:23:01
Is Annie okay?
:23:05
Annie's fine.
Wearing out her ears again.
:23:09
And ours. If not "A Summer Place,"
then "Pennsylvania 6 9000."
:23:10
Same two over and over,
all afternoon.
:23:12
Guess she just likes it.
I know. I just can't figure out why.
:23:16
Thank God for small favors.
:23:19
Annie. Annie. Come lnome.
:23:21
We're waiting, Annie. We're waiting.
:23:23
Please cone hone, Annie.
We're waiting.
:23:25
Despite what some people may think,
psychic powers...
:23:29
...telepathy, telekinesis,
precognition, all the rest...
:23:32
...have no moral gradient.
They are neither good nor bad.
:23:38
Houses are different.
:23:44
Shirley Jackson was right.
Some houses are born bad.
:23:45
Houses like this one.
:23:46
Houses like Rose Red.
:23:48
I knew it was big,
but that's enormous!
:23:50
Well, fortunately for us,
an enormous dead cell.
:23:52
There've been no overt manifestations
in Rose Red since 1 995 or so.
:23:55
Some houses have their own inner life
which may or may not be conscious.
:23:58
If there was once consciousness in
Rose Red, it manifested itself early.
:23:59
Seattle 100 years ago was a different
world. More so than we can imagine.
:24:13
Survival was an actual issue,
not a TV show.
:24:15
Fortunes were made
by bandits in tall lnats.
:24:19
You could get out of tlne way
or you could get run down.
:24:23
In tlne year 1906,
you were on your own.
:24:28
Rose Red was built
by Joln P. Rimbauer...
:24:37
...on Spring Street in Seattle...
:24:40
...as a wedding present to his wife.
:24:44
He was founder of Omicron Oil Company,
until 1 950, the biggest in America.
:24:48
1 950 was the year
Ellen Rimbauer disappeared.
:24:51
The trouble with Rose Red started
even before there was a house.
:24:55
Construction crews worlked
24 lnours, 7 days a week.