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Date: 2002-12-02 12:48:44

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Ok...bare with me...one more time here...Samara said in therapy that 'her father didn't love her..only the horses..he's just going to leave me here'..so we can assume that since the dad didn't care about Samara he didn't care about her sessions or what was on that tape...Maybe the mother had already seen the therapy tape after murdering the daughter (she could be among the list on the checkout slip...there were about 3 or 4 above the dad's name...remember my previous thoughts on the origin of the tape) as part of greiving for her child, she watches the tape and sees for the first time Samara's impressions....RING RING!!  Ok...so she goes mad toward the seventh day and jumps JUST AS SAMARA WAS COMING OUT OF THE WELL FOR HER!!! and then at the end....back in the well staring up at ....THE RING!!

So when Rachel visits Samara's dad, he didn't seem surprised that a reporter had stopped by...mentioning that he assumed she was there about the horses....but I don't think Rachel was the first reporter to get to the point that she had...but things had died down since then and the dad just had to know what was on his daughter's session tape once and for all....maybe out of guilt...maybe curiosity finally got the better of him...maybe both....but in the end he knew that he had to kill himself or Samara would do it for him.  

I remember that when Noah went to get the tape of Samara's session it had the date DEC 9 on the checkout...I dont recall if there were any refrences as to date in the movie to know wether he died on the 16th of December or not, but if so that might further back the theory....