On the last day of her show, she rants to her listeners about the disappearance of local radio programs and ignores the corporate playlist.
Kate tells the babysitter she is visiting Ben to attend the radio broadcast, but she instead drives Nick to a house he intends to burgle.
As she listens to Laurie's broadcast, she fails to notice a bloody and battered ghost has momentarily appeared in her car.
At the station, Carla becomes curious when she hears an anomaly in the broadcast, eventually convincing Ben and then Laurie that it is electronic voice phenomenon.
As Kate discovers Sarah's body in the mansion, the old man, revealed to be Nick's father, Alan, accuses her of killing his daughter.
The Wedlock Killer expresses surprise that Kate is there, cripples her, and leaves to retrieve her son to kill in front of her.
After Kate frees herself, she finds her dying boyfriend; Nick gives her the money and explains that he did not want her to know he was desperate enough to steal from his own family.
Kate stabs him and flees, guided by Sarah's ghost to a room where Ben has handcuffed Marek to the wall.
As she returns to the radio station to free Marek, Laurie's last words play, questioning whether there is an afterlife and repudiating her earlier sceptism about the paranormal.
[6] Though he complimented the directing and cast, Paul Mount of Starburst said the film has a "sluggish and often unfocussed script", unlikable characters, and a villain without any apparent motivation.
[7] Kimber Myers of the Los Angeles Times called it a "dull, poorly structured movie" that substitutes scenes of violent gore for atmosphere.