Secrets of Sulphur Springs S1 E9

## Plot

Sarah is so in shock from the message that she backs into a chair, which knocks over a lamp, which falls onto a glass table. The light bulb either breaks or just falls out. The twins come in and ask her if she's okay. She says she just wasn't looking. The message is gone. The lights start flickering. Jess asks Ben what he did to Savannah. He tries to apologize for accusing her, but she just wants the truth. Topher comes back with the clothes. Ben gets a call from Sarah, but it keeps cutting out, and then they hear her scream. It was just Officer Stevens, the cop who's been dealing with their case. No one answered the door, so he let himself in. They believe they've found something. The call is back to normal. Zoey picks up the phone and tells her dad to get there fast. Meanwhile, Griffin and Harper are trying to open the hatch, but they can't do it. Props to Preston's acting here, he sounds so strained and desperate, like he really is trying with all his might to lift a large tree and save someone's life. Harper tells him that there's no point. The hatch is stuck. The tree must've fallen on it. They have to go home. Once they're back, they'll check records from 1960 to see if a girl was found. When they're back in 1990, Harper stops and stares when she sees her mom and dad meet for the first time. Ben and Jess meet up with the police. They found a fairly fresh boot print. It could be Harper's. The K9 dog finds the hatch, but before everyone can follow it, Sarah and Jess get texts from them. They're back at the hotel. Harper claims that they were trying to catch a bus, and it was mostly her idea to run away, but Griffin talked her out of it. It was partly because of her dad and partly because the adults were keeping them apart. Before she heads home, she sees that they stopped at the cemetery. Jess was worried that she ran away because she kept Harper away from her dad, from the memories of him. Harper tells her that's not why they left. Not talking about it was still wrong though. They head to his grave. Christopher James Dunn was born in 1977 and died in 2011. 34 is so young. Jess tells Topher that he looks and sounds more like him each day. Harper asks her what made her fall in love with him. It was a lot of things, but mostly because he could make her laugh like no one else could. He also really ticked her off and loved pushing her buttons, like Harper. They met on the last day of camp at the Tremont Hotel. She was going home and her duffel was huge, so he offered to help, even though it probably weighed more than he did. He had a goofy grin, and his voice broke when he introduced himself. Jess apologizes for not talking about him more, but after the accident, she didn't know what to say, to anyone. Her kids became her rock. She says she loves them both, and they all hug. While looking up the storm, Griffin overhears his parents arguing and learns that Sarah is determined to take the kids and go back to Chicago. She knows some of Ben's secrets now, and is starting to think the hotel really is haunted. Harper shows up early at school to research pictures of the storm. She finds a photo of Savannah from the Tremont's grand reopening in 1962. She tells Griffin about it and wants to go back right away, but then he tells her that his family is moving as soon as his dad gets back from wherever he is. Sarah calls Jess and asks if Ben is with her, since the two were friends and know a lot about each other. He isn't, but there is a place he used to visit. The twins tell Griffin that they don't want to move either. Chicago seems boring compared to this place, and they into hunting ghosts now. They tell him about hearing the girl singing on the tape in the secret room, but Griffin knows it's unplugged, so that should be impossible. Harper shows up and talks to Griffin. If they could just find Savannah, maybe his family would stay. The portal only takes them back thirty years at a time though. There might be a way to control it. If Savannah was still alive though, then her ghost wouldn't still be haunting the Tremont, but it is, and Griffin tells Harper about what the twins said. Sarah finds Ben at the treehouse, which has been destroyed. He apologizes for walking out like he did. She tells him that she loves him, and he can tell her anything. He tells her about the dare and how Savannah snuck out. He went to the basement too. It was dark and creepy, but they tried to laugh their way through it. They were fine until they heard some sort of noise all around them. Ben ran, and he thought that Savannah was right behind him. He didn't realize that she stayed until the next morning. There were police and search parties, like yesterday. Sarah tells him that he was just a kid, but he still thinks he was the only one who could've saved her life. Griffin was right. He came here to make bad memories better, but he can't, and he never will. Savannah is gone because he ran away. Griffin shows Harper the secret room. The singing came from an unplugged tape machine the day before, which means that Savannah is still a ghost. They suddenly hear a radio buzz. It looks like the one in the bunker. They see that there are dials with numbers on the back of it. Griffin tries to move them, but they won't budge. When Harper touches it to try it herself, they suddenly spin to a different set of numbers: 34537. It could be a code or a combination. There's also one in the radio at the bunker. Griffin tells Harper to set it to the same set of numbers, since it seems to respond to her. She does, and it makes a button pop out. She thinks it's Savannah's ghost telling them what to do to help them find her.