Phoenix

After being away for ten years, Laura Collins has returned to Collinsport from Phoenix. She is mysterious about why she was in Arizona. She only says she has returned because she wants a divorce and to leave with her son. Roger doesn’t seem to mind. You see, he and David do not have a loving, warm daddy/son relationship. Shipping him off with his mother sounds like a fine idea to dear old dad.

Then the state police show up to tell the family that Laura Collins is dead. She died in a fire in Phoenix. They have proof: matching dental records, family heirloom jewelry, the fact that it was her apartment (locked from the inside). All this is a surprise to everyone who knows that Laura is currently living in the caretaker’s cottage. Laura, however, seems a little less surprised than the others.

David dreams of his mother in fire. Sam Evans keeps painting Laura emerging from fire. Victoria is temporarily possessed and seeks out a caretaker at a graveyard to investigate the history of Laura’s family (which seems to have a strange incident every 100 years beginning in 1767…it is now 1967).

Laura seems able to control anyone who stands in her way. Her large eyes fill the screen as flashes of terrible events happen to other characters. Sam Evans falls asleep and starts a fire in his cottage. Thankfully Maggie saves him. Elizabeth tells Laura that she will fight her in court for custody of David, only to wind up with Laura’s large eyes filling the screen as Elizabeth tumbles down the stairs. Afterward, Elizabeth has no memory of half the day. Doctors assure the family that nothing is physically wrong with Elizabeth as Laura mysteriously appears in Elizabeth’s room and Elizabeth becomes catatonic.

Finally a doctor arrives and can tell the family what has happened. Elizabeth has been put into a deep trance by someone! She must be removed from the home to save her. Meanwhile, the doctor remains to investigate who has this powerful hold over the matriarch. Laura could not be happier to see Liz go as this frees her to push Roger into releasing David to her forever.