the following evening, eric and amy go to dinner with their friends, leaving the three children at home. they learn that their house was built on an old cemetery, although the property developer was supposed to have relocated the human remains. kendra wakes up to a strange sound in the laundry room. while investigating the noise, the floor cracks and a corpse's hand emerges. it begins pulling at her foot, but she manages to pull herself up. meanwhile, griffin notices the clown dolls seem to be moving by themselves. one clown doll attacks him, but he destroys it and runs from his bedroom. he finds maddie in her room, scared, crouching in a corner, and tells her to stay while he goes to find kendra. maddie is then lured into her closet and becomes lost in an unending void. as she sees her bedroom drifting away further, she is dragged into the darkness by ghosts. griffin is grabbed through a window by the branches of the old tree outside their house, which pulls him outside. amy and eric arrive home to see griffin being tossed around in the tree branches, which releases its grip when they come close, while kendra tells them she can't find maddie.