Collins, as Sandie, tells Ellie to save herself and John from the growing fire. With the police outside, she attempts to slit her own throat but is stopped by Ellie, who tells her she understands why she killed the men. Collins enters Ellie's room, where she too sees the spirits and is slapped by the ghost of Jack. Ellie flees to her room, where the spirits of Sandie's victims beg Ellie to kill Ms. Collins' ashtray ignites a box of records. In the ensuing scuffle, a cigarette from Ms. Collins also reveals she drugged Ellie's tea and intends to kill her to ensure her silence. She then lured the men she was pimped to back to her room and killed them, hiding their bodies in the house's floorboards and walls. She explains that Ellie's prior vision of Sandie's death was in fact a vision of Sandie killing Jack when he threatened her with a knife. Collins tells her that a detective came by asking about Sandie's murder before revealing that she is actually Sandie.
The pub landlady reveals the man's name to be Lindsay, and Ellie recalls encountering him in her dreams he was an undercover vice officer who tried to help Sandie escape her life of prostitution.ĭevastated, Ellie decides to leave London and John drives her back to Ms. He angrily denies killing Sandie but is struck by a taxi and killed while leaving the pub. Believing she must avenge Sandie, Ellie confronts the silver-haired man, who frequents the pub where she works. The spirits again manifest, and she nearly stabs Jocasta in a panic. She goes to the police, but she is not taken seriously.Įllie attempts to find newspaper reports about Sandie's murder in the university library but is unsuccessful, instead finding stories of local men who vanished without a trace. Ellie decides to track down the silver-haired man, whom she believes is Jack. John returns with her to her bedsit, where she has a vision of Jack murdering Sandie. She flees a Halloween party she attends with John after the spirits accost her there. In her waking life, Ellie is disturbed by increasingly menacing apparitions that resemble Jack and the men who abused Sandie. In further dreams, Ellie discovers Sandie is not living the life she had hoped for, and Jack begins to pimp Sandie to his male business associates. She is observed by a silver-haired man, who recognises her similarities to Sandie.
Inspired by these visions, Ellie dyes her hair blonde, changes her fashion style to match Sandie's, uses her as an inspiration for her dress designs and gets a job at a pub. The next morning, Ellie designs a dress inspired by Sandie and discovers a love bite on her neck.Įllie has another dream in which Sandie successfully auditions at a Soho nightclub, arranged by Jack, before returning to the same bedsit that Ellie has rented. Sandie begins a relationship with the charming teddy boy manager, Jack. At the Café de Paris, she observes a confident young blonde woman, Sandie, inquire about becoming a singer at the club. That night, Ellie has a vivid dream in which she is transported back in time to the 1960s. Unhappy in the hall of residence, Ellie moves into a bedsit owned by the elderly Ms. Only John, another student, is sympathetic to her. Ellie occasionally sees her mother's ghost in mirrors.Įllie moves from her rural home near Redruth, Cornwall to London, in order to study at the London College of Fashion, where she has trouble fitting in with her peers, particularly her snobbish roommate Jocasta. Her mother, also a designer, killed herself during Ellie's childhood. Eloise "Ellie" Turner loves the music and fashion of the Swinging Sixties and dreams of becoming a fashion designer.