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Episode Title:
The Sleepless Child.Episode Description:
A woman named Sawako is expecting her husband to come home, but her husband says over the phone he won't be back for some time now. She listens to a news report about a child named Kodama Kiyoharu being abducted from a park. The woman's son, Takeru, says he's been to that park. She tells him it's time for bed, although she looks at the report with unease... Later that night, Sawako is awakened by the sound of something breaking. It turns out to be Takeru, who wanted a glass of milk, but he dropped the cup. As she picks up the broken glass, he tells her he had a nightmare. She asks if he wants to sleep with her, but he tells her he's too old for that. Still, she invites him if he has another nightmare. At 2:04 AM, Sawako has a nightmare where she's buried alive. She wakes up with a start to find Takeru sleeping next to her. She calls her husband, who tells her he'll be back soon. Just then, a door opens and handprints and footprints appear all over the floor and walls of the corridor. She confesses, to her horror, that the child she ran over is in the house. Her husband's voice is replaced by the sound of a boy laughing. She cries that it wasn't her fault, but her husband's who said they should bury him in the mountains. She begs him for forgiveness, but the boy's voice says he will not. Suddenly, Takeru comes out of his bedroom and asks what's wrong; the handprints and footprints disappear. Takeru asks why she's covered in dirt all of a sudden. Sawako suddenly realizes that the child in her bed is not her son...
