Anything (2018) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Audrey and Henry Walsh abducted Shannon because they wanted to use an ancient grimoire to transfer the spirit of their deceased grandson, Jackson, into Shannon's unborn child. Driven by grief and a dark obsession, they believed this ritual would bring Jackson back.

Foreshadowing: Earlier references to their deceased grandson and their desperation to recover him hint at their willingness to take extreme measures.

• Audrey Walsh
• Henry Walsh
• Shannon Becker
• abduction
• ritual
• Jackson
• grimoire

The ritual went catastrophically wrong because Audrey and Henry accidentally summoned Surgat, a demon that opens gates to purgatorial souls, instead of channeling Jackson's spirit. Rather than restoring their grandson, they unleashed a malevolent entity that began tormenting everyone in the house.

Foreshadowing: The dark ritual performed with the grimoire was inherently dangerous, as it called upon unknown supernatural forces.

• ritual
• Surgat
• demon
• grimoire
• Jackson
• gone wrong

Surgat is a demon described in the ancient grimoire that the Walsh couple used. According to fellow cultist Ian, Surgat is a demon who unlocks the gates to purgatorial souls that are desperately seeking a human body to inhabit. This was not the entity they intended to summon.

Foreshadowing: Ian's explanation reveals that the grimoire contains references to this specific demon, which the couple failed to properly identify before performing their ritual.

• Surgat
• demon
• purgatory
• souls
• grimoire
• cult

Rory, the handyman who came to clear the driveway, was possessed by the evil entity that Audrey and Henry summoned through their ritual. This possession drove him to deliberately drive into the snowplow, taking his own life in a tragic act of suicide.

Foreshadowing: The evil unleashed by the ritual began affecting others around the house, extending beyond the couple themselves.

• Rory
• possession
• suicide
• snowplow
• handyman

Detective Bellows discovered Shannon's confinement and attempted to rescue her, but the overwhelming supernatural evil in the house psychologically broke her. The tormenting apparitions and the desperate situation drove her to extreme despair, causing her to turn the gun on herself.

Foreshadowing: The house was already filled with malevolent spirits that had been haunting Audrey and Henry, and the presence of these entities intensified with the detective's arrival.

• Detective Bellows
• suicide
• investigation
• possession
• haunting

Ian stabbed Audrey as part of the corrupted ritual. Having been consumed by the evil he helped summon, Ian offered Audrey as a vessel for Surgat to inhabit. His mother had already been killed by him, and he had become fully possessed by the demonic forces at work.

Foreshadowing: Ian's demeanor had shifted dramatically, and Yolanda warned Henry that Ian had murdered his own mother, signaling his complete corruption.

• Ian
• Audrey
• stabbing
• Surgat
• possession
• sacrifice

Henry Walsh was killed by another dark entity during the chaotic climax when the apparitions fully manifested. As Ian attacked Audrey and offered her to Surgat, a sinister ghost dragged Ian away while a separate entity simultaneously claimed Henry's life, ending his attempt to bring back his grandson.

Foreshadowing: The demonic forces they had summoned turned against all of them, fulfilling Ian's warning about the dire consequences of their ritual.

• Henry Walsh
• death
• entity
• Surgat
• haunting

Shannon managed to break free from her confinement during the chaotic supernatural outbreak. As the apparitions began to fade momentarily, she realized her water had broken and she was about to give birth. Her fate and the fate of her child remain uncertain and ambiguous as she prepares to deliver in the horror-filled house.

Foreshadowing: The brief cessation of the ghostly attacks as Shannon escapes provides her a moment to recognize her impending labor.

• Shannon
• baby
• labor
• delivery
• escape
• pregnant

Ian killed his own mother because he had become fully possessed and corrupted by the demonic forces summoned through the grimoire. Cult leader Yolanda warned Henry that Ian had murdered his mother, indicating that Ian had completely succumbed to the evil they had unleashed.

Foreshadowing: Yolanda's warning about Ian's change in demeanor and his violent act toward his own mother signaled his complete transformation.

• Ian
• mother
• killed
• possession
• Yolanda
• warning

The ghost apparitions were manifestations of the purgatorial souls that Surgat had unlocked, each tormenting the occupants for different reasons. Henry was haunted by a woman flossing her teeth until they fell out, Audrey was tormented by a trick-or-treater resembling her deceased daughter who committed suicide, and Shannon saw a figure suffocating under a bag. These spirits were drawn to the house seeking human bodies.

Foreshadowing: Each apparition connected to personal tragedies: Audrey's daughter, the couple's dark deeds, and the spiritual chaos caused by the ritual.

• apparitions
• ghosts
• haunting
• Surgat
• purgatory
• torment