Field of Screams
Janet is proving to be more unstable than previously thought as she inhabits Maddie’s body. Meanwhile, Simon reveals he’s been communicating with Maddie but only Xavier believes him. And the spirits learn more about what Janet and Mr. Martin were working on together.
Janet Returns Home
The episode begins with Janet waking up in her own grave and seeing Mr. Martin standing over her. This turns out to be a hallucination. Janet finds some mystery meat in the shed and heads back into the house where she relives her past when her father would try to stop her from pursuing her college dreams because she should be focused on finding a husband and making a good home. She hears someone coming into the house and she goes to hide underneath the stairs.
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Later, Janet also remembers a time when she stayed late at school, and Mr. Martin drove her home. That incident led to her father threatening her teacher. Meanwhile, Janet, in Maddie’s body, thinks she sees her father outside working on the land at the home. Janet decides to set fire to the house hinting that she may be far more emotionally disturbed than originally thought.
Spiritual Investigation
Back at the school, the spirits continue trying to figure out where Mr. Martin is. One of the band spirits, named Quinn, who has been playing their fight song for decades since dying in a bus crash returning from a competition, wakes up and comes to speak to Wally, Rhonda and Charlie. They look at the map Wally found of the places where people died on the campus and determine the “Y” over the greenhouse stands for Yuri, a believed Russian spirit constantly working at a pottery wheel.
They try to get information from Yuri who doesn’t speak until only Charlie is left. The other spirits thought Yuri only spoke Russian but he speaks in perfect English to Charlie, revealing that he is half American and half Russian and also that Janet used to work on pottery with him. He reveals his disdain for Mr. Martin because he has accepted he’s stuck as a spirit and doesn’t intend to “cross over.”
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However, some of the pottery Janet made reveals a notebook that Mr. Martin had been keeping on Janet like he had the others. Quinn was able to decipher the shorthand to reveal that some of it is written by Mr. Martin and some of it by Janet and at one point, they were working together. While this is going on, Wally spots Mr. Martin in the hallway with a bright red light behind him. Mr. Martin runs into a classroom but when Wally follows he can’t find him. Wally returns to the group to tell them what he saw, and while relaying this, Quinn learns where Janet lived allowing Maddie to give this lead to Simon in the corporeal world.
Simon’s Revelation
At the hospital, Xavier is set to be released, meanwhile Nicole and Claire are still at odds about whether to turn in the person they saw who looks like Maddie. Claire wants to turn her in but Maddie doesn’t. Simon reveals that it’s not really Maddie but Janet because he has been talking to Maddie’s spirit at the school. Neither Claire nor Nicole believe him, but Xavier lets it be known right away that he believes Simon, although he doesn’t explain what he saw when his spirit momentarily left his body while he was in a coma.
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Xavier’s father talks to his principal about letting him work from home since he’s still feeling the effects from a concussion associated with being run over. However, Xavier asks to work in the school library instead. He’s also communicating on ghost web boards as he’s trying to piece together what he saw in “the waiting room.”
Meanwhile, Simon and Nicole go to investigate where Maddie/Janet got off the bus and while Nicole keeps pushing back against Simon, she eventually begins her own investigation into spiritual possession. It appears Simon is winning her over. Meanwhile, Maddie tells Simon about where Janet once lived. Simon and Xavier head out to check it out and arrive to find the home ablaze with both of them fearing that Janet may not have been able to handle life in modern times and tried to die in a fire for the second time.
Rating
This show is getting unhinged in the best way possible. What started as a fun murder mystery has turned into a possession thriller with a suspect who is losing what little grip she had on reality. Meanwhile, Simon’s revelation is testing everyone’s belief system.
Simon points out to Nicole that both were raised Catholic and to believe in purgatory, so why isn’t spiritual possession possible? Xavier has seen spirits in the hospital, so he knows Simon is telling the truth, but he’s still not revealing why he believes Simon. And Claire is struggling with her past friendship with Maddie, her struggles with the cheerleading squad and her family problems that lead to her seeking to stay with Nicole for a little while as she runs away from home. The series walks the line between religious and secular with a great push toward spirituality and belief in ghosts.
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Article Written By: Jeremy Brown for Stelmach Brown Media 2025
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