[Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] jacob [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello miss wu i'm melissa barnes um the arkham agency sent me i'm your new housekeeper [Music] um sorry i'm so early it's just it was such a long trip i wanted to make sure i got here on time i hope that's okay hi elisa i'm misspoon oh hello oh my aunt doesn't speak much english oh that's okay am i too early no not at all please come in welcome wow you have a gorgeous home t
his is incredible thank you i'm so glad that you could take this job on such short notice this big house needs all the help you can get i didn't think i was gonna get anyone since you were so far out it's perfect timing for me i need the work please follow me most people like to be closer to the city and their families i have no one not anymore anyway i'm sorry oh no it's okay well you come highly recommended please take a seat would you like some tea oh no thank you it's just my aunt and i in t
his big house sometimes the thing i should just move into a smaller one but then i enjoy it here and then no more space more to clean right yeah well i think i can handle it help yourself to anything in the kitchen we're usually early risers but you can work at your own pace as long as things get done i do ask for a few things if you live here please respect this place it was built on luck and good fortune i've been blessed with so i ask you please no boyfriends no guests no loud music drugs or
smoking if you need to make a call please ask first and here the list of duties everything i expect to be done is on there come let me show you around over this way [Music] how does this house not very old my father was a well-respected architect in china for many years he bought this land and built this place shortly before he died young this way there are only a few other houses around here most of summer homes and empty it's an hour drive to the nearest town so we go for supplies when we can
this is where i keep all the cleaning supplies and tools and that's the laundry area plenty of towels and racks if you can't find something it's probably down here okay i'm adding a storage room here it's unfinished so don't worry about it oh this brick reminds me of my father he was a mason i used to help him build things when i was little wow you're multi-talented maybe i should have you finish the job for me yeah maybe let's go this is your room this is the warmest room in the house gets plen
ty of sunlight during the day this will be just fine thanks this is one of the most peaceful places i've ever been i'm used to more city noises car alarms in the night dogs barking motorcycles there will be a nice change i'm a bit of a bookworm anyhow oh there are trails all over if you want to take a walk or just find a place to read thanks i'll have to do that why don't you get settled dinner surf just off the dark okay great i'll see you then thanks [Music] [Music] is a great cook i hope you
like it smells great go ahead here [Music] do you need a fork i think i got it up let me show you first grab it like this and the other one like this okay just pinch like that okay you're fast loner i like that it's really nice are you a catholic yeah all the way through school my family was very strict and you're not um well i'm not fanatical or anything but i still get a church when i can well you can but you don't want to go why are you still wearing it when you don't believe in it i don't kn
ow guilt if i don't i guess i see enough talking please go ahead eat [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] oh good you found it i thought you might need something like cuba deodorant yeah thank you [Music] do you know feng shui um no i don't it's a chinese art of placement we place things in certain relationships with nature so we can get success and good fortune what's this there's about one mirror that's for protection against what but energies for spirits the mirror deflects the inf
luence of negative energy and protects the occupants of the home so you keep the bad energy out and that good energy something like that come let's have some tea okay all this may seem strange to you but these beliefs have been my family for generations if you follow the rules nature will bless you do you have any other family here no it's just my aunt i still have some relatives in china i had a little brother once but we sent him away to school no he was sick so we sent him to all the good doc
tors but no one could help him so he eventually died oh i'm sorry it's okay [Music] [Music] leave a message please hey it's me i just wanted to see if you might pick up this time [Music] i really need to talk to you i've been so depressed all i can think about is you i know you haven't been yourself lately but i'm still here for you i can work this out please just when you get this call me i need to hear your voice [Music] know [Music] [Music] alyssa come come go ahead let's throw some in it's j
ust just paper what are you doing what is all this tonight is the second night of the chinese ghost month we must make offerings to the spirits to appease them each night are you trying to scare me oh no no chinese people believe a lot of things every year in a chinese calendar the seventh month is known as the chinese ghost month it's believed that during these 30 days the gates of hell are opened and the souls of the dead are allowed to roam the earth most spirits are content with just visitin
g their relatives but some those who didn't receive a proper burial or suicides seek someone to take their place in hell lost souls you mean why burn money and incense the sweet smell help the spirit to find food the more you burn the more prosperous and is a hell note we offer this to our deaf ancestors to make sure that they have good things in the afterlife i didn't realize that chinese had such beliefs not all chinese do but there are still people who believe in the ancient way in china is t
aken very seriously important business meetings are rescheduled weddings postponed no one swims streets are empty and no one goes out after driving well i should go inside now it's sleep i didn't scare you did i no good night good night this is [Music] [Music] silence [Music] hmm so no no that's what it goes that's bad luck i'm sorry i thought i was trapped be quiet [Music] foreign alisa are you okay [Music] elisa i'm going into town for a while and i'll be back later did you finish the laundry
yes it's dry now good you work so hard why don't you finish up out here and take the rest of the day to yourself thanks i have a book i've been wanting to get into you should take a walk i'll be back later okay bye [Music] [Music] hey what are you doing here uh just here reading that's all you trespassing oh this is private property here the property line is just over there didn't you see oh i wasn't aware i thought i was on the wu estate still and i must have just wandered a bit too far are you
a friend of hers i'm her new housekeeper oh so you're the new maid i prefer the term housekeeper but yes that crazy [ __ ] thinks she owns most of the mountain i'm not surprised you thought you're still on our land are you the neighbor yeah i live just on the path here listen i'm really sorry about this oh no worries it's just that every year during the same month her and that old lady are always burning things in the middle of the night last year the wind kicked up and blew some ashes this way
and burned down this part of the forest and almost my house so i have to keep a close eye on those two i see so what's your name alyssa nice to meet you alyssa blake what do you read a room of one's own by virginia woolf oh great author really what's your favorite book of hers oh there's too many to name i like them all yeah it's nice to meet a man who likes feminist authors touche well i should get going hey uh you can come back anytime you'd like long as you don't light any fires bye [Music]
[Music] so [Music] [Music] wow so pretty [Music] [Music] hello residents alyssa yes this is she it's tessa at the agency oh hi we left a few messages for you did you get them oh no sorry there's a nicole who's called here a few times asking for your work number i told her our policy against giving out clients numbers but i told her i would call you personally to relay the message thanks i'll call her okay no problem [Music] hello hey it's me hey i've been worried about you i haven't heard from y
ou in a while i left like 10 messages yeah i don't have that number anymore why not no one seems to call my cell except jacob so i tossed it he's still bothering you isn't he always well he's called my phone like a hundred times looking for you he just doesn't get it he'll get over you you always do are you okay [Music] i think i'm seeing things what do you mean it's nothing i'm sure you're just stressed you just need to relax yeah i know so how's your new job it's good it's different from anyth
ing i've done before but i like it it's real quiet and peaceful out here how's your new boss just kind of strange sometimes they have a lot of strange customs i've always seen them burning things in the front yard well as long as it's not your paycheck who cares right right hey i'm not really allowed to use this phone um [Music] i can still email you right well no um there's no internet or cable here oh well that sucks she's a bit old-fashioned i don't mind i mean i like not being so available a
ll the time well hang in there you need this job but once you get enough money saved up you can get your own place and get on with your life listen i gotta go i'll talk to you soon okay bye [Music] [Applause] where did you get that dress it was in my closet it was so beautiful i wanted to try it on it fits perfectly do you like it take it off now i have some other business to attend to yes ma'am [Music] [Music] do [Music] really [Music] is [Music] hello hello [Music] this wheel yeah what is it d
ear i finished cleaning all the tiles like you asked and all the rugs are washed thank you is there anything else no i think that's it why don't you go relax take a hot bath got a great job here is there something else i found this in my room who's mailing there's a name i haven't heard in a while did she used to live here yeah she was a housekeeper before you she lived here for a few years she's pretty yeah actually you remind me a lot of her because the girls one day she left why a man foreign
[Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] possible elisa alisa wake up are you okay what's going on let's go inside [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] shhh leave a message please it's me where are you i'm really worried about you i'm driving around all night looking for you hoping you're okay i don't even know where i'm at right now i can't take this i i really need to talk to you why aren't you answering my calls what did i do to you why are you doing this you know what you're a real [ __ ] [ __ ] i hat
e you you're probably out [ __ ] some other guy is that it you dump me and then you go [ __ ] somebody else's life up you're just a [ __ ] [ __ ] like my mother fine you can have your other boyfriend i don't care don't ever call me again it's over and i'm [ __ ] over you [Music] [ __ ] thank hey i'm sorry i said those things i'm just doing a little hurt you know i need you to call me when you get this okay i'll be here just call me back talk to you soon [Music] um [Applause] yes [Music] [Music]
[Applause] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] dw so who are you okay [ __ ] help [Music] oh my god i need to be what do you want from me oh [Music] [Music] [Music] are you okay i can't take this any longer they won't stop why can't they just leave me alone who won't then these people are ghosts [Music] during the chinese ghost month if you offend the ghost you have bad luck whole month it's very important to follow the rules what rules every custom has its rules during this month you must not whis
tle because that will only invite them into your house and if you're outside and you hear someone calling your name from behind you must never turn back but most important of all is that you have to respect the offerings and never disrupt the food or rash [Music] see no more two more album offerings and you'll be fine but remember if you leave them alone they will leave you alone okay if i leave them alone they'll leave me alone yes you'll be okay oh good morning did you sleep okay no not really
what's this this is a chinese god called zonquai he's a ghost catcher and all the ghosts are afraid of them i put him here to protect your room thanks i think blake hi what are you doing here well this is for you since you like to read and all the biology of horses by dr blake reezy is that you um yeah i signed it for you right there wow thanks i'm honored i'll give it a read as soon as i can wow this is a nice place you know i've lived up here a long time and never stepped foot here not very n
eighborly i suppose um i'm not supposed to have anyone inside and no one else is here right now it's one of miss wu's golden rules haven't you ever broken one well i like my job and i'd like to keep it please you probably should go don't worry i've seen her drive past my house a few minutes ago with the old lady would you like something to drink sure what do you have let's see martini double scotch water water's fine so you're an author then sometimes i just have the one book but i'm working on
another i mainly raise horses on my estate i'm a vet a vet wow how exciting are you married no so you're a single part-time rider a vet and you like to race horses on your estate are you gay good one this was the first house built up in these parts the wu family bought most of the land around here and then eventually sold it off she's definitely from old money how long have you lived here about my place about six years ago it took a while to get used to the isolation but i've grown to like it ho
w about you i'm sick of city life that bad huh that bad i found this in my room do you know her no i don't why why do you ask her name is mayling she was a housekeeper here before me i was just wondering dr rizzi what did i tell you about having people over without my permission well i i know but i should be going now um thanks for the water i'll show you out [Music] what are you doing here i was just coming to get to know your new girl she doesn't need any friends especially ones like you what'
s that supposed to mean you're by dr rizzi you know i was thinking that maybe [Music] so [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] thanks so alisa [Music] yes ma'am come over here all right [Music] do you like wine sure here this red wine is good for you what's the occasion let's take a seat i'm sorry i was short with you earlier i seem to be having a stretch of bad luck remember you asked me about mailing a few days ago yeah well the man she was involved with was blake really [Music] he told m
e he didn't know her well i'm not surprised he's a liar what happened are you sure you want to hear this i'm sure well she was a good girl very quiet but it gets lonely out here you know i didn't think anything of it at the beginning but then i started noticing her not coming home at night i saw them kissing in the woods a few times it's really none of my business but then she started forgetting about her chores and arguing with me over things i was hoping things would get better but then one ni
ght she ran to the house screaming and dripping with blood i was terrified something had happened to her she was beaten oh my god blake did it he was the last to see her that night but he denied it so we cleaned her up and her wounds healed she wouldn't tell us what happened to her that night and who did it she just accepted it as time went on blake stopped coming around and she became more and more depressed the life force seemed to have been sucked out of her where is she now i honestly don't
know she vanished one day we found a room empty and this was on her bed my dear miss wu my life has become empty i can't bear the loneliness i'm sorry but i must go meyling that was two months ago well didn't the police or her family try to find her well she ran away and didn't want to be found plus she was illegal in this country i think the police will be the last people she want to see that's so sad well lisa i don't mean to scare you but if i were you i would stay away from him okay sure [Mu
sic] [Music] [Music] hello hey nicole hey you're up late yeah i can't sleep what's wrong i don't know what's wrong with me lately i think i'm going crazy you getting lonely out there or what have you ever had a dream that was so real you couldn't tell if it was reality or not sometimes everybody does i keep seeing things people do you believe in spirits i see where this is going you think you're seeing ghosts right i don't know what to believe anymore miss wu seems to think so wait miss wu think
s you're seeing ghosts yeah she thinks i might have offended them and you believe her jesus alyssa it's no wonder you're saying things you're creeping yourself out yeah some of the stories she's told do you remember when we were little and the boys told us not to go into that dark tunnel under post and drive that was so creepy they told us there was this old hag that lived there when he eat us if we went near it and we believed those bastards never did go near it after that it's the same thing f
ear through suggestion don't let this woman scare you with her old wives tales yeah you're probably right thanks for the talk are you sure you're gonna be okay i'm fine i probably should go though okay bye bye [Music] jesus nicole what the hell are you doing here you [ __ ] psycho i call and call and call but no one ever answers me why is that nicole i'm feeling a little unappreciated i want to know where she is i told you she's not here you're lying [ __ ] don't [ __ ] with me where is she i kn
ow she's been here i can still smell the perfume and i can also smell a liar no one ever listens to me i need to know where she's at i don't want to hurt anyone just need to find her i have things to tell her we have things tell me don't make me do this kill me open your [ __ ] mouth and tell me now nicole [Music] sorry this is all your fault [Music] do [Music] [Music] hey alyssa this is a nice surprise if you came to see my horses i'm sorry to disappoint what brings you by you're a damn liar ex
cuse me what are you talking about you know what maylene remember now you don't understand where'd you get this what did you do to her i did nothing to her she went to visit her family at least that's what she told me you're a liar look i knew her all right we had a little romance and that was it she wanted me to take her in town to get away from miss wu so i did we had a little fun and then she stopped coming around feeding a woman isn't romance beating what are you talking about just stay away
from me alyssa wait yes 12 o'clock tomorrow she'll be just fine i'll have to check with her first but she's usually pretty flexible i'll tell her about the key please have a seat i'll be right with you that should be just fine this is wellington have a nice day bye-bye hello there how can i help you mmm you smell nice [Music] thanks i like these are they new yes actually so what brings you in today do you need a housekeeper actually yes i'm looking for one in particular i was hoping you tell me
where she's working well we're not allowed to give out our clients personal information getting a lot of trouble for that i understand i wouldn't want to get you in trouble so who is this girl you're looking for your girlfriend she's my sister i've been trying to call her cell phone for weeks but nothing worried about her my father's very ill and she needs to come back and be with the family oh hang on what'd you say her name was alyssa alyssa barnes [Music] here we go she's been assigned to th
e woo rest of us it's a bit of a hike from here i've been trying to fill that position for quite some time here's the address thank you darling and if you need any directions or anything at all my number's on the other side not a chance um so [Applause] uh [Music] stuff hey what the hell are you doing here um i i i was you were what what's in there it's he's a dead horse you're lying am i you always bury things at night why is that a crime stay away from me hey come back here [Music] [Music] [Mu
sic] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so oh [Music] uh elisa are you okay yeah yeah what's going on [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so oh are you feeling better i think so well i must have passed out again yeah we finally laying on the patio earlier you're fine but you were just lying there like you fell asleep i remember just seeing something and then listen tonight is the last name of the ghost month we should be happy because you know t
he king of hell he's gonna come out and gather all the spirits and take them back to hell you won't see them anymore tomorrow just remember to follow all the rules next year and they will bless you and you have good luck well i should get back to work it's okay if you want to rest i think i'd rather just get it done oh alisa there's a message for you really so with it on the counter [Music] [Music] uh [Music] it's [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so i had a little brother but we sent him away he
was sick so he eventually died she vanished one day we found a room empty and this was on her bed [Music] the handwriting is identical oh my god [Music] [Music] melissa [Music] silence [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] is [Music] alisa are you in there [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] going somewhere um i was going i thought we had an agreement we do but i i see you've been snooping around as a housekeeper you're awfully messy you know i've been thin
king it's not gonna work out you're fired [Applause] [Music] so um hey let me out of here what am i gonna do with you this will please let me out we know this free sentence i like you but if you would mind your own business instead of snooping in mine all the time you could have been great friends but then friends come and go why did you kill them chill why do you want to make me sound like a murderer i set them free you are a murderer someone like you could never understand my beliefs who are y
ou to judge me anyway you wear a cross around your neck but you have no faith only guilty minimum sunday rituals oh god you worship at your convenience could you do the things you've done my elders believe in young white light maurice child losing nerves i sell them at high prices for generations my bloodline made a fortune on this practice but eventually the surprise would be fortune turned back an offspring cursed my little brother born an infidel there's a woman of bad fortune so we isolated
him from the others as light went on blood continued running out i need to protect my family he had to be sent away sent away you mean murder i don't expect you to understand luck is not by chance there's structure to it rules and sacrifice that must be made my elders knew the rules and respected them fortune cannot be achieved without sacrifice you're a sick [ __ ] what's your turn i'll cut it out too nice last night and you know it's gonna close the gates of hell our offerings are no longer en
ough you offended ghost and now they are very angry hey come back here let me out of here oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so [Music] sure [Music] um [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] [Music] okay so what are you doing i'm telling me now i have money you know name your price it's all yours i like her cheer me upstairs naming is all yours [Music] neither did they come back [Music] i was gonna kill myself then i got to thinking being dead must be a very lonely existence i don't want to be a
lone not anymore [Music] no more lonely nights worrying about the future death has to be better than life think about it eternity a never-ending cycle of love you and me [Music] together forever jacob listen to me so [ __ ] crazy let me go it only hurt for a second then it'd all be over first you and me [Music] just a few more moments to this torture life then we'll be in heaven together let's see this moment is this your new boyfriend you know i'm not the jealous type but you're my girl [Music]
ugh [Music] yes [Music] [Music] so i don't wanna dance [Music] we're through let's get out of here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] it all seems like a dream i only wish i could wake up [Music] i've returned to the city but these memories follow me wherever i go [Music] a year ago today i thought my life had just begun but it has never been the same i will never understand the evils of this world but it comforts me to know it doesn't always go unpunished this aunt chen burned money in
instance to bribe the dead but justice has no price for a victim miss wu once told me if i follow the rules next year i will be blessed and have good luck tonight i burn these offerings not for luck or blessings but for meling tw and my best friend nicole i can only hope their souls do not wander and they find peace [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Musi
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