Ng Pt Ss CAWTHO VY) A CO NERO LO SY 31d 8) TSO dala 2 WN ayBASED ON THE NEW YORK TINES BESTSELLING SERIES Five Nights at Freddy's FAZSEAR FRIGHTS THE FOURTH CLOSET The Graphic Novel By SCOTT CAWTHON ano KIRA BREED-WRISLEY ADAPTED BY CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS SUMMON LY Wu bane eV ale coors BY EVA DE LA CRUZ LETTERS BY MIKE FLIORENTINO - Inprint ofCopyright © 2022 by Scott Cawthon. All rights reserved. Photo of TV static: © Klikk/Dreamstime GMCS al ote tcl acc ma ae incre Beso esl Coma ono food AO Cee associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. 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IF YOU'RE IN LA-LA | LAND, YOU'RE NOT THINKING Y\ Aout THE Sarety OF THE OTHER MEN OUT THERE. ae Fr a OF course, 700K A CHANCE ON You, BUT | UNoe; IIM NOT PUTTING My OTHER tm sony. 57 Ut GUYS LIVES AT RISGo To work.NOW hg, (ff S En SeFINE. WORKING, MostLy. WHA WITH YOU? BE BACK FROM NEW YORK SOON! SPRING WE'RE ALL GETTING TOGETHER TONIGHT AT HIS DAD'S House. He's DYING T0 ‘SHOW OFF HIS NEW TO HIM ON THE PHONE LAST WEEK, HE WAS FAKING A BROOKLYN DO ACCENT. ( | SWEAR WHEN I TALKED JOHN, SHE MISSES WHO ELSE 18 GOING 10 BE THERE? YOU HAVE 10 TALK 10 HER ‘SOMETIME. No | DON't, | DON'T KNOW WHO THAT 16, BUT IT ISN'T CHARLIE.OW WHAT THAT NIGHT BUT | KNOW a! FY Bur | Don't CH WY: THINK ANY OF IT HURT AS 8) 6 ENOUGH MEI ILL YOU 7‘GRANDDAD Ir's50 TO SEE ALL OF YOU AGAIN. [5 LAMAR He sap, "IM NEVER, EV EVER SETTING FOOT IN THAT TOWN AGAIN, NOT EVER, NEVER FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE, AND HOULDN'T, ETHER," WHAT'S UP WITH You, JESSICA? | HEARD You've ACTUALLY, Moveo Bur, YEAH COME HELP MEIN THE (ONE DAY | FOUND CHARLIE PACKING UP WHATEVER ‘SHE COULD CARRY. SHE LEFT ME ‘AND JOHN 70 CLEAN UP THE REST. | ON'T THINK SHE WAS EVEN GOING TO TELL ME SHE WAS LEAVIN DIDN'T TELL ME WHERE, EITHER. JUST THAT | ( i | Dy = se We 1060. F | 13Net WHAT'S UP? ME TO OPEN A KETCHUP BOTT \ YOu PULLED ME IN FOR A PEP TALK! U EARLIER DAY DW IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU AND CHARLIE FRIENDS HERE, JOHN. TRY TO RELAX. ALL OF THIS HEARTACHE YOU'RE PUTTING YOURSELF THROUGH... THIS ISN'T WHAT I WANT. | SHOULDN'T HAVE,V 10101 YOU HAVEN'T ORIVEN PAST HER HOUSE, OR THE OLD FREDDY FAZBEAR’S SITE, IN MONTHS. WHEN YOU THINK OF WHAT THAT MOMENT DID TO You WHAT MUST IT HAVE DONE 10 HER? WHAT KIND OF NIGHTMARES 00 Y YOU HAVE, CHARLIE— REMEMBER THE LAST THING I SAID 10 YOU, BEFORE vou’... ?SORRY, IN'T REMEM | REMEMBER BEING UT THAT NIGHT, THE SUIT. | PASSED WHOLE PIECES ARE OUT, | THINK FOR ust HOURS. JOHN, WOULD YOU MEET ME TomoRROW? | JUST WANT TO TALK. GWE ME A CHANG > fa20Great! COLLEGE. CITY. LEARNING. FRIENDS . . TWAS IN A PLAY ABOUT AHORSE. ‘AgouT YOU, MARLA? WELL, OHIO ION'T New York, BUT | NEVER GO OUT ANYWAY. PREMED 1A TON GF WORK. WORTH I, THOUGH! JESSICA SAID YOU LEFT SCHOOL? VM SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT ‘Your HOUSE. OH, AND ALSO THE...UH... MAYBE YOU COULD BUILD A NEW HOUSE THERE? DAD SAID THEY RECENTLY CLEARED OUT 1E RUBBLE AND TOOK HE oipw'r say ANYTHING ‘ABOUT KILLER NO, NO. I'M GOOD. 1's ACTUALLY A HUGE ‘ARE YOU. « RELIEF THE KILLER ROBOTS BEING "ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR, SARCAS CARLTON, THANK you. yee 7” \cou.on'T IND ANYONE, THOUGH. NO He IL LET YOU KNOW i | ‘SOMETHING TURNS UP. THANK YOU, OFFICER. / O14, PAROON ME, \ MAAM. NO. SOME NIDD SNUCK IN LAST NGHT. NomiNG ‘UNUSUAL. FEEL FREE TO HEAD ON IN. AND ‘AROUND. SCRAP IS FIFTY CEN’ A POUND. 7 FOR SOMETHING SPECIFIC . « WELL, | DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU. Bop, YOU RECEWEE SEVERAL TRUCKLOADS. OF SCRAP METAL ON THIS DATE, AND FROM THIS \ LOCATION. WHERE IN THE YARD DID IT GO? ‘How muct OF THAT PHONE CALL DID YOU OVERHEAR? NYYou JUST TOLD THE POLICE YOU THOUGHT OF COURSE | IN THE SCRAP HEAPS QUT THERE. YOU HEARD SCREAMING. A CHILD, PERHAPS. MAYBE SEVERAL, ARE THESE ‘YOUR DAUGHTERS J Wh =.\\ LOOK, WE RUN A CLEAN BUSINESS AND WE HAVE A GOOD REPUTATION. Wo ANO Five. BEAUTIFUL. Do YOU TREAT THEM wei? J N WHAT o10 You FIND? WHEN YOU GOT ON Your { HANDS AND KNEES AND CRAWLED THROUGH THE BEAMS AND THE WIRE? WHAT WAS THERE? = = CUTTING ‘YOUR LEGS ON YAGGED SCRAPS OF METAL AS YOU RAN BLINDLY THROUGH ‘THE YARD. 1 DON'T FEEL coMroRTaste TALKING ACOUT THD. IF 'M IH SOME.) KIND OF TROUBLE, THEN / IT THINK— A { BOB, AS LONG AS \Surtte ravor, / SUT Se \ / You're nor IN ANY TROUBLE, ) 23I'M NOT CRAZY, WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLIE? MAYBE WHEN SAMANTHA WAS KIDNAPPED, SHE WASN'T MURDERED. WHAT IF CHARLIE'S TWIN 19 STILL ALIVE? AND NOT ONLY ALIVE, OUT RAIGED BY SPRINGTRAP, BY WILLIAM AFTON. LR Cf SHAPED AND MoLDi PSYCHOPATH FOR SEVENTEEN , YEARS, PRIMED WITH ALL THE FROM CHARLIE'S LIFE? NOW SENT TO TAKE CHARLIE'S PLACE? THEODOR! SAMMY? CHARLIE'S TWIN? IT COULD BE SHORT FOR SAMANTHA. Buri? ‘WAND HOW COULD AFTON KNOW WHAT WOULD OE” ANYTHING ABOUT CHARLIE'S LE? THE POINT? 4 AFTER HER OAD DIED, SHE MOVED AWAY. NOBODY SAW HER FOR YEARS WHEN SHE LIVED WITH HER ‘AUNT JEN—I WANTED To SEE HOW YOU WERE REALLY? DION'r WE HAVE THAT TALK ‘YESTERDAY? YEAH, WELL, YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO | UNDERSTAND. I'9 JUST, WE FOUND CHARLIE 15 HOLDING SOME THINGS IN THE SOMETHING WRECKAGE BACK. | Don'r KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE THEM, SCARY THINGS. DAVE/WILLIAM ‘AFTON/SPRINGTRAP/ WHATEVER? I'M NOT READY 10 DECLARE HIM DEAD. Ls AND | THINK. WHAT 0 YOU KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE'S AUNT JEN? SHE BECAME VERY EAGER TO SEE YOU ‘AGAIN WHEN | MENTIONED THAT YOU HAD ‘SEEN HER AUNT JEN DEFORE THE HOUSE COLLAPSED. It MADE ME REALIZE THAT THERE IS ‘ALOT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT NIGHT. I KNOW YOU'RE SEEING CHARLIE TONGHT. IF | YOU'RE ACTING ‘SHE COULD TELL YOU WHERE / AWFULLY DIFFERENT HER AUNT JEN I6— a THAN “PEP TALK" CLAY FROM THE OTHER NIGHT. MIGHT FEEL COMFORTAL SHARING THAT WITH ME? THAT FEELS MORALLY ‘AMBIGUOUS.FEELS LIKE IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE | WAS LAST IN TOWN. | THINK JESSICA MOVED OUT OF HER DORM TO AN APARTMENT ‘AROUND HERE. WHAT KINO OF FRIEND HAVE | BEEN? / SHOULD KNOW BASIC STUFF MAYBE CHARLIE AND | CAN GO 9EE A MOVIE. AFTER THE DINNER-AND-INTERROGATION. THE THEATER'S JUST AROUND THE CORNER. | WONDER WHAT'S PLAYINGWS Ve it . You a RE WITH ANY CHILOREN— soMEONE... / y CHILDREN? « SOMEWHERE ELSE. BYE, cio}Goop NOTHING HAS CHANGED. 1G OINNER WITH JOHN? 70 LIKE MY Kk. MAYBE HE'D DME TIME WITH YC fe'S DEEN THROU = Lor. Re tM gust woRRIED \ ABour Hin,JESSICA, D0 YOU ee Someninc... REMEMBER HM TELLING Smectine % THAT I SHOULD REVIEMBER, ME SOMETHING mr ? ‘SOMETHING HE SAID a IMPORTANT? IMPORTANT THAT NIGHT? ND JOHN WERE ALONE FOR A FEW MINUTES, V'M NOT SURE WHAT HE ‘SAID. WHY? I THINK I’ IMPORTANT TO HIM THAT | REMEMBER. SORRY AGAIN FOR BREAKING IN. | MEAN, | DIDN'T BREAK IN. THE 0008 WASMy HEAD i REALLY EVER WAS ALWAYS THINKING POUT FdWe missed ITwaon'r BECAUSE OF I'VE KIND OF GOTTEN USED TO ORDERING BEFORE YOU GET HERE. I eMLL DON'T DON'T REMEMBER WHAT REMEMBER. ‘YOU SAID TO ME THAT NIGHT. | KNOW YOU THINK ABOUT ME, REMEMBER. | CAN'T CHANGE TH —Arter THar NigHT, | \ HAD 10 GET AWAY. | HAD WVE EVERYTHING DEHIND, = ——_ f siicestites ) - ‘AND NOW I'M HERE, VERY MUCH AuVE—TELLING You Y 'M ALive! JOHN, PLEASE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND. IF YOU THINK I'M NOT ME, THEN WHAT 00 YOU THINK? WHO CAN You POSSIBLY THINK | AM? My WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN / Bur | COULN'T BE YOUR CHARLIE FOREVER. THAT NAIVE LITTLE GIRL FOREVER. SELFISH. J) SCATTERBRAINED. HAUNTED BY WHAT HAPPENED HERE. | WANTED 10 BE) ‘SOMEBODY DIFFERENT. 2 | , 1 HAD To oR '9 Go INSANE. ANY OF THOSE THINGS. =i Yur irs /j ‘ Jf,{ sri me. Oon't Uf \ Vou know 1's aN ‘STiLL ME? J ITA LOT. ALMOST CONSTANTLY, ACTUALLY. | ues MAYBE | THOUGHT YOU WERE SAMMY. 35WELL, YEAH, | KNOI AND MAYBE JOHN, YOU TOOK BUT YOU ONLY SAW 7 SAMMY 1S SHORT FOR Me TO SEE SAMMY'S Jif TO THE CEMETERY, BUT SAMMY BEING J] SAMANTHA! Sammy cou JINR GRAVE YOURSELF, IINeVER SAW SAMMY'S Kiowarreo! Nor HAVE DEEN A GIRL ALL RA REMEMBER? ALC I can't \_ ALONE BELIEVE THEN GO LOCK METIME, IT'S NOT THEY'RE GOING ANYWHERE. AUNT JEN WARNED ME NOT TO COME BAC! TO HURRICANE, SHE'S THREE FOR THREE AT ‘Have vou THIS POINT. HEARD FROM HER, BY THE WAY? AUNT? | FIGURED YOU WERE LIVING WITH HER AFTER YOU MOVED Ot \ at pore. Loon'T | WOKE UP IN HER HOUSE, AND SHE TOLD ME WHAT HAPPENED. | HAVEN'T SEEN HER INA WHILE. SHE RESCUED ME THAT NIGHT, YOU KNOW. 4 7 V9 Like 70 Y Piel KNOW WHERE [PPA wet, | von'r KHOW. SHE TOOK ME HOME AND cusaneo eur, waoe } | \ ‘BURE | WAS OKAY, _/, cur. JGHT You SAi0 You WANT HER TO you?WHAT 90 YOU THINK, I sHouro we see ie THE } ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTE: THE NEW THEATER ISN'T FAR FROM HERE. Ant. IVE Gor vemtene Twa ) mre.leaw CHARLIE. THoueHt | SAW — SOMETHING. I'M JUST = ALITTLE ON EDGE WITH ALL THESE WEIRDOS: WALKING AROUND IN FACE PAINT. EVERYTHING ‘ANYTHING FROM THAT NIGHT? ‘SHE WANTED TO KNOW IF I'D SEEN HER, Dip vo! + EVER MEET WORD TO SAY ABOUT CHARLIE'S MOTHER, BUT | DO KNOW SHE RAN OFF DEFORE HENRY AND CHARLIE MOVED TO HURRICANE. ALWAYS GAVE ME THE IMPRESSION ‘SHE WAS KIND. OF COLD. (iwas surrriceo WHEN JEN TO CHARLIE AFTER HeNey cIED. I KNEW THEY'D LOST THEIR OTHER KID. | ASSUMED SHE HAD SOME KIND OF BREAKDOWN. ‘YEAH, WHAT ABOUT CHARLIE'S MOTHER? ONE Day HELP BUT ASK HENRY ABOUT HER. HE THOUGHT A LONG TIME BEFORE ANSWERING. EVENTUALLY HE GAVE ME THIS SAD LOOK, AND HE SAID "SHE WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT 70 00 WITH MY LITTLE GR.”ROAMING THE STREETS HAVE YOU JUMPY, TOO, THAT WAS. JUST THE WIND, THE 00? ‘YEAH, IT WAS IN THE “ RUBBLE OF THE HOUSE. THE OTHER NIGHT | ASKED IF CHARLIE WANTED IT, 1 ‘SHE Wasn't? WM THAVE A HARO TIME BELIEVING THAT. Ie THar CHARLIE'S DAD MADE ELLA FoR \+ HER. SHE LSED 10 Go || ‘AROUND ON A TRACK WITH A TEA Oi Wuar's, THIS? A CHILD WAS ABDUCTED THIS MORNING. IT's THE SECOND ONE THIS MONTH. —4D0 YOU THINK IT HAS SOMETHING 0 00 WiTH— ‘AND | TOLD YOU I'M NOT READY TO. ASSUME THAT WILLIAM AFTON 16 OUT OF | MEAN, IT'S. NOT THE FIRST TIME 17'S HAPPENED HERE, ANO— MICHAEL. AND THE '™M DOING EVERYTHING | CAN, I FEEL LIKE I'M RELIVING THOSE DAYS. CHILDREN, THE ‘SAME AGE AS My LITTLE BOY BACK THEN. THEY GET SNATCHED ONE AFTER ‘ANOTHER | Hore THESE ARE JUST SOME custooy vispuTes ANO THE KIDS TURN UP. Bur iF i's SOMETHING ELSE. I'M GONG TO NEED YOU. AND I'm GOING TO NEE CHARLIE, TOO. | KNOW ITIGN'T Fs BuT—orcdWay 010 THE (| DON'T KNOW. CALL YOU a S| | pin'r real TO QUESTION RAN RIGHTMY SON IS THE OTHER MISSING. OFFICERS DIDN'T TAKEME SERIOUSLY. THEY WANTED 70 CALL MY _———_§¥ EX-HUSBAND, BUT | KNEW / He's cone 10 \ HE DION'T TAKE JACCB! RECOVER. WE JUST HE MOULONS EHOW: TALKED TO HIM, He’LL WHAT 10 90 FIND YOUR SON. _/ WITH HIM! oT . OKAY. THANK YOU. ILL BE BUT WHEN IEF BURKE FOUND OUT, HE ASKED BETTER QUESTIONS. He SAID HE'D FIND JACOB, AND I euT NOW SOMETHING STRANGE IS HAPPENING, AND THE ONLY COP THAT BELIEVES IN ANY OF IT IS IN THE HOSPITALINoniceo YOU BROUGHT A FRIEND IN YOUR BAG. OR AT LEAST A FRIEND'S HEAD. SuveR JR nor ras reo HERE. Does THAT MEAN ANYTHING? Iruust STARTED. Don't TELL CHARLIE | HAVE IT. | THINK SHE'D JUST WANT IT THROWN OUT WITH ALL OF THE OTHER STUFF THAT REMINDS HER OF HER DAD. MUST BE SOME STAGES: (OF-GRIEF THING. I's weiro. CHARLIE'S EXPERIMENTS ‘AUNAYS CREEPED ME (OUT, BUT IT'S NICE 10 SEE ONE NOW. I1'9 A TOWN. We SHOULD Gol DRIVE. Mayee CHaR.ie's FAMILY USED 10 LIVE THERE,No. Bur We're TRYING 10 HELP HER. Io THERE ANYTHING CHARLIE Is MY CONCERN. SHE'S MY RESPONSIBILITY. CHARLIE'S OUR FRIEND. SHE'S ‘OUR CONCERN, 00. ‘A FRIEND OF OURS WAS TAKING PICTURES OF CHARLIE, LIKE HE WAS ‘STALKING HER, AND WE DON'T KNOW WHY. I KNOW YOU MEAN WELL. | GHOULD TELL ‘YOU TO GO AWAY, TO FORGET HER. SECRETS PETRIFY YOU. ‘YOU HARDEN YOURS THE ENOUGH... You're Nor GOING 10 TELLUS ANYTHING? BECAUSE HE WAS NEARLY MURDERED LAST NIGHT. LF AGAINST ORLD TO KEEP THEM SAFE, UT YOU KEEF THEM LONG Or How is sie? Does SHE ALSO KNOW ABO IT THIS HE SAID SOMETHING BEFORE HE LOST CONSCIO HAS TO HAVE A MAXIM Do You KNOW » YOU DISCOVER ONE DAY YOU'VE TURNED TO ‘STONE. I MAY NOT KNOW WHATEVER YOUR SEC KNOW THAT GIRL ISN'T CHARLIE, OR SHE'S UNDER SOME KIND OF INFLUENCE. SHESOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT HERE. THIS MIGHT BE CUR ‘ONLY CHANCE TO FIND OUT WHAT OHe'S uP 1 IT'S BEEN 700 LON I'VE BEEN TRYINYOU WERE a RIGHT. }) 3 oso)aA ae Ne OEE | re 7 We Don’ even snow HE 7 WiAr's WRONG | WITH HER. aoe W tars * You race’ Toa 1 D0N'T er WHY.) HER. 4 HOSPITAL, JI THINK SHE'LL [aaa > y 7 WHAT ARE . YOU LOOKING = a i a? You THINK’ * f F/ SHE'S SAFE 7 f nent La & \ oun? J YOr7 NY q Vives X y OF CHARLIEWE S rouno AT Hee cL | HOUSE, BEFORE IT COLLAPSED, ae SHE / 2 LOOKS A LOT SEO DN une. / J = Se WATTS SOMETHING al WHERE ARE = P i) YOU Gone? oD | WHAT AM | ‘i SUPPOSED TO DO / \ Tauware Ware stows ur?! ( IF NOT-CHARLIE a ceesry n090T > iN LN te ‘CLOSET. BOLT THE x - Iropens you ur“ I WANTED 10 ABUSE, TO NEGLECT, 80 DESPERATELY TO UNIMAGINABLE PAIN. TO HAVE BEEN THE ONE ALLYOUCANDO |, ON THAT STAGE, BUT AIT WAS ALWAYS His Love WENT INTO Youre TALKING ABOUT AFTON. WILLIAM AFTON NEVER MADE ANYTHING WITH Love.6gco}iaa Me too, oor. Don't cK}idboPee.A ramiiag Y SO WE MEET AGAIN, IN YET ‘ACE. , ANOTHER FORM. YOU REMEMBER Day SIMPLE CHA ‘ABOUT WITHOUT NOTIC! ~ ANO OF COURSES YOU'VE MET SPRINGTRAF, THE THRILLING FUSION OF MAN \ AND TECHNOLOGY. | CONF ATI HE MADE ME ECOTATIC WITH POWER, DELIRIOUS OVER MY NEWFOUND CHANGES ALL THINGS, AS DOES TIME SCALP TORN FROM MY HEAD, ‘SCRAPS OF METAL INTERWO FRIEND CHARLIE'S ADDITIONS « .« THAT SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU. BUT YOU FAKED LEAVING THE FAKE BLOOD BEHIND THE POLICE TO ‘FILLED PLENTY OF YERY REAL OLOOD. THAD NO NEED TO FAKE IT. WHATEVER "FAKE BLOOD" YOUR POLICE IT WAS GOMEONE , . geet — PUT THE PAST BEHIND US, HM? 100(@) Yorous PF x, vows PS wire mino ror science. You can't YI srupy \ *ietrsurnoniee | arcraso.ocy, WHAT I'VE DONE. / BUT SURE. YOU b _A\_— beLleve 5 THAT. IF THAT LAST INGREDIENT, THE SPARK OF LIFE. |/ a EVER CLOSER « ‘SOMErIM TO REPLICATE OLDER EXPERIMENTS, INCHING You'RE NOT AS CUTE AS ‘ARE ON THE I CAN'T TAKE COMPLETE CREDIT, \ UNFORTUNATE WHAT You see BeroRe YOU IS A COMBINATION OF ALL 2ORTS OF MAGHINATION® AND WwAGIc. SOME OF Mv WORK. SOME OF HENRY'S ...WHO oo knew Nor TO Re-ceeaTe THe (SHE'S MORE LLUSION OF LIFE WHEN. (THAN LLUGION, = YOUR MIND CAN D0 THOUGH.How WERE THEY EVER ABLE TO MOVE ON THEIR Not gust THe BEAR. THE BIRD, THE FOX, THE RADDIT. THEY DIE? __/ —NSIDE THE SUITS. THEIR BODIES WERE BOUND INSIDE, ALONG WITH THEIR ‘THE FLESH, IT WOULD EM, AND ALSO THE PAIN. THE CHILDREN! MICHAEL! I Move Mr FLESH PIECE BY PIECE. MORE AND MORE, IT 16 A TEST (OF MY OWN WILL. HOW (MUCH OF MYSELF CAN ARVE AWAY, AND STILL REMAIN Ir I wis 10 BECOME MY OWN IMMORTAL CREATION, MY BODY MUST LEAD MY SPIRIT 10 ITS ETERNAL HOME, SINCE | AM STILL EXPERIMENTING » «+/_ Piece BY bf Piece. THar'e 105THERE WAS AN EARPIE Coun You MAKE IT WORK, THE OTHER Way? 1U MEAN, (/ MAKE IT SO THE ANIMATRONICS CAN'T SEE You? ‘A FREQUENG THE ANIMATR MAKES YOU VISIBL: YOU INVERTED THAT FREQUENCY « Mayse. BuT THAT'S A BIG LEAP. 106‘YEAH, | THINK THAT'S Y ENOUGH EXCITEMENT FOR THE GIRL WI \, our oF A coma. By HUMAN, UAL FOR-REAL TO BED. 1, DON'T WORRY” BUT | WANT 10 A. HELP NOI // Wewere TRYING TO. WITH THE CHARLIE IMPOSTER, oaHoreruLty, WEN | Get pack, \) / ---9witcH THE RED AND THE BLUE ANDEARPIECE? NO, WHAT ARE ‘YOU DOING HERE? NAUSEA? ROOM SPINNING? r I'M SORRY, I HOPE | DIDN'T BREAK ANYTHING, Ir was. THE EXACT ALL JUNK ANYWAY. BUT THE WAY YOU WERE ROLLING ‘AROUND ON THE FLOOR, YOU MUST HAVE ACTIVATED SOMETHING. ARE J YOU OKAY?| COULDN'T SHOULD BETTER I'D THINK YOU WERE AFRAID J x You HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN ME ‘A CHANGE 13IMEAN, Ou'VE BEEN MY FRIEND SINCE FOREVER! MY FRIENE MayBe Nor JESSI / '"'s AL | Remember, ANO THE 000R, JOHN! JOHN, THE DOOR WAS OPENING. THINK SAMMY WAS INSIDE, | COULD FEEL HIM IN THERE, HIS Excerr | HEARTBEAT... REMEMBER WHAT SPRINGTRAP SAID. He Salo, *! DIDN'T HIM. | TOOK YOu." SAMMY! | ASKED HIM WHY HE TOOK MY BROTHER Ff ME, AND THAT'S WHAT HE ‘SAID. “I TOOK YOU!" _/ Aa How Lone: AS i? NO ONE He Propaptr HAG IT BEEN! JUST SAID IT TO HURT WILL TELL ME. I KNOW YOU, 10 CONFUSE IT'9 BEEN MORE THAN You. He's DAYS BUT... INSANE rr)‘Six MONTHS WHERE HAVE Tactuany SY ‘YOU WERE AW HER WITH YOU WITH YOUR RIGHT BEFORE THE AUNT.JEN. 4 HOUSE CAME DOW! OR THINK | 0.0, ANYWAY. 1 DON'T KNOW ym IF THAT MAKES SENSE DON'T REMEMBER HER BEING THERE, y THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS HOW ALL THE PIECES Fit. SHE HAG ALL THE SECRETS. SHE ALWAYS TRIED 70 PROTECT ME FROM THAT, BUT NOW THEN HOW 010 YOU WIND UP IN HER HOUSE? ANYONE. No. IT's OKAY. IF SHE WERE HERE, ‘SHE'D SAY | NEED 10 KEEP MY HEADCARLTON, WHATS GOING THEY WERE GONG YEAH, WELL, I SURE DID RUN THE FAKE CHARLIE! CLOWN AND EAT FOR FREE! 123THIS MIGHT cEA TIME 10 WHAT WOULD THAT POLICE REPORT LOOK LIKE, WONDER? LeAst, "YOu WERE ABOUT To." ©o y redI cAN GO INFiRET, AND... +++ COVER HER Up, IF YOu WANT. 4 a ‘M1 /7 ‘\ PMG a | FOUND YOU IN Ht (E KEPT YOU IN THERE \ LONG. I THINK \ ABOUT THE IMFOS PuryJEN KEPT METICULOUS PAPERWORK. FILES ON EVERYTHING. THERE HAS TO DE SOME CLUE HERE. é LETTER FROM YOUR URROUNDINGS TO THE POINT pao. \ WHERE | CAN NEVER DE SURE ae IF LLever serie nto J EVEN IF | 010 MANAGE TO TURN (OFF EVERYTHING PLANTED IN THE WALL (MADE TO DECEIVE MYELF, THE DAMAGE IS DONE, AND FAR 700 GREAT." CHARLIE, THIS 16 PRETTY ROUGH.“| HAVE MY CHARUE Bur THAT'S HERE WITH ME, WHERE | FELT SAMMY. THOUGH SHE GIVES THAT WAS SAMMY ME NO JOY." CALLING 10 ME FROM IN THERE, 4 “| HAVE POURED AGONY INTO HER, MADE HER A REMINDER NOT OF WHAT I ONCE HAD, BUT OF THE UNBEARABLE PAIN (OF WHAT WAS TAKEN. FROM ME." “Se /_“SEEP ALL THE ( CLOSETS SHUT, LET “MY GRIEF WAS ALREADY BEGINNING 10 WAKEN ME 10 REALITY WHEN | BEGAN WHAT WAS 10 BE HER FINAL STAGE." THEM BE Tomes FoR " "ESPECIALLY MY DENIAL AND MY THE FOURTH GRIEVANCE. CLOSET. SEALIT. Bury in” "| HAD NO) CHOICE BUT TO E MY WORK, FOR | HAVE PASSED AND NO ONE REMEMBERS, FLL THE HOUSE WITH EVERY KIND. OF FLAMMABLE THING AND. BURN IT 10 THE GROUND, STANDING CLOSE GUARD TO PUTA BULLET INTO ANYTHING THAT EMERGES FROM THE RUBBLE, NO (MATTER WHAT, OR WHO, IF LOOKS “My OLD FAITHFUL PARTNER, WHO | CAN ONLY HOPE NOW IS IN A GRAVE OF HIS OWN, TOOK WHAT | HAD BEGUN, AND MADE SOMETHING OF HIS OWN—SOMETHING DREADFUL.” "LWAS ABLE TO STOP HIM, AND TO SEAL AWAY WHAT HE MADE. JENNY, YOU MUST ENSURE THAT THE SEAL REMAINS." “IM GOING 70 BE WITH My DAUGHTER." “Love ALWAYS AND TO THE END. Heney.”Hey, eur | DION'T REALIZE TAKE & LOOK YOUR DAD WAS AT THIS, SUCH AN Ces } ‘ARTOT, iM gorey, CHARLIE. He ACT LIKE | DIED? SAMMY DIED. | DON'T KNOW WHAT ANY OF THAT MEANS. He SA HE: Dio HE eunD DREW THINGS So Y MULTIPLE ELLAS? HE COULD IT LOOKS LIKE HE HAS THAT IT DIDN DESIGNS FOR LARGER ONES HERE. THar's WHAT THESE SCHEMATICS ‘SUGGEST. Maree He WANTED TO BUILD YOU A DOLL THAT COULD GROW UF WITH YOU, SINCE YOU Lost SAMMY? Way WOULD | WANT A, FIVE-ANO~A-HALF~ FOOT DOLL ON A TRACK? He gays He KEPT THE CLOSETS LOCKED. IF THEY WERE JUST BIGGER AND BIGGER ELLAS INSIDE THEM, WHY WOULD AFTON STEAL ONE?You I MEAN, You \pSBRaeaR You're IN DANGER, ‘SURE THESE CAN'T REALLY TELL . } EARPIECES IF IT'S WORKING oe AND... J eS HERE. ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS? 130133ee a =) Ree soo, Cee eae ike : oer e335 y sece8 BA [SN Jj SF A —— 83 ~ xWHAT WERE YOU 1S OUT AFRAID OF THAT YOU DIDN'T WANT ME 10 OPEN THE DOOR? uke irs BROKEN? 135MARLA? We SHOI HERE | WAS PAINTING MY NAILS. FIND THE OTHER ONE THEY TOOK. ANY THIN I SHOULD KNioe)~ ( line | ceeepel151bie]oo pee CN & ta 2 154ygCOME ON, KID, WHERE ARE YOU? 159Figs Te BINOGQ, ms a Sra WTI ie al I] a TTHEARING HER SCREAM. STRANGE TO REMEMBER THE SAME MOMENT FROM TWO PAIRS OF EYES, BUT THEN WE WERE 0} | pow'T eeuieve THs TORY. THIS THING THAT LOOKS LIKE ME, THAT KILLED N'T BELIEVE OND THAT IT'6 A, POSSESSED BY THE SPIRIT OF THAT SWEET AND INNOCENT GIRL. AND THE ANGER ISN'T FROM HER. 15 FRO DIFFERENT FATHER.Ore: A ANOTHER ANIMATRONIC. ‘SHE WALKS, SHE TALKS, Veet THe REASON THIS ONE SEEMS 60 REAL URSE SHE DOES, HENRY. /ERYTHING YOU BUILD CAN WALK OR TALK. 16 BEC ‘YOU'RE DESTROYING YOUR MIND WITH THESE FREQUENCIES AND CODES: Wear io THs, FAKE BLOOD? HENRY, AUSE YOU YOU HAVE A SON, HENRY. A LIVING SON. AND ‘OUR WIFE. € No, HeNR’ You REMEMBER. ZAP YOUR HEAD WITH ENOUGH F THESE RAYS ANO | BET IR TEAKETTLE CAN TELL | YOu ABOUT YOUR LOST FAMILY. STILL BE PART OF YOUR Lire eur YOU HAVE 70 LET GO \ ‘SHE'S HERE. My CHARLIE aCOURSE, HE WASN'T CONTENT WHO ELSE ILO IT BE? WHY I TWITCHED AND SHUDDERED IN Ir was BECAUSE YOUR FATHER LEFT ME THE TIME, EVERY 0 iS AWARE AND UNFINISHED. > CHARLIE, UNICO! THAT MOVED AX ir}AiL THE WHILE, HE MADE OUR MEMORIES WITH A VIDEO CAMERA. I’ SURE THEY'VE BEEN ELABORATED UPON, EDITED AND EMBELLISHED, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, HE MADE US. THEN, AT LAST, SHE WOULD BE A WOMAN. FINISHED. PERFECT. ME. THE SECOND CHARLOTTE HE MADE WHEN HE WAS IN THE DEPTH OF MADNESS, ALMOST DELIEVING THE LIES HE TOLD HIMSELF. A SHE WAS AS HOPELESSLY DESPERATE FOR HER FATHER'S Bur SOMETHING CHANGED AS HENRY LABORED, RACKED WITH GRIEF OVER HIS LITTLE GIRL. THe UTTLEST CHARLOTTE WAS MADE WITH A BROKEN HEART. SHE CRIED ALL THE TIME, DAY AND NIGHT. ~ WHEN HENRY 8 10 MAKE THE FOURTH, 1S DESPAIR TURNED TO THE THIRD CHARLOTTE HE MADE WHEN HE BEGAN 10 REALIZE HE'D GONE MAD. THE THIRD CHARLOTTE WAS STRANGE, SOLDERED HER SKELETON TOGETHER, POURING HIS: ANGER INTO THE FORGE 1.WAS NOT CHARLOTTE-DRENCHED GRIEF. | WAS MADE ALIVE WITH HENRY'S FURY.Do you KNow HE TRIED TO FU THE FLAW HE SAW THE FIRST WORDS IN ME, AT FIRST, BUT WHAT WAS: YOUR FATHER EVER WRONG, AS HENRY SAW IT, WAS THE ‘SPOKE 10 ME? VERY THING THAT MADE ME ALIVE, MY FATHER ABANDONED Me. HENRY ABANDONED ME. OF COURSE, | COULD NOT COMPREHEND THOSE MEMORIES UNTIL | HAD RECEIVED A SOUL (OF MY OWN, ONCE | TOOK IT FOR MYSELF. THER CRUEL IRONY ULD ESCAPE THE LIFE OF ONE NEGLECTED DAUGHTER ONLY TO EMBODY ANOTHER, AND HENRY ‘TOOK ME RIGHT BACK ‘AND LOCKED ME IN THAT CLOSET. How Lone COULD YOU HEAR ME CALL TO YOU BEFORE ‘YOU FINALLY LISTENED ‘AND CAME FOR 170He Grew uP, HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW 1BARE YOU OKAY? COME, ON. WE'RE GETTING (OUT OF HERE. Save HM, Too. HE HURTS 80 BAD. He Sars 1's HOT. ALL MALLEABLE, MOLDABLE, AND ONE MIGHT EVEN BEST TO PUT IT INTO SOMETHING ‘YOU CONTROL 10 ‘SOME EXTENT. (OF COURSE YOU CAN MAKE SOMETHING YOU CONTROL COMPLETELY, WITH NO WILL OF ITS OWN. A CAR. A GUN. A DANCING ROBOT. + AND YOU CAN. CREATE A MONSTER YOU MOSTLY CONTROL, (ONE WITH UNLIMITED i " POTENTIAL.Mice a AND THEY How 0% LY STILL TRUST ME. FRIEND Mi SEEMS T YC THE Point. AND ERROR!‘You were NOTHING. IMATE, BECAUSE EVEN NOW, I'M STILL NOT ENOUGH. EVEN AFTER THIS, EMBODYING THE ONE THING FATHER 10 Love, I'M NOT ENOUGH. BECAUSE HE ‘CAN'T DUPLICATE THIS. HE Are you Smit LISTENING TOME, CHARLIE? UNLIKE YOU, | WAS Do vou wanr 70 KNOW WHERE MY HATE COMES FROM? IT'S NOT FRO) UTTLE aiRL, THIS MACHINE THAT RESIDE ilies ‘ONE WHO IN, AND IT'S NOT FROM MY CAN'T MAKE HIMSELF df DESERVED THE PAST LIFE, If THAT'S WHAT LIKE ME. KIND OF YOU WANT TO CALL IT ATTENTION SHOWERED OVER YOU. He caN'T DUPLICATE WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, OR MAYBE HE'S TOO SCARED ORE ee OF MY ea i | EMERGED FROM THE FLAMES AND THE WRECKAGE OF HENRY'G LAST GREAT FAILURE, AND | WENT TO MY FATHER. | GAVE MYSELF TO HIM, TO STUDY, TO USE, TO LEARN THE SECRETS OF MY CREATION. You, MAYBE HE CAN RE-CREATE. Henry SOMEHOW Gor A PIECE OF HIMSELF INTO ‘AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE. ‘AND STILL TIS YOU HE Wants, edaMy Th i You'. Have To Force V1 CAN THINK OF A FEW ME, THOU y. AT THE VERY RY. QUITE SURE HOW TO DO IT WILL BE FUN, THAT, EITHER. ak](Listen, we'ge ALL || TOGETHER Now. IF You LEAVE, YOULL BE \\Lo8r AGAIN. HE'S ABOUT 10 HURT SOMEONE ELE.all a toro]area SO, WHAT HAPPENED OH, WHATEvEs PRACTICALLY AM A NURSE, ‘AND I WANT 10 KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. THEY'RE SAFE. ALL OF THEM, Yes. You SAVED THE LAST ONE. AND IT WASN'T A PRACTICAL JOKE THIS TIME. Are THE KIDS ALL RIGHT?KNOW. I'VE BEEN (OUT TO LOOK FOR HER, AND I'M GOING TO KEEF \ LOOKING FOR HER, BUT OW! MaRtAl ‘AND WHAT ABOUT NOT-CHARLIE?reos 7 A Zo ~SNYT™ hy THE END YJ NOU 7