Episode 4 Summary

It is December, 1990, and Charles Rowland has awakened in the attic of his bordering school. A boy named Paine is holding his hand, and Charles notices that Paine's hand is cold. When he asks Paine about this, Paine replies that it is not surprising that his hand is cold. Paine tells him that it is Sunday. The reader quickly learns that why Paine is cold, as Charles asks Paine what dying is like. Paine tells him that dying was not very nice, because when he died, Paine went to Hell. Paine tells Charles that his bones are hidden in a chest in the attic, and that he was murdered in a ritual by three older boys in 1911.

It is six days earlier, and Charles is sitting in the dining hall with the headmaster and the school nurse. Charles is the only student remaining...