Secrets of Sulphur Springs S2 E5

## Plot

In 1962, adult Sam is processing everything. Savannah, Harper, and his sister Daisy have all used his machine to travel through time. It isn't working right now, but he must be close. He has an idea to get it up and running. Ben gives the crystal to the twins, but Wyatt drops it on the floor, which cracks it. Daisy tells the teacher that she's not as smart as she thinks. The teacher will let her take a make-up quiz tomorrow and tells her to study and do the reading this time. She tells Griffin that she can't do this anymore. She's a nervous wreck, and she hasn't found the crystal anywhere at the Dunn house. Griffin points out that Topher sleepwalking is weird even for him, so he has to be hiding something. He snaps at Daisy and asks her if she wants to go home or not. The cliffhanger about child Sam knowing that Harper isn't his sister is unceremoniously dropped like a mountain. While they're shopping in town, Sam stops to drink at the colored water fountain, and Judge Walker shows up and asks Harper to get Elijah to listen to reason and sign some papers. Harper takes them, and Judge Walker tells her to let him help save her mother's farm before it's too late. Sam asks her why she took the papers. She can't explain, but the land has to be sold so the hotel and time machine can be built, and so the Campbells can move in during 2020. Sam says they used to tell each other everything before she started acting so strange. Harper has another vision of the fire, and sees a male figure this time. She thinks Judge Walker will light the house on fire to try and kill them or force them out if they don't sell him the land. Bennett has gone ahead and paid the bill for out of town contractors to come in and fix up the hotel, without his son's approval or foreknowledge of their arrival. When Bennett steps on a board, his foot falls through. He said just before that once the hotel takes off, everyone would forget about the ghost business. Grace clearly doesn't like hearing that, or building a parking garage. The nails from the new board have also been pulled out. Topher screams when it's clear that something is in his room, but it's just Daisy looking for the crystal. Jess comes in to talk to her about failing the quiz. She's been acting so odd lately. Daisy wishes she could talk to her about it, but she can't. Did anyone tell Griffin about his grandpa visiting again? Or the contractors? Or the springs coming back? He learns that the twins have the crystal from his dad. They're at the springs looking for more, but they refuse to give the one they have to Griffin. They hid it somewhere. Griffin calls Daisy and tells her about it, which Topher overhears, so he rushes to the hotel to get the crystal back. Harper is okay with Elijah signing the papers, but Sam isn't. This land is all they have left of their mother, but Elijah tells him that she'll always be with them wherever they go. Harper tells Sam that she thinks Judge Walker will burn down their home if they don't sell the land, due to her recurring visions of a fire. Savannah asks Sam if he's building the time machine because he hates it here. She knows what it's like to want to run away. He did for awhile. He got an engineering degree and had a big job lined up in Boston, but he came back because of the springs. His mother believed that they had healing powers that came from crystals, like the one in the radio. It doesn't have magical powers, but it does have energy. It didn't save Grace's life after she got sick, but it might've extended it. Now Sam is trying to use the crystal to power the time machine. He's dedicated the last 18 years of his life to it, meaning he started it in 1944, or at least, that's when he had the idea for it. Once it works, he's going to go far into the future, during a time when they have a cure for the disease that killed Grace, and then he's going to save her. Except wouldn't that get rid of his entire motivation for building the time machine in the first place, causing all of the events of the series to become a paradox? Also, is the disease that killed Grace hereditary, just like the visions? Are they tied together in some way? After all, Harper never got the chance to meet her grandmother Marie, who would've also had visions. Does this mean that Harper has a potentially terminal disease, and simply hasn't realized it yet? Man, that's dark. Anyways, the radio ends up knocking the power out for the whole hotel. Caroline tells Savannah to stay out of Sam's way, but she says she's helping, and Sam tells her mother that she's the best assistant he's ever had. It would be good for her to learn the ins and outs of this place, in case he's not around one of these days. Elijah signs the bill of sale for the farm and the springs. It's weird to see the judge without a hat, and with hair. I assumed his actor was bald underneath. When Griffin and Daisy enter Zoey's room, they see that it's already been ransacked… by Topher, who admits that he took the crystal and he wasn't really sleepwalking. He already checked Wyatt's room too. He hasn't found it, and he's convinced that he's looked everywhere. He thinks it's cursed and wants to put it back where he found it, and Daisy tells him that's what they want too. Ben asks his dad if he's sure he doesn't want to ice his ankle, and he says he'll be fine. Ben apologizes for not being more appreciative of him hiring a crew for them earlier. It really does mean a lot to him that they're doing this together. Bennett says they need to figure out a way to brighten up this fire trap, and calls it depressing… so Grace makes all the light bulbs explode. He thinks it was another power surge. Sam and Savannah still haven't gotten the radio to work, even though there should be more than enough power. Sam thinks it just doesn't work, and says he should've known better. Savannah tells him that Harper and his sister need them. He can't give up. He tells her that there's no point, which hurts her. He apologizes and says it's not her fault, because she's just a kid. He's back to thinking that she made the whole thing up, and tells her to stay out of his way from now on. Savannah is upset and bangs on the radio… which finally makes it work. She goes to 1930 to rescue Harper. She hides when a car comes. It's the (obviously white, male) sheriff. The Tremonts need to vacate the property within the next 48 hours, according to their agreement with the judge. The Bill of Sale has Elijah's signature, and it's for all of the land, including the house. Griffin gets Topher to leave by telling him to go down and stall the twins to give them more time to search. He tells Daisy that he found the crystal. It was in Wyatt's hat, which he sat on. However, then he notices the crack.