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Rachel.
It's midnight, they're coming.
Edward.
♪ Girl child boy child Listen well
♪ Good sister good brother be
♪ Follow well These cautions three
♪ Long as your blood Be ours alone
♪ We'll see you ever From below ♪
Happy birthday, Edward.
Stop.
It hurts my eyes.
Aren't you going to wish the same to me?
What is there to be happy for?
Well, we're to take our walk today, aren't we?
To celebrate?
Celebrate?
There's no hope for us now.
Edward, I know you're angry...
It's not my anger you need to fear.
They keep us safe.
Can you not do the few things they ask us?
Nothing happened.
Nothing yet.
The first chime had struck Rachel.
Edward, don't be like this, please.
Not on our 18th birthday.
I didn't mean to take the risk.
It's only that I was out by the lake.
I was reading and I lost track of time.
The lake?
You know it's just as beautiful
as when we used to play there.
I don't think you'd be so...
Should we not be afraid?
Should we both not be afraid?
We could be reprimanded for what you've done.
Edward, you're hurting me.
Edward, please!
You know the rules by which we are governed sister.
Yet you continue to jeopardize us,
so help me to those laws I will appeal.
Edward, let me go.
You'll make your apology to them.
No!
You will!
Edward, let me go!
Get up!
Edward!
Say it!
Say it and make us safe again!
I won't beg for their forgiveness!
I've done nothing wrong!
Do it!
Say the rules!
I won't.
They're listening.
You know they're listening!
Girl child!
♪ Girl child boy child Listen well
♪ Be in bed by midnight's bell
♪ Never let a stranger Through your door
♪ Never leave each other All alone
♪ Good sister good brother we
♪ Never forget These cautions three
♪ Long as your blood Be ours alone
♪ You'll see us Ever from below ♪
There, are you satisfied?
You and I will never do what mother and father did.
Sean!
You're home!
We thought you might never come back.
It'll be all right, Kay, no one will hear us.
Yeah, touch it there, yeah.
Touch it there...
Would you stop it, Dessie.
I don't like this.
Come on, keep the hand warm.
What is it?
Shut up!
Come out then!
Bitch!
I see ya'.
The way that they look at me,
like I have no right to be here.
We understand why you went, son,
but the others, they've a war of their own to fight.
I don't see them fighting it.
Sean!
Kay?
I didn't know you...
Kay, where have you been?
Running around with those good for nothings in the woods?
No, mam.
Come in, if you'd like.
Friends of yours?
No.
The list.
Special day for you today, isn't it,
for you and your brother?
Quickly please.
Who is that?
It's her from up at the big house.
On credit, please.
One more week is all we can manage.
You'll get your money.
Wait.
This as well.
For the estate?
Came a week or so ago.
We have so little post for the estate I almost forgot.
I'm sure you did.
What can we do for you?
See something in the woods this morning, did ya'?
There was nothing to see.
Hey.
Leave her be.
You stay out of this, traitor.
Should you not be out fighting for the English?
What's the trouble here then, chaps?
Huh?
Brought your friends.
Names.
Hello.
What are you doing in my chimney?
Shh.
You're safe now.
Hello.
Those men, were they disturbing you?
If I'm disturbed, it's by you, sir.
I only want to see that you're all right.
As you see.
Do I know you?
Sean Nally is my name.
Me mom used to take washing up to your home.
You would've only been a child when I left for the war.
A grubby face staring through the gate maybe.
We knew better than to stare back.
You won't follow me all the way home
limping like that will you?
I would if you asked me to.
And if I didn't?
I'd ask if I may.
I have to go, I'm expected.
Mothers love birds.
Bermingham.
What do you see?
Rachel,
good sister be.
Edward?
I was afraid.
What took you so long?
I didn't know that I would come back.
Is that a letter?
It's from Bermingham, the solicitor.
He says there's nothing left in the trust.
He wants us to sell the house.
They'd never allow it.
He says we have no choice.
Now that we're of age, we have the right.
By his laws, maybe,
not by ours.
He's threatening to visit.
He can't!
You've been to the lake again.
These hours are my own.
Rachel, I...
You won't follow me all the way home
limping like that will you?
And if I asked you to?
If I asked you to follow me...
here.
Follow me here.
Who is it?
It's me, of course.
Yes?
That nightgown was mother's.
So was that.
You hurt me today.
I didn't mean to.
Edward, we had such plans for today,
just to walk in the grounds and even that, you couldn't do.
I'm sorry.
I remember how she loved those birds.
I think she understood them
singing in their cage.
She said as long as she could hear bird
songs she knew she was still alive.
Maybe she still does.
You know birds can fly past this world into the next.
We could live a thousand lives and never know what they know.
Those are just stories, Edward.
She left them to die
like us.
They taught us to live by the rules.
This isn't living.
Never leave, never know another soul,
lock yourself in night after night after night?
You know we can't go on like this any longer
than mother and father did.
But this place belongs to us and we to it.
There's no other way.
You know I'll die if you leave me.
We could try again tomorrow.
It's too late.
We're old enough now and...
Stop!
Why should we be punished for it?
We've done nothing wrong.
No, it isn't what we've done, it's what we are.
But who is to blame for that, Edward?
Not you, not me.
It's wrong.
How can fate be wrong?
Edward...
I've drawn a bath.
For me as well?
No, Edward.
We're too old for that now.
Bring this thing back to your room when you're leaving.
And if I asked you to follow me?
Follow me here.
Rachel.
You yearn for consummation!
Leave me alone.
It's not yet midnight!
Rachel!
Rachel, Rachel, Rachel!
Good sister.
What is it?
Thank you.
The gift of a pure betrothed.
How can something so cruel ever come from love?
What's it like out there, really,
outside the estate?
If I lied and said it was beautiful,
would it make any difference?
Bermingham!
"Never let a stranger through your door."
Stay here.
Rachel!
Shh.
Open up.
I've come all the way from...
Mr. Bermingham?
Ms. Rachel, I have come all the way from the mainland...
This is our mainland, Mr. Bermingham
and you seem quite out of place here.
Well, I must insist that you admit me, regardless!
You know we don't admit visitors, Mr. Bermingham.
My family has always been emphatic on that matter.
I'm here on urgent business.
Where is your brother?
Edward is indisposed.
You may deal with me
from there.
I am not here on a social call, young lady.
The finances of your estate are
in a state of grave depletion.
The outstanding debt is such that I have little option
but to take drastic measures.
Wait here, please.
Young lady, I demand to speak with your brother!
Sorry mother.
Will this help?
Well clearly I'm in no position to evaluate
but they might help for the time being.
Exquisite, yes!
An exquisite piece but
young lady, I'm afraid you don't understand
the magnitude of the debt.
In the absence of your elders,
perhaps your brother might be best...
I was born 11 minutes before Edward, Mr. Bermingham.
You may consider me the elder.
Walk with me?
Clearly this is an unusual way
to conduct business of this nature.
We're an unusual family.
Yes...
Rachel?
Edward...
You won't follow me all the way home limping like that, will you?
Rachel, is it you?
And if I asked you to, if I asked you to follow me...
Tell me then, how badly off are we?
I'm afraid the estate could scarcely be worse off
and your family's eccentricities have been little help to matters.
How long have you worked for us, Mr. Bermingham?
My family has attended to the needs
of your own for generations.
Never before today have any of you presumed
to come here in person.
The situation has never been so dire.
My brother and I live very simply.
Simply or otherwise,
there is nothing left for you to live upon.
I must see inside the house and bring a qualified individual
to make an evaluation of the property and it's content.
That's out of the question.
The sale of a few trinkets will only go so far,
but what about this pretty little thing?
Silver, is it?
If I'm to sell the pearls, mightn't this be taken also?
No.
Not this.
Soon you might not be in the position to choose.
If only you knew!
In your position and with your obvious advantages,
perhaps the best course of action would be to marry?
This house has belonged to us and we to it
for more than two centuries.
You need not understand that, Mr. Bermingham,
but I ask that you respect it.
Good day.
You!
What are you doing here?
- Well? - I'm sorry.
No, stay there or you'll be seen from the house.
So you did follow me?
I didn't mean to frighten you,
but when I saw you in the village you looked so...
Come back tomorrow, in the morning.
It's okay.
We belong here, together.
Edward, he's gone.
Edward?
Still afraid?
Wouldn't you be?
I didn't break the rules.
Did you dissuade Bermingham?
I tried,
but he'll be back.
And he came alone?
Yes, he was quite alone.
Don't you feel different lately?
Don't you feel their presence with more intensity?
You know I do.
Do you hear them more now?
In every ticking of the clock
and every crick of the floorboards
and in every sound the house makes, I hear them.
They won't wait much longer,
not now that they're of age.
When they came last night, how did it feel?
Did you call them in?
They wanted me to see you.
I can't save you!
You can't save yourself.
You came.
Don't be afraid.
Have one?
Go on.
They grow so well on the graves.
Come with me, I'll show you where they died.
My brother and I were always happiest
playing here as children.
This is the edge of our world.
Any farther and we weren't safe.
What were you doing here yesterday?
I wanted to see you.
You saw me at the village.
I wanted to see you in private.
You mean you wanted to see where I live.
When I saw you yesterday, you looked afraid.
I was afraid that you'd be afraid of me,
that you'd think I was like them.
There are greater things to be afraid of
than you or anybody from that village.
Will you sit with me?
This is where Edward found them.
I was in my bed.
I woke up and this was around my neck.
Mother had put it on me while I was sleeping.
That's how I knew they were gone.
By the time I got here Edward...
Something was broken in him.
He's never left the house since.
Your parents were suicides?
And theirs as well, and theirs before them.
Drowned, all of them.
It's something about the water,
maybe they think it will wash their sins away.
"So lovely is the loneliness of a wild lake
"with black rock bound and the tall pines
"that towered around."
Do you know it?
I never had much time for poetry.
"But when the night had thrown her paw
"upon that spot eyes upon all,
"and the mystic wind went by murmuring a melody.
"Then ah, then I would wake
"to the tire of the lone lake.
"Death was in that poisonous wave
"and in its garth, a fitting grave."
Wait.
I'll die if you leave me.
Would you help me?
Would you help me get away from here?
If we went together, it could be safe.
Leave?
Why would you want that?
If you'd seen the world I have,
you'd know you were safer here.
Safer?
All I have here is death.
And what do you think is out there in the world?
It's a bad place, people are bad,
even there in the village.
I know what that's like
to have somebody look in your eyes
and there's nothing there but hate.
Maybe that's what drove your parents to...
You think that's what did it?
Hate?
A few squinting eyes, wagging tongues?
There are worse things in this world than hate.
What's worse than hatred?
Love can be worse than hatred.
Show it to me.
I know you have a false leg.
Show it to me.
Don't, please.
I want to know how it feels to be somebody else.
Do you feel that?
Sometimes I think it's still there.
And then I look at it,
it's not me when I look.
Does it come away?
Show me.
I didn't think you'd understand.
It's war, you know?
There's a lot worse off than me.
Don't
touch me there.
I'm not touching you anywhere.
You know how it feels, don't you?
For something to still be there when it's gone?
Open up, I demand an explanation for this!
Young lady, I will not be made a fool of!
Oh, Master Edward?
I mistook you for...
What do you want?
Well, to be given an explanation for this chicanery.
I was presented with jewelry to begin repayment
for this estate's considerable debts
only to find some kind of substitution has been made
at the gate no doubt!
Oh, sly girl indeed.
Mother's love birds,
they've called you back.
I beg your pardon?
I suppose you better come inside.
Wait!
I thought you wanted me to?
I can feel eyes on me.
Rachel,
there's no one here.
We're never alone.
Young man, this house is in a state of dereliction.
We live simply here.
Simply?
You live in squalor!
It's clear management of this property is
beyond you and your sister.
You'd have us leave?
I see no option, but for you to do so.
Our ancestors fled where they came from to this place,
where nobody knew,
they built this house to hide their shame,
but their shame took form and it punished them.
They'll never be free of it.
We'll never be free of them.
Free of who?
They live below and we live above.
The day is ours, the night is theirs
and as long as we keep to the rules
that's how it remains but
now we're of age.
I feel them pressing at us.
Rachel, who lives with you in that house?
Some of these items could surely be sold.
Clean and restored they would fetch a price.
This, for instance, might be a fine piece.
Flemish, perhaps 17th century.
Surely, there are other properties in the family,
other holdings?
That ceiling is near
eaten through with damp, young man.
Clearly, this house is beyond you.
A return to England perhaps might be the soundest idea.
We aren't English, Mr. Bermingham.
Not English by birth perhaps,
but for all intents and purposes...
There's no name for what we are.
Rachel, what you're telling me, it's a story
to scare children, to make them behave.
It's no better than the stories they tell in the village.
And what would you know?
Was it a story that drove my mother
and father into the lake and theirs?
Is it a story that has my brother and I locked
into our bedrooms each night?
It's a punishment.
Our parents followed all the rules,
taught us to follow them but in the end,
they couldn't bare it!
And when we've fulfilled our purpose like they did,
we'll go the same way.
Do you think I want to live like this?
Afraid to live,
afraid to touch anything that lives!
Cursed.
Rachel,
you make your own fate.
Nobody is cursed to die.
Cursed to die?
Our curse is to live.
Go on then.
You're no use to me.
You're no use to anybody.
No.
No...
Oh, no...
Never let a stranger through your door.
Forgive me!
Where you off to, traitor?
Get out of my way.
Your way?
Got heirs with your friends up there, have ya'?
Huh?
What's that, traitor?
Grab him, lads.
Get off!
Get off me!
Around here, we fight our own war,
our own ways, understand?
And we have no use for you here, cripple.
We have no use for traitors around here.
You get me?
I've killed better men than you!
Let me past.
You've hurt yourself.
It's nothing.
It was the bird.
It scratched me.
You're sick, Edward.
This can't go on.
Who have you been with?
Tomorrow I leave with or without you.
I won't stay and become what they did.
Edward, I know it's you.
You won't stop me.
Never leave each other all alone.
It's not your time!
I kept to the rules!
Good sister be.
Breed our immortality.
I kept to the rules!
They've been in our room.
You, you brought Bermingham into the house, didn't you?
- You made this happen! - Rachel, I had to do it.
They don't have to hurt us if we only obey.
There's only the master bedroom now.
Where will you go like that?
You'll never survive out there.
Rachel?
Don't even say her name, Sean.
See who that is, mam.
I'll tend to him.
It's you.
What do you want?
I've come to see your son.
Come to see the damage you've done, have you?
Tell him I'm here, please.
I know what you're like!
Tell him I'm sorry for what I said.
I'll tell him nothing from you.
Washing the filth out of your sheets,
your parents and the ones before them.
You think I don't know what goes on in that place?
I need his help.
There's only one thing you're good for
and don't think he doesn't know it
so why don't you pay your bill and leave
before you cause any more trouble!
I have nothing to pay you with.
Not half, you don't!
More fool of my boy for thinking he could get it out of you!
Take this then.
It's all that's left of us.
Don't touch it!
She'll be back.
Wait!
Please.
This is yours.
She told you then?
Told me what?
Oh, Sean.
In my dream, I saw things, things I can't...
Whatever that girl told you,
whatever awful things,
it's all true.
Mam?
How could people like us ever help someone like her?
It's not that I'm not sorry for them.
I've seen them when I was at the house
with the mending and washing.
Just two little children too young to know what they were.
Do you believe that two people can do something so,
so unnatural that it leaves a stain on them
and that the stain goes on to their children
and to their children's children?
They were all like us, twins.
My mother, my father.
Their mother and father before them
and their mother and father before them
since we came to this place and shut ourselves away
so nobody would know what we are.
I thought your brother might be the one to help me
but no one can.
Now don't go rushing off again, Kay.
There's not much left of that traitor for you to run back to.
Get that one!
You wouldn't dare come in here, you filth!
You're not worth the bother.
Let's leave her alone Leo, she's done nothing.
What can I do?
What would you have me do?
Mother.
Mother!
Edward?
No!
What have they done to you?
You would have left me here to die.
They knew you'd come back, you'll always come back.
I saw, Edward, what you saw down by the lake.
I know you've been so afraid,
but Mother wanted us to be free.
She wanted us to be free.
Edward, there's still a chance for us.
Edward, are you listening to me?
We know what you've been doing.
You found yourself some man,
some peasant down in the village
you've made yourself a whore.
Edward!
You think just because you're outside we don't see you.
You think we don't see everything you do, everything you feel.
You can't believe this is meant to be?
Then why do we feel what you feel,
why do we see what you're thinking before you do?
This house speaks to us.
It belongs to us and we to it.
Even the bird speaks in its voice.
Enough!
There's no bird in that cage!
You'll see what we see soon.
You think that we're cursed, that we're being punished
but what we have is a gift.
You crave it, too.
We feel your yearning for the consummation,
to breed our immortality in the pit of your body.
Get away from me.
♪ Good sister good brother be ♪
You know they mean for me to claim you.
I'm already claimed by that peasant at the lake.
It's true.
I made myself a whore for him to be free of you.
What have you done?
You stink of longing for his rotting seed!
There's nothing left for us to do but die.
You lied!
You're still pure!
The gift of a pure betrothal.
Rachel!
Let me in!
Where is she?
Tell her I've come for her.
Tell her yourself.
This place...
Where is she?
What do you know about this place?
I know enough.
Then you know she can't go with you.
Edward?
Edward!
Midnight is coming.
Now you see.
Edward!
Rachel!
Edward!
Sean?
Edward, Edward!
What have you done to him?
Sean! Sean!
They're coming.
Rachel!
Sean!
Rachel!
Come on, the door.
Come on, Rachel.
Rachel, Rachel, let me.
Let me!
It's a trap.
They will never let us.
Sean...
Rachel?
Rachel!
No!
Sean!
Sean.
Rachel.
Did they?
He followed me down.
They took him instead.
I'm sorry.
I know.
Then, we can be together?
No, darling.
It's too late for that now.
I came back to say goodbye.
I'm afraid.
Don't be afraid.
You'll be free soon.
We both will.
I love you.
And I love you.
Will Mother and Father be here?
Yes.
Mother and Father will come for you, I promise.
♪ Long as your blood Be ours alone
♪ You'll see us ever From below ♪
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