Terror Tuesday: Extreme – Episode 6 “Girl Next door” Recap & Review

Girl Next door

Terror Tuesday: Extreme episode 6 starts with a woman committing suicide… or does she? Our protagonist, Bird, shows up at his apartment after seeing this frightening vision outside, but it’s clear that he’s seeing things.

Bird has family issues, ignoring calls from his mum while simultaneously being drawn to the strange girl who lives next door to him. He decides to leave her a note to introduce himself, but as time passes, it’s clear why he’s not talking to his family. Bird has a drug addiction and sees visions of this beautiful girl next door showering while high on his bed.

When Bird comes down, he finds a note from the neighbour, asking him to turn off all lights and sounds late at night, along with making sure he doesn’t wander around after midnight. He writes the note off as a hoax but that night, the strange noises begin. I mean, I say strange, it’s basically moaning. Bird heads over to take a look via the balcony and he sees his neighbour looking directly at him while she’s going at it with someone else.

The banging moves across to the front door, but when Bird’s phone goes off, he speaks to Kie about what he’s witnessed. The visions continue but things take an eerie turn when he finds out that the person who used to live in Room 406 actually moved out and nobody lives in that apartment right now.

Bird is convinced he’s not going insane and decides to break into the woman’s apartment with a crowbar. The place is pretty sparse, although he ends up seeing… himself on the toilet. It becomes increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction here, and when Bird receives a strange letter, informing him of something wrong with the water supply and urging him to keep himself locked up, he begins to spiral.

Kie shows up at the apartment building to find the officer in charge of the building. Apparently there’s an issue with Room 406, not the apartment building as a whole. That good looking woman from 406? Her name is Jane and it turns out the building owner was having an affair with her and his wife found out.

He left a note for Jane, telling her to stay in her room and not open up under any circumstances. He and his wife moved out that afternoon after a big row and unfortunately this woman, Jane, jumped off her balcony not long after and killed herself.

It would appear that Jane’s spirit is still haunting the room and her instructions about not leaving certainly don’t go unheeded from Bird when his mum shows up, paying her respects as it seems like her son has passed away. When Bird tries to leave, he flings open the door but nobody there. He retreats back to the room, where Jane is in the other room. It’s too late, as it seems like Bird has commit suicide.

The Episode Review

So there’s a lot of cryptic chatter and ideas in this episode, but when you break it down, it would appear that these two suicide cases are linked together quite closely. Both Jane and Bird are lonely outcasts looking for love. Bird finds that in his drugs while Jane finds that in a married man. Both taboo and both dangerous.

Jane found herself committing suicide from the guilt of destroying this marriage, and Bird dies as a result of a drug overdose, at least that’s what we’re led to believe anyway. We’re not specifically told that but the imagery of Bird sitting on the toilet and seeing himself passed out, not to mention the bag of white powder (which is presumably cocaine or heroin). Given the way Bird was acting all jittery and Kie’s worries about his friend at the start, given Bird has also taken money from him, would indicate the latter.

The final moments show Bird’s mother paying respects to her son, seeing the apartment building he died in and with Bird following her out, only to find himself separated from his body. Instead of being sent to heaven, we’re led to believe that he’s basically stuck in this perpetual hell with Jane, who is in a similar position to him given suicide is the gravest of sins.

The episode does well to keep things ambiguous, and the ending certainly leaves things open to interpretation.