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Nightmare Fuel / The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

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  • Anna imagining Neil killing his wife. For the first, he starts swearing right in front of Emma before asking Emma to go off and grab him a beer. He then threatens his wife and when she accidentally pricks him with a hook, he shoves her into the water and watches her drown, taking a sip of beer as he does. What's worse, his wife is pregnant, and Emma witnesses the murder.
  • In the flashback with the teacher, Neil makes out with her in the lighthouse when she has second thoughts due to his wife's recent death. When his apathy and silence confirm his guilt, he throws her off.
  • Sweet little Emma being the killer. Anna runs over to save her and is greeted with a mutilated Buell and a dead Neil, Emma standing proudly over their bodies.
    • Like father, like daughter, she is given a flashback to her mother's murder. She lures her mother to the docks, which she rigged to collapse, by asking her to grab her doll. As she hangs on barely to a lamppost, Emma proclaims she wants to remain an only child and stomps, sending her mother crashing down.
    • We also get a look at Lisa's murder. She prepares to leave, telling Emma that she won't buy her chocolate because it's bad for her health. Emma shows her what's really bad for her health, a knife wound.

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