Thorapy 2: Abandonment Issues
Jay gives Bela a job with the restaurant but tells the ghosts to spy on her since he can communicate with Sas. Meanwhile, Pete uses his ghost power to help Thorfinn reconcile with his abandonment as he prepares to mark a millennia as a ghost.
Bela’s Employment
The episode begins with Bela visiting Sam and Jay and revealing she’s been fired from a cat cafe. Jay comes in saying the person he hired to manage the restaurant and order inventory has flaked. Bela sees this as an opportunity to prove herself, but Jay is hesitant knowing her employment track record. Eventually, Jay agrees to give Bela a chance, but his dream about crashing a plane is seen as a metaphor for working with his sister. Sas can enter people’s dreams and talks to Jay who asks the Native American ghost to spy on Bela.
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Bela seems to be competent at the job until the ghosts notice that she has only ordered one pound of shrimp from the place Jay requested her to do so. Trevor jumps in and is able to get it to order the 100 pounds that Jay requested. However, when the shrimp arrives there’s 200 pounds. Bela explains that she ordered 100 pounds from a cheaper supplier that tastes the same and one pound from the expensive place to prove her point to Jay. Jay freaks out about the waste of money for the 200 pounds of shrimp.
Jay yells at Bayla who leaves but the ghosts explain to Sam what happened and now Jay feels awful for how he treated his sister. Bayla explains that she knows this is her brother’s dream, and she’ll do anything to help him achieve it. Jay accepts that she was right about the shrimp and offers the restaurant manager position on an interim basis.
Thorfinn’s Therapy
While all this is going on, Thorfinn is sinking into depression as the anniversary of his abandonment by his fellow Vikings approaches. He often causes the lights to flicker and cuts off Isaac’s hand. (The hand will grow back but this is far more violent than Thorfinn normally behaves.) When Thorfinn overreacts and fries Jay’s computer with everything he needs for the restaurant on it, Sam decides to have her therapist visit, so he can assist with Thorfinn through Sam.
After trying to compare being left in Target for an hour as a child to being left on a completely different continent during the early 1000s, Sam accidentally gives the therapist an idea. He tells her to seek closure by going back to the scene. Thorfinn can’t leave the property, but Pete can. The former travel agent sets up a scenario where Sam will be able to track him as he flies from the USA to Norway to visit Thorfinn’s village. Unfortunately, Bjorn, Thorfinn’s son who died on the neighboring property, tells them the Vikings had to move villages after Thorfinn never returned and Pete is going to the wrong place. Sam is able to hack into road signs in Norway (don’t really ask me how) to communicate with Pete on where to go.
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Pete finds a former member of Thorfinn’s Viking clan (played by former WWE star Paul “Big Show” Wight) who tells Pete the story. Pete starts disappearing but thinks he can make it back in plenty of time due to his travel agent training. Unfortunately, the day in question is a holiday in Norway that was established after Pete died, so he knew nothing of it. He has to find a new way to get home and relay what happened to Thorfinn.
Pete’s Return
The ghosts and Sam think Pete may have completely disappeared, but he ends up crawling through the front door with just one arm, his head and torso. He explains what happened and how he had to find a different ferry, fly into New Jersey instead of New York, ride a bus back to the nearest stop to Woodstone and then crawl back to the property. He even tells Sam she passes his torso in the driveway, and she admits she “may have been texting.”
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Pete tells Thorfinn the rest of the Vikings miscounted when they abandoned him because one guy was wearing a hat and then took it off. They were halfway back to Norway by the time they realized it and decided not to turn around. Thorfinn takes the abandonment hard, but eventually accepts that he has a found family with the rest of the ghosts, so he’s not alone.
Seeing the help that therapy and Pete’s efforts made for Thorfinn, the rest of the ghosts have a joint therapy session through Sam. Between their many issues, including struggles with learning they are Irish and being a virgin, which didn’t make sense since Sam is married, the therapist requests to see Sam more than once a week, and Alberta notes her insurance won’t cover that.
Rating
After last week’s slightly disappointing episode, this week’s episode reminded me why Ghosts is one of the best shows on network television. It hits with heart and humor that makes the ghosts more relatable to the viewers. Now that we know more about each of the ghosts’ pasts, it makes sense to see how their present and future will continue to impact the world of the living. Plus, Pete being able to leave the property opens up a wider range of storytelling like in this episode. More episodes like this and less like last week, please.
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Article Written By: Jeremy Brown for Stelmach Brown Media 2025
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