Ghosts

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## Ghosts

Cover image for Season 3, Episode 8: Ghosts, showing one of Sarah's hallucinations outside Hooke Farm in Dorset

### Writer

Jonathan Thornton

*Ghosts* is the eighth episode of the third season of QIA.

## Summary

While the team deal with the sudden return of the abducted children, Sarah faces a dangerous personal crisis.

## Blurb

“Two days ago, Amy Stoker – another of our child abduction victims – returned, directly into our Hub Chamber, twenty-six years after she was taken.” - Enora Gallou

In an alternate future, Amy Stoker was a member of the London Field Team. However, after a botched operation in Athens failed to prevent her abduction, the future changed. Only now, she is back – and more than that, other children who had been abducted from time are also returning. While the team attempt to decipher this puzzle and its implications, the fallout from the operation with the Russians and the Americans sends ripples throughout the QIA. Meanwhile, Sarah is being plagued by ghosts from her past, and after everything she has been through, she finds herself being pushed closer and closer to the edge of sanity…

## Synopsis

Tom returns from the failed attempt to extradite Sacha Bell to America, and learns that Amy Stoker has returned, twenty-six years after she was taken as a child.

Sarah butts heads with Irina Polyakov, but realises that there is nothing she, Iulya or Carlos can do now except return home. A similar situation plays out in Washington, with Hafiz and Ethan also opting to return home.

A future Konstantin Denisov drops Bell off at the OVM, where he is found by the present-day Konstantin.

Enora learns that Amy was held for twenty-six years in a medieval castle, along with James Carson and several others.

Tom learns from Brent Hall that Bell was memorising the information he was giving to the Russians from one of Hall's trusted sources; however, Hall refuses to name this source for personal reasons, leading Tom to speculate that it is Elaine Watson. However, while torturing Bell, Konstantin learns that it is in fact Sophie King. Irina later sends Konstantin to retrieve the last of the data files from her.

Hayden, who is being treated by Alison Coran for his depression, learns that Amy - his girlfriend in the original timeline - has returned, and asks Tom to let him see her. Though he only does so through one-way glass, the experience has a profound effect on Hayden.

Miranda Davenport returns to ask Ethan for help once again. As a result, he asks for personal time and goes with Miranda to Portugal, where he fixes the now-defunct Lisbon Hub and uses it to take them both to Poland, 2016, where they meet up with Will Bradley.

Konstantin arrives in Vienna and confronts Sophie, who provides him with the files. Konstantin is about to leave, without harming her, when she tells him that Hall knows about something called 'Vozrozhdeniya', which prompts Konstantin to murder her after all.

The team go to Dorset to retrieve James Carson, who was also returned. However, Sarah, whose hallucinations have been getting steadily worse and worse, is almost convinced by the 'ghosts' to overdose on her medication, but she is stopped by Tom. Back in London, Tom tricks Coran into admitting that she was giving Sarah hallucinogens as revenge for getting fired and her son's death - however, as Coran is arrested, Kruger reveals that that had nothing to do with Sarah - it had been him.

In Moscow, after hearing his report, Irina sends Konstantin to interrogate, torture and kill Brent Hall. Meanwhile, Bell arrives at Black Dolphin prison and meets his cellmate - Aleksander Volkov.

Bridget Stanton, now known as Ingvild and living in eighth-century Denmark, is visited by her abductor, Fran Grenouille, who tells her it's time to 'go home.'

## Credits

### Starring

Sarah Cunnington

Tasneem Hafiz

Ethan Taylor

Tom Burt

Iulya Dalca

Carlos Sánchez

and Hayden Kemp

### Also Starring

Enora Gallou

Anna Vogel

### Special Guest Stars

Amy Stoker

and Brent Hall

### Guest Stars

Miranda Davenport

Josh Hannigan

Irina Polyakov

Konstantin Denisov

Sacha Bell

Dietrich Kruger

Alison Coran

Róisín Lynch

James Carson

Sophie King

with Arnold Kobinsky

and Blake Kishell

## Jumps

Higher Kingcombe, Dorset; 3rd December 1999 *(Tasneem Hafiz, Sarah Cunnington, Tom Burt, Iulya Dalca, Carlos Sánchez)*

Katowice, Poland; 31st October 2016 *(Ethan Taylor, Miranda Davenport)*

## Trivia

Alice Beech, Aleksander Volkov, Henry Gale, Will Bradley and Bridget Stanton all appear in this episode uncredited, along with Adam Solomon, Jarrad Foley, Robert Tunneson, Alan Burns, Cian Rose, Drew Glenn and Chris Darby, all of whom appear only as hallucinations.

## Availability

Episode 8 is available for purchase on Amazon. It will also be included in the Season Three, Part I box set.