The Fourth Kingdom

Chapman University hosts a televised interview with Dr. Abbey Tyler, during which she describes a string of troubling events that occurred in Nome, Alaska. She frames these events as part of an alleged alien abduction culminating in October 2000.

In August 2000, a re-enactment shows Abbey's husband Will being murdered, leaving her to raise their two children. The event links to the increasingly strange encounters Abbey will recount later in the story.

Abbey tapes clinical hypnotherapy sessions with patients who report a white owl watching them as they sleep, before beings attempt to enter their homes. The material hints at a recurring pattern of encounters connected to the alleged abductions.

During a police call, a patient holds his wife and two children at gunpoint and claims he remembers everything, asking about the phrase Zimabu Eter. Despite Abbey's pleas, he murders his family and commits suicide. The incident fuels Abbey's belief that her patients are connected to alien abductions.

Abbey suspects the patients are connected to abductions as an assistant provides a tape recorder that plays a sound signaling something entering her home. The attacker speaks an unknown language, and Abbey has no memory of the incident, leaving investigators unsure of what happened.

Abbey enlists Dr. Awolowa Odusami to identify the language on the tape. Odusami determines that the language is Sumerian, supporting Abbey's abduction theory and linking the recordings to ancient civilizations.

Scott volunteers to communicate with them and Abbey hypnotizes him. Under hypnosis, he hovers above his bed and a voice, speaking in Sumerian, directs Abbey to end her study. Sheriff August arrives and Scott is later found paralyzed from the neck down.

With mounting suspicion, Sheriff August places Abbey under guard inside her house. Campos comes to Abbey's defense, corroborating her account, while public trust begins to waver as authorities pursue the case.

A large black triangular object appears in the sky and people are reportedly pulled from the house. Deputies rush inside and discover that Ashley is missing while Ronnie remains in Abbey's custody. August denounces Abbey, accusing her of kidnapping.

Under another hypnosis session, Abbey recalls Ashley's abduction and reveals she herself was abducted as well. An alien presence communicates with Abbey, calling itself God and foretelling Ashley's fate as never returning. The sequence ends with a distortion and the cry Zimabu Eter as the figures vanish.

Abbey wakes in a hospital with a broken neck. August reveals that Will had committed suicide, and Abbey's belief that he was murdered was a delusion, reshaping her understanding of the earlier events.

The re-enactment concludes and Abbey states that Campos and Odusami were abducted during hypnosis but cannot recall the experiences. She claims Ashley may still be alive, and she is later cleared of charges and leaves Alaska for the East Coast.

Campos remains a psychologist, and Odusami becomes a Canadian university professor. August refuses further involvement with the case, and Ronnie remains estranged from Abbey, still blaming her for Ashley's disappearance.