Ep. 3: Boy discovers unsettling secrets within a Russian nesting doll brought home from outside

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A boy brings home a Matryoshka doll, but his mother insists it is dirty and takes it away to discard it. That night, the father returns home while the boy worries about his missing mother, noting her purse remains untouched. Later, the mother returns holding the doll, speaking in a monotone voice. Days pass with the boy hearing her cry and then laugh downstairs, explanations the father dismisses as TV engagement. One night, the boy sneaks into the bathroom while his mother bathes with the doll. He opens the nesting layers, revealing painted emotions until he finds an unpainted layer with a ghastly face drawn in red pen. As he opens this final layer, disturbing noises of laughing, crying, and screaming erupt. The father bursts in to find the mother and son standing silently with their backs to the door, the doll restored to normal on the table.