Season 2 - Episode 58: Night of the Talking Dead

## Synopsis

Sammie meditates and connects with the magical influences she feels in the inn. She realizes they are ghosts - and a lot of them. She talks with some of them and they all report seeing the other before they died, but don't remember what happened. Bjorn and Henry follow the voice calling for help deeper into the woods. They are ambushed by an abnormally tall creature that is exceptionally strong. Henry makes contact with it and realizes its skin is not quite right. They all meet back at Sammie and Oliver's room at the inn and compare notes. They know what the creature looks like and that it mimics voices and forms of others and realize it must be a skinwalker. How all of this connects to Helena, Anthony, and the Order, they're still not sure.

## Episode Description

Bjorn and Henry follow the pleading voice in the woods. Sammie talks to some ghosts.

## Key Events

* Sammie connects with the magical influences in the inn and find that they are the ghosts of people who have been killed here. She gathers information from them and finds that none of them remember how they died except for the pain and seeing teeth.
* Bjorn and Henry follow the pleading voice deeper into the woods, only to be ambushed by an abnormally tall creature with odd skin.
* When everyone is together at the inn again, they compare notes and realize the creature must be a skinwalker.

## Summary

Sammie is sitting cross-legged at the foot of the bed, trying to meditate to sort out the magical influences she can feel around them. Oliver is stretched out on the bed nearby, keeping an eye on her to make sure nothing goes wrong. It takes some time, but when Sammie opens her eyes again, she sees the vague, translucent shapes of ghosts around her. She counts anywhere from ten to twelve of them.

Sammie calls out to one of the nearby ghosts. It looks merely like a pink, vaguely human shaped form before it approaches Sammie and becomes a woman in a pink sundress. She introduces herself as Irene. Sammie asks her what happened to her and Irene says she doesn't know. Sammie asks what the last thing she remembers is and Irene says she was talking to a man on a motorcycle out front. She says his name was Bobby and he was wearing a black leather jacket with a blue fox patch.

Sammie gets the attention of another ghost. As the form approaches her, it becomes a tall man with red hair wearing a black suit. He says his name is Richard and the last thing he remembers is talking to a pretty girl at the bar. Suddenly he squints and his form begins to shake violently - he says all he remembers after the bar is pain, pain everywhere. Sammie asks him if he knows what happened and he says no then asks where he is before losing focus and fading.

Bjorn lowers his voice and calls through the door of the shack to get Henry's attention. He tells him that he can hear someone calling for help in the woods. Henry says he didn't hear anything and Bjorn puts his finger over his lips for him to be quiet before pointing in the direction he heard the voice. The voice calls out for help again and they both hear it this time. They cautiously walk in the direction of the voice. When they feel like they're getting closer, the voice calls out again but farther into the woods. Bjorn asks Henry if it sounds like its getting farther away to him too and Henry agrees. Bjorn feels conflicted but decides that if this is a person that needs help they can't just leave them out here.

Bjorn and Henry walk deeper into the woods. They haven't heard the voice in a while. They stop to re-evaluate and then hear another "help" from nearby. Bjorn and Henry turn toward it and are then both tackled from behind by something super strong. Bjorn and Henry are able to push themselves out from under whatever has pushed them to the ground. Though it is a strong creature, it's not particularly large. As Henry kicks his leg out to escape, his foot sinks into the creature's skin. They turn just in time to see an abnormally tall, skinny creature running into the woods away from the woods. Henry asks if they should chase it down and Bjorn says no - that this thing just lured them out here and is probably luring them further into a trap. Bjorn and Henry start to hike their way back to the inn.

Back at the hotel, Sammie looks over at Oliver on the bed beside her and tells him something strange is going on. She tells him that there are lots of ghosts here and she doesn't think they know they're dead - they don't remember what happened to them or only remember pain. Sammie turns her attention back to the ghosts and calls out again to one of them. A man approaches her that fits the description of Bobby. Sammie tells him she was just talking to his friend, Irene, and Bobby says he doesn't know anyone named Irene. Sammie asks him the same questions she's been asking the other ghosts and Bobby explains that he never saw a woman in a sundress. The last thing he remembers is a pretty woman in "nice stuff" standing in front of the door to his room. He invited her in and she closed the door. He squints and says he doesn't think good things happened after that.

Sammie talks to another ghost named Bubba and again asks him the same series of questions. Bubba says that he was with his hunting dog and his dog Bo picked up a strange scent. They followed the scent to the inn and walked inside. He talked to a nice man in a business suit named Richard. He says he's not sure what happened next, but guesses his dog must have attacked him for some reason because he just remembers teeth after that. Bubba asks if Sammie knows what happened to his dog and Sammie says she doesn't know but she'll try to figure it out. Bubba then comments that Sammie is the first person he's talked to in a while and that the others here don't seem very aware of what's going on. He says there are a lot of ghosts in here but most don't realize they're dead and none of them can leave the inn. He says there's a force field of sorts keeping them contained.

Oliver asks her what she learned from Bubba and Sammie explains. Oliver asks why Bubba can't move on if he's aware he's dead, which is how Miguel explained to them that ghosts work and what Sammie experienced when she talked to Craig in the sewer. Sammie isn't sure but says that Bubba says they're being contained by something and that there are a lot of ghosts here - a lot of people have died here. Oliver jokes that he never thought he'd actually find a haunted house just before there's a knock at the door. The woman at the front desk calls through to ask if they need anything and Sammie calls back that they're fine. Oliver and Sammie panic for a moment, wondering how long she could have been outside, listening in.

Not long after, Bjorn and Henry arrive back. Sammie quickly ushers them inside her and Oliver's room and then closes the door and locks it. She quietly explains everything she's just experienced and learned from the ghosts. Henry and Bjorn quietly share what happened to them as well. Sammie is confused, she thought this was supposed to be an Order thing not a monster thing, then asks if the boys know any kind of creature that is tall, has sharp teeth, lures people into the woods or takes the forms of other people, and eats them. Bjorn definitely agrees that the creatures must be able to change forms if all the ghosts are dead but claim to have seen the others. Henry tells them about how off the creature's skin felt when he came in to contact with it and says it must be a skin changer of some kind.

Oliver chokes and then, a bit nervously, begins to tick off all the things they've learned: it can mimic voices, it has killed many people who all say they saw a different person, and it's skin is loose and squishy - he doesn't think it can be anything other than a skinwalker. Oliver says they're not supposed to be in this specific region as they're typically native to the Navajo and Henry agrees, saying he's never heard of them anywhere else. Sammie asks if the skinwalkers have any control over spirits and that's what is keeping them trapped here but Oliver explains that the Navajo don't like talking about skinwalkers so not much is known about them or their abilities.

The crew tries to figure out how the Order is involved in all of this. Henry suddenly realizes that they don't even know if it was Helena that texted them, it could have been anyone to send them the address from Helena's phone. Oliver agrees, saying that skinwalkers mimic the people they eat, it could have been a creature that sent the text as well.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Oliver Allen Evans
* Irene
* Richard
* Bjorn Olafson
* Henry Marlowe
* Bobby
* Bubba

## Roll Tracker

 Hannah/Sammie
 Andrew/Bjorn
 Wesley/Henry
 Andrew/Bjorn