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Previously on School Spirits ...

Janet was upset about the gift.

I only meant it as a symbol. That we continue the work...

You know it's not what I wanted.

Believe me now?

What, Simon? She crawled out of her grave?

What if the objects are the keys?

OK, but where does it go?

Hello, Rhonda.

There's a wrecking ball named Janet

running around in my body.

You have no idea what I'm capable of.

I'll be lucky if my body's not behind bars tomorrow.

Maddie, you're safe. You can come home.

- Hello? - Hi, Mom.

I thought you were dead. Where were you?

Why didn't you call? Are you OK?

Are you hurt? I...

What I said to you before you left,

what I did...

Buying that stupid cabin.

I know how much I hurt you. I...

What I put you through all of these years.

I'm so, so sorry, Maddie.

I won't do that to you ever again.

Oh, you must be so hungry.

Can I make you something? A sandwich or some eggs?

A bath. I just... want a bath.

No, Janet, no!

OK to come in?

I made you cinnamon toast.

The way you like it.

I almost called Simon while you were in the bath,

but I knew you'd want to do it.

Simon, Nicole, Xavier.

They've been so worried about you.

I don't...

I'm not ready for anyone else to know I'm back yet.

I just want to be with you.

No one else, just you, please.

I'll let you get ready for bed.

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah... ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah... ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone, gone ♪

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah... ♪

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah... ♪

♪ Don't you forget me... ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Don't you forget me when I'm gone ♪

♪ Don't you forget... ♪

♪ Don't forget me when I'm gone ♪

So how'd you know how to get out of there?

I didn't. I just ran.

When I went to pick it back up, I saw the glow again.

That's when I realized the letter,

you need to hold it to get in and out.

So it is a key?

Wait, so you're saying Mr. Manfredo was in there?

So your key opened a door... to a scar.

And when you walked inside, you saw...

- Your own personal hell. - Well, that's upsetting.

You said the room was red.

And when you saw Mr. Martin

the last time he disappeared, you saw a red light.

Yeah.

When I opened the door for Janet before she ran into me,

there was a red glow coming out of the fallout shelter.

That has to be where Mr. Martin's hiding,

inside the scars.

I don't know. It's not exactly the Ritz in there.

Maybe he's doing something else.

Who knows what weird, Freaky Friday experiments

he could be doing in there. I don't know.

Maybe Janet's just the beginning.

OK. OK. Yeah, I see where this is going.

You want me and Wally to go take our keys

and unlock the door to our own personal hellscapes

and, like, Nancy Drew around in there.

I would have said Hardy Boys, but yeah.

OK, yeah. As tempting as that sounds, I'm not gonna do that.

Charley?

Didn't you just apologize to Rhonda

for making her do something that she didn't want to do?

That's different.

- How? - Not really.

No, it is different. If Mr. Martin's actually in...

Look, if you guys want to go in, be my guest,

but I am staying the hell out.

No pun intended.

Charley!

They seemed to play more as a team...

Hey. Where were you last night?

I was studying with Simon. I think I told you that.

Yeah? Then why do your clothes in the hamper

just reek like beer?

Come on, Xavier.

You just got out of the hospital a couple of days ago.

You're in no condition to be out late at night

- partying and drinking. - I wasn't.

Maybe I sat in something.

OK.

Well, I'd like you home at 3 o'clock after school every day

till you can be honest with me about where you've been going

and what's going on with you.

Hartman says it's mandatory.

♪ I'm not ready to go ♪

♪ Hold on, hold on, hold... ♪

Uh...

Are you coming to school today or what?

Oh, shit. I... Yeah.

- What were you listening to? - Nothing.

Uh-huh. And does nothing go by ShredHead99?

Stop.

Is this the reason your phone is buzzing all night?

What? Come on. At least tell me if he's cute.

I don't know. It's just some guy I'm talking to online.

OK, but haven't you seen his pic? Insta? TikTok?

No, it's not like that.

You know, I've been thinking. After seeing Maddie last night,

I kind of changed my mind about the Janet thing.

- I think Simon might be right. - He's not.

How can you be so sure?

Because that would mean that Maddie is dead

and not just a runaway, and because it's batshit crazy.

Girls! Girls, you're going to be late!

I'll be ready in five.

You've reached Regina Lloyd.

Please leave a message...

So we can only use our own keys?

If you have one.

Seniors, please report to the library

for today's workshop.

I can't believe we have to be here all fucking day.

It's like something happens to one person

and now we're being punished for it with group therapy.

I'm not hugging anyone under a six.

God, I know. Kill me now.

Anyone else thinking what I am?

This might be a great day to hijack

one of these sad skin suits and finally bust out of here.

- No. - What the hell's wrong with you?

Hello? You said you were in emotional pain

the day Janet took your body.

And didn't Mr. Martin write that

reliving trauma can lead to access points or whatever?

Well, this school's about to be lousy with trauma.

Believe me.

Those two icicles will be melting in the bathroom by noon.

You think Mr. Martin hasn't thought of that?

Maybe you should go check your scar.

Like now?

Good morning, Mama.

You haven't called me that in years.

Did you sleep OK?

Here, come. Sit.

Oh, no, no, no. Don't eat that. I know you don't like it.

I'll make French toast.

You know what?

We can go on a big grocery shop later today.

Stock up on all your favorites.

- Hi, how are you? - Hi. Hi. I'm so, so, so sorry.

That's OK. You ready to go?

Uh, I can't go to the meeting today.

I got called into work last minute. I'm sorry.

Oh. You sure that's all?

You didn't get one of those alerts, did you?

Oh, no. No. I'm OK. Really.

I would invite you inside, but...

- You gotta go? - Yeah. I have to go.

Yeah. No, that's fine. I'm gonna make the meeting anyway.

I should probably go.

My plea deal went through,

so I've been a bit of a mess all morning.

I actually have to go into the school

today to clear out my desk.

Officially forfeit my teacher's license.

Oh, God. I'm so sorry to hear that.

Another time then?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Dude, I thought you said 10.

That thing in the library is about to start.

Oh, Maddie's coming. She just runs on ghost time now.

You know what you're gonna say to her?

Yeah. Yeah. I actually wrote it all out.

I almost had a friend look it over.

What friend?

Shit's getting weird here, Simon.

The ghost world just went full-on Hausu, but scarier.

Uh, what, someone got eaten by a piano?

At this point, anything's possible,

which is why I need an ETA on my body.

- What'd you say about a piano? - We'll get there.

Um, but first, Xavier has something he needs to say.

I... I do. I do.

I...

Maddie...

Do we really have time for this right now?

Now or never, buddy. Come on.

Maddie, I...

I...

Yeah, actually, I think I'm just gonna...

I'm gonna go to that thing in the library.

I will save you a seat, man. You got this.

- Xavier! - Simon!

We found Janet, at the college campus Nicole's brother goes to.

Saw her and everything.

- We lost her. - Where'd she go?

I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know.

She ran off, and then campus security came.

So she's gone?

Like, gone, gone? Like, maybe never coming back gone?

Don't freak out. We're gonna find her, OK? I promise.

This community has been through a lot this semester.

Recent events have affected us all, faculty and students alike.

Which is why we are taking the time to learn to connect

to one another so that we can know how to reach out to someone

who might be hurting or lost.

I'm going back to that campus to find Janet.

- You with me? - Yeah.

Missed you last night.

Litchfield versus Split River.

Biggest game of the season, and our captain wasn't even there.

You know, I thought you'd at least stop by.

Is this because of what I said about Xavier?

- Something just came up. - What?

Claire.

We're gonna go back to the campus after this. You in?

Yeah.

Today is all about respect, healing, and listening,

which is why we will be collecting all of your phones...

to ensure a disruption-free environment.

Thank you.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You four get turned around?

Workshops are that way.

Today was designed specifically with you in mind,

and you will participate.

- Until 6? - That's right.

OK, you can't actually expect us to stay until...

I can, and I do.

Simon, I know you have your eyes on Northwestern,

and believe it or not, I am trying to help you.

I even change your schedule,

only to find you cutting class anyway,

and you've dragged these three with you.

You leave early today, and you will be suspended.

Your future is on the line, son.

Your phones. Now.

Go on.

OK. Come on.

Come on. Here we go.

What the hell are you doing? Get in the game, Wally. Now!

Wally, I said get in the game!

Coach, I can't.

It's how I die.

- Make me proud, honey. - Mom?

For God's sake, quit being a pussy.

He's got the ball.

Wally Clark, down the field.

He's at the 40, he's at the 30.

Ooh, God.

Clark takes a big hit. He is down.

What the... what the fuck?

This doesn't look good for Wally Clark.

You are such a disappointment.

I had the clasp fixed.

I left it out in case you wanted to wear it again.

Um, your schoolwork is in that bag by your desk.

I have been picking it up every week.

I'm not going back to that school.

Maddie.

What happened to you?

OK.

I'm heading out to the store.

Are you sure you don't want to come with me?

Just promise me one thing.

You will be here when I get back.

Oh, hey. Have you seen Charley?

Wally? What's wrong?

What, did you go to the field? Did you get in?

Wally, what happened?

Did you see anything?

Nothing.

Nothing that could help us. Sorry.

OK, so, you hold the clay in one hand,

and with the other, you wet the clay

and squeeze your hand down in a straight, even motion.

- You want to do it? - I...

Sorry, do you want me to leave the room?

You know, maybe we just start with ashtrays.

Hey. There you are.

I wanted to give this back to you,

and let you know I couldn't get in.

I already told him.

Look, can we not talk about these scars for one minute?

I came in here to try to forget.

Yeah, I get it.

I just saw Wally, and I'm not sure it's even worth it anyway.

Maddie.

I'm gonna find him and see if he'll talk to me.

- Has she used her key? - I don't think she has one.

- She's not really dead. - Right.

But if she did, she would probably use it.

No matter how scary it was.

You're already dead, you know?

What's the worst that could happen?

Take something sharp.

Janet could be halfway to Muskegon by now,

and I'm walking in circles with a blindfold on.

If you stopped pulling, you wouldn't be walking in circles.

It's a trust exercise, Simon. You're supposed to trust me.

You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone

who got stage fright in front of a pot of hydrangeas, Xavier.

What happened to having my back out there?

You know, new idea. Just point me to the exit.

If I get caught, I'll just say I didn't know what I was doing.

- Dude, shut up. Dude, shut up. - You shut up!

Dude, you didn't see her face today!

If you saw her face,

you wouldn't have to deal with it for the rest of...

How's it going, you two?

Still working on that whole trust thing, Mr. Hartman.

Hmm.

Step forward if you're wearing jeans today.

Step forward if you're an only child.

Now, step forward if you've ever felt misunderstood

by your family.

Step forward if you have difficulty finding

hair or skin products that match your hair type or skin color.

- Really, Chloe? - What?

You know Dior just discontinued my favorite concealer.

Take a step forward if you felt particularly anxious

or overwhelmed in the past week.

Sandra!

- Hi. - Sheriff Baxter.

Sorry I haven't reached out in a little while.

This week's just been...

Well, honestly, I spent more time

at the hospital than the precinct.

I wanted to let you know, we're still looking for Maddie's b...

For Maddie.

How's Xavier?

- I hear he's... - Yeah, he's OK. Yeah. Thank God.

Well...

- See ya. - See ya.

Sheriff!

Really?

I can't... breathe.

What'd you put in your mouth this time?

I need my EpiPen...

Mr. Martin was there, in your scar?

Yeah, at first I thought he was part of it.

Like Mr. Manfredo.

But, but... when I saw him sneaking out,

it was like the room wouldn't let me leave.

I couldn't get anywhere until suddenly I made it out of there.

I chased him all the way to the football field,

which is pretty impressive

considering I had just been in full anaphylactic shock, but...

Oh Charley, you didn't have to do that.

I wanted to. I...

But I saw the red light

on the scoreboard before he disappeared.

So Mr. Martin can just get in and out of our scars

without our keys,

and yet we can't even get into Charley's scar with his key.

- Why? - I don't know.

Did Quinn find anything else in Janet's notebook?

No, she's still working on it.

And in the meantime, we're supposed to what?

Just keep chasing after a man that can just go anywhere

and won't tell us anything?

- I'm going back in. - Wally?

♪ Woke up today ♪

♪ In my middle school bedroom ♪

♪ Except it isn't mine ♪

♪ But the one I'd always dreamed of ♪

♪ I had a dream ♪

♪ It's not like me to remember ♪

♪ Maybe it's a sign ♪

♪ I was brushing my teeth as they all fell out ♪

♪ What does it mean? ♪

♪ Always see myself at 23 ♪

♪ Just sitting here Reminding me ♪

- Hi, Maddie. I'm home! - I'm in my room.

You look nice.

Come sit.

I saw Xavier's father at the grocery store.

The police think you were murdered, Maddie.

I can't tell you how hard it's been, not just for me.

For everybody.

I know you want your privacy right now.

But I told Sheriff Baxter you're back.

I had to.

He wants to come by and take a statement.

If there's anything

that you want to tell me before he gets here.

Anything about what happened.

Anything at all.

You should say it now.

OK, so one thing that people don't know about me

is that I was a tap dancer.

In high school, I was afraid

that people would make fun of me for it.

But then they saw my Ball-Change-Buffalo

and everything changed.

- I'm gonna pass, if that's OK. - Yeah, it's OK.

I guess I do have something to say.

It's kind of painful to talk about.

But here goes.

Recently, a friend of mine,

someone I thought was a friend anyway,

just dropped me out of the blue.

Honestly, I shouldn't be that surprised.

I mean, she has a history.

She uses people, and then when she's done,

when she doesn't need them anymore,

she just ices them out like they don't matter at all.

She ditched this one friend way back in middle school,

and you'd think ancient history, right?

The second that girl got a boyfriend,

this snake starts sleeping with him

right behind the girl's back.

- Okay, that was... - Claire!

- That was messed up. - Leave me alone, Nicole!

It's not like she said anything

you haven't thought a hundred times before.

Wally, wait up.

Wally.

Can you please just stop for a second and talk to me?

You've been avoiding me ever since...

- I can't - Why?

'Cause if I stop to think about

what's on the other side of that field,

I'm not gonna go in.

And I have to go back in.

Wally. Here. Can you just come here?

Just take a deep breath, please.

Mr. Martin trotted me on that field every year like an idiot.

And he knew what was hiding out there the whole time.

And he didn't say shit.

Not to me, not to Charley, not to Rhonda.

What was out there?

I said I don't want to talk about it, OK?

Sorry about the timing of this.

Lawyer suggested we get this over with right away.

Look, I got to admit, Derek, I still don't understand.

You were one of my best teachers. Passionate. Committed.

They really fired him.

I love teaching. More than anything.

Then why?

My dad needed help.

And I've been cleaning up his messes my whole life.

And then this time...

I made an even bigger one.

Look, I'm only supposed to give you 15 minutes,

but you just take as much time as you need, OK?

You think they'd let me out of here

if I just stick this in my eye?

Please don't.

Excuse me, are you using these?

No, go ahead.

Your dad called the main office, Xavier.

Says he needs to talk to you.

Look at that, Simon.

You're not the only one with trust issues, huh?

You're not surprised they let him go, are you?

No. I mean, I get it.

But Mr. Anderson's the best teacher I ever had.

He actually cared.

And it's my fault he got fired.

If we hadn't figured out all that...

He stole that money, Maddie. He made that choice.

Yeah? And who's to say I would have made a better one?

I mean, I've had to clean up a few messes in my life,

and it always backfires.

- That's not true. - No?

Look what you're willing to do just to help me.

I mean, you won't even tell me what happened in there.

Because it's bad, Maddie.

When I died, I felt nothing.

No fear, no pain. Just happened.

But in the scar, everything that happened to me,

feeling the disappointment from my mom,

feeling the disappointment from my coach,

feeling like I had to be the Wally the crowd wanted me to be,

all of that, I felt that.

I felt it in there over and over again.

Then don't go back in there.

Mr. Martin, to me, is like Mr. Anderson to you.

I trusted him. I looked up to him.

I thought that he really cared about me.

And then I found out that all that was a lie.

So if going back to that field means I can

finally confront him and finally get the answers I'm looking for,

then it's worth it, Maddie.

It's worth it to me.

Maybe Charley was wrong.

Maybe... Wally?

Wally?

There you are. What are you doing in here?

I just, um, I came here on my bathroom break.

I just got off the phone with my dad.

Nicole, Maddie's back.

Wait.

I mean, Janet. Janet's back, but she's at Maddie's house.

My dad's on the way to meet her and Sandra right now.

- We gotta go. - To Maddie's house?

- Yeah. - Wait, what about Simon?

He doesn't know. Come on.

Wait, what do you mean he doesn't know?

We can't not tell Simon that Janet's back.

The moment that we tell Simon, he's gonna run out of here

in two seconds flat and get slammed with a suspension.

Believe me, Hartman's been dogging him all day.

And if we get caught, won't we get suspended, too?

- Better us than him. - Why?

Nicole, Simon can't get kicked out of school.

He can talk to Maddie. We can't, all right?

Oh, shit!

Are you sure she's ready to speak to me?

I told her you were coming.

Ms. Novak, can I, uh, can I go to the bathroom?

Be back in five.

Can you please move your armpit?

Kind of attached to me, Nicole.

OK, but does it have to be attached to me, too?

Look, the day is almost over.

Maybe we should just go back to our groups,

wait it out, and then we can all go to Sandra's together.

What if we wait it out and Janet runs again,

or God forbid, burns down another house?

So we're supposed to just go there,

find Janet, pretend she's Maddie, and then...

- And bring her back here. - And if she doesn't want to go?

- We don't give her a choice. - Oh, OK.

Cool, yeah. We'll just hog tie her and drag her back? Cool.

I'm pretty sure that's called kidnapping.

All right, coast is clear. Let's go.

Great. Guess I'll just grab my zip ties on the way.

I'm trying to help you.

We found your backpack

at an empty housing development along with a mattress.

Were you sleeping there?

OK, let's, uh, let's go back a little bit to the,

uh, the blood in the boiler room.

Did somebody hurt you there, Maddie?

Did you hurt yourself?

Maddie, you gotta... you gotta tell me something.

No, I... I don't know.

I don't remember.

Which is it?

I don't know.

Maddie, my department spent

a lot of time and resources trying to find you.

And now you can help us.

Especially if there's a dangerous person out there

who could do this to somebody else.

Your mom tells me you don't want to go back to school anymore.

Is that because somebody hurt you at that school?

Maddie.

Maddie.

Hey, what are you doing?

We need to continue the interview.

Absolutely not. She's obviously traumatized.

Maybe there's something else going on.

You need to leave. Now.

I understand this is upsetting.

Maddie's disappearance affected all of us.

And my own son. He was accused of...

By you, I believe.

Yeah, by me. And by a lot of other people.

And he hasn't been the same since.

I don't even know where he is half the time.

Or why he won't talk to me.

I just... I...

I think Maddie...

may have something to do with it.

Your daughter owes us answers.

You'll get them when she's ready.

Leave. Now.

Are you OK?

Thank you.

Of course.

Claire, hey, have you seen Xavier? Or Nicole?

I feel like I searched the whole school.

- Sorry. I didn't mean to... - I'm fine. I'm fine.

Are you?

How'd you get that?

Um, I stole it.

From the main office.

Why?

Two days ago, I realized my debit card wasn't working.

So I called my mom this morning

to see if she could fix it for me.

Just for lunch money. Or whatever.

But she didn't answer.

So I just tried her again just now.

And...

And what'd she say?

She didn't.

It's been three days.

And she still won't pick up the phone.

When my parents were getting a divorce,

I asked her if I could live with my dad for a bit.

And she didn't talk to me for three months.

So comparatively speaking, this is nothing.

Claire, that's not OK.

I'm sorry.

Chloe's right.

I use people.

And when I don't need them anymore,

or when they piss me off, I just...

ice them out.

I did it to Maddie.

I even did it to Nicole today.

My mom can be a complete asshole.

Apparently, I'm just like her.

You know why Maddie ran away from me last night?

Because I am literally the last person

that she'd want to talk to.

God, I didn't even manage to say the one thing

that actually mattered.

That I'm really fucking sorry.

For Xavier, for shutting her out, for...

acting like a bitch instead of just...

telling her what was going on with me.

I should've just been honest.

I should've opened that door.

Lola.

Simon, tell her I say Lola.

Uh...

It's the name of the stuffed dog she gave me when my dad died.

Uh, Claire.

I know you don't believe me, but that person that you saw

last night at that college party,

that was not Maddie. That wasn't Maddie.

The real Maddie, she's sitting right next to me.

She says, "Lola says hi."

It's not that I don't believe you, Simon.

It's just, I don't want it to be true.

I don't want Maddie to be gone.

She's not gone.

- Do you hear that? - Hear what?

Hear what? What's going on?

There's this strange humming sound

coming from everywhere.

And this feeling like my insides are shaking.

This sound, this feeling...

I've never felt it before, but the others told me

this is what happens at this school when someone dies.

Where the fuck is Wally?

Yuri? Come on, come on.

We have to go find out what just happened.

You go. I'm gonna hang back here.

Seriously? Someone just died at this school and you're just...

You're just gonna stay here and throw another pot?

When was the last time that you left this room?

You know, took a snack break or watched the sunrise?

You're already dead. You know?

What's the worst that could happen?

I have to find Charley and Rhonda.

Simon, what are we doing?

Looking for people we can't see. Come on.

- Simon! Hey, buddy. - Where the hell are you going?

There you all are. I knew it.

You couldn't wait 30 more minutes, huh?

Even though I know I made myself perfectly clear.

Maddie's back.

What?

She got home last night.

She's at her mom's house. She's alive.

You guys, apparently Janet is...

Wally?

I looked everywhere for him.

I searched every inch of that field.

Mr. Martin is not in there.

There's been no ambulances,

no fire trucks, no announcements.

No dead bodies.

The only other time somebody died at this school

without leaving a body behind...

is when Janet jumped into yours.

What are you saying?

That Mr. Martin could have just walked out of here?

In someone else's body?

That he could be anywhere or anyone?

Did we just make everything worse?

- That was such a waste of time. - Really?

I got a lot out of it.

- Hey, about earlier. - Don't worry about it.

Seriously, it's been a crazy day for everybody.

♪ I go humming ♪

♪ "Like A Prayer" ♪

♪ I wear ♪

♪ My body ♪

You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see?

They're after you! They're after all of us!

They're here already! You're next!

♪ I wear my body ♪

♪ Like a rotted peach ♪

♪ You can have it if you handle the stink ♪

You don't believe a word of this, do you?

♪ I'm as open as a gutted pig ♪

♪ On the small of every back ♪

♪ You'll see a picture of me ♪

♪ Wearing my body ♪

What the fuck?