The movie opens up in the year 2012, in
a small neighborhood in London. People
are going about their daily lives, and
everything seems to be normal. Just then,
an elderly woman, Maeve, senses something
in the area and stops. She seems worried,
as if she has felt an external force. One of the
neighbors, Trish, asks Maeve if she is alright,
but the old lady mentions that ‘it’s happening
again’. Out of nowhere, she rushes to the nearby
kids, and orders them to get inside their homes.
The neighbors are perplexed, as it is a perfectly
normal day, with no any signs of danger, but Maeve
keeps saying ‘it’s happening again’. Meanwhile,
we are shown the poster of a missing girl,
signaling that she was abducted not so long ago.
As Maeve is trying to convince her neighbors,
Trish’s daughter, Chloe watches everything unfold
from her room, across the street. She is singing
her favorite song, which talks about the bird;
Kookaburra. She then sits on her desk and starts
sketching a picture of one of the neighbor boys,
who is playing outside. Surprisingly,
as soon as she finishes the sketch,
the boy vanishes into thin air, as if he has
been teleported. Maeve and the boy’s father
realize that another abduction has taken
place, but they can do nothing about it.
Following this, we are introduced to the main
protagonist; ‘The Doctor’, and his accomplice,
Rose. The two are time travelers, who have been
tasked with fixing any anomalies in the timeline.
They have come into this world through their
teleportation portal, however, this time, they are
simply there to witness the opening ceremony of
the 2012 London Olympics. As the two are walking
through the same neighborhood, they come across
the posters of the missing children. The Doctor,
being a curious individual, doesn’t believe that
someone in a quiet neighborhood like this one
is capable of abducting children. Hence, he goes
around the neighborhood and starts inspecting.
When he reaches near the house where the last boy
disappeared, he suddenly senses a wave of energy,
thus concluding that the abductions
are related to something supernatural.
Meanwhile, Rose talks to a maintenance worker
named Kel, who has been fixing the potholes in
the neighborhood. It turns out that the Olympic
torch is going to pass through the street,
on the way to Wembley Stadium. On the
other hand, the doctor gets into trouble
for snooping around someone’s house like a
thief. Rose and Kel rush to help him out,
while Maeve and Trish arrive to diffuse
the commotion. Once everyone is gathered,
the doctor takes out his police badge and mentions
that he is a detective, sent by the government to
solve the missing children’s case. When he asks if
anyone has any information about the abductions,
Maeve steps forward and reveals that an
external force is taking the children away,
and she can feel them. As the group continues
discussing, Chloe can again be seen watching
everything from her room. She notices a cat,
and gets back to her desk to start sketching.
While she is at it, her mother, Trish, comes
into her room and tries to talk to her. However,
the little girl acts unruly, and orders Trish
to go away, as she is busy. We also see several
sketches of her wall, indicating that she
has been doing this for quite some time.
Outside, the Doctor and Rose come across
the cat and start playing with it. However,
as soon as Chloe finishes her sketch, the
cat enters a small box, as if it is being
called. Surprisingly, it vanishes inside the
box, leaving the Doctor and Rose stunned.
In the next scene, as Rose is
investigating the neighborhood alone,
she hears a strange noise coming out of one of
the houses. Although hesitant, she opens the door,
and a large supernatural looking
ball jumps at her. Fortunately,
the doctor arrives in the nick of time and
neutralizes the ball, hence saving her life.
Later, the two take the strange ball to their lab
to know its composition. After a bit of research,
the doctor finds out that the ball is actually
made up of graphite, the same substance that is
found in an HB pencil. He also gets to know
that the ball is charged with ionic energy,
and that is why it came to life. With all
the information, the doctor concludes that
the ball is just a pencil scribble, which was
thrown away after the sketch became useless.
Hearing this, Rose chips in with her
theory that whoever is making the sketches,
has the power to either create or erase things
from earth. She also suspects Chloe, as the
little girl is the only one who doesn’t come
out of her house, and looks weird all the time.
The following day, the two arrive outside Chloe’s
house to meet her, but they are stopped by Trish,
who mentions that her daughter is busy. She also
looks scared, as if she is hiding something.
The doctor senses this, and promises to help
her daughter, and this time, Trish agrees.
After letting them in, Trish reveals that Chloe
has been acting strange since the last couple
of months. She never leaves her room, and scribs
random sketches all day long. Trish also mentions
that her husband died a year ago, but they are
happy about it since he was a very bad person.
As the three continue discussing, Rose asks
for a bathroom break and heads upstairs.
There, she notices Chloe getting outside her room
and quickly hides. After the little girl is out
of sight, Rose heads into her room, and notices
the weird sketches on the wall. She also hears
an unusual noise coming from the closet. When she
opens it, she is taken aback to witness a talking
entity. The entity is a scary looking sketch made
on the wall, and it keeps on saying ‘I’m coming’.
Meanwhile, the doctor meets with Chloe and tries
to interrogate her, but the girl again says that
she’s busy. Suddenly, he hears Rose’s scream
and rushes upstairs. On reaching, he sees the
entity trying to come out of the closet and
immediately closes it. Trish also arrives and
gets angry that the two have barged into her
daughter’s room without permission. Just then,
Chloe reveals that the entity inside the closet is
her father, and that she sketched it after she saw
him in her dream. Worried, Trish asks her what’s
going on, but as usual, Chloe doesn’t respond.
After this, the two time travelers brief Trish
on everything that has been happening with her
daughter. They mention how Chloe has been using
her sketches to make kids and animals disappear
from her neighborhood. As expected,
Trish is dumbfounded to hear all this,
but deep down inside, even she knows that
something is terribly wrong with her daughter.
Later, the three head to the kitchen
and discuss the matter in hand.
Trish is confused as to why Chloe drew her
dead father, to which the doctor replies that
he has been haunting the little girl in
her dreams. Then, to find more answers,
they again head back to the little girl’s room.
However, this time, the doctor uses one of his
spells to render Chloe unconscious, so that he
can talk to the entity that is possessing her.
Lo and behold, the entity starts speaking, and
continuously mentions that it ‘doesn’t want to be
alone’. It then identifies itself as an Isolus, a
supernatural being that travels the space with its
large family. Two months ago, this particular
Isolus became separated from its family,
when a large solar flare damaged its pod and
sent it flying to earth. Rose and Trish can’t
understand why the Isolus took over Chloe’s body,
but the doctor clarifies that these creatures live
off their family’s energy, and that if they are
separated for too long, they will die. The Isolus
befriended Chloe because she had a troubled
childhood, and is lonely just like it is. The
Isolus has also caused Chloe to draw a life-sized,
exaggerated figure of her late, abusive father
He further mentions that the Isolus will
continue kidnapping children and other animals,
until it can match the numbers of their
large family. Rose asks about the number,
and the Doctor replies; 4 billion. This
means that the Isolus will keep using
Chloe to kidnap children, until
it has 4 billion family members.
Just then, Chloe’s father’s entity inside
the closet starts banging on the door. At
the same time, Chloe starts having a panic
attack, as if her father is attacking her
mentally. With time running out, the doctor
tells Trish to think of something that can
calm her daughter down. Not knowing what
to do, Trish starts singing the Kookaburra
song, and fortunately, it works. The entity
becomes silent, and Chloe comes back to life.
After a while, the doctor and Rose head out
to look for the pod that brought the Isolus to
earth. The plan is to repair the pod
so that the Isolus can return to its
original family. Surprisingly, Chloe
is following them everywhere they go.
Later, the two head back to their lab and
start creating a device that can track the heat
movements of the pod and reveal its location.
The task is not easy but using his incredibly
complex brain, the doctor prepares the device and
finds out that the pod is hiding somewhere in the
same neighborhood. However, just as they enter
the area through their teleportation portal,
the doctor and the portal disappear into thin air.
It turns out that Chloe has sketched the doctor,
as he was becoming a major
obstacle in her plans. Now,
with her master gone, Rose
has to solve the case, alone.
In the next scene, Rose hurries to the streets and
starts looking for the pod. A few hours pass by,
but she doesn’t find a single clue. Suddenly,
it strikes her mind that the pod feeds off
heat energy, meaning that it must be repairing
itself in the hottest part of the neighborhood.
She then approaches Kel, the maintenance
worker, and asks him the location of the
largest pothole he fixed recently. Kel thinks
for a while and points at a nearby place,
where he deposited a lot of hot tar. Wasting
no time, Rose grabs an ax and starts digging.
Her plan comes to fruition as just
after a few minutes, she finds the pod.
Elsewhere, Chloe watches the television, and
sees thousands of people in Wembley stadium,
waiting to witness the opening ceremony
of the 2012 Olympics. Unsurprisingly,
this strikes an idea in her mind, and
she starts sketching the entire stadium.
Shortly after, Rose arrives at the house with the
pod, but it’s too late. Around 80,000 people in
the stadium have disappeared into thin air, and
the news is being broadcasted live on television.
Sadly, this is still not enough for the Isolus,
and it orders Chloe to sketch the entire earth,
so that it can abduct everyone and make
a large family. Rose tries to stop Chloe,
but the entity inside the closet threatens to
come out, if she gets near the child. With all
hopes now seemingly lost, a sketch inside the
room suddenly moves. It is the doctor’s sketch,
and even while being abducted, he has managed
to communicate with Rose. In the sketch, he is
pointing at the olympic torch. At the same time,
the television also starts showing the olympic
torch rally, which is nearing the neighborhood.
The reporter says that the torch is a beacon of
hope, integrity, and love. As soon as Rose hears
this, she realizes that the doctor is signaling
her to throw the pod inside the olympic torch,
as love is the only thing that can repair it.
She immediately heads outside and joins
the large crowd that is waiting for the
olympic rally to arrive. Once she sees the
torch, she throws the pod into the air,
and it lands exactly at the right spot.
With this, the Isolus inside Chloe’s body
realizes that the pod is about to be fixed, and
decides to return home. After it leaves her body,
Chloe returns back to normalcy and hugs her
mother. The other abducted children also start
reappearing, and even the entire Wembley stadium
is filled with the previously abducted spectators.
Rose celebrates her victory with Kel, but when
the doctor does not reappear, she becomes worried.
Just then, she hears a monstrous scream from
Chloe’s house, and rushes there. It turns out
that the Isolus had left a small amount of energy
behind, and using it, the entity from the closet
has come out. It has trapped the mother-daughter
duo inside, and is coming to finish them off.
Rose, realizing that the entity is merely a lump
of energy, tells Chloe to stay strong, and sing
her favorite song. Although scared, the little
girl starts singing the Kookaburra song, and
her mother joins in too. The plan works, and the
demon is pushed back inside its world, forever.
In the final scene, the television shows
that the man carrying the olympic torch
is exhausted and injured. Just as he
is about to reach the Wembley stadium,
he collapses to the ground. Surprisingly, the
doctor pops up out of nowhere, carries the torch,
and heads to its designated destination. As
the crowd, and the entire world cheers on,
he climbs up the stairs of the
stadium and lights the Olympic flame.
The movie ends as the pod finally generates
enough energy to travel back to its own galaxy.
