Fact1: Julia is inspired to find him when panicked girl asking for Holt 's whereabouts, Fact2: group film themselves watching video before passing footage to person called tail, Fact3: Skye takes her to apartment, Fact4: Holt 's version of video contains additional images of mysterious woman, Fact5: Galen Burke leading priest to bury her in potter 's field outside town
Output: On an airplane bound for Seattle, a man reveals that he has watched Samara Morgans cursed videotape. Another passenger reveals she has seen the tape too, and asks the man if he made a copy. After learning he did not, Samara causes the airplane to crash. Two years later, college professor Gabriel Brown buys a VCR, discovering the videotape inside. Elsewhere, student Julia sees her boyfriend Holt off to college but grows concerned when he falls out of contact. She is inspired to find him when a panicked girl, Skye, contacts her, asking for Holts whereabouts. Julia meets Gabriel and finds a group of people known as the Sevens, who are involved in an experiment involving the cursed video. The group film themselves watching the video before passing the footage to another person, called a tail. Julia recognizes the panicked girl, Skye, who takes her to her apartment to have her watch the video, but Holt warns her not to. Julia locks herself in the bathroom as Samara kills Skye. Holt reveals that he has watched the tape as well and has twelve hours left. Julia watches his copy and when she picks up the phone, she experiences a vision of a door. The phone burns a mark on her hand. Holts version of the video cannot be copied and contains additional images of a mysterious woman: she realizes they must cremate Samaras physical remains. Gabriel sends them to Sacrament Valley, where Samara was given a proper burial after the residents of Moesko Island refused to accept the remains.N 1 He realizes the mark on Julias hand is Braille, translates it, and goes to warn them. Julia and Holt find an unmarked tomb, but when they break in, they find it empty. They are caught and taken to a blind man named Galen Burke, who claims Samaras body was entombed by the local priest but a flood came, leading the priest to bury her in a potters field outside town. Heading for the field, Julia and Holt are stopped due to a car crash and learn Gabriel was involved. He tries to warn Julia of his discovery but is killed by a falling utility pole. After experiencing a vision of Samaras mother Evelyn, Julia and Holt return to town. Julia goes to the church and discovers a hidden chamber beneath the bell tower, finding evidence that Evelyn was imprisoned there while pregnant, held in captivity by the priest after being raped before she escaped eight months into the pregnancy. Julia visits Burke and explains her findings. He attacks her, revealing he is the priest as well as Samaras biological father, having blinded himself to escape the reach of her powers. Julia pushes him down the stairs, temporarily incapacitating him. Holt rushes to Burkes house, where he is knocked unconscious. Julia discovers Samaras skeleton behind a wall, and Burke tries to strangle her to prevent her from cremating Samaras remains. He claims the cremation would unleash an unspeakable evil upon the world, and that he has killed several people who previously attempted to do the same. Suddenly, a swarm of cicadas fly in, summoning Samara through Julias phone. Samara removes Burkes blindness and kills him. Holt recovers and rushes to Julias aid. That night, he and Julia cremate Samara’s corpse, in an attempt to appease her spirit once and for all, and return home. While Julia is in the shower, Holt notices a voicemail from Gabriel, who warns him of the Braille, which Holt begins to translate. In the bathroom, Julia peels away the skin where the mark was, revealing grey skin underneath. She begins to cough up black hair, from which a cicada is born. Meanwhile, Julias copy of the cursed video is sent to everyone on her contact list, which becomes viral, despite Holts futile attempts to disconnect the computer. As his computer glitches, the Braille translation is revealed to be rebirth, as Samara is successfully reborn in Julia, seeing Samaras face in her mirror instead of her own.