Secrets of Sulphur Springs S2 E1

## Plot

We start with a brief recap of season 1. While Sarah is upstairs, she hears a woman humming *Amazing Grace* and sees the shadow of the rocking chair, which is moving on its own, but then it stops. Ben accidentally scares her when she turns around. The camera focused on the door to room 205. I thought the humming was a brilliant bait and switch, since I thought it was just non-diegetic creepy music at first to build up a spooky atmosphere, and Sarah was only noticing the chair and hearing it creak, but then Sarah confirmed in a later scene that, just like the out of universe audience, she heard the humming too, proving that it was actually diegetic, much like Savannah singing in the previous season was also an example of diegetic sound. Picking up on the cliffhanger at the end of season 1, the man upstairs asks the 1930s girl, Daisy, if it's her. Harper, Griffin, and Savannah run past her and a little boy, who drops a box he was carrying. Daisy tells the boy, Sam, that the girl looked just like her, and he runs off after them, dropping a book he was holding as he does so. Her father comes out and tells her that he's probably just going to do his chores. They pick up his things, including the book *Tales of Space and Time* by H.G. Wells. Sam runs after our main characters, but they make it to the hatch before he can find them, and it disappears, since it hasn't been created yet. However, he finds a bracelet with a star on it that Harper dropped. The intro sequence has changed to show new things. You can tell that the child actors have grown up, since Preston's voice sounds deeper, or at least it does to me. The man in the rocking chair must be the ghost haunting the hotel. Harper doesn't know much about her family. After her dad died, her mom didn't talk about him or his side of the family. All she knows is that they met on the last day of camp. Savannah remembers that the camp is opening today back in her time, and she's supposed to be helping everyone get settled in. She's going to be a junior counselor. Now she'll be the one scaring everyone with tales of Moss Man. She sets the radio to 1962. This doesn't have to be goodbye. There could be a clue in 1962 about the ghost of the rocking chair man and why he's haunting the hotel. She can send them a message if she finds anything, but too many people know about the treehouse, so they decide on hiding it under a floorboard in the basement at the bottom of the stairs. Sarah and Ben are moving the rocking chair back to where it was as the twins tell them everything. Ben tells them that Griffin was probably just messing with them as he shows up. Sarah wants to get rid of the mirror, but Griffin convinces Ben to put it in the basement instead. Once they leave, the chair starts rocking again. Harper helps her mom fold laundry in the garage and starts asking questions about the paternal side of her family. Her grandmother Marie saved *everything*. After she died, it took Chris almost three whole months to clean out her house. Everything is in a large trunk for the kids when they got older. Harper opens it and finds a wooden box with the letter S on it, for Sam. Savannah starts telling the campers about Moss Man when they hear something. She goes to check it out, and the kids run away instead of staying put. She finds footprints on the ground. The Campbells are putting wallpaper up, but they're down to only two rolls, and they're all out of paste. The others go get ice cream, and Griffin tries talking to the ghost in the basement, but nothing happens. Harper calls him. Daisy was her great grandmother, and Sam was her little brother. The rocking chair man was Elijah Tremont, their father. The hotel and camp were named after him. She found her bracelet with Sam's things. It's crazy to think that something of hers was passed down through her family decades before she was even born. The ghost leaves a message in the mirror: Go back, as in, go back in time. The Campbells tell Jess that they're staying in Sulphur Springs. The twins leave to tell Topher and talk to him about the mirror. Jess still thinks that the hotel is haunted, but Ben doesn't believe it. Sarah tells them about the woman humming *Amazing Grace*. It came from Griffin's room, and he didn't leave any music on. They can't afford another place. Opening the hotel is their only option. Griffin stares at Harper again after she changes into an era appropriate dress. It was her grandmother's wedding dress. The ship tease between our two leads is slightly more blatant this time around. They go back to 1930 and see a woman humming *Amazing Grace*. She's in the springs, looking for something. The wet footprints from the season 1 finale could've been hers. In 1962, two campers and a counselor are playing when they accidentally break a vase. Caroline tells Savannah that there's a broom in the basement. When she heads down to get one, she hides when a man comes down, drops what is supposed to be moss on the floor, and heads back upstairs, all without saying a word. He left wet footprints on the ground. The ones from the season 1 finale could've been his. Savannah thinks it was Moss Man. When the Campbells get back, they see that some of the wallpaper fell down. Wyatt and Zoey know that the ghost must've done it. Harper and Griffin follow the woman back to the farm, and they listen to Elijah, Daisy, and Sam eating dinner. They've found people wandering around the farm before, but Daisy says these people were different. The only reason someone would be looking around here is because of the springs. They probably thought that they were special, like their mother did, but Elijah says they aren't. Sam thinks the kids were from outer space, and points out the star on Harper's bracelet. She and Griffin start to leave, but then they see the woman again on the top floor. She's looking right at them. She suddenly screams and disappears, which means that she's the actual ghost haunting the hotel. They find her grave on the way back. Grace Tremont, who was Elijah's wife, Daisy and Sam's mother, and Harper's great great grandmother, was born in 1894 and died in 1929. Damn. 35 is really young. The wet footprints from the previous season were likely hers, just like how it was her ghost rocking the chair, not Elijah.