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"I can't imagine being stuck down a well all alone like that. How long could you survive?"

―Noah, asking Rachel Keller.

Noah Clay was Rachel Keller's ex-boyfriend and Aidan Keller's father.

Biography[]

The Ring[]

Upon viewing the tape, the phone rings, and a child's voice says "seven days", upsetting Rachel. The next day, Rachel calls Noah, an ex-boyfriend (who also happens to be Aidan's father), to show him the video and asks for his assistance based upon his media-related skills. He asks her to make a copy for further investigation, which she does, but later takes it home herself. Noah finds a psychiatric file on Samara which mentions a missing video record last seen by Richard. Noah arrives and he and Rachel enter the barn. In a loft converted to a bedroom to isolate Samara from her mother, they find an image of a tree behind the wallpaper; Rachel recognizes it as a tree at the Shelter Mountain Inn.

Rachel returns with Noah to the cabin at Shelter Mountain Inn, where they are led to a well beneath the floorboards. They remove the lid and Rachel is pushed inside. A hand grabs her, and Rachel experiences a vision of Anna suffocating and dumping Samara into the well, where she survived for seven days. Samara's corpse surfaces from the water.

Noah facing Samara.

After Rachel is rescued from the well, they arrange a proper burial for Samara. Noah tells Rachel that they are now safe as more than seven days have passed since she watched the videotape. Noah's seven days are up and rushes to save him, but the vengeful ghost of Samara materializes on his TV screen, crawls out of it and kills him. After Rachel saw his disfigured face, she wondered why she didn't die instead of him. She eventually realized that she is alive only, because she copied the tape to show it to Noah. He saw the videotape but didn't copy and show the tape to someone else leading him to his death.

Trivia[]

  • Noah is mentioned in "The Ring 2" by Rachelle when she see's the pictures Aiden took.
  • He's an adaptation of Ryūji Takayama, though his background and relation to the protagonist changed, he maintained his role in the film.
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