Time to Face the Music

**"Time to Face the Music"** is the fourth episode in Season 1 of *Secrets of Sulphur Springs.* It premiered on January 22, 2021 to 0.40 million viewers.

## Plot

Harper and Griffin learn that Young Jess rigged the talent show out of her hatred for Savannah, and they vow to go back and stop Jess from causing Savannah's disappearance.

## Episode Summary

The episode starts with Ben trying to fix an old lamp post in front of the Tremont Hotel. He calls out Griffin to help him, but Griffin is in a hurry because he agreed to meet Harper at the portal. Suddenly, a black car drives up in front of the property, and an older man steps out. Griffin runs towards him, revealing that he is his Grandpa (Bennett Sr.) Grandpa doesn't want Ben at the Tremont, thinking that he is too stuck in the past.

The scene cuts to the twins in the basement. Wyatt is digging head-first into a cardboard box. Zoey nags at him to hurry up. She gets an uneasy feeling. Wyatt comes out of the box and exclaims that he's found *it,* which is an old camcorder. They see a shadow gaining upon and scream, only to see that it is Harper, looking for Griffin. They say that they will use the camcorder to catch Savannah's ghost on camera, but they're unable to figure out of it works. Harper offers her brother's help and gestures them to leave. While they are exiting, Griffin comes in. The twins make a deal with him that they won't tell their mom if he doesn't.

They wait until they leave and hear the door close. The friends agree that they must be more careful. Then the camera cuts to the camp. Dressed in retro clothes, Griffin and Harper sneak behind a tree to find Savannah and Jess arguing. Once stop arguing and storm off, they decide to go meet up with their parents. First, Griffin goes to see his dad, who's playing his guitar in his cabin. He asks if Ben is going to the dance with Savannah, which he puts down. Then, he offers to help him write a song, to which he happily agrees. Harper goes to Jess's cabin, where she's painting her nails a bright purple. Harper asks her if she is jealous of Savannah and Ben, which she quickly declines.

Griffin and Harper walk back to the portal. They get into an argument about Griffin not taking the questioning seriously. The scene cuts to Griffin walking to the dinner table. His mom asks him where he's been, and he says he's been doing homework. Grandpa praises him for that but belittles Ben for not doing the same. Then, Sarah notices the twins hiding something under the table. They bring out the camcorder they found. Grandpa asks what they're planning to film with the old recorder. "Savannah's ghost," they joyfully declared. Everyone at the table looks over at Ben, who uneasily tells the kids to stop talking about ghosts.

Then the scene cuts to Harper's room, where she is painting. Her mom walks in, recognizing that Harper didn't say much at dinner. She asks Jess if her first crush made her crazy, which she concurred. Then she asks how it ended. "It ended the way all crushes do, with someone getting crushed." Griffin comes outside the Tremont to find his Grandpa standing outside. He asks why his Grandpa is so mad at his father for coming back to the Tremont, and he says that he thinks the place is old and filled with disappointing memories. When Griffin asks what type of disappointing memories, he quickly ceased the question. "The past stays in the past best to leave it there."

Sarah and the twins enter the Dunn Cafe, where Topher is sitting there, eating what appears to be a salad. They ask him if he can help them with their camcorder. He explains what they need to do to catch her ghost on camera but gets cut off by the camera switching over to Jess. Sarah elaborates how Griffin and Harper have a poor influence on each other, and the two moms agree that they should separate their children.

Griffin walks over to Harper, and they agree that the argument has resolved and that they work better as a team. Then she says that she'd bribed Topher into giving them sick notes at the office so they can skip school and go back to the portal. When they arrive at the Tremont, there is a talent show taking place. Young Ben walks up to the stage to play a song on his guitar but instead plays the melody he and Griffin wrote together. In the middle of his performance, he gets distracted by his father in the crowd and messes up. He leaves. Young Jess announces that it's Savannah's turn. She sings the song that Griffin heard in the secret room, but with a twist to it. Jess then declares that it's time for everyone to cast their votes for who should win. Everyone is sure Savannah would win, but Griffin knows that she won't because in *Once Upon a Time* he saw a picture of his father holding a trophy.

Sarah walks up to Older Ben, who's fixing a vent in the floor. She tells him about Jess agreeing to separate the two friends. Then she goes over to Wyatt and Zoey in front of the secret room. They place the camcorder on a stack of books to catch Savannah's ghost. Sarah tells them to leave and that the area is off-limits. She peers into the secret room and feels one of the cold spots.

Young Jess announces that Ben is the champion of the talent show. Griffin and Harper theorize that maybe Jess had somehow rigged the results. They go back through the portal. Griffin briefly talks with his father about his Grandpa, who had already left for Chicago. Harper also speaks with her mother, with the suspicions that she had rigged the results 30 years ago. The two friends then video call each other but get interrupted by their mothers coming in the room and grounding them for skipping school.

Young Savannah, Ben, and Jess are all standing in front of a banner advertising the camp dance. Savannah says that she's thinking of skipping it, but Jess quickly tells her that she has to go, ominously telling her that it'll be a night to remember.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Preston Oliver as Griffin Campbell
* Kyliegh Curran as Harper Dunn
* Elle Graham as Savannah
* Kelly Frye as Sarah Campbell
* Josh Braaten as Ben Campbell
* Landon Gordon as Wyatt Campbell
* Madeleine McGraw as Zoey Campbell

### Recurring Cast

* Jake Melrose as Young Ben
* Bryant Tardy as Topher
* Diandra Lyle as Jess Dunn
* Izabela Rose as Young Jess
* Jim Gleason as Bennett Sr.

## Trivia

* The title of this episode is a reference to the phrase used when someone has to voluntarily confess to a wrongdoing and accept the resulting punishment.
* Ben used to work at a law firm back in Chicago.
* Jess says that Savannah is an orphan, but it is unclear if she was just making fun of her.
* When Griffin came outside of the Tremont to talk to Grandpa, he looked like he was leaving for school, meaning that Topher and the twins go to school at a different time.
* When Sarah and the twins go to the Cafe, it is raining outside, but when Griffin and Harper are in the frame, it's clear and sunny.
* The original song Ben was supposed to play at the talent show was called Greensleeves.
* Ben says the camp dance was the last big event of the summer, but Harper and Griffin are already back at school.
* This is one of the 3 episodes that has the word "time" at the start of it, including *Time Warped* and *Time After Time*.