Ring: The Final Chapter (リング〜最終章〜)

All right, tell me what we must do to survive.

You don't need to worry about shocking me.

The main thing is... I want to know.

Don't decide that it's better for me to die not knowing.

What's this?

What we have to do to save ourselves.

The destruction of mankind.

What do you mean?

The message in the video continues like this...

"A curse has been cast on you.

Thirteen days later, at this time,

you will die.

There is only one way to be saved."

In other words,

you must show this video to two other people who haven't seen it.

The person who shows the video will then be saved.

One person shows it to two people, two to four,

four to eight.

Gradually more and more people will have seen the video.

But there is a limit to the number of people around.

A time will come when the limit is reached.

Towards the end the people who have

seen the video won't find anyone else to show it to. They will die.

These people will never watch the video.

That's because they know that they'll never find anyone else to show it to.

So the ones who die will be these people.

Calculate it out and it amounts to one quarter.

There's only one way a single video tape

can cause the death of one in every four people.

Sadako knows that.

She knows exactly what she wants us to do.

I'm afraid you're wrong.

Why did my niece and her friends all die?

One of them showed it to the other three.

So why did they all die?

That's because...

Not only that.

We still don't know if it really is Sadako

who is warning us that one of every four people in the world will die.

I don't know what Takayama told you,

but I have yet to meet Sadako herself.

It was the girl from the theatrical company who was speaking.

Who knows if she was really possessed by Sadako.

So we still don't know anything conclusive.

In any case, there are still lots of things to check out.

We still don't know very much.

Don't worry.

I'll be with you to the end.

Brother!

Mai!

What's wrong?

He's regained consciousness.

The fatality rate for smallpox should be over 90%.

I wonder if it's a sign he's improving.

- Can he hear us? - Yes, a little.

It would be better to move him to the Diseases Ward.

Wait! There's still the possibility that this was manmade.

Smallpox, if it's the real thing,

would not be cured so easily.

You still suspect that there's someone here who would do something that stupid?!

It's not just what I suspect.

The fact is that someone stole those cell cultures!

You're saying that Aoyama contracted smallpox here?!

I checked up on him and what he did these last few days.

I found out that a week ago he had a vaccination for influenza.

And who instructed him to do that?

Dr. Ogaki from Surgical Department 2.

Ogaki?!

Papa...?

Did I wake you?

Read this to me.

What time do you think it is?

Grandma said the words are too small for her to read.

All right, then I'll read just a little.

There's only six days left.

If what Yoshino says is true

I have to show the video to someone to save my child.

But is it just showing the video to someone?

What exactly does Sadako want us to do?

Excuse me, is Mr. Arima here?

He hasn't arrived yet.

We called his home, but no one answered.

Do you know where Mr. Arima lives?

Mr. Arima, it's Asakawa.

Show it to two other people?

Yes, that's a possible way to do it, if Sadako really did

set up a curse to kill one quarter of the world's population.

But you heard it from Ms. Yagi,

that girl from the theatrical group.

Yesterday she spoke of

something that happened 32 years ago.

That was way before she was born.

Will you bring Yagi in?

It sounds like she's losing her sense of reality.

It's just for simple hypnosis treatment.

We can find out whether Yagi just thinks she's Sadako

or whether she really is possessed by Sadako.

Then we'll know where Sadako is too.

If Sadako really is something to be that afraid of...

Mr. Asakawa!

Are you all right? You don't look too good.

I haven't been feeling well since yesterday.

You've got a really high fever.

I don't remember what happened yesterday.

I think my friends sent me home.

Don't worry.

I'll take you to the hospital and a friend will examine you.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

Turn at the next light. It's a short cut.

I use it a lot when I'm in a hurry.

Are you sure this is the right way?

Yes.

The main road will be just up ahead.

Are you sure this is a short cut?

Physically she's fine.

As long as she gets some rest she'll be all right.

She does seem to have suffered a serious mental shock.

Sadako just appeared.

Something's happening to this girl.

You should be careful too.

Yoshino!

You asked me to find out when people first heard Matsuzaki Nao's song.

isn't it already in that radio survey?

Thanks.

Senpai, Yoichi, me...

What am I thinking?

What are you doing? Let us see!

The case of Professor Kaneda still hasn't been solved.

What a problem.

Are there any new discoveries?

No, not particularly.

I hear that the investigators say it might have been

the power of suggestion that killed him.

You know...

An African sorcerer would use curses and spells,

but perhaps you used fear and the power of suggestion to kill.

Someone who believes in all this could die from fear

if he were told, "Die!"

I don't care if you think that.

Killing someone by the power of suggestion isn't a crime.

But then, there's just one thing that doesn't make sense to me.

There were strangulation marks around Kaneda's neck,

just like this.

That can easily be explained by the power of suggestion.

If a person is hypnotized and told that he has been injured,

the wounds will naturally appear on his body

when he recalls that later.

You can check on that. It is true.

However,

it isn't the signs of strangulation that I am curious about.

It is the fingerprints that were left behind.

If he really was killed by the power of suggestion,

why would there be fingerprints?

Those fingerprints were definitely not mine.

Who said they were yours?

The fingerprints left behind

were your sister's, Takano Mai.

What are you doing?

Somebody! Help!

Arima!

Sadako!

I'm sorry! Forgive me!

I no longer have any use for this body.

Please tell me, what happened 32 years ago?

It's this, isn't it?

On this very day 32 years ago you killed someone!

You used me!

We need to know for sure if Yagi really has been possessed by Sadako.

There is no doubt that

Ikuma Sadako had special powers no one else had.

She hid that from everyone

but I found out about it accidentally.

That day, 32 years ago,

I realized I had forgotten something and returned

to the rehearsal hall.

Sadako was watching TV all alone.

When I picked up my stuff and was about to leave

I noticed something unbelievable.

The power cord from the TV wasn't plugged in.

Yes. But the TV was on.

That was the moment I knew that she had special powers.

Time passed.

Thirty-two years ago we were very poor, all of us burdened with debts.

I guess it was ironic.

Somehow I found out about the escape route

that an employee intended to take after robbing the bank.

We planned to attack that bank employee.

In exchange for keeping her special powers a secret,

I asked her to show me her ability.

Of course she had no idea

of our plans to harm the employee and rob him.

We found out from the newspapers the next day that he died.

When Sadako found out,

she got upset and became extremely depressed.

After that, she suddenly eloped with one of the other members.

Who knew about that incident?

Only Sadako and myself.

There was no one else around that day we spoke.

There's no doubt that was lkuma Sadako.