When the pair encounter a real ghost, they admit to being frauds. She goes to the Further to guide Quinn back from the spirit realm and encounters the Bride, but defeats her — living people are stronger than ghosts, and Elise is able to overpower the Bride and send her retreating into the Further. Elise saves Quinn, and Tucker and Specs wind up becoming her assistants in dealing with hauntings.
This time, she finds the ghosts haunting her own family. Lorraine Barbara Hershey remembers what happened to Josh and has an inkling that the same thing is happening to Dalton. Spirits are trying to use his vacant body to come into the living world, including a creepy red-faced demon. Elise tells Josh about his past with the Bride in Black, who basically tried to do the same thing to Josh as is being done to Dalton: trap him in the Further and take over his body.
Meanwhile, though, his family is still dealing with hauntings. Specs, Tucker and Carl find out that the Bride in Black is actually a serial killer named Parker Crane, who killed himself in the hospital where Lorraine worked. But Josh overpowers Carl and starts to strangle him.
That tosses Carl into the Further, where he runs into the real Josh, and they head into the Further and find Elise, while visiting a few locations from past movies. In the real world, the family hides out in the basement while Josh tries to kill them, and Dalton decides to go to the Further to try to find his dad.
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During his first interview with Dr. While not the most direct of "E. Later, we'll see an E. Cutting holes in a sheet to create a ghost costume is hardly a new idea, but Eleven appearing as a pint-sized ghost is a visual gag that's hard to separate from the same idea that appeared in "E. The kids' coordinated "Ghostbusters" outfits are pretty on-point, and have some fun do-it-yourself nods built in since the movie would have only been out a few months in The possession occurs when Josh is at the mirror or window or whatever in the Further.
Dalton runs off to his room, and Josh attempts to confront the old woman. At some point during his attempted confrontation, we see them switch positions, with Josh on the outside of the house and the old woman on the inside.
Further explanations of various things mentioned: 1. The voice on the monitor is the demon. It wants Dalton. The voice swears and expresses anger in the same way later in the movie when Elaine or Elise or whatever is wearing the gas mask and her assistant writes what the demon says. The writer admitted that there were two villians — why would the demon and old woman work in tandem?
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I watched this movie recently and did not think it was scary at all…. Although there were a few parts that mad my eyes widen…. I do like it though and you did a very good job of explaining the ending I really was comfused by it….
I do think this movies has made people wonder if what happened to them really happen! You have to put yourself in the atmosphere and in the characters shoes. What if you walked in your babies room and saw a figure standing over its cradle behind a curtain? I have goosebumps right now just thinking about it. Its frickin freaky. Bravo to all that tried to explain the movie. Is it just me or can you see a sequel completely ruining what to me was a very solid first movie?
I can see them completely over thinking and butchering the sequel. If they did that it would decrease the value of Insidious. With this said I wish I could be told straight up what everything in the movie means for real. Bummer man.
Not that you care. I love horror movies in general. My lord!!!! I wonder if the person playing the demon, could sleep well after the film. Anybody who can make a film that makes you want to get right with jesus after watchin it cause you are so damn scared deserves in my opinion the highest movie award there is. Josh was possessed as an 8-year old. Fast forward to the picture of the family with Josh as a dad.
Watch how it ties into the next part…]. Now for the end. When he awakens in the real world again, he probably knows the whole truth of her parasitic life inside of him but is trying to keep it under wraps since she has never controlled his actions before. And she is content to living behind the curtain too…until Elise puts it all together.
The Aristocrats! PS: For all of you who defined the title of the movie, thanks. I feel like that definition of entrapment and beguiling helped me confirm my theory as being highly plausible…. I agree with him that Josh was possessed since he was 8 yeas old. The only thing I disagree with is his assessment on how the old woman looses herself and becomes Josh.
I believe it was the hypnosis the Psychic said she did on young Josh to make him forget, what I Believe in fact she did was hypnotize Josh and when he went under the the old woman took over but then hypnotized the old woman who had already possessed Josh and thus her memories were repressed and she then began taking on the life of Josh. But the subconscious fear or taking pictures remained and a few other subconscious traits, like the fear of getting old, which is why we see him fusing about gray hairs and putting aging cream on his face in the movie.
And also in doing so the Psychic trapped young Josh in the further basically forever. This theory is the only thing that explains the young Josh still trapped in the Further when adult Josh got there. However in this scene she is inside the window and the adult Josh is outside, It was always her who was in the house and when she recalls who she is the movie shows us her as herself inside the house.
That is why she was able to beat all the other ghost back the the body because she had the strongest link to because she had been in it all that time. But now she came back with her own memories and that is why when the picture was taken she projected herself instead of Josh. Looking forward for a sequel. Great movie, started watching it at midnight last night and I had to wait until this morning to finish it!! The first kid who directed Josh to the house was NOT the younger josh, if you noticed he was wearing the monkey pajamas that matched his moms; hence it was Dalton.
The child Josh rescued had on plaid pajamas, He was never wearing plaid pajamas throughout the movie. I also think Dalton is possessed, the little boy in shackles was a pawn. Her character was just too quiet and shady. At the Ending, Elise took a last picture before she died…. Cabo Wedding, travel, Photos, Los Cabos, all inclusive, night life, spring break , nightclub, wild bash, seaside, hotel, resort, limo, yachts…. Elise promptly made sure no more pictures were taken of Josh, and helped him to forget astral projection and his memories of the old lady.
The old lady never showed back up until Josh astral projected and then leads her to where his body is. Josh then finds his way back to his body, wakes up, hugs and happy time.
Hi can you tell me the reference made by daltons mother, that she wanted things to be better from now on, while in bed in first house in film then on steps same house said everything has gone wrong …? This leads to the questions was he possessed all the time, applying mositrusier to eyes and plucking out grey hair in mirror I will say i seen it in theatre and many times on video and it is a true real scarey movie, i know htat elise says to leave this vessel, but does not say it in Gods name, i guess being Catholic we feel that no one but God or an excorsist can cast out demons.
So I read through most of the comments here and several of them are just pure fantasy with no grounding in the movie at all.. For instance, anyone who believes they know whether or not Dalton was possessed at the end of the movie is just wrong.
We do not see who walks up to the bed in the further. It could be the demon, but it could just as easily be Dalton. When we last saw the two of them Dalton was running ahead of the demon. He could have made it to the bed or the demon could have stopped him. All the arguments so far about him being hungry and tired go both ways. Coma patients are shown time and time again to crave real food when they finally wake up. And the boy saying he is tired is most likely mental exhaustion due to the ordeal he has been through.
He does not specifically say he wants to go to sleep. He just says he is tired. There simply is not enough evidence either way to tell whether it is Dalton or the demon.
Another gigantic leap in logic, is that somehow Josh was the old lady from the start.. There is literally no evidence of this in the movie at all. In fact it is disproved several times. The family photo is the most obvious one.
The second most obvious is that, if the old woman was Josh she would not be tortured by dreams of the further. And the fact that everything Josh has done throughout the movie, including saving his son in the further, has been with good intentions.
And Elise never sees the old woman inside Josh until after he is actually possessed by her at the end of the movie. Josh is very much himself up until the very end of the movie.
Yet another large leap in logic, is that the old woman and the demon are working together. We literally never see or hear them interact at all. The voices over the baby monitor were the spirits arguing over who gets Dalton.
Elise actually says that they want to enter an empty vessel. And throughout the movie multiple spirits show up, not just the demon and the old woman. The demon was not waiting for Josh. He was waiting for the boy to be weakened enough to take his body. Again this was stated in the movie by Elise. No where during the movie are we ever given the slightest evidence that the demon is connected to the old woman in any way. In fact they are kept completely separate throughout with completely different agendas.
The demon never shows the slightest interest in Josh and the old woman never shows any interest in Dalton. There is no overlap of their motivations at all. As for the last unproven idea.. The title is referring to the relationship between the entities who are trying to take someone over and the vessel being accosted. In this case Dalton, who is quite literally trapped throughout the majority of the movie. The idea that they were somehow after Josh all along is not grounded in any evidence in the movie its self.
At no point is Josh shown to be more important than Dalton. At no point does anyone show any interest in Josh until he goes into the further. Josh made himself a target by going into the further.
The old woman is only shown in flashbacks and old photographs until Josh goes back into the further. He brought her back into the picture, not the other way around. Now as to what I actually believe happened.
Josh goes to the further and is clearly disturbed and later frightened by what he sees. Josh is attacked by one of the spirits and proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is stronger than they are. He eventually finds his son, who is being held by the demon, who is waiting until he can possess him. Josh attempts to escape the further as he is chased by the spirits.
He eventually makes it to the new house, but he is distracted by the old woman. During which time his son is chased around by the demon. The last we see of Dalton he has freed himself from the demons grip on his leg and is being chased down the hall. Meanwhile, Josh unwisely decides to challenge the old woman. Whether or not Dalton or the demon made it out is uncertain. The nagging question of, why was a younger version of Josh hanging out in the further, is unanswerable.
Trying to link it to any of the above is a shot in the dark. And yet Josh is taken over by a parasite in a short amount of time.
I say short because there was approximately 30 years between when the woman tried possessing him. So naturally you would assume that if she was so close to possessing him still, enough to take him with just 1 more trip that you would see her in atleast 1 of the photos in the photo album. But not a 1 had her, not the wedding photo or the 1 by the lake. Which I basically find this movie and ending full of crap, it seems they tried to rush the ending and came up with something to have 1 last shocker moment.
No real facts back up how the lady was able to posses Josh so easily at the end, which if the lady was still so close to him, Elise would have noticed it. And on another note, how did this haunting even start? Highly unlikely… And also, why was the younger version of Josh there, why was Josh so powerful against the spirits yet he got taken so easily.
Its just full of plotholes. So it only took him leaving his physical body one more time before the old lady could take over his body. What did the wife see at the very end of the movie when she looked at Josh and screamed?
You are left hanging on this. What do others think she saw? A real father would have waited until he was absolutely certain that his child was safe i. To do otherwise is unrealistic. What did the wife see at the very end of the movie when she turned around to look at Josh?
Ghosts, like the murdered family, the man with long hair and the little dancing boy. Their only wish is to live again through any living body, since theirs is long gone.
Parasites like the old lady. From what I understand, she was NEVER human but an evil spirit lurking in the further, waiting for the soul of an astro-projector to visit that dimension. So she does so gradually, patiently, everytime the traveller goes to the further through his sleep. The further is a dark, dead place so it makes sense that a spirit would want to come into the world of the living which for them represents light. Souls of astro-projectors like Josh and Dalton.
Some of them get trapped in the further because they wandered off too far or get captured by a powerful being demon who keeps them long enough for the connection between their soul and their body to break. Demons like the red face creature. Their only wish is to inflict pain on others through possession. Unlike parasites, they want their presence known. Their only agenda is to possess a body and torture it as well as everyone else around. See The exorcist. When Josh was a child, the old lady was extremely close to attach herself permanently to his body as evidenced by the pictures.
It would also explain why he unconsciously always hated having his picture taken: that was the old lady not wanting anyone to find out she was still there around him, waiting. Remember that she is a dark spirit. She needed Josh to go back to the further one last time to completely cross over with him. She was already very close.
Which she finally did. This is also why the parasite gets angry when the picture is taken: it completely reveals her. To Anonymous: The picture that was taken reveals the old lady. When the wife turns around and looks at Josh, did she see the old lady in the flesh? What is your take on what she saw when she turned around? I have a theory for the possession of Josh. For example, when he finds Daltons pictures, he is generally in shock and distraught by the truth.
The photos of Josh throughout his adult life show him, not the old woman. People believe meditation strengthens your connection. But as he was never aware, the connection was very weak at the end, which allowed the woman to possess his body so easily. This is why she smiled malevolently through the mirror. The mirror was her distraction. This is why the old woman reacts to the picture being taken as if it was Josh. If he was possessed through the whole film, why did Elise only pick up on it at the end?
That is simply over-speculation of the ending. He acts completely normal. If the demon possessed him he would not be sitting there eating pasta. He would kill them all without any effort, shown by his previous possession by the red demon during the first attempt of contact. Oh by the way, I do not believe that astral projection is real, but i will not deny its existense.
That would make me ignorant. I have only researched it quite a bit out of curiosity. Hope my theory makes sense! Oh and i forgot to mention, the nature of a parasite is not to take over the host, but to live INSIDE it, manipulating it. But the old woman has fully attached herself to his soul, making it one soul together.
All of these theories are interesting, but I believe people are over thinking this movie. A coma and a feeding tube would still make a kid want something wholesome to eat, like spaghetti, and the idea that he wanted more sleep was a little humor given all that he went through.
Again, I truly think that everyone overthought this. The Lipstick demon failed to enter Dalton—which may have been left to open it for a sequel. That was prevented when Elise closed that portal when he was little. What if younger Josh is only a subconscious image showing Josh where to find Dalton, which makes it clear that Darth Maul red face was in cahoots with the scary maze game lady the entire time.
If it was a subconscious memory then the lair actually belongs to scary maze girl, not Darth Maul. She hired Darth Maul to kidnap Dalton to get to Josh. My interpretation is that Josh as the scary maze girl killed Elise and deleted the photo before Renai could see it cause the is a lot of time in between Josh killing Elise and the end, when Renai looked at the photos.
Elise also says that time does not exist in the Further, so maybe Joshes childhood is happening simultaneously with the current time in the Further. Just some thoughts on this awesome movie. With that theory, it means she probably possessed Josh soon after.
The plot of the movie is essentially to lure Josh into The Astral Hell of the subplanes to complete the transformation. The old woman moved closer, but Elise supressed the memory and ceased the astral projection.
Dalton is nonetheless bait to get Josh. When they are trying to communicate with Dalton when he is in the further, who is talking when all the swear words are said?
I blame my cousin lol. At the end of the movie when the mom picks up the camera and sees the picture, the husband touches her on the shoulder and she turns around. What does she see? Both the son and the dad were stolen in the end. Not maybe. I will prove it in the follow up post. But more than any other red color, fire represents the demon most of all.
And Dalton could have been eating anything, but he was eating spaghetti. Very red sauce, slithering worm-like noodles. And, the demon does not know HOW to eat spaghetti. He uses both hands with spoons and the noodles get all over his hands, like a beastly slob. Dalton did seem happy, but only because he won.
He showed none of the tearful sentiment that he did when his dad found him chained. Also, and this is HUGE. Also, Josh took a huge gasp of air as if he had been dead, and forgotten how to breath.
When Dalton woke up he did not gasp for air, I guess demons have never been dead and needed air. The woman needed a few seconds to get into character. Did you notice the wedding dress in the attic, the lost soul that shot her family took the sheet music box and placed it by here wedding shoes. This reveals that the demon has done this many times, through many window.
The still woman, is a previous traveler who was stolen. It symbolized his relationship with the parasite. Its not an accident that which he plucks is old and gray. It is his subconscious rejection of her. Just as he rejects developing wrinkles around his eyes. He avoids his own age as he avoids photos… to block her out in any way he can. Elise said the woman was different than the others. The others want to replace Josh and enter his empty vessel, but the woman who has been getting closer and closer has been able to actually cling to him and live secretly inside of him, coexist with him.
That is why he saw her in the mirror even before she took is body. That is why he fought the aging process, because SHE does not want to be old again, and this is huge, THAT is why she was not in the wedding photos and family portraits…. She is different than the others. I think Josh was possessed by the old woman all along, but was hypnotized in childhood to think she was Josh. In the very beginning you see Josh dab on some eye cream… exactly like a woman would do.
I notice those small odd things. When he looked in the mirror at the end, that was the old lady seeing the subconscious and the truth, and the hypnosis spell being broken….
She then takes the pictures to see for definte that it is her. I reckon. An issue exists, if that is true, concerning why a demon, the most powerful creature of the futhur, would treat with a less powerful creature. It is possible the demon and old woman are relations, seeking to live as parent and child again as they once had. This explains why the demon procrastinates his posession of Dalton until the mother can posess Josh.
In this conception, the old woman posesses Josh after his lack of courage in the house, allowing his son to go on. If the old woman posessed Josh when he was younger, then her aim was to replace her physical son Dalton, in her new family, with her actual son, the demon. In which case, the final scene is the culmination of this insidious deception, to substitute Dalton for the demon, without anyone realising. Either the old woman and demon posessed their hosts at the end, or the old woman first, then the demon much later.
The title, insidious, would imply the latter is true. The mother achieved life first, and then secured it for her child later. The Ethical lanscape of the film is one which disarms those who pity Josh and Dalton. Their plight at the end of the film is the same plight that drove the Old Woman and Demon to seek life again. It is implied that the process of the dead usurping the living is cyclical and never-ending.
Presumably Josh and Dalton at the end have to start planning their own return to life. I caught it from the point where the ghost hunters enter the house to inspect through the end of the movie. The ending has me thinking about it and I have a question for the rest of you. If that is even plausible then the old lady could claim victory and the red faced character could have fresh souls to play with, which would present a link between the two. In some of the making-of clips on the DVD or somewhere else that I read, the producers also say that the Red Faced Demon covers his face in lipstick to appear harmless to children.
He tricks Dalton into coming back to his lair, just as the old lady befriended Josh when he could astral project as a child, to get to his physical body.
Also, I doubt whether the demon and the old lady had an allegiance. A demon is undoubtedly the more powerful supernatural being in comparison to a spirit, and has not actually existed before — so it has never had a life. Note that when Elise hypnotized Josh into forgetting his ability to astro-travel he was very young.
In the movie, he is, what, in his 30ss and has a family? You see a definite switch in identity when the old woman possesses Josh. Basically — she strangles Elise within the first day of being alive just because Elise pissed her off. Plus, Elise was quick to notice that it was the old lady. And, you could also see the old lady in the photograph, which is why Renai was shocked as she picked up the photo.
If you remember, they had a photo of Josh that his mother commented on. She just easily possessed Josh because, as someone has said, Elise never forced the spirit away. She only hypnotized Josh to forget her, and forget that he could astro travel. Therefore, she never went away. And I agree with Anon — why would she risk losing the physical body again to go rescue some child? Why would it? The spirit of the old woman shows her in a wedding dress.
She probably killed herself after being jilted or something — maybe it was the woman in the wedding dress that we saw crying as she ran past Josh in the Further and continued to cry in the corner. Alternatively, it reminds him of her. What you see in The Further is a younger Josh, the same boy that you see in the photographs.
There have been theories about this — where ghosts basically leave essences of themselves in time and manifest there, repeating what happened over and over again. I think that is basically why younger Josh is there. Josh simply got lost in the further, so there is no specific place for him. Josh started to avoid his family I think as an effect of the hypnotism, such as being afraid to have his picture taken.
It would all be a subconscious thing. Either that, or something went wrong when Elise hypnotized him, and trapped a part of his spirit in the Further by accident. Look up the word insidious. Meaning: deceitful plot that has a more treacherous plot behind it. As this is the name, and it flashes at the end when Josh is possessed, of the story I do believe that Josh might have been the target all along.
You never know, he might of still been astro-projecting all his life yet HE thought they were dreams as well as Dalton did. Did you ever consider this. Why do you think it was so easy for him to astro project at the end. I personally do not think she possessed him from the beginning as this would not make sense.
Also it only shows you from the beginning of the film, not the beginning of their life. Anyway I guess both theories could be correct. We are all counting on Insidious 2 to show us the shocking truth. Like Harry Potter and the horcruxes etc. In a way I agree with the comment above.
It is backed up with evidence and has perfectly good reasons. Personally Insidious 2 is the only answer to our questions. I personally do believe Josh was possessed throughout the whole movie, i do not have an explanation for this exactly but, seeing his younger self in the Further is evident that he did not make it out of the further in his younger days of astral projecting.. Sadly i did not find enough clues or evidence in the movie to explain to myself who had gained control of him before the old woman in the black dress.
The younger Josh most likely would not have been afraid of her. Even at the end of the movie there was lines of entities plowing in that house to get to him, which kinda shows even if only 1 spirit has to do the work of weakening the link, who actually does the possessing seems to be first come first serve.
One more thing i was thinking about was.. She put these entities into groups. Some entities just crave to live again. The big question that boggles my mind is,,,, when Dalton was possessed. Then we have the theory of the possession of Josh when he was young at that makes more sense, there are some hints on the movie: — First scene: Josh body on the bedroom, camera goes to the right to another room, we see the silhouette of the old woman, and then on the next room we see the old woman with a candle.
But who knows, perhaps she was a demon, at least she has black holes instead of eyes and needs a dentist urgently. Yeah, Absolutely no way josh was always since being a kid possessed because when he projects into the further to save the kid, he appears as himself. Theory disproved. The end. Lots of comments, dang. Yeah, he had a feeding tube but all that gives is basically fluids, like those health shakes.
And being tired? First off it was a stressful ordeal, which makes people tired. Second he has been in a bed for over 3 months, how much exertion do you think his body can take fresh out of a coma?
His muscles would have atrophied at least some. To think the demon got in makes no sense either because the demon would just tear stuff up. As for Josh being possessed all along, people have already pointed out the flaws with that, especially with that family portrait.
However, did anyone point out that the old woman was not in that photo? Although this is true, Elise specifically states that the longer a person is out of the body the weaker the link grows. If you imagine this old woman has been gathering strength, biding her time, since Josh was a child. She just needed to wait for the right opportunity. I do think the woman and demon are unrelated, but it was a perfect opportunity for the old woman who had spent FAR longer building up to the point where she could take over his body, overcoming the strength of the link he had with it while he was out.
Thank you! I just watched this for the 4th time, it still terrified me, and your interpretation of the ending just punched me in the gut…. I always thought the movie wad awesome, and the ending just tied it all together for me. I always thought the old bitch in black lace just got lucky when she conveniently nabbed Josh in the end.
But to use the Dalton kid to GET to the father…. Thanks for your observsation! What I think is that remember how the old woman was getting closer and closer with each picture? Remember that final picture Elise took right before Josh attacked her, maybe that was the last picture needed so she could finally go all the way inside him. So, I can totally see this being true. This is what I believe happened to Josh. That old lady was always close to him. She just needed that extra push to finally and totally possess his physical form.
And I also remember the medium lady saying that he needed to find them. If you watch, the kid and Josh never actually find their physical forms. And in one scene, something does find the kids physical form, but it was moving pretty quick, so I believe it was the red face demon. I think that Josh was being trapped, his son was the bait.
Once the lady found out he had a son, his eldest , she created a plan to use him as bait so she could finally take over josh. She is trying to figure out why the old lady has disappeared. I know im jumping into thie reeeaaly late. But is it possible the old lady was alway close to him, like that they never took another picture, so she could just stay near him as long as she wanted untill the right moment when he went to the furthr again.
Yeah, just wanted to point out in the wedding pictures Josh looked completely normal no old woman hanging around. I think that the old lady was the shotgun killer. And that the famiy are one of the spirits trying to take Daltons vessel, but the reason why the demon was the closest, because he was never alive. The only ghosts ever seen are from the family.
Between scenes from the present and , we learn how Elise discovered her gifts and how they led to her intense agoraphobia and reluctance in the third movie. The story itself is really poignant and I think has a really nice message. It does, and it makes you appreciate Elise's heroics more -- you'll understand the adversity she's had to overcome and the sacrifice she's making every time she undertakes a job. In New Mexico, Elise grows up the older sister of a boy terrified of ghosts he can't see and the mischievous daughter of a strict prison warden father.
By the time she's grade-school age, she's communing with spirits and opening doors that should be left closed. Things are rough for the always-in-trouble Elise from the get-go, but they get worse when she accidentally acts as a conduit for KeyFace, a sinister spirit that facilitates the death of her mother.
As Elise's father sees it, Elise's phony "gifts" are a pox on their house. For Elise, from an early age, her gifts become a source of great trauma. These are her terrible beginnings, and, with the help of her trusty sidekicks, Specs and Tucker, she seeks redemption in the present by confronting the demons of her past. For much of the movie, Robitel tries to capitalize on the spooky things that scared you as a kid: dark closets and basements, antiques, creaky floorboards, doors that move by themselves.
The tactics are true to the atmosphere of what makes an Insidious movie an Insidious movie, but unfortunately, much of the ghost-hunting jumps that ensue feel predictable and too familiar. Long-time Insidious fans will feel like they've already seen the ghosts-lurking-behind-people's-shoulders trick, some might cringe at the forced romantic subplots given to Specs and Tucker now comic relief on steroids , and it'll be hard not to ask, " What?
When Elise finally leaves her body, we're reminded, like in the second installment, that The Further is a realm in which time doesn't operate the way we think it does. She opens a door on a red-caped little boy climbing a ladder in his attic, a reveal that predicts and links the events of this movie directly to the first. The shout-out gets a nice exclamation point at the very end, when Elise wakes up to a call from Lorraine Lambert.
Elise finishes her former client's sentence for her -- she knows Dalton's in trouble, already having seen the Lipstick-Face Demon. With the chronological loop of the saga tied in a nice bow, you might think that this is it for the saga.
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