Secrets of Sulphur Springs S1 E10

## Plot

Continuing where the previous episode left off, Harper pushes the button on the radio, which reveals a combination lock with four Roman numerals on it. It's set to 1990. This is how they control what year they go to. Griffin sets it to 1962, but nothing happens until Harper hits the radio, which makes it work. Sarah hears Ben talking to his dad over the phone. He admits that he was right, it was a mistake to move there, but they can move back to Chicago and he can have his old job at the firm back by the end of the week. His father is always right. Jess and Topher look at old family pictures together. There's one of them with Chris's prized 1967 yellow GTO. He was planning to sell it, but never told his wife why. He was driving it when he got into the fatal accident though. He used to go for drives around the Tremont. Back in 1962, Griffin hopes they won't stick out too much, but Harper seems worried. An African-American staff member tells them that she can't enter the hotel, so she decides to leave. Griffin doesn't understand, but Harper points out that it's 1962, and they're in Louisiana. They won't let her in because she's black. Griffin says she's his best friend, and the porter seems glad for him, but still tells them to leave. Griffin goes after Harper. She can believe it, since all of the patrons are white and all of the staff are black, and it wasn't even that long ago. She's not calm at all, but this isn't the kind of thing that Griffin can understand. She wants to go home as soon as possible. They're interrupted… by Savannah, who still looks the same despite now being two years older than them. They also meet someone that she calls Mom, and they follow her to the treehouse. The twins see that the cold spots are gone, and wonder if Savannah stopped haunting them because she got what she wanted, since they're moving back to Chicago. The treehouse has a tire swing now. Savannah rode out the storm at the Tremont, and when she went outside the next morning, the first person she met was a super sweet and really cool woman named Caroline, who adopted her with her husband Ray. It was made official just last month. They're the ones who originally built the treehouse to celebrate it, meaning this whole thing was a stable time loop. Griffin and Harper tell her the truth about who they are, when they're from, and who their parents are. Even after thirty years, Ben and Jess still feel guilt and regret about what happened to her. However, she refuses to go back through the portal. She has a family now that loves her, and she doesn't want to leave them. Plus, something might go wrong again and she could get stuck in another time period. Harper agrees with her that it's a bad idea, but Griffin reminds her that he's moving back to Chicago unless they can convince his parents to stay. Savannah invites them to dinner, but they decide to head back and try to come up with another plan. However, she thinks of a compromise that would finally give their parents closure without her needing to time travel. The twins tell their parents that the cold spots are gone, so Savannah stopped haunting the hotel. They hope this means that they can stay. They're still moving, but not because of any ghosts. They ask their mom about what she saw in the mirror. She thinks she was just seeing things from the stress of Griffin being missing. She and the twins continue to pack. Harper suddenly arrives and tells Ben that Griffin fell while they were in this old treehouse. When they get there, Ben finds a letter hidden inside an old can. It's from Savannah. Back at the hotel, he tells Jess what happened to her. She claims that she ran away to find her family, and she's not coming back. She tells Ben that he shouldn't feel guilty for getting scared and running away, because technically, she did too. She's alive. She's just out there, living her life. Jess wonders if it's really from her, and Ben tells her that it was hidden in an old coffee can that the two used to pass messages to each other. Jess apologizes for blaming him when they were kids. Griffin thinks they still have to go back to Chicago though. Harper was surprised to hear him call her his best friend back in 1962. Griffin says that's because she is, and she hugs him. Back at the cafe, Jess finally admits to her that she used to be pretty mean when she was a kid. Seeing Ben's face when he read the note made Harper think about how just one bad thing, one moment, can change everything. She's been thinking about her dad ever since she saw him as a kid in 1990 at the Tremont. It would be amazing if they could go back and change things. Later that night, she gets a call from Griffin, who tells her that since he's moving back to Chicago, maybe they should do something with the radio so no one else uses it. She claims that she's okay with it, but wants to sleep on it and talk more in the morning to make sure. The drawing and/or painting she was working on is of her and her dad at a lake. We learn from a conversation between Ben and Sarah that it's only been about a month since they moved in. Sarah has changed her mind about moving back to Chicago. She doesn't want Ben to be someone he's not just to please his dad or her, and the kids love it here. The next morning, Jess catches Harper about to leave the house, but assumes she's going to the cemetery to see Chris, since today is the anniversary of the day he died. Ben and Sarah tell Griffin that they've decided to stay. He tries to call Harper, but she's already in the bunker, setting the dials to 2011. In the meantime, he has a jam session with his dad. As Zoey and Wyatt head downstairs for breakfast, they pass by their parents' room. It has a rocking chair, which suddenly moves on its own. The episode ends as Chris picks up Harper on the side of Bayou Road in his yellow 1967 GTO convertible.