[eerie music]
- [Smith] Do not dwell in the past.
Do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
[industrial music]
When I first met the devil his name was Kahn.
Mine, Saint Michael.
The war for the soul of mankindhas raged for 3,000 years.
The battleground today is Shanghai.
I have forced three young Americans to work for me.
JT, a gang banger.
Mr. Mitchell, a failed mob lawyer.
And Amy Li, a beautiful young woman.
They will ultimately discover the history
when present and past collide,
and where one misstep on eitherside
of the fourth dimension
is fatal.
In the world of Flatland,
where nothing is as it appears to be.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
[ominous music]
- She's been like this ever since she arrived.
- [Victoria] How long has she been here?
- About 10 hours.
They brought here in right after the accident.
- Is there a police report?
- For what it's worth,
they still don't know what happened.
- She hasn't said anything?
- [Professor] No, completely retreated, not a word.
- Traumatized.
- Well, from what I've read,
she's been like this most of herlife.
Her mother died.
Her father came to Shanghai a long time ago,
but unfortunately, the hospital lost track of him.
Have you had any experience
with this type of psychosis, Doctor?
- Once,
it didn't turn out too well.
- I thought a little food
might make her a little more comfortable.
I'm sorry Dr. Burns, but I have rounds to complete.
[incoherent muttering]
- I brought you some food.
Is everything okay?
[electricity surging] [loud screaming]
No, please!
[angelic music]
[screams]
[glass shattering]
[fast-paced electronic music]
- [JT] So, is there a clinical term for fear of tests?
- Don't worry JT, you'll do fine.
- Yeah, I gotta admit, I feel out of place sometimes.
- Nobody's out of place who wants to learn something.
- I wanna thank you for taking the extra time out with me.
- Actually, I'm afraid I can't today.
Something,
something's come up.
- Anything I can do?
- I wish you could, I wish anybody could.
Hopefully, the police will get to the bottom of it.
- Police?
What's goin' on?
A patient was transferred to my clinic yesterday,
a young girl.
Two men died, in a strangeaccident trying to get her here.
And last night, she disappeared
from a locked room.
- From a locked room?
- She, broke out a window.
But what concerns me is, she could be in real danger.
- Danger of what?
- She's different.
She lives in a strange, mixed upworld.
- Well honestly, sometimes I think we all do.
- I just don't wanna see this poor girl harm herself,
or anybody else.
- I got some friends,
maybe we could help you find this girl.
- You shouldn't get involved, JT.
- I wouldn't be sitting here if you didn't get involved.
I may be a little bit skittish when it comes to mid-terms,
but I got a PhD in street stuff.
- Okay.
[wild electronic music]
- When I saw her at the hospital,
I couldn't believe it.
She's been reincarnated with all the powers she had before.
I could use her, Tsao Min.
And use her well.
[girl screaming]
[girl whimpers]
- No!
[ghostly wailing]
[fast-paced upbeat music]
- You almost died that night.
And what she has is very powerful.
I want it.
We have to find her.
[fast-paced electronic music]
- Mostly how to control,
this girl is feeling like the whole world is after her.
- What was her name again?
- Leanna Jensen, she's 20 yearsold.
- What is it about her?
- I don't know, but this file is trippin' me out.
When you read it, it's like people think
that this girl is responsible for people dying.
- And you don't so?
- Uncle, that girl is a sweet, cherub-faced 20-year-old.
- JT, before we go any further with this,
how did you get involved?
- Through a friend.
- A friend, who just happens to be running around
with a mental patient's clinicalfile?
- He's a doctor.
- You wanna add to that?
- You gonna help me or not?
- Yeah, if you answer the question.
- What the deal with the shrink?
- He's not just a shrink.
He's a professor.
- You're going to school?
- I'm just taking one class, it's no big deal.
- I think it's great.
- I think so too.
It's a safe way of learning things.
- The hell is with him today?
- Well, if you haven't noticed,it's with him everyday.
- Can I take a look?
- Look, you've got the wrong guy.
And I don't have a daughter.
- Oh, come on now Mr. Jensen.
That's about five cans short of a six pack and you know it.
- So who are you?
- Dr. Victoria Burns.
I wanna help your daughter.
- My daughter?
Look, that's nice, if you want the truth.
- That would help.
- Nobody can help my daughter.
I haven't seen her in, I don't know, 10 years.
- So, how'd you find me?
- Well, there arn't actually a lot of Jensens in Shanghai.
- All right, look, as far as I know, she was locked up,
which is where she belongs.
And if you know Leanna,
you better tiptoe on her, do you know what I mean?
- No guilt, no remorse,
not even a hint of loving care?
- Blame it on her mother.
She got what she deserved.
- Let's cut the crap.
[energy surging]
- Jesus, you're just like her.
- No, I'm nothing like her at all,
but I do wanna know where she is.
[energy surging]
- I told you.
- Now, your daughter.
- She has the mind of a three-year-old,
the doctors told me she'll neverchange.
[energy surging]
I told you, she could wander anywhere,
she wouldn't come here.
- No, not back to her loving father.
Think Jensen, or you'll never think again.
[energy surging]
- The shows, maybe she'd go to the shows.
- Shows, what shows?
- The puppets and things, she always loved them.
Her mother made puppets and toys.
She always.
- Sounds delightful.
[ominous music]
[fast-paced electronic music]
- Smith, what are you doing here?
- Cutting in.
- Thank you, but I already havea date.
- I've got seniority, indulge me.
- What are we doing over here in the corner, huh?
What, we're gonna trade secrets?
- That's exactly what we're doing.
- Yeah, secrets about what?
- Two people, where they go, what they do,
what they're talking about, the whole shabang.
- I'm tailing somebody?
- And reporting back to me.
- Come one Smith, why me?
What about Amy or JT?
- They're busy.
- Busy doing what?
- Being followed by you.
- You want me to follow Amy andJT?
- And they better not know it.
- What, they do something wrong?
- Not yet.
- But you don't trust 'em?
- I don't trust what they're doing.
- [Mitchell] Which is?
- They're looking for someone, a beautiful young woman.
And when they find her, I wanna know that immediately.
- Who is this woman?
- I can't tell you.
- You can't or you won't?
- Both.
If they find her, do not go near her, don't touch her.
Stay away, you got that?
- Is she dangerous?
- Very.
[calm tranquil music]
[people applauding]
[upbeat music]
- Do you think you'll go all the way, get a degree?
- I don't know about all that.
It's just one course, one subject.
- One course leads to another, and before you know it.
- You sound like my professor.
I mean, I'll admit I've always
wanted to have a formal education, but.
- You should go for it.
You'll make a good shrink.
- Slow down girl, I said education not profession.
- I don't know, you profiled this girl's case pretty well.
Especially picking up on the fact
that her mother made puppets.
- That was just a guess, we still haven't found her yet.
- Something else smart you did,you knew this would hook me.
Girl looses her mother, abandoned by her father.
You knew I'd find that familiar.
- Yeah, well.
- Dr. JT Dunnit it in the making.
[suspenseful music]
JT, second from the back.
Who are these guys?
- Don't know.
They don't look too friendly.
- Amy!
- Mitchell?
Grab the girl.
[electricity surging]
[Leanna screams]
- [Smith] Do not go near her, don't touch her.
Stay anyway, you got that?
- Get her.
[gun firing]
[guns firing]
Why didn't you stop her?
- Huh?
- Mitchell, why didn't you stopher?
- Something happened.
[people applauding]
- What are you doing here anyway?
- I was just around and I.
- You were following us.
- Yes.
No, I was.
[Leanna screams]
[guns firing]
[upbeat electronic music]
- It's the oldest trick in the book.
I remember years ago, you inject a little smallpox,
you don't get smallpox.
You shoot up a little cholera, you don't get cholera.
Because the disease itself carries the antidote.
So, I wonder if a dose of Kahn would cure Kahn?
Now that's something to think about.
I know that a sip of wine does not cure a wino.
- All I asked you to do was to catch one little girl!
[glass shattering]
But you let her escape back down in her hole.
These two warriors,
[glass shattering] take them away!
Tsao Min, see if you can teach them something.
If not, leave them in there.
So, Mr. Smith,
now you're into it! [glass shattering]
But you don't know what I do.
And the one who catches this little mouse
will be the one who puts the best cheese into the trap.
- This is the very nature of parapsychology,
it's filled with events and behavior
which are impossible to explain.
- The only thing I wanna explain
is why somebody else is looking for Leanna?
- I don't know.
What I do know, is she is living in a place
none of us have ever been before.
- What you really mean is that there's
more to her and wants to confirm.
- Over the years she's been studied.
15 unexplained deaths, can you explain it?
- It's Flatland.
- What?
- The fourth dimension.
- Call it whatever you want, the twilight zone.
People are looking for her, but the only ones I know of
are from this dimension,
and most of us are doctors concerned for her welfare.
[carnival music]
- Hi, Leanna.
Look what I have.
Would you like to come and playwith him?
Why don't you come with me?
I think he would really like that.
I could get you some food.
[electricity surging]
Now, I know you're shy
and a little nervous.
That's okay.
There now, that's better.
You're very different when you're not afraid.
Do you like it here?
Would you like to stay here,
with me and our friend?
Well, you can, you know?
You can stay here as long as youlike.
I'm your friend too, just like him.
It's good to have friends.
But there are some people
who aren't your friends, aren'tthere?
Some people try to hurt you, don't they?
It's all right,
you don't have to be frightened.
You're here with me now.
Maybe tomorrow we can go and wecould
look for some other friends.
Would you like that?
Good, I know some.
Let's see if you like them.
[upbeat eastern music]
- Don't touch me, get away fromme!
- Mitchell!
Look at me!
What do you see?
- I see Uncle.
- Tell me what happened to you.
- I don't know.
I can't explain it.
- Try.
- I was in a park.
There was a fight.
A young guy grabbed her.
She got away.
- And then?
- I panicked.
I didn't know what it was and I just panicked.
I touched her.
- Did anyone else touch her?
- No.
What happened to me?
- You are frightened.
Just a little advice,
stay away from Amy and JT for awhile.
They're going to be dangerous.
[upbeat music]
- I don't get it, she's just a frightened young girl.
She must be valuable to somebody.
Maybe we should talk to Uncle.
All right all right,
I'll wait for you here till you get back, JT.
- I think you're gonna like these friends.
And I know they're gonna like you.
You can trust me, Leanna.
[knocks on door]
[door creaks open]
- Hi, come in.
I really wanted to talk to you.
You know, you're not gonna believe this,
but I was just thinking about you.
And now I'm wondering, how did you know to come here?
This is my friend's place, JT.
He's out now but he'll be back.
Listen, do you want something toeat?
There's some fruit.
Where were you yesterday?
Oh, no no no no no.
Please please please, don't.
Wait, don't leave.
[electricity surging]
[ghostly howling]
[suspenseful music]
[electricity surging]
[ghostly howling]
- There.
[man screaming]
- Hey hey hey.
It's okay, it's okay.
Leanna, right?
Is that your name?
Listen, I'm JT.
I'm gonna help you, okay?
I shouldn't touch you though.
Bad things happen when people touch you, right?
This is yours, right?
Hey, I want you to come with me,okay?
I'll take you somewhere safe,
where nobody'll hurt you nobody'll touch you, okay?
Come on.
- Get away from me!
- Amy,
is that you?
Amy!
What happened to you?
- Uncle?
- The girl, Leanna, she was here, wasn't she?
- Yes.
She was here.
And then she left.
JT's looking for her.
- Then, she mustn't be a part ofit.
Why didn't I see it before?
- See what?
- Evil, here,
it's among us.
Mitchell is not whom he seems.
He's fooled us all.
- What do you mean, who is he?
- The most deadly person on Earth.
We're not safe.
None of us are.
[gun firing]
- Uncle?
You.
- What are you doing here?
- I should ask you that question.
- But you already know the answer.
- You're from Flatland, arn't you?
- Are you afraid of me?
- You make me afraid.
- Then you have your answer.
- You're inside my head, aren'tyou?
That's what makes me afraid.
If I deal with that
then I don't have to worry aboutyou.
You stay away from me.
I don't wanna see you again.
[electricity surging]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
- Lost your confidence?
- What makes you think that?
- It's your fear, your paranoia.
Everybody has them.
- And you think mine is losing my confidence.
- Hmm.
[electricity surging]
[ominous music]
- I'm glad you're here.
- You can say that again.
- What's going on?
I talked to Mitchell on the phone, he's complete crazy.
Trying to find you, he said he saw the girl,
then he started babbling on andon about
everybody who's after him and that the enemies
that he's seeing in Flat-- - He sees them.
He touched the girl.
And well, so did I.
- What girl?
- A simple frightened soul
who's more deadly than any viruson Earth.
- She has a disease?
- She is the disease, she's an aberration,
with emotions and paranoia so strong
that she can infect others merely by touching them.
- That isn't possible, is it?
- Of course it is.
It happens all the time to a lesser degree.
Think about it, you and I are friends,
we meet for a drink, all right?
You're in a great mood, you're happy as a clam.
You sit down.
I tell you, I've lost my job,
I'm going broke, my wife has left me.
End of the road.
The worse my story gets, the worse you feel.
Your happiness drains away.
I suck you into my hell, you end up feeling the way I do.
Now you consider that, a thousand times stronger,
in the body of a person who hasonly known
mistreatment, pain and anger.
That's who's out there.
Kahn found her,
and he tossed her into our world like a grenade.
And we're blowing up.
- Smith, what are you doing?
[electrical distortion]
Smith?
- Leanna, I want you to meet a friend.
- We've met.
Sort of.
I'm sorry I bumped into you today.
JT, I need to be alone with Leanna.
If Amy's still in the loft, please be careful.
- He'll take good care of you.
- Are you frightened?
Here.
There's no need to be anymore.
[ominous music]
[door creaks open]
[suspenseful music]
[door slams shut]
- You've been following me longenough.
- You wanted this for a long time.
Come on.
Come and get it.
[fast-paced upbeat music]
- You're a very special person, do you know that?
You can do things to people.
- I know.
- You can make them feel things.
Things you feel.
- They scare me.
- And you made them scared,
sometimes of each other.
- And they hurt themselves.
I don't want that.
[fast-paced upbeat music]
- You can stop it, you know?
- How?
- By choosing to be not afraid.
You can also live your life in happiness, Leanna.
Yes, you can.
JT tells me your mother made toys.
Did she make that one?
I want you to think of the very best time you ever had.
Can you do that?
You made me feel good.
You have that power.
You don't want people hurting each other, do you?
- No.
- Take my hands.
Think of people not hurting eachother,
and treating each other the way they wanna be treated.
It is a rule of life,
and it is golden.
Turn around, Leanna.
[laughs with joy]
[fast-paced upbeat music]
[electricity surging]
[happy laughter]
- What's your name?
- You can call me Uncle.
- Thank you, Uncle.
[fast-paced upbeat music]
- No, no, wait Amy, don't!
[electricity surging]
- You bastard.
- Don't hurt him.
- What's happening?
Are you all right?
- No.
- Look how lovely, Leanna.
You've become a very good person.
[uplifting music]
- I've never seen such a change in my whole life.
She's making friends like there's no tomorrow.
And I think she's gonna be okay, thanks to you.
- JT's got that special touch.
- I believe you're right.
I'll turn him into a clinician yet.
See you in class, JT.
- [Amy] There you go, doomed to be a shrink.
- No way.
- Come on, you could work on Mitchell.
- It's a mission impossible, I'd rather analyze Smith.
- [Amy] Analyze Smith?
They don't make a couch big enough.