Season 2 - Episode 11: Traffic Jam

## Synopsis

Bjorn, Henry, Sammie, and Oliver try to stop the poltergeists' chaos but are unsuccessful. After crashing 3 different vehicles, they manage to stop it and communicate with it. They learn it is going after the other woman involved in the affair and decide to try and get it to talk to the wife that's being held at the police station to see if she can call it off.

## Episode Description

Our heroes are being attacked at every corner by autonomous machines. Will they be able to rise above them? Or are their meat suits just too squishy?

## Key Events

* Sammie's Jeep is smashed beyond recognition and Bjorn's SUV explodes into flames, taking his shotgun and assault rifle with it.
* After Sammie traps the poltergeist again, they are able to communicate with it and figure out that it does want to go after the other woman involved in the affair.
* With some new information from Stanley, they decide they need to get the car to talk to the wife that's currently being held at the police station.

## Summary

Henry tells Sammie that there's no one driving the police car. Sammie isn't sure what to do and asks if she should pull over and Oliver doesn't think that's a good idea. Sammie pulls onto a side road so that the police car is off the main road but still continues toward the water treatment plant. Bjorn sees Sammie and the police car pull off onto a side road and tries to speed up and cut across another street to meet them.

Sammie notices the police car speeding up to catch them and decides to slam on her brakes in front of it. The police car slams into the back of the Jeep. Sammie makes sure everyone is okay before jumping out of the car. The police car backs up and then attempts to ram into Sammie. Sammie manages to jump onto its hood but cracks her head against the windshield. The police car slams into the driver's side of the Jeep and all the airbags in the vehicle go off.

Bjorn arrives onto the scene. As soon as he approaches, the police car's engine cuts out. Suddenly, all of the doors in Bjorn's vehicle lock and his SUV begins to rev its engine. Bjorn tries to slam on the brakes but hears a crunch. Sammie, standing on the street now, manages to freeze the creature and the SUV in its place. The engine continues to rev, tires spinning on the pavement, but Sammie holds it in place. Oliver jumps out to try and help. He draws his knife and runs over to attempt to pop the tires of Bjorn's car. As he does so, the poltergeist forces one of the doors open to hit Oliver hard in the face before it closes again. Oliver flies backward, holding a hand to his face.

Bjorn, trapped inside the car, is trying to find a way out. He is trying to break the windows from the inside out, but his vehicle is heavily armored. The car continues to rev and smoke starts to pour out and away from the tires and the engine. Henry runs up to try and help Bjorn break the window. As it finally begins to crack, the engine begins to burst into flames. Bjorn and Henry continue to try and break the glass and get enough smashed open that Bjorn can get out of the vehicle. As soon as Bjorn tumbles to the street, the car shuts off. Bjorn gets to his feet and attempts to use magic to create an ice wall to stop the rest of his car from catching fire but is unsuccessful.

As Sammie is catching her breath from holding the creature in place, she suddenly hears another car screeching toward them. She turns just in time to see a yellow punch bug coming their way. Sammie attempts to freeze it in place once more but is unsuccessful. The car runs Sammie over and careens toward Oliver, who is still on the ground. Henry runs toward Oliver and manages to pull him up out of the path of the vehicle with a push from his wings. He dumps Oliver in the grass nearby as the car crashes into a telephone pole.

Bjorn runs over to help Sammie off the ground. He tells Henry to grab Oliver and get him out of there. Henry watches as a car runs over Bjorn and clips Sammie. Henry grabs Oliver to try and pick him up and get him to safety. Henry gets them both behind a house and out of the way. The car quickly reverses to try and run Bjorn and Sammie over again. Bjorn manages to grab onto the bumper of the car and stop it through pure strength, but the car accelerates and slams into him. Bjorn's wrist breaks as it lurches forward.

Sammie gets to her feet and traps the creature in the car again. She closes her eyes and focuses on trying to communicate with the creature. She asks the poltergeist what it wants and that maybe they can help it. The car stops trying to accelerate and rolls a window down. The radio plays "tell me why," and then shuts off again. Sammie tells it that if it's trying to get back to where it came from they have the ability to help it do that, but the car says it 'doesn't want it.' After some back and forth with various clips of different songs, they determine it's trying to protect the wife of the man that was killed and is going after the other woman involved in the affair.

Now that they have more information, Henry calls Stanley back. Henry is trying to give him every detail of what happened, but Sammie cuts him off and asks how they get rid of the poltergeist. Stanley says that it's incorporeal, the only way to hurt it is to hurt the thing it's possessing. Another way is to talk to the woman that the creature is connected to and have the woman ask it to stop or leave. Henry says the woman is behind bars at the police station and all their cars are wrecked. Stanley says they're going to have to figure out how to get the woman to the car or the car to the woman.

Bjorn says they can't rely on the woman to call off the poltergeist and that they need some kind of backup plan before he pulls out his phone to call Holland.

## List of Appearances

* Bjorn Olafson
* Henry Marlowe
* Sammie Overbrook
* Oliver Allen Evans
* Stanley Marlowe

## Trivia

Due to the Coven of Technical Difficulties, Wesley had to completely re-record all of his lines for this episode. At the very end of the episode, at 54:30, you can hear Wesley sing Bohemian Rhapsody overtop of his old audio file so that he is effectively singing with himself.