Coincidentally, Alice (Janella Salvador), Mel (Sue Ramirez), Beth (Charlie Dizon), and Erica (Kaila Estrada) wake up at the same time, each haunted by dreams of Louisa’s (Mutya Orquia) murder.
The moment Erica regains consciousness, she glances toward the end of her room and sees a ghostly and bloodied Louisa, sitting in front of her television, staring straight at her with lifeless eyes. Despite her stillness, Louisa tells Erica to prevent more deaths like hers. Then, as if trapped in a layered dream, Erica wakes again, finding Louisa nowhere in sight.
Mel, who fell asleep in her office, also awakens and walks toward her cabinet. Opening one door to reveal a bright red jewelry case with their old MABEL friendship bracelet inside, she bursts into tears at its bittersweet familiarity.
Startled, Alice hurries to her luggage and searches through every jewelry container until she finds their friendship bracelet, sobbing uncontrollably as she clutches it to her chest and memories flood back.
Slowly, Beth makes her way down to the attic and opens a paint-chipped wooden chest. Inside, she finds all sorts of nostalgic trinkets—letters, childhood photographs—which she smiles and weeps over, until she comes across their friendship bracelet. In a flash, the memory of her younger self confirming the watch not owned by Louisa as evidence rushes back, and she cries even harder, guilt seemingly welling up, before harshly throwing the bracelet back into the chest.
Behind her framed Juris Doctor diploma, Erica opens the back to retrieve their friendship bracelet, perfectly preserved as if untouched by time. Finally holding it after 14 years, she recalls the night of Louisa’s death, when she had found the same bracelet in a puddle on the ground. With eyes closed and a resolute will, she slips the bracelet onto her wrist and vows to Louisa that such a tragedy will never happen again on her watch.
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