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but it's not ours to keep.

Now, you return this as soon

as you get to school tomorrow. Got it?

Okay, let's go. Bedtime.

O'er thy spirit gently stealing

I my loving vigil keeping

All through the night

Goodnight, baby.

Goodnight, Mom.

Our tigress lives

in Kanha National Park,

in the forests of Kipling's Jungle Book,

where dawn elephant patrols

ensure this is one of the safest places

for tigers to roam.

Year after year...

Damn it.

Two thousand, nine hundred

and ninety-six.

Come on.

What the hell is this?

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...

There could be

thousands of bodies here...

Oh, my God.

Dad?

Dad, we're gonna be late!

Do you have your knapsack all set?

Thanks for the ride, Mr. Koestler.

Dad, are you sick?

I'm fine.

Don't you think you're acting

kind of awkward today?

Am I awkward?

I just had a lot of work to do last night.

Okay.

- Bye, Dad.

- Bye.

Look at this.

- Look at the numbers beside the date.

- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Two thousand, nine hundred

and ninety-six.

Right.

That's how many people died

in the attacks that day.

- Yeah.

- All right, stay with me.

I know how this sounds, but I've matched

these numbers to the dates

of every major global disaster for

the last 50 years in perfect sequence,

except for three.

And these events haven't occurred yet,

starting with this one.

So tomorrow, somewhere on the planet,

this number string predicts

that 81 people are gonna die

in some kind of tragedy.

- Whoa. I mean, have a listen to yourself.

- I know.

- It sounds pretty crazy.

- I know.

I mean, even for you.

- What's this?

- Open it.

Oh!

Why are you showing me this?

The day Allison died in the fire,

it's on the list, too,

from a piece of paper that's been

buried in the ground for five decades.

- Yeah.

- Can you explain that, Phil?

I was up all night going over this.

I went through that list again and again,

and I tried to fault it and I couldn't.

Maybe someone's playing

a really shitty joke...

Right! Right!

Except I saw them dig it up!

I watched them pull the capsule

out of the ground

and hand that sealed envelope to my kid.

Okay, let me ask you this, then.

All these uncircled numbers,

what do they mean?

I don't know yet. Maybe nothing.

But the circled...

Maybe they all mean nothing.

Okay, Phil, hey,

can we just start over here?

I'm not saying that 81 people

are going to die tomorrow, okay?

I'm just trying to understand

why this is saying they will.

Okay, it's spooky, all right? I'll grant you.

It's more than spooky.

But just step back, all right?

You have all these uncircled numbers

with no sequence to them.

I mean, numerology,

kabala, Pythagorean cults,

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