03x08 - Dawn of the Deb

[bunniefuu]

[Wally]Previously on School Spirits...

Come on! Ralph, you gotta wake up!

Let me help you remember. You can tell me why I'm here.

[Freyja]Alfred Van Heidt was a greedy man

who only wanted what little we had.

He knew that choir was in the basement that day.

-Why are you so edgy? -If they tear down the school,

the ghosts who are here are here forever. Forgotten.

He promised he would say something.

-I met Van Heidt last night. -He's been doing this

for almost a century, swapping from one body to the next.

[Maddie]What if there's a way to get to Simon?

If I could get my door to open, I'll find him there.

["Stranger" by Anna von Hausswolff plays]

♪ We're walking in a curved line ♪

♪ Into something new ♪

♪ The birds are watching every step I take ♪

♪ Beneath the stars, beneath the moon ♪

♪ There is a hole ♪

♪ It's covered up in darkness and fear ♪

♪ But then there is something ♪

♪ Moving against me ♪

♪ It's not in line with the world I know ♪

♪ Changing the heart ♪

-[car horn honking] -♪ Changing the spirit

-[honking grows louder] -♪ Changing my path ♪

[tires screeching]

[song ends]

["Long Gone" by Anna Waronker plays]

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Gone ♪

♪ Don't you forget ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Don't you forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Don't you forget ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

[song fading]

[somber music plays]

I thought I would hate how quiet in-service days are, but...

today, I would love a day with no classes and no students.

Instead we have to sit here

and watch a bunch of strangers decide our future.

It all feels so... wrong.

Even more so than usual.

Yeah, that's the sting of betrayal.

He didn't have a choice, Charley.

It was our best lead for finding Simon.

Okay, maybe he didn't feel like he had a choice

to take his door, but he had a choice to keep it from us.

I think he was trying his best to say goodbye.

How do we know if it worked?

If him taking his door brought him to Simon?

We don't.

Maybe we can't.

So we-we just sit around now, worrying?

In case you've forgotten, there's a clock

and it's ticking.

Is it a clock or is it a b*mb?

Okay, okay. Listen.

All may not be lost yet.

There's still a chance for this place and for us.

Today's meeting could go our way.

[Claire] You have to sound convincing.

Try it again.

All right.

I demand that you explain

your involvement with John--

-Jeff. -Jeff!

...from J&L Spotlight Developments

and, uh, K.C. Jensen and...

-Uh... -[sighs]

Give him a break. We've been at it all night.

-We're all exhausted. -You're right. You're right.

He just needs to record a confession

and then we can all go home and take a nap.

Yeah. You know how to do a recording, right?

-Uh... -[Claire] Right?

Yeah, yeah, Right. Sure. Yuh-huh.

[Xavier] You need to be sure. Okay?

We need to have enough to take to my dad.

[Claire sighs]

[phone rings]

[sighs] What do you want?

Okay, don't get mad at me. I'm trying to help you.

[Nicole]Help me how?

[sighs] Well, I was driving around

and I almost smashed into Maddie

who's walking around in the dark like a psychopath.

Honestly, there's something wrong with her.

She's in, like, a trance or something.

I can't even get her to tell me where she lives.

So I'm taking her to the ER.

No, don't do that!

Just, please. Wait outside until we get there, okay?

[Livia]Okay, okay. Bye.

[sighs] Okay.

Uh, Xavier, you have to go to the hospitalnow

and find... you-know-who,

and Claire and I will stay here and deal with this.

-Go! -Oh! Okay.

-Uh, try it again. -Yeah, so...

[siren wailing]

[whispering voices]

[leaves rustling]

[running footsteps]

[gasps]

-Dawn? -I'm so happy to see you.

I'm happy to see you too.

But can you please get off of me?

[Dawn] You did it!

You had a breakthrough.

This is where the doors in our scars lead.

Yup. Total psych-out, huh?

Thought you'd see some pearly gates or something

but instead...

it's just a lot of trees.

It's just like Shakespeare said,

"All that lives must die passing through nature

to eternity."

Dawn, focus.

My friend Simon. Do you remember him?

The guy that could see you?

Sure I remember.

Dawn, please, you have to help me find him.

He's not even supposed to be here.

He's not even dead.

Didn't think I'd ever see you again,

especially since you made it back to your life.

How do you know that?

Janet.

If Janet's here, then maybe...

-Dawn, have you seen Wally? -No.

He has to be here. He has to be here somewhere.

I'll help, but you need to know,

this place isn't like what we're used to.

It doesn't really make much sense.

Honestly, at this point, nowhere does.

["Perfect Dark" by Flyte plays]

[Wally] Simon!

♪ Red door, back for more

♪ Down the stairs she wanders ♪

♪ She sells dizzy spells ♪

♪ Enough to put me under ♪

Simon!

♪ Eyes almost closing ♪

♪ Time's almost up ♪

♪ By the low moon of a bedroom ♪

♪ Making shadows ♪

♪ In a blackout I am trapped now ♪

♪ Nothing else matters ♪

[vocalization]

[Livia] What's happening to her?

[Xavier] Uh, just exhaustion.

She's been this way for a while.

Right. Uh...

Well, I hope she feels better.

Uh, hey, Livia?

Thank you for picking her up and bringing her here.

Who knows what would've happened

if you hadn't been out this morning.

I had a lot to think about.

And, uh...

you don't need to thank me.

It was the right thing to do.

Despite what you might think about me,

I do care about that.

[indistinct chatter in the distance]

[Dave] This has happened before?

Yeah, a couple of times.

But never this long.

[uneasy music playing]

Oh! And, uh, she's never been quite so active.

It's always when she has those visions, though.

[Dave sighs] sh*t.

I think we need to keep her moving.

Why?

If someone can get hopped into

under anesthesia,

well, then I'm guessing

whatever this is makes her vulnerable too.

[exhales] Okay.

[nervously] Hi.

We have toGodfather her.

-What? -You know, inThe Godfather

when they have to move Vito Corleone

around the hospital so he doesn't get assassinated?

You haven't seenThe Godfather, have you?

No.

[sighs]

-Lead the way. -Yeah.

Careful.

Okay. That's it.

You meanWeekend at Bernie's.

-[Dave] No. -[Xavier chuckles]

[tense music plays]

-Oh! She's here. -What?

Okay. Just... Remember we have all the proof.

Just stay calm and she can't worm her way out of this. Go!

Wait, wait, wait!

Ah, Dr. Hunter-Price.

I have a matter of some great importance to discuss with you.

[tense music plays]

Get out of my way!

I'm gonna get what I want today.

[indistinct chatter]

[tense music continues]

[ominous stinger]

[Dawn] It really does feel like a ghost town around here.

We see other people, but not all that often.

[Maddie] Dawn, I might've seen someone very bad

take a door to this place.

[Dawn] Are they looking for Simon, too?

What makes you think he's even here?

Janet calls this past the Ley Lines.

I call them ghost roads.

Simon.

[whispering voices]

[dark music plays]

[unsettling music plays]

[whispering voices]

[distorted whispers]

[ominous music plays]

[gasps, breathes nervously]

Simon?

Who are you?

How are you here?

Whoa, whoa.

It's me.

It's Janet.

[unsettling music plays]

-[Simon yelps] -Simon, no! Wait!

Simon! Wait!

[ominous music plays]

[indistinct chatter]

-Is she safe? -Yeah, for now.

I mean, Xavier says she's out of it, but she's okay.

[indistinct chatter]

Um, he said he's keeping an eye on her.

Okay, good. Good.

Now we can just focus on destroying

the Wicked Witch of Western Wisconsin.

And just do it, like, right here in front of everyone?

Yeah. I mean, what other choice do we have?

We can't get Deb alone, we can't trick it out of her.

Why not just show the receipts

and let the court of public opinion decide?

Right. Receipts.

[sighs] Here.

[suspenseful music plays]

[rustling]

[grunts]

[pants]

[static warbling]

[distorted chatter on radio]

[radio static]

[DJ on radio] You're tuned in to .,

Split River's rockingest station.

This next one goes to...

-[woman] Hi, Wally! -...our hometown hero,

Wally Clark,

who just last night led Split River High

to the regional championships.

Let's go, Devils!

♪ Shake it up, shake it up shake it up, shake it up ♪

[man] Wally, hey! Congrats on the game!

♪ Shake it up, shake it up Shake it up ♪

♪ City beat! Shake it up, shake it up ♪

♪ Shake it up, shake it up ♪

[students chatter indistinctly]

-[turns volume up] -♪ When the sun goes down ♪

♪ It's time to rock ♪

♪ And everybody's out on their feet ♪

♪ Then their steppin' in time to the latest tunes ♪

♪ And they're shakin' to the city beat ♪

[rock song echoes faintly]

Do you hear that?

Uh-oh.

"Uh-oh"? "Uh-oh" what?

That is a bad sound.

Someone's stuck.

Stuck? Stuck where?

♪ Shake it up, shake it up ♪

♪ Shake it up, shake it up ♪

[student ] Wally!

[student ] Looking good, Wally!

[student ] Yo, Wally! How's it going?

-[student ] Hi, Wally! -Hey!

[student ] How's it going, Wally?

♪ Shake it up ♪

[student ] Oh my God! It's Wally!

Wallster!

-Ooh! -Clark Man!

Clark Master!

-Ah! -Yeah!

[indistinct chatter]

You okay, bro? You look like you're gonna upchuck.

I was just worried about something,

but I totally forgot what it was.

[laughs] Hey, bro!

I thought we were gonna skip first

to crush some Slurpees!

-[makes punching sound] -[laughter]

-All right, get outta here! -Okay.

[Maddie]Wally?

[rock music fades]

["What a Life" by Rachel Chinouriri plays]

No! No! Don't get lost in there!

You have to come out.

♪ When you hold me in the moonlight ♪

Wally, come back!

Come back now!

♪ I start believing that it could be ♪

[breathing heavily]

♪ Something more than just a dream ♪

♪ What a life ♪

♪ What a life

♪ You're the only ground I need beneath my feet ♪

♪ What a life ♪

♪ What a life ♪

♪ You're the only place ♪

♪ I never want to leave ♪

♪ Wherever you go ♪

♪ Is wherever I'll be, yeah ♪

♪ Wherever you go ♪

♪ Is wherever I'll be ♪

[Dawn giggles]

I knew you two were an item.

[song fading]

Ow!

What are you doing here?

Well, I came here to find Simon,

but never in a million years

did I think I'd find you first.

What the f*ck was that?

I should've said before. Always stay away from mirrors.

And don't cross the river.

Unless you don't want to come back.

You got your door?

Until yesterday, I really wasn't planning on taking it.

But I had to try.

[Janet] Can you just stop for a second?

Whatever you're looking for, maybe I can help.

If...

If you just tell me what you're looking for. I...

Do you know?

Know what?

Who I am.

Do you know who I am?

Of course I do.

Do you... not?

Simon?

Please wait up!

Let's move on to special item number one.

Approval of two new equipment trailers

for the Horace Mann Middle School track and field team.

Now, I know we are all eager

to discuss the Split River High demolition proposal,

but bear with us while we address

-a couple of other items first. -[Deb] Oh, come on!

Do wereally need to rest on protocol?

We're voting for progress here, people!

Let's get on it!

[Nicole] No! We can't vote yet!

You have to give us a chance to defend this place.

-You can't skip us. -They're right.

What about public comment?

Oh, f*ck public comment!

[gasps]

We have a very compelling argument to make

and a lot of questions about what you're planning

to do with the site after the demolition.

And I think you have a special interest in that.

Right, Dr. Hunter-Price?

[scoffs]

[mocking chuckle]

[clears throat] Of course.

We will absolutely continue with public comment

once we finish with the agenda.

Would you like to go first, young lady?

Now, uh, quick review.

We are pleased to report that agenda items...

-[phone vibrates] -...passed unanimously

in last week's committee hearing.

We'll be sending hiring approval...

Hello?

[Sandra] Nicole, are you with Maddie?

I know there's the meeting at the school today,

but she hasn't been answering her calls.

I'm getting worried.

Um, yeah, she's good. She's-she's just, um...

Nicole, just say it.

Maddie and I had a talk last night,

and she told me everything.

I know the truth.

[tense music plays]

[sighs] She's okay, but she's at the hospital.

With her dad.

[exhales deeply]

[board member] Young lady,

we're ready for your comment.

-Um... Okay. -[mic feedback]

Uh...

I didn't actually think

I would be speaking today,

but... [sighs]

Screw it.

The truth is that none of this

was ever about a new school, okay?

It's not about better computers, or more space,

or new opportunities for the students of Split River.

This is about greed and corruption

and the unending cycle of bullshit

that we are finally putting an end to today.

[woman] That's right!

[people murmur]

[sighs]

[tense music plays]

We have proof that our superintendent,

Dr. Hunter-Price,

is destroying the school for her own gain.

-[murmurs] -And it says right here,

-she makes a huge profit... -I knew it.

...if she can deliver this demolition.

[suspenseful music plays]

Wait. Where did she go?

[indistinct chatter]

[board member] Ms. Price must've stepped away.

Let's continue with public comment, please.

[door closes]

[Yuri] Sorry, say that again.

Look, I mean, we just got some very big,

very shitty news,

and I just... I want you to see that

while I am, yes, still dealing with some difficult feelings,

I... I also can recognize that you might need a space

to, you know, freak out.

I'm not freaking out, really.

Yeah... No, and I can see that.

And that is, like, totally cool.

But you can... if you want.

I... I want to be here for you if that's...

if that's something that you need.

I know that I said that the way you feel things

sometimes make me feel--

Suffocated.

I'm not mad. I'm just relaying.

[chuckles] I'm trying is what I'm saying.

Can we just make a quick pact to just, um...

right now just really quickly promise each other

that if we do disappear into a state of oblivion

and-and we lose the ability to communicate using words...

Yeah?

...can we still hold hands sometimes?

I can think of a couple of other things we can do

-that won't require words. -[chuckles softly]

[sniffs]

Whoa! Okay.

Uh, no. Sorry, I just, um...

Do you smell that?

[eerie music plays]

I-It smells like...

Gasoline? Are you sure? I could barely smell anything.

Yeah, I'm sure but why would someone

take gas from the fallout shelter?

Doesn't gasoline expire?

Maybe the groundskeeper is gassing up the lawnmower.

There's a million things that need gas--

We need to find Rhonda and Quinn.

We need to tell them--

Watch where you're going!

Did... she just see us?

[unsettling music plays]

[ominous music plays]

[indistinct chatter in the distance]

Okay, um, let's go down to the cafeteria.

Lunch is over, so it'll be mostly empty.

What the hell is happening?

Don't panic, okay?

What's happening, Xavier?

[Xavier] I-I can't explain that right now.

-Uh, she-- -[Sandra] She told me.

She told me about the school, and her body, and her dad,

so just tell me the truth.

What is happening to her?

[Xavier] She's fine.

She's safe. We think.

We?

Yeah, we.

[tense music plays]

Oh.

Oh.

[tender music plays]

Dave?

[exhales deeply]

She told you about the visions?

Right?

We think she's trapped inside one of them.

She's been this way for a while.

[Dave sighs] There's got to be something we can do.

Maybe she-she went too far into one of those visions,

and, um...

The door.

She kept seeing a-a door in there.

Maybe she took it.

Find her.

Go find our girl.

I know what to do.

Tell her I'm gonna bring her back.

[suspenseful music plays]

[clacks]

Look, I know what we saw, okay?

That off-brand Elvira, she looked straight at us.

She-she talked to us. She had that ring.

But that would mean that...

It's Van Heidt.

Whoever it is, they are now very aware of us.

[Quinn] What is she doing?

Oh, sweet Jesus.

[menacing music plays]

[all] Oh!

Um... Wait, wait, wait.

I-Isn't the cafeteria right below...

[tense music plays]

[Yuri] Oh my God!

The library.

[board member] All right, we've heard from the opposition.

Now, we will give those in favor

of demolishing the high school a chance to speak.

[tense music plays]

[clanking]

[lock rattles]

I'll check the side entrance.

[Quinn panting]

Why would Van Heidt do this?

[Quinn] Get out of there!

-You have to call the police! -They can't hear us.

-We can't do anything. -Van Heidt just locked

every single person that could stop the demolition plan

-in a tinderbox. -And the school is destroyed...

We won't be able to stop them either.

We'll be forgotten.

And he'll finally have the land

he was so desperate for all those years ago.

They're all locked.

-[sighs] -We can't even warn them.

Yes...

We can. We can.

We can warn them.

We just need to go through the pool in the scar.

We'll be visible long enough to tell them to call for help.

You sure it'll take us to the library?

-All we can do is hope so. -What should we do?

See if you can find a way to stop the fire, even briefly.

And if we can't?

Then try and slow her down.

[metal clanking]

[laughs maniacally]

[Janet, distantly] Simon, get out of there!

[Janet speaks faintly]

Simon?

[Janet] Simon, please!

-Please, Simon! -Janet! Simon!

Wally?

Maddie?

This is impossible. This shouldn't be possible.

You found him.

Yes, but something's very wrong.

It's like he's forgetting things.

He doesn't remember me, he keeps asking me who he is.

[Maddie] Simon?

Simon, please look at me.

Who's that?

[whispering voices]

Simon's mom.

Simon.

Do you know who I am?

[unsettling music plays]

-Simon. -No, no!

No, Maddie, it's dangerous.

[Maddie] Simon.

I know you feel lost,

but I need you to snap out of it.

Listen to me, Simon.

You're Simon Elroy.

I'm Maddie Nears.

Look.

Try to remember.

No, stop!

[indistinct chatter on TV]

[man on TV] Oh , he can swim like a fish.

-[Wally] Maddie, what are you-- -Don't touch him!

-Why not? -Uh...

They entered a memory.

Like what happened to you back in the woods.

Like the scars at school.

Here, it's reflections.

And instead of being forced into our-our nightmares...

[Dawn] We get to see the good stuff.

Unfortunately, it's just as easy to get trapped

in the good memories as it is the bad ones.

There is a way to break through.

People we've lost or those we've left behind,

they can reach you, but you have to be listening.

[dramatic whoosh]

[woman screaming on TV]

[dark music plays on TV]

I love this movie.

[woman sobs]

[screams]

[dramatic music plays on TV]

I know.

Okay, you guys aren't babies anymore,

but it's your favorite night of the year,

so just humor me.

-Let me take some pictures. -Not now, Mom.

Okay, fine. I'm gonna stop bugging you.

But I am gonna get a photo before the end of the night.

[Maddie sighs]

Want some of this?

[Simon] No, I'm good.

[dark, dramatic music plays on TV]

[music stops]

[sniffles]

Maddie?

It's me.

I need you to come back.

Maddie? [voice echoes]

[Sandra] I'm making Rice Krispie Treats!

[door creaks, opens]

[Sandra's voice]Maddie, please.

Please come back.

[whispers] Do you hear that?

Mom?

Yeah, hon?

Nothing.

[tense music plays on TV]

Oh.

It's Halloween.

Last year, we were having a horror movie marathon.

You wanted to watch all the classics.

Okay.

Simon, this isn't real.

We have to go.

♪ Hold a breath in it ♪

[Wally] Maddie, please come back!

♪ Feel the heartbeat ♪

♪ Fall in love with it ♪

Maddie!

♪ For your body ♪

Simon? You have to come with me, Simon.

♪ Feel the heartbeat ♪

We have to make new memories now.

Ready?

♪ Feel the heartbeat ♪

[mirror shatters]

[both gasping, panting]

You're okay.

Okay. We're okay.

What's happening?

[breathing heavily] Listen to me.

You're Simon Elroy.

-[breathing heavily] -Remember.

[Maddie]You've lost yourself trying to save me.

Trying to save everyone.

Simon, this is real!

You couldn't have known all that without me.

Simon!

The minute you were born,

you were touched by death.

And that's a heavy thing to carry.

You belong back in your life.

In our life.

And I would rather die

than let you get lost here.

You're her best friend.

[Maddie]Come home to your family, Simon.

[suspenseful music plays]

Come home.

To me.

Maddie.

[sigh of relief]

[all sigh]

[indistinct chatter]

[unsettling music plays]

[breathes deeply]

[music distorts]

[dramatic music plays]

[indistinct chatter in the distance]

[Charley] This isn't working.

When we do it, it's not real water.

-Keep trying. -We have to hurry.

It's gonna spread. Why are none of the alarms going off?

When did the world get so lax on fire safety?

Wait, what about the reset rule?

What?

Maybe if we bring this stuff through the scar?

Holy sh*t. Do you think that might actually work?

Is that how this works?

[Yuri] It can't hurt to try.

[fire crackling]

[Mr. Martin] Oh.

f*ck. Um, okay, what do we do? Do we just jump in?

[Quinn] Will it even work without water?

[Mr. Martin] Ralph?

Ralph?

Ralph, Ralph!

Hi. Um, listen.

I need your help. We...

We need to get to the library.

Do you...

No, no, no. Ralph.

Can you help us?

Can you help us get to the library?

[water gushing]

[Quinn] It's filling up.

It was you?

Not the scar?

You sent us to the library these last few days.

You sent me to the bus stop?

Why did you send me there?

How?

[Joe]Stay with him while I get help.

-[voice echoing] -[thunder booms]

Don't let nothing happen to him, Everett!

[voice echoes]

Are you punishing me?

For leaving you alone?

I'm sorry, Ralph.

I am so sorry.

I-I didn't know any better. I was young, I was scared.

I was a coward.

You knew something bad was gonna happen at the bus.

Were you trying to... stop it?

He didn't want you guys to be alone.

He knew someone was gonna die.

It makes sense.

He couldn't stop it, but he could warn us.

And because of you, Mr. Martin,

none of us at Split River High

had to enter the afterlife alone.

Yeah, but Ralph...

I left him.

I left him to get snatched up by that monster.

And then he spent almost years in here...

by himself.

[foreboding music plays]

[gasps]

[gasps]

No.

[calm, haunting music plays]

He wasn't by himself.

[tense music plays]

Okay, uh, we should step on it.

The library's right above us.

Hey, Charley, why don't you choke on a--

Not now, dude. Not now.

Wait, do-do you smell that?

Oh, no.

-What? Does it smell of-- -I said, not now!

Okay? Back off!

I-Is the fire breaching the scars?

Like breaking the veil? Is that even possible?

Maybe let's not wait to find out.

Ralph, please. Can you help us get to the library?

They weren't kidding about that "only way out

is through" thing, were they?

-[rumbling] -[Ralph yelps]

[screams]

Is that from the fire in the school?

With all the trauma down here combined with--

-Ralph! -[screams]

-[debris clattering] -[groans]

Ralph.

Come on!

Go!

Are you coming?

I'm staying with my friend.

-[screams] -Go!

-[Rhonda] Go, go, go! -[debris clattering]

[board member] Board members, please respond

to the following motion

-with "aye" or a "nay." -[gasps]

[Quinn and Rhonda panting]

The superintendent set the cafeteria on fire!

You're all in danger!

Get the f*ck out of here now!

[people screaming]

[tense music plays]

[clamoring]

-[indistinct shouts] -[electricity crackles]

-[all screaming] -[alarm wails]

Yes. I need the fire department.

[clamoring]

[panicked screams]

[clanking]

Can't we just go back the way we came?

Use the doors we entered through?

If you can find yours, maybe.

But we haven't been able to find ours and we've tried.

This place, it's... it's a lot more topsy-turvy.

It's like being stuck inside a pinball machine.

So, what, there's no way out of here?

[indistinct kids' chatter]

[Simon] Look.

[faint shouts]

He did it. He made it back to them.

Whoa.

The pastor crossed over.

[kids chattering]

[Dave] Maddie?

Does anyone else hear that, or is that in my head too?

[Wally] No, I definitely heard that.

Dad?

Oh, my God.

[breathing heavily]

[Maddie] I missed you so much.

I know. I know.

I missed you too.

I'm here to take you home.

Okay?

Follow me. Ready?

Oh.

This door should get you back,

but you have to hurry.

[Maddie] That could work.

-[Dawn] Whoa, it's here. -Oh, my...

Huh?

[Wally] Whoa. W-Wait. Is this the way out?

Okay. You gotta go. You don't have much time.

Your body's been vacant too long.

[Maddie] Come on, everyone. Hurry. Come with us!

-No! -[door slams]

["Kollapse" by Jean Dawson plays]

♪ All the sweet ways you made it unfair ♪

♪ Did you ever stop and think I was right there? ♪

♪ Nothing was all I had ♪

♪ Split it every way so you could have half ♪

♪ Oh, the freeze frames of my good days ♪

♪ Every memory we ever made ♪

♪ Was far enough ♪

-[gasps] -Oh, thank God!

♪ To remind me what was us ♪

♪ Am I allowed to fall apart disintegrate? ♪

♪ It's all my fault ♪

♪ When all the sparks are not the fire ♪

♪ Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire ♪

♪ Am I allowed to build it up and burn it down? ♪

♪ All the dust without the sparks ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm the fire ♪

♪ Fire, fire, fire, fire ♪

Oh. [sobs]

[sniffles] Thank you, Mom.

[exhales] For what?

For helping me find my way back.

Where's Simon?

You found him?

Yeah, he was just with me.

[phone vibrates]

It's Nicole.

Maddie, do what you have to do,

but be careful.

Hey, uh, how are things at the school?

[tense music plays]

What?

[suspenseful music plays]

I can't believe this is working.

[Charley] I think the solution is also the problem.

What if the only reason that we can fight the fire

is because it's also burning in the ghost world?

I think that's a problem for later.

sh*t.

Hey, Charley?

What?

I really love you.

God, you have terrible timing.

I love you, too.

[door opens]

[suspenseful music plays]

[unsettling music plays]

[fire blazing]

You!

Don't try to run!

We know it's you.

It would be in your best interest

to let me by

and forget you ever saw me. [chuckles]

Do you honestly think we'd let you go?

After what you've done?

Do you know how many people you've hurt?

What you started here?

For the love of God,

I have been going for almost a century doing what I want,

going where I please...

[Van Heidt] ...with no one questioning

or interfering, and all of a sudden, what,

I'm supposed to give this all up?

Start over?

You already forced me to get rid

of what have become avery useful body.

It was working well for me,

and now you want to force me

to take "drastic measures."

[Van Heidt] All I've done is survive.

I'm gonna keep on doing it

until I'm damn well ready to stop!

You're just a coward.

Oh. A coward?

[scoffs] Perhaps when you're a little older,

you'll understand.

It's only the brave who fight and claw

andkill their way out!

And as for whatever you think I've done,

I promise you, I'd do it again...

over and over without a second thought.

This school is an error.

A reminder that I failed.

And I cannot wait to see it buried

beneath a thousand tons of dirt

along with that louse-infested church!

If you stand in my way,

I promise you...

you will regret it.

I will find you and everyone you love,

and I will bury them so far below this world

that they will forget what the sun even looks like!

You will stop me?

How do you plan on doing that?

[laughs]

-[clanks] -[Maddie gasps]

-Simon. -Simon?

[exhales] I guess I'm alive again.

♪ We were dancing

We're gonna need some help over here!

♪ Upon a fallen tree ♪

♪ Just two kids ♪

♪ With nowhere better to be ♪

♪ I remember lying ♪

♪ Lying through my teeth

♪ Loneliest September ♪

♪ Oh, the fallen leaves ♪

♪ It's a reckoning

♪ Only what they want ♪

♪ Inside my heart is a fire

♪ It's burning like a thousand suns ♪

[siren blaring]

♪ I'm running ♪

♪ I'm burning ♪

♪ I'm crashing ♪

[siren wailing]

♪ I'm living ♪

♪ I'm trying ♪

♪ I'm lying ♪

♪ I'm living ♪

♪ For myself ♪

♪ Even if nobody's watching me ♪

Maybe they should just tear it down.

♪ Even if nobody hears ♪

♪ A single note ♪

♪ Even if nobody is watching me ♪

♪ Oh, I'm singing it for myself ♪

♪ For myself ♪

[indistinct chatter]

What a day, am I right?

Yeah. Did that just happen?

What do we think happened to Mr. Monopoly over there?

What do you think he did with the real Deb?

I don't know, but I don't have a good feeling about it.

Hopefully, I knocked him into another plane of existence.

I'll be right back.

That guy, Van Heidt,

he threatened her.

He knows who we are.

Oh, yeah? Well, we know who he is.

Yeah, I'd like to see him try and come for us.

[Rhonda sighs] Well, she's certainly a fixer-upper.

[siren wailing]

Thank God you're here.

I'm so glad you're all okay.

[Rhonda] What happened?

[Maddie] I found where the doors lead, but...

I had to leave them there.

Wally, Janet, Dawn, and my dad.

[Nicole] Maddie!

I have to go, but I just wanted to make sure you guys were safe.

Sounds like we won't have school for a few days,

so I don't know when I'll be able to come back.

Don't worry, Cherry Pop. We're not going anywhere.

Couldn't even if we wanted to. [snickers]

[Quinn] Is anyone else really tired?

Like so tired, you could actually sleep?

Honestly, I could really go for a smoke right now.

I might join you.

[Yuri] The stoners always stash

joints in the greenhouse.

Jump the fence.

Take the shortcut.

Is Mr. Martin still inside the school?

We're gonna check. It'll be okay.

[mysterious music plays]

Guys?

Holy sh*t!

Did we bring down the boundary?

[Maddie] Women weren't even allowed to scream back then.

[Simon] What do you mean it isn't the best scary movie ever?

Zombies are literally way more terrifying when they're slow.

No, it's scarier if they're fast

because you can't outrun them.

Yes, but it's a creepy crawl.

No, that's an insane argument.

You will never convince me of this.

You okay?

Yeah, just got a little distracted.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know it feels like...

there's still a lot to undone, huh?

We're gonna figure it out.

But today school's closed,

there's nothing we can do.

So we're just gonna take our minds

off matters of life and death

and just... see a movie.

About death.

[Simon laughs]

["Who by Fire" by Leonard Cohen plays]

[Maddie laughs]

♪ And who by fire ♪

♪ Who by water ♪

♪ Who in the sunshine

♪ Who in the night time

♪ Who by high ordeal, who by common trial ♪

♪ Who in your merry merry month of May... ♪

You're home.

Yeah.

How was your day?

Good, great.

Is everything all right?

Yeah.

It's been a weird couple of days.

But I'll be okay.

Well, best to get some rest.

That's what I always say.

Good night, Mom.

Good night, dear.

♪ Who by avalanche ♪

♪ Who by powder ♪

♪ Who for his greed

♪ Who for his hunger

♪ And who shall I say ♪

♪ Is calling? ♪

[song ends]

[closing theme plays]