Pilot

**Pilot** is the first episode of Season 1 in the American sitcom *Ghosts* and the 1st episode overall. It premiered on October 7, 2021.

## Plot

At Woodstone Estate, an old woman is lying in her bed dying, while a group of ghosts surround her. It is not long until the woman's spirit leaves her body and she finally meets the ghostly residents. One of the ghosts, Hetty Woodstone introduces herself as the woman's "great-great-grandmother," while the other ghosts try to get friendly with her. However, the woman's spirit quickly departs to the afterlife, much to everyone's dismay. In New York, married couple freelance writer Sam and up-and-coming chef Jay are visiting a solicitor who had informed Sam that she has inherited an estate. As it turns out, the old woman was Sam's great-aunt Sophie, whom Sam once met as a child, and she is her aunt's only next of kin. Sam impulsively suggests that they keep the estate and turn it into a B&B (bed and breakfast), rather than selling it off as suggested. Even though Jay is hesitant, he reluctantly agrees to visit the property for the weekend.

Meanwhile, the ghosts are entertaining each other through show-and-tell until Thorfinn, the ghost of a viking warrior, spots Sam and Jay arriving in their car. Trevor, the ghost of a trouser-less businessman, is immediately smitten with Sam, while Isaac, the ghost of a soldier from the Revolutionary War, takes a fancy to Jay. The ghosts grow to like the couple until Sam reveals her ambitions to turn the estate into a hotel. This terrifies the ghosts, who decide to haunt the couple into leaving the property. It is revealed that Thorfinn can make lights flicker due to being killed after he was struck by lightning; Alberta, the ghost of a prohibition singer, can make her voice heard by the living through singing; Isaac produces an awful smell when he passes through the living due to death by dysentery; while Trevor can move objects with full concentration.

The next morning, the ghosts attempt to scare Jay with their powers, which ultimately fails. The couple then venture into the boiler room, where it is inhabited by victims from a cholera outbreak, in an attempt to fix the old boiler without much success. Later that day, Jay tells Sam that he does not want to move to Woodstone Estate and is not on board with the B&B plan. This enrages Sam, who storms out of the room only to end up tripping over a vase Trevor had just knocked off the table and takes a tumble down the stairs. As Jay rushes to help her, Sam spots Trevor and the ghost of a scoutmaster who was killed by an arrow through his neck named Pete, at the top of the stairs before losing consciousness. She is then rushed to the hospital. Seeing Sam's accident, the ghosts are reminded of how everyone around them felt when they died and how it feels to lose a loved one.

Two weeks later, Sam awakens from an induced coma and instead of returning to New York, Jay brings Sam back to Woodstone. This confuses Sam, and Jay reveals that while she was in a coma, he decided to fulfill her dreams to turn the property into a B&B and has spent all their savings to hire construction workers to begin renovations on the house. Despite her initial hesitance, Sam becomes overjoyed and makes up with Jay. Hetty, Isaac and Thorfinn are appalled to see the construction workers as the couple return inside. Sam suddenly spots Trevor, and thinking he's one of the workers, she compliments him. This shocks and excites Trevor, who immediately rushes to inform his ghostly companions that Sam saw and spoke to him. Upstairs, Jay takes Sam into their master bedroom which he redecorated to how she had wanted it. However, Sam's excitement is short-lived when the ghosts appear before her. The episode ends with Sam spotting Crash's decapitated body, the ghost of a 1950s grifter who somehow got beheaded, and screaming.

## Quotes

*[First lines of the series]*
**Trevor**: It won't be long now.
**Alberta**: At least she's comfortable.
**Pete**: There's definitely worse ways to go.
**Alberta**: Amen.

**Isaac**: We are ghosts. While most spirits pass on to the afterlife, we are the unfortunate few cursed to spend eternity... Oh, and she's gone.

**Isaac**: We are ghosts, those poor spirits who dwell on, compelled for reasons unknown to...
*[Crash is headless. Samantha screams in terror.]*
*[final lines]*
## Cast

### Main cast

* Rose McIver as Samantha Arondekar
* Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay Arondekar
* Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac
* Danielle Pinnock as Alberta
* Richie Moriarty as Pete
* Asher Grodman as Trevor
* Sheila Carrasco as Flower
* Devan Chandler Long as Thorfinn
* Rebecca Wisocky as Hetty
* Román Zaragoza as Sasappis

### Guest cast

* Hudson Thames as Crash
* Tacey Adams as Mrs. Brimble
* Sean Whalen as William
* P.J. Byrne as Lawyer
* David Chan as Doctor
* Mark Holzum as Honeymoon Male
* Megan Littler as Honeymoon Female

## Trivia

* This is the only episode where Sophia Woodstone is seen alive and as a ghost.
* This is one of the few episodes where Crash appears.
* Sasappis wears a different costume - his right shoulder is shown in the original outfit which changes in later episodes.
* Early versions of the script are different then what was filmed:
	+ Flower introduces herself by Susan
	+ The family name wasn't originally Woodstone
	+ Jay's name was Ryan
* Pop culture include: Alberta sings "Amazing Grace", Trevor shares a story about Tara Reid, Sam says she "feels like Joanna Gaines", Pete wanted Alberta to hum the theme of "Ghost", and Jay shouts the show "Love It or List It" as Sam walks away.
* This is one of the view times the affect of the ghosts walking through things is shown.
* Trevor is first revealed said to be the most recently deceased ghost.
* The ghosts have a food club which Pete runs.
* This is the first time it's established getting walked through is painful.

## References

1. ↑ https://thescriptlab.com/wp-content/uploads/scripts/55557-Ghosts-Pilot-by-Joe-Portman-and-Joe-Wiseman-04-28-20.pdf