

Tom becomes obsessed with Samantha and begins probing members of the community about her disappearance. Tom denies knowing her to Debbie but admits to Maggie that she is the girl in his visions.

When Tom and Maggie confront her, Debbie angrily questions them about her sister Samantha, explaining that she had an intellectual disability, with the mental capacity of an eight-year-old and thus a child's tendency to trust strangers. Tom then sees strange flashes of red light that eventually leads him to the Metra station where Debbie is speaking with her mother about Jake. Meanwhile, Tom senses Jake is in danger and rushes home but finds him gone. Debbie gets upset and snatches Jake, running off with him in the night. While Tom and Maggie attend a high-school football game, Jake is overheard by his babysitter, Debbie, as he speaks with Samantha. Tom then begins experiencing visions of a violent scuffle involving a girl who he later learns is Samantha Kozac, a 17-year-old that disappeared from the neighborhood six months prior. After putting him under, Lisa plants a post-hypnotic suggestion in Tom urging him to "be more open-minded". At a party one evening, Tom challenges Maggie's sister, Lisa, who is a believer in paranormal activity, to hypnotize him. Tom Witzky is a phone lineman living in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie and his son Jake, who possesses the ability to commune with the dead.
