Annie confronts a group of townspeople in a tense ritual to identify a supernatural threat among them. She forces everyone to eat raw garlic as a test of their humanity, raising the stakes of survival and communal trust.
ANNIE: We all gonna eat this clove of garlic.
PEARLINE: I don’t much like the taste of it.
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