- [insects trilling]
- [dog barking in distance]
[vehicles droning]
[unsettling music playing]
[unsettling music continues]
[rumbling]
[suspenseful music plays]
- [shuddering breaths]
- [creaking, rumbling]
[creaking, rumbling]
[dust bunny growls]
[screaming loudly]
[rumbling, thudding]
There's something under my bed.
[breathing heavily]
Don't touch the floor.
It can't get you
if you don't touch the floor.
[breathing heavily]
[floor creaks]
There's nothing under your bed.
- Nothing but dust bunnies.
- I know.
He'll eat you.
Go to sleep, Aurora.
[door clacks]
Good night, Aurora.
[door creaks]
[Aurora breathing heavily]
[light bulb clicks]
[breathing heavily]
[car horns honking in distance]
[breathing heavily]
[rumbling, growling]
[tense music playing]
[growling]
[Aurora] I wish, I wish, I wish.
I wish, I wish.
I wish, I wish, I wish.
I wish, I wish, I wish...
[door opens]
- [footsteps tapping]
- [door closes]
[soft playful music playing]
[mouse squeaking]
[Mother] Aurora?
- Yeah?
- [Mother] Get up here.
[elevator clanks]
[door thuds]
[keys jangle]
[grunts softly]
- [paper rustles]
- [keys jangle]
[button buzzes]
[elevator rumbles, clanks]
- [elevator bell dings]
- [door creaks]
[buzzes]
[door thuds]
[elevator bell dings]
[door creaks, thuds]
[Mother] Come on.
[door clicks, creaks]
[car horns honking in distance]
[footsteps tapping]
[ladder thuds]
[fireworks exploding
in distance]
[fireworks exploding]
- [siren wailing]
- [mouse squeaking]
- [fireworks exploding]
- [mice squeaking]
[mysterious music playing]
[explosions continue]
- [indistinct shouting]
- [car horn honking]
[bicycle bell rings]
- [explosions continue]
- [shouting continues]
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
[upbeat drum music playing]
[fireworks whistling]
[fireworks exploding]
[fireworks whistling]
[sizzling, popping loudly]
[intense action music playing]
[grunting]
[parade dragon growling,
roaring]
[Intriguing Neighbor grunting]
[parade men grunt, yell]
[firecrackers whistling,
exploding]
[parade dragon growling]
[parade dragon roaring]
[clinks]
- [parade man grunts]
- [clinking]
[groans, thuds]
[parade men grunting]
[parade man grunts, groans]
[both grunting]
[parade dragon roars]
[grunts]
[parade dragon roars]
[all grunting]
- [Intriguing Neighbor grunts]
- [parade dragon roars]
[intense action music continues]
- [music stops]
- [fireworks exploding]
[panting]
[soft playful music playing]
[breathes deeply]
- [elevator whirring]
- [breathing heavily]
- [thuds]
- [elevator bell dings]
[button buzzes]
[whirring]
- [thuds]
- [blood drips]
- [elevator bell dings]
- [door opens]
[blood drips]
[elevator door closes]
[keys jangle]
[blood drips]
[breathes deeply]
[soft whimsical music playing]
[effort grunts]
[door creaks]
- [Mother] Aurora?
- [Father] Aurora!
[Mother]
What are you doing out there?
- How'd you get outside?
- Get in here. Are you okay?
Get in here.
[door creaks, thuds]
[door creaks, thuds]
- [muffled, indistinct chatter]
- [water dripping]
[tense music playing]
[dust bunny growling]
[Father] I don't like you
going to bed so upset, Aurora.
[echoing] I want you to think
about all your worries
and put them in my pocket.
Everything you're afraid of.
Everything you're afraid
will happen.
Put it all in my pocket
and I'll hold it for you
so you can sleep.
[insects trilling outside]
[Father] Hmm?
Are all your worries in there?
[shuddering breaths]
Oh. Boop.
[chuckles lightly]
Good night, Aurora.
Goodbye, Daddy.
You're too old to suck
your knuckle.
You're gonna get buck teeth.
Good night, Aurora.
Goodbye, Mommy.
- [light switch clicks]
- [door creaks]
[shuddering breaths]
[light switch clicks]
[dust bunny growling]
[breathing heavily]
[floorboard rumbling, thudding]
[breathing heavily]
[dust bunny growling]
[rumbling continues]
[dust bunny growling
intensifies]
[shuddering breaths]
[dust bunny growling]
[Mother] Aurora?
[Father] Aurora?
What is going on in there?
- [loud thud]
- [dust bunny growls]
- [door opens]
- [Father] Aurora?
- [dust bunny growling]
- [Father and Mother screaming]
[screaming continues, stops]
[soft music playing]
- [elevator bell dings]
- [elevator rattles]
[cars honking in distance]
[birds chirping]
[alarm blaring]
[alarm blaring continues]
- [thuds]
- [ottoman rolling]
Mom?
[alarm blaring]
Mom?
[munching]
[door clacks]
[dog pants]
[elevator bell dings]
[dark music playing]
[sighs deeply]
[dust bunny growling]
[door rumbling, creaking]
[door breathing deeply]
[shuddering breaths]
[keys turn, jangles]
[door creaks, thuds]
[sighs deeply]
[ottoman rolling]
[leaves fluttering]
[exhales sharply]
[grape thuds, rolls]
[breathing heavily]
[tense music playing]
[sighs]
[bed rattles, creaks]
[gasps]
[bed creaks]
[loud thud]
- [floorboard creaking]
- [shuddering breaths]
[tense music rising]
[switch clicks]
- [rumbling]
- [Aurora breathing heavily]
[monster growling, chewing]
- [loud thud]
- [bulb shatters]
[electricity buzzes, stops]
[monster growling, huffs]
[growling continues]
[growling continues]
[monster roaring]
[gasps, pants]
- [monster growls]
- [intense music swells]
[panting]
[monster growling]
[rumbling intensifies]
[monster roaring]
[monster sniffing]
[shuddering breaths]
[growling]
[bed creaks]
[breathing heavily]
[monster growling]
[monster roaring]
[monster sniffing]
[growling, roaring continues]
[floorboard rumbling]
[breathing heavily]
[dark whimsical music plays]
[birds chirping]
[bed creaks]
[exhales softly]
[soft whimsical music playing]
[tense musical sting]
[upbeat music begins]
Our Father,
who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Our Father,
who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day
our daily bread
Forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive them
who trespass against us
Forgive us
our trespasses, oh
Our Father,
who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
On earth
as it is in heaven...
[song ends]
- [elevator bell dings]
- [whirring]
[coins clinking]
- [thuds]
- [elevator bell dings]
[coins clinking]
[elevator rattles, whirs]
[object clunks]
[footsteps receding]
[keys jangle]
[door creaks, thuds]
- [coins clink]
- [paper bills rustle]
[chicken lamp squeaks]
- [switch clicks]
- [electricity buzzes]
[knock on door]
[footsteps tapping]
Is that enough money?
For what?
To procure your services.
I haven't counted it.
How do you know
the word "procure"?
Word-a-day calendar.
- [elevator bell dings]
- [coins clink]
- [switch clicks]
- [electricity buzzes]
- [coins clinking]
- [switch clicking]
- [switch clicks]
- [electricity buzzes]
What's your name?
Or is "A" your name?
Aurora. What's your name?
[clears throat]
I've got 327 dollars and...
42 cents here, Aurora.
[breathes deeply]
Where'd you get all this money?
I robbed a church.
Is that enough
to k*ll a monster?
What makes you think
I k*ll monsters?
I saw you k*ll one.
What did you see?
[switch clicks]
[Aurora] In Chinatown.
- [switch clicks]
- [electricity buzzes]
Behind a dim sum restaurant.
[switch clicks]
I saw a dragon.
- [switch clicks]
- [electricity buzzes]
And you k*lled it.
You saw me k*ll a dragon?
How did I k*ll it, Aurora?
You slid under its belly...
- [switch clicks]
- ...gut it like a fish.
- [switch clicks]
- And then you cut off its head.
You got some imagination.
I got two eyes.
[gulps]
Monsters aren't real.
[Aurora] Yes, they are.
Don't pretend.
Grown-ups don't pretend.
Grown-ups pretend
not to be afraid.
But they are. All the time.
That's mostly true.
- Erora...
- Aurora.
Erora.
- Aurora.
- Little girl...
have you told your parents
I k*ll monsters?
[switch clicks]
- [switch clicks]
- Stop it.
[switch clicks]
What do your parents think
about monsters?
Do they believe in them?
They do now.
Now they do?
They didn't before,
but now they do.
It's hard not to believe
in something
when it's eating you.
Ate you.
A monster ate your parents?
Yep.
Like the one
you think you saw me
slide under its belly
and gut like a fish?
Yeah.
And this monster lives
under your bed?
Yes.
[paper rustles]
Show me.
[soft music playing]
[breathes deeply]
[clacks]
[door creaks, thuds]
[exhales sharply]
Did you see it eat your parents?
I was under my blanket.
You just heard them
getting eaten?
I just...
heard them getting got.
[ottoman rolling]
That's my mom and dad's room.
I think they tried
to hide in there.
There's no blood.
Generally, when something
is eaten, there's blood.
It ate them whole.
[Intriguing Neighbor sighs]
[sighs deeply]
Did your mom or dad have a g*n?
Somebody had a g*n.
You hear a g*n go off?
Told you so.
This all looks like
it made some noise.
Your parents
didn't call for help?
You have neighbors.
No one heard this?
It eats everything.
It even eats your screams.
Will it eat your "I told you so"
when it eats me?
I'll tell you
"I told you so" now,
and when you get eaten,
you'll know
I already told you so.
[tense music playing]
[sighs]
Why didn't you go to the police?
Why aren't you going
to the police now?
I don't know
what I would tell them.
See?
[inhales]
I could tell them, uh,
there's a little girl
who's been abandoned
by her parents.
You can tell them that.
After you k*ll it.
[Aurora munching]
I'm trying to understand this
the way you understand this,
little girl. [exhales]
The monster you think
you saw me k*ll...
I know, I saw you k*ll it.
Your monster, it's like that?
That's why I hired you.
[coins clink]
I haven't agreed to be hired.
I don't know what you saw
behind that dim sum restaurant
but I didn't k*ll any monsters.
I didn't k*ll anything.
[Intriguing Neighbor munches]
That's really why you won't go
to the police.
k*lling things
is against the law.
Have you k*lled a lot of things?
You seem like you've k*lled
a lot of things.
[exhales deeply]
In my experience,
the sort of monster
that can eat a person whole
and not spill a drop
does not do so randomly.
Are you done pretending now?
I'm seeing things
how you see things.
[breathes deeply]
Why would a monster
eat your family?
They touched the floor.
If your monster's like mine,
it doesn't eat people
for walking on the floor.
Why did your monster
want to eat you?
[breathes deeply]
Because I k*ll monsters.
Hmm.
Yeah. Uh, go home, little girl.
There's something under my bed
that wants to eat me.
Then don't touch the floor.
[dramatic violin music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[chuckles]
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
[Laverne sighs]
Didn't think I'd see you again.
I'd hug you, but as you know,
I really don't put effort
into such things.
- You ordered a sandwich?
- I did.
You want half?
[bell dings]
[inhales deeply]
I'm trying to unclench my jaw.
It's in a perpetual
state of clench,
so I have to...
uh, release it... [whiffs]
so it doesn't pop out
of my skull
when I take a bite of food.
[inhales]
Mmm.
Mmm.
Mmm, mm.
Mm, mm, mm.
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
Mm.
Either of these familiar?
Should they be?
They're my neighbors.
Professionally disappeared.
You've actually met
your neighbors?
I'm aware of them.
Daughter was home
when it happened.
She see it?
She heard it.
Thought it was a monster
under her bed.
You're looking for a monster?
The monster's looking for me.
And I think that monster
got the wrong apartment.
Monster's lucky
it got the wrong apartment.
Must have broken in
and realized their mistake.
Had to k*ll the parents
who'd seen them.
That girl didn't see anything.
They let her live.
I'll take a look at these.
[sighs]
How do you know the little girl
didn't see anything?
She told me
she didn't see anything.
She saw you.
There's a little girl
who knows your face.
She know what you do?
She doesn't know anything.
She saw monsters.
She believes in monsters.
You're a monster.
She believe in you?
I'm not gonna k*ll
a little girl.
Because you already k*lled
her parents?
You did not k*ll
that girl's parents.
Ah, I almost certainly,
if not at least arguably, did.
[sighs]
A cheetah kills a baboon.
Discovers its baby
is still clinging onto dead mom.
What's the cheetah do?
Doesn't eat the baby.
Even a cheetah knows
it's an as*h*le thing
to orphan a child.
Yeah, I saw that Nat Geo.
Baby died anyway.
Cheetah moved on.
So should you.
[shuddering breaths]
[floorboard creaking]
[monster growling]
- [elevator bell dings]
- [clacks]
- [breathing heavily]
- [monster growling]
[keys jangle]
[clanking]
[clacking]
[door creaks]
[ottoman rolling]
Get off the floor!
A monster's coming.
Get under your bed.
There's a monster under my bed.
Get in the closet then.
[door slams]
[elevator bell dings]
[elevator rattles]
[switch clicks]
[effort grunts]
[clinks, thuds]
[tense music plays]
[door creaks]
[tense music continues]
- [footsteps tap]
- [floorboard creaks]
[both grunting]
- [impact grunts]
- [groans, pants]
[knife clinks]
[both grunting]
[Formidable Man groans]
[groans]
[shuddering breaths]
[tense music continues]
- [g*nshots continue]
- [grunting]
- [thuds]
- [groans]
[impact grunts]
[muffled grunting]
- [shuddering breaths]
- [men grunting continues]
[labored grunting]
- [effort grunts]
- [groans]
[both panting]
[both grunting]
- [panting]
- [labored grunting]
[impact grunting]
[panting]
[both grunting]
[labored grunting]
- [effort grunts]
- [stifled groans]
[tense music rising]
[music fades]
[Aurora breathing heavily]
[footsteps approaching]
[breathing heavily]
- [creaking]
- [breathing heavily]
[intense music swells]
[monster growls]
- [Formidable Woman screaming]
- [monster roaring]
- [screaming continues]
- [monster roaring]
[breathes deeply]
[exhales]
Was there someone in here?
[breathing heavily]
They get out the fire escape?
She got got.
[breathes deeply]
Your monster?
[breathes deeply]
[stomps feet]
I'm touching the floor.
Where's your monster now?
Why's it not here?
It's eating.
- [shuddering breaths]
- [breathes deeply]
[Intriguing Neighbor] Come here.
[somber music plays]
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
If there was someone
in your room
and they got away,
they will be back.
They didn't get away.
Stay there.
[mysterious music plays]
[exhales deeply]
[grunts softly]
[grunts softly]
[creaks]
[tense music swells]
[Intriguing Neighbor grunts]
[whimsical music playing]
What are you doing?
[body thuds]
[pants]
[breathes deeply]
I'm draining his fluids
so when I cut him into pieces,
it won't be messy.
Why do you have to cut him
into pieces?
[sighs] I have to get rid
of the body.
Why don't you just
put it in my room?
Let the monster eat him.
[breathes deeply]
Have you ever been to a butcher?
Yes.
What I need to do is like
what they do with pigs and cows
at the butcher,
but with a person.
Only we're trying to get him in
a suitcase, not our stomachs.
- I love pigs.
- Ah, a cow, then.
So anything you're comfortable
with being done to a cow,
you should be fine with me
doing to this guy.
- Can I watch?
- No.
[loud thud]
[sighs]
- [playful music playing]
- [metal clanking, scraping]
[object clacking]
[object clinking]
You can't tell
he's people anymore.
You can help me
wrap up the pieces,
if you want.
[Aurora chuckles lightly]
Who was he?
A k*ller.
Did he come to k*ll the monster?
Oh, you have to stop
talking about monsters.
A monster
didn't eat your parents.
Your parents were k*lled.
Did someone cut them
into pieces?
[Intriguing Neighbor sighs]
[clears throat]
He came to k*ll me.
Or you.
He came to k*ll one of us.
Me, for my reasons.
You, for my mistake.
Why would he wanna k*ll me?
There was no monster
in Chinatown.
Those were men.
A monster
didn't k*ll your parents.
Those were men
who wanted to k*ll me
because of monsters I've k*lled.
Monsters who were men.
You don't have to feel bad
because a monster
- ate my parents.
- Stop saying that.
Just 'cause you don't want it
to be that way
doesn't mean
it's not gonna be that way.
'Cause that's the way it is.
A monster ate my parents.
A monster will always eat
my parents,
unless you k*ll it.
I'd love to believe there was
a monster under your bed,
- little girl.
- [object clacks]
Happiest I've ever been
was believing
- in something impossible.
- You're gonna be very happy.
[knock on door]
[tense music plays]
[door creaks]
Hi.
I'm Brenda Bautista
with Child and Family Services.
- [ottoman rolls]
- Are you Aurora's...
Yes.
Hello, Aurora.
Hi.
We had an appointment.
We did?
If you'd like,
I can give you a few minutes
to get yourself together.
This isn't coming together
anytime soon.
We'll have to reschedule.
It's challenging being a parent.
[Brenda] Hmm. Particularly
being a foster parent.
Yeah.
Particularly...
being a foster parent.
[ottoman rolls]
We're the first...
family to come into her life
since what happened.
And trust isn't easy
in the best of circumstances.
[clears throat]
Third family.
You're her third foster family.
They did go over that
with you, right?
- And you do know that?
- Yes. Of course.
Of course, I'm-I'm speaking
in that we're the first family
to come into her life
since the last family did so.
And I've always been--
[coughs] I'm sorry.
I'm under the weather.
We are all under
the weather here.
You shouldn't come any closer,
or inside.
I was hoping I could use
your restroom.
- No.
- [door creaks]
I should tell you
and I hate to tell you this
because I know how it sounds,
but if you fail to keep
your appointment,
it does go
on your permanent record.
Brenda, you know
how that sounds,
- and you still said it anyway.
- I know. It's not a threat.
I know. Let's reschedule.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
- Bye-bye.
- [shakes hands]
- You should wash your hand.
- [door thuds]
Hmm.
That's not your social worker.
- [elevator bell dings]
- [button buzzes]
That's not her foster father.
[thuds]
- [playful music continues]
- [indistinct chatter]
So, this is your third family.
How many of your families
has this monster eaten?
All of them.
All of them?
And no one believes you?
Nope.
[Intriguing Neighbor
breathes deeply]
Maybe we approach this
scientifically.
Children are scientists.
You don't play, you experiment.
Gather data. Analyze.
But your heads are so full
of sh*t and Santa Claus,
you don't know what's real.
[inhales]
[thuds]
- I know what's real.
- No.
You think you know.
You think you know.
[water running]
[breathes deeply]
Where did your monster
come from?
I wished for it.
I wished on a sh**ting star,
like I wished for you
to k*ll it.
Wishing isn't scientifically
sound, evidence-based thinking,
little girl.
[shower head turns off, thuds]
[exhales deeply]
Why did you wish for it?
I wanted it to eat my parents.
Why did you want a monster
to eat your parents?
They weren't very nice to me.
You're mad at Mom and Dad.
You wished they'd go away
so you wished a wish
you wish you hadn't wished.
All your parents
weren't very nice?
Some of them were nice.
Then why did the monster
eat them?
It was trying to eat me.
[breathes deeply]
What have you done, hmm?
Have you seen something
you shouldn't have seen?
What makes you so tasty, Erora?
- Aurora.
- Arora.
- Aurora.
- Erora.
- Aurora.
- Yes. Aurora.
I'm wicked.
Who said you were wicked?
It knows I'm wicked.
It keeps eating my family
'cause I don't deserve a family.
I've met wicked.
Trust me, you're not wicked.
Where's your monster now?
[grunts softly]
[grunts]
It sleeps during the day.
Under your bed?
Under the floor under my bed.
It mostly comes out at night
and tries to eat me.
It won't stop
until it does eat me.
So you should k*ll it
before it can do that.
Did you try wishing it away?
It didn't work, obviously.
- [grunting softly]
- [bed creaking]
Say I do k*ll your monster.
Then what? Where do you go?
There are places where children
in your position usually go.
If they catch me.
You don't have any other family?
No.
Do you?
No one who'd miss you
if you were gone?
No.
They were all eaten.
[somber music playing]
Anybody who'd miss you
if you were gone?
I'd miss you if you were gone.
[thuds, creaks]
[door clacks]
- What's in the suitcase?
- "Who's in the suitcase?"
- Is it the little one?
- That's the big one.
This is the little one.
He k*lled her.
You k*lled him.
[suitcase thuds]
Return to sender.
I sent two.
I only saw the one
you sent to k*ll me.
Lapsang souchong.
You want some?
Yes, please.
I didn't send anybody
to k*ll you.
Now, I'm asking you
to be honest.
Who was trying to k*ll whom
and is there an argument
to be made for self-defense?
Because nobody
was supposed to k*ll you.
I may have thrown
the first... what have you.
Mmm. [inhales]
Well, I really was just
trying to help.
I saw the gesture
as a professional courtesy. Mm.
I thought I was being
magnanimous.
Sending someone
to k*ll a little girl?
Sending someone
to k*ll a witness
who knows your face
and knows what you do.
If you wanna judge me
on the ease
with which I can k*ll a child,
have at it.
I am eating
a suckling pig tea sandwich.
I was navigating
that little girl.
You seem triggered.
That little girl
clearly triggered you
with the cheetahs
and the baboons.
At least this way,
the deed would be done
and you could suppress
or wallow however you chose,
but it would be one less thing
for you to worry about.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Genuinely, this time.
That first one
was mostly sarcasm.
[inhales sharply]
What happened
to the second package I sent?
[Intriguing Neighbor sips]
Did you k*ll her too?
What am I gonna tell
these people's families?
I never saw the second package.
Monster under the bed get her?
Yeah, well... [chuckles]
Yeah. Yeah.
No one has heard of the parents.
No one knows anything
about them
beyond the most tedious
of details.
Wasn't even their daughter.
Fostering to adopt.
What happened
to her birth parents?
They abandoned her.
Packed up and left her behind.
Do you see a pattern?
I see a pattern.
I think we know
who the real monster was.
I k*ll monsters.
No one followed you home.
No one knows where you live.
Although, I would move anyway.
And I found out
who's trying to k*ll you.
Who?
- Everybody.
- [grunts softly]
Everybody's trying to k*ll you.
It's remarkable.
And in your line of work,
inevitable.
So, congratulations.
And condolences.
[door opens, creaks]
[footsteps tapping]
[jubilant music playing]
Is that the baby baboon?
Who's in the little suitcase?
We couldn't get him all in
in one bag.
- "We"?
- [footsteps approach]
I told you
to wait for me at home.
You weren't coming home.
You were gonna leave me.
That does seem to happen
to her a lot.
Aurora, come over here.
- [taps chair]
- Sit next to me.
I don't know you.
You were gonna leave me.
I never told you I'd stay.
I hired you. You took my money.
Aurora, do you know
that there are cultures
who won't even acknowledge
someone your age is a person?
Delayed personhood,
they call it.
You're just a little body
with a soul
slowly growing inside of it,
eventually becoming a person,
but not a person yet.
So you should let
the real persons talk.
- I am--
- Nope. Shut your mouth.
You want a sandwich?
She doesn't eat pork.
You, you are obviously
going through something here.
[chuckles] I can see that.
Some childhood trauma.
Stop that!
This little girl
is not little you,
and helping her
will not fix you.
I know they say
that you can't truly work
through childhood trauma
without having a child
of your own.
Implying childless people
are broken,
a point of view
I don't subscribe to.
- I'm gonna stop you there.
- There is no stopping
this train. It's going
all the way to the station.
Hired you to do what?
[exhales]
To k*ll the monster
under her bed.
The monster that ate
her foster parents?
And her birth parents.
And, well, all her parents.
And the lady with a g*n
who crawled through
my bedroom window.
- I never saw her.
- I saw her.
I saw her get eaten.
I don't know
what to do with this.
You see?
Who k*lled the lady with a g*n
who crawled through
your bedroom window?
- I never saw her.
- The monster under my bed.
You're not the only one
with a monster
under her bed, Aurora.
Everybody, the everybody
that's trying to k*ll you,
they're never going to stop
trying to k*ll you
until they've k*lled you
or you've been k*lled.
You can never sleep
in the same bed twice.
[Aurora] He can sleep in my bed.
Let the monster eat them.
[sighs]
Leave now.
Get out of town.
Don't go home.
Don't get dim sum.
Just get out.
Get out of all of it.
[playful music plays]
[soft traditional music playing]
[indistinct background chatter]
[waiter] Hello. Welcome back.
The usual?
Yes, please.
That lady said you got problems.
[clears throat, clicks tongue]
At the moment,
I have two problems.
So we're clear,
you're one of them.
[tense musical sting]
You could just be my dad.
You'd be a good dad.
I don't wanna be
one of your dads, Erora.
All your dads died.
Aurora.
[breathes deeply]
I remember thinking my mother
was the most beautiful woman
in the world.
Then one day I took a good look
and realized,
she's not, really.
But my brain
wanted me to think so.
Isn't that silly?
[inhales deeply]
So, whatever you think
you want or need from me
isn't really what you think,
it's what your brain
wants you to think.
And whatever I think I want
or need from you...
It's just what your brain
wants you to think?
Exactly.
We don't really know each other.
[sighs]
- I wished for you.
- Yes, you did that.
But you didn't actually control
any of that happening.
- Yes, I did.
- No. No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did.
- No, you didn't.
- I did.
- Nope.
[sighs]
- I did.
- Well, you didn't, though.
- I--
- [clears throat]
[tense traditional music plays]
May I sit down?
I wouldn't if I were you.
- [tense musical note]
- Is she your daughter?
- Yes.
- No.
[exhales]
I hate to question
your parenting--
Then don't.
[breathes deeply]
[waiter] Shrimp shumai.
Mushroom dumpling.
Black sesame dragon cookie.
Purse dumpling. Soup dumpling.
Rabbit-shape dumpling
with shrimp.
[cart rolling]
I assume you know why I'm here.
- I assume I'm why you're here.
- You are.
She is not.
[gulps] You can just ignore her.
Maybe we could talk outside.
We just got our food.
Her being here won't stop them.
They will go right through her.
No one knows I've seen you yet.
[whispers]
Shouldn't you tell them?
Tell you what. [clears throat]
While she's having dessert,
I'll join you outside.
We'll discuss
what we need to discuss.
How we need to discuss it.
How about that?
[Inconspicuous Man
inhales deeply]
[upbeat music playing]
Can we get to-go boxes,
please?
[indistinct chatter]
[upbeat music continues]
You're gonna let
the monster get him?
A monster.
[music ends]
- [doorbell rings]
- [doorknob turns]
[door creaks]
Hi, Aurora. Can I come in?
My dad's in the living room.
[intense music begins]
[footsteps tapping loudly]
Thanks for coming back so soon.
I apologize for this morning.
I hope it all makes sense
once I explain.
- You weren't under the weather.
- No.
Don't touch the floor.
[gasps]
Is it lava?
No, it's not lava.
A monster will eat you
if you touch the floor.
- [Brenda] Oh!
- [footsteps tap]
I'll consider myself warned.
You'd be the first.
- [Intriguing Neighbor] Erora.
- Aurora.
- [Intriguing Neighbor] Aurora.
- Aurora.
Exactly what I said.
Probably shouldn't indulge her.
She thinks a monster
ate her entire family.
A monster did eat
my entire family.
Go and tuck yourself in.
Just like I showed you.
[floorboard rumbling, creaking]
[monster growling]
- [rumbling continues]
- [growling continues]
[breathing heavily]
[sighing]
I have so many thoughts.
Just grab one thought
out of the air.
Grab it as it passes
over your head
and say it out loud.
- Grab it and say it.
- [inhales] We're all gonna die.
That's a big thought.
I don't believe
that little girl's family
abandoned her.
Not her first family.
Not her second.
Certainly not those last people.
[inhales deeply]
I-I don't think
they all just left.
I think...
I think they're all dead.
- Two families?
- Three.
I'm not this girl's father.
I live across the hall, 5B.
- Why did you lie?
- Well, I didn't lie.
That little girl lied.
She's very good at lying.
I just met her, and she told me
a monster ate her parents
and then you rang the bell.
I believe she believes
there is a monster.
I don't think
she's lying about that.
She's just delusional.
[breathes deeply]
[inhales] But there is something
doing something
and you need to do something
about that.
If there is someone
you can call...
- [switch clicks]
- ...you should tell them that
circumstances are desperate
and immediate.
You should tell them
that presently, like, now.
Because we are in danger
right now.
You, me,
and that sweet little girl.
- [switch clicks]
- Why do you think
- we're in danger?
- [switch clicking]
Why did you turn off the lights?
[pants] Come here.
They followed her home.
They are watching the building.
Her foster parents are missing.
It all stinks like fish.
Hey, it's Bautista.
Anything going on out there?
[man] Yeah.
Something's going on out here.
[tense music playing]
- You should get up here.
- [man] Copy that.
I think she saw her parents
getting got
and now it has her
seeing monsters.
And those,
those are the monsters.
She could probably explain this
better in her own words
because it happened to her
and it's got nothing to do
with me. [inhales deeply]
And I'm guessing...
meanwhile, also completely
- unrelated to me...
- [doorbell rings]
You gonna get that?
I'm debating.
- You want me to get it?
- No.
I'll get it.
Get off the floor!
[whispers] Get back
under your special blanket.
[effort grunts]
[sighs]
Why are you here?
- Why are you here?
- [door thuds]
There are at least
a half-dozen people downstairs
whose purpose this evening
is to turn you into a carcass.
Yeah, well...
And you led them here,
like the Pied Piper.
Did you have a flute?
Not a literal flute.
This is an ambush.
I know. I'm doing the ambushing.
I'm the bushwhacker.
And, uh, what they're doing
is less ambush-y
and more of a siege.
Yeah, that kid
ain't gonna survive a siege.
She's fine.
I've got the FBI inside
and they're calling in
reinforcements.
I'm just the concerned neighbor,
5B.
It's perfect.
[both laughing]
- Mmm. Mm-hmm.
- [continues laughing]
Oh, my God. [laughs]
I've put a lot of thought
into this.
Really? "A lot of thought"?
How are you quantifying
a lot of thought?
By number or quality?
Because I've heard
very few thoughts
- and none of them good.
- [breathes deeply]
I'm on the verge
if not over the verge,
of convincing them
that disappeared families
are the work of professionals.
So this could tie up
very nicely for me. [inhales]
I'm getting Peter to k*ll Paul.
I don't know
how to be any clearer
than I've already been.
You can't save this little girl.
She's seen your face.
She's seen my face.
She has to die.
[chuckling] All you can do
is save yourself.
[button buzzes]
[elevator doorbell dings]
I've done my part.
[button buzzes]
[elevator whirs]
[door thuds]
[breathes deeply]
Fellow concerned neighbor.
[soft music plays]
[breathes deeply]
I'm not with Child
and Family Services.
[clinks]
- Hmm.
- I'm with the FBI.
We've been investigating
the disappearance
of Aurora's family.
- Families.
- [sighing]
What is happening
in this poor girl's life
that the FBI is investigating?
Normally, I wouldn't divulge
what we know
but being that
we don't know anything,
I might as well share.
We have one clue.
Something strange
at the first house.
How strange?
An open bottle
of thumb-sucking deterrent
on Aurora's nightstand.
Someone was applying it
to her finger
and they vanished
along with the applicator brush,
which was found
under the floorboards
under her bed.
How it got there, no one knows.
Maybe a monster spit it out.
It is a deterrent.
- [loud thud]
- [object clatters]
[door clacks, creaks]
[floorboard rumbling]
I accidentally touched
the floor.
Don't touch the floor.
It'll eat you.
- [rumbling continues]
- Get off the floor!
Get off the floor!
Get off the floor!
- Get off the floor!
- [grunts]
- Get off the floor!
- [grunts]
- Okay, okay.
- Get off the floor!
- [monster growls]
- [screams]
- Jesus!
- [panting]
She really believes in it.
Yeah.
I can see that.
[Aurora breathing heavily]
[window thuds, creaks]
Get under your special covers.
Don't come out again
until I tell you so.
[floorboard rumbles]
- [monster growls]
- Get off the floor!
[exhales]
That's not funny.
[breathing heavily]
[rumbling]
[monster growling]
[Aurora] It's coming to get you!
Shut up!
[rumbling continues]
[Brenda] Where are you?
[agent] We're inside.
Almost there.
[switch clicks]
- [knock on door]
- Is that you?
[tense music playing]
[shotgun clicks]
[impact grunts]
[monster roars]
[impact grunts]
[g*ns clack]
[body thuds]
[intense music playing]
[g*nshots continue]
[b*llet whooshes, hits]
[huffs air, grunts]
[huffing air] Who...
shot me?
[g*nshots resume]
[g*nf*re continues]
[g*n clacks]
Give me that. [panting]
How many outside?
I counted two.
And how many inside?
- I counted two.
- [grunts]
[magazines thud]
Give me my g*n back.
[tense music playing]
Ow. [grunting]
[Inconspicuous Man grunts]
[rumbling]
[rumbling continues]
[muffled growling]
[growling swells]
[growling continues]
Maybe get off the floor.
[tense music continues]
[monster growling]
- There's an animal in here.
- [growling continues]
There's a what?
- Something big.
- [grunts]
[monster growling]
[muffled growling]
[roaring]
- [g*nshots]
- [growls]
- [roars]
- [hitter 1 groans]
[all screaming]
- [roaring]
- [screaming continues]
- [g*nf*re continues]
- [screaming continues]
- [loud thudding]
- [screaming continues]
[screaming continues]
[monster roaring]
[roars]
[yelps in pain]
- [g*nsh*t]
- [thuds]
- [screaming continues]
- [g*nf*re continues]
- [monster growling]
- [muffled screaming]
- [screaming continues]
- [monster roaring]
- [screaming stops]
- [floorboard creaking]
[lights flickering]
[breathing heavily]
[g*n clinks]
[breathing heavily]
- [tense music rising]
- [effort grunts]
- [Aurora] Don't...
- [grunts]
...do it.
[roaring]
- [munching]
- [screaming]
[hitter 2] What is that?
[female hitter screaming]
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Oh, my God! What is happening?
What's happening?
[yelling] What's happening?
[music ends]
- [dings]
- [thuds]
- [indistinct chatter]
- [soft music playing]
[rabbit dumpling thuds]
[Intriguing Neighbor
breathes heavily]
[tense music playing]
[both effort grunt]
[g*nshots]
[electric toothbrush whirs]
[monster growling]
[breathing heavily]
[growling continues]
[bones crack]
[roaring]
- [thuds]
- [roaring continues]
[breathing heavily]
[door creaks, thuds]
[exhales]
I think that's the monster
that lives under Aurora's bed.
[shuddering breaths]
Uh-huh.
[upbeat jazz music plays]
- FBI!
- Get on the ground now!
[male agent] Drop your weapon!
[female agent]
Get on the floor now!
Down on the floor!
- Uh, no. No.
- No. I-I can't do that.
I'm sorry. No,
it's not gonna happen. No.
Down on the floor!
[both] There is something
in the floor!
[door thuds]
- [g*n thuds]
- Concerned neighbor, 5B.
[footsteps receding]
- You got the girl?
- I got the girl.
[breathes deeply]
I-I would like to sincerely
apologize for my tone earlier.
It wasn't professional.
Please, can we leave?
- Time to go. We gotta go.
- We gotta go. I gotta go.
Let's go. Take me off the floor.
Why aren't we going to the car?
[Inconspicuous Man]
When we get to the car...
Get them up
and get them out of here.
There's something in the floor.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, no.
Oh, my God!
There's something in the floor.
Something in the floor.
[together]
There's something in the floor.
Something in the floor.
Something in the floor.
There's something...
- [monster growls]
- [door creaks, thuds]
- [monster growls]
- [rumbles]
[muffled g*nshots]
- [g*nshots continue]
- [loud screaming]
[muted g*nshots]
- [female hitter screams]
- [monster munches, growls]
[panting]
[softly] Erora.
[loudly] Erora!
Aurora.
[sighs]
Did it eat everybody?
Not everybody. [breathes deeply]
Just everybody else.
No, stay. Stay where you are.
[effort grunts]
- [ottoman thuds]
- [grunts]
[Intriguing Neighbor panting]
You believe me now?
- Yes.
- [ottoman rolling]
Are you the happiest
you've ever been?
Happy is not the word I'll use.
[effort grunts]
We go through the window,
down the fire escape.
[Intriguing Neighbor
breathes heavily]
[breathes deeply]
Ready?
[monster roars]
[Intriguing Neighbor grunting]
- [roaring continues]
- [intense music rises]
[exhales sharply]
[sneezes, grunts]
[objects clatter]
[rumbles]
[breathing heavily]
I told you so.
[soft music plays]
[birds chirping]
[soft music playing]
[monster growls]
[distant thudding]
[monster growling]
- [gasps]
- [thudding continues]
- [thudding continues]
- [growling continues]
[monster growling, hurling]
- [monster belches]
- [loud thud]
[Intriguing Neighbor grunts,
gasps for air]
[both breathing heavily]
I didn't taste too good.
[breathing heavily]
- [doorknob turns]
- [door creaks]
[upbeat music plays]
[door creaks, thuds]
Hello, Aurora.
[inhales deeply]
Don't come in here.
[breathes heavily]
[Laverne]
I've come to rescue Aurora.
Aurora, you can't stay here.
It's not safe.
[tense upbeat music playing]
Come with me.
- I'll take care of you.
- [thuds]
Get off the floor.
You don't have to do
what you think you have to do.
But you do have to get off
the floor.
Aurora...
be easier for you
than it is for him.
Mom, get off the floor.
Don't call me that.
It's hurtful.
It's going to eat you.
What's going to eat me, Aurora?
[monster growls]
- [floorboard creaks]
- [gasps]
[floorboard rumbling]
- [monster growling]
- [gasping]
[shoes clacking]
[roars]
[grunting]
[g*nshots continue]
[grunts]
- [g*nshots continue]
- [monster growls]
- [growling continues]
- [grunts]
[tense music rises]
[growling]
- [g*n clicks]
- [roars]
- [Laverne screams]
- [monster growls]
- Mom...
- [Laverne yelps]
[monster growls, munches]
- [bed creaks]
- [floorboard rumbles]
- [monster roars]
- [grunts]
- [growling]
- [grunting]
[roars loudly]
- [shuddering breaths]
- [monster roars]
[grunting]
- [monster roaring loudly]
- [breathing heavily]
[monster growls]
[monster snorts]
[monster growls]
[breathing heavily]
[floorboard thudding]
[growls]
It doesn't wanna eat you,
Aurora.
[monster growls]
- It's your monster.
- [monster growls]
It's my monster.
You wished for it.
[breathing heavily]
- You have to live with it.
- [monster growling]
I wished for you too.
[breathes deeply]
We're going away now, Aurora.
You can't even say my name.
And I don't even know your name.
You'll think of something
to call me.
And I'll just call you
"little girl."
[monster growls softly]
- Stop it.
- [growls softly]
[huffs air, roars]
[growling]
[creaks, clanks]
[growling continues]
[roaring loudly]
[growling]
[creaks, thuds]
["Tiger" by ABBA playing]
I am behind you,
I always find you
I am the tiger
People who fear me
never come near me
I am the tiger
The city is a nightmare,
a horrible dream
Some of us
will dream it forever
Look around the corner,
and try not to scream
It's me
I am behind you,
I always find you
I am the tiger
People who fear me
never come near me
I am the tiger...
[monster growls]
Yellow eyes are glowing
like the neon lights
Yellow eyes, the spotlights
of the city nights
I am behind you,
I always find you
I am the tiger
People who fear me
never come near me
I am the tiger
The city is a prison,
you'll never escape
You're forever trapped
in the alleys
Look into the shadows,
and you'll see the shape
Of me
I am behind you,
I always find you
I am the tiger
People who fear me
never come near me
I am the tiger
Yellow eyes are glowing
like the neon lights
Yellow eyes, the spotlights
of the city nights
I am behind you,
I always find you
I am the tiger
People who fear me
never come near me
I am the tiger
And if I meet you,
what if I eat you?
I am the tiger
I am behind you,
I always find you
I am the tiger,
tiger, tiger
Tiger
[song ends]
[door thuds]
[creaks, thuds]
[playful music playing]
[shudders]
[b*llet clinks]
[breathes heavily]
[soft dramatic music playing]
[music ends]
[playful music playing]
[music ends]
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