The group film themselves watching the video before passing the footage to another person, called a 'tail'. Julia meets Gabriel and finds a group of people known as the Sevens, who are involved in an experiment involving the cursed video. She is inspired to find him when a panicked girl, Skye, contacts her, asking for Holt's whereabouts.
Elsewhere, student Julia sees her boyfriend Holt off to college but grows concerned when he falls out of contact. Two years later, college professor Gabriel Brown buys a VCR, discovering the videotape inside. After learning he did not, Samara causes the airplane to crash. Another passenger reveals she has seen the tape too, and asks the man if he made a copy.
On an airplane bound for Seattle, a man reveals that he has watched Samara Morgan's cursed videotape.