In the movie, the character Samara Morgan is a young girl with psychic powers who is locked away in a well by her adoptive parents. When a journalist investigates the urban legend surrounding Samara, she becomes cursed and must watch a cursed videotape within seven days or die. The scene with the scary looking sick kid in bed is when the journalist, Rachel Keller, watches the cursed videotape and sees Samara crawling out of the television set.