9 biggest moments and revelations

Spoiler alert for Ghosts season 4, episode 3, ‘Halloween 4: The Witch’

Ghosts Season 4 continues with Halloween shenanigans that keep the entire gang on their toes. Patience (Mary Holland), a Puritan ghost from the 1600s, is living with Sam (Rose McIver), Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and all the ghosts of the Woodstone B&B after she finds her way home through the land in Ghosts season 3 finale. Patience’s presence in the house makes things scarier, as Ghosts Season 4, Episode 2 revealed that her ghost power is making the walls bleed. The ghost brings a horror element to the paranormal comedy series, just in time for spooky season.

Patience appeared in Ghosts season 4 premiere after a brief introduction in season 3 when she pulled Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) through the wall. The Puritan ghost had some unfinished business with the Revolutionary War soldier, who accidentally banished her to earth with an ill-timed sneeze that caused him to let go of her hand when they were underground. Although Patience and Isaac have reconciled, the godly ghost is still settling in and some concepts are new to her. Patience’s adverse reaction to Halloween sparks more mischief and provides another big Ghosts Halloween episode.

9

Patience believes Sam is a witch because of Halloween

Patience has a history of making witch accusations

It doesn’t take much to convince Patience that the devil is lurking around every corner. Still, the sheltered ghost finds plenty of reason to believe Sam is a witch in episode 4. Sam, who loves Halloween and has spent three seasons celebrating it with the ghosts, enters the room with a motion-activated Jack-O-Lantern . When Patience sees his eyes light up and hears him make an automatic, haunted laugh, she accuses Sam of witchcraft.

The Puritan’s accusation makes sense in the context of Patience’s accusation. Ghosts season 4 story. In 1692, Patience was banished from her religious community for being “very severe.” The decision came after she accused a five-year-old girl of being a witch because she saw her talking to her doll. His accusations make sense, considering Patience’s background and naivety in the modern world. That doesn’t help the other ghosts mention Sam’s annual Halloween partywhere she brings other ghosts back from the dead.

8

Jay recalls Woodstone B&B’s hard-luck Halloween story

This wasn’t the ghosts’ first Halloween episode

When Jay realizes that Sam’s zeal for Halloween may inspire another upset from Patience, he recalls their history of bad luck on the holiday. Jay remembers the B&B owners’ new gazebo catching fire in season 1, Sam “almost dying” in season 2, and Pete’s widow Carol dying at the estate in season 3. Although Sam loves the holiday and wants to make the most of it, it tends to bring out some of the more eccentric antics in the Ghosts characters who died in Woodstone.

Although he can’t see the undead spirits in his house, he can sometimes see their effects, like when Thor (Devan Chandler Long) caused his gazebo to catch fire. Likewise, Jay could see the blood that Patience made leak from the walls in Ghosts Season 4, Episode 2. Then, despite the duo trying to relax and have a Halloween party in Season 3, they accidentally invited Pete’s widow, Carol, who choked on a donut hole and joined the rest of the group as a ghost. In context, it makes sense that Jay would want to have a low-key Halloween.

7

Sam and Jay decide not to celebrate Halloween in Ghosts season 4

Sam and Jay have a Halloween sale

In light of the discussion that brings to light the harrowing Halloweens of the past, Sam and Jay decide to cancel the celebrations and have a Halloween sale instead of. Woodstone Mansion is filled with spooky antique collectibles that Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) acquired while living in the Gilded Age mansion. To Hetty’s dismay, Sam and Jay move a collection of their eccentric objects into the backyard, such as their taxidermied crow and penguin collars (which, according to Hetty, are made of penguins to penguins).

Despite agreeing with her husband that the celebrations are cancelled, Sam wears Hetty’s old prom dress because it’s “Halloween.” Still, Sam fulfills his garage sale duties and the owners have a good turnout. The garage sale even brings back a missing character from Ghosts Season 3 Margaret Farnsby (Kathryn Greenwood), who searches for a table for her and her husband’s swinger operation, revealed in Ghosts Season 2, Episode 6, ‘The Baby Bjorn’.

6

Patience convinces the other ghosts to put Sam through a witch trial

The Puritan ghost is superstitious

Convinced that she is a witch, Patience asks the other ghosts to put Sam through a witch trial.. Patience makes some convincing arguments about why she believes the owner of the house is a witch, namely Sam’s ability to summon the dead and speak to ghosts. She also cites Sam’s ability to predict the weather as proof. Sasappis (Román Zaragoza) points out that Sam achieves this with a weather app on his phone, noting that some of Patience’s arguments are stronger than others.

After Sam cancels Halloween, Isaac and the rest of the ghosts agree to the witch trial since everyone is looking for something to do. When the spirits tell Sam what they are doing, she rebukes Patience, saying: “Women should stand up.” Patience’s mind immediately associates the comment with levitation, further convincing her of Sam’s transgressions. Sam refuses to participate in the trialso the ghosts decide to try her out in absentia, and that doesn’t go well with the owner of the house.

Patience makes some convincing arguments, and the ghosts get mad at Sam for canceling Halloween and other random things, so they convict her of witchcraft. Every ghost votes that Sam is guiltyexcept Alberta (Danielle Pinnock). Believing the trial is over, the ghosts laugh, but the Puritan continues gravely. Patience condemns Sam to “petrification,” noting that Sam’s flesh and bones will turn to stone. The witch trial continues Patience’s tendency to impose her beliefs on those around her, as she did on Sam’s father (Dean Norris) in Ghosts Season 4, Episode 2.

5

The ghosts find a limestone statue that looks like Sam

The ghosts believe that Sam turns to stone

When they go out to check out the garage sale, the ghosts discover a limestone statue resembling Sam. The statue is holding a rake that Sam carried before the witch trials, and the ghosts begin to panic about the possibility that Patience has turned Sam to stone. They try to get Patience to reverse the sentence, but she says they decided her fate. To make matters worse, Trevor (Asher Grodman) suddenly reports that Jay is selling Sam’s statue.

The ghosts run outside and find Jay placing the statue in the back of another man’s truck. Trevor, who can interact with the material world, sends a message to Jay, warning him that Patience turned Sam to stone after the witch trials. Jay runs after the truck and is unable to catch it, but the ghosts help him locate the limestone statue anyway. Pete Martino (Richie Moriarty) accompanies Sam’s statue, using Pete’s revolutionary new ghost powers.

4

Isaac becomes addicted to the TV while they spend time together

Isaac is a cunning diplomat

While Trevor, Pete, Thor, Hetty, and Alberta attempt to retrieve Sam’s statue from Jay, Isaac follows Patience, strategically trying to get on the Puritan’s good side. The pair enter the TV room and Patience exclaims that “the devil’s box is lit”, referring to the TV being on. Isaac, positioning himself as Patience’s friend, says he doesn’t usually watch television, but notes that he is particularly “good episode.”

While Isaac gives her the synopsis of the episode, Patience wants to escape to avoid being corrupted, but Isaac suggests that they “bear witness to sin” so they can warn others. Patience, intrigued by the idea and getting sucked into the programming, meanders over to the couch and sits with Isaac. Isaac, afraid of Patience and having been scolded by her, uses his political knowledge to get on the Puritan’s good side. A side effect of the alliance is that Isaac and Patience grow closer.

3

Jay sacrifices his Dungeons & Dragons Quasit to retrieve Sam’s statue

Jay makes a valuable trade for Sam’s statue

With the help of the ghosts and Trevor’s ability to communicate using the iPad, the ghosts share Sam’s location with Jay. The person who bought Sam’s statue is a content creator who makes videos of himself blowing things up with dynamite. The ghosts send Jay a teaser in which the creator stands next to the statue of Sam he bought in Woodstone and says he’s going to blow it up that afternoon.

Luckily, Jay recognizes the location because it’s near one of the Sonic restaurants he frequents. It locates “Captain Kaboom” and begs for the statue back. Ultimately, Captain Kaboom agrees to return the statue to Jay if he trades in his Dungeons & Dragons quasit, a figurine inspired by Jay’s fantasy role-playing hobby that accidentally went up for sale at the garage sale. Jay reluctantly agrees to the trade and brings Sam’s statue home safelyfor relief from ghosts.

2

Jay accidentally breaks Sam’s statue after the flower passes by

Jay makes a fatal mistake (but it’s okay)

Overjoyed that Jay returned Sam to Woodstone, Flower (Sheila Carrasco) tries to hug Jay, but an unfortunate side effect that Flower has in “the living” when she passes them is when they get uncontrollably high. Unaware of your surroundings, Jay runs to Sam’s statue and knocks him down, breaking his head. As Jay falls to his knees and screams his wife’s name, Sam appears, asking what all the fuss is about.

Sam explains that she was helping Mrs. Farnsby move a table she bought at the garage sale, putting it in a room that Sam didn’t want to talk about, based on the lore that the Farnsbys are swingers. Sam’s reappearance is the perfect twist for the Halloween episode. “Halloween 4: The Witch” offers a paranormal scare with minimal consequences (other than Jay losing a quasit). Ultimately, Patience realizes that her ghost powers do not extend to petrificationbut the other spirits agree that his ability to make walls bleed is quite frightening.

1

Patience decides to return to Earth (but she wants companions)

Patience returns to earth, but it doesn’t go alone

Just before Sam appears as herself, the ghosts beg Patience to reverse her sentence. Patience reminds them that Sam is a sinner and that nothing can be done to save her. Isaac, who has been strategizing communication with Patience since her character’s debut, reminds her that she also turned away from the light when she watched TV with him. He reminds Patience of how she danced to a diabetes medicine commercial, which harkens back to Purtian’s idea of ​​letting loose.

Ashamed of having strayed from her values, Patience announces that she plans to return to Earth. The other ghosts are supportive, as Patience has complicated life at Woodstone during her limited time there. Even Sam is supportive of the idea, usually willing to face a ghost in need of help. However, Patience reveals that she is returning to “the others” as she leaves, leaving episode 3 on the question: Who else does Patience have in the dirt and who will be missing? Ghosts Season 4, Episode 4?