Secrets of Sulphur Springs S1 E7

## Plot

Despite Wyatt's reservations that it's a terrible idea, he and Zoey sneak downstairs to watch Ben, Sarah, and Jess question Griffin and Harper. No one is going anywhere until they get a straight answer. Harper claims that they came up with a plan to see each other without their parents knowing, and that they snuck off to have their first kiss. They're still grounded. No bikes, no woods, no anything. That goes for the twins and Topher too, since they didn't tell them. Harper leaves with her mom. Zoey says she wants to hear more about the kiss. Sarah tells her and Wyatt to get to bed. She and Ben don't believe what Harper said. The next morning, Harper and Topher are helping their mom clean out the cafe's spoiled inventory from the blackout. Or rather, Topher is. Harper is drawing. Jess knows she's still keeping things from her, and tells her that it's not always the healthiest thing. Harper tells her that she does the same thing. She sees the way she looks at Ben. It's like the two of them have a secret, but Jess denies it. Her daughter doesn't understand how her mom can expect her to be honest when she's not. Jess finally admits that she went to camp with Ben, and was there the night Savannah went missing. She didn't talk about it because it was a terrible experience. Harper understands that. The power finally comes back, which means that the time machine also works. Harper begs Topher to cover for her again, just for ten minutes. She hugs him before she leaves and tells him that he's a good little brother. I kid you not, I literally just had an interaction like that with my little brother, and now we're going to watch *Arcane* with my sister. Harper sneaks into the Tremont again, and when Griffin sees her, they head into the basement. Harper tells Griffin what her mom said. It seems like Ben is still hiding something. Harper apologizes for the squicky lie, but it was the first thing that came to mind. The ten minutes are already up, but they go back anyways. Sure enough, Jess and Topher show up at the Tremont to look for Harper. She thinks that she and Griffin have run off together. Topher tells them what she told him. The way she acted, it was like she thought she'd never see him again. Like she was saying goodbye. The kids check upstairs. Jess thinks they should call the police. Meanwhile, Harper and Griffin wake up Ben, who is in the boys' bunkhouse. They ask him what happened to Savannah after the campfire. He claims that he doesn't know, and assumes she went back to her bunkhouse. They were all with her last night. He asks them where this is all coming from. He leaves when he hears the meeting bell. In the present, Ben tells Jess that they're not in the treehouse, at the campgrounds, or anywhere else on the property. Both of their phones are off. They don't want to be found. It had to be today, of all days. For most of her life, Jess has worked hard to forget about what happened to Savannah. It can't be a coincidence. Ben claims that the hotel isn't haunted. Jess tells him that they shut this place down for a reason, and he's the one who opened it back up again. He says that this day won't end like that one did. The police arrive. Everyone is looking for Savannah. Harper thinks things will go the same way, but Griffin thinks that them being there and hanging out with their parents must have changed something, so maybe they'll find Savannah this time. Jess might not have told Harper the truth if they hadn't found the portal. She admits that their presence could be changing things slightly. Maybe that's all they need to save Savannah. When Harper asks Griffin when he became an optimist, he says she must be rubbing off on him. Ben wonders why they're dredging the lake, since Savannah is a good swimmer. Jess thinks she's playing another prank. She'll do anything for attention. When a police officer questions Becky about why she didn't do a headcount before bed, she mentions having to go up to the hotel to find the parents of two kids. When she sees Griffin and Harper behind a tree, she points them out. They were with Savannah at the camp dance. Yeah, and so were Ben and Jess, but no one's questioning them. Before they can run, another cop stops them. Probably not the best time, but that could mean that this is all part of a stable time loop, unless there was another reason why Becky didn't do a headcount originally that night. In 2020, a police officer tells Jess and the Campbells that the woods are pretty dense, so they're going to need more manpower to help with the search. They'll keep them up to date. Sarah sends the kids upstairs to watch a movie. Wyatt wants to show Topher the footage of Savannah's ghost, and when he mentions that she didn't have a face, Topher asks him how he knows it was her then. Zoey is more worried about the fact that Griffin and Harper ran away. Wyatt points out that Griffin hated it here, but Zoey says that was before he fell in love with Harper, and tells Topher that's why they've been sneaking off together. The police officer that was questioning Becky, Mr. Miller, is taking them to child services, but they tell him that they have families and homes. He obviously can't call them though. There's no record of them at the hotel, and they're not campers. He asks them how they know Savannah. Harper tells him that he should be out there looking for her before it's too late, and he asks her what she means by that. They honestly don't know what happened to her, but Griffin says that Jess might. Search and rescue found something in the lake, so Miller returns to the Tremont. Luckily, it was just Savannah's sleeping bag. The campers are sent back to the bunkhouses. In the present, Jess tells Ben that the way he was acting that day was strange, like he knew something the rest of them didn't. He doesn't tell her anything, except that she should head home in case Harper is back there. She and Griffin are locked in the police car while Officer Miller is away, and they hear on the radio that it was just Savannah's sleeping bag. They see Ben going into the hotel and try to get his attention, but it doesn't work. Harper thinks he heard them though, and didn't stop to help for some reason. He checks the basement, but Savannah isn't there. Jess shows up and remembers the dare. He says she might have done it. He's not looking at Jess, who asks him if Savannah told him that she was coming here last night. She wonders if that's why he was acting so weird back at the lake. He tells her that none of this would be happening if it wasn't for her and her stupid dare. This is all her fault. She's angry that he said that, and leaves, even though he apologized immediately and said he didn't mean it. While leaving, he bumps into his dad, who berates him again. He was with an important client when he got the call, he drove three hours, and then he finds his son "horsing around" the hotel "like a clown" while a child is missing. Ben apologizes and says he messed up. He finally tells his dad that he's not listening to him. It's all his fault that Savannah is missing. His father tells him not to say another word and takes him away, right past the police car. Griffin and Harper heard the whole thing.