Secrets of Sulphur Springs S3 E6

## Plot

Jess comes in and asks Sarah what happened when she sees the broken vase. Sarah claims that it fell while she was straightening up, but she immediately confesses to the lie. She's been trying so hard to pretend that she's fine so she doesn't worry anyone. Griffin points out that they don't know for sure that Ruby killed the judge, but they both saw her run out of here alone. They need to go after her, before someone finds them and thinks *they're* responsible. Yeah, Ruby is obviously innocent. Someone else is in the room, hiding behind the door, which Harper seems to sense, but doesn't dwell on. They find Ruby crying and telling her mother that she didn't mean for this to happen. Daisy says she'll take care of everything. She covered it up to protect her daughter, and everyone in town must've assumed that the judge ran off with their money. Maybe that's why he's so angry. No one knows the truth about how he died. Speaking of which, the kids realize that the year on Griffin's tombstone was 2020, which means it might already be too late. Savannah doesn't believe that. They just have to find Griffin and Harper and tell them what they saw. They think this is what Griffin meant when he said lives are at stake, but Savannah reveals that originally, Topher was in a coma in 2024. Griffin and Harper get back, and the twins hug Griffin when they realize that he's alive. Everyone exchanges information. Judge Walker isn't just speeding things up. He's changing things too, to make the future even worse. They can't tell each other everything here, since he could be listening in on them. Savannah will stay in 2020 and sleep on a cot in the bunker for now. Jess suggests that Sarah go upstairs and rest, but she refuses, since the ghost visits her whenever she's alone, and with Ben gone… They decide to have a sleepover tonight. Sam wants Savannah to go home, but she refuses to leave while her friends are in danger. As for him, he has his own ways of staying out of sight. She promises to stay safe, but tells him that as long as he's looking after her, she knows she'll be okay. Harper tells Griffin that they won't let him die. She doesn't want to see any future that doesn't have him in it. He decides to sleep with his mom tonight. Harper isn't getting any sleep. The ghost wakes them up and once again says "You'll pay for what you did." Griffin and Sarah both hear it. Sarah thinks that he's holding her hand too tight, but he turns on a light and tells his mom that he's not holding her hand at all. It turns out that Jess heard it too. It's all real. Ben finally returns on the morning of day 3 of the season. Everyone is in Griffin's room, and the adults step outside to talk. Sam scolds Savannah for going outside when she's supposed to be laying low. She thought she could grab breakfast before anyone else woke up. They hear Ben, Jess, and Sarah talk about the ghost. They decide to close the hotel for everyone's safety. Savannah will tell Griffin and Harper that they're running out of time to stop the bad future while Sam tries to keep the judge out of the way. He knows how he thinks. It doesn't make sense for the judge to go after the Campbells, since they had nothing to do with his death. Harper is starting to doubt that Ruby killed him. She thought she felt another presence last night in room 205 with them. At the time, she thought she was just being paranoid, and then they heard Ruby confess… or did they? She didn't actually say that she did anything. They decide to go back to 1947 one more time. They need the whole truth before they can confront the ghost. It's the only way to end this before he can kill Griffin. Savannah tells them about their parents closing the hotel today. Sam enters room 205 and tells the judge that he doesn't have to throw him around again, because he just came to talk. They've had their issues in the past, but he understands him better now, in ways no one else can. Sarah sees him, but when she turns away to talk to some other guests briefly, he disappears. The twins and Topher decide to get help from a professional. They bike to a swamp. An old woman named Madame Levereaux lives there. When Topher was doing his research on the paranormal, this place popped up on all the message boards. Supposedly, this is where you go if you need help with any supernatural problem. It turns out that Madame Levereaux is an elderly Ruby. And yet, despite being related to Marie, Chris, Harper, and Topher, she presumably had little to no contact with any of them, and Harper and Topher have never heard of or from their great-aunt that also still lives in Sulphur Springs. She throws the kids out when they reveal that their problem is that Judge Walker is haunting the Tremont, and he's after their brother. She recognizes Sarah's hairpin, which Zoey is still wearing, but she doesn't ask about it. Daisy talks to the sheriff. Mrs. Walker told him that her husband never came home last night. He thinks he just had business to attend to, but he thought he'd come by just in case. Savannah, Harper, and Griffin meet up with Ruby, who is hiding in the barn. They know she didn't hurt the judge, but the sheriff would never believe someone like her. She went to his room and told him that she knew about the stolen money and where it was. He was going to kill her to keep that information secret, but before he could, someone else hit him in back of the head with a vase. It was his own wife, which was foreshadowed in the previous episode, when he told the sheriff that his wife would kill him if he gave anyone her family recipe for beignets. That's not why he was killed though. Hay and tools start flying around, so they all leave, and Ruby learns about the judge's ghost when the others talk about it in front of her. Harper sensed his wife in the room last night. Ruby points her out. She looks exactly like Sarah, and has the same hairpin. This is a bit off-topic, but remember back in season 1 when I mentioned that there might have been colorism with the actress for young Jess, who had a lighter skin tone than the one who played the adult version of her? I think the same problem occurred in seasons 2 and 3, with the actors for young Sam and Ruby compared to their adult counterparts. I'm not sure about Daisy. It could also have something to do with the lighting of certain scenes, or their makeup, but the fact that this has happened at least once in every season so far makes it seem less like an accident and more like an intentional decision, which is just awful.