Ever since Rachel was found unconscious near the lobby, everyone was keeping a much closer watch on her. That wasn't the only thing that changed that night. She also hadn't had a session since then. Of course, she didn't miss them. It was rather strange though. She had deduced that both Dr. Culver and Professor Qara were missing. She came to this conclusion when she was questioned about them. Apparently, they had been missing since the night she attempted to break out of the institution. No one believed her story. No one even believed that the gate was unlocked and open. Everyone figured that she had forced it open somehow. She had the strong impression that they also believed that she was somehow involved in the unusual disappearance of both Dr. Culver and Professor Qara. This did not surprise her. She had been accused of a lot of crimes lately.

It all started with Aidan's death. That was the first crime she was accused of. It snowballed from there. Before she knew it, she was being first being questioned and then accused of many deaths: Noah - Aidan's father; Richard Morgan - Samara's father; Katie - her niece; three of Katie's high-school friends, who all died at the same time as Katie, so that one was rather difficult for the police to prove; and even Samara herself. They felt that Samara was actually the first person Rachel murdered. They also felt that that was why Rachel retrieved her from the well. They thought that the guilt Rachel felt over killing Samara had finally become too great for her to withstand. This led her to "discover" Samara's corpse in a backhanded attempt to confess the crime. They also thought that when Rachel wasn't arrested for Samara's murder, which would have led to the confession of the other crimes, that Rachel was still racked with guilt. Then she lashed out against the people closest to her: her family. Ultimately, though, she was being charged with just three murders: Aidan's, Noah's, and Richard Morgan's. The district attorney felt that these three cases had sufficient evidence to proceed with. However, both the police and the DA were still working feverishly to amass enough evidence on the other cases to proceed with them.

By far the most damaging evidence of all was the injury found on Rachel's arm after Aidan's death. At first Rachel thought the marks had been left by Samara. Later she became aware of the brutal truth. She now knew that Aidan had left them. She remembered the night well, too well. It was Aidan's seventh day, and even though Rachel had made sure that Aidan did everything she did to ensure his safety, they were both still scared. They stayed up late together. Rachel had no idea how she was going to protect him if Samara came, but she wasn't going to let her little boy face Samara alone. Even if Aidan had watched the tape during the day instead of late at night, it would have made no difference on what happened next. Rachel knew that. One minute they were playing a game and the next Rachel had passed out cold. It was Samara's doing. Samara had gotten Rachel out of the way so she could kill Aidan. When Rachel came to, she found her son dead. She would never forget the look on his face. It was horrifying. Rachel was so shocked by what transpired that she never noticed the marks on her arm. It was the police that pointed them out. Her mind reeled when she realized how they got there. When Samara came for Aidan, he had desperately tried to wake her up by pulling on her arm. She could see him in her mind pulling on her arm and screaming at her for help. Samara wouldn't let Rachel help though. Samara killed her little boy right in front of her and she wasn't able to do a damn thing about it. Rachel hated Samara, but Samara was in her head now.

"He's coming." The words still swam in her mind, always accompanied by the echo. They had been there ever since that night in the lobby. She hadn't felt the same since then. She knew that it was almost time. "He's coming."