carrigan explains that maddie is a possible psychic, able to communicate with spirits. he reveals that the ghosts are trapped and are angry because only the headstones were moved to the new cemetery, but the bodies remain; they plan on using maddie "to free them from their purgatory". carrigan comes up with a plan to get maddie back. he anchors a rope in maddie's room and tosses it into the vortex. they attempt to use griffin's toy drone to guide maddie out, but it is immediately destroyed by the ghosts when inside the portal. griffin, guilt-ridden over leaving maddie alone in the first place, goes through the portal himself. when he finds maddie, the ghosts attempt to destroy the rope to trap them, but griffin and maddie grab onto the rope and are brought back through the portal.