VHS 002: Ghosts of the Past

## Cast

May Leigh: Abigail Rose

Markeia McCarty: Achira Sampson

Luis Carazo: Lampwick

Michelle Nguyen Bradley: Juniper Song

Noxweiler Berf: Game Master

## Summary

The episode begins with a replaying of the doctor's VHS tape from VHS 001: The Beginning of the End.

Juniper, Lampwick, and Abigail have a restless night of sleep in safe house 113. Each remembers moments from their past.

Abigail remembers visiting a serial killer named Michael Ray Foster on death row in a prison. He has been sentenced to death for the murder of Walter Monroe, a valedictorian and the son of wealthy fishing magnate. Michael shows signs of having some sort of split personality disorder, and Abigail shows him sympathy and attempts to comfort him. She says she will do everything she can to help him and prays with him.

Lampwick remembers a meeting with a man named Arthur Williams, a successful lawyer with a wife and kids. Lampwick reveals photos of the two of them sleeping together, and blackmails the lawyer into paying him repeated installments of money. As Lampwick leaves, he hears a gunshot, indicating that the lawyer has shot himself as a result of Lampwick's blackmail. Lampwick pays no mind to the sound.

Juniper remembers a night during her childhood in a military installation with her twin sister Olive. Juniper kills a small injured bird with a rock, splitting it in half and giving half to Olive, explaining that the bird could be food. Juniper talks with Olive, and they decide to run away from the compound and live on their own again in the woods.

Achira remembers being trapped inside a dirty apartment at age 13, caring for a group of children that she has rescued from the surrounding area (Marcus, Amanda, Nora, Omar, and Baby Faith). She has been there for three weeks, and the sound of the children, the smell, and the constant chores wear on her nerves. Achira decides to leave the children and go off on her own, telling the children she's making a run for supplies and taking much of the group's gear with her.

Back in the present, at the safe house, the other three decide to take half the supplies left for them and use the left-behind map to mark out a route toward Bakersfield. Abigail opens the door to head out, but finds that around 50 Romeros are feasting on the remains of Malibu Stacee, Skeeter, and Papa Bear outside. Skeeter has risen from the dead, and is a Romero himself, hanging from a tree. She quickly slams the door shut. The group decides to attempt to light the Romero horde on fire with a molotov cocktail and run. The forest and the safe house catch fire along with the Romeros, but the group escapes and heads down the rail line, followed at a distance by the Romeros.

Elsewhere, Achira wanders down the rails and finds tree to find safety in for the night. After a night of restless sleep, she wakes to find below her, on a stake, the severed head of Papa Bear, left as some sort of threat for her. She sees the large, strange chainsaw Romero, watching her in a way that is unnatural for the dead. She decides to head back down the path, past the severed head, back the way she came instead of risking a confrontation with the strange Romero. She successfully sneaks away.

Achira finds the rest of the group and rejoins them. Juniper nearly mis-reads the map, but Lampwick helps to correct their path, and they head toward Bakersfield. They are startled by a pair of people--an old woman and a younger man--walking down the path, singing, "Oh, children of the valley, walking hand in hand..." The woman asks the group for help finding aid for the younger man--Sammy--who looks quite sick. Abigail offers to pray with them.

## VOD Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpcZ47tFAKE