Ritual

Hiya. - Hello.

Sure is pretty.

Sure is.

- What's your name? - Why?

Just curious is all.

It's Lovely.

Is your real name Lovely?

That's the only one I got.

I'm Tom.

Is your real name Tom?

- That's funny. - (CHUCKLES)

You from around here?

Why are you so curious?

I already told you my name after all.

I got a pretty good reason I suppose.

Oh, yeah? And what might that be?

Because you're just about the prettiest girl I've ever seen in my entire life.

Oh, yeah? You think so?

- I do. - (CHUCKLES)

- That's really sweet. - Thanks.

So, are you from around here?

Oh, God. Pick up! Pick up! Pick up! Pick up!

Please pick up!

Hello? Tom!

- Who is this? - Tom, it's me!

Lovely, why are you calling here?

- I told you not... - Listen to me!

Something happened.

It's bad. It's really bad.

Where are you?

The sinner! The defilers!

He's sending them right back to us!

Why?

Because of you.

Because of the sins that you perform each and every day.

You have sexual relations out of wedlock.

You kill and abort children.

You are a man lying with men.

Same sex marriages.

How do you think your God will judge you?

Well, my brothers and my sisters, now we know.

Now we know.

When there is no more room in hell, the dead will...

Hey, kids, welcome back to KZMV.

Hokey Halloween weekend nightmare.

We're rolling through our annual terror-thon.

We're about halfway through Boris Karloff's 1945 radio play,

The Wailing Wall.

But first...

Still rushing to find the perfect last minute costume

for your Halloweekend?

Well, why not head down to Randall's Pennysave

on Jimble road just off Route 1 in Macon County.

Choose from a wide array of ghosts and ghouls...

- (WOMAN SCREAMING ON RADIO) - Everything you need

to make this Halloween the spookiest one yet.

Hello?

It's me.

Tom?

Yeah.

Did you... Did you come alone?

What's going on?

Did you?

Lovely!

Tell me.

Yeah, I did.

You did what?

I came alone just like you asked. Now open the door.

Hello?

I didn't... I didn't mean to call you out of the blue like this.

Are you all right?

Tom, would you please promise me that you'll help.

Tom.

Look, I don't much like talking about these kinda things through no door.

Okay.

I'm gonna...

I'm gonna open the door,

but I need you to make me a promise, okay?

What?

I need you to promise that you'll forget who your brother works for.

- Why? - 'Cause I...

I don't want you calling the boys just yet.

Just let me in.

Promise.

All right, fine, I promise.

Are you all right?

Are you hurt?

What is going on, then?

You're the only one I thought to call.

Is that so?

I knew you'd come.

You wanna tell me why you called me all the way out

to some rat trap on Route 6,

or are we just gonna stand out here all night?

I swear I wasn't gonna do it again.

You listen to me, all right.

You gotta tell me what's going on.

So you either open this door,

or I'm gonna turn right around and leave.

'Cause I told you I was fed up with this shit the last time!

Don't yell at me!

Then you let me know what you pulled me in to, all right?

What the fuck is that?

I think I hurt him really bad.

How did this happen?

- Answer me! - How do you think it happened?

Would you keep your voice down?

How'd you get here?

Brenna picked me up and we went to a bar.

Okay, which bar?

Some dive in Madison County.

What was it called?

- I don't remember. - Well, try to.

Silver Fox.

- The Silver Fox. - Yeah.

Did Brenna take you here?

- No. - Well, where is she?

She got really drunk and called Louellen and went home.

Who is this man?

Who is he?

It wasn't supposed to be like this.

Is he alive?

I don't know.

This is bad, Lovely.

This is real bad.

No!

- We have to call somebody! - You can't!

- Are you out of your fucking mind? - I called you.

Well, I can't help you with this. No way.

You don't even know what happened! You don't even know!

Get back!

They're gonna blame me for stabbing him!

They're gonna throw me into jail!

You should've thought of that before you stuck that knife in him.

Is that what you want, for the police to come down here and take me away?

I didn't do this to you, you did it to yourself.

- It's not my fault! - Certainly.

Fuck.

People are gonna say things, terrible things about me, about us.

Well, your brother's probably gonna be the one in charge of all this.

He hit me, Tom.

He got real angry and he hit me.

You said you were gonna never let that happen to me again. You promised me.

911, what's your emergency?

Don't bring my brother into this situation again.

It was never supposed to be like this.

This is so fucked.

I never meant to hurt anyone, Tom.

You know that I wouldn't do that.

What'd you just say?

I said I never meant to hurt anyone.

What, did you think you were doing me a service calling me down here? Huh?

- I don't know! - Of course not.

- It wasn't my fault! - Yeah, well, it's never your fault.

You don't know what happened.

- Oh, I don't? - No.

Well I think I'm pretty learned on the subject.

All right? Same story, different night.

Only this time you have the audacity to take me here.

So what'd you think, huh?

You think I was just gonna come down here to the rescue?

After everything that you put me through.

Tell you what. Not a problem here.

After all, it ain't your fault.

But if I don't you threaten to embarrass me.

I mean, haven't you embarrassed me enough?

Just stop being mean to me, Tom!

You're the only one I called.

What makes you think I'd do anything to help you?

Because that's what a husband does for his wife.

You were some wife. You were some fucking wife!

All right. Okay, listen to me, all right?

You gotta stop crying and start answering my questions.

All right. Does anybody know you're here right now?

- You sure? - Nobody.

Did anybody see you leave the bar with him?

- No. - Not Brenna? Not Louellen?

No, they left 'cause she was too drunk.

Tom, I already told you so.

And besides, we didn't even know anybody at that place.

He just came up to me

and asked me if I wanted to go back to his place and have a drink with him.

Did he check in here or did you?

He did, Tom, this is his room,

I've already told you so.

Okay.

So nobody saw you leave the bar with him.

Right, he checked in here.

Did anybody see you walk up when you got here?

No.

Okay.

Okay. Okay.

Fuck.

All right, who is he?

I don't know.