

Kevin is greeted by Sukeena at the front door, who tells him that he is expected. Miller takes Bollinger to Rose Red and drops him off, instructing him to obtain additional embarrassing photos once the group of psychics arrives. Bollinger takes a photo of the group joining hands in a circle, and the photo and an article ridiculing Reardon are published in the campus newspaper. The group meets with Steven Rimbauer, the last descendent of Ellen and John Rimbauer, in an auditorium at the college. The group includes Victor "Vic" Kandinsky, an elderly precognate with heart disease Pam Asbury, a young psychometric Cathy Kramer, a middle-aged automatic writer Nick Hardaway, a telepath with remote viewing capabilities and Emery Waterman, a young post-cognate. Professor Carl Miller, Joyce's departmental chair who questions the validity of Joyce's research, orders Bollinger to follow Reardon and spy on a meeting with the group of psychics she is taking to Rose Red. Kevin Bollinger, a reporter for the campus newspaper, sceptically questions her about a trip she will be taking to Rose Red, an ostensibly haunted and abandoned mansion in nearby Seattle. Joyce Reardon is a professor at the fictional Beaumont University who teaches classes on psychic phenomena.

As she draws lines down over the house in her picture, rocks fall through the roof of an identical house belonging to an elderly couple down the street whose dog had bitten Annie, severely damaging the building. The young autistic girl Annie Wheaton is drawing a picture of a house as her parents and older sister, Rachel, argue outside her room. The miniseries opens with a prologue set in 1991. But he is intrigued by the paranormal history of the house, and has agreed to allow one more investigation of the mansion. He has been offered a substantial sum of money to have the house torn down and the site developed into condominiums. Steven Rimbauer, the great grandson of John and Ellen Rimbauer, has inherited Rose Red. Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.
