Deidre pays a visit to the nursing home to see Esther Thompson, her paternal grandmother, and learns that she and Daniel are Harold O’Bannon’s grandchildren. Collin Thompson, their mother, was born as a result of O’Bannon’s affair with a maid named Angel Whittier who worked in the mansion. Shortly after Colleen’s birth, Angel disappeared and Baby Colleen was adopted by a couple who owned what ultimately became the Thompson Farm. Esther had befriended Angel when they both worked at the O’Bannon estate, and had learned about the pregnancy from Angel Esther knew that Angel was afraid of O’Bannon and worried that something bad might happen. Long after Angel’s disappearance Esther feigned dementia for many years out of fear that O’Bannon might cause her to disappear as well.
Later, after a dinner at Diedre’s house, Daniel and Laura learn that Diedre and Warren’s twin daughters have been having scary nightmares, and that they even claimed to have seen Rose, their deceased older sister who had died ten years prior. We also learn that children have continued to disappear in the Maria Bay area.
When Daniel notices a black cat entering the girls’ bedroom after they had been put to bed for the night, the adults rush into the room to find the cat sitting on one girl’s chest with its mouth poised over the girl’s mouth as if to steal her breath. The cat dashes out of the room and escapes through an open window in Warren’s office.
Daniel runs to the front door where he thinks he sees someone standing in the shadows near the parked cars while the women gather the girls and take them to the living room. Daniel and Warren return from investigating outside, but they do not find any signs of an intruder. The parents carry their sleepy girls back to their room to put them to bed again. There they find that all of the girls’ toys have been moved from their customary places and are now in threatening poses all around the room. Among them, positioned to stare at the adults standing in the doorway, are a teddy bear, two clowns, and a ballerina.
