:38:04
...have no moral gradient.
They are neither good nor bad.
:38:11
Houses are different.
:38:22
Shirley Jackson was right.
Some houses are born bad.
:38:26
Houses like this one.
:38:33
Houses like Rose Red.
:38:41
I knew it was big,
but that's enormous!
:38:43
Well, fortunately for us,
an enormous dead cell.
:38:46
There've been no overt manifestations
in Rose Red since 1 995 or so.
:38:50
Some houses have their own inner life
which may or may not be conscious.
:38:53
If there was once consciousness in
Rose Red, it manifested itself early.
:38:57
Seattle 100 years ago was a different
world. More so than we can imagine.
:39:03
Survival was an actual issue,
not a TV show.
:39:06
Fortunes were made
by bandits in tall lnats.
:39:07
You could get out of tlne way
or you could get run down.
:39:12
In tlne year 1906,
you were on your own.
:39:18
Rose Red was built
by Joln P. Rimbauer...
:39:20
...on Spring Street in Seattle...
:39:25
...as a wedding present to his wife.
:39:30
He was founder of Omicron Oil Company,
until 1 950, the biggest in America.
:39:34
1 950 was the year
Ellen Rimbauer disappeared.
:39:38
The trouble with Rose Red started
even before there was a house.
:39:43
Construction crews worlked
24 lnours, 7 days a week.
:39:44
But that wasn't the problem.
:39:53
Even before tlnere was a lnouse tlnere...
:39:58
... that ground seened
to make people mad.