Aidan drops in to see Kenny who has lots of passive
aggressive hints about who really killed Astrid and makes it clear he’s not
leaving town until vengeance is his. Aidan tries to talk him out of it because vengeance
is totally no fun, honest. Aidan also borrows a moving van off Kenny because he
likes to push it, it seems.
Back at the house, Ramona (the creepy girl ghost) is
worried about them all leaving and Sally has decided to make it her mission in
life to save her. Partly because she knows what it’s like to be trapped in the
house and partly because she doesn’t have a life to move on to, unlike the others
who are kind of moving on. Sadly, no-one
takes the opportunity to remind her that SALLY INTERVENTION ALWAYS ALWAYS
ALWAYS GOES WRONG! But Aiden will help because he’s totally not leaving without
newly found true love Sally
Ramona disappears which everyone writes off as totally
fine and not even slightly ominous, honest.
Josh and Sally pack and Josh looks for boxes for his
things – and Nora says he can totally use hers. The big subject – is Josh
moving in with Nora – is finally addressed. He doesn’t want to assume, seems to
accept the awfulness of what happens and even if Sally’s little possession cure
worked, he doesn’t know that for sure and understands Nora not wanting to risk
this. She still wants him at her flat so they can start married life together
And in the basement after much dancing around the subject
and Sally lamenting the fate of some tights, Aidan invites her to come with him
– to haunt him. Ramona seethes upstairs in her room all alone.
Like any set of room mates leaving a place, they argue
over communal property which is delightfully normal (why does Aidan want a
coffee maker and cookware?) I love the bickering, yes yes I do. They’re arguing
over a really ugly statue too.
Beatrice, Ramona’s sister shows up to double check if
Aidan REALLY saw her ghostly sister. Because there’s a problem with that – see her
parents were sort of devil worshippers and they summoned a big bad demon called
Haymen (as you do – this was before the internet. People were much much more
bored). But they needed a sacrifice. Luckily they had twins – one of which,
Beatrice, they named and raised as a daughter. The other they stuck in a secret
room and shut them off from the world (Beatrice named her) until they were 10
and Ramona just disappeared after another demonic party.
Ramona appears and Beatrice can see her – something Ramona
puts down to them being twins. Problem is that Ramona blames her sister for her
death, for not stopping it and, despite Sally et al saying otherwise, she’s not
in a forgiving mood. She kills Ramona then spookily announces “she’s not part
of our game.” The gang runs being not entirely stupid – but upon passing
through the front door, they’re all teleported to different rooms.
Even Sally? And you’d think ghostly powers wouldn’t work
on a ghost, especially a ghost with witch woo-woo.
Each of them faces something bound to cause lots of
angst. Aidan is locked in with Henry – his vampire child who died from the
virus – who is now a ghost (impossible since vampires can’t become ghosts).
Sally is locked in the bathroom with Kat (Aidan’s ex who rejected him when he
showed her his vamprieness) who says she can see her and isn’t happy. Josh gets
Julia, his ex-fiancee who died when she saw he was a werewolf. Nora gets Emily,
(Josh’s sister), who is drinking.
Aidan, confronted with a vampire ghost, sees a possible
vampire afterlife which is a mixed blessing because over the years the only
reason he hasn’t committed suicide is because he didn’t think he had an afterlife
waiting – and Henry thinks Aidan should join him in order to save the future
people Aidan will inevitably kill. A stake appears. And if he commits suicide…
Aidan can be with Sally.
Emily tells Nora how terribad Josh is and how he’s ruined
everyone’s life. A journal appears supposedly documenting Josh’s continued
inability to control his wolf, the rage and the urge to kill. Emily also throws
in the big surprise that Nora is pregnant – and she can’t protect her baby from
Josh.
Kat wants to tell Sally how impossible a ghost/vampire
romance is and how much better she is for Aidan.
Julia tells Josh how out of control he is, how the wolf
is taking him over, how dangerous and savage and murderous he is and she claims
she can see the future and the only way he can save Nora from himself is to
kill himself, he spreads too much misery and pain to live. A silver knife
appears.
Sally twigs that this is Ramona’s little game –
thankfully early before I start screaming at people for falling for the
obvious. She confronts Ramona and adds she’s a more powerful ghost – but Ramona
claims to be more than a ghost – and to actually being the house. She thrives on chaos and carnage and she
absolutely loves having Aidan and Josh in the house because they’re carnage
gold. Now they’re trying to leave she’s going to take everyone out with a final
burst of death.
Sally teleports in to Nora to warn her about the
hallucinations. She does an excellent job of snapping Nora out of it and
sending her to Josh while she goes to Aidan. She makes a tearful appeal to Aiden
not to leave her – and he drops the stake
Josh’s hallucinations ratchet up a notch to seeing Nora’s
body with a slit throat and the blood stained silver knife in his hands. He
falls to pieces and points the knife at himself – when real Nora comes running
down. She touches him, proving she’s not a ghost, and he drops the knife.
They leave through the back door – and all end up back in
Ramona’s hidden room. Sally explains things and smugly adds that no-one there
would kill each other because their bond is too strong. Which is when Kenny
arrives. Ramona let’s Aidan out – but only Aidan
He goes to Kenny who demands the truth. Aidan tells him – and Kenny is angry about Aidan choosing Josh over him, about lying to him, betraying him and generally how he has to kill Josh now to honour the dead Astrid (Aidan really should have included the “held Nora at gunpoint” part) and to do that he has to kill Aidan – and he draws a stake.
They fight and Kenny is clearly winning (I seem to
remember the deformed vampires like Kenny were stronger than their
counterparts), demanding Aidan admit was a bad dad he has been, pointing out
how hard he tried to work for Aidan’s approval. But in the fight they ram
against a wall – and the stake goes into Kenny’s heart – Kenny says he’s happy,
he lived longer than he expected to… but manages to add that Sally is gone,
truly gone and it’s all Josh’s fault before crumbling to dust.
Of course Josh decides to head down when he hears Aidan
crying and yelling, now the door is unblocked. But Ramona blocks Aidan from
seeing Sally and, in the ashes of his son, Aidan blames it all on Josh; Sally
remembers the scene from when she saw the future, when
Aidan killed Josh by breaking his neck. We see Aidan grab Josh’s head…
And CLIFFHANGER
I like Josh and Nora’s conversation about Josh moving in –
I like Josh’s seeming understanding of how terrible what he did was. I like
that he understands it’s entirely Nora’s decision and it’s not to him to talk
her into it and I like that he makes it clear that even if he feels cured there
is a risk – rather than burying it to get what he wants. Of course, I don’t
like the risk in the first place, or that werewolf-can’t-help-himself-rawr is
actually such a common thing in the genre. But at least werewolf-can’t-help-himself-rawr
is presented as something awful that he better try to help and that Nora is
perfectly reasonable if she wants to walk out and never see him again
I wonder if the moral quandary of the fact that Aidan and,
to a lesser extent, Josh ARE dangerous and probably will keep killing was
intended? The arguments Ramona made to both of them to push them to suicide are…
compelling. Especially Aidan’s.
I also kind of like Sally thinking she has to snap her
housemates out of it –and instantly goes to Nora. She knows which of them are
most likely to hear sense and snap out of it quickly.
I was impressed how they made the last minute nature of
Ramona fit with her storyline – but much less so by Kenny’s “Sally’s gone, it’s
all Josh’s fault” being sufficient to drive Aidan over the edge… no that doesn’t
make the slightest sense.
