[Wally] Previously on School Spirits...
Mads, what are you doing?
Superintendent Hunter-Price and I have decided
that instead of going on tomorrow's Senior Trip,
you will report here for Saturday detention.
Simon! Help! [screams]
I didn't kill him, did I?
You're probably one of the only people
that knows what really happened to Maddie.
Holy shit.
The person who hurt me
in that boiler room was you.
-I never went into my scar. -You lied.
I'm going to a treatment center.
And I'm not changing. I can just be myself.
Don't think, just go.
Simon!
[eerie vocalizing]
Simon!
Shit. Shit. Shit.
[panting]
Wally! I'm coming back! Something's happening!
[grunts]
Simon!
Whoa!
[grunting]
Are you okay?
[groaning]
[wind howling]
I'm leaving, come on! Simon!
["I'M FINE!" by Dodie playing]
* My, what a mind that is mine *
[inhales deeply, exhales]
* And what is the world but a mind? *
* Any moment carried by the panic in a rugby pile *
* Oh, no one is listening in *
[thunking on floor]
* Who is in town? Oh, it's her *
* Dream and awake start to blur *
* Close your windows, bolt your doors *
* Or you'll be doomed to evermore *
* Be no one, just listening in *
* Big dad cries in the iCloud *
* Roll it up, smoke it out *
* One year left to figure it out *
* Big brave girl, 29 now... *
-[tense music plays] -[gasps]
* I'm fine *
* Sound the alarm, I am bored *
-[song distorts] -[eerie music playing]
[music blends with haunting cacophony]
-[loud knocking] -[Xavier] Maddie!
[Xavier] Maddie?
Maddie!
* Roll it up, smoke it out *
* One year left to figure it out *
Hey. You okay?
What are you doing here?
[stutters] I've been calling a bunch.
I just wanted to check in after the hospital.
-Make sure you're okay. -Yeah, I'm fine.
I guess I just fell asleep.
[chuckles] Because you're sweating.
I'm fine. Just...
My mom and I got in a fight
and, uh, she's headed off to detox for a few days,
so, I'm just... it's been a night.
Yeah. Hey, if...
Do you want me to, um...
Obviously, not to be weird or anything,
but do you want me to stay here?
I can crash on the couch or the-the front porch.
Anywhere that's level, really.
That's really sweet, Xavier. But I'm--
You're fine. Yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Yeah. Okay.
[inhales, exhales sharply]
["Long Gone" by Anna Waronker playing]
[haunting vocalizing]
* Don't forget me when I'm gone *
* Don't forget me when I'm long gone *
* Will you forget me when I'm gone? *
* Don't forget me when I'm gone *
* Will you forget me when I'm gone? *
* Will you forget... *
* Don't forget me when I'm gone *
[students chattering]
["Potion" by Djo playing]
* When I wake up at three in the morning *
Bro, did you leave it in the band room?
Oh, yeah.
It was in here. I swear. I grabbed them.
Did you leave them on the freaking trophy shelf?
-Bro, that's a felony! -You're not helping!
* I'm lookin' for it in an alphabet soup cup *
-You alright there, boss? -Oh, my gosh.
Please keep your voice down.
Nicole is nursing her first ever hangover.
Oh, wow, you really went full Daniel Day-Lewis
on your undercover party girl assignment, huh?
Did you know Xavier's favorite movie is Dirty Dancing?
-It's-- No. It's not. -Wait, shut up.
I'm sorry, you went down into the hell hole?
You've got to be kidding me!
Listen, we had to weigh our options, okay?
-We have to know-- -"We"? "We" who?
-You both went down there? -No.
-You let him go down there? -[Simon] No.
I didn't go down there.
Yeah, no. He didn't go down there.
I went by myself.
I just thought it would be safer if I just went alone.
Not safer for Mr. South.
What happened to Mr. South?
Wally got yanked under
like Mr. Martin. Popped up in the library,
scared the shit out of South who fell off a ladder
but, in positive news, did in fact survive, so...
Guys, what is happening?
-Yanked? Wally, are you okay? -Yeah. I'm alright.
I don't know what is in that place.
It feels like a sub-scar to all the other scars--
I think it's a church.
Wally found this in there.
Maddie, there's something down there.
People, maybe.
Maybe answers.
-People? -[Charley] Wait.
People like scar people?
Like Mr. Manfredo or Crispy Janet?
Or other ghosts like us?
I don't know.
There's only one way to find out.
Simon, knock it off.
Just give us a freaking second, so we can look into this.
Someone's on edge.
I just talked to my dad.
He's looking into your situation at the hospital.
Can you guys just give us a second to figure this shit out
before any more of you venture into the fucking abyss?
You talked to your dad?
Maddie, that's huge.
Are you okay?
-Yeah, I'm fine! -Sounds like it.
Respectfully, Maddie, we can't lose another day without answers
and I'm not sure how good you're gonna be locked
in this cafeteria all day.
I'm going in.
Simon!
[tense music plays]
Simon!
[music crescendos, fades]
There you are!
All right, pick a table.
I'll slow his roll. Don't stress.
[Principal Hartman] Alright, here's how this is gonna work.
I will be taking your cell phones.
And to ensure you stay focused,
I will be sitting right here, all day.
You are to spend your time writing an exhaustive,
minute-by-minute account
of what really happened Tuesday.
From the hours
of 4:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.
No gaps.
-Excuse me. -Roger, it's Saturday.
You should be home resting.
Any idea where she wants this stuff?
She?
That lady.
Got a call to come in this morning.
Guess she wants her office set up a certain way.
She's outside with another 20 boxes.
An office?
Do not move. I will be back.
But that does not mean that I am not watching you.
Office.
[grunts]
[soft dramatic music playing]
We need to figure out what this thing is.
Yeah. On it. We'll look into it.
Uh, what what thing is?
Uh, they found a church.
Sorry, a church?
[Maddie] Yeah, inside the scars.
Uh, we don't know what it means.
It's either the thing that will help get Simon out,
or kill him for good, so I need to track him down
and make sure he doesn't jump into a portal to hell.
I should have gone to private school.
Just cover for me.
If Hartman asks, I'm in the bathroom.
Maddie, are you--
If someone else asks me that,
I'm gonna fucking lose it.
[tense music playing]
[music fades]
[whispers indistinctly, sighs]
Bingo.
[mutters under breath]
Hallelujah.
-What's that? -[yelps]
Jesus! Wow.
Sorry.
-What are you doing here? -Um...
Just, uh...
doing some soul-searching.
In the band room?
Trying to stay out of everyone's way at the moment.
Okay.
Yeah, uh...
I'll just, uh...
You go enjoy your lunch.
And I'll-- What is that? What-what are you doing?
Yeah, uh, I was going to do a little...
soul-searching myself.
Oh.
Psilocybin.
Yeah. [chuckles] Shrooms.
Right.
I just, uh...
wanted to escape from things.
You ever had?
Hallucinogens? [chuckles] No.
Uh, no. No.
Do you want some?
No.
I couldn't.
I'm supposed to be the teacher here,
you know, the adult.
Look, it's none of my business,
and I don't know what it is you're looking for,
but I do know that sometimes
these things can help you find it.
[quirky, pensive music playing]
[exhales]
Then count me in too.
Whoa. Quinn, did you just take this whole bag?
Oh, I thought you already had yours.
Dude, you just took like four doses.
What?
[soft rock music playing]
Simon?
[sighs]
Should we go after her? I mean, guys,
Hartman could be back any second.
No, I can't go. If I get expelled
and Diego's the only kid with a college degree,
I'll never survive another Thanksgiving with my family.
Just give her a beat, alright? She's going through a lot.
Sandra went to detox for a few days.
Oh, shit.
I showed up at her house drunk last night.
-That probably didn't help. -[Xavier] No. Don't sweat it.
It's Maddie, she'll be okay.
She just doesn't seem to want to talk about it.
What is this? Did Maddie write this?
Mmm, it looks only slightly less alien
than the language from Arrival.
Um, this is Finnish.
Um, hymnal for some use
of something, something, something... Finland.
What's happening?
Wait, you know Finnish?
Yeah. I'm Finnish.
You're Finnish?
Yes. Why is that surprising?
No, no, no reason.
[speaking Finnish]
I speak it better than I read it.
What she said.
I grew up speaking with my grandparents
and this is definitely from a Finnish Church.
Wait, does Maddie have Simon's...
Ha. Bingo. Google Translate never fails.
Oh, crap. No Wi-Fi.
Oh, but Simon's parents messaged him earlier.
Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
You think we can get Simon service in the afterlife?
Oh, fuck!
Is there a way that we can, like, deep fake him?
No, we'd need Wi-Fi for that.
And let's be real, those free voice generators
are never very good.
I used to use one
when I would skip school
to sound like my dad,
but he ended up sounding like James Earl Jones.
Wait, what did you say?
I would illegally impersonate my father, the sheriff--
No, no, no. Let's B Reel. Simon's podcast!
About B movies. He made it last year.
Yes, that's the one where he would rewatch panned movies
only to realize the critics were right
and they were actually pretty bad?
Where is this going, Nicole?
Well, if I can get to the media lab,
I can probably find some old eps on SoundCloud
and cut something together or something?
Yes. Yes. Um, okay.
Let's go before Hartman gets back.
And I will see what I can figure out about this hymnal stuff.
Great. Great. What do I do?
-You can write our assignments. -Yeah.
Yes, yes.
We've chosen me, the nearly failing student,
to do the homework, that's, uh, smart.
[both] You're not as stupid as you look.
Didn't love that.
[Claire] Yell if you see Hartman.
You're spending too much time together.
[Wally] That wasn't cool, dude.
Took you long enough to get here.
You told her it was just me. You made me lie to Maddie.
I didn't make you do a thing.
You could have told her the truth but you didn't.
And to be clear, I'll now gladly go back to tell her you lied
if you don't let me back in.
You played me.
-Sorry. -[chuckles]
Wally, we need to go back in there.
I saw something.
On my way out. There's someone else there.
Yeah, no shit, dude, I was the one
that had the creepy little hands grabbing at me, not you.
It's not the same thing as those hands.
Come on. Come on, Wally.
If this church is the reason we're both here--
Can we at least just come clean to Maddie before we go?
Yeah, you can. She'll be pissed.
[scoffs]
Watch, please.
You have the watch.
No, you have the watch.
You for sure have the watch.
No. I had the football.
You had the watch. We each had one key.
Oh, my God. I lost it.
Oh, I dropped it.
-What? -Oh, fuck.
-No, dude. -Yeah.
I was kind of running for my life.
[Wally] No. We need that.
Yeah, no shit.
Fuck.
[Simon] Well...
Fuck it, grab your football.
We'll go the long way around, use the side doors.
Hold on. Just, wait a minute, alright?
-Let's think this through. -Think what through?
How about a little hustle, sport?
Let's go to the football field.
-Wait. -What is going on?
What is happening?
I just, um...
I just need a minute.
[tense music plays]
These cover every decade from 1830 to 1940.
Look for anything about a church in the area.
We're talking about America in the 1910s,
there was nothing else to do.
I mean, there's over 200 churches in the index alone.
Plus, all the street names were different back then.
Okay, so, it's gonna be a process.
[exhales]
Not to wander off topic--
Charley, you wander more than JFK on a Marilyn weekend.
Just spit it out.
I said some things to Yuri
that, well, I didn't not mean,
but I don't know if they were entirely fair.
And now he's mad and possibly not speaking to me.
I mean, what is my problem?
Why do I always ruin good things when they get started?
Just apologize.
Okay, but he was wrong, too.
-I mean, he lied. -Then break up.
Okay, can't you just give me a break here?
I'm asking you for advice.
And you think I'm the relationship expert?
Guy who asked me to prom said I should join the track team,
I ran away from him so fast.
This is a state-of-the-art library.
[Dr. Hunter-Price] I'm sure it was in 1999.
But if I'm being perfectly honest,
your out-of-date facilities
are nothing compared to your other problems.
What other problems are you referring to?
Come on, Jerry. Get real.
This place is an absolute death trap.
The number of students who have dropped dead on campus,
it's unbelievable!
It would be funny
if it weren't so deeply disturbing.
I would be honored to be the person
that sees this place torn down once and for all.
Come on, Ray. We've got a lot of work to do.
Library smells musty. Write that down.
Possible mold.
-There is no mold. I told you-- -Possible termites.
[Principal Hartman] No, there's no termites.
Should I be feeling anything yet?
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised you're not feeling anything yet.
Hypothetically, what should I be feeling?
It's different for everyone.
You know, some people see things,
some people feel things, feel freer.
Usually, mushrooms just take what's ever in your mind
and make you look at it dead in the eye.
Hmm.
Kinda like the scars?
Gosh, that doesn't sound very freeing.
Some people have full-on ego deaths
to remember what it was like in the womb.
[exhales softly]
Is it weird I don't really actually remember a lot
from my life anymore?
Like I'll try to play back certain moments
and I just get static.
Yeah. I wish I remembered less.
Be careful with that.
You start by forgetting the bad memories on purpose.
Then the good ones vanish, too.
A couple decades ago,
I realized I couldn't...
even remember my own mother's face.
I just can't see it anymore.
Pretty far out to think we've all been dead
longer than we were ever alive.
Maybe it just doesn't work on ghosts.
Maybe I'm just not wired to be free.
[Yuri] Yeah, they may have been duds. Sorry.
But even without the shrooms, this all got pretty existential.
Yeah.
I, uh...
I think I'm gonna go take a walk.
[tender, dramatic music playing]
Thanks for trying. It was a valiant effort.
[dramatic music continues]
Simon? Simon?
[ominous music playing]
[exhales sharply]
[otherworldly whooshing]
[music intensifies]
[Nicole] Maddie! Maddie! Maddie!
[music fades]
Any sign of Simon?
Not yet. But I'll find him.
What are you doing out of the cafeteria?
His parents texted again
but we're getting creative, so I'm on it!
Shit. But don't let Hartman catch you.
Yeah, you too.
[eerie, tense music playing]
[music fades]
I'm missing something.
I'm not finding anything helpful in these.
You?
-Hello? -Sorry.
Are you still obsessing over your fight with Yuri?
God, this wasn't even your first relationship.
Yeah, and you know how my actual first one went.
Well, first love doesn't count anyway.
That's just infatuation.
Well, infatuation was a lot easier.
What's she doing in here?
Okay.
-[keys clacking] -[PC beeps]
[tense music playing]
-[lighter clicks] -[flame crackles]
[host on TV] Nine, eight, seven, six, five...
[static hisses]
How would you like to live the American dream?
You, too, can have it all!
A nine-to-five job, 2.4 kids.
A white picket fence and a beautiful lawn mower.
Newspaper on your doorstep, sex twice a year!
And don't forget Fido.
-[dog barking] -[ringing]
Sit, boy!
-[dog barking] -[reel clicking]
Everyone is counting on you!
[laughter]
Nothing like the smell of freshly cut grass
in the morning.
A man's lawn is his pride.
-[phone rings] -Oops! Better get that.
It might be important. Better get that.
-[laughter] -Better get that.
Your life may depend on it.
[Simon] Okay. It's been a minute. Are you good now?
Simon!
[sighs]
[tense music playing]
Damn, she looks pissed.
Yeah, she's definitely looking for me.
Okay, just give me a second, I just wanna check in on her.
Yeah, don't tell her where I am or what we're doing, alright?
Stay strong, champ.
Insufficient number of smoke detectors.
-Oh, what-- -I counted seven, I counted--
Oh, what is that horrible smell?
-Can you look into that, Ray? -It was a seniors' prank
with frogs from the biology department.
It's just a little formaldehyde...
[Maddie groans]
-Coast is clear. -Simon's pissing me off.
Where is he?
I'm really not sure.
-Wally, where is Simon? -I don't know.
But I'm sure wherever he is,
he's doing whatever he can to get back to you.
Alright?
I can't say I blame him. I'd be doing the same thing.
But that's the problem, he jumps before he thinks.
He always has.
That's how he got himself into this in the first place.
He couldn't just wait five seconds for me to get back.
He had to run into the burning building and get himself stuck!
I can't lose him to this.
Maddie, maybe we should get some privacy.
We're in the girls' room, how much more privacy do you want?
Fair point.
I can't do this.
I can't watch another person I care about
intentionally throw themselves in harm's way,
especially when all I'm doing is trying to keep them safe.
I'm gonna lose it, Wally. I'm not kidding.
Is this just about Simon?
It's about everything.
It's about Simon, my mom, seeing my dad,
and I'm sorry to be saying this,
because I know that Simon's gotta be the priority, but...
I feel like I'm gonna break soon,
and it's really freaking me out.
Hey, you know...
When the team was freaked out before a game,
my coach had this exercise.
Um...
Do you want to try it?
Let's try it. Okay. Here's what I want you to do.
Close your eyes and imagine a suitcase.
Now, put your favorite movie in the suitcase.
-What's your favorite movie? -Harold and Maude.
Are you serious right now? Harold and Maude?
The movie about the dude that's obsessed with death
and he falls in love with an 80-year-old woman?
And how old are you these days?
Damn. I never thought I'd be Maude.
Okay. So this is what I want you to do now.
Um, think about,
just your favorite moment from that movie
and put it in the suitcase.
-What's your favorite moment? -Easy.
Right after Harold tells Maude he loves her,
right before she dies.
And she says...
"Oh, Harold, that's wonderful!
-Go and love some more." -"Go and love some more."
Yeah. I love that movie too.
[chuckles]
I'm not trying to be controlling, I swear.
I'm trying to help.
Well, I know, you just...
You want to be on the field.
But you're in the booth right now.
But sometimes being in the booth is the best place to be.
'Cause you can see the field, and you can call plays.
You're still in this, Maddie. It's just different.
And you're exactly where Simon needs you to be.
You have to help us on your side,
go where we can't.
Talk to people who don't hear us.
Alright.
Go back down there.
But I'm still pissed.
And when you see Simon, tell him he's an asshole.
That I can definitely do.
Wait, wait, wait.
[tender music playing]
Your suitcase.
It might come in handy.
[chuckles]
[bangs head]
I'm not trying to be an asshole, you know.
I don't like keeping things from her.
Neither do I.
Especially the big stuff.
What's the big stuff?
-What's the big stuff? -I got my door. Okay?
-Your exit door? -Yeah.
Whoa.
Yeah, it-it...
It appeared the night Maddie got back to her body.
And it stayed.
So that's why I was so hesitant earlier.
I mean, we could go see it right now.
If we took the side doors, I can take you and show you.
Does anyone else know about it?
No.
I can't figure out what I would say.
[clicks tongue]
Clearly not "goodbye."
[exhales sharply]
So when are you gonna tell her?
I have not thought that far ahead.
So we are doing this?
I'm not gonna tell anyone.
Yeah, we're doing this.
Let's go.
[tense music playing]
[exhales deeply]
[Principal Hartman] I think we're about done here, right?
Uh, hardly.
I suspect it's riddled with asbestos
and I think I saw some black mold there too.
-No... -[gasps]
[chattering]
Maddie.
[chattering continues]
What are you doing down here?
I was just, uh...
skipping detention.
Secret's safe with me.
But you better get back to the cafeteria
before they notice you're gone.
-Mr. South. -Hmm?
I know you see things.
At this school.
And I just want you to know, I see them, too.
Do you know...
if there was something here before the high school?
[exhales sharply]
Follow me.
[insects chirring]
[soft tense music playing]
[birds squawking]
[Mrs. Martin] Come, Everett.
[Mr. Martin] Mother?
[Rhonda and Charley chattering]
[Charley] Sorry. Ouch!
[Rhonda] I just wanna check on something.
God, it isn't fair that it hurts even though it doesn't bleed.
[Rhonda] Seriously? Seriously, you're the only person I know
who can manage to get a paper cut after the grave.
["Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens playing]
[marching band plays along to melody]
* I fell in love again *
* All things go *
* Drove to Chicago *
* All things know *
* I made a lot of mistakes *
* In my mind, in my mind *
* You came to take us *
* All things go *
* To recreate us *
* All things grow *
* If I was crying *
* In the van, with my friend *
* It was for freedom *
* From myself and from the land *
* I made a lot of mistakes *
* You came to take us *
* All things go *
* To recreate us *
* All things grow *
* We had our mindset *
* All things know
-Come on, Quinn! -[students shouting]
* All things go
* All things go *
* You came to take us *
* All things go *
* To recreate us *
* All things grow *
-* We had our mindset -* I made a lot of mistakes *
* All things know *
-* You had to find it -* I made a lot of mistakes *
[cheering]
[door closes]
[music fades]
What the...
Well...
Quinn's having a nice day.
That guy's not.
Mother, wait! Wait!
[mutters indistinctly]
[tape rewinding]
[Simon] I just wanna say, I've been having the best time here.
[tape rewinding]
[Dr. Hunter-Price] Dangling wires, electrical hazard,
can you write that down?
[Principal Hartman] I think the school's in great shape.
[Dr. Hunter-Price] Oh, you think it's in great shape?
Mr. Hartman, you're delusional.
I've already seen 17 infractions and we just got started.
-Seventeen? -Seventeen infractions, yes.
-Oh, shit. -[chatter continues]
I guess technology isn't the answer to everything.
She's been searching for ages and hasn't found a single thing.
[Claire] Holy shit.
Holy shit is right.
[otherworldly whooshing, whirring]
Let's go.
It's just here, past the fence line.
It's a cornerstone.
When the last lead janitor retired,
he showed me this.
If you get close...
[otherworldly soft whirring]
...there's an energy to it.
A vibration.
A warmth.
Why?
You ever hear of the Stone Tapes?
Old idea.
Says the places, buildings, rocks, trees even,
they don't just sit there.
They remember.
Everything that's ever happened near them,
joy, grief, blood, and death,
it soaks in.
Gets etched into the walls,
the grain, the ground.
And sometimes...
under the right circumstances,
they play it back.
Those lost memories.
I don't know that this place is so much haunted
as it is trying to say something.
And this one?
This one's been talking since before you or I were born.
Since before this school was ever built.
What is it trying to tell us?
Keep listening.
[sighs deeply, hiccups]
[groans]
[sighs]
[sighs deeply, groans]
[grunts]
[whispering indistinctly] ...cannot believe this.
["Spirit School" by Anya Marina playing]
Come on.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
Ca-caw! Ca-caw!
-Oh, shit. -God.
Ca-caw!
* Semester is out *
[Xavier] Ca-caw! Ca-caw!
* The teacher is in *
We took a wrong turn. It's this way.
* There ain't no exams but, oh *
* You better bet you're gonna learn somethin' *
* Uh-huh, uh-huh *
* So get in the van *
* Uh-huh, uh-huh *
* And pay all your dues *
* Uh-huh, uh-huh *
* And stay a while *
* Yeah, stay, you're in the spirit school *
Oh, shit.
You better run.
* We're rubber and you're glue *
* And no matter what you say *
* We're gonna stick it right to you *
Didn't you hear me? Doing the bird call?
Bird call? What bird call?
To tell you to hurry. The bird call.
-That's a thing? -It's-- It's a thing.
Guys, I found something. Did you find Simon?
No. He's going in there whether I like it or not.
-Oh, great. -Hey.
I'm sorry I showed up at your place like that.
I should've known better, it was thoughtless.
I filled them in on what was going on.
-Yeah. -Should I not have done that?
No. Sorry. It's fine, of course.
Don't apologize.
I'm glad she's getting help.
Hey, Maddie. Are you sure you're okay at your place alone?
Maddie?
What did I say?
I'm just not used to talking about it.
I know you mean well when you say,
"It's so great she's getting help."
But she gets help all the time.
And we end up right back where we started.
So, yeah, it's great she's at detox.
But what happens in a week when she's back?
I will be fine at my place alone.
I'm alone whether she's there or not.
We just-- We've been through this so many times,
sometimes hope just messes with my brain
and turns into dread.
Maddie, you're wrong.
You're not alone.
We'll be here all night! [grunts] Whoa!
["Spirit School" continues playing]
-Aha! Alright, that's-- -[music stops]
Oh.
[Claire] Principal Hartman...
-you okay? -Yes, I'm fine.
[breathing heavily]
[coughs] Well, continue.
[sighs]
-[mellow music playing] -[breathes deeply]
[feedback whines]
[Dr. Hunter-Price] Mr. Hartman,
please report to the Principal's Office.
Alright, um... [clears throat]
I'll be back in a few minutes to collect your papers.
Please, please, do not leave until I get back.
[door opens]
You guys, there's a reason I couldn't find anything online.
I kept trying to search for, like,
"Finnish Church Split River,"
"Lutheran Church Split River,"
but Split River wasn't always called Split River.
You're kidding?
It used to be called...
-Stillwater. -Stillwater.
Thanks to that discovery, I remembered seeing that name
over and over again in this book.
Stillwater was the name of the town up until 1912.
I couldn't find any info on why they changed it,
but I did find this.
Hey, uh, Maddie, you think you could translate?
-Just one second. -Nine people died
in the church that was on this site.
Eight were children.
Nine people died in the church where Simon found that hymnal.
They died inside the church?
Sorry, I'm lost. What's the connection?
Died from what? When?
[Charley] It says it happened on October 28th, 1912.
Come now, Everett. You remember.
It was the day they split the river.
My mother told me about it.
It was meant to help the town prosper.
To redirect water to local farms.
But something went wrong.
There was a flood. It rained for days and days.
So the old church that was here...
Was also a grave.
[thunder rumbling]
[Maddie] And now the memory of whatever happened...
Is trapped here, too.
Alright. Time to go home.
Turn in your work.
To be continued?
Auto body shop, left to the theater. Right here.
[ominous music playing]
[exhales sharply]
Quinn, are-are you okay?
Hey, Rhonda.
What are you doing up there?
Okay, well, we-- Do you want us to help you down or...
-Oh. -[groans]
Everything is okay.
I saw the universe, Rhonda.
It was so beautiful.
What are you talking about?
Whoa, whoa, hey, hey.
Are you okay?
I took a journey into my soul,
and it turns out, I am music.
[laughs]
That is exactly what Barry Manilow said.
Can you walk?
Okay. You're just gonna... Yeah.
Let's get you some water.
[Quinn laughs]
Uh, I'll meet up with you guys later.
-[Quinn] Okay! -You gotta go. Yeah, yeah.
["Pas De Deux" by Paul Thomas Saunders plays]
* Close your eyes *
* Dream of somewhere better *
* Hold on tightly *
* This won't be forever *
* I'll get paid *
* We'll run away together *
Are you okay?
I...
I went in.
Finally.
Saw what I'd been avoiding.
I mean, I should've known...
All those years at the wheel,
thinking about how I didn't want to get stuck.
Suburban house, dead-end job,
beer in front of the TV every night.
That was my horror.
Not a kid and a wife.
Just me...
wasting away with no freedom.
And in trying so hard not to end up there,
I trapped myself in the fear of it.
Janet was right.
[sniffles]
I took it from out here.
And I brought it in with me.
And when I came back out, it...
it didn't reset.
That's how she made things stay.
But, Charley, the only thing I wanna make stay
is you.
* Close your eyes *
* Picture somewhere better *
* And don't go quietly *
* Give them hell for leather *
* And I will be your lifeline *
* Your forever home *
[exhales]
[Xavier] Hi.
It's getting dark earlier now, huh?
Yeah.
You waiting for him to come back?
I don't even know anymore.
I'm just trying to figure out what to do next.
[chuckles] Hey, we're doing stuff.
Thanks to Claire's surprising Finnish skills
and Nicole's tech savviness, we're on it now.
And don't forget, your Dad's on it too.
Yeah. You're right.
Hey, thanks for everything you said earlier.
And today.
And all that you guys are doing.
It's easy to forget people are there for you
when you get stuck in your head all the time.
Always.
I owe it to you.
You should get some rest, Maddie.
Head home.
Simon's gonna be here tomorrow, I promise.
With answers.
I hope you're right.
I can't help but feel like everything's on fire
and I can't put it out.
You can't control everything, Maddie.
Yeah, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to.
Well...
I'm gonna go track down my keys,
because I think they fell out of my pocket
back there when we were running, but...
let me know if you need anything.
I'm a call away.
[tender, dramatic music playing]
[lighter clicks]
[intense music playing]
[nurse] What brings you?
Uh...
Do you remember me?
We met, um, well, a while back now.
-I'm Dave. -David. Drowned.
I remember.
Just surprised to see you,
or anyone, in this part of the hospital.
No one comes here if they don't have to.
[object breaks]
[sharp, pained inhale]
[fire roars]
I'm hoping you can help me.
I know you've been here a long time.
[nurse] Longer than anyone.
See, my daughter, um...
Oh, it's a complicated story, but she needs my help.
I think what's happening here is happening at her school.
There are people, ghosts there, like us,
stuck at the high school.
We're not stuck.
Not really.
Not like the others.
[ominous whispering]
[loud thud]
[Simon] Okay. Look out.
[grunts]
Maddie.
You okay?
[eerie music playing]
Can I stay at your place tonight?
You see anything or...
-anyone yet? -No.
Any sign of that watch?
[Simon] Here.
And I was here.
I know you've seen it.
-Seen what? -Your way out.
These ones never will.
-I got it! -Okay.
Come on, Simon. Let's go.
[tense music plays]
-Simon! -Shh, shh, shh.
You hear that?
What do you mean?
There are spirits, further down.
Older than us.
They are truly stuck here.
No way out.
No escape.
Lost.
We call them...
The Forgotten.
[music fades]
["Long Gone" by Anna Waronker playing]