A Dark Past

***A Dark Past,*** originally titled "*New Dawn",* is the second episode of the first season of *Stoneheart* and the second episode overall. It is written by Aaron Steven, directed by Alexander Babaev, and released by Crypt TV. It stars Ryan Lucy, Stephanie Edmonds, Randy Irwin, and Francesca Biasiolo.

The episode was released on Crypt TV's Facebook page on December 21st, 2017, and on their YouTube channel on February 9th, 2018.

## Summary

A young girl gets vengeance on her abusive father with the help of a dark ritual.

## Plot

In the cold open, an unseen woman dips her hand in a bowl of blood, cuts up someone's organs with a butcher knife, and draws a star on a cement floor.

Elsewhere on a dark night, Erik Baker sits in his police car eating a sandwich. His radio begins to make white noise, and an officer calls for dispatch before the white noise cuts the call off. He puts his sun visor down, looking at the picture of his daughter that he keeps in the visor. When he puts the visor back up, he sees a shadowy figure standing in the alley in front of his car. After a moment of tense silence, Erik is startled by a crow cawing in the distance. He looks back up, and the figure is gone. Erik turns on his car's headlights and gets out of the car, and finds a dead crow on the ground.

Erik turns on his flashlight and looks into the warehouse, seeing a little girl standing in the distance. He calls for the girl to come to him, but she doesn't respond and runs into the warehouse when he approaches her. Erik continues to search for her, calling for her and saying he's a police officer. As Erik goes further into the warehouse, his radio starts to make more noise, and he smacks it in irritation. Someone runs past him and Erik runs after them, ordering them to stop. Erik then hears a little girl scream, and he follows the screams into a hall that appears identical to a hallway in a house, complete with décor and wallpaper. He hears a man yelling at the girl and a girl screaming that she's sorry, and he starts calling for the girl to come out. He opens one of the doors and sees a man beating his daughter with a belt, screaming at her to obey. The man looks back at Erik, and is revealed to be Erik as well.

Someone asks Erik if this looks familiar, and Erik turns around to see he is back in the warehouse with a teenage girl -- his daughter Rebecca. Erik asks her what she's doing here, and Rebecca says she's here to "give him a message". Erik asks her what she's talking about, and Rebecca tells him that she wants him to know that it doesn't matter how many criminals he catches or that he pretends to quit drinking -- that deep down, she knows who he really is. Erik says that whatever is going on here is over and that he's taking Rebecca home. Rebecca refuses, saying she's not afraid of him anymore, and runs further into the warehouse. Erik follows her into the next room and begins searching for her, and finds a large symbol painted on the floor. He gets down to examine it, and finds it is painted in blood.

As Erik gets back to his feet, he sees Rebecca standing before him, and a horned figure standing behind her. He asks Rebecca who the figure is, but Rebecca ignores him, saying she hated him so much. Erik raises his gun, but the horned figure steps out from behind Rebecca. With a motion of her hands, she forces Erik to break his hand. As Erik screams in pain, Rebecca tackles him to the floor and begins to choke him amid the horned figure's enraged screams. After a few moments, Rebecca manages to rip a bone out of Erik's throat, killing him to the figure's delight.

## Cast

 Aponi
 Mrs. Baker

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of Stoneheart to be released in 2018.
* The episode was formerly titled "New Dawn".

## References

1. ↑ Crypt TV. “Stoneheart: New Dawn | DEEP DOWN...I know who you REALLY are.... | By Crypt TV.” Facebook, Crypt TV; December 21st, 2017.