Several years have passed since Tommy Jarvis chained Jason Voorhees at the bottom of Crystal Lake. The Shepard family live near the closed campgrounds. Young Tina Shepard witnesses her alcoholic father, physically abusing her mother. Tina attempts to leave the chaos of her home on a boat, and when her father follows her outside, accidentally unlocks previously latent telekinetic powers, which results in her father's death at the bottom of Crystal Lake.