] -[breathing shakily] 1172 01:14:14,616 --> 01:14:16,702 [growling and rumbling subside] 1173 01:14:17,995 --> 01:14:20,497 [Alex breathing shakily] 1174 01:14:40,809 --> 01:14:42,311 -Well, well, well! -[gasps] 1175 01:14:42,394 --> 01:14:44,438 Sleeping Beauty awakes. 1176 01:14:45,772 --> 01:14:48,233 Oh, wait. Wrong story. 1177 01:14:52,112 --> 01:14:54,698 -Alex! -[Alex gasps] 1178 01:14:54,781 --> 01:14:56,867 -[Alex] Are you guys okay? -[Yasmin] Yeah. 1179 01:14:57,951 --> 01:14:59,036 We're okay. 1180 01:14:59,119 --> 01:15:00,329 [meows] 1181 01:15:02,915 --> 01:15:03,790 [meows] 1182 01:15:22,226 --> 01:15:25,187 The mist, that's where it comes from. 1183 01:15:25,896 --> 01:15:27,272 You're harvesting it. 1184 01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:29,983 Who's inside that coffin? 1185 01:15:32,319 --> 01:15:33,862 [distorted] The original witch, 1186 01:15:35,531 --> 01:15:39,660 who, by the way, does eat children. 1187 01:15:40,827 --> 01:15:44,665 We thought you were the original witch. We thought the blue mist kept you young. 1188 01:15:44,748 --> 01:15:47,876 I don't need the mist to keep me young. 1189 01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:49,545 It gives me her magic. 1190 01:15:49,628 --> 01:15:50,462 What? 1191 01:15:51,046 --> 01:15:52,130 How? 1192 01:15:52,631 --> 01:15:55,467 I was about your age when she got me. 1193 01:15:55,968 --> 01:15:58,095 There were lots of us back then. 1194 01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:01,223 But we weren't dumb. 1195 01:16:02,015 --> 01:16:04,309 We knew not to get attached, 1196 01:16:04,393 --> 01:16:07,604 because she got hungry. 1197 01:16:08,105 --> 01:16:09,273 She ate them? 1198 01:16:12,025 --> 01:16:13,151 Yes. 1199 01:16:13,986 --> 01:16:15,862 [giggles] 1200 01:16:15,946 --> 01:16:17,114 All of them. 1201 01:16:17,656 --> 01:16:20,409 [orb humming] 1202 01:16:22,536 --> 01:16:26,248 [Natacha] And then I… I had to clean the oven. 1203 01:16:27,874 --> 01:16:29,960 I pretended to like her. 1204 01:16:30,544 --> 01:16:33,130 Pretended to want to be like her. 1205 01:16:33,213 --> 01:16:35,007 I became her favorite. 1206 01:16:35,924 --> 01:16:39,928 But when I was alone, I plotted my escape. 1207 01:16:42,889 --> 01:16:45,017 I would get her to trust me. 1208 01:16:47,519 --> 01:16:50,147 And then, a sleeping potion, 1209 01:16:51,106 --> 01:16:52,482 and I would be free. 1210 01:16:53,483 --> 01:16:55,402 I ran straight home… 1211 01:17:04,369 --> 01:17:06,038 but my parents were gone. 1212 01:17:07,414 --> 01:17:08,540 They left you. 1213 01:17:09,708 --> 01:17:11,585 [Natacha] I had nowhere else to go, 1214 01:17:11,668 --> 01:17:13,879 so I came back here. 1215 01:17:16,131 --> 01:17:17,424 [thudding] 1216 01:17:18,759 --> 01:17:20,385 [Natacha] Who cares about them? 1217 01:17:24,056 --> 01:17:25,474 You were just like us. 1218 01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:28,810 Wait. 1219 01:17:29,811 --> 01:17:31,021 The sleeping potion… 1220 01:17:32,773 --> 01:17:34,358 You're Unicorn Girl. 1221 01:17:39,363 --> 01:17:40,280 Ah. 1222 01:17:41,948 --> 01:17:44,076 You read my diaries. 1223 01:17:48,205 --> 01:17:49,581 Did you meet my pet? 1224 01:17:50,082 --> 01:17:51,541 The unicorn? 1225 01:17:53,126 --> 01:17:54,127 That's your pet? 1226 01:17:54,753 --> 01:17:55,754 I made him. 1227 01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,632 I make many things now. 1228 01:17:59,132 --> 01:18:01,176 [witch breathing heavily] 1229 01:18:02,511 --> 01:18:04,012 [growling] 1230 01:18:04,096 --> 01:18:05,681 [rumbling] 1231 01:18:08,141 --> 01:18:10,644 [Alex] She's the one who's been shaking the apartment? 1232 01:18:10,727 --> 01:18:15,440 [Natacha] If she doesn't get a story, we're all gonna die. 1233 01:18:16,149 --> 01:18:18,902 Stories keep her asleep. 1234 01:18:18,985 --> 01:18:24,533 Stories of fear and suffering and death are like sweet lullabies to her. 1235 01:18:24,616 --> 01:18:26,034 -Tell one. -[witch growling] 1236 01:18:26,118 --> 01:18:27,244 I don't have a story. 1237 01:18:27,327 --> 01:18:28,537 Oh, yes, you do. 1238 01:18:28,620 --> 01:18:32,040 Tell us the reason that you wanted to destroy your Nightbooks. 1239 01:18:33,750 --> 01:18:37,003 -[rumbling subsides] -But… [exhales] …that's not scary-- 1240 01:18:37,087 --> 01:18:38,755 [Natacha] It was, to you. 1241 01:18:39,339 --> 01:18:44,636 All that pain and fear and sadness 1242 01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:47,889 that you've been avoiding this whole time. 1243 01:18:47,973 --> 01:18:48,890 Tell it! 1244 01:18:48,974 --> 01:18:51,476 -[rumbling] -[witch growling] 1245 01:18:55,522 --> 01:18:56,565 Now, Alex! 1246 01:18:56,648 --> 01:18:58,316 You think I'm a bad witch? 1247 01:18:59,067 --> 01:19:01,653 Just wait until she wakes up and sees you. 1248 01:19:02,237 --> 01:19:04,948 So young, so plump, so juicy-- 1249 01:19:05,031 --> 01:19:06,366 Okay! Okay! 1250 01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:09,411 [dramatic music playing] 1251 01:19:13,415 --> 01:19:17,461 [Alex] There once was a boy who… who loved to write scary stories. 1252 01:19:17,544 --> 01:19:19,463 Every day, on his free time, 1253 01:19:19,546 --> 01:19:22,883 he would come up with new ways to scare his classmates. 1254 01:19:26,678 --> 01:19:28,388 [rumbling and growling subside] 1255 01:19:29,890 --> 01:19:31,433 [Alex breathing shakily] 1256 01:19:31,516 --> 01:19:32,517 [exhales] 1257 01:19:33,852 --> 01:19:35,604 But… [sighs] 1258 01:19:35,687 --> 01:19:39,065 …they just didn't get his fascination with creepy things. 1259 01:19:39,149 --> 01:19:43,195 To them, he was just… weird. 1260 01:19:44,029 --> 01:19:46,239 "What's wrong with you?" they'd ask. 1261 01:19:46,740 --> 01:19:48,158 Many of them were cruel, 1262 01:19:48,950 --> 01:19:52,329 calling him names, like Creepshow. 1263 01:19:54,331 --> 01:19:55,499 Except for Joshua. 1264 01:19:56,500 --> 01:19:57,918 Josh was his best friend 1265 01:19:59,377 --> 01:20:00,504 since kindergarten. 1266 01:20:02,005 --> 01:20:04,925 Alex finishes his latest bone-chilling tale, 1267 01:20:05,008 --> 01:20:06,426 and he's excited to share it. 1268 01:20:08,011 --> 01:20:09,930 Hey, you're gonna love this one. 1269 01:20:10,430 --> 01:20:11,389 Josh? 1270 01:20:12,557 --> 01:20:14,518 Hey, Josh? 1271 01:20:15,435 --> 01:20:17,229 [school bell ringing] 1272 01:20:18,146 --> 01:20:20,524 [Alex] Alex catches up with Josh after class. 1273 01:20:21,399 --> 01:20:23,401 Wait. My birthday's tonight. 1274 01:20:23,485 --> 01:20:25,737 We turned the apartment into a haunted house. 1275 01:20:25,821 --> 01:20:28,657 It's amazing. I've got tons of new stories ready. 1276 01:20:29,616 --> 01:20:30,992 Josh talks low, 1277 01:20:31,076 --> 01:20:33,161 not wanting the others to hear. 1278 01:20:33,245 --> 01:20:35,247 Cody's having a gaming party. 1279 01:20:35,330 --> 01:20:37,415 His dad's getting the truck and everything. 1280 01:20:38,166 --> 01:20:41,127 But to… tonight's my party. 1281 01:20:41,628 --> 01:20:44,923 …says Alex, confused and hurt. 1282 01:20:45,590 --> 01:20:48,426 Alex's hope sinks. He's desperate. 1283 01:20:48,510 --> 01:20:49,469 He says… 1284 01:20:51,263 --> 01:20:53,181 You're my best friend. 1285 01:20:54,057 --> 01:20:55,892 Josh tries to be gentle. 1286 01:20:56,476 --> 01:20:57,477 Yeah, right. 1287 01:20:57,978 --> 01:20:59,563 Cody's my friend now too. 1288 01:20:59,646 --> 01:21:01,231 And you're just not… 1289 01:21:02,524 --> 01:21:03,567 [laughs] Come on. 1290 01:21:04,067 --> 01:21:07,279 The way you dress, the things you like. 1291 01:21:07,362 --> 01:21:10,031 "All you do is talk about your scary stories." 1292 01:21:11,950 --> 01:21:13,410 Everyone thinks it's weird. 1293 01:21:13,994 --> 01:21:16,621 [Alex] That's when Cody butts in. 1294 01:21:16,705 --> 01:21:18,456 Yo, Josh, you comin'? 1295 01:21:18,540 --> 01:21:19,624 Come on, J-Man. 1296 01:21:20,208 --> 01:21:23,420 All right, all right. Alex, I'll see you later, okay? 1297 01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:32,470 The boy had written a new story about a haunted house. 1298 01:21:33,722 --> 01:21:35,974 [crying] He, his mom, and his dad 1299 01:21:36,683 --> 01:21:39,311 had turned his whole apartment into that house. 1300 01:21:39,394 --> 01:21:42,314 [dad and mom arguing indistinctly] 1301 01:21:42,397 --> 01:21:43,773 No one showed up… 1302 01:21:46,067 --> 01:21:47,569 not even Josh. 1303 01:21:48,236 --> 01:21:49,237 [cries] 1304 01:21:55,493 --> 01:22:00,624 They made him hate the thing he loved most. 1305 01:22:02,584 --> 01:22:05,003 And they made him hate himself. 1306 01:22:10,717 --> 01:22:16,097 The real truth is, he was embarrassed to be himself, 1307 01:22:17,307 --> 01:22:19,726 so he decided to burn his Nightbooks. 1308 01:22:19,809 --> 01:22:20,810 [screams] 1309 01:22:20,894 --> 01:22:24,022 He swore he'd never write another story again. 1310 01:22:25,565 --> 01:22:26,524 He could be 1311 01:22:27,859 --> 01:22:28,902 a new person. 1312 01:22:29,819 --> 01:22:31,905 Not weird. 1313 01:22:32,405 --> 01:22:33,865 Not a freak. 1314 01:22:34,366 --> 01:22:35,992 He could be normal, 1315 01:22:36,785 --> 01:22:39,788 like Josh and his friends. 1316 01:22:42,624 --> 01:22:44,334 Then he wouldn't be alone. 1317 01:22:49,047 --> 01:22:50,048 [sobbing] 1318 01:22:51,299 --> 01:22:53,093 [Natacha laughs] 1319 01:22:56,221 --> 01:22:59,140 The boy lost all his friends, 1320 01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:01,810 so he decided to destroy that part of himself 1321 01:23:01,893 --> 01:23:03,853 that created the Nightbooks. 1322 01:23:03,937 --> 01:23:05,814 Then a witch captured him. 1323 01:23:06,564 --> 01:23:08,692 She said she liked his stories. 1324 01:23:11,736 --> 01:23:13,321 The witch was lying. 1325 01:23:13,947 --> 01:23:15,323 But being captured by her 1326 01:23:15,407 --> 01:23:17,617 was the best thing that ever happened to me… 1327 01:23:17,701 --> 01:23:19,869 [rumbling] 1328 01:23:19,953 --> 01:23:21,413 …because I made new friends, 1329 01:23:23,289 --> 01:23:27,293 friends who love me for who I am, not for who they want me to be. 1330 01:23:27,377 --> 01:23:29,212 What have you done? No! 1331 01:23:30,046 --> 01:23:30,880 No! 1332 01:23:30,964 --> 01:23:33,091 [witch groaning] 1333 01:23:33,174 --> 01:23:34,926 -[meows] -No. 1334 01:23:35,010 --> 01:23:37,429 -No! -This is our happy ending! 1335 01:23:37,512 --> 01:23:39,264 No happy endings. 1336 01:23:44,144 --> 01:23:46,938 -Guys, let's get out of here. -Fine. 1337 01:23:47,022 --> 01:23:48,148 [Natacha] No! 1338 01:23:48,231 --> 01:23:51,401 Oh! No! No, you idiot! 1339 01:23:51,484 --> 01:23:54,779 What have you done? You stupid children. 1340 01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:56,656 No! No! 1341 01:23:56,740 --> 01:23:57,866 [screams] 1342 01:23:57,949 --> 01:24:00,076 -[Yasmin and Alex yell] -[Natacha screams] 1343 01:24:01,745 --> 01:24:03,496 [grunts] 1344 01:24:05,832 --> 01:24:08,376 [voices whispering] 1345 01:24:09,502 --> 01:24:10,712 [breathing heavily] 1346 01:24:15,759 --> 01:24:16,676 [Natacha gasps] 1347 01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:19,971 [groans, grunts] 1348 01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:23,933 -[witch wheezing and grunting] -[Natacha] Oh God! Oh God! 1349 01:24:28,772 --> 01:24:31,399 -[bones cracking] -[witch groaning] 1350 01:24:31,483 --> 01:24:32,901 Oh God. 1351 01:24:33,818 --> 01:24:36,321 [sinister music playing] 1352 01:24:39,783 --> 01:24:41,367 [bones cracking] 1353 01:24:42,077 --> 01:24:43,828 [laughing nervously] 1354 01:24:45,455 --> 01:24:49,542 [bones cracking] 1355 01:24:56,424 --> 01:24:58,426 [Yasmin and Alex breathing shakily] 1356 01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:03,932 [bones popping] 1357 01:25:10,772 --> 01:25:11,731 You're awake. 1358 01:25:12,565 --> 01:25:13,525 Finally. 1359 01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:18,238 You've been asleep here so long, the… the candy is infecting you. 1360 01:25:18,321 --> 01:25:19,447 [breathes shakily] 1361 01:25:19,531 --> 01:25:20,865 You… 1362 01:25:21,825 --> 01:25:23,284 [meows] 1363 01:25:23,368 --> 01:25:25,245 You did this to me. 1364 01:25:25,328 --> 01:25:30,708 I have lived in fear of you for so long, but I am not that little girl anymore. 1365 01:25:31,292 --> 01:25:33,419 [whooshing] 1366 01:25:34,838 --> 01:25:36,381 Witch fight! 1367 01:25:36,464 --> 01:25:37,966 -Let's get out of here! -Let's go! 1368 01:25:41,136 --> 01:25:42,470 [Yasmin] Go! Just go! 1369 01:25:42,554 --> 01:25:44,931 -[grunting] -[Yasmin] Go! Go! 1370 01:25:46,808 --> 01:25:49,185 [Natacha and witch screaming] 1371 01:25:58,570 --> 01:26:01,739 [witch laughing maniacally] 1372 01:26:04,742 --> 01:26:06,744 [Yasmin and Alex panting] 1373 01:26:15,003 --> 01:26:18,715 Help! We need help! Get us out of here! 1374 01:26:18,798 --> 01:26:21,009 A witch is gonna eat us! 1375 01:26:21,092 --> 01:26:22,135 Help! 1376 01:26:22,635 --> 01:26:24,429 Can anyone hear me? 1377 01:26:24,512 --> 01:26:27,807 [Yasmin] Alex, move. I've seen Natacha do this. 1378 01:26:29,893 --> 01:26:31,895 [inhales] 1379 01:26:34,314 --> 01:26:35,190 Yas? 1380 01:26:39,027 --> 01:26:39,861 Yasmin? 1381 01:26:40,862 --> 01:26:42,864 [humming] 1382 01:26:43,448 --> 01:26:45,033 -[whooshing] -[Alex gasps] 1383 01:26:45,617 --> 01:26:46,576 Whoa! 1384 01:26:47,744 --> 01:26:48,703 You… you did it. 1385 01:26:49,370 --> 01:26:50,371 You did it. 1386 01:26:50,455 --> 01:26:51,706 [laughs] 1387 01:26:54,751 --> 01:26:58,046 -[witch] I'm home. -Let's go. 1388 01:26:58,129 --> 01:26:59,130 [witch laughs] 1389 01:27:00,089 --> 01:27:00,965 [meows] 1390 01:27:01,049 --> 01:27:02,425 -Lenore! -[Yasmin] We gotta go. 1391 01:27:03,009 --> 01:27:04,093 [witch laughing] 1392 01:27:04,177 --> 01:27:06,596 We're still in my building. The apartment didn't move. 1393 01:27:07,263 --> 01:27:08,806 [Alex breathes heavily] 1394 01:27:09,432 --> 01:27:12,477 -Do you have a plan? -Not exactly a plan, an idea. 1395 01:27:16,773 --> 01:27:17,941 -[thudding] -[both gasp] 1396 01:27:18,024 --> 01:27:19,567 [witch] Hello, children. 1397 01:27:19,651 --> 01:27:22,278 [witch growling] 1398 01:27:22,362 --> 01:27:25,240 I'm so hungry. 1399 01:27:26,824 --> 01:27:28,368 [gasping] 1400 01:27:28,451 --> 01:27:30,912 [both panting] 1401 01:27:33,248 --> 01:27:36,709 [all screaming] 1402 01:27:43,758 --> 01:27:46,261 This is the worst elevator ever! 1403 01:27:46,803 --> 01:27:49,180 -[thudding] -[Yasmin gasping] 1404 01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:50,265 [elevator dings] 1405 01:27:56,187 --> 01:27:58,314 [electricity buzzes intermittently] 1406 01:28:03,319 --> 01:28:04,195 What now? 1407 01:28:04,779 --> 01:28:07,323 We just need to make it to that boiler room. 1408 01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:23,256 You gotta be kidding me. 1409 01:28:29,637 --> 01:28:32,223 -[Yasmin and Alex gasp] -[witch cackling] 1410 01:28:46,571 --> 01:28:47,905 -[thudding] -[Yasmin gasps] 1411 01:28:47,989 --> 01:28:48,823 [door squeaks] 1412 01:28:48,906 --> 01:28:51,743 -No! No! No! No! -No! No! No! No! 1413 01:28:51,826 --> 01:28:54,454 [both panting] 1414 01:29:10,053 --> 01:29:13,097 -[witch grunting] -[screaming] No! Oh my God! 1415 01:29:14,432 --> 01:29:15,683 [both panting] 1416 01:29:15,767 --> 01:29:18,227 -[witch screams] -[Alex and Yasmin scream] 1417 01:29:19,896 --> 01:29:22,607 No, let… let her go. It's me you want. 1418 01:29:22,690 --> 01:29:25,443 -Incorrect. -[Yasmin crying] 1419 01:29:25,526 --> 01:29:27,612 I want both of you. 1420 01:29:27,695 --> 01:29:28,654 No! 1421 01:29:28,738 --> 01:29:30,823 No. I'm sorry. 1422 01:29:30,907 --> 01:29:33,159 -No! -[thudding] 1423 01:29:34,327 --> 01:29:35,411 [hissing] 1424 01:29:37,455 --> 01:29:39,040 [witch screaming] 1425 01:29:39,749 --> 01:29:41,334 [Lenore yowls] 1426 01:29:41,834 --> 01:29:43,378 -[meows] -Lenore! 1427 01:29:45,713 --> 01:29:47,715 -No. No. -[witch growling] 1428 01:29:48,299 --> 01:29:51,469 "Stories about fear and death are like lullabies to her." 1429 01:29:51,552 --> 01:29:52,804 [Yasmin] No, no, no. 1430 01:29:53,554 --> 01:29:54,472 [crying] No! 1431 01:29:55,681 --> 01:29:56,682 [bones crack] 1432 01:29:56,766 --> 01:29:57,725 No! 1433 01:30:00,311 --> 01:30:01,729 She's read all of them. 1434 01:30:01,813 --> 01:30:03,648 No! [crying] 1435 01:30:03,731 --> 01:30:05,233 Hey, ugly. 1436 01:30:05,316 --> 01:30:06,484 [growls] 1437 01:30:06,567 --> 01:30:09,362 You like stories? I got stories. 1438 01:30:09,445 --> 01:30:10,822 [growling] 1439 01:30:11,572 --> 01:30:14,033 [whimpering] 1440 01:30:14,117 --> 01:30:15,493 [growls] 1441 01:30:15,576 --> 01:30:19,580 [breathes shakily] Jason couldn't decide which was stranger. 1442 01:30:19,664 --> 01:30:23,543 The fact that his sister died every Tuesday at 11:15 1443 01:30:23,626 --> 01:30:26,129 or that she always came back to life 20 minutes later. 1444 01:30:26,212 --> 01:30:28,339 More. Give me more. 1445 01:30:28,423 --> 01:30:30,216 [growling] 1446 01:30:31,509 --> 01:30:35,805 Zachary had always thought that clowns were the scariest part of the circus. 1447 01:30:35,888 --> 01:30:37,223 He was wrong. 1448 01:30:39,392 --> 01:30:41,227 I found a package on my front porch 1449 01:30:41,811 --> 01:30:46,482 addressed to the woman standing right behind you. 1450 01:30:47,233 --> 01:30:49,235 Who? Who was it? 1451 01:30:49,318 --> 01:30:50,778 Who was it? 1452 01:30:54,031 --> 01:30:55,867 [roars] 1453 01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:00,621 -The stories! -[Alex] Push her! Push her in! 1454 01:31:00,705 --> 01:31:04,208 [witch screaming] 1455 01:31:04,292 --> 01:31:06,127 [Alex] Keep pushing! 1456 01:31:06,210 --> 01:31:07,462 [witch screaming] 1457 01:31:09,797 --> 01:31:11,007 [screaming] 1458 01:31:12,717 --> 01:31:14,469 [Alex] Don't let her out! 1459 01:31:15,553 --> 01:31:17,722 Keep it shut! Keep pushing! 1460 01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:21,476 -[Yasmin] Keep it shut! -[Alex] Keep her in! 1461 01:31:24,145 --> 01:31:25,730 [witch screaming subsides] 1462 01:31:26,564 --> 01:31:28,608 -[both panting] -[Yasmin] Oh my God. 1463 01:31:30,568 --> 01:31:31,569 [sighs] 1464 01:31:32,195 --> 01:31:34,197 So that's why they call you a tryhard? 1465 01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:35,990 Shut up, Creepshow. 1466 01:31:37,366 --> 01:31:39,994 [Lenore meows] 1467 01:31:40,077 --> 01:31:41,287 All right, skin-bag. 1468 01:31:41,871 --> 01:31:44,373 We didn't forget about you. Come here. 1469 01:31:44,457 --> 01:31:45,625 [purring] 1470 01:31:45,708 --> 01:31:48,127 ["Cry Little Sister" by CHVRCHES playing] 1471 01:31:54,509 --> 01:31:55,510 Let's go home. 1472 01:32:00,348 --> 01:32:02,266 [Yasmin] Maybe we should take the stairs. 1473 01:32:02,350 --> 01:32:05,478 ♪ …behind those eyes ♪ 1474 01:32:05,561 --> 01:32:09,065 ♪ Black house will rock ♪ 1475 01:32:09,148 --> 01:32:14,529 ♪ Blind boys don't lie… ♪ 1476 01:32:15,279 --> 01:32:16,822 Mom? Dad? 1477 01:32:17,532 --> 01:32:20,326 [gasps] Alex? Oh my… 1478 01:32:20,409 --> 01:32:23,037 You're home. Oh! [cries] 1479 01:32:23,120 --> 01:32:28,543 ♪ Thou shall not fall… ♪ 1480 01:32:29,752 --> 01:32:30,836 [gasping] 1481 01:32:32,713 --> 01:32:35,007 [Alex] These are my friends, Lenore and Yasmin. 1482 01:32:35,091 --> 01:32:36,676 -Hi. -Yas, for short. 1483 01:32:38,177 --> 01:32:40,888 [mom and Alex chuckle] 1484 01:32:40,972 --> 01:32:44,684 ♪ Cry, little sister ♪ 1485 01:32:44,767 --> 01:32:48,062 ♪ Thou shall not fall ♪ 1486 01:32:48,145 --> 01:32:51,857 ♪ Come, come to your brother! ♪ 1487 01:32:51,941 --> 01:32:55,278 ♪ Thou shall not die ♪ 1488 01:32:55,361 --> 01:32:58,948 ♪ Unchain me, sister! ♪ 1489 01:32:59,031 --> 01:33:02,326 ♪ Thou shall not fear ♪ 1490 01:33:02,410 --> 01:33:05,955 ♪ Love is with your brother! ♪ 1491 01:33:06,038 --> 01:33:12,086 ♪ Thou shall not kill ♪ 1492 01:33:13,170 --> 01:33:19,010 ♪ Thou shall not fall ♪ 1493 01:33:19,093 --> 01:33:20,177 [clattering] 1494 01:33:20,261 --> 01:33:25,683 ♪ Thou shall not die ♪ 1495 01:33:27,184 --> 01:33:29,228 -[screams] -[screams] 1496 01:33:29,312 --> 01:33:30,271 [laughs] 1497 01:33:30,354 --> 01:33:31,897 Oh God, you scared me. 1498 01:33:34,775 --> 01:33:36,861 -Hey, Creepshow. -Hey, Tryhard. 1499 01:33:37,361 --> 01:33:39,614 My parents drove me up to surprise you. 1500 01:33:39,697 --> 01:33:42,617 -What is that? Like, your third story? -Fourth, actually. 1501 01:33:42,700 --> 01:33:45,578 So you could definitely use this. 1502 01:33:47,455 --> 01:33:48,789 Oh my God, Yas. 1503 01:33:54,086 --> 01:33:56,839 [Yasmin] Check out the flowers. My next science fair project. 1504 01:33:56,922 --> 01:33:59,967 The effect of ultraviolet black light on photosynthetic organisms. 1505 01:34:03,971 --> 01:34:05,473 [meows] 1506 01:34:05,556 --> 01:34:07,058 [Alex and Yasmin chuckle] 1507 01:34:07,642 --> 01:34:09,852 [Alex] Still don't believe in happy endings? 1508 01:34:09,935 --> 01:34:11,228 [Yasmin] I'm starting to. 1509 01:34:11,312 --> 01:34:13,314 [uplifting music playing] 1510 01:34:15,733 --> 01:34:18,277 [pencil scratching on paper] 1511 01:34:25,785 --> 01:34:27,787 [eerie music playing] 1512 01:34:28,954 --> 01:34:30,498 [crackling] 1513 01:34:49,433 --> 01:34:52,061 [Natacha laughing] 1514 01:34:52,144 --> 01:34:53,979 [suspenseful music playing] 1515 01:35:47,867 --> 01:35:48,868 [music ends] 1516 01:35:50,286 --> 01:35:52,621 [dramatic music playing]