School Spirits 2x1

1. Previously on School Spirits...

2. Hi Maddie.

3. Welcome to the Split River High Afterlife Support Group.

4. We're all just trying to cross over

5. I mean, Janet did it and she'd been here since 1960.

6. - Simon? - Maddie?

7. Can you see me?

8. Don't move Janet! No!

9. I've been here for 60 years.

10. So whatever you did to help Janet,

11. I want in.

12. This was the play that killed me.

13. Mr. Martin's been documenting our deaths.

14. He's been hoarding all the objects we had with us

15. when we died. Who else knows everything about us?

16. Hey stop!

17. Jacob! Call 911.

18. What is that?

19. That's the person who attacked Xavier tonight.

20. I don't know if this is real...

21. But you're alive, out there.

22. We need a name for the ticket.

23. Janet.

24. I know I can't explain what's going on but I am here, Simon.

25. You're not crazy!

26. - It's locked. - Maddie, be careful!

27. Please, you can't trust him.

28. Maddie!

29. You were there. You knew.

30. Maddie.

31. I saw you in the fallout shelter with her.

32. You, you were there the day I died.

33. You watched it happen. Why didn't you say anything?

34. I, I couldn't stop it.

35. It was her.

36. Mr. Martin, what happened to me?

37. - No. - Yes, Janet.

38. Yes, you know that!

39. You have to tell me exactly what happened.

40. I don't want to!

41. How did you feel?

42. - No, I didn't... - Yes. Yes, Janet.

43. Don't move, Janet. No! No!

44. No! No!

45. Janet?

46. Wait.

47. Janet?

48. Wait.

49. Maddie! Maddie!

50. Maddie!

51. Mr. Martin, you have to stop! You have to explain!

52. Mr. Martin?

53. Hey! Stop!

54. Come on, let's get out here.

55. Hurry up!

56. Where does this even go?

57. You don't, you don't understand.

58. None of you! You can't.

59. What do you mean? What's going on?

60. It wasn't meant to be this way.

61. Don't pursue this.

62. I wish I never had.

63. Hey. You okay?

64. Did you see where he went?

65. Did he say anything?

66. I know what happened to me.

67. Fuck!

68. Janet?

69. Wait.

70. Wait.

71. Janet. Wait. It's okay. It's me.

72. Janet, stop.

73. Stop!

74. Wait, wait, Janet.

75. Janet!

76. Janet. No! No!

77. Please! Don't leave me!

78. They only have decaf.

79. We should tell the cops.

80. Agreed.

81. Decaf's a crime.

82. No, Nicole, we should tell the cops it was Maddie.

83. We can't do that, not yet.

84. Oh, I'm sorry. Is next week better for you?

85. We don't know what's going on.

86. She looked terrified.

87. We need to find her, talk to her.

88. We did find her. And look what happened.

89. If we tell, we've ruined her life.

90. I mean, we don't know why she's been running.

91. We don't know if she's in danger, in trouble.

92. And if we go to the police,

93. how do we catch them up without exposing ourselves?

94. I mean, the only reason they haven't pointed a finger at you

95. or me for the blackmail and the missing money

96. is because the cops still think Maddie was responsible.

97. I agreed to help find the person

98. who hurt Maddie, okay?

99. And I was working under the assumption

100. that Maddie was dead.

101. Now we know we were wrong.

102. And, in fact, Maddie is the one hurting us.

103. And if she went for Xavier first,

104. who's to say she's not coming for me next?

105. Can we at least wait till Xavier wakes up?

106. I'm so sorry. You said she ran through you?

107. And Mr. Martin knew this whole time.

108. He was there and just watched it happen.

109. And then you ran over your ex with his truck?

110. No, that's what I'm saying, Wally.

111. That wasn't me. I didn't do that.

112. Simon showed me a photo of someone who looked just like me,

113. but it wasn't me.

114. The last thing I remember hearing

115. was Mr. Martin telling her to stop.

116. He said a name and it was definitely Janet.

117. But that doesn't make any sense

118. 'cause Janet crossed over, like, a year before you got here,

119. so she couldn't have had anything to do with it.

120. Unless he lied to us about that too.

121. Well, when Wally was Die Hard -ing

122. the door off downstairs,

123. I tried to grab what I could from inside,

124. but there's, there's some freaky stuff down there, Maddie.

125. Wait, Wally did what to the door?

126. Oh. Oh, yeah, it was super intense

127. and honestly, like, pretty hot,

128. but, yes, he went full-on meathead action hero

129. when he heard you shouting.

130. You know, it just sounded like you needed help,

131. so I helped.

132. Where is he now, Mr. Martin?

133. I don't know.

134. I lost him once he got onto the grounds.

135. He just vanished.

136. What, you think he hopped the fence?

137. No. There's no way he could've made it to the boundary

138. before I got there.

139. Yeah, and we know he can't leave the school.

140. Well, Janet did.

141. Wait, what was that thing that Dawn always talked about?

142. I don't know, what'd she call it, a "walk in"?

143. Yeah. She said, if you're really messed up,

144. it's like hanging a vacancy sign above your head.

145. We found a bunch of these down there.

146. Mr. Martin's been keeping tabs on us.

147. It's everything we've ever told him

148. in group or out.

149. And he's been collecting these things,

150. stuff we all had with us when we died.

151. Get them. Get everything.

152. You two search the fallout shelter

153. and get everything you can before he does.

154. Rhonda, we'll search the campus until we find him.

155. If Mr. Martin and Janet are the reason I'm here,

156. I wanna know why.

157. Twenty-minute stop.

158. Is there a place to call for a taxi cab here?

159. Ah. No, sorry, hun, no cabs are here.

160. Where you headed?

161. That's okay. I'll just hitchhike.

162. No. No, you don't wanna do that.

163. That's really dangerous.

164. You can try one of those apps.

165. Might take a beat for a car to get out this way,

166. but they come eventually.

167. Like, on your phone.

168. You okay, hun?

169. Do you need some help? Can I call somebody or...

170. Just this, please.

171. Ma'am.

172. This is starting to feel like a dead end.

173. We looked everywhere.

174. How are we supposed to find somebody

175. that doesn't wanna be found?

176. Make that two people who don't wanna be found.

177. There's something we're not understanding about this.

178. We're missing something.

179. Like what?

180. Gotta figure out how to flush him out into the open.

181. If he's gonna hide from us, maybe we have to coerce him.

182. With what?

183. Look, I don't know, Maddie, okay?

184. I'm grasping at straws here too.

185. Okay, well, what if that doesn't work?

186. Then I'll fucking force him out!

187. Okay, Rhonda, I'm angry too,

188. but we don't have to go to war with the tampons.

189. It's fine. They're no stranger to a bloodbath.

190. Besides, it'll just reset. See?

191. Oh, my God! Are you kidding me?

192. Walter, are you okay?

193. Are you serious right now?

194. Hey! There you guys are. What the hell?

195. Why aren't you down at the fallout shelter?

196. We got worried something happened?

197. Because the stupid door still won't open.

198. It doesn't make any sense. It should've reset by now.

199. Any sign of him?

200. No, we checked the east wing of the school but nothing.

201. Okay, well, I got fantastic news for you.

202. The hatch exit is off campus. It's right flippin' there!

203. He-Man over here hurried us out the back hatch,

204. but we didn't realize that we couldn't...

205. It's literally right there! We can't get to it!

206. Right. We all bounced back... God damn it.

207. Okay, so we're locked out.

208. You know, if you two hadn't been so rash,

209. I could've got to the bottom of this myself.

210. But you butted in and looked what happened?

211. Are you kidding me right now, Rhonda?

212. Yeah, I'm so sorry, Rhonda,

213. but maybe if you weren't snooping around

214. for the last few weeks and lying to us about it,

215. then we would've been able to help you.

216. Oh, really, Charley? You wanna call me a liar?

217. Who was one who decided to only grab his journal

218. when leaving the fallout shelter, huh?

219. Sounds pretty selfish to me.

220. I didn't know that we weren't gonna be able to get back in,

221. and for the record, I also grabbed

222. this creepy little leather bag,

223. so you're welcome for making sure

224. that we had something and not nothing.

225. Guys, enough.

226. Right now, all the evidence we have is locked up.

227. So we have to figure out how to get back

228. into the fallout shelter.

229. Wait, Maddie, you, you opened the door

230. when you heard Janet while you were still alive, right?

231. Yeah.

232. Okay, so maybe it takes a living person

233. to open this thing.

234. - We need him. - Who?

235. Simon.

236. That may be harder than it sounds.

237. You're not crazy.

238. You're not crazy.

239. Everything is fine.

240. So exactly what level of crazy

241. do you think he thinks he's at?

242. Like mini meltdown or...

243. No. Full mental breakdown.

244. Oh, okay. Awesome.

245. Simon, don't freak out. I can explain.

246. That was maybe just a little too much for a first attempt.

247. Hi. I get it. This is nuts,

248. but, please, the person that you saw is not me.

249. Her name is Janet Hamilton.

250. Simon!

251. Not a word.

252. Where are you going?

253. Uh, I checked the pool, the athletic complex,

254. nothing, so I thought I'd check the old meeting grounds.

255. Wait, shouldn't you be tailing Simon?

256. He's in Calc, and no one died there,

257. so I can't talk to him even if he'd let me.

258. He's avoiding me.

259. You okay?

260. Yeah, uh, just before you came here,

261. nothing ever really changed, you know?

262. Now it feels like everything has.

263. I guess things will just never really be the same, huh?

264. Probably not.

265. At least we never have to go back in there with him again.

266. Ah, man, what am I supposed to do with my time now?

267. Forty years of him saying, "Jump"

268. and me asking, "How high?"

269. I trusted him, you know?

270. He wasn't your coach, Wally.

271. Yeah. Right.

272. But what about you, though?

273. This is probably a lot to wrap your head around.

274. Uh, yeah. I never thought I'd have to consider

275. what it was like to have someone out there,

276. running around in my body.

277. Wait, does that mean that you're not dead?

278. Like, not really dead?

279. Sure looks like I am.

280. No, Maddie, does that mean you could go back to your life?

281. I don't know.

282. Well, would you?

283. Oh. You better go follow him.

284. Uh, keep me posted if you see you know who.

285. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

286. Where are you hiding, Mr. Martin?

287. Any idea when he'll wake up?

288. He's stable.

289. We've got him so he's comfortable.

290. With these kinds of injuries,

291. we just need to watch and wait.

292. But he's gonna be okay?

293. We were able to remove the intubation,

294. but we're keeping a close eye on his breathing.

295. Would you like me to send the doctor in or...

296. - Uh, no. - Okay.

297. Just hit this button if you need anything.

298. Okay.

299. - You okay? - Yeah.

300. My mom and stepdad just chewed my head off.

301. They're pissed.

302. They're asking more questions than the cops did.

303. Did you tell them anything?

304. No, Nicole, I didn't tell them anything.

305. But their questions were valid.

306. Like what?

307. Like what was I doing at an abandoned property

308. that they own in the middle of the night?

309. But my stepdad seemed more worried

310. about being held liable for an accident

311. than about my safety,

312. which is, you know, fucking typical.

313. Hey.

314. How's he doing?

315. Uh, still just watching and waiting.

316. Sheriff, are you okay? You look exhausted.

317. No offense.

318. Yeah, I've just been working all night,

319. trying to track down the bastard who did this to him.

320. There's still not much to go on, though.

321. Did you find anything?

322. Yeah, his truck.

323. We found it down on Lake Street,

324. a couple blocks from the bus station.

325. Don't, don't worry. We're gonna get this guy.

326. He can't run from us forever.

327. I agree, there is a lot of anxiety, Ms. Price.

328. But that's hardly surprising,

329. given the year the students have had so far.

330. I mean, two staff members gone

331. and, and a student possibly killed.

332. Well, I'm sure it wouldn't have to come to that, no.

333. Or, yes, you know, we have another pep rally.

334. I love the... Hello? Yes?

335. Are you, are you there?

336. I need my schedule changed.

337. Simon, we're halfway through the semester.

338. Mr. Hartman, I need my schedule changed.

339. I can't be in that classroom anymore.

340. Every day, all I can think about is Maddie.

341. It's causing me stress. It's affecting my work.

342. - I don't even... - All right, fine.

343. Just come to the desk. Come on.

344. Excuse me, ladies.

345. So, uh, all right, which class

346. do you need changed?

347. - English and history. - Mm-hmm.

348. And I'd prefer not to eat lunch in the cafeteria.

349. Smooth, Simon.

350. I'd like to ask your permission if I could eat in my car.

351. Simon, don't do this. You're being dumb.

352. Come on, Mr. Hartman, help me out here.

353. Simon, the classes are fine, but I cannot let you

354. eat in your car.

355. Uh. How about the greenhouse?

356. Mr. Copeland has been asking for help

357. to deter students who've been imbibing

358. in, uh, unapproved herbal substances, hmm,

359. in his free periods there.

360. So you could help deter.

361. Okay. Sounds good.

362. Perfect.

363. Ugh, that's not helpful at all.

364. God, it's so annoying that no one died here.

365. Now, I want you to know

366. that I am only doing this

367. you really helped me out this year,

368. bringing us that information on Mr. Anderson.

369. Yes, exactly. That was because of me.

370. Right. Happy to help.

371. Come on, Simon. How could this be fake

372. if that was real? There's your freaking proof.

373. Hello!

374. What the fuck is going on?

375. Can you see anything going on here?

376. Can you see me? Hello!

377. What the hell, Rhonda?

378. Do you understand anything out of my mouth?

379. Are you... Is anyone home?

380. How could you not have seen Mr. Martin?

381. What are you? Lawn ornaments?

382. Rhonda, what's going on?

383. They had to have seen something.

384. They were standing right here when he disappeared.

385. And I know they have mouths that work!

386. They never shut up with this stupid music!

387. Can't you see that everything is completely fucked?

388. Wake up!

389. Ten hut!

390. What's going on?

391. Is this about what Charley said earlier,

392. about you lying?

393. Why do you have to listen to everything Charley says?

394. I've tried every key in this building

395. and I can't unlock the fallout shelter.

396. Okay, we'll figure it out. But we're working on it.

397. Working on it?

398. Yeah, I thought I was working on it

399. and now we're in this mess.

400. I should've trusted my intuition.

401. - This is my fault. - This isn't your fault.

402. We'll do it together. We'll figure this out.

403. Oh, really, Pollyanna? We'll just figure it out?

404. Didn't seem like you were making

405. a ton of progress with Simon.

406. Hey, I'm just trying to help you.

407. - Don't lash out at me. - That is what I do.

408. I lash.

409. I should've learned my lesson before.

410. Never trust an authority figure.

411. They're all just wolves in sweater vests.

412. Look, I didn't know what else to do, okay?

413. I'm not you.

414. What does that mean?

415. You've been here a few weeks and you let everyone in.

416. I can't do that. I just can't.

417. The night of the homecoming dance,

418. I saw you and Wally.

419. It was such a strange feeling.

420. And I was happy for you both,

421. but, at the same time, I felt so lonely.

422. Lonelier than I've felt in lots of very lonely years.

423. Mr. Martin was off on his own,

424. working on something.

425. He had my acceptance letter to Berkeley.

426. The last time I saw it was right before I died.

427. Where did you get that?

428. Rhonda.

429. I apologize, I didn't, I didn't hear you come in.

430. Um, you're not at the dance.

431. That's mine. Why do you have it?

432. - How did you get that? - Rhonda.

433. I think you've made tremendous progress.

434. And, eventually, you'll be ready to move on

435. to, to more complex methods of research.

436. That's what this is.

437. No, not, not today, Rhonda.

438. Just trust me.

439. This is a little too advanced.

440. But I was desperate to know why he had my letter.

441. I thought maybe all I needed to do

442. was offer up a morsel, a little quid pro quo.

443. What kind of morsel.

444. Maddie can talk to him.

445. Her friend.

446. They've been talking for weeks.

447. He can see her.

448. Excuse me, Rhonda.

449. Why did you do that?

450. Well, I was right, wasn't I?

451. He was up to something.

452. Later, I followed him to the fallout shelter.

453. I found where he'd been keeping my letter

454. all other the other objects from our lives.

455. Sorry.

456. I just wanted answers.

457. So I stabbed you in the back like a freaking rat fink.

458. Yeah?

459. And what did that get you?

460. A whole lot of nothing.

461. Look, no more lies, no more secrets.

462. We've just gotta be able to trust each other.

463. Well, that's not my strong suit.

464. No shit.

465. Shouldn't we go back to the hospital or something?

466. Why are we stopping?

467. Why did you drag me out here to make a freaking phone call?

468. You saw it. The bus station is crawling with cops.

469. And we need to know if Maddie got on that bus, right?

470. Okay, well, I'll just call the bus company.

471. And why couldn't you do that from your cell?

472. Because I don't need my number

473. being traced back to this insanity.

474. Don't you think that's a little much?

475. I mean, does that thing even work?

476. What, you hate the idea? Fine.

477. I don't need your help with this.

478. Come on...

479. Hey this is Simon Elroy. You know what to do.

480. Simon. Call me. We have to talk. Please.

481. Oh, my God. They do a head count!

482. What?

483. When they let people on and off the bus,

484. there's a head count to make sure

485. no one gets left behind

486. during, like, bathroom breaks and whatever.

487. They said the last bus out of Split River

488. had one irregularity.

489. One person got off but didn't get back on

490. at a stop out in Bingham County,

491. a town called, um, Rockton.

492. Never heard of it.

493. It doesn't matter. You and Simon can go tomorrow.

494. Wait, tomorrow? Why not now?

495. Why don't we go?

496. Because I've already missed four classes

497. and my parents will go apeshit.

498. Besides, we don't even know if it was her yet.

499. And if it doesn't work, we are calling the police.

500. And hut.

501. Come on, Simon. Get in the game.

502. Oh, no. I'm out.

503. Who knew stalking someone could be so dull?

504. It's time for group.

505. I didn't know where else to go.

506. Mr. Martin has reduced me

507. to a cliche gay best friend lackey

508. with a low sense of self-worth

509. who he thinks he can control.

510. Is that, is that who I really am?

511. - No, Charley. - No.

512. Don't listen to anything that guy says.

513. Does it say something about me in there, though?

514. Oh, no, I'm sure he saved

515. all of his deeply cutting Wally digs

516. for your own unsolicited biography.

517. Probably never get to read that one.

518. What about in here?

519. Self-obsessed much?

520. What's this?

521. What are all these letters?

522. Is this some sort of messed up board game?

523. - No. - What?

524. Uh, meet me in the library, okay?

525. Take this.

526. It's a map. It's a death map.

527. Mr. Martin mapped out all the places we died.

528. Well, that's not creepy at all.

529. All right, Maddie, where here would Simon go

530. where he wouldn't know you could talk to him?

531. Because you could, you could corner him

532. and get him to listen.

533. Well, we've talked in almost all these places.

534. Who's Y?

535. wait, somebody died in the greenhouse?

536. Holy shit. Oh, my God.

537. Simon's spending his lunch hour in the greenhouse.

538. Okay, listen to me, Maddie,

539. whatever you do, you gotta make this count, all right?

540. This could be our last chance.

541. Anderson's phone code,

542. the band uniforms, the stolen money,

543. Simon, you couldn't have known all that without me.

544. The girl you saw in the world isn't me.

545. I know it sounds absolutely insane,

546. but that's a ghost who died in a fire here in 1958.

547. What's not working. Try a different approach.

548. My dad's funeral.

549. I know we never talked about it since.

550. But after you went up and saw him,

551. you told me that you would stay outside

552. in case I needed you.

553. You sat under that creepy birch tree.

554. And you wore that dumb yellow Tommy Bahama tie

555. your mom got you with the blue fish on it.

556. The one that made you look like you had a timeshare in Florida.

557. You stayed later than everyone.

558. Later than my extended relatives from Minnesota.

559. Later than the chaplain.

560. And I watched you from the window.

561. I couldn't come out and see you because I was scared

562. that I'd cry, and I thought I would never stop.

563. And when my mom told you you should go home,

564. you cried too.

565. That doesn't prove anything.

566. It's not privileged information.

567. I haven't forgotten any of that.

568. Her name is Janet Hamilton.

569. Fucking google it.

570. She's the reason I'm here.

571. I need you.

572. - Oh, there you are. - What?

573. Okay, I think that's a lot of attitude

574. for someone who hasn't responded to a single text

575. in over 24 hours.

576. You seriously have nothing to say

577. about the picture I sent you?

578. We saw Maddie.

579. What do you need, Nicole?

580. Claire's ready to go to the cops

581. and tell them what Maddie did last night,

582. so we have to convince her to chill

583. until we figure out what's going on.

584. That wasn't me, Simon. You know I wouldn't do that.

585. Turn her in.

586. What?

587. Quit dilly-dallying or your father

588. will have supper eaten

589. before we've even taken it off the stove.

590. Don't you dare.

591. Now get out of this kitchen

592. before I chase you out.

593. Careful, mother, that's not the way to teach Janet

594. how to properly treat guests.

595. You're hardly a guest. You eat here every Saturday.

596. Now shoo. You have a sermon to write.

597. Fine.

598. You're the only person on Earth who speaks to him like that.

599. Somebody has to.

600. While we have a moment of privacy, come here.

601. What's this?

602. I couldn't help myself.

603. I saw it in the wholesale catalogue

604. and I thought all it needs is a little embroidery work.

605. I know your parents aren't always supportive

606. of your interests,

607. but I will always be.

608. A lab coat.

609. I don't think father will like this.

610. Well, we'll just tell him it's an apron.

611. Now hurry.

612. Get the silverware out and set the table.

613. Can't leave your mother and brother waiting too long.

614. Thank you.

615. You might wanna wait till you grade it to thank me.

616. Okay.

617. I've been wanting to actually thank you

618. for, uh, homecoming,

619. for that letter that you found.

620. Yeah, I totally, totally forgot about that.

621. Well, I never will.

622. I lost someone when I was in school too.

623. That letter was from him.

624. Reading it was pretty surreal.

625. It's like my friend was right there with me.

626. Maybe what they say is true.

627. Maybe the dead never really leave us.

628. I'll see you tomorrow, Simon.

629. Okay.

630. Janet Hamilton.

631. Fire.

632. I really thought I'd be able to get through to him.

633. If I didn't have a low sense of self-worth before,

634. I definitely do now.

635. It's like my homecoming game all over again.

636. Called the wrong play.

637. Where the hell is Mr. Martin?

638. Where the hell is my body

639. It was blue.

640. The tie.

641. The fish were yellow.

642. You messed that part up.

643. Si...

644. I think about that day so much.

645. And if you are just in my head,

646. you would've gotten it right.

647. You just tell me how I can help.

648. I'll start on the far wall.

649. You coming?

650. Yeah. I just need a second.

651. I was scared you'd never talk to me again.

652. Codependent much? It was, like, a day.

653. Hey, guys, what are these?

654. Holy shit...

655. How long do you think she was down here?

656. Welcome to the waiting room. Have a seat.

657. This mythicalogical river is used by ghostly ferrymen

658. to transport souls of the dead to the underworld.

659. The answer is the River Styx.

660. Correct!

661. Eleven points.

662. You staying?

663. Get the crash cart!