Lily captures Bryce at the edge of the lake where Mercy Black can supposedly be summoned. Marina fights back and the effigy collapses. The Mercy Black effigy seemingly comes to life and attacks Marina. Before exiting, Lily tells Marina that she plans to sacrifice Bryce to bring Mercy Black to life. Lily claims that Marina’s mother died because Marina and Rebecca failed to complete their sacrifice.īryce runs away as the two women fight. Lily explains that she wanted Marina to believe again so that Marina could see Mercy Black. Lily confronts Marina inside the shelter. While Marina goes inside to look for Bryce, Lily slits Dr. Ward to the forest floor hatch leading to the fallout shelter. Ward mentions that Lily went off the grid in adulthood and could have been the person who attacked Marina. Ward arrives at the house and revives Marina. Responding to Alice’s earlier phone call, Dr. Lily takes Bryce to the fallout shelter in the woods. A finger missing from her hand reveals that Mrs. Someone knocks Marina unconscious.īryce runs outside where Mrs.
Bryce begins reciting the Mercy Black rhyme. Marina shows Bryce the mask she made with Rebecca to prove Mercy Black isn’t real. Alice tells Marina that she saw Mercy Black. Marina returns home as Alice is taken away in an ambulance. Alice becomes spooked by a shadowy figure and falls down the stairs. Before she can leave, Alice finds Bryce standing entranced and whispering toward his bedroom vent. Officer Hamilton calls Alice to the police station regarding Will’s death. Inside, Marina remembers building an effigy of Mercy Black with Rebecca, who told her that the underground shelter was Mercy Black’s home.Īlice discovers disturbing pictures drawn by her son. Marina follows Rebecca’s map and her memory to a fallout shelter hidden in the woods. Bryce tells his mother that Mercy Black told him to do it. Bryce sets up his friend Sam to be killed in a noose trap as an offering to Mercy Black. Bellows drives Bryce home after finding him ripping up a book in a rage. Although Rebecca is catatonic, Marina finds a hand drawn map to Mercy Black’s hidden home in the woods. Marina goes to see Rebecca at the trailer where she lives with her mother. Ward to tell her Marina is seeing and hearing things again. Marina sees the word “promise” written on Bryce’s bedroom wall, which prompts her to remember Rebecca cutting off Lily’s finger as an offering to Mercy.Īlice becomes concerned when Marina tells her she thinks Mercy Black may be real after all. Later that night, someone dressed as Mercy Black murders Will in his home.īryce wakes up screaming when he sees Mercy Black watching him through a vent. Will confesses that he has been writing a book about Marina and Mercy. Bryce shows Marina what he found online and tells her he is worried he will see Mercy.Īlice storms into Will’s house where she discovers a collection of clippings related to Marina and Mercy Black. Marina tells her nephew that Rebecca made up the legend. Believing Will to be responsible, Alice leaves to confront him.īryce asks Marina about Mercy Black. Alice returns home during the altercation and shouts at Will to never return.Īlice finds the family dog dead in a trashcan. Claiming Marina is crazy, Will storms away. Marina inadvertently cuts Will’s hand with a sander when he gets too close to her. Marina becomes uncomfortable when Will insists that Marina publicly tell her story for profit. Will mentions that Rebecca Cline was previously released from her mental hospital. Bellows shows Bryce how to research stories about Mercy Black as well as his aunt Marina on the internet. Later that night, someone vandalizes the house with a Mercy Black effigy.Īfter his mother tells him not to say her name, Bryce asks librarian Mrs. Claiming to be a true crime fan, Will presses Marina for details about the stabbing while explaining how the legend of Mercy Black went viral after the incident. Although she still struggles with nightmares, Marina begins living with Alice and Alice’s eight-year-old son Bryce.Īlice invites her boyfriend Will Nylund to the house for dinner. Etta Ward releases Marina from Schatten State Hospital into the custody of Marina’s sister Alice. Lily survives the stabbing while Marina and Rebecca are committed to mental hospitals.ġ5 Years Later – Psychiatrist Dr. Believing she can summon Mercy to save her dying mother, Marina goes along with Rebecca’s plan to sacrifice their friend Lily. As young girls, Rebecca Cline tells her friend Marina Hess about the legend of Mercy Black, a supernatural entity that seeks out sad children and takes away what hurts them in exchange for an offering that will make her flesh and blood.
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