["SOMEWHERE DOWN THE ROAD" BY CHRISTIVN PLAYING]
♪ Feel like pressing my luck ♪
♪ Get caught up in the moment ♪
♪ Feel like living it up ♪
♪ Not knowing where I'm going... ♪
PAXTON: Guys, I love that we're out here.
Just a bunch of best friends roughing it in nature.
It's beautiful.
PAIGE: Paxton, what are you talking about?
We rented a literal mansion.
PAXTON: Yeah, but we're outside
and mosquitoes are eating my ankles.
Does someone have a marshmallow I can shove in his mouth?
PAXTON: Please. My reflexes are too fast.
- Oh, my God. - Nice reflexes.
Caught me off guard.
MADELINE: Okay, here, everyone.
Let's say, "Happy birthday, Elise."
- Happy birthday, Elise. - Happy birthday, Elise.
Happy birthday, Elise.
Finally. Finally, I can go to the club. Let's go.
Happy birthday.
- Happy birthday, Elise. - MADELINE: Happy birthday, girl.
Happy birthday.
So, are we getting back to the game or what?
- Yes. Whose turn was it? - Oh, my gosh.
PAXTON: Grant. Grant's up.
Okay. Okay, I got one.
Most likely to get knocked up before graduation.
One, two,
- three. - Paxton.
- Me? What the hell? - You.
- What... - Yep.
I can't even give birth, like, anatomically.
Not with that attitude.
- Drink, drink, drink. - Drink, drink, drink.
This is so unfair. You know what?
You're a bunch of dicks.
- Okay, I got one. - Okay.
Most likely to eat something off the ground.
- Lucas. - Lucas.
- Dude. - Here we go, man.
Guys, haven't you ever heard of the five-second rule?
- No. Drink. - Drink, drink, drink.
You eat shit off the floor.
- Drink, drink, drink. - Off the floor.
My turn.
Most likely to get married first.
One, two, three.
Haley and Grant.
- That was obvious. - That's so easy.
So obvious.
You guys are practically married already.
Yeah.
GRANT: Um...
I'm out of beer.
Oh, yeah. I'll ride with you.
Yep, hold up.
GRANT: Hey, buddy.
PAXTON: So, did something happen with you guys?
We broke up.
- What? - When?
Right before we came up here.
Bro, what?
I mean, she just ended it.
But I-- I don't know, man.
She's been acting different lately, you know?
Dude, different how?
- Just different. - Girl, you're crazy.
You two are perfect together.
I don't know. He's not very ambitious.
I think I'm just too ambitious.
Yeah. I mean, I can't not agree with you, you know?
You really are reaching high peaks.
But that's a good thing. I think she'll recognize that.
It'll be all good. It'll be totally, totally good.
This is not good.
I just want romance.
Romance is frickin' dead.
R.I.P. But you know what?
Now we can really settle in
on this clay class that I'm talking about.
You know when I told you we could make pottery?
I'm gonna get that beer now.
We could start our own book club.
Right?
Oh, oh, oh!
Two words: spa day.
Shit.
Right? It's a really good idea.
What do you mean, "the last one"?
There's no way we drank everything.
MADELINE: Yikes.
- HALEY: I'll run to the store. - No, no, no.
I'll get it delivered.
It's late, and we rented a house in the middle of nowhere.
I mean, I'm pretty sure this place
has booze locked up somewhere, right?
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, this seems promising.
MADELINE: You do see
there's a "keep out" sign on that door, right?
What? What sign?
[LAUGHS]
- [SONG ENDS] - [LOCK BREAKS, DOOR CREAKS]
PAIGE: Lucas. Lucas, you broke the door.
LUCAS: How else were we gonna get in?
PAIGE: They're gonna charge me for that, you know?
Okay.
Well, bad news first.
No alcohol here.
So what's the good news?
Still bad.
There's definitely spiders here.
Yeah.
PAXTON: Okay, like, who's keeping
all this weird, creepy shit in their basement?
I mean, I guess the owners
left all their stuff here after they died.
After-- After they died?
Relax, they didn't die... as far as I know anyway.
Ooh, vintage.
That looks like a divination cloth.
ELISE: A what?
HALEY: This is all old astrological stuff.
MADELINE: Wait. Lucas, look at this.
So creepy.
"Madame Mara."
MAN: Do you dare to have your fortune read by Madame Mara?
Oh.
Guys, what about naked Go Fishy or strip poker, perhaps?
Never mind. These are "tarot" cards anyway.
Paxton, it's pronounced "tarot."
Yes. Haley, you gotta do readings for everyone.
PAIGE: Yeah, do our horoscopes!
Can I see these?
Hey, I didn't know you could do horoscope with tarot.
My grandma says tarot cards "son del demonio."
- LUCAS: What? - Devil shit.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Yeah, there's a lot of ways to do readings,
but astrology and tarot are intimately connected.
If you use them together,
they're a really powerful combination for forecasting.
Oh, my God.
I've never seen cards like this before.
They look hand-painted.
They're definitely old.
So how does it work?
Each zodiac sign is represented by a card in the Major Arcana.
By tying in the planets,
you make the readings more accurate.
What the hell? Like, how do you even know that?
I don't know. I guess I kind of taught myself.
So where should we do this?
Do what?
- The tarot readings. - Seriously, I don't want to.
Come on, Haley,
- it's my birthday. - Haley.
[ALL LAUGHING]
- LUCAS: Let's go. - God.
["THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER" BY HOWARD JONES PLAYING]
♪ And do you feel scared? ♪
♪ I do ♪
♪ But I won't stop and falter ♪
♪ And if we threw it all away ♪
♪ Things can only get better... ♪
Ooh!
Spirit guide, I call to thee.
PAIGE: [LAUGHS] Paxton.
[ALL LAUGHING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[FLOORBOARD CREAKING]
Okay.
Guys, we really shouldn't be doing this.
It's kind of an unspoken rule not to use somebody else's deck.
- What? - HALEY: I'm sorry.
Who cares?
Come on, I'll go first.
- GRANT: Right. - It's, like, really bad luck.
I can't remember. Did I mention that it was my birthday?
PAXTON: Oh, yeah. I think that's why we're here.
Maybe. Once or twice.
GRANT: A few times, yeah.
Okay, fine.
- [CHEERING] - PAXTON: Yeah! Let's go.
HALEY: Oh, my God.
So, 12 tarot cards are placed in a circle,
representing the zodiac.
With, very important, 13th card in the center.
That indicates the overall theme of the reading,
and it can give clarity to the other cards.
You are a Libra.
I can vouch for that.
- PAXTON: Wow, that's-- Outed. - All right.
You're investigative by nature,
and you need to make sense of things,
but your curiosity often leads you into the unknown.
You're climbing the ladder towards success,
but the High Priestess reversed is a warning to maybe slow down.
She could cause you to slip up and suffer a crushing blow.
ELISE: That's terrifying.
Yeah, this old deck's kind of strange.
All right.
No, I'm gonna focus on the part
where you said "ladder to success."
- Sounds good. - All right.
Who's next?
- MADELINE: I'll go next. Okay. - Madeline.
- Are you filming me? God. - MADELINE: Yes.
Pisces. Generous, empathetic and creative.
And I really see that creativity paying off this month.
Your horoscope is showing me, like,
a line opening up to something.
Also, The Hanged Man indicates ultimate surrender,
which might be hard right now because Mercury's in retrograde,
so things are gonna feel off.
You may even find technology failing for no reason,
which I know is going to be really hard for you.
- Sorry, can you say that again? - Funny.
Right up my nose.
Don't panic. It'll soon be water under the bridge.
Okay.
As a Pisces, when you sense danger, you tend to run.
Which makes sense.
Your zodiac symbol is two fish swimming away from each other.
But, this month, maybe fight that urge
and just try not to get hung up on things.
Okay, so just don't run away from your problems.
- HALEY: Basically. - Yep.
- MADELINE: Thank you. - You're welcome.
Paxton, do you wanna go?
Oh, you know what? Yeah, I really would love to go.
- Really? Cool. - Really?
Yeah. To the bathroom.
- Okay... - LUCAS: Boo.
Ha-ha, funny.
- Okay, I'll go. - HALEY: All right, Paige.
We have our Virgo.
Quick thinker, practical, bit of a control freak.
And Virgos go out of their way for their friends.
As we've all seen this weekend.
[TOILET FLUSHES]
[HINGES CREAKING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
Oh!
Oh, my God.
We need to chill.
Jesus.
HALEY: As a Virgo, you always wanna find the logic in things.
This month, that might be challenging.
You may feel like you're being pulled in two directions.
The Magician's bag of tricks are deceptive
and will prevent you from seeing clearly.
Yeah, I don't like the sound of that.
I mean, you know me and control, right?
HALEY: I do.
- Jeez. - MADELINE: Here he is.
- Gone long enough. - How was it?
I went upstairs and went through everybody's luggage.
If you did, I swear to God.
Relax, I didn't.
ELISE: Grant, you're up.
Nah, I'm good.
[GROANS] All right, I'll do it. Since you're begging me.
ALL: Whoo!
Welcome.
PAXTON: Hello.
It's like Hogwarts up in this place.
HALEY: Huh. When's your birthday?
PAXTON: Wow. You don't even know my birthday?
What kind of a friend are you?
Do you know mine?
Yeah, it's...
- J... - October?
- Oh, my God. - Not even close.
- January 25th. - I knew that.
- I'm an Aquarius. - I knew that too.
And I'm May 7th, and I don't know what I am.
- You are a Taurus. - Oh.
Dependable and a solid friend...
PAXTON: Ooh.
...but you can also be kind of bullheaded
- and make rash decisions. - GRANT: No shit.
Hey, shut it.
Tauruses can also come off as kind of rude.
Wait, wait, wait. Why do I get a weird creepy clown?
HALEY: Drawing The Fool reversed
can serve as a warning not to act on impulse.
Stick closely to those you trust.
Oh, and Judgment is in your fourth house.
This deals with physical space.
So, don't be surprised if you're feeling trapped or boxed in.
Just remember, when one door closes,
another one opens.
So, does that mean I'm going to become rich and famous,
or date someone hot?
Dude, she's not a genie.
PAXTON: I know that.
But, like, will I?
HALEY: I'm not sure.
But I actually do see you showing up for your friends
in an unexpected way.
Huh.
You hear that?
Your boy's coming through when you least expect it.
- All right. - We get it. Move on.
- Paxton's coming through. - I'll go next.
- Right. Five-second boy. - What?
Capricorn.
Ruling planet, Saturn.
You're a rule-breaker, down-to-earth,
and you're also kind of sensitive.
Sensitive?
When have I ever been sensitive?
[ALL LAUGHING]
Lukey.
All right. Okay. That's enough.
HALEY: Okay, your horoscope is showing me
a change in your financial situation.
How come I didn't get that one?
HALEY: And it also looks like love is in the air.
Ooh...
Stop.
HALEY: But be careful.
When The Hermit's reversed, it can indicate poor judgment,
and it's a warning to watch where you're heading.
You're someone who will go out of their way for love,
but just make sure to stay focused
because The Hermit's light
could lead you down the wrong track.
"Down the wrong track." Okay. Yeah, I got it.
- Okay? - Thanks.
You're welcome.
Is that everyone?
That was way better than charades.
Oh, my God. So--
PAXTON: We should smoke some weed and watch a movie now.
That's what I say.
- No. - You guys--
I need better friends.
Yeah, I don't know my star sign or whatever.
You're a Leo.
Generous, loyal and a natural leader.
So let me get this straight.
You just pull some cards and make up whatever you want,
is that how this works?
I use the deck to read the stars.
Leos are also headstrong and arrogant
and always need to be right.
Mars corresponds to The Tower.
It can represent ruin and destruction.
It's in your seventh house, which rules relationships.
So, you're pouring gasoline on the fire
instead of listening and being understanding.
How have I not been understanding?
I'm reading your horoscope. I'm not talking about us.
GRANT: It sounds like you're talking about us.
HALEY: Well, I'm not.
You know, maybe you should see
what the stars have to say about you.
Wait.
The Devil represents your shadow side.
You're walking a really dark road.
This month you're gonna need to face your demons
and make a sacrifice, or risk losing someone important.
I'm gonna go check on him.
Okay.
Haley, what are you doing?
Reading my horoscope.
What's it say?
Same thing it always says.
Love's gonna be the death of me.
[SCREAMS]
♪ I can't believe I survived... ♪
GRANT: All right, come on. Let's go, guys.
Long drive back to campus.
♪ Flipped upside down, I'm alive... ♪
PAIGE: Let's do this.
♪ I can't believe I survived... ♪
Yo.
Don't scratch my shit, please.
Shotgun.
- LUCAS: Nice suitcase, Paxton. - PAXTON: Pipe it.
Could I see that for a sec?
♪ In slow motion with ya ♪
♪ Spun around ♪
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
♪ In slow motion ♪
♪ I can't believe I survived... ♪
Thoughts?
Way better.
[ALL LAUGH]
PAXTON: All right, kiddies, buckle up,
because for the next four hours and 11 minutes,
y'all about to be shitting your pants.
What?
NARRATOR: Becky's corpse was found tangled in the creek.
Her limbs twisted up like a soft pretzel.
Uh, what is this?
What do you mean, "What is this?"
It's only my favorite podcast of all time.
You're gonna have to kill me
before I listen to this for four hours.
- I'll kill you if you kill me. - Can I get in on that?
- Oh, guys. - What?
That could be another new podcast.
- Okay. Start the car. - Okay.
- Oh, my God. - Start the car.
Three people die, one person lives.
GRANT: Here we go.
PAXTON: He lives to tell the story on the podcast.
I should probably survive
since I'm the one who's into podcasts here.
GRANT: And we're gone.
NARRATOR: On this episode,
we dive deep into the true story of a jealous best friend
and a love triangle that would turn deadly.
LUCAS: Okay, Grant, I'm begging you, man,
please drive us off this cliff.
PAXTON: This is so rude. It's my favorite thing ever.
I'm sharing with you my personal experience on life.
GRANT: Here we go.
NARRATOR: The knife that was used to carve up the victim
was right there on the ground.
Blood was everywhere.
And that's when she knew
that her best friend was the killer.
- Guys, I won! 700 bucks. - [all gasp]
- What the hell? - GRANT: Jesus!
Look, I got all three.
- PAXTON: Get in the car. - GRANT: Just get in the car.
You know we're listening to a podcast!
MADELINE: It was literally at the scariest part.
- Who does that? - No, look.
- PAXTON: Damn it. - GRANT: What happened?
No, guys, he actually won $700.
- Wait, really? - Oh, shit!
Okay.
I don't know if there's any skill to it.
I don't know, like, is that--
["BLOW THE SPEAKERS UP" BY I DON'T SPEAK FRENCH PLAYING]
♪ Dance and blow the speakers up ♪
[ALL LAUGHING]
Oh, jeez.
ELISE: What a driver. All right.
I'll call you later.
- Night. - Night.
PAIGE: I still don't understand
why you didn't go to that frat party though.
ELISE: 'Cause I've got the whole place to myself.
And I can't do any more shots this weekend.
[PAIGE LAUGHS]
By the way, thank you for planning that trip.
I had the best time.
PAIGE: Anything for wifey.
Oh, my God. Do not call me that.
Don't worry about it. I only had to sell a kidney.
Hey, you got one left.
Rude.
All right, so I got us a reservation at that Thai place
that we wanted to try on Friday.
And I think we can go straight to the concert afterwards.
Hello?
Yeah. Hello? I'm still here.
Hang on, sorry.
Wait. Who are you talking to?
I thought everyone went out, no?
One sec.
Hello?
Hey, sorry, I'm back.
[CREAKING]
PAIGE: I mean, not to gossip,
but pretty crazy about Haley and Grant, right?
Oh, my God, right? I never saw that coming.
Did she say anything to you?
Literally nothing to me at all. To you?
No, nothing. It's so crazy.
[LOUD THUD]
What the hell?
What was that noise?
Elise?
Hey, I think some of the girls might be back.
- Can I call you in a second? - Yeah. Yeah. Call me back.
Okay.
Natalie?
[DISTANT GIGGLING]
Claire?
Very funny, guys.
[FOOTSTEPS RUNNING]
I swear to God, if you guys are messing with me again...
[GIGGLING]
Okay, I'm coming up.
Guys?
Okay, you can come out now.
[GASPS]
Is someone there?
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
- [FOOTSTEPS RUNNING] - [WHOOSHING]
[DISTANT GIGGLING]
Who-- Who's down here?
HALEY: You are a Libra.
[DISTORTED VOICES] You are a Libra.
HALEY: The High Priestess is a warning to maybe slow down.
She could cause you to slip up and suffer a crushing blow.
[SCREAMS]
[GROANS]
[WHIMPERING]
[PHONE RINGING IN TUNE OF "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"]
[SCREAMS]
- [GROWLING] - [CRACKLING]
[SCREAMS]
[SQUELCHING]
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
[SCREECHES]
[SIREN BLARING]
PAIGE: I can't believe this is really happening.
We were talking all last night.
I don't understand.
HALEY: I know. I'll stay with you here tonight.
MADELINE: Are you sure you don't want me to stay?
'Cause I can. It's not a problem.
- No, it's fine. Get some sleep. - Okay.
HALEY: Thank you.
Okay.
Promise you'll call if you need us?
Night.
Well, thank you for walking me home.
Of course. Anytime.
You know, I probably won't be able to sleep, so...
if you need me, you know where to find me.
- I should probably... - Yeah. Yeah, me too.
[KEYS JANGLING]
See you tomorrow.
See ya.
- [SCREECHES] - [GASPS]
Hey.
- [GASPING] - [SHUSHING]
It's just a bad dream.
I keep seeing Elise's face every time I close my eyes.
If I was there, maybe she'd still be alive.
No. Listen. Listen.
You can't do that.
Whatever was going to happen would've happened.
How can you say that?
We don't have control over our own lives?
I grew up in this really old house in Minnesota.
My dad split before I was born, so it was just me and my mom.
And it was where we lived when she got sick.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
I watched her try treatment after treatment.
And nothing worked.
That's when I got into tarot.
At first, it was just a way for me to make sense of things.
I did so many readings.
And every time, they told me she wasn't gonna make it.
That I couldn't save her.
- [FLATLINING] - I couldn't stop death.
I just don't want you to blame yourself for what happened.
No matter how much it sucks,
you can't change fate.
[RATTLING GROWL]
[DISTANT WHEEZING]
[LOW GROWLING]
[HOWLING]
[WHIMPERING, PANTING]
Hello?
[WATER SPLASHING]
HALEY: [DISTORTED] You are a Capricorn.
You're a rule-breaker.
But just be careful,
The Hermit's light could lead you down the wrong track.
Lead you down the wrong track.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[SCREAMS]
[CREAKING]
[YELPS]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[SCREAMS]
[TRAIN HORN BLARES]
HALEY: I still can't believe Elise is gone.
Honestly, I think I'm still in shock.
Yeah.
I think we all are.
What?
Nothing.
I'm gonna go take a test I didn't study for,
- and I'll see you later. - Okay.
[NOTIFICATION DINGS]
REPORTER: Police are investigating
the death of a 21-year-old male
found near the tracks
in a remote area of the T subway station.
[REPORTERS OVERLAPPING] At about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday,
paramedics responded to...
REPORTER 2: [CONTINUES] ...a report of an unresponsive person
near the tracks at Haymarket station.
A rail yard employee initially discovered the body,
before crews arrived on scene
and pronounced the person deceased.
DETECTIVE: I'm still unclear how your friend Lucas
ended up in an active train yard.
Any idea why he broke into a restricted zone late at night?
MADELINE: I don't know.
He walked me home,
and he said he was going to take the T back to his place.
I should've asked him to come in.
Well, look... we appreciate you guys talking to us.
I know it's been a tough couple of days.
"A tough couple of days"?
Two of our friends are dead.
Yeah. Don't you think that's just a little strange?
We're still looking into it,
but there's no signs of foul play.
Look, you kids have been through a lot.
My advice, go home.
We'll be in touch.
Okay.
PAXTON: None of this is making any sense.
PAIGE: Maybe we should stay together tonight, you know?
I think, just to be safe.
- Yeah, that's a good idea. - PAXTON: Guys...
what if these are murders?
Think about it. It's the only logical explanation.
Why are you looking at us like that?
Oh, I don't know, Haley.
Maybe it's because the killer's right here in this room.
You think one of us is killing our friends?
How can you even say that?
Yeah, seriously, you're being such a dick right now.
I'm a Taurus, right? Isn't being a dick, like, my thing?
You need to chill on the true crime podcasts.
Paige, do you know why they make so many murder podcasts?
Why?
Because there's tons of people always getting murdered.
And, news flash, the killer almost always knows the victim.
I mean, that does kind of make sense.
- Thank you. - In a really stupid way.
But, I mean, if it's not one of us, who else would it be?
I have an airtight alibi. Just in case anyone's wondering.
- We're not. - I was sleeping.
And I have a witness. My roommate... Todd.
Paxton, please stop talking.
Okay, no one killed anyone.
- These were all just accidents. - Two accidents in two days?
Maybe it's a coincidence.
HALEY: I don't believe in coincidence.
I believe in...
Fate.
PAXTON: Huh?
It's fate.
The readings.
I told Lucas to watch where he was heading
or he'd be led down the wrong track.
He was hit by a train.
GRANT AND PAXTON: Uh...
Yeah. I don't know. That's a stretch.
Capricorns are rule-breakers. He was in a restricted area.
He's an earth sign. They found him in the dirt.
Haley, I mean, you're reading into that.
I don't know, man.
I mean, didn't Haley say something
about Lucas coming into money?
And then he won that scratcher for $700.
Holy shit. You're right.
Okay, guys, let's just all take a second here--
Elise's reading. I said something about a ladder.
- They found her-- - We know how they found her.
Can we all just take a minute here?
'Cause this is sounding insane.
I mean, what are you trying to tell us?
You think our readings are coming true?
Yes, but in ways we never could have imagined.
I know it sounds crazy, but--
GRANT: Yeah, Haley, look, people do horoscopes and tarot
all the time and nothing bad happens.
I think you're trying to make sense of something
and there's no sense to make.
Maybe we should call our parents.
- What? - What, are you 12?
I'm telling you, we have to go back to the police.
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
Yeah, we should go back to the cops,
'cause they seemed super interested
- in helping us the first time. - Dude, this is bad.
This is really, really bad, okay?
So, if what you're saying is true,
we're next.
Okay, we need help now. We need some serious help,
an expert or someone out there who knows what's going on.
Haley, what the hell?
- What's your password? -"Password."
HALEY: Oh, my God. Seriously?
GRANT: Wait, really?
I'm still confused as to what you think is going on.
Like, guys, let's be rational here.
What are you doing? You can't just type in "horoscope."
- You have to be more specific. - I know how to use a browser.
Lots of articles by the same person.
MADELINE: Yeah.
HALEY: "Alma Astrom."
Click that one, "Dark Design." Yeah.
- What's it say? - Something about divination.
A bunch of people in Mexico died after a reading.
- Oh, God. - Cool, cool.
So I just looked her up. She's a total whack job.
Yeah, she's been discredited
and is a total joke in the astrology community.
So can we all just stop wasting our time on this?
- We should contact her. - Absolutely.
- 100%. - Did no one just hear me?
"Alma Astrom is well-versed in divination from her studies
of ancient civilizations, tarot and..."
-"Horoscopes." -"And is a practicing astrologer
with clear communication to the spirit world."
- We're gonna hit her up, right? - Yeah, there's a number.
- Straight to voicemail. - [GROANS]
- What do we do? - I don't know. There has to be--
GRANT: Um, no. What are you doing?
- HALEY: Road trip. - What do you mean, "road"--
- Paxton. Hey, dude. - You know what?
You dated someone who's into star signs and shit.
So? What the--
PAXTON: My butt's falling asleep.
GRANT: Yeah, 'cause we've been in the car for three hours.
HALEY: Well, this was the only address listed online.
PAXTON: Okay, guys, get this.
David Beckham and The Rock are both Taurus.
Or "Tauri"-- "Tauriases."
Wait, it also says here that--
Guys, do I have a hard time listening to others?
Yes. Dude, seriously, you've got to stop talking.
You've been doing this the whole drive.
Fine. Such a Leo.
I think we're here.
PAIGE: Does anyone else feel like this is a bad idea?
Yeah, this is definitely a bad idea.
Wanna guess how many bodies she's got buried out here?
PAXTON: Okay, dude. Smart killers
don't actually bury bodies, okay?
They chop the body parts up and put them in the walls.
GRANT: That's great.
Haley.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[SCREAMS]
What?
I saw someone in the window.
ALMA: Who's there?
HALEY: Ms. Astrom?
Hi. My friends and I found your website--
ALMA: Go away.
We really need your help.
Get off my property.
Our friends are dying because of their readings.
And if we don't do something, we're gonna die too.
Please.
Two of our friends are dead.
Exactly how their horoscopes predicted.
- Who did the readings? - I did.
- Using tarot? - Yeah.
Let me see the deck.
I don't have it. It's not mine.
Describe it to me.
It was old. The cards were hand-painted.
Were they in a box?
A wooden box with a zodiac wheel on it?
How do you know that?
Where's the deck now?
In a house in the Catskills.
If you know what's happening, you have to tell us.
[SIGHS]
Mexico City, 1951.
Six mysterious deaths in under 48 hours.
One connection between the victims.
They all got their horoscopes read at a wedding.
1969, half a million people arrive at Woodstock.
Three days later, eight people are dead.
All in freak accidents.
Last time they were seen alive,
they were reading each other's horoscopes.
London, 1988.
A group of friends get together for a weekend trip.
Only one of them walks away alive.
All of these readings were done
with cards from a wooden box
with a zodiac wheel on the front of it.
HALEY: I don't understand.
How do you know all of this?
Because I was the one in London who survived.
I've spent my whole life trying to understand why.
Why I lived and they didn't.
I did everyone's reading but my own.
By the time I realized it was the deck, it was long gone.
I tracked it to an antiquities dealer,
who sold it at an auction in Manhattan
almost 15 years ago.
I've been searching for it ever since,
so I could destroy it.
GRANT: Haley, come on.
What are we doing here, 'cause this is just--
Thousands of years ago,
horoscopes were the primary tool used by ancient civilizations
to navigate a dark and unpredictable world.
There are many ways to read horoscopes,
but combining horoscopes and tarot was, and still is,
the most powerful form of divination known to man.
She knew that.
Who?
The Astrologer.
Hungary, 1798.
A count and his wife were expecting their first child.
The Count, a practitioner of the occult,
had his own personal astrologer,
a peasant woman of incredible skill.
Using tarot to read horoscopes,
she could forecast the future with startling clarity.
One day,
she foresaw that The Count's wife and son
would not survive childbirth.
The Count ordered The Astrologer to change her prediction.
She tried,
but fate told her the same thing again and again.
The Death card can mean the end of something
or the start of something new.
But in this case,
it just meant death.
The Astrologer and her daughter were cast out.
Banished.
Soon after, the readings came to pass...
No!
...exactly as The Astrologer had predicted.
The Count accused The Astrologer of witchcraft.
[SCREAMS]
They killed her daughter.
An eye for an eye.
Legend has it,
The Astrologer did readings for The Count
and those of his closest circle.
She performed a dark ritual.
She killed herself.
She bound her soul to the cards.
Sealing their fate and hers.
A death curse.
[SCREAMS]
Not long after,
The Count and those closest to him died horrible deaths.
She got her revenge.
She had cursed the cards and inverted the zodiac.
Now, anyone who has their horoscope read using those cards
will have to face the dark side of fate.
The stars are working against you.
Just like they worked against my friends.
PAXTON: I'm-- I'm so sorry.
Are you saying that we're cursed?
Yes.
How do we stop this? What do we do?
What I should have done a long time ago.
Destroy the deck.
Then maybe you'll have a chance to change your fate.
GRANT: Going to a stranger's house
in the middle of nowhere.
That could've ended very badly.
You didn't even give her a chance.
Wait, you actually believed her?
God, why is it so easy for you to buy into this crap?
Why is it so easy for you not to?
I'm not gonna sit around while more of my friends get killed.
Okay, let's just relax, right?
And we'll find a place to chill and wait this all out.
How do you wait out a curse, Paxton?
I don't know. It's my first time being cursed,
so maybe get off my back about it.
MADELINE: Guys, maybe we should reverse engineer our readings.
If we figure out what's gonna happen, we could stop it.
Wow, that's actually not the worst idea.
Yeah.
PAXTON: I got The Fool card, right? That was mine.
And Haley said something about me and enclosed spaces.
And we're currently in a car, so I don't love that.
But then you also said something about ascending numbers.
Oh, shit, but that could mean, like,
speedometer or something, right?
HALEY: Pisces.
PAXTON: Wait, that's you, Madeline.
The Hanged Man indicates ultimate surrender,
which might be hard right now because Mercury's in retrograde,
so things are gonna feel off.
PAXTON: Uh, am I tripping, or is the car slowing down?
HALEY: Grant, what is happening?
I have no idea. I'm not doing it.
- What? - What the hell's going on?
- What are you doing? - I don't know. This is so--
[CAR STALLING]
PAXTON: What the hell?
Did the car just stop on its own?
I don't know, dude. It just-- Yeah, I guess.
HALEY: You may even find technology
failing for no reason.
PAXTON: Uh...
Don't panic. That'll soon be water under the bridge.
Oh, shit. We're on a bridge right now.
Oh, God. Am I next? Guys, I'm freaking out.
What do we do? What do we do?
- Grant! - I'm trying.
As a Pisces, when you sense danger,
you tend to run. Which makes sense.
Your zodiac symbol is two fish swimming away from each other.
But, this month, maybe fight that urge
and just try not to get hung up on things.
[DISTORTED] And just try not to get hung up on things.
And just try not to get hung up on things.
- No, no, no. - I gotta get outta here!
- Don't run! - HALEY: Wait!
- Don't run! - Stop, Madeline!
Hold on!
GRANT: Haley!
Madeline!
Wait!
I'm going after them.
[SCREECHING]
- Shit! - PAXTON: What was that?
[BEEPING RAPIDLY]
Did you guys hear that?
- [THUDS] - [GASPS]
[SCREECHING]
PAXTON: Shit. Shit. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
PAIGE: Where'd it go?
Oh, shit!
What the hell was that?
[SCREAMING]
[SCREECHING]
Haley. No. Haley!
Wait, wait, Grant!
Oh, shit. Let's go! Let's go!
HALEY: Madeline!
[SCREECHING]
Madeline! Stop!
Madeline, slow down!
[ROPE CREAKS]
[SCREAMING]
- Haley! - No!
- [SCREECHING] - [CRYING]
[MADELINE SCREAMING]
Madeline!
[SCREECHING]
- Haley. Hey. What? - Oh, my God.
- What? What? Hey. It's-- - Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God. - Where's Madeline? Hey. What?
- Where's-- - I don't know.
[ALL SCREAMING]
PAXTON: Oh, my God!
[SCREECHING]
- Run! Go! Go! - We gotta go!
- [SCREECHING] - [SQUELCHING]
What the hell?
You guys, we have to go back to the police!
What are they gonna do?
I mean, we're getting picked off by a--
- I mean, what even was that? - I don't know.
She was right there. I couldn't save her.
- It's not your fault. - PAXTON: Okay, okay, okay.
We need to go back to campus
and find a place for us to barricade in and isolate.
What? What if that thing finds us?
- PAXTON: Like it just did? - Shit.
Her horoscope, it came true.
- The Hanged Man. - What?
It looked like the card from The Astrologer's deck.
I pulled The Hanged Man for her final outcome.
Wait. So, what?
You're saying that the cards are coming to life now?
I don't know, okay?
But we have to do something!
Haley's right.
We gotta go back to that house. Destroy the deck.
I agree. We go back. We end this.
Oh, hell no!
Okay? Not after what I just saw. I'm out.
Wait, Paxton, we need to stick together.
Haley, are you crazy?
This is true crime 101.
You don't go back to where it all began.
I'm gonna go back to my room.
I'm gonna lock myself in there
and wait for this shit to blow over.
Wait, that's your plan?
Yeah. And you know what? It's way better than your plan.
Pisces run when they sense danger, okay?
That's what Madeline's horoscope said.
And yours said don't be bullheaded
or make rash decisions.
And that is exactly what you're doing right now.
PAXTON: You know what?
When you guys start thinking clearly,
you know where to find me.
- Wait, Paxton! - No. Paxton!
- Okay. - Come on. Let's go, okay?
Let's go!
PAIGE: How does an old tarot deck from Hungary
end up at a house in the Catskills?
GRANT: I don't know. I mean, maybe some guests did a reading
and left the deck 'cause they all died?
PAIGE: Yeah, or maybe the owners of the house
are some literal psychos who left the cards there on purpose.
HALEY: Alma said something about them being sold at an auction.
There were a lot of weird objects in that basement.
They must be collectors.
It's possible they didn't even know what the deck was.
Let's just hope the house is still available.
It is. 'Cause I just booked it.
[CAR LOCK CHIRPS]
[DISTORTED LAUGHTER]
- [RAPID FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] - [METAL RATTLING]
[BONES CRACKING]
[DISTORTED LAUGHTER]
Oh!
Shit.
[BEEPING]
Oh, shit.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[UPBEAT MUZAK PLAYING]
[BEEPS]
Wait. Ascending numbers.
♪ In the merry, merry month of May... ♪
And I'm boxed in.
Oh, my God.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Oh, shit!
[DISTORTED LAUGHTER]
Hell no.
Oh, shit.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Oh, my God. Okay. Okay.
[DISTORTED MUZAK PLAYING]
- Hello? Grant? - Paxton.
Dude, I really need help, okay?
My horoscope's coming true. I don't know what to do.
- I'm stuck in an elevator. - Wait, where are you?
- What? Hello? Hello? - [LINE DISCONNECTS]
- [ELEVATOR DINGS] - [GASPING]
[ELEVATOR POWERING DOWN]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
[DISTORTED LAUGHTER]
HALEY: [DISTORTED] You are a Taurus.
Don't be surprised if you're feeling trapped or boxed in.
Just remember, when one door closes,
another one opens.
When one door closes,
- another one opens. - [SCREAMS]
Another one opens.
- [SCREAMS] - [LAUGHS]
[WHISTLING]
[SCREAMS]
[WHIMPERING]
[GASPING]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
[WHISTLING, LAUGHING]
[OVER SPEAKERS] ♪ Everybody plays the fool sometime ♪
♪ There's no exception To the rule ♪
[SCREAMS]
[SCREECHES]
- Try him back. - I--
It just goes straight to voicemail.
I think something happened.
HALEY: Any one of us could be next.
We have to stick together.
GRANT: All right. Let's get this over with.
PAIGE: Okay, it says we need to have blessed objects
and holy water to perform a ritual.
GRANT: Okay, well, we obviously don't have any of those,
so let's just skip that part.
Okay, we could also store it in a curse box.
"A curse box"? What website is this?
I don't know, Grant. I just found it.
Okay, it says some curses
have an object that needs to be destroyed physically
and other curses have a connection
that needs to be severed.
Okay. How do we do that?
Well, each curse is different, so--
Okay, we don't have time for this.
We need to destroy these cards.
- GRANT: Okay... - Wait, wait, wait. Hang on.
According to this other website,
destruction by incineration is the best way
to remove an ancient curse from an object.
What the hell?
PAIGE: Why aren't they burning?
What do we do?
We need help.
- Happy birthday, Elise! - Happy birthday!
- Happy birthday, Elise. - Happy birthday, Elise.
- Happy birthday, Elise!
Finally. Finally, I can go to the club! Let's go!
- Happy birthday. - I miss everyone.
Me too.
Yeah.
I wish I never rented this stupid house.
I wish I never did those stupid readings.
[DOORBELL RINGS]
Thank you for coming.
We tried to destroy the cards.
It didn't work.
Something killed our friend. It looked like The Hanged Man.
The Astrologer bound her spirit to the deck.
She embodies the cards like a shape-shifter,
bringing the final outcome card to life.
That means The Magician's coming for me.
Mine was The Devil.
And-- And yours was...
Death.
Where's the deck now?
We need to turn what she created against her.
I'm going to separate
The Astrologer's spirit from the cards.
What is all that?
Each stone is associated with a different zodiac sign.
I've waited a long time for this.
I wish to speak to The Astrologer
who has bound herself to these cards.
I wish to speak to The Astrologer
who has bound herself to these cards.
I wish to speak--
What?
We're not alone.
Oh, my God. It's her.
We need to hurry.
You're bleeding.
I can't move.
- What? - Don't cross.
[CRACKS]
The Astrologer,
she's reading my horoscope.
I'm sorry.
[SCREAMS]
GRANT: Go! Go!
[SCREAMING]
Oh, my God!
HALEY: Paige?
Please.
- HALEY: Paige, help me, please. - Haley?
- Wait. - What?
Where's Paige?
[SCREECHING]
Oh, my God. Come on.
HALEY: Please.
Paige, help me.
Haley?
[HEAVY FOOTSTEPS]
Help!
HALEY: Paige.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[ROARING]
[THUDDING ON DOOR]
Haley, come on. Hurry, hurry.
Almost. Almost.
- [THUDDING] - [SCREECHING]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
HALEY: Paige?
Paige, help me.
Paige?
Paige, help me.
Paige?
Paige, [DISTORTED] help me.
Haley?
[SCREAMING]
HALEY: We have our Virgo.
The Magician's bag of tricks
[DISTORTED] will prevent you from seeing clearly.
Prevent you from seeing clearly.
[ON PLAYER] ♪ I saw you ♪
- ♪ Ooh ♪ - [GASPS]
♪ Ooh... ♪
[SCREAMS]
♪ Turning the pages Cut them in half ♪
♪ Turned until I saw you ♪
[APPLAUSE]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Magic words are never true ♪
♪ Never once till I saw you ♪
♪ Ooh... ♪
[SONG STOPS]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[CREAKING]
[GASPING]
♪ I saw you ♪
[METAL RATTLING]
[APPLAUSE]
[METAL SCRAPING]
[THUDS]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[FOOTSTEPS STOP]
[SCREAMS]
[GASPING]
[SCREAMING]
[APPLAUSE]
- [GASPING] - [CRANK TURNING]
PAIGE: Help, help, please.
Please, please.
Stop. Stop!
Please let me out. Please.
Stop. Stop.
Please. Please.
[WINDING STOPS]
Help, help, please. Please.
[RATTLING]
[SCREAMING]
No, no, no. Please. Help.
Please. Help.
Oh, my God.
Please, let me out!
Oh, no!
Please, please, let me out.
[SCREAMING]
[APPLAUSE]
[SOBBING]
GRANT: We're not getting out of here, are we?
HALEY: I don't know.
That night we first met...
I asked the stars if we should be together.
And the answer was, "No."
And then a few weeks ago, I did another reading,
hoping things had changed.
But it was the same.
Then maybe we were cursed from the start.
Cursed from the start.
Huh?
Whoever gets their horoscope read from the deck is cursed.
Yeah?
Well, The Astrologer.
If I read her horoscope,
maybe we can turn the curse back on her.
What? Haley, no.
No, I'm sorry, but you're not going
anywhere near those cards again.
Grant, we're dead already.
We have to try.
But I thought you said we couldn't change fate.
Well, what if we could?
What if we could?
All I know is that my mom never stopped fighting.
She never gave up hope.
And neither should we.
Well, Aquariuses are stubborn, so...
I guess it doesn't matter what I say.
You're gonna do whatever you want, right?
Wait,
have you been reading up on astrology?
[CHUCKLES]
Uh, I also learned
that Aquarius and Leo couples are pretty much unstoppable,
and they can overcome
just about anything.
[SCREAMS]
Grant!
[GROWLING]
[GASPS, YELPS]
[BONES CRUNCHING]
HALEY: [DISTORTED] Love’s gonna be the death of me.
[GROWLING]
[SOBBING]
[SCREAMING]
Shit.
[GASPING]
[SOBBING]
- [FLOORBOARDS CREAKING] - [DOORKNOB TURNING]
[DOOR CREAKING OPEN]
[GROWLING SOFTLY]
- [FOOTSTEPS THUDDING] - [FLOOR CREAKING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CREAKING]
- [GROWLS] - [SCREAMS]
[SCREAMS]
[GASPS]
[SCREAMS]
- [SCREECHES] - [GASPS]
[SCREECHES]
[RATTLING]
Hey, hey, are you okay?
- I thought you were dead. - I know. So did I.
Did you finish the reading?
No.
[BONES CRUNCHING]
- GRANT: Go. - No.
Go! Go.
HALEY: [DISTORTED] This month, you’re gonna need to
face your demons.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[SCREECHES]
All of your cards are reversed.
Your horoscope tells me you're in pain.
You're hurt, but you won't allow yourself to heal.
What happened to you was horrible.
[SNARLS]
I know what it's like to have someone taken from you.
And staying stuck in the past
isn't going to change the future.
[SCREECHES]
[HALEY GASPING]
- [GROWLING] - [SCREAMS]
I read your cards.
It's over.
In readings,
Death can mean the end of something
or the start of something new.
But in your case,
it just means death.
[WIND BLOWING]
[GRANT SCREAMING]
[SCREECHING]
Fate doesn't have to be a curse.
We can choose to let go.
[SCREECHING]
- [SCREECHES] - [GASPS]
[SCREECHING]
[SCREAMING]
[GASPING SOFTLY]
Oh, my--
It's okay. It's okay.
HALEY: You think anyone will believe us?
GRANT: Guess we'll find out.
How far is it to town?
Uh...
Couple more miles.
Feel like we've been walking forever.
Hey, car.
In my horoscope. "Dark road," right?
HALEY: Shit.
Wait.
Guys.
- Paxton? - Paxton?
Oh, thank God. Holy shit.
I thought you guys died.
- I thought you died. - What?
I drove here so fast.
I was so worried, but then I remembered you said
I was gonna come through for my friends
in an unexpected way and--
Wait. Where's Paige?
Come on. Let's get you guys out of here.
- Come on. - Yeah.
PAXTON: So, wait, wait, wait.
The deck went up in flames
and The Astrologer, like, vaporized?
HALEY: Yeah, pretty much.
PAXTON: Whoa.
HALEY: But it's not gonna bring our friends back.
But really, how do we know this is all over?
Haley broke the curse. It's definitely over.
Yeah.
GRANT: Guys, we did it.
We changed fate.
HALEY: Fuck fate.
♪ I can't believe I survived ♪
["ALIVE" BY HANNI EL KHATIB PLAYING]
- ♪ Spun around, flipped up-- ♪ - [RECORD SCRATCH, SONG STOPS]
Hold on a second. I'm lost.
How did you get out of the elevator again?
Like I just said, my catlike reflexes.
So you're saying you out-fooled The Fool?
Is that what happened?
Bruh, it's me we're talking about.
Of course I did.
Although it might've helped
that my roommate Todd showed up out of nowhere
and opened the elevator,
'cause that thing kind of just disappeared.
- [SCREAMS] - [ELEVATOR DINGS]
TODD: Uh, Paxton?
Hey, Todd. [SPLUTTERS] What's going on?
- [LAUGHING] - ♪ I can't believe I survived ♪
[SONG RESUMES]
♪ Spun around, flipped upside down, I'm alive ♪
♪ How can this be true? ♪
♪ I can't believe I survived ♪
♪ Spun around, flipped upside down, I'm alive ♪
♪ And all I lost was you ♪
♪ And I don't know if our love is bulletproof ♪
♪ But it feels like that when I'm next to you ♪
♪ Driving round with you is like ecstasy ♪
♪ But shattered glass was truly our destiny ♪
♪ I can't believe I survived ♪
♪ Spun around, flipped upside down, I'm alive ♪
♪ How can this be true? ♪
♪ I can't believe I survived ♪
♪ Spun around, flipped upside down, I'm alive ♪
♪ And all I lost was you ♪
♪ From the moment I came to ♪
♪ I could see clearly ♪
♪ Could have been so bad ♪
♪ I needed you near me ♪
♪ Spun around in slow motion ♪
♪ With ya ♪
♪ Spun around in slow motion ♪
♪ I can't believe I survived ♪
♪ Spun around, flipped upside down, I'm alive ♪
♪ And all I lost was you ♪
[SONG ENDS]
♪ I saw ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Falling from stages just for a laugh ♪
♪ What was I meant to do ♪
♪ Turning the pages Cut them in half ♪
♪ Turned ♪
♪ Until I saw ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Magic words are never true ♪
♪ Never once till I saw ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
[MUSIC FADES]