Episode 19: Just Another Sunday in Thornvale

## Synopsis

Henry practices his shooting. Sammie heads downtown with Elise and sees a strange hooded figure who only leaves behind a holographic card with a dove. Bjorn gets pressed for information by Holland, but doesn't give up anything for her to work with. He then talks with someone being held in a cell who claims to have been possessed while he allegedly punched his student, Caleb.

## Episode Description

It's just another Sunday in Thornvale, so of course there's supernatural insanity going on. Bjorn visits Captain Holland. Sammie is being followed. And Henry... Well, Henry is still a terrible shot.

## Key Events

* Sammie sees a cloaked figure in an alley, but they disappear before Sammie can reach them. They leave behind a holographic card with an image of a dove.
* Bjorn meets Cliff Watkins, who claims to have been possessed. The man says he saw something grinning at him before his memory lapsed and he found himself outside a bar.
* Caleb, a student of Cliff's, tells Bjorn that Mr. Watkins punched and harassed him, but that it's completely outside his character to do so.
* Caleb's younger brother says that he saw a grinning ghost when Cliff fell.

## Summary

Bjorn is stressed about the fact that Oliver has stolen his camera back. Bjorn tries to find out if Oliver has posted anything about what's happened on social media, but can only find that Oliver seems to be on vacation in Germany. Bjorn gets a call from Holland asking to meet her at her office and talk about what happened. Bjorn travels down to West Thornvale to pay her a visit.

Sammie is with Elise downtown. Elise has decided to get a tattoo and Sammie is more than happy to oblige. Sammie tattoos a bunch of sunflowers on Elise's ankle. While they are walking downtown, Sammie notices someone watching them from an alley. It's a woman wearing a dark hood that looks almost like her. Elise doesn't notice the woman, but Sammie goes to look in the alley. There is no one in the alley when they get there, but Sammie notices a small shimmering card that seems to have been dropped. She picks up the card, but all it shows is an image of a dove.

Henry does some target practice with Miguel. It doesn't go well. He practices shooting a hand gun and then switches to fireballs. He expresses to Miguel that he wants to be able to protect himself and his new teammates.

Once Bjorn arrives at the Thornvale Police Department in West Thornvale, Holland stacks binders and binders of paperwork on her desk and tells Bjorn this is all the paperwork she's had to do since he's gotten here. She demands to know what he's doing here and why she can't explain any of these events. Bjorn insists he is just doing his job addressing strange incidents and says they both know that Thornvale isn't quite normal. Holland says she's only lived here for a couple of months, so she doesn't know firsthand and has only heard rumors. She wants to hear it straight from Bjorn what's going on.

Bjorn says that normally rumors and stories have a source, they're based on something and don't just come from nowhere. Holland presses him further, using her cousin Maddie coming to her about a ghostly woman trying to kill her as an example. Bjorn says that he needs time to think about how to show her the truth of what's going on.

Before Bjorn can leave, Holland informs Bjorn there is a guy they have in a holding cell that claims he's been possessed and if he'd want to talk to him. Bjorn says that he'd be more than happy to talk with him. He's taken back to Cliff Watkin's cell. There are two younger boys sitting outside. They both look upset. One is a teenager with an ice pack on his eye, the other is much younger and is scribbling in a coloring book.

Inside the cell, Cliff says that he didn't hurt the kid and that it couldn't have been him. Bjorn says the kid looks pretty hurt. Cliff says that he doesn't remember anything, just that he was at home and then he suddenly found himself outside of a bar. He continues and says that he used to be an alcoholic, but he hasn't touched it for 10 years and would never go to a bar, much less punch one of his students. After some more pressure from Bjorn, Cliff admits that he thinks he saw something grinning behind him in his house before his lapse in memory.

Bjorn exits the cell to talk to Caleb and his younger brother. Caleb asks Bjorn if he can help keep his teacher, Cliff Watkins, out of jail. He explains further and says that Mr. Watkins has always been really nice to him and that he looked so confused after he fell that he doesn't think he meant to do it. His younger brother cuts in and says that he saw a ghost. Bjorn asks him what he means and the younger boy shows him the coloring book. He's coloring a page of a cartoon ghost on the sheet, but the boy has drawn a wide grin on it. He says he saw the ghost after Mr. Watkins 'fell over.' The younger boy offers him the drawing and Bjorn folds it up and puts it in his pocket before he walks away.

As Bjorn is leaving the station, he notices people running down the street shouting. Bjorn runs to where the people are running from. Sammie is also downtown and here's the commotion. Sammie and Bjorn arrive at the scene at the same time. They find themselves outside of West Thornvale Episcopal Church. A priest has emerged from the church. He is throwing bibles and hymnals at people in the streets, shouting about how everyone is demon possessed.

## List of Appearances

* Bjorn Olafson
* Captain Jolene Holland
* Sammie Overbrook
* Elise Romano
* Henry Marlowe
* Miguel Rodriguez
* Cliff Watkins
* Caleb
* Caleb's younger brother
* Father Michael Sanford (Possessed Priest)