Riddle Room

No, no!

No!

Please.

Think.

What is it you'd like to do?

- You know damn well what I wanna do.

Excellent.

We haven't much time.

No, no!

No, stop it!

What did you do?

What's your name?

Emily.

Emily Burns.

- And how do you earn a living, Mrs. Burns?

- I'm an associate professor of pharmacology

at a small school named Cortland College.

It's in the --

- Tell me about January 11th, Mrs. Burns.

- Please, sir, I'll answer whatever it takes,

please just let me go, I--

- Tell me about January 11th Mrs. Burns.

What about it?

No.

- Come on, valedictorian!

Give us a smile, come on!

Dad, put it away.

- Not until I see that smile.

Happy?

- Give your mother a kiss for the camera.

You're wanted by all these medical companies

and you can't even give your mother a little kiss.

Come on now, give her a kiss.

Aw wait, now I'm jealous, come over here.

Now leave her alone Bill,

let her have a good time.

How?

How'd you get it?

Why ask me questions you already know the answers to?

- Please, I'll do whatever you ask,

just please let me out.

I don't know!

No, no, no!

No, no, please no.

No!

Shh.

- Tell me about January 11th, Mrs. Burns.

Or shall I say

Doctor Burns?

- I don't know what you're talking about, I swear.

- Tell me about January 11th, Doctor Burns.

Please, I don't!

I don't know what you're talking about!

Time's ticking, Doctor Burns.

- Repetition is something to be embraced,

Doctor Burns, not shunned.

- Look, can we please find some time

to sit down and talk, some real time?

You name it.

I need you to focus.

Every second counts.

Oh my god, oh my god.

Manda. Manda is that you?

Emily?

Oh thank god.

Oh thank god!

I've been so afraid!

How long have you been here?

- 14 hours, 43 minutes, 16 seconds.

I wanna go home.

I just wanna go home.

Stay strong for me, okay?

We're gonna get out of here,

both of us together, you hear me?

How?

- Do you have any tools we can use?

No, not really.

Just a cot.

Damn it, me too.

What do these people want from us?

January 11th.

- They keep saying that, but what the hell does that mean?

January 11th.

I don't know.

I don't understand.

Me neither.

Emily?

- Hold on. - Wait!

Emily, don't leave me! - Hold on.

- You want some cereal baby?

Milk? You like your cereal.

Baby.

I'm coming. - You want some grapes?

Hello? - Andrew.

Hey, yeah.

Thanks for calling me back.

No, I don't know where she is at all.

No, she didn't come home last night.

No, I'm here!

I'm here!

No.

Thanks for calling.

Okay, yeah I'll let you know. - Andrew.

Please.

All right, bye.

No, no, come on!

Come back please, no, come back!

Tell me, tell me what you want!

Please tell me!

Ah, stop.

Please.

Be the leader.

Be the leader.

Be the leader.

You've been watching me.

You've been watching my family, why?

What kinda people are you?

What kind of importance could I possibly have?

- Do you know this man, Doctor Burns?

I do.

- And who is this man, Doctor Burns?

David Cobb.

Professor Cobb, my superior.

- Is there something you would like

to tell me about this man, Doctor Burns?

No.

Are you sure, Doctor Burns?

Look deeply, Doctor Burns.

Is there something you would like

to tell me about this man?

- Firefighters have only been able

to contain about ten percent thus far.

- If you're just joining us,

we're live in downtown Detroit,

where an explosion has led to a devastating fire

on the campus of Cortland College.

One staff member has been confirmed dead

at the scene. - No!

Doctor David Cobb,

a professor in the Cortland pharmacology department.

David!

- Tell me about January 11th, Doctor Burns.

What have you done?

- Tell me about January 11th, Doctor Burns.

- I don't know what the hell that means!

What is this?

You know exactly what that is.

(mumbling) discovery?

Very good.

No, I mean, I know of it.

It was a side project of his.

A treatment of pre-gangrenous sores to prevent amputation.

I've never actually seen the target findings.

He was very, very private with his personal work.

- But you admit your connection to this.

- I'm his associate professor, that's it!

If he was up to something else,

then I have no idea what that was!

This is the first I've seen of any of this.

I'm telling you.

We will see.