

When she wakes up, Rachel drugs Samara/Aidan with sleeping pills and puts their body in the bath, temporarily drowning Aidan in order to exorcise her. When Rachel falls asleep she dreams of Aidan, who tells her that she will have to exorcise Samara. She steps out, and finds Max's corpse in his pickup truck. When Rachel returns, an affectionate Aidan greets her, his behavior seeming out-of-character. Max arrives and, suspecting foul play, tries to secretly take photos of Aidan. Unbeknownst to Rachel, Aidan has left the hospital and returned to Max's house. Evelyn advises her cryptically that: "dreams are safe," that "my baby told me to kill her", and that Rachel "let the dead get in." As Rachel leaves, she asks what to do and Evelyn replies "listen to your baby." When Rachel goes to visit, Evelyn is expecting her, and she is allowed immediate entry to the facility. It is also recorded that she tried to drown Samara as an infant, and was subsequently committed to a psychiatric hospital. Rachel heads to a church and learns that Samara's biological mother was named Evelyn, who showed up with no father in sight. Temple in to speak with him and while they talk, Samara telepathically forces Dr. While Rachel looks for answers, Samara takes control of Aidan's body, waking him up from sleep. Inside the case is evidence of Samara's biological mother.

She heads down there and finds the mirror from the tape, many deer antlers, Samara's old toy merry-go-round and a suitcase with a small flower on it. The realtor lies about what happened to the Morgan family, but reveals that any furniture they left behind was sent down to the basement. She is all set to break in when she learns that a real estate agent is holding an open house and she arrives early. Rachel returns to the Morgan ranch on Moesko Island. Unfortunately this just directs her back to the Morgans. Looking for answers, Rachel tries to find out who Samara's birth parents were from an adoption agency. Thinking that Rachel was the one harming Aidan, Emma bans Rachel from seeing her son until the two women can speak about it in depth. Temple reveals her knowledge of Rachel's bout with postpartum depression. Psychiatrist Emma Temple shows up and concludes that Rachel is abusing her son. Rachel is left with many questions about Samara's origins.īased on Aidan's bruises and his health, CPS is called. Whilst Aiden is sleeping, he telepathically sends Rachel a vision from Samara consisting of many different images. Max enters, seeing her drowning Aidan instead, and forces her to take her son to the hospital. Samara causes the water to recede from the bath, replacing Aidan with herself, and terrorizing Rachel so that she tries to drown Samara. While Rachel is attempting to give Aidan a bath, he develops an irrational fear of water. Rachel then asks for his help, claiming to have lost power, so Max takes them in. It is during this time that Rachel realizes Aidan may be possessed by Samara.ĭeciding to not be alone in their home, they rush out to the paper, surprising her co-workers including Max. After the stampede, Rachel returns home with Aiden and worries about his health. Rachel takes him home but they are attacked by multiple wild deer on the way, wrecking the car. At a county fair, Aidan wanders into a restroom and takes photographs of his reflection, where Samara appears. He soon starts developing hypothermia and bruises on his arms. Aidan experiences a nightmare where Samara drags him into a television. Rachel breaks into Jake's house, obtains the videotape and burns it. Rachel learns of Jake's death, inspecting his body, only for Samara to appear, declaring that she has been looking for her. Rachel works at The Daily Astorian for editor Max Rourke. Rachel Keller and her son, Aidan, have moved to Astoria from Seattle after sending the tape off into the ether. Jake is then promptly murdered by Samara. Suddenly, Jake notices dark liquid pouring from under the kitchen door and runs outside to the living room, only to discover Emily closed her eyes while watching the tape. Jake receives a phone call and initially thinks it is Samara but is relieved to realize it is only his friend with whom he had planned to trick Emily into watching the tape. He briefly steps into his kitchen while Emily supposedly watches the tape. Jake Pierce is on his seventh day as per the tape's rules, and asks his friend Emily to watch the tape. Six months after the events of the first film and immediately following the events of the short film Rings, Samara Morgan's cursed videotape has been circulating through teenagers in Astoria, Oregon.
