[ominous music playing]
I've never seen this in the daytime before.
Yeah, it looks super different, like...
- Less spooky. - I prefer it spooky.
Guys.
- Take a seat. - I just wanna say--
Explain yourself!
Yeah, seriously, what's going on?
I'm just as in the dark as the rest of you.
- What? - How is that possible?
Rachel, it's just...
None of this makes any sense.
None of this makes any sense to me either.
I made up the story.
I have nightmares about a creepy carnival
and I turned those nightmares into a story, that's it.
And now the creepy carnival is real!
Maybe it's not the same carnival.
Mr. Tophat's not on the flyer.
It's literally called The Carnival of Doom.
Maybe it's a coincidence?
I went there before this meeting to check it out.
[tires screeching]
It is just like I imagined it.
And I Googled The Carnival of Doom.
- Ditto. - Yeah, same.
OK, we all did, we're not dumb.
But the point is The Carnival of Doom has no social media presence.
Nothing at all, no website, no Wikipedia.
Nothing, nada, zip!
Maybe we're gonna have to look in places more er... physical.
So are you suggesting we look in old newspapers or go to the library?
Yeah.
I already did that.
[music playing]
There's nothing anywhere!
OK, I spent the entire lunch period looking.
There's only one way we're gonna find out
if this is the same carnival from my story.
We should go tomorrow night... together.
This Thursday?
I-- I really-- I really can't, I have...
Lots of plans, really serious plans.
Yeah and I am not going to an Evil Carnival.
Sounds fun but hard pass.
Yeah... no offence, Rachel but... I'm staying far away from that place.
There's something else you guys need to consider.
I don't even wanna say it out loud because I hope I'm wrong.
Nearly all of my nightmares about Mr. Tophat involve him taking kids.
Just like my story.
If this carnival is the carnival from my nightmares,
the same carnival from my story,
Adam went missing the same day the carnival came to town.
I think Mr. Tophat took him.
[ominous music playing]
Now, am I still going alone?
Or are you all going to join me?
- Nope. - No.
The hardest no imaginable.
Yeah, what you just said made it ten times worse.
I declare this meeting of the Midnight Society closed.
Come on, let's go.
Adam went missing the same day the carnival came to town.
We should go tomorrow night.
We'll figure this out together.
Welcome to The Carnival...
Of Doom.
Remember, it's all part of the show!
Our lives were perfectly normal before you showed up.
I never wanted to put any one of you in danger.
Now are you in or out?
Do you have a plan?
Your destiny is to kill Mr. Tophat.
We have to win... right?
Right?
What's wrong, little girl?
[screaming]
I thought you liked being scared?
Rachel!
I'm going to end this.
Let's go!
Run!
[laughing maniacally]
- This is where the fun begins. - I'm ready.