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Case 39-DVD

Social worker Emily Jenkins is assigned to investigate the family of 10-year-old Lillith Sullivan, as her grades in school have declined and an emotional rift with her parents emerges.

Emily suspects that the parents have been abusing Lillith, and proposes to her department to take the child away from her parents' custody.

Emily's fears are confirmed when Lillith's parents try to kill her by roasting her in the oven at their home. Emily saves Lillith with the help of Detective Mike Barron. Lillith is originally sent to a children's home but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lillith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the mean time, Lillith's parents are placed in a mental institution.

Not too long after Lillith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily and her work. Another of Jenkins's cases, a boy named Diego, suddenly murders his parents one morning, and Detective Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime.

As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lillith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best-friend Douglas J. Ames. During the session, however, Lillith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and taunting him with her own threats.

That night, after receiving a strange phone call in his apartment, Douglas is panicked by the sight of a swarm of hornets coming out of his body. He is overcome by his childhood fear of hornets until he fatally injures himself in his bathroom.