Ep 023: From - Season 1 (part 2)

you Hello fellow weirdos and welcome to Horror Through Her Eyes. You've got the amateur destroyer here and I need to apologize but apparently I lost the first half of this episode and because we record in skype if you don't download the video within a month it disappears it looks like i only downloaded one of the videos which was the second half because if you go for long enough in skype it'll break up

your video into separate parts so I am very very sorry the day that we recorded was very hard for me for some reason we started it with me not hitting the record button and we ended up skipping a bunch of things that we had talked about during that time that we weren't recording but we had at least recorded all of the

series episodes that we were planning on covering. So this is just going to be me going through the first couple of episodes alone without my Taminator or the wonderful Nicole Trawick because I feel like it's not fair. to do a whole series retrospective or at least a whole season of a series as we were covering all of season one without going over episodes four and five because the recording

that I do have only covers episodes six and seven. So this is going to be a little boring. I'll probably go through this a little quickly. We're not going to get into haunting headlines or fright bites or anything like that. And when I say we

I mean me because it's just me here recording by myself right now. And, you know, mostly want to apologize to Nicole because she's our special guest. It was really great of her to come for three episodes and work around our schedules. So I'm really bummed out. that you guys are gonna miss any commentary that she had about episodes four and five. But you know, I'm gonna do the best that I can here by myself. So here we go. is a spoiler-filled podcast, so this is your warning. Spoiler alert.

I'm not going to get into the whole cast or anything because we did all of that in the previous episode when we covered the first three episodes of season one of the series from. So I'm just going to go ahead and dive right into episode four. We see a small boy emerge from the same outdoor underground basement that Jade saw the monster pinned behind when he was pinned behind a boulder in. The boy is holding an old school disco lunchbox.

When he comes up into the sunlight, he sees dead bodies laying all around him on the ground and looks frightened. We suddenly cut to grown-up Victor and realize that the kid in the previous scene was him! He draws a picture of Julie while she sleeps on the couch. When she awakes, she quickly becomes nervous and Victor starts saying something about how he thinks he's starting to remember things that he initially thought were dreams.

He hands Julie the drawing and says that she can keep it. Soon after, a girl approaches Julie and asks for her pillow, Meredith, back. The girl's name is Trudy. The pillow's name is Meredith. Julie says it's funny that she owns a shirt just like Trudy's. Trudy reveals that she is wearing her shirt, Julie's that is, and she took it out of her luggage. She follows up with, you don't mind do you? We all share everything around here. Julie replies, I guess not.

We cut to Sarah entering the diner and walking in on Miss Lou crying to herself at the diner counter. She gets up and speaks in Cantonese when she realizes that Sarah is there. We cut to the Matthews and their new house. Tabitha is drinking tea and crying at the dining table. She asks Jim if he thinks that they are somehow being punished and goes down a laundry list of all the horrible predicaments they're in.

When little Ethan enters the kitchen and asks Tabitha if she's crying, she responds that she just has a headache and Jim asks Ethan if he wants to go to the diner to get some breakfast so that he can spare Tabitha from having to cry in front of him. Tabitha says that they should go and bring her back some breakfast as well, claiming she wants to stay so she can unpack and organize. We cut to Boyd who goes to the box to collect Frank's body, which is toe up.

except for his face of course frank curses er frank uh we were doing this before with tammy uh boyd curses to himself under his breath As he rolls a cart full of Frank down the street, we see the Matthews boys emerge from their new house. Boyd's shirt is plastered in dark blood, but he makes sure to turn the front of his body in the opposite direction of Ethan, and when Ethan asks what Boyd's hauling in his cart, he says tools for Father Khatri.

Ethan offers to help and Boyd thanks him but responds that he's good, ensuring that Frank's body is thoroughly covered. We follow the Matthews into the diner, where Sarah says that they were hoping that they would show up, as Miss Lou likes to prepare something special for newcomers when they first arrive. Ethan asks if he can get pancakes, and Sarah says that Miss Lou is a genius and can probably find a way to make them for him.

Jim realizes that Miss Lou was the wife of Mr. Lou, who was just killed, and then apologizes when he sees Sarah look uncomfortable. Sarah assures him that it's okay and leaves to give Miss Lou their order. Boyd meets Father Khatri so he can bury Frank's body. When Father Khatri asks Boyd if he's coming to the service, Boyd just laughs.

Father Khatri asks what's so funny, and Boyd says, are you going to tell them at the service that you're the one who wanted him to die? Father Khatri looks pissed and asks Boyd if he feels better now. Boyd loses a smile quickly and cuttingly says to Father Khatri, just bring back the cart when you're done.

Jade sits atop the doors that lead to the same underground basement thing out in the middle of nowhere that we saw young Victor emerge from at the beginning of this episode. Kenny approaches and asks what he's doing out here. He tells Kenny about what he saw. the dead body monster pinned under the boulder, which is gone now. Kenny explains that the first few days are really hard for newcomers.

Jade tries to explain that he's done a fuckton of drugs and knows that what he saw was real and not a hallucination. Jade also reveals that he created a software company, so that's why he thinks he's so fancy and famous. Kenny turns off the light and tells Jade to follow him, as he wants to show him something. Back at the diner, Miss Lou brings out pancakes and syrup and gives Ethan a big smile and tells him to enjoy. Ethan is clearly excited about his stack of pancakes.

Ethan asks Jim if they live here now, to which Jim replies, no, it's more like a vacation. Ethan says he thinks it's more like a magical quest, like his favorite story, Norman and the Trail of Tears. He thinks that they have to probably save someone in order to be able to escape. Ethan then says that he likes to think Thomas is on a magical quest.

We don't know this yet, but we can probably assume that it was his brother who is maybe now deceased, especially because earlier in this episode, Tabitha was crying and she had mentioned something about her baby. boy keeping her up all night until the sun finally came up as if to say your work here is done I thought she was talking about baby Ethan and being emotional because of their predicament, but now I think she must have been talking about another boy that they lost.

At the mention of Thomas, Jim nonchalantly excuses himself to go to the bathroom, where he proceeds to cry. Back at the Matthews house, we see Tabitha start to go through their luggage and organize their things. She finds a purple sweater and pauses. I think it's probably Julie's. At the diner, Victor comes in and sits down with Ethan while Jim is still in the bathroom.

Victor tells Ethan that the trees have moved four inches and that it's a bad sign because they're closer. Victor pulls out a drawing he did in Crayon of a boy dressed in white and asks Ethan if this is what the kid looked like that he saw outside of his window. Ethan asks who drew it, and Victor replies that he did. Ethan says, innocently, but it's in Cran.

And Victor, confused, says yes. And then Ethan totally puts Victor on blast, saying that he's a grown-up with a confused look on his face. Victor looks annoyed and asks again if it's the same boy. Ethan confirms that it is. We see a look of relief across Victor's face as he says, mostly to himself, that means he's real. Just then, Jim comes out of the bathroom and approaches Victor in a very aggressive manner.

He grabs the front of Victor's shirt and drags him to the entrance of the diner, accusing him of being ill intentioned towards his son. Ethan yells in the background at his dad, pleading with him to stop. Jim basically kicks Victor out and tells Ethan it's time to go. At Colony House, Julie is quietly crying to herself while looking out a window when Fatima finds her. Fatima asks her what's wrong and Julie says that she thinks she might have made a mistake.

Fatima said it was hard for her at first too, until she learned how to get her clothes back from Trudy. Julie laughs and asks how she knew. Fatima said that she noticed she was wearing a new shirt and she knows she didn't order it online. Fatima tells her to follow her. Back at the Matthews house, Ethan and Jim arrive home and Ethan complains to his dad that Victor is his friend and he shouldn't have treated him that way. Jim tries to apologize, but Ethan tells him just to leave him alone.

At Colony House, Fatima and Julie take down some laundry off of the laundry line and Fatima tells Julie a story about how there was this fabulous cross-dressing man who rolled into their town in his Armani sweater that Trudy stole. She implied that this man didn't make it, unfortunately. And Trudy never shares it, but since they're on laundry duty, they can take whatever they want.

So Fatima has Julie put the sweater on and they laugh and joke when Tabitha walks up from down the road. She tells Julie that she found her sweater in her luggage and came to give it to her. They have a very brief tender moment. A very brief tender moment before Tabitha ruins it by saying that they can just go talk to Donna, explain how Julia had made a mistake and wants to live in town with the rest of her family now.

Clearly offended Julie argues that Tabitha always does this. She pushes Julie to the point where she has to admit that she was wrong implying that she doesn't always believe she is to appease her. When Tabitha says that they need to stick together as a family because they don't know where they are or what's going on, Julie lays it all out.

who is she tabitha to talk about family she says she knows that her parents are planning on getting a divorce and that this trip was just one last hurrah before they break the news to the kids Julie tells her mom to stop treating her like a child and follows up with, I know what you've lost with Thomas, but we've all felt that loss and you have two other children. Why are we not good enough for you?

Tabitha tries to explain that it's not that simple, but Julie walks away. Tabitha hands the sweater to Fatima and asks that she get it to Julie, which Fatima assures her she will. We cut to Jade and Kenny in the police station where Kenny shows him a map with pins all over it. Kenny explains that the pins represent different people who've arrived here and where they were driving when they showed up here.

We see pins all over North America. Jade gets frustrated saying that it's impossible and he's not just going to sit around and accept it. Kenny says that he has to come to terms with it so he doesn't go crazy because those who don't... do go crazy. All of a sudden, a little white noise comes on over the radio and Kenny dismisses it as something that happens every once in a while. But to Jade, it's a clear sign of something.

We're not sure what, but he grabs the radio and takes off. Back at the Matthews house, Jim and Tabitha meet each other on the front porch and commiserate about their experiences with the kids, both ending with their kids being very angry with them. Tabitha says that Julie knows about the divorce. Jim tries to comfort Tabitha, but it only angers her more.

She says that she wants Jim to say that he's scared and has no idea what's going on because she's terrified and has to remind herself to breathe. It makes her feel like there's something wrong with her because Jim is acting so cool. They continue to argue out front on the porch, while inside Ethan finds Victor knocking on his window. Victor tells Ethan that he needs to go with him into the forest to meet the boy in white.

Ethan asks if it's a quest, to which Victor replies that it is. He replaces Ethan's crutch with a good old-fashioned walking stick he found on the ground, says it's more suitable for a quest. Victor also says that Ethan has to go because the boy chose him, just like he chose Victor many years ago.

We cut to The Box, where Father Khatri tries to talk to Boyd about how Frank's death wasn't his fault, and that he knows it's something deeper that's bothering Boyd. Boyd warns the father to choose his next words very carefully. Father Khatri says, you can't keep punishing yourself. She would never want that. This sets Boyd off and he yells at Father Khatri that he's way out of line. Father Khatri continues to talk about who I'm guessing is Boyd's wife, who is no longer with us.

Father Khatri goes on to say that Boyd figured out how to let the townspeople live again, that they didn't have any deaths for three months, and now that there have been six killings in the last two days, so the people are starting to worry. and they need Boyd to be strong for them. Father Khatri also says that he's okay with being Boyd's punching bag if it helps him stay strong. He adds comments about Boyd's wife, such as, she will have died for nothing.

And I can still see her face when I close my eyes. Boyd seems less defensive now and has calmed down and just listens until Father Khatri walks away. We cut to Victor and Ethan in the forest where Victor tells him that a long time ago, two other cars appeared at the same time, like when Ethan arrived. Victor says that he wasn't too much older than Ethan when it happened.

Ethan remarks that Victor's been here a long time. Victor tells him that he's been there the longest. Ethan tries to ask Victor about his parents or how he got there, but Victor gets mildly upset at this and says that they shouldn't talk about it. Ethan apologizes, and then he tells Victor about his little brother Thomas who died when he was a baby. Victor asks Ethan why he told him that, and Ethan very innocently replies that it's because they're friends.

Victor says he doesn't want to hear that stuff when all of a sudden the boy in white appears, walking in the opposite direction of Victor and Ethan. Victor shushes Ethan and they quietly watch the boy before moving to follow him. At the Matthews house, Tabitha calls for Ethan to come downstairs. When he doesn't, Jim and Tabitha start looking around and find Ethan's crutch on the ground. They continue into the forest.

Elsewhere in the forest, Ethan and Victor approach a tree with a hollowed out hole. Ethan asks where the boy went and Victor responds, the far away tree. When Ethan asks what that is, Victor finds a rock and draws a happy face on it with an orange crayon. He then tosses the rock into the hollow of the tree, and a few moments later, it falls from the sky onto the ground behind them about 20 feet back.

Ethan is clearly excited by this magical display, and Victor tells him that there's a lot of far away trees, but that he's never seen this one before. He also tells Ethan that you never know where you'll end up if you go in one. You could even end up inside of a mountain. All of a sudden, Victor hears a dog bark echoing in the trees and covers his ears. I'm sorry, in the tree, the faraway tree. Obviously in dismay.

Ethan asks what's wrong and Victor says, can't you hear that? It's clear to us that Ethan cannot. Back to Tabitha and Jim, they're suddenly approached by two aggressive German shepherds. Victor fires a gun into the air and scares the dogs off. Ethan goes over to his parents and Jim tries to threaten Victor who's telling him that he would never hurt anyone. Tabitha convinces Jim to back off since he has a gun.

We see some flashbacks from Little Victor's perspective of the boy in white riding a park carousel and suddenly disappearing, and of the dogs walking around to the dead bodies.

we see victor enter a garage of a house where he has some of his drawings pinned up to the wall of the boy in white of the german shepherd of all the dead bodies on the ground when he first arrived of a far away tree In town, Jim approaches Boyd, calling him sheriff, which Boyd responds to by telling him, it's not sheriff, just call him Boyd.

Jim tells Boyd about how Victor took his son into the forest and has been giving him drawings and carries a gun in his lunchbox. Boyd lets him know that he'll talk to Donna about it and make sure it doesn't happen again. Boyd also says that it's been crazy in town the last couple of days, but he wants to get to know the Matthews and asks what they're doing for dinner.

We cut to Julie with Fatima, who surprises her, along with Ellis, with her very own bed, pillow, blanket, and curtains in their room. The girls excitedly jump on the bed. It's a sweet moment. Boyd gets dressed in a bathroom somewhere and takes a minute to just scream at the mirror before meeting up with the Matthews for dinner.

Sarah invites Ethan to come help her carry the food out while Kenny steps in briefly to call Boyd away because they're meeting for dinner at the diner, I should have mentioned. Joni Mitchell plays on the little old-timey tabletop jukebox. Jim apologizes to Tabitha about making her feel the way that he does. He says he doesn't know what to do and feels so broken and never meant to make her feel bad. Tabitha holds his hand and says that they'll figure it out.

They hold hands for a moment longer when Ethan comes back to the table with a bowl of sweet potatoes that he shares with his parents. Miss Lou and Sarah smile at him from behind the counter. All of a sudden, Sarah grabs her arm like she's fighting with it, and we see, I think, her veins moving to form the words, kill the boy, on the inside of her forearm.

The words disappear and Sarah falls to the ground and has a seizure. Boyd and Kenny run in to help her. We cut to the colony house where Victor has dug six empty graves in the front yard. Donna runs up to him yelling, what are you doing? You're freaking people out. Victor simply responds that he wanted to get a head start this time. And that is where episode four ends.

All right, now we're going to dive into episode five, after which you will hear me accompanied by Taminator and Nicole Trawick for episode six. So here we go. Episode five. We open on the barn with Nathan, Sarah's brother, where he tends to the goats until a black woman runs up to the fence and tells him something is wrong with Sarah and that she's in the clinic.

In the clinic, Christy tends to Sarah and says that she wants to keep her there overnight. Christy asks if she wants her to send for Nathan and Sarah says no, he'll just worry. That if he comes by to tell him that she's sleeping. Christy walks into another room where Boyd is and talks to him. Boyd asked if the residents could be having some sort of physical reaction to the place because Ethan had a seizure too, and now Sarah, who said she's never suffered from seizures before.

Christy admits that she doesn't know and without an MRI machine she can't really be sure what's going on. She notices Boyd is gripping his hand and asks what's going on. He's clearly reluctant to say but when she tells him to come back by tomorrow so she can look at his hand, he says that it won't be necessary because he already knows what it is.

He asks Christy if she's sure she wants to stay overnight at the clinic, as it'll be the first time since the incident when the door was left open and Mr. Lou was killed. Christy says that they've already lost so much and she's not gonna let those monsters take the clinic away from her too. Just then, Christy looks out the window and notices Nathan running towards the clinic.

Christy tells Boyd that she's not sure why, but Sarah doesn't want to see him. Boyd goes outside and convinces Nathan and Sarah that it's okay and resting and that Christy is staying with her overnight to make sure that she's okay. He brings up that it's the first time Christy stayed at the clinic since the incident and implores Nathan not to make the situation even more stressful for her. Nathan complies and leaves.

At the Matthews house, Jim tells Ethan that Christy, that nice lady who patched up his leg, is taking care of Sarah and that she'll be fine. He distracts Ethan by leading him over to a wall in the house, along with Tabitha, and says that they're going to try to solve a mystery. He says when you try to figure something out, it always helps to get it out on a board. out in front of you, and to ask every question that comes to your mind and try to answer it. Jim writes, where are we on the wall?

In the clinic, Sarah looks in a drawer at some medical implements and remembers what words came across her arm in the diner when Christy suddenly walks in, and Sarah says that she wasn't able to sleep. Christy says she can't either and offers Sarah some tea. They sit together on a couch drinking tea when Sarah says that Christy and Kenny make a cute couple. Christy says they're just friends. Sarah says that Kenny's sweet and he loves her. Why are they just friends?

Christy says it's complicated because she has a fiancé back home named Mariel and she wonders all the time if she thinks Christy abandoned her. Christy asks Sarah if she had anyone back at home. sarah says that she did but not anymore seems like she must have been abused in some way she says that she was in a bad situation and nathan her brother rescued her before they ended up in this place

She continues that Nathan is all she has in the world. All of a sudden, Sarah asked Christy, if someone hypothetically said that if you do this one terrible thing, everyone else can go back home, would you do it? Because it's hypothetical, Christy says one bad thing would probably be worth it for the lives of everyone else.

Back at the Matthews house, Ethan is passed out on Tabitha's lap on the couch, and we can see that Jim has written questions all over the wall. Tabitha says that everyone here has probably asked themselves all the same questions. Jim says that they're just missing something. When Tabitha asks aloud, which question hasn't been asked, Jim tries to hand her the marker.

but she says she doesn't want to know because it's crazy and she doesn't want to know the answer. At the clinic, Sarah leaves in the morning and thanks Christy for the girls' night. Nathan arrives bright and early and Sarah leaves with him. He asks what happened and she said that she can't really remember anything. She just fell on the ground all of a sudden.

He asked her worriedly why she's trying to act like everything's normal all of a sudden. She tries to calm him down, saying that she's fine, really, and that she loves him but she needs to go to the diner to help Miss Lou. At the colony house, Julie is working on a list, which she reveals to Fatima when asked is a list of everyone back home who misses them and is probably losing their minds not knowing what happened.

Fatima says that she made that list too, and she thinks everyone here probably has it one time or another. Fatima proclaims that enough of that, they just need to have fun. Stat. She tells Julie to get dressed and meet her downstairs. outside Fatima tells Ellis um who's doing some metal work uh and I'm not sure if it's for mechanical reasons or art but she tells Ellis no more work for the day because she referring to Julie is making

The list. She says she thinks it's time that they show Julie the Brundles. Jade walks, holding the radio while muttering to himself, trying to figure out what's going on. Trudy happens to be sitting outside of a nearby building and asks Jade why he's carrying around a radio. He says that it helps him think. Trudy then says that he's even cuter when he's awake. When Jade looks at her confused, she explains that she watched him while he was asleep.

She says, it's too bad you chose town because I would have rode you like an alabaster dragon. And then walks away in a flirtatious manner while bidding Jade goodbye. Jade stands there stunned for a moment before walking into the building that Trudy was sitting in front of. Kenny arrives at the station and apologizes to Sheriff Boyd about being a little late.

He talks about a few errands he ran that morning. Boyd is just staring at the map with the pins of where everybody came from. Kenny notices how focused Boyd is and asks if he's okay. Boyd responds by asking Kenny to hold down the fort for a while while he goes to visit his wife. Jade finds himself in a bar and asks, You guys built a bar in this place?

The man running the bar says that they need it more than a gas station, so he turned it into a bar. Jade looks dumbfounded and asks how they can all just act normal and go about their day. The bartender hands Jade a shot, which he takes and quickly spits out, asking, what the hell is that? The bartender says it's a poor man's potato vodka. Jade starts rambling to himself under his breath about how they're all just rats in a maze, content and nibbling on their cheese.

The bartender asks if he's from one of the two cars that arrived recently, and he realizes that he must be the one whose friend was killed. He tells Jade that it gets easier, which Jade finds offensive. jade asks a big question where are we out loud and how do we get out of here um

And then he talks about how they're in a paradox because they can't get out of here if they don't know where here is. He tells the bartender that he's the kind of guy that builds the maze and places the cheese. He's not supposed to be here. The bartender reveals that he was a philosophy professor and compares their situation to Schrodinger's cat. We cut to Sarah walking towards the Matthews' house, holding a scalpel in her hand.

Ethan is upstairs with Tabitha, saying that he thinks this place is special. He knows it tries to hurt people, but maybe there's someone trying to help them in some way. Jim calls up to Ethan that he has a visitor. Ethan runs downstairs to find Sarah and asks her excitedly if she wants to go outside and play with him. Tabitha tells Ethan that she just got out of the hospital, but Sarah says it's okay and she follows Ethan to the carousel.

We see Nathan show up at the church looking for Father Cotrey. Near Colony House, we see Fatima, Ellis, and Julie arrive at an awesome watering hole where people swim and play and laugh. Julie asked Fatima how she can act like she's okay. Fatima explains that when she was a kid, some angry men came to her house looking for her uncle, and her mother told her to hide.

it says looking for oh yeah they were sorry they were looking for her uncle fatima recalls being confused because they had just been laughing as a family a moment before and it was fatima's birthday the men dragged her father who was a preacher outside

and then he was shot. Fatima concludes that there will always be monsters, no matter where you are, and that she promised herself she wasn't going to let them scare the life out of her. Ellis comes over and picks up Fatima and carries her into the water. At the Matthews house, Ethan asks Sarah how long she's been there and she says just a couple of months. Tabitha comes out to check on them and Ethan says that Sarah invited him to come look at the animals.

Sarah explains that Nathan takes care of all the animals, so she thought Ethan would like to come see them. Tabitha says that's a great idea and tells Jim that they'll be back in a little. Sarah offers to take Ethan on her own so as not to impose on Tabitha's time, but Tabitha assures her that she isn't doing anything else. We cut to Boyd at his wife's grave, which is alone out in a field.

He sets down some flowers and we see that her cross reads Abby Stevens. Boyd apologizes that he hasn't come to visit recently. And he explains that things have been crazy with those things, getting into the house with the little girl and getting into the clinic. And then he says that he started getting tremors in his hands at the same age as his dad.

which means that the clock is officially ticking. He goes on to say that he has a crazy idea that might just work. Boyd thinks if his idea works, he might even be able to get everyone home. But if he's wrong and he fails, he could be leaving these people in a worse off position than they were to begin with. Boyd laughs to his wife's grave and says that she was always the one to make the big decisions and take the big swings.

He says he's at the plate and he'll swing if she tells him to, but he needs her. He needs a sign. We cut to Father Khatri praying outside in a circle of large stones in a field. Nathan approaches and asks Father Khatri what the rules are when it comes to confession. Khatri says that it stays between the two of them and God. Nathan asks, but what if it's really bad? At the barn, Sarah tells Tabitha that Ethan is a great kid and that it is okay for her to be sad and afraid.

Sarah says that she'd be surprised how quickly this becomes normal, and Tabitha replies that she doesn't want this to become normal. She just wants to go home. Sarah says that at least they have the talismans and tells Tabitha that Father Khatri has mentioned many times how much worse it was before they had the talismans. Everyone would just have to hide when it got dark and pray that the monsters didn't find them.

She goes on to say that there's little hiding places all over and it's good to know about them just in case you ever find yourself outside after dark. Sarah then says that there's one in the barn actually and encourages Tabitha to come look at it. Tabitha agrees and they go head into the barn. Back in the stone circle, Father Khatri tells Nathan that he should have come to him much sooner. Nathan grabs his arm and asks what will happen to Sarah.

He thought it would just stay between them. Khatri tells Nathan that he intends to keep his promise, but that they need to go and find Sarah right away to keep the other townspeople safe. They leave together to head into town. Back at the barn, Sarah leads Tabitha to a wall that's actually a doorway into the wall's crawlspace, kind of. Sarah pushes Tabitha in and locks the door apologizing.

Boyd sees Katri in town and asks him how he would know if he got a sign from God. We see Nathan go into the diner and the bartender is in there eating and he asks if he's looking for his sister. When Nathan reveals that he is, the bartender tells him that he saw her heading to the barn with the Matthews boy and his mom. Nathan runs out of the diner.

at the barn sarah walks back out to where ethan is holding the scalpel behind her back she tells ethan that she really likes him and wants him to know that what she's about to do is going to save everyone else and that's um Oh, save everyone else that's there. And that he'll be the hero, just like in one of his stories.

Ethan says he wants his mom and when Nathan walks up Sarah holds Ethan by one arm and tells Nathan that they told her this is the last one and then they'll get to go home. Nathan begs her to let Ethan go. While she's looking at her brother, Ethan takes the opportunity to kick her in the shin and run. Nathan wraps his arms around Sarah from behind to restrain her.

When she wiggles free of his arms and turns towards him suddenly, she accidentally slashes his throat with a scalpel. Nathan bleeds out and falls to the ground just as Father Khatri shows up. Tabitha is still stuck in the wall screaming for help and for Ethan. She can hear a commotion outside. The townspeople start to realize that something is going down at the barn and they run towards it.

At the colony house, Ethan comes running up from the forest and right into Julie's arms while he's crying. Jim makes it to the barn and figures out that Tabitha's locked inside. He lets her out and she asks where Ethan is. Ethan and Jim run out to look for him when Julie comes running up with Ellis and Fatima. And Ethan! Jim hugs his daughter. Christy runs up to check on Nathan and looks sad when she realizes that he's already dead.

Boyd talks to Father Khatri, who says that he was too late. Jim walks up to them and Tabitha and Ethan go ahead, saying that Ethan's okay in response to Boyd's inquiry. Jim asks them where Sarah is, and Katri says that she ran off into the forest. Jim asks what they're gonna do about her. Boyd says if she shows up before dark, they'll handle it. If she doesn't, then it's already handled.

Jim gets pissed and exclaims that it's a joke that they're all one big family, as he had previously said to him. Jim walks off in a huff, and Boyd and Khatri look over at one another. At the Matthews house, Jim tells Julie that she did good by bringing Ethan home. Julie takes Ethan upstairs and Tabitha tells him that she needs a writing implement. She writes on the wall, did we survive the crash?

At the diner, Christy sits at a table, clearly troubled. When Boyd walks in and sits with her, Christy tells Boyd that Sarah kept asking her weird questions in the clinic the other night and she didn't put it together that she was going to do something like this. Boyd tells her it's not her fault. Christy cries saying that they spent a whole night together and it was nice and fun and she didn't put it together. As well as Sarah took the scalpel from her clinic.

So it is her fault. Boyd tells Christy that she didn't put those thoughts in Sarah's head, and she saved a little boy's life the other night, something she's going to do a lot more of, and tells her to cut herself some slack while holding her hands. The little diner radio turns on and starts to play Boyd's and his wife's song. Christy asks him what's going on, because Boyd has a look on his face, and he says, I just got my sign.

So that's it for episode 5, and we'll just jump right into episode 6 with the rest of the gang. Hope you enjoy! All right. And so now we're going to get into episode six. And we open with Kenny and Boyd burying Nathan's body, which is wrapped up in cloth. Father Khatri gives a sermon in his church about chaos while we get glimpses of all of our main characters. Jade yanks an antenna off of a random car, still carrying his radio around. We see Tabitha flip through a big book in their house.

We see Julie out in front of the colony house looking up at the empty graves. When she walks up onto the porch, she finds a bundle of wildflowers just sitting there, and she takes them inside with her. We go back to church as Cottree finishes his... sermon with Amen. Tabitha stands in the back of the church and hands Khatri a bundle of pages from their house from the last family. She says she figured it was his. Tabitha asks if anyone has seen Sarah. Khatri says not yet.

and that he chased after her, but his knees aren't what they used to be. But he doubts that Sarah survived the night. Khatri asked Tabitha what she really came to ask him. And she asks, how do you know that this is real? Are we alive? Are we dead? Katri says that it doesn't matter either way, but he assures her that she's alive because they entered the town before their car crash, which as soon as he said it, I was like, oh, yeah.

Did not consider that before when she was wondering if they died in the crash. She says that she must not be the only person that's asked him that before, and he responds that he's had plenty of chances to work on his answer. After Tabitha leaves, We see Father Coptree go to the back of the church and light a lantern before descending a deep, dark staircase. When he reaches the bottom, we see Sarah bound to a chair and gagged.

Father Khatri simply says, we need to talk. What did you guys think about that when you realized that he had held on to Sarah? Were you guys like expecting that or were you shocked? I was actually pretty surprised. I thought she had gotten away and was hiding somewhere. I didn't.

think that he would be the type of person to keep a secret like that either. Right. That definitely surprised me. Yeah, same. Yeah, in retrospect, it makes sense because in shows like this, they would have shown her like fleeing into the forest or something, you know, or him tripping.

And that's something. So it kind of makes sense. And people keep asking, like, have you seen Sarah? And so I feel like there's these little indicators. But I was also surprised. Boyd and Kenny finish burying Nathan and Boyd ask Kenny if he's OK. Kenny says.

just strange and he's having a hard time wrapping his brain around it. Sarah was always so nice and thoughtful. He also says that she was kind of like the daughter his mother never had so his mom was taking it pretty hard. Boyd says that he feels like something is happening there, changing.

He goes on to say that the talisman worked in the RV when they had to stay overnight to fix Ethan's leg. And the only reason they haven't pushed further into the forest is because they weren't sure if it would work out, work out there the way that it does in town. Now that they know he wants. Kenny gets upset at this and throws his shovel on the ground and begins to walk away when Boyd tells him he doesn't walk away from him. He gets all, like, manly, dad. mode for a second.

He tries to appeal to Kenny, telling him that the end goal is to get everyone back home. Kenny still seems upset, assumingly at the fact that Boyd plans to go by himself. At the Matthews house, Jim explains to Tabitha that he realized the wires for all the electrical appliance and... their house aren't actually plugged in and don't work so why are all the lamps and such on just then jade bursts in through the front door and throws the radio

antenna and other items on the couch and tells jim that he needs his help while also saying oh so you figured out the wire thing tabitha interrupts that he almost killed them jade says that he wasn't driving and that it was his friend who was driving but his friend is

also dead now. So basically, they should be satisfied. He urges them to help him so that they can go home. Back at the church, Sarah is still gagged and bound to the chair while Father Cotri tells her that there isn't a single Bible in town. He goes on to say that Nathan told him that Sarah was hearing voices and that despite what she's done, he believes that she can still help the people of the town. Sarah agrees to help.

At the colony house, Julie arranges the flowers in a little vase. Fatima walks in and jokes that there must be a phantom forest running around when Julie tells her that someone left the bundle on the... on the porch fatima tells julie with a smile that it's laundry day and the girls walk off excitedly because as we remember they get to pick whatever clothes they want to keep when it's laundry day so it's the little things that keep them going

Jim helps Jade strip down Jade's car. Jade jokes that they stripped the car and left all the important parts, which Jim corrects him by saying that someone took the battery. Jim glances over at the tipped-over RV on the side of the road. At the diner,

Tabitha approaches Miss Lou with a box of items for storage, along with Ethan, who's clearly worried about running into Sarah. The scene made me so sad because he looked so nervous when he was in the diner. Tabitha tells him that he doesn't have to worry about running into Sarah.

Sarah. Miss Lou guides them to a room in the back of the diner where the townspeople apparently store everything that belonged to someone who lived there once. Ethan yet again finds a way to make a connection between the room and his favorite story, the Crominocle, that he's

brought up several times throughout the show. He says that maybe they can find a map in the room to help them get home. Tabitha notices a bracelet and takes it. Ethan asks her what's wrong and she says nothing. Jim and Jade find themselves out in a field next to a large

Where Jim says that the tree isn't nearly tall enough. Jade says it's just a test run. And then Jade insults Jim about being an engineer who works on amusement park rides compared to him who developed a multi-million dollar software company. I was like, dude. Being an engineer, any kind of engineer, is probably a useful skill, okay? It's not like you got the burger flipper or something with you. Jim tells him to do it himself then, and Jade apologizes.

saying that he's been told that he's not very good with people, but that he, in fact, needs him. It's the tallest tree he could find, but he gets vertigo. Jim asks, so you brought me out here to climb a tree? Jade admits that he did. Even a burger flipper would have been useful.

Jim concedes saying that he wants to get home and starts climbing the tree and asks Jade for the cable. He's very good at climbing that tree, by the way. They kind of like cut back to him every once in a while. And he's like climbing that tree like a monkey. I was like, damn. Must be like a rock climber or something. Okay.

At the clinic, Boyd walks in and calls out for Christy. He walks through a few rooms before coming to the room that looks like a utility room where Mr. Lou had been killed and sees the bloodstains from the incident. Christy walks in with a basket of laundry soon after and greets Boyd. Boyd says that Kenny's upset with him, and he asks her what she thinks the deal is since they seem to be pretty close. Christy tells Boyd that she knows that he wants to prepare Kenny to become a leader.

case something happens to him but he's really hurting from his father being murdered and needs Boyd to be a father rather than a leader right now. Boyd curses himself out loud and says if you don't learn from your mistakes you're doomed to repeat them which we can probably take to mean that he's talking about his son ellis uh christy apologizes for saying anything but boyd tells her that it's not her fault he's the problem and he thanks her before turning to leave

Christy looks over at the utility room with Mr. Lou's blood and goes to shut the door. In the church basement, Father Khatri tells Sarah that the Bible is comprised of 73 books that are all filled with tales of miracles and wonder and gruesome, horrible things as well. well he says that since the night he arrived there's a question he keeps coming back to 73 books what if we the people of this town are living the book that's yet to be written what if this is book 74 what if we were chosen sarah

For what? Father Khatri admits that he doesn't know, but that's why he needs her to tell him about the voices. At the Matthews house, Tabitha spins the bracelet on the table and Ethan asks when dad will be home. Tabitha tells him that he'll be home soon. Ethan notices one of the lamps keeps turning off and on. Tabitha asks Ethan if they should have an adventure for which the game will be called Where Does the Light Come From?

Tabitha grabs a hammer and has Ethan help her move a small bookshelf out of the way before she begins hammering holes into the wall. Again, Ethan exclaims out loud like he did when his dad first wrote on the wall, surprised at nonchalant destruction of the house. We cut to Jim and Jade. Jim asked Jade to wiggle the cable free as it got snagged on something. Jim continues to climb. When Jade puts his hand on the tree, a stream of blood runs down its side onto Jade's hand.

Jade freaks out and steps away to look up, and he finds a bunch of totally war-torn bodies hanging upside down from some of the tree's branches. A soldier approaches with a musket and takes a shot at Jade, but misses. Jade takes off running into the forest, where... falls down and the soldier stabs him with the bayonet.

Jade shields his face waiting for the next blow when Jim comes up to him and brings him back to reality, letting him know that whatever he sees isn't real. Jade looks around paranoid and tells Jim to fuck off. So that seems really interesting because... At least within...

these episodes that we've gotten to so far, so far, including episode seven, when we get to it, I don't think we know anything about like soldiers or a war or anything taking place in this area. So then that kind of makes you think like how. old is this place like we're the oldest inhabitants or monsters or ghosts or whatever's going on here um it's very interesting yeah so

And it's one of those scenes that while you're watching it, you're like, oh, that's interesting. But then you kind of forget about it because there's so many other things going on. So I'm interested to see when that kind of gets brought back. I actually did a little research because we keep seeing Confederate soldiers. And I was like, there's got to be a reason for that specifically. And I ended up watching a video on YouTube. And this guy, he said that he...

was looking through different scenes and stopping and he kept pausing. And one of the scenes where Victor is like drawing on a new old newspaper, that if you look at the newspaper, it is from Abbeville. south carolina which is actually the birthplace of the confederacy and i was like that can't be a coincidence and i was like that was a really good catch that this guy made wow i was like so it's gotta mean something and i

It does obviously like Tammy and I know it doesn't come back in season two. They don't touch on anything with that. Okay. It does. And it's not just kind of dropped. So I was like, that's a really interesting find. Yeah. Huh. So it's like, was this happening?

back then was it something that happened during the war that caused this like right possibilities are kind of endless oh yeah oh yeah but it was obviously very obviously very violent times so yeah a lot of violent things happened in this area okay Okay, so other than this scene, you've noticed other Confederate soldiers? Well, the other guy that Jade saw with the boulder? Yeah. Is that a Confederate soldier?

Oh, I didn't even notice that. Yeah. Okay. So it's like Jane specifically is connected to that for some reason. Why is he, yeah, why is he seeing that? Ooh, and that does make you think that they are chosen in a way, you know what I mean? Because it's like they all have their different connections to different things, it seems like. Yeah, they don't always see or notice the same things. Right.

the only one having like visions of this place as something as almost like something that has reality taking place in it because or anything about this place at all the fact that I mean it leads me to believe

that that's somewhat grounded in reality although we don't know a lot about him it doesn't seem like jade was served in the military he doesn't seem like that kind of guy so for and you know he's the only one that's really um having or anything that's not, like, related to these creatures too.

Aside from Sarah and her voices, we don't know where those voices come from, but these people that he's seeing, although they attack him and stuff, they don't seem to be of the same ilk as whatever these things are that come out at night. So...

It's almost like, is this like some kind of parallel universe or a place where a bunch of different dimensions come together or something like that? I don't know. But he seems to be experiencing it on like a totally different plane. And also a different... time. So I don't know what that means. Yeah, very interesting.

I'm sure it means something. Oh, it has to. Yeah, I don't think there's coincidences in this show. I think all of this stuff, it has to mean something. Hopefully it won't be like a lost thing where things get dropped. Still kind of waiting to see what the connection is. Right. Yeah. Like I've said, I've never seen Lost, but it seems like the guys have learned their lessons from doing that.

All right. So at the church, Sarah tells Khatri they said they wanted to help, that they've been here a long time. They've been waiting for someone who could hear them to help them escape and go home. They said that they were just like us. They told me things, things they couldn't know. They told me those two cars were coming and then it happened.

And that it happened once before. Two cars came on the same day and everyone died. They said if I did what they said, we'd be saved and get to go home. Katri asks her if they told her how they would get to go home. And she says that she doesn't know. He asks her if she still believes the voices. She says that they promised Nathan would be okay, and now he's, and then she lets out a scream, I guess, you know, remembering that she killed her brother.

And Father Khatri tells Sarah, if the voices are real, that means that she's connected to this place in a way that nobody else is. He says they need proof that Sarah isn't crazy and that she's valuable. All of a sudden, Sarah starts to twist in pain and beg, no, no, no, please. Khatri asks what it is, and Sarah says that she needs paper. They want her to show him something.

Back in the field, Jim approaches the tree and picks up the radio. He turns the knob and starts to hear loud static buzzing. He tries the radio, asking, Hello? Is anybody out there? We cut to Jade at the diner, who draws the same picture over and over again. Miss Lou brings him a cup of tea and says something to him in Cantonese. He says he has no idea what she's saying and finally takes a drink of his tea after Miss Lou glares at him for a few moments. He thanks her, saying that...

The tea is good. He always tries to kind of deny her and then he just gives in. And then he's always like, thank you. I love Mrs. Blue. Me too. He's such a great character. You don't understand most of what she's saying, but it's like you can still understand what type of person she is. Totally. And her acting in her eyes is so good, too. He says that...

Oops, sorry. Miss Lou picks up the piece of paper and looks surprised at the drawings. He says that he keeps seeing it, and she walks to the back storage room and leads Jade to a box and hands him a book, a journal where someone has drawn the same thing as Jade over and over again.

some sort of symbol. In the church basement, Sarah draws something like she's being possessed, and we see a bunch of crumpled up pieces of paper on the floor. She groans and is finally released by whatever is controlling her hand. Father Khatri looks at the drawing and says that he He doesn't understand. Sarah explains that they said they watched you on the day that you got here, and they watched you bury the bag. She asks if he knows what that means. Katri stares off, amazed for a moment.

We cut to Boyd in his house where he finds a baseball and glove at the bottom of a drawer. He excitedly grabs them and heads to Kenny's house. Kenny's carving chess pieces out of wood. Boyd knocks and Kenny yells for him to come in. Boyd approaches him and asks Kenny to come outside and play catch with him. Kenny says that he's good and keeps staring at the wooden piece in his hand.

Boyd tells Kenny that he used to play first base, and he thought he was going to make it big, but life had other plans, as it often does. Boyd tells Kenny that he's sick. Kenny asks if he's talked to Christy. Boyd tells Kenny he's not that kind of sick. His father had Parkinson's and got it at the same age as Boyd is now.

The doctors told him that it's not hereditary and would be extremely rare for Boyd to get it too. Boyd goes on to say it's already starting to take hold of him and he needs Kenny to stick around and help these people. Boyd tells Kenny that he's proud of him and even though his father isn't here to tell him, Boyd tells Kenny that if Kenny isn't ready for Boyd to go, he won't go anywhere. Kenny gets up and asks Boyd,

Are we doing this or not? With a smile. Boyd throws the glove to Kenny and they head outside. So now we know the mysterious ailment is Parkinson's, which is a total bummer. Jessica, you haven't seen season two, right? Mm-mm. Nicole, are the worms in season one or two? I'm pretty sure it's season two. Okay. I just wonder, like, because they said that, or he says that Parkinson's isn't hereditary.

I wonder if some of this isn't manifested by, like, he's so worried about the Parkinson's that, you know, it's showing up. Yeah. I mean, I just let the cat out of the bag. But there's a scene. Later on where he thinks he has worms under his skin, also in his, you know, his forearm. So I just wondered if it's his brain, you know, maybe playing tricks on him or I don't know.

I honestly worried about that, too, just because of that note that he said about how it's not hereditary. That made me think, oh, maybe you're not actually experiencing it. So, yeah. At the Matthews house, Jim walks in and sees the huge hole in the wall made by Tabitha and says, what the fuck, to himself.

Ethan emerges from the basement with a bucket of dirt. Ethan tells Jim that he's on an adventure and there's a lot of dirt in the basement, so his mom said he should take it outside. I was thinking during this scene, too, that he still has, like, a bum leg. He probably shouldn't be carrying that. Yeah. I mean, he's been like miraculously cured pretty much since it happened. And Tabitha does make that.

I don't remember when she says it, but she does make that comment, like, I'm just amazed at how fast that's healing. But another thing, too, about this scene, there is no way Tabitha dug up that whole basement in one afternoon. Oh, no, when you hear it. in that hole. I was like, he couldn't have done that by herself. No. Her and a kid with a bucket? No way. Yeah. I know she's highly motivated, but I agree. I guess they had to move the plot along a little faster. Yeah.

She goes down to the basement to see what Tabitha is up to. She's shoveling the ground and she asked him how it went. He says that they got some static, which she cheerfully says is good. He asked Tabitha what she's up to and she says there's no power lines. and all the wires and cords go straight down into the ground. So where is the electricity coming from? Jim asks her to stop digging for a moment and follows up with, what's going on?

Tabitha says, do you remember the bracelet that I made for you out of your father's shoelaces after our first few dates? The one that you lost in the hospital when Julie was born? Well, turn around. Jim turns to find a bracelet, confused, saying, so you found a similar bracelet?

But Tabitha shows him a mistake that she made on the bracelet and reminds him of a conversation they had when she gave it to him. How he said he liked it because the mistake made it one of a kind. Jim grabs the shovel to help. So that's pretty friggin' weird. I thought that was really cool, and it just, I don't know, that felt like a big moment to me, almost like another clue. In a way, I don't know what that means, but it kind of makes me think, like...

time is funny here or something. I don't know. Right. And it had to have predated them getting there, right? Like it was already back in the supply room. Unless it just, when you get there, some stuff of yours can just... I don't know. It's the first time we're seeing that. But I don't know. That just seems so personal and specific. And the fact that she ever found it or had a reason to go back into that room, you know. So, yeah.

meant to find it yeah but she would have lost it what like 15 16 years ago if it was when julie was born right right and another thing i thought of which i know it's jumping ahead but in season two there's a scene with a hospital and I I was thinking this time around, I'm like, is it the same hospital? And you'll understand when you get to that scene and like why I would think that. Oh, interesting. Yeah, it's like, is there a weird like time loop thing? Huh.

Okay. Ooh, I'm excited. Getting excited for season two. Yeah, you gotta watch season two when you're done with this watch. Oh my god, I totally am, like, immediately. Out in the field where the Circle of Stones is, we see Father Khatri furiously dig into the ground and retrieve a bag with a bottle of liquor in it, a shirt with bloodstains, and a Cosmo chocolate bar wrapper.

He pulls out the drawing that Sarah made and compares it to the drawing on the wrapper. It's the same. Kenny and Boyd play catch and Kenny says that he'll carve them a bat. So when Boyd gets back, they can play a proper game. Boyd understands his meaning. Kenny is letting him go on. his excursion. They continue to play catch. At the colony house we follow a guy wearing glasses walking around at night from room to room. There are people sleeping all over.

He walks up the stairs with a curious look on his face, and he reaches a room with some curtains and pulls them open to reveal a pretty girl standing outside of the window holding a bunch of flowers. And she says, they're so beautiful. The guy says that he's glad she likes them with a smile on his face. She asks, when can I come inside? Looking at him longingly. And the episode ends. Oh, God, guys. My last note is, why is he so stupid?

Because he's a guy. Yeah. Like, come on, man. Like, children and men would be fooled by this. Exactly. I was so excited to see this because we're, like, you know, we're in chapter getting done with, or, sorry, episode six. and we haven't had much monsters. And I remember I was like, ooh, goody, you know, here it comes.

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure some people are more susceptible than others. I know they can get into your head and they know your name and stuff. So I'm hoping that he's not just dumb. You know, I hope maybe it's like. A week will, or I don't know. There must be something.

I think he believes that he's going to be the one that's able to, you know, it's going to be different for him for whatever reason. Because you can see he doesn't let her in right away, and Julie found those flowers he had already left outside. So this is obviously on. going and I wonder if he had set them out one night and she didn't come and that's why they were still there so maybe he was like doubly excited to see her maybe

worried she wasn't coming back or something like that. But you can see him grappling with it, but he must somehow convince himself, like, she's so nice and she's so pretty. She's got to be. And she kind of hints, like, I'm not like the other ones.

And, you know, he looks outside and there's nobody else there but her. And she convinces him, you know, it'll be fine. And he's just dumb enough to believe her. Maybe, though, we don't know how long this guy has been there. Maybe he hasn't really seen a killing.

you just heard about him i don't know i mean he didn't just come so you think he would know right but i think maybe he doesn't fully believe it yeah or he just you know this time it's going to be different or whatever so and i think they know how to play like on your insecure

difficulties and different emotions because he talks about in the next episode like how lonely he is and he can't he hasn't gotten close to anybody there and he has nobody to talk to but her and they know they they know how to like needle their way in yeah

Right. And I guess that makes sense because they have rules about like you need to keep the curtain shut and stuff. And that doesn't actually prevent them from coming in. So it must be because then they can get inside your head and mess with you more easily or something. All right. Well, that concludes episode six. So we'll get into episode seven.

We open with the Colony House where we see a congratulations banner hanging with another small banner attached with Fatima's name on it. Up in their shared room, Julie tells Fatima that she thinks it's weird that they celebrate the day they... got stuck here. Fatima explains that it's a celebration of survival. Julie tells her that she's special and she makes this place almost seem normal.

Fatima puts on a yellow sweater and she says that it's the one item she hides away from Trudy and won't let her have because it's Ellis' favorite. Just then, Ellis enters the room saying, there are my girls. He has a flask of liquor and asks if anyone wants to... pregame. Fatima looks worried and says that the party hasn't even started yet. Ellis reminds her that that is the definition of pre-gaming. She asks that he just take it easy, which he says he will. He asks Julie if she wants a shot.

Julie looks over at Fatima with a slightly nervous look on her face and kindly declines. Ellis leaves, saying that they suck in a joking manner, and calls out for Victor, which I thought was funny. Like, you're going to get crunked with Victor? Why was he the one he thought of? I don't know.

Julie turns to Fatima and asks if he's okay. Fatima says that as much as they like to celebrate their survival it also brings up thoughts of those who didn't survive. Down in the kitchen Victor is looking for peaches in the pantry. And Ellis takes the shot. Donna walks in and he tries to offer her one as well, but she looks unamused. Ellis takes the hint and leaves. Donna tells Victor that they're out of peaches, but that she saved some fruit cocktail and cranberries for him.

looks totally heartbroken, saying that the peaches were the only thing that have stayed the same since he got there, and the only thing he could rely on. Donna apologizes with an empathetic look on her face. Out on the porch, the man with glasses from the end of the last episode places a bundle of handpicked flowers on the porch again. Someone calls out for him. And we've learned that his name is Kevin, telling him to come on as it'll be dark soon.

He heads inside. Oh, it's just building up the suspense. Boyd walks down the road, ringing the bell, reminding everyone that it's time to go inside. At the Matthews' house, Tabitha reads Ethan a story on the couch while he falls asleep on her lap. At Kenny's house, Kenny enters Jade's room and tells him to come down as his mom wants them to have dinner. Jade is still drawing the symbol now all over a book that...

Kenny was apparently reading. Frustrated, Kenny grabs the book and asks him what the hell he's doing. This would piss me off, too. Jade explains that he ran out of paper and asked what he should have done, written on the walls like a madman. Like, okay, get you're obsessed with the symbol, but what is drawing the same symbol over and over accomplished? Just out of curiosity. Boyd returns to the police station to find Father Khatri waiting for him.

And he tells them that they need to talk about something very important. Boyd's like, great, come back in the morning. But Father Cotri insists that it can't wait. The two head inside together, and Father Cotri notices the supplies that Boyd has put together for his little adventure.

and says it seems that they have even more to discuss than he thought. At the Matthews' house, Jim appears to be sketching out some engineering plans at the dining table. Tabitha sits down next to him and tells him that Ethan knocked out. says jokingly that it's not surprising considering all the child labor laws that she broke today by having Ethan dig in the basement all day.

Tabitha says that he was having fun and he wanted to help, and she's scared to take her eyes off of him. Jim reminds her that the windows are nailed shut and the doors are locked and that he couldn't open the place to danger if he wanted to. Tabitha seems to look a little more relieved.

this reminder but then she tenses up again and says that she thinks of julie being away from them in that house too jim responds that donna is and he trails off without an adjective but comes back to say that whatever she is what she's not is stupid Tabitha seems to agree with him on that front.

She asked Jim how the plan's going, and he says that Boyd has given him permission to take whatever building materials he needs and to drain all of the batteries in town, as well as Donna permitted him to build on top of Colony House. So he's looking forward. to all the hate he'll get once the plan fails. Tabitha reminds him that he's got a signal, which he corrects with static, a far cry from a signal. Tabitha says it's something and that what he's doing is important.

And she kisses him on the lips. This might be, they've had a couple of little moments where they hold hands or something. But this is kind of the first time where it's like, ooh, that is a little romantic. You know, so maybe they'll be okay after all. At the colony house, the house residents dance and Ella stumbles through one of the rooms pretty buzzed. Fatima tries to check in with him, which causes him to be a little standoffish, as he says he knows and he's fine. Fatima lets him stumble off.

Donna starts a speech about Fatima and how strong and wise and kind she is. Someone interrupts. And her weed. So apparently she's the supplier too, to which Donna replies that the green thumb is definitely a plus. Donna says that Fatima made their drafty box of a house into more of a home and gives her a handmade dream catcher. The women hug and cry a little before Donna pushes her off, being the strong, gruff woman that she is, and tells everyone to have fun but be serious.

safe. Everyone resumes their partying and a random woman, I don't think we've met yet, approaches Fatima telling her happy anniversary. The women embrace in a pretty passionate kiss. Julie watches confused and turns away embarrassed. That was hot. Was anyone expecting that?

I guess it's not surprising. Fatima's very, like, well-rounded. Yeah. At the station, Boyd tells Khatri to go first. Khatri holds the bag that he dug up and tells Boyd that he buried it there the day he arrived, and he asks Boyd to open it. Boyd pulls out the liquor and jokingly asks if he's been holding out on him. Katri tells him to keep going. Boyd pulls out the shirt and asks if the blood on it is his. Katri urges Boyd to keep going. Boyd pulls out the chocolate bar and asks angrily,

I thought he was going to get into some story about murdering somebody. I was like, oh, is this going to go super dark? I mean, it is super dark, but it's like more in line with who we know him to be. He tells Void that there was a young, quiet, sensitive boy who used to be a part of his congregation.

One day after Mass, he found the boy hanging out outside of the rectory and thought that it was unusual because his parents were pretty strict and he never strayed too far from them. He understood that parents worry about their kids.

the bottle of liquor before continuing that the boy was upset and asked if he could stay a while. Khatri had to prepare for evening mass and didn't want the parents to worry, so he pulled the candy bar out of a stash in his desk drawer to give to the kid and sent him on his

way. Later that evening, Khatri went by their house because something was nagging him and he felt compelled to go. As he walked up the driveway, the boy's mother came running out crying and inconsolable. The moment Khatri stepped in through the front door, He could smell the alcohol. The boy's father was standing over the boy's body on the floor, yelling at him to get up. Khatri saw the boy and his body was broken, his neck bulging in an unnatural way.

and he saw the candy bar in the kid's pocket. The father told him, he'll be fine. Khatri wailed on the father and punched him until he could no longer do so. After that, he heard the voice of God for the first time in his life. and it told him to get back in his car and drive, that there was another path. So he did, and two hours later, he found himself here. Boyd asks him why he's telling him this now, and Kotri responds, because I have Sarah tied up in the basement of the church.

continues to say that he knows there's a reason they're all there. Then he turns to see Boyd pointing a gun at him. Boyd angrily reminds him that Khatri told him Frank had to go in the box because he broke the rules, but he's basically saved Sarah.

Katri says that Sarah may be the key to unlocking all of this and getting everyone back home. Boyd tells him to keep talking. So, that was a terrible and tragic story. And I am... interested in the voice that he heard and whether it's actually god if it had anything to do with this place you know luring him there it's very interesting

Yeah, I wonder if it's something like the voice that Sarah hears or the same voice that Sarah hears. Why is he still not hearing it? Why did he only hear it the one time? And he heard it in the real world. So if it's not God, can this thing like... Well, I mean, it does reach us in the real world, the characters in the real world, because it leads them to the tree. Right. And the tree can show up anywhere all over, so it's intercepting them on their own turf. Yeah.

It's got some reach into the, you know, quote unquote, real world. Right. At the colony house. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. I was going to say, and this is the point where I started really thinking about how I do think that these people were chosen. Because the more you learn about them, they all seem to have something really bad happen to them before they came here. Like the Matthews lost a child. Sarah talks about something that her brother saved her from.

Patry brings this up. Kevin talks about dealing with his father's Alzheimer's. It seems like the more you learn, it's like... maybe that's what connects them I don't know if that's enough maybe it's more but they all seem to have dealt with something really traumatic that is a good point

Something I never picked up on. I mean, at least the people that we've heard from. Yeah. Everybody, but that's a lot of people. Yeah, that's interesting. It's interesting that they haven't made the connection themselves yet. be a good force here because like so otherwise it's this force is taking people who are already having a terrible time and bringing them there to possibly get them killed and but yeah could there be a good thing there that it could somehow help these people

who've had these tragic things happen to them, but there's a bad force here that also keeps them from, I don't know. I don't know. You know, it's like there's some kind of force and it seems like there is a bad and a good one because we talked about the little boy in white. I just.

you know like like everyone else i don't know how this all comes together and there's so many of these little hints like i um watched this season you know when it came out and then i just watched season two like earlier this year and it was good to go back and re-watch this because I think on the second watch you pick up so many little things that you didn't necessarily notice for their meaning because as you're watching it the first time you're kind of learning in real time with

like the newest people to arrive so maybe when they're getting eaten and killed they wake up in the real world and if they would just give in to the monsters they would get to go home I don't know Oh, my gosh. So at the colony house, Kevin, who is the guy with glasses, goes to the usual room with the window where he needs Jasmine is her name at the window. She holds his bouquet and says that she's come to say goodbye.

When he asks why, she says that she doesn't want to come and keep seeing Kevin but never be able to touch him. He says that he's lonely in there, but he has no idea. Oh, she says that, yes, he's lonely in there, but he has no idea how lonely she is outside and that it wasn't her choice to be this way. He says that there's a party going on down. downstairs and he has no desire to be with any of those people. He only wants to be with her. She's the only person he can really talk to.

He asks if she promises if he lets her inside, but none of the others will be able to get in too. She promises that once she gets in and they shut the window, no one else can follow. Kevin smiles and grabs a tool to help him take out the nails on the window. Friggin' dummy.

Downstairs, some aging hippie is explaining to the girl who made out with Fatima earlier that it's theorized there are 22 different universes, but string theorists say that there are only 10. She asks if that's what this is, some other universe. says it's a pocket universe ellis tells the guy to stop with his bullshit when fatima comes to pull ellis away the guy says yeah take him upstairs before he shoots up the place everyone looks nervous as ellis tries to attack the man donna comes

and yells at Ellis that that's enough. He backs up and tells Fatima that it's her night, and he urges her to stay and party while he excuses himself to go upstairs. The bald, aging hippie says out loud, he's a damn animal, like mother, like son.

Donna punches him in response, and he falls to the ground while she tells him to stay out of her sight. That dick. That was really cruel. Like, you already won. What's the point? I'd keep going. Other to give us a little more insight, you know, into, like, whatever happened. with Ellis' mom, because we don't know, but we know that it's bad.

Upstairs, Kevin opens the window and lets Jasmine inside. He holds her hands, and he helps her in, and she tells him to quickly shut the window, which he does. They hold hands, and Jasmine smiles, saying it's just the two of them, and calls Kevin or Hans. handsome boy.

She tells him to kiss her, and he does. He's surprised that her hands are warm. They make out for a little while before we watch Jasmine's nails transform into long, monstrous nails, and she scratches his back while biting off his tongue. He backs up, blood pouring. Yeah, I don't think so. Okay.

At Kenny's, Kenny enters Jade's room again and tells him that dinner is ready. Jade lays in bed and tells him to fuck off. Miss Lou comes in and yells at him in Cantonese until he gives up and says he'll come. She is such a mom. She is. She's perfect. At Colony House, Fatima finds Trudy moping alone on a couch and tells her to work on her party face as she walks over to sit next to her.

Trudy assures her that she doesn't have to do that and says that she knows she doesn't like her. Fatima tells her that that's not true. Trudy says it's a nice party. Fatima says that she'll get one of her own, too. Trudy responds that she doesn't think she will. Fatima tells Trudy, I know, right? Like, very, gonna happen very soon. Fatima...

tells Trudy to take off her shirt and hands over her coveted yellow sweater that she knows Trudy loves. Trudy excitedly accepts and Fatima says that it's an early gift for her anniversary. She admits that Trudy drives her crazy sometimes. but that she's not alone and they're in this together.

Trudy puts the sweater on and Fatima says that as much as she hates to admit it, it looks better on Trudy. Trudy, with a newfound sense of hope, walks off to find something to gift Fatima in return. She was won over very easily. a sweater.

Julie walks up right at that moment and tells Fatima that that was nice of her to do. Then she asks if she can ask about the woman that she kissed earlier that night. Fatima says that that was Stacey. Julie, still confused, says that she thought that she was with Ella.

Fatima clarifies that they are and that Ellis is her person. Her and Stacey just fool around. Julie looks at Fatima longingly and asks if she could maybe kiss her too. As soon as Fatima starts to gently decline, Julie says that she... She was just kidding and runs off absurdly, the way a small child during a tantrum might. It was, like, real overacting. It was so goofy and, like, a puppet or something. He was so embarrassed. Ah.

Do you guys think that she's gay and she's coming of age and that Fatima like lit that in her kind of? Or do you think it's more like she appreciates and looks up to her so much and is just kind of like confusing her feelings? All of that. I think, and I think Fatima... like might have even entertained that thought if Julie had been older, because Julie's only 16, right? So she has to say no, no matter what. But there's also like kind of a slightly polygamous feeling between.

her, Alice, and Fatima, I feel like, and not sexual necessarily, but just kind of feels like she's been invited almost into their relationship, aside from just friendship and space. You know, they invited her to, like, share their... room so and i mean that's you know that's a couple and i i know they're very open they seem to be very open about sex and stuff in colony house but there's really only like a little sheet that separates julie from this couple in bed doing what

Couples in bed do, I'm sure. So it's just a familiarity, I think, that was already there. But, yeah, Julie, we can assume, because Fatima had asked her earlier, you know, do you have anybody back at home, a boyfriend, a girlfriend? And she just... got all blushy like you kind of google that for the girlfriend part yeah so i got that feeling back then yeah and so i mean i think she's julie's definitely open to it but i think julie's probably just having like just crushing heart on fatima

Which would be hard not to do. She is, like, the most attractive girl there. And, um... She's got a good taste. Yes, exactly. And just I think anybody you would be drawn to Fatima just because she's so kind, you know, and she does.

seem to I'm sure it does affect her but she has seemed to be able to kind of like block off the badness of that place and kind of just is always like positive and welcoming and loving towards pretty much everybody so I'm sure Julie is just kind of like... crushing on her you know yeah totally yeah i did it go ahead sorry i i just i think that they've been very kind and kind of being there for her and being that support for her but i do think it's maybe gone over the line a little bit like

like inviting her into the room. Right. Yeah. It's just like intimate. Yeah. Maybe a little too intimate for strangers. Of course, anywhere else in the house, you see stuff happening too. So it's not like she would have been shielded from it, but. Maybe she kind of got the wrong impression just from all of that. Plus, she is the first underage person living at County House, right? I don't think so. Trudy is probably pretty young, but I would still think she's like in her early 20s.

Yeah. Yeah. So I think maybe they just didn't think it out when they were trying to be all progressive and like Julie made her choice. She's come with, you know, I don't think they quite thought that part out. Right. Exactly. Back at the station, Boyd says that Sarah told Khatri she's hearing voices, and his response was,

Katri interrupts to say that he was skeptical too, but then she showed him the drawing of the logo from the candy bar, and her and Nathan have only been there for four months while he buried that bag three years ago. Boyd tries to rationalize the situation, saying that Katri...

Katri must have told someone and it got to Sarah somehow. But Katri says that he's never told the soul. Katri says that something watched him that day bury the bag and told Sarah. He goes on to say that if Boyd wants to put her in the box, he won't stop him. But that he...

He knows she has some kind of connection to this place. Boyd asks Khatri what he wants, and in response he says to let him and Sarah come with him on his quest so that they can use her ability to their advantage and hopefully find a way out. Boyd jokes, A sheriff, a priest, and a murdering psycho walk into a bar.

And Katri says, yeah, something like that. Boyd takes a shot from the bottle of liquor. At the Matthews' house, Tabitha continues to dig in the basement. Jim comes in and says that if she digs any deeper, they'll need to find a taller ladder. She responds that they'll dig as deep as they need to.

Jim descends the ladder and tells Tabitha to take a break and begins to give her a massage. She gasps in pain but the good kind. She realizes how sore she is. Then Jim holds her from behind and kisses her shoulder and neck. At the colony house, Jasmine looks at herself in a mirror while she attempts to clean blood off of her off the collar of her dress. And she opens the window. Like, why is she even doing that? I love that.

She's just casually like washing up like no big deal. Yeah. I think that's funny. We see a fairly large group of monsters walk towards the house in the dark of the night. Victor's in his room when Julie knocks on his door. He answers, and it's Julie who asks if she can come in. I like that she went to Victor. Yeah, she's been so, like, kept him at arm's length for so long. But I think, you know, here she's totally embarrassed herself.

And yet she deep down felt like Victor was a safe place to land. I just like that because I like Victor. Right. Yeah, me too. Like she must realize deep down that Victor isn't the worst thing. Her trying to make out with Batman. is he says that he'd rather she didn't but she begs saying that she's having a really bad night and it's the only place in the house where she can kind of be alone

Victor reluctantly lets her in and she starts to ask a thousand questions. Are these from all the cars that have come? While holding a sack of license plates? Yes. Where are you going? It looks like you're packing. Nowhere. On the day I arrived, you said that it was the first time in a long time. long time that two cars came on the same day and that that it was special.

What did you mean? You've been here the longest. Why did you dig those graves? And then he says, I don't want to talk about it. As Victor, you know, typically does whenever people start questioning him about things that are too deep.

childish with all of her questions totally yeah she like embarrassed herself into becoming a child again it was like by her trying to request to do something adult it just made her realize like how much of a kid she is yeah We cut to Jade at the dinner table looking through the book with the symbols, and he realizes that there are two pages stuck together in it.

He opens it up and a Polaroid falls out. Miss Lou holds up the photo and says, Victor. She points out a little kid Victor in the background holding his lunchbox. The main focal point is a man standing in front of the diner smiling. At the colony house, Trudy...

hugs her favorite pillow and tells it that Fatima is going to take such good care of you. I forgot what she had named her pillow, but we remember that she loves her pillow. Oh, I think you might be right. Yeah. She loves her pillow so much that she named it. So this is actually. She walks by a room where Jasmine is turned away from her, laughing to herself at the wall. Trudy comes in and asks what she's laughing at. As soon as she...

walks far enough into the room. A monster that looks like a smiling man who is hiding behind the door shuts the door and Jasmine turns towards Trudy. Trudy, now very frightened, turns around and sees another monster that looks like a man in the room as well.

The three close in around Trudy and Jasmine says, Hi, Trudy. She asks how she knows her name. Jasmine says, We know all of your names. Before the three monsters begin to devour Trudy, which we don't see as the camera is focused on her pillow that she knows. She dropped on the floor, which is now being splattered by her blood.

On the staircase, the balding aging hippie guy tells Stacy, and she's always like entertaining him, it's so funny, that he's been there longer than Alice and thinks that he deserves a little more respect when all of a sudden a drop of blood falls from the ceiling. onto him. He looks up to find the smiling man monster standing at the top of the staircase just looking down at him, blood dripping from his face. Everyone in the room freaks out and starts screaming and running.

Ellis, asleep in his room, wakes up to the sounds of screams. We go through the house as the residents run in different directions. Fatima tries to go upstairs to get Ellis, but is forced to turn back because of two monsters, including Jasmine, who are coming down the stairs. In Victor's room, Julie asks what's going on, to which Victor replies, it started.

When she tries to get more answers out of Victor, he simply says that they have to go. He ties a big rope to an eave, puts a book around Julie and tells her to climb down out of the window first and says he'll follow soon after. Julie, terrified, begins to climb down.

Outside of the house, Donna is instructing people to get into the van. Fatima finds her and Donna asks where Ellis and Julie are. Fatima says that she doesn't know and Donna motions to go back inside saying that she ain't running. But Fatima tells her that she needs to take...

these people to town. Donna agrees and jumps in the driver's seat of the van. Julie climbs down and waits for Victor watching as people run from the house screaming. Julie says that they need to get to town but Victor sees the little boy in white at the edge of the forest who makes eye contact.

and then turns to walk into the forest. Victor tells Julie that they need to go into the trees. She asks if he's crazy as those things live in there, but he urges her to trust him, which she ultimately decides to do, and they run into the forest. Ellis slowly and quietly walks out of his room to find blood trailing from the room where Trudy was murdered. Trudy lays dead on the ground, but he thinks it's Fatima because she's wearing his favorite yellow sweater.

um he turns to see he turns her to see that it's trudy i thought that that was smart i was like oh that's why we put all that in like give trudy we make trudy look good before we kill her of course as you have to do in a show but also have that opportunity to make it look like it's Fatima that got murdered. The smiling man monster notices Ellis and walks into the room, still smiling, his crazy wide smile. Ellis throws something through the window and jumps out of it.

Fatima notices him outside and grabs him. She says that she won't leave him, so she grabs him and they go back inside the house, but they stay in the foyer, which is its own little room in this house, and she locks the door to the front as well as to the rest of the house. house they have the talisman and are therefore safe ellis asked fatima how she knew it would work and she says that she didn't but she knew her dad um

Not her dad. She knew. What did I mean to put here? She knew. Oh, his dad, Boyd, survived with one in the RV. So she hoped that this would work as well. Ellis apologizes to her and she tells him that she loves him. They moved. So this was a freaking crazy chaotic scene. It was pretty terrifying. And that smiley guy is... the worst that one guy is real creepy so creepy and i bet he's just naturally a creepy smiler like all the people in that smile movie

That's what it looks like. I mean, for anybody who's not seen him, it's not just like a guy standing there going, you know. It's an unnaturally large smile. And to go back a little bit more, I like that Victor. let Julie go first, even though those things were like right outside the door. And I think that's probably why she was, you know, able to help. Well, she must have trusted him a little to run up there anyway, knowing that it'd be like mentally safe to be up there. But I think that...

That's, you know, it was like her solidifying. That's what allowed her to run into the trees with him because I don't think she might have otherwise. I just thought that was a touching moment that he let her do that. On my first watch, that's kind of when I fell in love with him. I was like, no.

he is a really good guy. Yeah. And I think it's funny that he like doesn't even seem surprised about the screaming. All he says is starting and he had that rope ready. Yeah. Like he, it's like he knew that he was going to be put in this situation. Right. Yeah, and he dug the graves, you know. I think he associates it with, he's kind of like been waiting for it ever since the two cars arrived at the same time. And maybe just then since little things have been falling into place.

It's kind of new because not everybody dies again, but a fair amount of more people die than he dug graves for. Yeah. I mean, he knew a mass slaughter of some kind was coming. Totally. Do we know what the book is that he put around Julie? Was that like a book of his drawings or something? Or do we not know? I'm not sure. Okay. I mean, I'm sure we'll soon find out. I think we'll see him later, yeah.

In the forest, Victor tells Julie to get inside the faraway tree, and he tells her it'll be safe. He says she needs to warn her brother. She says that she's confused, but Victor tells her that Ethan will understand and pushes her inside the tree while telling her that he'll be right behind her. Julie opens a door from inside the tree and appears to be in that weird outdoor basement area where Jade found the monster pinned behind a bolt. which was apparently a Confederate soldier as well.

In the station, Boyd and Khatri talk about their plans, apparently buzzed or drunk, and joke about being Mad Men, when all of a sudden Donna shows up with the van. Boyd runs out and asks where Ellis is. She apologizes and says that she doesn't know. Everyone... Everyone runs into the station and Khatri leading up the rear when someone says behind him, Father. And he turns and has his face and throat slashed by a monster. Boyd shoots the monster and they go inside, but Khatri is bleeding a ton.

and having a really hard time breathing. Boyd asks for something to stop the bleeding while he holds Khatri's neck with his hand. Donna finds something and they hold it on his neck, but Khatri begs Boyd to pray with him and he does. They recite... the Lord's Prayer together until Khatri perishes from blood loss.

Bummer. That was a shocker. Yeah, actually. I guess maybe we should have known because they're like having this really special moment together could have been an indication somebody was going to die. But I was surprised by that and bummed. I like Cod.

tree yeah me too i thought he was gonna play a bigger role honestly i was really surprised the first time i watched it yeah because now the uh that leaves the town without like a religious figure and it also leaves sarah tied up in the church and Luckily, Katri, you know, had said something to Boyd or else, you know, who knows what kind of reaction people would have had eventually finding her.

But I thought he was kind of going to be the liaison to get Boyd to, like he was going to need to convince Boyd about Sarah. So I was kind of surprised when he suddenly died. Yeah, that freaking sucks. I'm stressed man. Well, I did not prepare them. a monstrous mention per se, but I will just randomly bring one up because why not? I just know of a lot of artists and I had kind of noted in a previous episode when we had Jarvis Hammer as our monstrous mention.

who is a lovely drag king. I was excited because he had worked with one of my favorite photographers, who is Courtney Brooke. um aka light witch if you follow her on instagram and so i just wanted to make her our monstrous mention since i was planning on doing so at some point anyways so for those that are on instagram you can follow her at light She is from Salem, Massachusetts, of course. And she has her little website is bio.site.

um slash light witch and if you go there she has all kinds of things on there if you want to book a portrait session um she does feline familiar sessions oh my god that is so amazing. I wish I could get pictures with my familiar Lenore. She does private party sessions, all kinds of stuff. But I just love the look of her photos. They have this kind of like soft dreaminess to them. And they're very like fantastical, super.

horror inspired. I will drop a photo in the chat just so that you guys can see what I'm talking about. Although Tammy's at least seen the one that she did of Jarvis Hammer that I shared before. But I just really love her work. Very witchy. Very dreamy. Just beautiful. Yes. So Courtney B. Hall, a.k.a. Lighthouse. Witch, we salute you. So cool. All right. And Tammy, I'm going to go ahead and let you take us out.

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