02x02 - Field Of Screams

[bunniefuu]

[MALE NARRATOR] Previously

on School Spirits.

Wake up!

You should tell the cops it was Maddie.

Claire's ready to go to the cops.

Turn her in.

It's a death map.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

Her name's Janet Hamilton.

She's the reason I'm here. I need you.

Where the hell is my body?

You just tell me how I can help.

[WALLY] How long was Janet down here?

[BEEPING]

- He stands?

- [GASPING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[GASPING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[MADDIE PANTING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[INDISTINCT MUSIC]

[REV. HAMILTON] Where did you get this?

Janet, I asked you a question.

Where did you get this?

[RUTH] For heaven's sakes,

Joe, she just woke up.

Poor gal's been studying so hard,

- she slept right through

- Mother, please.

[INDISTINCT SOULFUL MUSIC]

Is it a gift from

that chemistry teacher?

Janet?

[INDISTINCT SOULFUL MUSIC]

Did he go to this college?

[WHISPERS] It's the, it's the

- It's the University of Chicago.

- I didn't hear you.

Mr. Martin went to the

University of Chicago.

That catalog is from

Is he encouraging you to

go to this here school?

It has a superior program

in chemical engineering.

Perhaps your brother

can take advantage of it

when the time comes.

Why?

Dale's not even interested in

There's only one person

who need attend college

in this family, Janet.

It would be better for you to apply

that overactive brain

to something useful.

Like finding a husband,

someone to take care of you.

And you could show your gratitude

by giving him a house

full of healthy children.

Or maybe I can take care of myself

and I don't want a

house full of children.

[GLASS SHATTERING]

We speak with grace and respect

in this God-fearing

household, young lady.

Now, you can take care of that

so no one around here gets hurt.

[CRYING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[MUSIC]

[THEME MUSIC]

Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪

Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪

Don't forget me when I'm gone, gone ♪

Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪

Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪

Don't you forget me ♪

Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

Don't you forget me when I'm gone ♪

Don't you forget me ♪

Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

[CHARLEY] Rhonda.

- What are you doing?

- I think this is me.

What?

Look at the jawline.

Crooked baby finger.

Mr. Martin wrote in this notebook

that I haunt this corner

of the second floor.

Yeah, but he didn't mean literally.

Oh, no, I guess he did.

Weren't your bones buried?

How do I know? I wasn't there.

My mother could have donated my body

What the hell, Rhonda? Jesus.

This is not about you. We're

helping Maddie, all right?

What, like she's the only one of us

that's separated from her body?

At least yours is out there

sunbathing or getting a foot massage.

Is that supposed to make me feel better?

The rest of us lab rats have nothing

but the cryptic scribblings

of a devious chemistry teacher.

Yeah, who you were swapping

intel with behind our backs.

Is there anything else

you forgot to tell us?

Okay, guys, can we please stop

fighting and put this energy

into focusing on where Janet may be?

Yeah, or at least Mr. Martin.

- He's not in this building.

- How do you know that?

Because I've been around

longer than a blue M&M, Moose.

Call it intuition, but

I feel it in my bones.

Okay, you're not funny.

Also, I think I have an idea.

So, team, huddle up.

Okay, so

Here it is. This is our school.

Mr. Martin, what we're gonna do

is we're gonna fan out,

and we're gonna run a naked bootleg.

We're all gonna come inside.

Charley, you're gonna

reach around the back,

and you are gonna slip

in through the backside.

I'm gonna run a fake

Um, are you understanding any of this?

No idea, but you're blushing.

[WALLY] I'm making this confusing.

I'm making it confusing.

This is our line of scrimmage,

but imagine it upside down.

- Okay, Wally?

- Yeah?

[MADDIE] We may need to

go buy another playbook

because we've been

scouring the fallout shelter

for the last three days

and there's still no sign

of Mr. Martin or Janet.

I know, but I just thought if

we looked at the individual notes

that he kept on each of us

We have, and somehow you still think

being referred to as a devoted sheepdog

- is a good thing.

- Well, if Mr. Martin is

Gone. Mr. Martin is gone. He's gone.

Okay? He probably jumped

beyond the fence or something.

I mean, if Janet could just

climb into Maddie's body,

who knows what her Dr.

Frankenstein could do.

- Who's Dr. Frankenstein?

- Oh, dear God.

[NURSE NETTY] Almost done here.

- Do you want us to leave?

- No, you're fine.

How are you feeling?

You ready to go home.

Your father should be here soon.

You've made a remarkable recovery.

She's right.

Over the weekend, we were praying.

I even stuck a prayer card on your lamp.

[NURSE NETTY] Well, Saint

Raphael must have helped

because you are one lucky young man.

[SIMON] Hey, man.

Hey, I heard the good news.

Official discharge at 10:00 a.m.

Why didn't you wanna ride with me?

I had some stuff to take care of.

Like what? Going to the cops?

[CLAIRE] And what if he did?

We're all going to have to eventually.

- Why the cops?

- [NICOLE] Of course you would think that's a good idea.

Why don't you two just

skip in there together?

Who cares if it screws

up Maddie's future?

What's this got to do with Maddie?

They want the cops to know

that she stole your truck

so she'll never come back.

What?

Maddie took my truck?

Backed into me?

So the person in the hood,

the person that I was chasing,

- you're saying that that was

- [SIMON] Yes.

- And also no.

- What?

What does no mean?

Okay.

I know that person may

have looked like Maddie.

It doesn't mean it was Maddie.

- We have a video.

- You do?

Yeah, we all saw her face, Simon.

Okay.

Maddie, or at least her spirit,

it's trapped in our school.

I mean, she can't leave,

but her body, or at

least the girl in it,

she croaked like 60-some years ago.

Her name's Janet.

And she basically stole Maddie's shell.

And we have to help her get it back

so Maddie's bones and

her spirit can reunite.

Do we have to pray for you too?

Look, I could probably

explain this a lot better.

Yeah, if you passed out mushrooms.

I know, I know, I know. I sound insane.

No, you zoomed past insane

when you said the dead

girl stole her bones.

So she's trapped in the school?

According to Maddie,

there are others with her.

She's not alone.

But every time she tries

to leave the campus,

there's like this force

that hurls them back.

So you're saying that

Maddie's a ghost and

you've spoken to her?

Okay, I'm not up for

8:00 a.m. zombie talk.

I have cheer practice

and a Spanish quiz.

Claire, the person who

hit Xavier is a stranger.

Maddie would never

intentionally back over Xavier.

Am I right, Nicole?

Right now, I might back over somebody.

You seriously have to talk to someone.

Maybe not trapped in the

school. You're delulu.

Hey, text me if you want me

to bring anything by your house.

Simon, you need to touch grass.

Who are the others?

- Trapped in the school?

- [QUINN] A teacher?

Locked her up? For how long?

We stopped counting

the scratches after 150.

Wait, she was down there for months?

We're sort of in the middle

of a family crisis right now.

Yeah, maybe you just wanna go back

to marching band practice, okay?

She said it was time to wake up.

Yeah, well, I thought

you'd toss the horn

and change into a fabric

that at least breathed.

Are those even pants?

They look like ironed AstroTurf.

They're highly resistant

to the elements.

If that's a map, I could really use one.

I kind of forgot where

the bathrooms are.

That's a map of all the places

in the school where people

- died.

- Did anyone die in a bathroom?

Oh my God, Rhonda, can

you please take her back?

- Why me?

- Because

you wake it, you buy it.

Do you know where Mr.

Martin may be hiding?

Dead chemistry teacher, about this tall,

dark hair, smells like stale coffee.

Never mind.

Okay, we need to figure

out why Mr. Martin

drew a "Y" over the greenhouse.

Yuri!

Wait.

"Y" could be for Yuri. That

must be where Yuri died.

[MADDIE] Is that the dead kid

looping at the pottery wheel?

- [CHARLEY] Uh-huh.

- [MADDIE] We need to talk to him.

We can't. He only speaks Russian.

And he's completely out of it.

- [BAXTER] You doing okay?

- Yeah.

Listen, if you're

worried about the animal

that plowed into you

No, I'm not.

Well, good, because we're getting closer

to finding out who it was.

We tracked down a witness.

- Says they saw something.

- What did they see?

They saw someone in a

a hooded jacket around your truck.

- You got any memory at all?

- Nothing.

I barely remember that night.

[WOMAN] Here you are, Sheriff.

All right.

- I'll be right back.

- Yeah, all right.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[WOMAN] Welcome to Red

Pine County Hospital

- You looking for me?

- No.

No. Uh

There were other people

sitting in here the other night.

Tall guy in a fishing vest.

Lady with a Marge Simpson

haircut smoking a cigarette.

Uh, no one's been allowed to smoke

in this building since 2009.

Right.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[WALLY] Do you speak any Russian?

[MADDIE] I speak dictionary.

[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

[WALLY] What'd you just ask him?

It was supposed to

be, "May I interrupt,"

but I might have just asked

him if he shaves his legs.

Mm-hmm.

Do you speak any English at all?

Yuri, did Mr. Martin or

Janet ever come through here?

[WALLY] All right, I think

we're wasting our time.

This dude spent, like,

50 years inhaling shellac.

Seems like he's been

inhaling more than that.

[MADDIE] Have you

been to the greenhouse?

Greenhouse?

Green house?

Oh, jeez, if we're playing

charades, I call Charley.

Oh, yeah.

We have to talk to everyone, okay?

Mr. Martin could have been experimenting

on every dead kid in this building.

I don't think that

he was doing all that.

Someone else is running

around in my body right now,

and I have no idea where

I am. Or where she is.

I mean, where we are. It

Even if we did get her back here,

we have no idea how to undo a body swap.

Do we? We know nothing.

So please, Rhonda,

do not tell me we're wasting time.

That was him. He said that.

Hey, look.

We're not stopping until

we get answers, okay?

Right? I promise.

Why don't we go to the greenhouse,

and we can come up with a better plan

while we're not inhaling glaze? Huh?

Okay?

This class could

seriously clean up on Etsy.

Like, I mean, if this

had a brim, I'd wear it.

Janet made that one.

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

They say the party won't be

on until I get up in the place ♪

Hey, people say my name ♪

Blow it up, blow it up ♪

I wanna see you ♪

Blow it up, blow it up ♪

When you walk in the room ♪

Blow it up, blow it up ♪

I light a fire, babe ♪

Blow it up, blow it up ♪

I make the party go boom ♪

You never see me

coming, see me coming ♪

But I knock you right off your feet ♪

We make the party go boom ♪

[CLAIRE] Sorry.

We're cool.

Mandy, can we take a water break?

[BLOWING WHISTLE]

- [INDISTINCT]

- Thanks.

[WOMAN] You're better than this.

[CHLOE] What's her problem?

You should be staring her down.

Does she know how pissed her parents are

just for, like, hanging out with him?

[SIMON] I don't know what last name

she could have used to check in.

It could have been

Nears or Hamilton, but

she'd definitely be paying in cash.

[WOMAN] All right, come

on, round up, ladies.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, thanks for your time.

Uh, I'm calling The Midway.

[NICOLE] Ew.

That nasty motel near the fairgrounds?

No way would Maddie ever sleep there.

That'd be a step up from squatting

in one of those dumps her

family used to live in.

- Whose family?

- Okay.

I'm doing a deep dive

the past couple days.

Turns out Janet Hamilton's family

Simon, stop.

You gotta stop with this

body-snatching Janet talk.

I'm serious, dude.

I'm saying this with love.

We've gotta be a team.

We can't trust Claire.

She's gonna go to the cops.

But you've gotta get it together

and speak to a professional.

[BELL RINGING]

[SIMON] All right. I'm headed

to Bingham County at lunch.

If you still care and wanna join

Of course I still care.

I'll drive.

[SOFT ROCK MUSIC]

What the f*ck? You speak English?

Wait, and you knew Janet,

and you get to smoke in this school?

- What should I answer first?

- All of the above.

Uh, yeah. I knew Janet.

She'd come in here

every once in a while.

I spent a decade or

three trying to teach her

how to make a pitcher.

Okay, did she ever say

anything about planning

to steal someone else's

body or where she'd go

when she was in it?

If you're not from Moscow,

where did Yuri come from?

My dad is from Russia.

My mom is from Virginia.

[CHARLEY] Okay, I'm sorry.

Why did you let Mr.

Martin and everyone else

think that you didn't

speak a word of English?

Well, it got me out of his bogus

traffic school for acceptance.

Yeah, but you spent decades alone

hypnotized by a pottery wheel.

We all gotta push against

the darkness any way we can.

- Yeah, Mr. Martin used to say

- Mr. Martin was full of sh*t.

I don't need to spend my

time questioning why I'm here.

I've got immortal youth.

You know, no shelf life.

No chapped lips. No regrets, man.

What about you?

Um, do you have regrets?

No.

I mean, um, you know, if

I could redo 10th grade,

I'd probably reconsider

my one-man show about Mary Todd Lincoln.

Yeah, I'd still do it,

obviously, you know,

just without the, um,

costume or the wig.

That's brave.

What about this box?

Um, did Janet make this box, too?

Uh-huh.

Okay, wow, so she also took wood shop.

She was busy.

- What's this?

- What's what?

[SOFT MUSIC]

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[CLAIRE] That was fast.

I didn't expect you to be back already.

Well, I'm not.

Yeah, my dad is downloading Hartman.

Basically, once I get back to school,

I have my doctor's permission

to start falling asleep in every class.

- [CLAIRE CHUCKLING]

- Finally.

Nice.

How are you doing?

Me? I'm fine.

I mean, you're the one that almost died.

I did. For a few minutes.

What?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Hey, it's good to see

you out of that place.

Hey, Claire.

If she's out there, Maddie,

I mean, you know that you

and I, we can't be together.

Yeah. Yeah, I know.

I mean, of course.

Of course, I mean, if finding

out about us is what made her

- flip out and back a truck

- I deserved it.

Maybe more.

I should go.

Um, I've already

missed the first period.

- I'll see you.

- I'll see you.

So you're telling me this

was just sitting in there?

- Yeah.

- So he knew Janet?

Yes. It was under her pot in a box.

I mean, this has to be the notebook

we couldn't find, right?

The one Mr. Martin was keeping on Janet?

[MADDIE] These first ten pages

are like chemical equations.

I mean, maybe they explain why

these notebooks are still here.

And Janet's pot.

And how Mr. Martin

locked that door on us

and it didn't reset.

I might as well read this upside down.

Does

Does any of this make sense to you?

Maddie, all the chemistry I

know I learned from the professor

on Gilligan's Island.

Where's Rhonda?

Uh, she's trying to

lose the horn player.

Does that horn player have a name?

- Yeah, horn player.

- [MADDIE] It's Quinn.

[SIMON] Maddie?

[MADDIE] Hi.

- Do we know anything more?

- No.

No, not yet, but I'm on it.

Any idea why Janet got

off the bus in Rockton?

We only know what she was running from.

Haven't figured out

what she was running to.

Maybe we gotta ask what she

might be looking for out here.

We're working on it.

Maddie, even if

Even if we find this person,

do we know if we can get your body back?

You said you heard her cries for help,

but you

you were technically

still alive that day,

walking through a boiler

room, hearing a dead girl.

How?

I don't know.

I can only guess that

I was in a dark place.

I was in pain.

And she was too.

Maybe it's the same reason

you could see and hear me.

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[DOOR CREAKING]

[DOOR CREAKING]

[DOOR SLAMMING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[DOOR OPENING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[DOOR SLAMMING]

[MADDIE PANTING]

[BAXTER] Xavier?

Who's on the phone?

Uh, just some friends.

Happy to know I made

it out of the hospital.

Ah. You can add the

principal to that list.

He's gonna speak with your teachers.

You can work for the rest

of the week from home.

Oh, really?

I mean, I think I'd get a lot more done

if I just hung out here.

Did my make-up stuff in the library.

Well, I think you'd probably

be better off at home.

You could lie down.

Well, a library has a couch.

Seriously, I'm gonna get

nothing done in my bedroom.

It's your call, Son.

[TRAIN WHISTLE]

[NICOLE] Hey, so where are we going now?

I still wanna hit The Midway.

- Maybe that motel in Wammakee.

- It's like 60 miles away.

But it's still in the county.

She bought a county map.

Yeah, but I think we should maybe

Nicole, you were there. You

heard what the clerk said.

Someone who looked just

like Maddie bought a map.

A map.

Something they haven't sold in 10 years.

What's your point?

A map is something a

teenager from 1958 would buy

because they don't own a freaking phone.

They still think GPS stands

for General Postal Service.

Simon, we are not going back

to that 1958 place again.

Do you hear me?

How come you can only wrap your mind

around a ghost if it's holy?

We're both raised Catholic, Nicole.

We both believe in purgatory.

People gotta wait before they

find out where they're headed.

So why can't you believe

Maddie's still waiting

- at Split River High?

- I'm not talking about this.

Why?

Because Maddie's not dead.

Okay, that doesn't mean

she's living in her body.

[CAR ENGINE STARTING]

Hey, hey! Nicole! Oh, come on.

[CAR ENGINE HUMMING]

[NICOLE] Get in,

but you're not allowed

to ask any more questions.

[SIMON] Okay.

Just one.

What's Brazilian Bum Bum cream,

and is that the same

thing as Butt Butter?

That's two, nerd.

[SOFT MUSIC]

Yo, they got records going back

to the day this place opened.

Is it just me, or does this look like

something carved into a pyramid?

Please don't hover.

- I hate people who hover.

- I'm not hovering.

I'm six inches away.

That's regulation

distance from our tuba.

Whoa. Guys, check this out.

Okay.

Janet checked out Fahrenheit

451 like four times.

Does that mean anything?

That she liked it.

[WALLY] Make that five times.

Once for the Science Club.

You gonna be okay, Cherry Pop?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Feels like he's staring at me.

You know what?

I wanna figure out who

these science kids are,

because for all we know,

Janet could be racing

around town with one of her

egghead friends right now.

Those eggs are now 83.

Only thing racing are their pacemakers.

- This is shorthand.

- What?

That code, the loopy slashes and hooks.

My grandma was a secretary.

She taught it to me.

What are you saying? You can read that?

Well, I'm not fluent, but kind of, yeah.

Translate, please.

Um

I don't think these sections

were written by the same person.

[CHARLEY] Of course they were.

See all this weird chicken scratch?

His A's always looked

like O's, remember?

Tuba distance, please.

I wonder if the pages

starting from back here

were written by Janet.

Why?

Because this part's

referring to Mr. Martin

in the third person.

Okay, so you think she

stole the notebook written

about her so she could write about him?

- We don't know if she stole it.

- Why was she hiding it then?

She's using the word "our" a lot.

It seems like whatever

experiment he was conducting,

they might have been a team.

- Like, um, lab partners.

- There's no way.

He kept her down there for months.

She was his prisoner.

Maybe when you found her,

but not when she wrote this.

Yo, what was going on between those two?

Looks like they both planned

on getting out of here.

Together.

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[DOG BARKING]

[DOGS BARKING]

[DOG BARKING]

[MR. MARTIN] Wow! Incredible.

How long has your grandma lived here?

Forever.

She was born in the

corner room upstairs.

No.

Well, it must be nice to

have a real sense of home.

This home, yes.

I can breathe here.

But then we have to

go back to our house,

and it's suffocating.

It smells like wet dog and cabbage.

But Grandma's house smells like

baking and cinnamon and

sweet almond extract.

Um, be careful.

Cyanide smells like that, too.

Not to everyone.

37% of the population

can't even smell cyanide.

True.

That is not the kind of

information one learns

from a Slo Poke wrapper, Miss Hamilton.

You must read a lot.

Too much, I'm told.

People don't like girls

who know all the answers.

Wait till you get to college.

- You'll be in your element.

- Do you really think so?

No, I know so.

Once you're out of Split River,

you'll defy all these

small-town expectations.

You'll be finding new cures for disease.

- Discovering new planets.

- [JANET GIGGLING]

I can't believe you just said that.

- Disease?

- [GIGGLING] Planets.

I was just thinking this morning,

what if there are more rogue

planets up there than stars?

Gosh.

Not too many, I hope.

We'll run out of names.

You'll now have to use Pig Latin.

Eptune-nay. Upiter-jay.

Aturn-say.

[JANET AND MR. MARTIN LAUGHING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[MR. MARTIN] Reverend

Hamilton, I presume.

I don't think we've had the pleasure.

I'm Everett Martin,

- Janet's chemistry teacher.

- I know who you are.

Go inside, help your mother with supper.

[JANET] Daddy, please.

[REV. HAMILTON] So, bus break down?

Why are you driving her home?

No, Janet actually stayed

late to help me test out

- some lab equipment.

- She could have telephoned home

if she needed a ride.

Honestly, it wasn't out of my way.

You know, folks may get the wrong idea.

Grown man driving around

town with a student.

Reverend Hamilton, I assure

you, my intentions are honorable.

Um, in fact, I'm meeting my fiance

for supper at the Howard

Johnson's in Bingham.

The ideas you are planting

in my daughter's head

are far from honorable.

Sir, uh, if you're

under the impression

We're not sending Janet to college.

That would be such a mistake.

With her keen mind, she

could pursue a career

- in the sciences.

- I am well aware of her keen mind.

Yours, however,

unsettles me, Mr. Martin.

I think it's best if you

concentrate on your lessons

or you could be looking

for a teaching position

in another district.

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

Well, I'm glad we at least

agree on Janet's intelligence.

Wish you a good night, sir.

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[CAR STARTING]

[SOULFUL MUSIC]

Does she really call

Mr. Martin her champion?

[QUINN] Yeah.

[MADDIE] Where does she say that?

There.

How is this the same

person I heard screaming

to get away from him?

[WALLY] Something must

have soured between them.

- I don't know.

- For sure. But who knows what?

She wasn't the most reliable narrator.

[WALLY] What does that mean?

[CHARLEY] She clearly kept secrets.

I mean, there's pages

torn out of this thing.

[MADDIE] But when did she figure out

she could leave here

in someone else's body?

Okay, Quinn, maybe you

should keep reading.

No, no, no. Don't keep reading.

This is taking way too long.

Let's just go talk to the

looping exchange student.

- Not an exchange student.

- [WALLY] I know! I know!

He's a liar, and he's

a spy from Virginia.

Okay.

Oh no.

Yuri, what else did

Janet trust you with, huh?

You better start talking right now,

or I'll put your whole

body on that wheel,

and I'll spin you like a bottle.

Now tell me, what was she after?

Crossing over or body snatching?

Wally, can we not start with threats?

Sorry, I actually tried chatting it up

with this Spinal Tap wannabe,

but he pretended like he didn't

understand me for 40 years!

You think Janet talked

to me about crossing over?

- She wouldn't.

- Why not, hm?

Because she knows I don't

believe in any of it.

Where do you think you're

going that's better than this?

- It's probably much worse.

- Save your lame opinions, dude.

- We're here for answers.

- Aren't we all?

But the mysteries of death

compound themselves, dude.

You always have another question.

Stop, stop, stop with

the riddles, Nowhere Man.

Listen to me. Maddie's not dead.

Okay? She's not like us.

She was just in the wrong

place at the wrong time.

And she was mugged by

your friend who was up here

hatching a getaway

plan with her teacher.

I don't know anything about that.

[WALLY] Well, I think you do,

because you sit there

all dazed and confused,

spouting wisdom like

Yoda. Well, guess what?

You're no more evolved

than the rest of us you are.

I bet you got drawers full

of stolen ketchup packets.

You caught me.

[WALLY] All right, what

else belonged to her, huh?

What else was Janet hiding?

That was Janet's.

- [MADDIE] Wally?

- Hm?

Come. Come with me.

Why are you going all aggro on this kid?

He may be telling us the truth.

I don't know what the truth is anymore.

Everything I've ever known is gone.

- I lost two coaches, two teams.

- Wally.

I spent years sitting

in that folding chair,

and I never once

questioned our damn leader.

That's not a sheepdog,

Maddie. That's a sheep.

What happened with Mr.

Martin is not your fault.

But if you end up pushing

away someone who can help us,

- that will be.

- How am I supposed to fix this for you

if I can't even leave the school?

What can I do?

I can't compete with Simon.

He's alive.

Why do you think you

have to fix this for me?

Or compete?

Simon is not your rival, Wally.

We're all on the same team.

I just wanna do something real.

I wanna give you answers.

I don't wanna sit around

like a block of cheese.

I want whatever is going

on between us to get better.

Deeper.

I just keep feeling

like I'm getting benched.

Wally, if you think you

have to put on a cape for me,

you're way off.

I mean, if anything,

that makes me cringe.

This is not 1983.

I've never asked anyone

to solve my problems.

And I'm not starting now.

I just wanna be more than a

mushy shoulder to cry on, okay?

That makes me feel like a total wastoid.

I have no idea what that means.

But if you think being loyal

and kind and unjaded is

something to be ashamed of,

you're wrong.

If anything, it's kind of hot.

You don't always have to

score the winning point, Wally.

At least, not for me.

Hey, did we just have our first fight?

Maybe.

Cool.

[MADDIE CHUCKLING]

My skeleton is freaking me out ♪

I'm in my body again ♪

Don't wanna talk about it ♪

Ever again ♪

My OCD is kicking in again ♪

Hey!

Again I won't complain ♪

Again ♪

Hey.

[SOULFUL MUSIC]

My pants are called bibbers.

[RHONDA LAUGHING]

What?

[RHONDA AND QUINN LAUGHING]

I don't get it.

If Janet made this,

why isn't it resetting?

- [YURI] I don't know.

- He doesn't know.

Dang.

Oh, I feel like crap.

What if we do get Janet back here,

and she sees that I

broke this in 50 pieces?

Oh my God. She's going to k*ll me.

- Too late.

- It's true.

Seriously, uh, don't sweat it.

Happens every day around here.

People trash everything.

Sometimes their best work.

- That's a shame.

- Uh, not really.

You got to let things go.

As soon as you give things up,

- better stuff can come to you.

- Huh.

Somebody wrote something very similar

to that in my yearbook,

except for he wasn't as eloquent.

He basically just wrote a limerick

that rhymed every word with "Venus".

Janet rhymed geranium with titanium.

- Um

- What are you talking about?

Uh, I found it in this old yearbook.

It was donated by this Science Club kid,

and Janet wrote this

really cornball poem

inviting him to watch

her string 'em in Bingham.

- String what?

- I don't know. Popcorn?

Wait, what was in Bingham?

Uh, family farm, I think. Why?

Wally, where is that yearbook?

It's in the library. Am I in trouble?

You may have uncovered

our best lead yet.

Janet got off the bus in Bingham County.

Wally, you're a genius. Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, um, we're still in the room. So

Come on, let's find that poem.

We should talk Mandy

into letting us wear the sparkly socks.

And something sparkly on our lips.

- And our hair, too.

- OK, slow down, Kristen.

We don't want to look like disco ba*ls.

You into it?

The sparkles?

What? Yeah. Yeah, sure.

Well, we can come up

with a plan on Friday.

You're still hosting, right?

Um, that is TBD.

Things are a little tense

in my house right now.

Oh, is your mom getting another divorce?

No.

She's just raging that

Claire went to homecoming

with a sketchy dude

who got mowed down by his

dealer in Druggieville.

Chloe, you're an a*s.

[SIMON] There are nine Hamiltons.

Are you looking at census or

property listings right now?

I'm still in obituaries.

[NICOLE] Guys, can we

hit the pause button?

I mean, this farmhouse

thing feels rando.

It's not rando, though.

That may have been

where Janet felt safe.

She could have gone back,

hoping some living

relative would take her.

Wait, wait, wait. I got an address here

on Route 17, listed

under Millard Hamilton.

Guys, Hamilton's something

I can't afford tickets to.

- Not Maddie's hideaway.

- Still holding out, huh?

- Big time.

- What's big time?

That address, that's big news.

We could probably head

over there after school.

[NICOLE] I'm not going back there again.

All we came away with

is someone saying Maddie

bought a stupid map.

We don't even know if it was Maddie.

You're right. It was Janet.

Why are you nodding?

You had a concussion,

dude, not a lobotomy.

Why would Maddie hide away

in some stranger's farmhouse?

- Because it's not Maddie.

- [MADDIE] Because it's not me.

Sorry.

[BELL RINGING]

Okay. All right, guys.

Um, one more hour to get through.

After Bio, I'm hitting Route 17.

[XAVIER] I'll grab my

truck and pick you up.

No, you're still taking

sponge baths, bro.

I'll drive your truck.

Nicole, can you, uh, return

this yearbook for me, please?

Thank you.

[SOFT MUSIC]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[REV. HAMILTON] We're not

sending Janet to college.

[JANET] Now what?

Janet, what happened?

[REV. HAMILTON] Show your

gratitude by giving him

Janet.

[MR. MARTIN] I need to go back in.

Yes, Janet. Yes, you know that.

[KNOCKING]

[YURI] Back to vacuum?

Oh, no, I didn't bring,

um, you know what?

I would happily bring one

if it would suck the truth out of you.

Because it's a vacuum.

Some other time ♪

What do you think I'm holding back?

I mean, it's, you make

the same pot every day,

and it resets, right?

But Janet's, it didn't turn

back into a lump of clay.

It stayed permanent,

and then it broke, and

then it stayed broken.

How? Why?

I can't answer that, man.

But, um, it's not broken anymore.

Wow, you did this all by yourself.

Wow, I mean, it's

really such a good job.

Yeah, if I squint, I can

barely notice all the cracks

and bumps and slivers.

Ah, you're supposed to notice them.

It's wabi-sabi.

It's an understanding that

nothing's ever finished

and nothing's perfect.

When something breaks,

you glue it back together

and embrace its imperfections.

Yeah, the cracks and the

scars only make it stronger.

Uh, more interesting.

And beautiful.

You feel the same way about people?

[SOFT MUSIC]

You wanna make something?

- Oh, uh, no, I

- [YURI] You start simple,

like a paperweight.

- I could teach you even its

- Another time.

Maybe.

Yeah, anytime.

Definitely.

[SOFT MUSIC]

As I lay here beside you ♪

I can feel your heartbeat ♪

There's no need for our voices ♪

We're complete ♪

[DOORBELL RINGING]

[WOMAN] Nicole?

I cannot on myself

when the noise is gone ♪

[WOMAN] Nicole!

How can I be myself

when I know you're gone ♪

[WOMAN] Nicole, someone is at the door!

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

Hey.

Um, I was gonna text,

but I thought that

it'd be harder for you

to say no if I was standing here, so

Say no to what?

I need a place to crash.

Um, I had a major

blowout with my parents.

I didn't know where else to go.

You didn't try Chloe or one of your

Look, I know it seems like all I wanted

was to hurt Maddie, but

it's not true.

God, if Xavier owes

her an apology, then

then I for sure owe

her an even bigger one.

Okay.

Thanks.

Maddie!

Mr. M?

Wait, wait, wait. Hey, Mr. Martin!

Hey! Wait! Mr. Martin!

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[WALLY PANTING]

[SOULFUL MUSIC]

[MADDIE] "Will they ever know

what I've taken from them?"

"Will they ever forgive me?"

Is that forgive or forget?

- That's forgive.

- Keep going.

What did Janet take from us?

- Damn.

- What? What does it say?

Quinn, help her. Translate.

It wasn't Mr. Martin.

Janet was the one who

took your death objects.

She's the one who hid them from you

in the fallout shelter.

Why? Did did he tell her to?

I think Janet probably stopped

taking orders a long time ago.

Why do you say that?

I don't think all

ghosts are created equal.

I mean, that pot she made,

it was probably just the beginning.

She probably figured

out a whole lot more.

Which would have threatened Mr. Martin.

So he used what he learned

from her to make her a prisoner.

And that's how he locked

us in the fallout shelter.

These crosses all over my body ♪

Remind me of who I used to be ♪

[WALLY] Okay, listen up.

I just saw Mr. Martin.

There was this big,

red light behind him,

and then he's just gone.

- He disappeared.

- You saw Mr. Martin

- in this school?

- [WALLY] Yeah.

And the way he looked, the

way he ran, he's terrified.

Because Janet got away.

Maybe he locked her up

to protect all of you.

I'm just a child ♪

But I'm not above violence ♪

My mama raised me better than that ♪

[SHUDDERING CRY]

When the preacher talks ♪

That man demands his silence ♪

And daddy said sh**t first ♪

Then run and don't look back ♪

So take me down to the river ♪

And bathe me clean ♪

[MADDIE CRYING]

Put me on the back

of your white horse ♪

To ride ♪

All the way to the chapel ♪

Let you wash all over me ♪

[XAVIER] Take a left up here.

So take me down to ♪

The river ♪

And bathe me clean ♪

Ooo-oooh ♪

[SIMON] What the hell?

Is this it?

[XAVIER] It has to be.

Hey, slow down.

Put me on the back of

your white horse to ride ♪

All the way to the chapel ♪

[SIMON] Um

Let you wash all over me ♪

Can I help you?

Yeah, uh, we were just

trying to get around.

You can't go any further.

You got business here?

No, no. We saw the smoke.

[OFFICER] Yeah, the

fire truck's on its way.

- Is anybody in the place?

- [OFFICER] Could be.

A neighbor walked around

the property earlier today.

Thought he saw a vagrant.

You know anything about that?

[SIRENS]

No.

[FIRE TRUCK HONKING]

[FIRE TRUCK SIREN]

Put me on the back

of your white horse ♪

To ride ♪

All the way to the chapel ♪

Let you wash all over me ♪

Yeah ♪

[SOFT MUSIC]