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[grand orchestral fanfare playing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[kids laughing]

["El Ciclón" playing]

[lively chatter in Spanish]

ROSARIO: Hey.

Hi. Thanks.

- OSCAR: Hey, Rosario. - ROSARIO: Here’s another one.

Hey, Pa.

[Rosario chuckles]

[song continues with lyrics in Spanish]

[Oscar speaking Spanish]

Uno, dos, tres.

- [all speak Spanish in unison] - OSCAR: Okay!

[Oscar speaks Spanish]

[coughing]

♪ ♪

[Elena coughs]

[lively chatter and music continue]

[sighs]

[traffic whooshing, horns honking in distance]

[Elena coughing]

Dream on your own time.

Have you seen where your grandma went off to?

I’ll find her.

Hurry.

We’re gonna pray before dinner.

Yeah.

Go and tell your father to put down the tequila

and come, too. Go.

[pained breathing]

Mija, I need your help.

- Get me the pepper, please. - Mm. Mm-hmm.

[speaks Spanish]

- Here. - Thank you.

[food sizzling]

You’re having a good time?

[coughing]

Rosario.

Sit. Here.

Okay.

You know that your mom and I,

we-we haven’t had it easy since we came here.

- You know that, right? - Hmm.

But one day, all your dreams are gonna come true.

I know it. It’s gonna happen.

Thanks, Dad.

Give me the handshake.

I love you, darling.

- Love you back, Dad. - [chuckles]

All right, let’s get to the cooking, come.

- Where you going? - To find Abuela.

♪ ♪

- [exhales] - [knocks]

[door creaking]

[gasps]

♪ ♪

- [insects chittering] - [gasps]

♪ ♪

[light switch clicks]

GRISELDA: Rosario.

What are you doing here?

Nothing, Grandma. Come pray with us.

My beliefs are not yours.

You’re bleeding.

Leave!

Okay, Grandma.

[party chatter continues in distance]

Come close, please.

Come, come, please.

Look...

This is a special day.

My Rosario’s first Communion.

Well...

Let’s take a moment to remember those

who are no longer with us...

and the sacrifices

that they made so that we can be here.

Let’s say an "Our Father."

"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 today our daily bread..."

[wind whistling softly]

♪ ♪

[breath shudders]

[rhythmic whispering chants]

♪ ♪

[whirring]

[siren wailing in distance]

[phone vibrating]

[phone continues vibrating]

[sighs]

["Written on My Bones" by Seven of Cups playing]

♪ Lay your bones out cold ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Pray with what you got. ♪

- [traffic passing] - [horns honking]

[song fades]

Hey, Harlow. Can we go over my schedule?

- Morning, Scott. - Hi.

Yes. Okay.

Okay, great. We’re set for then.

[footsteps walking briskly]

Any luck with dinner res for my dad and me?

You’re the best. I’ll be right up.

Good morning, Ms. Fuentes.

Miguel, call me Rose.

Ms. Fuentes-- I mean, Rose,

uh, I was hoping I... I could ask you a question.

Um, yeah, one sec.

One sec.

Sorry. What’s up, Miguel?

Yes.

Uh, so my wife and I,

uh, we were talking about investing more.

Maybe we can schedule a time to-to talk?

Miguel, my firm won’t let me take on clients

who don’t meet their threshold.

- I really wish I could. I-- - [phone vibrating]

Um, I have to go.

- No worries, Rose. - Yeah. Bye, Miguel.

Sorry. Excuse me.

♪ ♪

[buttons beeping]

Morning, Rosy Cheeks.

Alexander.

You dump that option like I told you,

- that shit show Sunbelt-- - Sunbelt Dynamics.

- Yeah, that’s the one. - No, I didn’t dump it.

It’s on the verge of being a penny stock, Rosy.

Rose.

When does it expire?

- Today. - [scoffs]

They’ll fire you over this.

Lunch is set for tomorrow with your dad,

7:00 p.m. at Le Bernardin.

Thanks. What’s Sunbelt trading at?

You’re in the red, 345K.

Shit.

I know. Ugh.

It’s gonna tick up, I know it.

- [phone vibrating] - Not now.

REPORTER [on TV]: A winter storm appears to have

changed course overnight.

Right now, weather experts are recommending to stay indoors,

as there’s no predicting just how massive this storm...

Exercise the option.

What? But what if it keeps on dropping?

ROSARIO: Remember what Sunbelt Dynamics specializes in?

Geothermal heating?

Exactly.

Exercise the option.

Okay.

- [sighs] - Let it snow.

Holy shit. Rose.

REPORTER [on TV]: The worst is yet to come.

Let it snow.

♪ ♪

[wind whistling]

SCOTT [on phone]: Hello, Ms. Fuentes?

- Coming to you now, Scott. - Did you get my messages?

Holland and Lincoln tunnels

are blocked ’ cause of the storm.

Shit.

Dispatch sent another car, but it’ll take time.

Don’t worry about it. I’ll take the train. Take care.

[turnstile beeps]

[phone vibrating]

Yes, Grandma?

[distorted speech over phone]

Hello?

MAN [on phone]: Yeah, who’s this?

- Who the hell is this? - It’s the super

at your grandma’s building.

Griselda’s your grandma, right?

What’s wrong? What happened to her?

Your grandma, she’s no longer with us.

She passed. She’s gone.

♪ ♪

Hello?

- What happened? - [sighs]

Hard to say, ma’am. She was on the floor.

Uh, took a bad spill.

What hospital are you taking her to?

Could be anywhere on a night like this.

- It’s a nasty night out there. - What am I supposed to do?

SUPERINTENDENT: Anybody nearby help keep track of the body?

- It’s just me. - Oh, where you at, darling?

Hudson Yards.

Oh, that’s in New York. You’re close, then.

Listen, your abuela was undocumented.

No will, no paper, nothing.

They’re gonna lose her body in the system.

You ought to come. You ought to get here.

I’m on my way.

- Willowcrest Apartment, 95-- - I know the address.

OSCAR [over earbuds]: I’m sorry, mija.

She’s with your mother now.

ROSARIO: I haven’t seen her since Mom’s funeral.

She called me like four times.

Listen, you don’t owe her anything.

She pushed everyone away.

- Do you know what happened? - I think she fell.

Her super called. I--

I’m heading to her apartment now.

I’ll-I’ll wait there until the ambulance arrives.

What?

- Rosario. - It’s the least I can do.

You know we barely talked after you and Mom split.

No, no, no. No, Rosario, no.

Let me-- let me take care of this.

I don’t know how it is in Jersey,

but it’s snowing pretty bad here, Dad.

It’s gonna take you at least 3 hours to cross the bridge.

I don’t want you alone with the body.

Okay? So I’m gonna leave now.

Then I’ll meet you there.

Stubborn, just like your mother.

I love you, darling.

Love you back, Dad.

[wind howling]

ROSARIO: Play voicemail.

Granddaughter...

I’m sorry...

Please forgive me.

Forgive me!

[Griselda coughing and wheezing]

[coughing louder]

[distorted static]

[gasps]

♪ ♪

- [whimpering] - [train screeching]

[train passing]

- [dogs barking in distance] - [siren wailing faintly]

[grunts]

[intercom buzzes]

Open the door! It’s Rose.

I’m here for my grandmother.

[door buzzes]

[door creaks closed]

[door unlocks, opens]

Condolences.

I’m Marty.

Rose.

Thank you.

Elevator’s not working?

Yeah.

Irregular door function.

Unusual noises.

Out of service.

I guess I better take you to her, then.

When was you here last?

I used to visit my grandmother a lot when I was a kid.

You came here?

Where you been?

I guess the stairs are just as good.

[footsteps ascending stairs]

[door closes nearby]

♪ ♪

- ROSARIO: Was she ill? - Ah, I don’t know.

Just an old lady. She’s falling apart, you know?

If you ask me, I’d say she was homesick.

Always talking about going to the old country,

"Chiapa, Chiapa."

So, yeah.

Just you, huh?

My mom passed away a few years ago.

Griselda is the only one

I have left on this side of the family.

Ah, my mom went blind.

She got a dog.

You alone?

My dad’s driving from Atlantic City.

Okay, here we are.

[man coughing nearby]

That’s Joe. He’s sick.

Here.

[Marty grunts]

- [door closes] - [wind whistling]

Me and neighbor Joe, we put her here.

She was on the floor, took a spill.

He put the bedsheet on. That was his idea.

You know, out of respect.

The ambulance should be here soon.

[grunting]

There you go.

Son of a bitch!

I blew these things out. I’m sure--

[blowing]

It’s a fire hazard.

If you need me, um, be down the hall.

ROSARIO: I’ll wait here for the ambulance.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[wind whistling]

[whispers]: Abuela.

[gasps softly]

[breath trembles]

What happened to you?

What were you doing to yourself?

[sniffles]

[glass breaks]

[flies buzzing]

[insects chittering]

♪ ♪

[siren approaching]

Thank God.

[siren wailing]

Hey! Up here! Fifth floor!

Wait, wait, don’t leave!

I’m up here!

Shit.

- [line rings] - OPERATOR [on phone]: 911.

- What’s your emergency? - Hi.

- I’m at 589 116th Street. - Uh-huh.

My grandmother just died, and I’m here with her body.

- Ma’am-- - An ambulance just pulled up

and took off a second later.

Can you please tell them to come back?

They had to respond to a life-threatening emergency

at a different location.

So her body’s just supposed to rot here?

[staticky]: We’re severely overwhelmed

- with the blizzard, ma’am. - Hello?

They’ll be back in a few hours, ma’am.

- Stay put. Thank you. - [line beeps, clicks]

♪ ♪

- [train rumbling] - [objects clattering]

[body thuds]

[rumbling continues]

[rumbling fades]

[sighs]: Okay.

Oh.

Uh...

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

Come on.

Let’s get you somewhere safe.

♪ ♪

[breathing deeply]

Sunbelt Dynamics.

Of course.

♪ ♪

Hmm.

[sighs softly]

- [soft creak] - [gasps]

[groans softly]

Oh.

Ugh.

[whimpers]

Shit.

[groans]

♪ ♪

[gasping]

[grunting]

[pained groaning]

[grunting]

[screams]

[panting]

[soft thump]

♪ ♪

What the hell?

Nope.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Oh.

♪ ♪

[wind whistling softly]

[floorboard creaking]

- [loud knocking] - [gasps]

[sighs]

Who is it?

JOE: Neighbor from across the hall.

[lock clicks]

[door creaks]

Hello.

[clears throat] You must be the famous granddaughter.

It’s Rosario, right?

It’s just Rose. I’m-I’m sorry, who are you?

Uh, Joe.

I helped... [clears throat] Marty move your grandma after,

- you know, she... - Yeah, thank you for that.

Hmm.

Is there anything I can help you with?

Matter of fact, there is. Um...

She borrowed something from me. I’d love to get it back.

Would you mind if I came in so I--

What is it?

My air fryer.

Your air fryer?

Yeah. I lent it to her, so if you just let me in,

- maybe I could grab it. - [grunts]

Is there a problem?

Um, if I see it, I will let you know.

JOE: "When."

- ROSARIO: Excuse me? - [coughs]

When you see it. You said, "If I see it."

So if you just let me in to get it, just let--

I’ll keep my eye out for it, Joe.

Thank you.

[knocking]

Is there anything else?

JOE: You should put some ice on that.

- Sorry? - Your hand.

Did you burn it cooking dinner? [chuckles]

[coughs] You should invest in a air fryer.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[grunting]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[chain jangling]

[gasps]

[grunting]

[shudders]

[grunts]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[metallic creaking]

♪ ♪

ROSARIO: "Kobayende"?

Oh, God.

[panting softly]

Huh? What?

What?

[gasps]

My tampon.

[retching]

[vomits]

[coughing]

[groans]

[panting]

[coughing]

[soft creaking]

♪ ♪

[creaking]

[gasps]

[screaming]

[panting]

[grunts]

[panting]

[whispers]: What the fuck were you into?

[lights buzzing]

Fuck this place and fuck you.

Body in bedroom.

[door closes]

You’re not... [coughs] you’re not leaving, are you?

Did you get in a fight or something?

What do you care?

Well, there’s a blizzard out there.

You’ll catch your death. [coughs]

Anything’s better than this shithole.

Hey. [coughs]

I live in this shithole.

- I still want my air fryer. - Get a new one.

Oh, hey.

[grunts]

You can’t leave.

I’ll take my chances.

- MARTY: We got a curfew going. - [grunts]

[grunting]

[wind howling]

Damn it.

[groans]

Oh, no.

MAN: What are you doing?

Come on, where you going?

- [horn blaring] - [screams]

[men chattering indistinctly]

- [man whoops] - [grunts]

♪ ♪

SUBWAY COP: Ma’am, subway’s closed.

[dog barking]

Don’t move.

Don’t move!

[barking continues]

Come back here!

Get back here!

- [panting] - [barking continues]

[grunting]

- ¡Mija! - [Rosario screams, whimpers]

[panting]

[dog growling viciously]

[grunting]

Please open! It’s me, Rose!

[door buzzes]

[door closes]

MARTY: What the hell happened to you?

- [electrical popping] - [Rosario whimpers]

What the hell did you do to me, Abuela?

What’d you do to me?

Okay, let’s see.

Okay, um...

No.

Okay, cauldron, dirt, sticks,

human skulls.

"Palo."

♪ ♪

"Palo is a dark religion,

"a cross between African traditions

"and Latin American Catholicism.

"It spread through forced migration and slavery.

Practitioners, known as Paleros..."

Abuela was... was a Palero.

"Paleros sacrifice animals and human remains

"to the spirits of the dead using iron pots called Ngangas.

Ngangas are essential tools used to make deals and curses."

[breath trembling]

Curses. Curses.

"La firma.

"Life and death, the symbol of the accursed.

No escape."

[gasping softly]

Dad. Dad.

Hey, Rosario, listen. I’m on the bridge.

I should be there pretty soon. What’s the matter?

What happened to you?

ROSARIO: I can’t leave her. I can’t do this. I can’t.

OSCAR: Wait, what are you talking about?

- What are you talking about? - Abuela. Abuela.

She put some curse on me before she died.

A curse? No, Rosario.

Come on. You have to calm down.

I found an entire black magic temple inside her apartment.

She-she... she had my teeth.

She’s been doing this,

uh, this voodoo shit since I was a kid.

- She had my tampon! - [speaks Spanish]

Rosario, none of that is real.

Now, where-where are you right now?

I’m in this godforsaken apartment building.

She was a witch doctor to help people,

...not curse them.

Grandma moved here without papers.

That Palo and that cauldron of hers

helped her get back to her roots.

Her cauldron. That’s it, that’s it.

- Her cauldron. - She wouldn’t curse you.

- Why would she do that? - She did it to get back at me.

Don’t stay there, por favor. Just go back.

[staticky]: I’m gonna take care of this.

Dad, I turned my back on her and her daughter.

I-I sided with you after the divorce.

I-I wasn’t there when she died.

Listen to me. You were in school.

It’s why we came to this country,

so you could have a better future.

[crying]: Dad, it was just an excuse.

I could’ve come home. I could’ve...

I just didn’t want to deal with my mom dying.

- I just... [sobbing] - No, Rosario.

She was proud of you.

Okay, listen, I want you to just go back

to your apartment and get some rest, okay?

I’m not leaving.

Only that cauldron can break my curse.

No.

- I’m going back in, Dad. - No, Rosario. No.

Please.

- Love you back. - No. Rosar--

♪ ♪

[footsteps ascending stairs]

What do you think you’re doing?

Hello?

- I told you I’d look for it. - Is this supposed to be funny?

You, uh, should put something on that.

I’ve got some peas in the freezer if you want.

Just leave me alone.

- [door closes] - [lock clicks]

I’m gonna settle this. You hear me?

I want out.

I’m ending your curse.

You won’t win.

♪ ♪

[grunting]

[breathing heavily]

[grunting]

[straining]

[chain clattering]

[grunting]

[panting]

[screams]

[whimpers]

- [coughing] - [whimpering]

In the end, we all become dirt and bones.

[screams]

[grunts]

[yells]

[grunts]

- ELENA: ¡Mija! - [screams]

[panting]

♪ ♪

- [phone chimes] - No. No.

[phone thuds]

[hollow knocks]

Okay.

[thudding]

[grunting]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

In Spanish. Great.

Curses, curses, curses.

Aha.

Breaking curses.

All right.

"The blood of the accursed..."

That’d be me.

"...and the blood of the Palero who placed the curse..."

That’d be you.

"...must be placed in the cauldron

through which the curse was made."

Let the bloodletting begin.

Don’t move.

Either of you.

- [tap creaks] - [water running]

[water stops]

All right, here goes.

Okay. [sighs]

You got this, Rose. You got this.

[groans]

Son of a bitch. [grunts]

[sighs]

Okay.

Hey, you started this.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[phone vibrating]

Granddaughter...

I’m sorry.

Please forgive me.

Please.

Forgive me.

- [distorted static] - [Griselda wails]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

After all I’ve done for you.

Help!

[whimpers, yells]

[whimpers]

[panting]

- [sighs] - [phone vibrating]

What?

No. Did I read it wrong?

Please, granddaughter...

forgive me.

[Griselda coughing]

ROSARIO: Why didn’t this work?

[coughing on phone continues]

GRISELDA: ¡Nieta!

[Griselda wheezing]

- ¡Nieta! - [gasps, whimpers]

[fabric ripping]

[screaming]

[gasping]

[panting]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

[grunts softly]

[screams, whimpers]

You didn’t want to watch me die.

[demonic voice]: Now...

watch me die.

[vomiting]

[whimpering]

[gasping]

[knocking on door]

JOE: I’m trying to get some sleep, if you don’t mind.

Go away!

You know what? Give me my stuff back,

and you’ve got yourself a d-- [coughs] deal.

My grandmother was Mexican!

She’d never have a fucking air fryer!

Yeah?

You didn’t know her like I did.

Maybe if you’d visited every once in a while. [coughs]

[lock clicks]

You’re right.

I should’ve visited her more often.

Well, it’s a little late for that, I would say.

You said, um... you said she used to talk about me.

Yeah.

What would she say?

Look... [coughs]

I don’t want to get involved in any familial shit

- if you don’t mind, okay? - Please, Joe.

Please.

Your grandma, she loved you.

She was proud of you.

How hard that you worked to get to where you’re at.

How she prayed day and night

to make sure that you would get there.

[Joe coughing]

I have to work in the morning.

What was that?

- Yes, I have a job. - No, no, no.

The other thing, uh, how she made sure I’d get there.

She prayed day and night for your dreams to come true.

I could hear her through the walls

just praying and praying.

- [door closes] - [lock clicks]

Welcome.

[door closes]

ROSARIO: You didn’t curse me. You-you prayed for me.

You... you-you made a wish.

You-you... you made a deal.

Not a curse.

A deal with Kobayende.

♪ ♪

[blows]

[eerie voices whispering]

"Kobayende,

"wanderer of the darkness, collector of dead.

"Once the terms of a deal with Kobayende are met

"and the person’s dreams of prosperity are realized,

"Kobayende will come to collect...

"...in the form of a scorned spirit from the past,

"tormenting you...

...until death, by sunrise."

[breath trembling]

[ticking]

I don’t want it anymore.

I’m breaking your deal.

Now, where did I put that spell book?

♪ ♪

[grunting]

[grunts]

[grunting]

Kobayende.

"Deals can be nullified if the Palero who made the deal

"places their blood in the Nganga,

sacrificing their soul to Kobayende."

Well, you’re already dead, so...

I’m gonna trap you in my abuela’s corpse.

♪ ♪

Jesus.

All right.

Okay.

O Kobayende, ya santu, ya santu, ya santu.

[blows]

[coughing]

[spits]

[siren wailing outside]

- [wind whistling] - [exhales]

- This the place? - Yeah.

Ya santu, ya santu, O Kobayende.

Ya santu, ya santu, Kobayende.

Kobayende, ya santu, ya santu, Koba--

- MARTY: Rose! - Shit, is that Marty?

- Open up. The medics are here. - [knocking]

ROSARIO: It’s almost sunrise. Not now.

- Ya santu. - Rose, open up, would you?

- [grunting] - [knocking]

MEDIC 1: Sir, we’re in a tight schedule tonight.

MEDIC 2: Do you have the key, sir?

[siren wailing outside]

[door closes]

MARTY: One sec. It’s an old door.

[door opens]

Okay, here we are.

She was right here.

[indistinct radio chatter]

Where the hell did she go? She was right here.

Grandma!

Sir, we are very busy tonight.

Am I going crazy?

What do you think, I called you ’cause I’m lonely?

- Maybe she’s in the bedroom. - Lead the way, then.

[panting]

[gasps]

[soft whoosh]

♪ ♪

[screams, whimpering]

[screams]

[hyperventilating]

Help! Help! Please help!

Grandma was always by my side.

Now you’ll be with us.

Forever.

MARTY: Uh, through here, too. [groans]

[choking]

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

[siren wailing outside]

[whimpering]

MEDIC 1: Sir, we got to go.

Crazy broad.

[sighs]

What?

[wind whistling softly]

[soft clatter]

["El Ciclón" playing in distance]

[song continues louder]

[song continues with lyrics in Spanish]

- [button clicks] - [song stops]

["El Ciclón" resumes playing]

- [train approaching] - [objects creaking]

[gasps]

[train rumbling]

[glass breaks]

[grunts]

[grunting]

[rumbling and music stop]

[sighs]

[grunting]

[sighs]

♪ ♪

[pained groaning]

[panting]

Enough of this shit.

All right. Where was I?

Okay.

Okay.

[speaking foreign language]

...Kobayende.

Ya santu, ya santu, ya santu.

Boom. Nailed it.

Luzolo, Kobayende.

- [speaking foreign language] - [crackling]

Ya santu.

[gagging]

[gasps]

[Rosario whimpering]

[gasps softly]

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[panting]

Mija.

Stay away from me.

It’s okay, mija.

It’s me.

Mom?

I’m so proud of you.

It’s really you, Mom.

Yes, my love.

The nightmare is over.

I’m sorry, Mom.

I’m so sorry I abandoned you and Abuela.

I chose Daddy over you when you divorced because I thought...

I thought he was more supportive of me.

I thought that if I sided with you and Abuela,

I’d never progress.

I used my work as an excuse and--

My mother and I always supported you.

And... and then you got sick and...

I was too ashamed to show my face.

ELENA: It’s okay.

I hid while you died.

I understand.

You do?

Your father and I worked 15 hours daily

at the factory.

And we couldn’t even walk home safely

without feeling fear.

We didn’t want that to be your future.

That’s why we left.

I never, ever expected anything in return.

[crying]: Well, I’m done turning my back on who I am.

I’m sorry that I ever did.

I love you, baby.

I love you back, Mom.

I love you.

I have so much to tell Grandma.

And you will

when the time is right.

- Okay? - Okay.

Now close your eyes.

Close your eyes and say to yourself,

"I’m a very selfish girl."

[gasps]

So selfish...

[gasping]

I risk everything coming to this country

so you could have a better life.

I felt bitter cold in my lungs.

I saw a man die.

Dreams do have a price.

[grunts]

[panting]

♪ ♪

[crackling]

[grunting]

What do you want from me?

For you to see.

[grunts, screams]

To see my sacrifice.

[people coughing]

[vehicle creaking]

♪ ♪

- [insects chittering] - [gasps]

- Please, get me out of here. - [people shushing]

Please, please, please, please get me out of here.

Get me out of here.

Please get me out of here.

[crying]: Please, please get me out of here.

Pray. Let’s pray.

"Heavenly Father who art in Heaven..."

[praying continues in Spanish]

[siren wailing]

OFFICER [over bullhorn]: U.S. Border Patrol!

Immigration! Immigration!

Pull over the vehicle.

Let’s go, let’s go!

[clamoring, panicked shouting]

OFFICER: Nobody move.

Stop right there! Stay where you are!

[clamoring continues]

OFFICER 2: Ma’am!

Don’t move!

- Don’t move! Get back here! - [dog barking]

[urgent shouting]

[screaming, whimpering]

- Get down! - Stop!

[growling viciously]

[whimpering]

OFFICER 3: Hey, hey! Him, him!

Help.

[sobbing]

[whimpering]

[groaning]

♪ ♪

[sobbing continues]

♪ ♪

Now you can see.

Your dad and grandma crossed easily,

but I...

suffered.

You’re not my mother.

My mother made those sacrifices because she loved me

with everything she had.

She wasn’t spiteful or deceitful like you.

[grunts]

[panting]

Kobayende, I’ve got a deal for you:

eternity trapped inside my grandmother’s corpse.

[shouts]

[roars]

"Oust Kobayende,

protect us.

I offer sacrifice."

[screams]

"The spirit of the Nganga."

[screaming]

[Rosario continues chanting in Spanish]

"Spirits of the Nganga."

¡Mija!

[gagging]

[Rosario continues chanting in Spanish]

[rapid thumping]

"Keep us from harm."

Help me.

Help me, my love,

please!

"I offer sacrifice."

[Rosario continues chanting in Spanish]

[gagging, wheezing]

[Rosario continues chanting in Spanish]

[Rosario panting]

[wind whistling]

[lock clicks]

[door thumps]

Rosario?

Rosario?

♪ ♪

Rosario.

- Mija. Mija, it’s me. - Yeah.

What happened to your face?

- Dad? - Yeah.

The storm is over. The storm is over.

Hey, come here.

Come on. Come on, sit down.

Come on. Come on.

Come, sit.

No, slow, slow.

Oh, you’re bleeding.

- You okay? - Yeah, yeah.

I think I’m...

I think I’m okay, Dad.

What is this?

What are you doing with this?

Uh...

long story.

Abuela cared about me, didn’t she?

So did your mother.

What she went through when she crossed over,

it was horrible.

Well, how do you know about that?

I saw it.

You know, she was three months pregnant when we crossed.

And the coyotes, they separated us,

and, uh, she was never the same after that.

She got sick.

[sighs]

[clears throat]

You know, the ambulance is coming, so, uh...

...did you say a-a prayer?

We should say a prayer for her.

Dad, my Spanish is not the same--

No, we’ll do it together.

An "Our Father."

Okay.

Wait, no, there’s, um,

there’s a prayer in here for lost loved ones.

"With the blessing of God Almighty,

God of the stars, the sun, and the moon.

[Our God sacrifices]

I speak to you through the ancient spirits,

our ancestors,

and I keep them close forever and ever."

Wait.

MEDIC 2: Were you close?

Towards the end, we were.

♪ ♪

[Oscar sighs]

Let’s go inside.

How’d all this glass break?

- You don’t want to know. - Huh.

Well, talk about it over breakfast.

Are you gonna take Grandma’s old photos?

ROSARIO: I think I’m taking all of them.

[speaks Spanish]

And this thing?

What is this?

What is that? An air fryer?

Abuela had it in the oven.

She was full of surprises, wasn’t she?

OSCAR: Mm-hmm.

We need to, uh, warm up the truck.

Mija, come on.

- Hmm? Yeah, okay. - Warm up the truck.

I’m gonna just go to the bathroom for a minute, okay?

- Okay, Dad. I’ll clean up. - Okay.

♪ ♪

[door closes]

[siren wailing in distance]

♪ ♪

[breath trembling]

[siren continues in distance]

[Oscar speaking indistinctly in distance]

♪ ♪

Dad?

You weren’t supposed to know any of this.

You made the deal?

I swear, I never thought any of this would happen.

How could you?

It was your first Communion.

I saw your face so full of hope and beauty and...

[lively music playing faintly]

...I just thought of all the things

I could not provide you.

[lively music continues in distance]

I had known your grandmother practiced Palo.

She learned it in Chiapas from a Palero,

so I broke into her chamber.

And on your grandma’s Nganga, I wished for

the life you’d always wanted,

the life I could never give you.

I had no idea what it would do to you.

I was desperate.

Abuela found me and...

Get out of here.

Leave.

OSCAR: My mistake came at a price.

Required a sacrifice.

[speaks Spanish]

OSCAR: Blood sacrifice.

To keep Kobayende away.

She said she would fix it.

You’re bleeding.

Leave!

Yes, Grandmother.

[door creaks closed]

She used that Nganga to protect me

from the deal you made.

She put her blood in this every day.

The scars on her arms.

She stopped this monster for years till the day she died.

No, I’m gonna protect you now.

I’m going to.

I’ll put my blood in it every day

if that’s what it takes.

If the Palero who made the deal

places their blood in the Nganga,

their body and soul is sacrificed to Kobayende.

What do you mean?

Rosario.

Hey, Dad? Dad.

Tell me you didn’t just put your blood in that pot.

Dad.

[Rosario crying]

[groaning]

[crackling]

- No. - [pained grunt]

[sobs]

[panting]

No. [grunts]

[banging]

♪ ♪

[objects dragging]

[screams]

[gasping]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[stove clicking]

[Oscar grunting fiercely]

[both grunting]

- [Oscar growls] - [gasping]

[crying]

Dad.

Dad, it’s me.

[Rosario whimpers]

[Oscar grunts]

[shouts]

- [yells] - [bones crack]

[yells]

[growling]

[choking]

[neck snaps]

[grunts]

[gasps]

♪ ♪

[knife clatters on floor]

[whispers]: Dad.

My girl...

♪ ♪

[whispers]: Love you back, Dad.

[crying]

♪ ♪

[train clacking]

MIGUEL: I’m not even sure if we meet

the minimum balance to open an account here.

But... [sighs]

this is all we have.

HARLOW: Fuentes Financial.

Yeah.

Oh, she’s in a meeting right now.

Would you like to leave a message?

ROSARIO: Don’t worry about it, Miguel.

I think we can make an exception.

You work hard for this money.

Now I’m gonna make this money work hard for you.

[chuckles]

Thank God.

ROSARIO: Thank you.

Don’t worry, ma’am.

Everything’s going to be just fine.

Thank you, Ms. Fuentes.

ROSARIO: Please, Miguel, call me Rosario.

May God bless you.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[speaking Spanish] Holy Father,

bring these spirits close.

Forgive me, Dad.

I honor your sacrifice.

[clears throat, speaking Spanish]

May your spirit, your nsiki,

[coughing, speaking Spanish]

stay with me. [coughing]

[coughing loudly]

[gasps]

[panting softly]

[gagging]

[grunts sharply]

♪ ♪

["El Ciclón" playing]

[song continues with lyrics in Spanish]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[song ends]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[radio beeping]

NEIL ARMSTRONG [staticky]: Tranquility base here.

The Eagle has landed.

CHARLIE DUKE: Roger. We copy you on the ground.

Thanks a lot.

- ARMSTRONG: Thank you. - [beeping fades]