Plot

As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.

Set several years after his harrowing escape from the Grabber, Finney Blake is now a teenager trying to navigate high school, relationships, and a life that never fully returned to normal. Though he has moved to a new town with his sister Gwen, the memories of the basement, the voices of the dead boys, and the ominous black phone continue to haunt him. Despite his best efforts to bury the trauma, Finney suffers from recurring nightmares that feel less like dreams and more like warnings.

When a young boy in a nearby town disappears under mysterious circumstances, Gwen's precognitive dreams begin again-fragmented visions of a basement, a humming noise, and an old rotary phone ringing in the dark. At the same time, Finney is contacted by a frantic mother who claims her son has been hearing voices through a strange black phone found in an abandoned house. The details are too familiar, too close to the horrors Finney once endured, and reluctantly he is pulled back into the nightmare he thought he left behind.

Finney visits the location where the new victim was taken and is shaken to find a second black phone, eerily similar to the one from the Grabber's basement. Soon, Finney begins receiving calls himself. But the voices are different now-echoing, distorted, and disjointed, as if coming from a place beyond death. While some of the spirits are recognizable as the boys who helped him years ago, others seem lost, confused, and afraid of something far older than the Grabber.

As Finney investigates, he discovers that the phone was not unique; it was one of several objects tied to a lingering supernatural energy connected to the violent events surrounding the Grabber's crimes. The boys on the phone warn Finney that a new entity-born from rage, trauma, and the collective suffering of the Grabber's victims-has begun to manifest. Unlike the Grabber, this presence doesn't want control or revenge; it craves expansion and is feeding off the fear that the story of the Grabber has left behind.

With Gwen's visions intensifying and the missing boy's time running out, Finney is forced to confront his past head-on. He must work again with the spirits of the dead-who are now both his guides and prisoners-to uncover the truth about the new force stalking children through the network of black phones. Together, Finney and Gwen piece together a horrifying connection: the more the story of the Grabber is remembered, feared, and retold, the stronger the entity becomes.

As the line between the living and the dead weakens, Finney realizes that this time the voices aren't simply warning him-they are pleading for his help. The final revelation forces Finney into a confrontation that not only tests his courage but redefines what the black phone truly is, and how far its reach extends. In the end, Finney must face both the darkness that hunts him and the darkness within himself, determining once and for all whether the cycle of fear can be broken or if the phone will continue to ring forever.