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Previously on School Spirits. Max, what are you doing? Superintendent Hunter

Price and I have decided that instead of going on tomorrow's senior trip, we will

report here for Saturday detention.

Diamond! Help!

I didn't kill him, did I?

You're probably one of the only people that knows what really happened to

Maddie. Holy shit.

The person who hurt me in that boiler room was you. I never went into my scar.

You lied.

I'm going to a treatment center.

And I'm not changing.

I can just be myself.

Don't think. Go.

Simon!

Simon!

Wally! I'm coming back! Something's happening!

Simon!

Simon!

Panicking up, be part of no one who's listening in

Who's in

town? Oh, it's a dream and the waves start to blow

Close your windows, bolt your doors or you'll be doomed to evermore be no

one just listening in

That cries in the eye cloud Roll it up, smoke it out One year

left to figure it out Big brave girl

Maddie! Maddie!

Maddie!

Hey.

You okay?

What are you doing here?

I've been calling a bunch. I just wanted to check in after the hospital.

Make sure you're okay.

Yeah, I'm fine. I guess I just fell asleep.

Because you're sweating.

I'm fine.

My mom and I got in a fight and she's headed off to detox for a few days. So

it's been a night Hey Do you want me to

and obviously not to be weird or anything But do you want me to stay

here? I could crash on the couch or the the front porch anywhere. That's that's

level really That's really sweet Xavier, but I'm fine I'll see you tomorrow

Don't forget me when I'm gone

Don't

forget me when I'm

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

Don't forget me when I'm gone

Bro,

did you leave it in the band room?

It was in here, I swear, I grabbed it Did you leave it on the freaking trophy

shelf? Bro, that's a felony. You're not helping.

You're right there, boss.

Gosh, please keep your voice down. Nicole is nursing her first ever

hangover. Oh, wow.

You really went full Daniel Day-Lewis on your undercover party girl assignment,

huh? Did you know Xavier's favorite movie is Dirty Dancing?

No. Wait, shut up.

I'm sorry.

You went down into the hellhole.

You've got to be kidding me. Listen, we had to weigh our options, okay? We have

to know. We? We who?

You both went down there? No.

You let him go down there?

No.

I didn't go down there.

No, he didn't go down there. I went by myself.

I just thought it would be safer if I just went alone.

Not safer for Mr. South.

What happened to Mr. South? Wally got yanked under.

Like, Mr. Martin popped up in the library, scared the shit out of South,

who fell off a ladder, but in positive news, did in fact survive.

So... Guys, what is happening?

Yanked? Wally, are you okay? Yeah, I'm all right. I don't know what is in that

place. It feels like a... like a sub-scar to all the other scars. I think

it's church.

Wally found this in there.

there's something down there people maybe maybe answers

people wait people like scar people like mr manfredo or crispy janet or other

ghosts like us i don't know there's only one way to find out simon knock it off

just give us a freaking second so we can look into this someone's on edge let's

talk to my dad he's looking into your situation at the hospital can you guys

just Give us a second to figure this shit out before any more of you venture

into the fucking abyss. You talked to your dad?

Maddy, that's huge.

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Sounds like it.

Respectfully, Maddy, we can't lose another day without answers, and I'm not

sure how good you're gonna be locked in this cafeteria all day.

I'm going in!

Simon!

Simon!

There you are.

All right, pick a table.

I'll slow his roll.

Don't stress.

All right, here's how this is going to work.

I will be taking your cell phones.

And to ensure you stay focused, I will be sitting right here all day.

You are to spend your time writing an exhaustive, minute-by-minute account of

what really happened Tuesday.

From the hours of 4 p.m.

4 a.m. No gaps.

Excuse me.

Roger, it's Saturday. You should be home resting.

Any idea where she wants this stuff?

She? That lady.

Got a call to come in this morning. Guess she wants her office set up a

certain way.

She's outside with another 20 boxes.

An office?

Do not move.

I will be back. But that does not mean that I am not watching you.

We need to figure out what this thing is.

What thing is?

They found a church.

Sorry, a church?

Yeah, inside the scars.

We don't know what it means. It's either the thing that will help get Simon out

or kill him for good, so I need to track him down and make sure he doesn't jump

into a portal to hell.

I should have gone to private school.

Just cover for me.

If Hartman asks, I'm in the bathroom.

Maddie, are you... If someone else asks me that, I'm gonna fucking lose it.

Hallelujah.

What's that? Oh!

Jesus. Wow.

What are you doing here?

Um, just, uh, doing some soul searching.

In the band room?

Trying to stay out of everyone's way at the moment.

Okay. No, uh, I'll just, uh... You go enjoy your...

lunch and i'll what is that what are you doing yeah uh i was gonna do a little

soul searching myself oh

psilocybin yeah shrooms

right i just uh wanted to escape from things

you ever had hallucinogens

No.

Uh, no.

No.

Do you want some?

No.

I couldn't.

I'm supposed to be the teacher here. You know, the adult.

Look, it's none of my business, and I don't know what it is you're looking

for, but I do know that sometimes these things can help you find it.

Then count me in, too.

Whoa. Quinn, did you just take this whole bag?

Oh.

I thought you had had yours.

Dude, you just took, like, four doses.

What?

Simon!

Should we go after her?

I mean, guys, Hartman could be back any second. No, no, I can't go.

If I get expelled and Diego's the only kid with a college degree, I'll never be

able to survive another Thanksgiving with my family. Just give her a beat,

all right? She's going through a lot.

Sandra went to detox for a few days. Oh, shit.

I showed up at her house drunk last night.

That probably didn't help. No, don't sweat it. It's Maddie. She'll be okay.

She just doesn't seem to want to talk about it. What is this? Did Maddie write

this?

Huh, looks only slightly less alien than the language from arrival.

Um, this is Finnish.

Um, hymnal for some use of something, something, something.

Finland. What's happening?

Wait, you know Finnish?

Yeah, I'm Finnish.

You're Finnish?

Yes. Why is that surprising?

No, no, no reason.

I speak it better than I read it. What she said.

I grew up speaking with my grandparents, and this is definitely from a Finnish

church. Wait, does Maddie have Simon's?

Google Translate never fails.

Oh, crap, no Wi-Fi.

Oh, but Simon's parents messaged him earlier.

Cool, cool, cool, cool. You think we can get Simon's service in the afterlife?

Oh, fuck.

Is there a way that we can, like, deepfake him?

No, we need Wi-Fi for that.

And let's be real, those free voice generators are never very good. I used

to use one when I would skip school to sound like my dad, but it kind of just

ended up sounding like James Earl Jones.

Wait, what did you say?

I would illegally impersonate my father, the sheriff. No, no, no.

Let's be real.

Simon's podcast about B-movies, he made it last year.

Yes, that's the one where he would re-watch panned movies only to realize

the critics were right and they were actually pretty bad.

Where is this going, Nicole?

If I can get to the Media Lab, I can probably find some old apps on

SoundCloud and cut something together, or something.

Yes. Yes.

Okay, let's go before Hartman gets back, and I will see what I can figure out

about the signal stuff.

Great. Great. What do I do?

You can write our assignments.

Yes. Yes, we've chosen me, the nearly failing student, to do the homework.

That's smart.

You're not as stupid as you look.

Didn't love that.

Yellow PC Hartman.

Spending too much time together.

That wasn't cool, dude.

Took you long enough to get here.

You told her it was just me. You made me lie to Maddie.

I didn't make you do a thing.

You could have told her the truth, but you didn't. And to be clear, I'll now

gladly go back to tell her you lied if you don't let me back in.

You played me.

Sorry. Wally, we need to go back in there.

I saw something.

On my way out, there's someone else there. Yeah, no shit, dude. I was the

one that had the creepy little hands grabbing at me, not you. It's not the

same thing as those hands.

Come on, come on, Wally.

If this church is the reason we're both here... Can we at least just please go

come clean to Maddie before we go?

Yeah, you can. She'll be pissed.

Watch. Please.

You have the watch.

No, you have the watch.

You for sure have the watch. No, I had the football. You had the watch. We each

had one key.

Oh, my God, I lost it.

Oh, I dropped it. What? Oh, fuck.

No, dude. Yeah, I was kind of running for my life. No, we need that.

Yeah, no shit.

Fuck.

Well, fuck it.

Grab your football.

We'll go the long way around and use the side doors. Hold on.

Wait a minute, all right? Let's just think this through. Think what through?

How about a little hustle sport? Let's go to the football field.

Wait. What is going on? What is happening?

I just, um... I just need a minute.

These cover every decade from 1830 to 1940.

Look for anything about a church in the area.

We're talking about America in the 1910s. There was nothing else to do. I

mean, there's over 200 churches in the index alone.

Plus, all the street names were different back then. Okay, so it's going

to be a process.

Not to wander off topic. Charlie, you wander more than JFK on a Maryland

weekend. Just spit it out.

I said some things to Yuri that I didn't not mean, but I don't know if they were

entirely fair, and now he's mad and possibly not speaking to me. I mean,

what is my problem?

Why do I always ruin good things when they get started?

Just apologize.

Okay, but he was wrong, too.

I mean, he lied.

Okay, then break up. Okay, can you just give me a break here? I'm asking you for

advice. And you think I'm the relationship expert?

The guy who asked me to prom said I should join the track team. I ran away

from him so fast.

This is a state-of-the-art library.

I'm sure it was in 1999.

But if I'm being perfectly honest, your out-of-date facilities are nothing

compared to your other problems.

What other problems are you referring to? Come on, Jerry.

Get real.

This place is an absolute death trap.

The number of students who have dropped dead on campus, it's unbelievable.

It'd be funny if it weren't so deeply disturbing.

I would be honored to be the person that sees this place torn down once and

for all.

Come on, Ray. We've got a lot of work to do.

Library smells musty. Write that down.

Possible mold.

There is no mold. I told you. Possible termites. No, there's no termites.

So should I be feeling anything yet?

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised you're not feeling anything yet.

Hypothetically, what should I be feeling?

It's different for everyone.

You know, some people see things.

Some people feel things.

Feel freer.

Usually, mushrooms just take what's ever in your mind and make you look at it

dead in the eye.

Hmm. Kind of like the scars.

Gosh, that doesn't sound very freeing.

Some people have fallen ego deaths to remember what it was like in the womb.

Is it weird? I don't really actually remember a lot from my life anymore.

Like, I'll try to play back certain moments and... I just get static.

Yeah. I wish I remembered less.

Be careful with that.

You start by forgetting the bad memories on purpose.

And then the good ones vanish too.

A couple decades ago, I realized I couldn't even remember my own mother's

face.

I just can't see it anymore.

Pretty far out to think we've all been dead longer than we were ever alive.

Maybe it just doesn't work on ghosts.

Or maybe I'm just not wired to be free.

Yeah, they may have been duds.

Sorry.

But even without the shrooms, this all got pretty existential.

I, uh... I think I'm gonna go take a walk.

Thanks for trying. It was a valiant effort.

Simon?

Simon!

Maddie? Maddie!

Any sign of Simon?

Not yet, but I'll find him.

What are you doing out at the cafeteria?

His parents texted again.

But we're getting creative, so I'm on it.

Shit. Don't let Hartman catch you.

Yeah, you too.

I'm missing something. I'm not finding anything helpful in these. You?

Hello?

Sorry. Are you still obsessing over your fight with Yuri?

God, this wasn't even your first relationship.

Yeah, and do you know how my actual first one went?

Well, first love doesn't count anyway. That's just infatuation.

Infatuation was a lot easier.

What's she doing in here?

How would you like to live the American dream?

You, too, can have it all. A 9-to-5 job.

2.4 kids.

A white cricket fence and a beautiful lawnmower.

Newspaper on your doorstep.

Sex twice a year.

And don't forget Fido.

Sit, boy.

On you!

Nothing like the smell of freshly cut grass in the morning. A man's lawn isn't

dry. Oops!

Better get that. It might be important.

Better get that.

Better get that.

Okay,

it's been a minute. Are you good now?

Damn, she looks pissed.

Yeah, she's definitely looking for me. Okay, just give me a second. I just want

to check in on her.

Yeah, don't tell her where I am or what we're doing, all right?

Stay strong, champ.

Insufficient number of smoke detectors.

I counted seven. I counted seven. What is that horrible smell?

Smell, can you look into that, Red? It was a senior's prank. It was Frog Simmer

from the biology department.

It's a little formaldehyde. No pressure.

Coast is clear. Simon's pissing me off.

Where is he?

I'm really not sure.

Wally, where is Simon? I don't know, but I'm sure wherever he is, he's doing

whatever he can to get back to you.

All right?

I can't say I blame him. You know, I'd be doing the same thing.

But that's the problem.

He jumps before he thinks. He always has.

That's how he got himself into this in the first place. Couldn't just wait five

seconds for me to get back. He had to run into the burning building and get

himself stuck.

I can't lose him to this.

Maddie, maybe we should get some privacy.

We're in the girls' room. How much more privacy do you want?

Fair point.

I can't do this.

I can't watch another person I care about intentionally throw themselves in

harm's way, especially when all I'm doing is trying to keep them safe.

I'm gonna lose it, Wally. I'm not kidding.

Is this just about Simon?

It's about everything.

It's about Simon, my mom, seeing my dad.

And I'm sorry to be saying this because I know that Simon's got to be the

priority, but I feel like I'm going to break soon.

And it's really freaking me out.

Hey, you know, when the team was freaked out before a game,

my coach had this exercise.

Do you want to try it?

Let's try it. Okay, this is what I want you to do.

Close your eyes and imagine a suitcase.

Now put your favorite movie in the suitcase.

What's your favorite movie?

Harold and Maude.

Are you serious right now? Harold and Maude? Like the movie about the dude

that's obsessed with death and he falls in love with an 80-year-old woman?

And how old are you these days?

Damn, I never thought I'd be Maude. Okay, so this is what I want you to do

now. Think about just your favorite moment from that movie.

and put it in the suitcase.

What's your favorite moment?

Easy.

Right after Harold tells Maude he loves her. Right before she dies.

And she says, Oh, Harold, that's wonderful.

Go and love some more.

Yeah, I love that movie too.

I'm not trying to be controlling, I swear.

I'm trying to help.

Well, I know. You just... You don't want to be on the field.

But you're in the booth right now. But sometimes being in the booth is the best

place to be because you can see the field and you can call plays.

You're still in this, Maddie. It's just different.

And you're exactly where Simon needs you to be.

You have to help us on your side. Go where we can't.

Talk to people who don't hear us.

All right.

Go back down there, but I'm still pissed And when you see Simon tell him he's an

asshole that I can definitely do Wait Your

suitcase

I might come in handy

I'm not trying to be an asshole, you know? I don't like keeping things from

her. Neither do I.

Especially the big stuff.

What's the big stuff?

What's the big stuff? I got my door, okay?

Your exit door?

Yeah.

Yeah, it It appeared the night Maddie got back to her body and it stayed

So that's why I was so hesitant earlier.

I mean we could go see it right now if we took the side doors I could take you

and show you Does anyone else know about it?

No, I can't figure out what I would say Clearly not goodbye

So when are you gonna tell her

I have not thought that far ahead.

So we are doing this.

I'm not gonna tell anyone.

Yeah, we're doing this.

Let's go.

Well, I think we're about done here, right?

Uh, hardly.

I suspect it's riddled with asbestos. And I think I saw some ladle there, too.

No, ladle, no. Do you have time for me?

Maddie.

What are you doing down here?

I was just, uh... skipping detention.

Secret's safe with me.

But you better get back to the cafeteria before they notice you're gone.

Mr. South, I know you see things at the school.

And I just want you to know I see them too.

Do you know if there was something here before the high school?

Follow me.

Come, Lebron.

Mother?

Can

you

hand me that book over there?

Which one? This one?

No, no, the smaller one.

Sorry. Ouch!

I just want to check on something. Okay, God, it's so unfair that it hurts even

though it doesn't bleed.

Seriously? Seriously, you're the only person I know who can manage to get a

paper cut after the grave.

I fell in love again All things go, all things go

Drove to Chicago All things know, all

things know I made a lot of mistakes In my mind,

in my mind You came to take us All things

go

All things grow to recreate us All things grow,

all things grow If

I

was crying

In the van with my friend It was for freedom

From myself and from the land I made a

lot of mistakes You

came

to take

All things grow, all things grow, to recreate us.

All things grow, all things grow, we have our mindset.

All things know, all things know, you've had to find a way.

All things know, all things know, you came to take.

things go too easy

Quinn's having a nice day.

That guy's not.

Mother! Wait!

Wait!

I

think

the school's in great shape.

Oh, you think it's in great shape?

I guess technology isn't the answer to everything. She's been searching for

ages and hasn't found a single thing.

Holy shit.

Holy shit is right.

Let's go.

It's just here, past the fence line.

It's a cornerstone.

When the last lead janitor retired, he showed me this.

If you get close... Oh, there's an energy to it.

A vibration.

Did you ever hear of the stone tapes?

Old idea.

Says that places, buildings, rocks, trees even, they don't just sit there.

They remember.

Everything that's ever happened near them, joy, grief, blood, and death, it

soaks in.

Gets etched into the walls.

Grain the ground.

And sometimes...

Under the right circumstances.

They play it back.

Those lost memories.

I don't know that this place is so much haunted as it is trying to say

something.

And this one... This one's been talking since before

you or I were born.

Since before this school was ever built.

What is it trying to tell us?

Keep listening.

Oh, shit.

I

took

a wrong turn. It's this way.

You better run.

Didn't you hear me? You want the bird call?

Bird call?

What bird call? To tell you to hurry. The bird call.

That's the thing.

Guys, I found something.

Did you find Simon?

No. He's going in there whether I like it or not.

Great. Hey, I'm sorry I showed up at your place like that. I should have

known better. It was thoughtless.

I filled him in on what was going on. Should I not have done that? No.

Sorry. It's fine, of course.

Don't apologize.

I'm glad she's getting help.

Hey, Maddie, are you sure you're okay at your place alone?

Maddie?

What did I say?

I'm just not used to talking about it.

I know you mean well when you say it's so great she's getting help.

But she gets help all the time.

And we end up right back where we started. So, yeah, it's great she's at

detox. But what happens in a week when she's back?

I will be fine at my place alone. I am alone whether she's there or not.

We just, we've been through this so many times.

Sometimes hope just messes with my brain and turns into dread.

Maddie, you're wrong.

You're not alone.

All right,

that's... Oh.

Principal Hartman.

You okay?

Yeah, so fine.

Well, continue.

Please report to the principal's office.

All right.

I'll be back in a few minutes to collect your papers.

Please, please do not leave until I get back.

You guys, there's a reason I couldn't find anything online.

I kept trying to search for, like, Finnish church, Split River, Lutheran

church, Split River, but Split River wasn't always called Split River. You're

kidding.

It used to be called Stillwater.

Thanks to that discovery, I remembered seeing that name over and over again in

this book.

Stillwater was the name of the town up until 1912.

I couldn't find any info on why they changed it, but I did find this.

Hey, Maddie, you think you could translate?

Just one second.

Nine people died in the church that was on the site.

Eight were children.

Nine people died in the church where Simon found that hymnal.

They died inside the church?

I'm lost.

What's the connection?

Died from...

What? When?

He says it happened on October 28th, 1912.

Come now, Everett.

You remember.

It was the day they split the river.

My mother told me about it.

It was meant to help the town prosper.

To redirect water to local farms.

But something went wrong.

There was a flood.

It rained for days and days.

So the old church that was here was also a grave.

And now the memory of whatever happened is trapped

here, too.

All right.

Time to go home.

Turn in your work.

To be continued.

How do I shop left? Right here.

Quinn,

are you okay?

Hey, Rhonda.

What are you doing up there?

Okay, well, we... Do you want us to help you down?

Or... Oh.

Everything's okay.

I saw the universe, Rhonda.

It was so beautiful.

What are you talking about?

Whoa, whoa, hey, hey.

Are you okay?

I took a journey into my soul, and it turns out I am music.

That is exactly what Barry Manilow said.

Can you walk?

Okay, they're just gonna yeah, let's get you some water

I'll meet up with you guys later

Dream of

somewhere better

Are you okay?

I uh... I went in.

Finally.

Saw what I've been avoiding.

I mean, I should have known.

All those years at the wheel, thinking about how I didn't want to get stuck.

Suburban house, dead-end job, beer in front of the TV every night.

That was my horror.

Not the kid and a wife.

Just me.

Wasting away with no freedom.

And in trying so hard not to end up there, I trapped myself in the fear of

it.

Jaina was right.

I took it from out here.

And I brought it in with me.

When I came back out, it didn't reset.

That's how she made things stay.

But Charlie, the only thing I want to make stay is you.

Don't go.

It's getting dark earlier now, huh?

Yeah.

You waiting for him to come back?

I don't even know anymore.

I'm just trying to figure out what to do next.

We're doing stuff.

Thanks to Claire's surprising finner skills and Nicole's tech savviness,

we're on it now.

Don't forget your dad's on it, too.

Yeah.

You're right.

Hey, thanks for everything you said earlier and today.

All that you guys are doing.

It's easy to forget people are there for you when you get stuck in your head all

the time.

Always.

I owe it to you.

You should get some rest, Maddie. Head home.

Simon's gonna be here tomorrow.

I promise.

With answers.

I hope you're right.

I can't help but feel like everything's on fire and I can't put it out.

You can't control everything, Maddie.

Yeah, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to.

I'm gonna go try anything.

I'm gonna call away.

What brings you?

Do you remember me?

We met, um, well, a while back now.

I'm, uh, Dave.

David.

Drowned.

I remember.

Just surprised to see you or anyone in this part of the hospital.

No one comes here if they don't have to.

I'm hoping you can help me.

I know you've been here a long time.

Longer than anyone.

I see my daughter... It's a complicated story, but she needs my help.

I think what's happening here is happening at her school.

There are people, ghosts there, like us, stuck at the high school.

We're not stuck.

Not really.

Not like the others.

Okay,

look out.

Howdy. You okay?

Can I stay at your place tonight?

See anything or anyone yet?

No.

Any sign of that watch?

No, it's here.

I know you've seen it.

Seen what?

Your way out.

These ones never will.

I got it. Okay, come on, Simon. Let's go.

Simon!

You hear that?

What do you mean?

There are spirits.

Further down.

Older than us.

They are truly stuck here.

No way out.

No escape.

Lost.

We call them... the forgotten.