Last time on Superstition...
You know the rumors about my family? It's all true.
I have a lot of vacation days
that you guys have been urging me to take,
so I'm cashing that in.
These infernals are imprisoned in this ring for a reason.
I don't want you to sit waiting for me to come around.
Come on, Raymond! Get in there and fight!
Come on, get in there.
Ooh!
Overbay, the enemy just panned out of you.
Now you gotta call home and tell your parents that you are dead!
You know why? 'Cause you got no fight!
Fight, Overbay! Fight!
Fight!
Stop! Get off, Metterson! Stop!
Yeah.
What are you doing, Raymond? Get him.
Come on, let's go!
You still suck!
You got lucky.
You useless boot.
All right everybody, fall in.
Fall out!
Raymond Overbay!
This ain't no pleasure cruise!
Move! You look like a bag of scrapped doorknobs.
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Hey, Tilly.
Hey.
How'd you know it was me?
That's a stupid question.
Uh, where is everybody?
Bea is off with relatives,
Calvin's doing whatever.
Aren't you supposed to be in Aruba tanning or something?
Uh... yeah, pro-tip,
when you're a single lady, going to a honeymoon spot...
not so fun.
Yeah, I wouldn't know about that.
Yeah, so my resort was four star,
and the airline lost my luggage,
oh, and then it rained the whole time so I just came home early.
Oh, and yeah, and my mother died, too.
- So, there's that. - What?
Yeah, I'm not really sure how or when,
but they said it was natural causes, so...
I'm sorry.
Are you okay?
I know you and your mother were estranged.
Yeah, I thought so, too. Um...
Funny thing is, her last request
was to be interred here at our cemetery.
So the joke's on me.
Oh, gosh.
Yeah, intake's tomorrow morning, so...
I need a drink.
Where's your good stuff?
So, I've been thinking about selling the Cottonmouth.
You know, the property values the way they are.
I think I'd make a killin'.
What do you think?
Works.
Hey, everything good?
Fine.
How goes it with you and May?
Same old.
It's gettin' under your skin, huh?
Little bit. No big deal.
All right. Hold on, hold on.
We either got to stop...
or you're gonna have to call the EMTs.
My nephew is in trouble.
He's halfway through basic training.
He's not fittin' in.
That's why they call it basic training.
- It's not supposed to be easy. - Yeah, I get that,
but he's a scrappy kid.
He's got Oorah in his veins.
He told me
that three recruits from his squad disappeared,
just up and went AWOL in the last three weeks.
Like, you know that doesn't happen.
He also told me that he is
seeing some really weird things like not of this world
and he's afraid to talk to anybody about it.
- Okay, well, what can I do? - You're a Hastings, aren't you?
I mean, this is what you do.
The unusual, the unnatural, the paranormal.
We run a funeral parlor, Travis.
Seriously?
I've been in La Rochelle since before you were born.
I own a bar. There are no secrets.
- Where's he training? - Camp Bridges.
It's like a four or five hour drive.
Hey, I'll buy the snacks.
How about you and I give the camp commander and talk in the morning?
Awesome.
All right, but before we do, we gotta stop by my crib,
'cause I gotta get my lucky charm.
- Still got one of those? - Hell yes, still got one of those.
My grandfather found a silver coin in Germany
and carried it throughout the war.
When I left for boot camp, he gave it to me.
He passed away while I was in basic.
But when I see Evan, I'm givin' it to him.
- I keep mine next to my Ka-Bar. - Great choice, Mr. Grumpy. Let's hit it.
Jason?
- Jason? - I'm busy, Boot.
Order arms!
It's true. We've had our fair share
of Article 86 with this recruit class
but no more than usual.
Four recruits going UA,
especially, this late in training...
is not unusual?
These things ebb and flow.
And these recruits, they know the consequences.
For instance, this recruit that walked away a few days ago,
he knows he's got 30 days to turn himself in
before he spends the rest of his life
looking over his shoulder as a deserter.
That's assuming he's the last.
As my old man would say,
you are whistling past a graveyard, Commander?
So, let me ask you a question.
What if these recruits didn't just go AWOL?
What if it was...
someone or something that lured them away?
Something?
Everyone knows...
that Camp Bridges is the most haunted
military installation in the country.
Even worse than Levinworth.
I don't have time for ghost stories, gentlemen.
Come on, Colonel, I'm former military.
And we both know
that hooky-spooky's attached to every single building on this base.
What is this about?
Are you looking for special treatment for your nephew, Mr. Buchard.
- No. - Am I under investigation?
No, ma'am. We're just here to help.
May I have a word with you in private?
Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of him.
So you think.
I'll be outside smoking a J.
I don't have time for games.
What's the real reason you're here?
You have a hell of a recruit retention problem.
- I'm well aware. - One more goes UA,
the base will be on lockdown, training will be suspended,
and criminal investigation command takes over.
And my career advancement hits a brick wall. I'm well aware.
I have experiences and resources
outside the normal scope of the military.
I'm not the enemy.
Let me help you, Colonel.
I can give you and your friend
48 hours unrestricted access
before people start asking questions.
That's all we need.
Okay, so, hear me out.
My mom's gone, I have the place to myself for the weekend,
I was thinking you and I throw a kickback.
I mean, Calvin said no parties but I have so much dirt on him,
it'd be mutually assured destruction.
Yeah.
Okay.
So maybe kickback's kinda lame. I get it. I mean,
I do have the ideal party/movie situation.
Go big or go home, right?
Russ, are you even listening to me?
Huh?
You're just like my dad sometimes.
I mean, where'd you even disappeared to?
Why do chicks always say that?
I'm not a chick.
If you don't want me to say that, don't disappear on me.
I mean, what's going on with you?
You.
Me?
You and your whole family.
My family is a bunch of hayseed roofers and farmers.
You come from a family of ghostbusters.
Like, you're an X-man lady. Me...
I drive an Uber.
As much as I love you, I...
I'm never gonna be a part of your world.
Did you just say you love me?
I... I don't believe so.
You got me talking all squishy, I hate talking squishy.
Russ, my family is complicated.
- So is everyone's. - No. Look...
I'm afraid, if I show you everything,
you might not be able to handle it.
Garvey...
I don't scare easy.
Show me what you can do. I wanna understand your powers.
So do I.
These seem a lot cushier than when I was in training.
Well, try on boot camp 78'.
No shit. There I was, Saigon.
Hey, Squadly!
- Good to see you, kid. - You too.
Uh, Calvin, this is my nephew.
Evan, soon to be third generation military.
Evan,
this is Gunnery Sergeant Calvin Hastings, US Marine Corps.
It's good to meet you, sir.
Don't call me sir.
I work for a living.
I... I don't have much time.
I have to be in my duty station in ten minutes.
Tell Calvin what you've told me.
It's okay, he's cool.
I have experience in the unexplained. So...
what others won't believe,
I might.
There's something not right around here.
I mean, it's boot camp, so you're almost never alone, but...
even when I am,
I feel like there's someone in the room with me...
someone bad.
Tell him about the dude.
Jason.
Another recruit, real jack off.
- Sorry, sir. - Keep going.
I couldn't sleep.
I saw Jason go into the latrine for the longest while.
Then I heard banging on the toilet stall.
I mean, I checked it myself,
the walls were damn near knocked off the hinges.
And... no Jason.
The MPs chalked it up to vandalism
and now we all have fire suppression for punishment.
But you don't believe the vandalism story?
I believe that there's something coming after us...
one by one.
Why didn't you try to help the guy?
The truth...
I didn't wanna be next.
Did you see anything?
Did you...
hear or smell anything
that might be outside the ordinary?
No.
No, wait.
When I went into the latrine, the air, it felt...
electric.
- Tingly, you know... Like, before... - A lightning strike.
Yes, sir.
- Thanks. That's all. - Yes, sir.
Susan was such a kind and wise woman.
Everyone knew they could bring their troubles to her
and she'd take them on as her own.
She was taken away from us too soon.
Congestive heart failure, they said.
She was barely 60.
Life has a way of reminding us to cherish the ones we truly love
while they're still on this physical plane.
She had such a hard life.
Poverty, life-threatening child birth,
divorce, more than once.
Becoming Wiccan saved her life.
Then we'll honor her passing.
We're very familiar with the Wiccan customs.
In fact, we have a section of our cemetery devoted to the faith.
As executor of her will,
Susan's burial must follow strict guidelines.
No embalming, no casket, no autopsy,
body buried in a shroud.
I know it all too well.
You'll find someone to oversee her remains?
I'll do it myself.
Are you sure?
It's my job.
But why here?
I mean, Georgia is a big state, there's a lot of other funeral homes.
Why ours?
Well, that's hardly a question for today, is it?
From what I understand,
the millstone around her heart was the way she treated you as a child.
Well, it's too little too late.
Tilly, I can finish up with Diana here.
You don't think I don't remember who you are.
She's not just the executor to my mother's will, Isaac,
she's the High Priestess of her coven.
And that's no reason for us to not be gracious.
You built a wedge between me and my mother all these years.
I thought it best for both of you to have a clean break.
Well, that turned out really well, didn't it?
But you're all about maintaining numbers.
So you came here to ask me back
to take my mother's place.
Tell me I'm wrong.
- Tell me I'm wrong. - Tilly.
I'm leaving.
We have a lot of ground to cover,
so what am I dealing with here?
Is it a changeling, a qareen, a wraith?
From what you've told me, you're probably dealing with a Jinn.
Especially, given the electrified air disturbances.
That still covers a variety of creatures.
Well, I'm on a military base. So,
could there be a war like connection between
the Jinn and the missing recruits?
That's where I'd start.
All the disappearances have been of a violent nature.
You probably dealing with a Shiqq, son.
A Shiqq.
- That's a new one on me. - It's a lower form of Jinn.
It's half human, half creature.
Uh, very monstrous in appearance.
You want me to come out there with you?
Training wheels will have to come off at some point.
I took some protective measures
from the alchemy room before I left.
I want you to be very careful, Calvin.
Shiqq are master shapeshifters,
they behave like a chameleon.
They can hide themselves within an object or a person.
Betcha.
You got someone there with you?
Hey, Isaac. It's me, Travis.
Hey, Pop, I'll catch up later.
We have to talk to everyone in Evan's squad.
And we only have about 14 hours to do it.
I got to ask you this, do you Hastings know
what the government's hiding in Area 51?
Okay, show me what you got?
Like, can you make yourself invincible?
Oh, can you shatter all the windows?
I'll start slow.
Like, bringing a goldfish back to life.
Look,
I can do small things. I think.
Like this.
Why do you have that?
Relieves my nervous energy.
Are those even still a thing?
Oh, wait.
Ta-da!
You've got to be kidding me.
Well, fine, if you're not up to the task.
I understand. You probably couldn't do it anyway. So...
All right.
Look, I need to focus.
If you break my concentration, it won't work.
Okay.
Russ, what are you doing?
Looking for hidden wires.
I saw this TV show about how...
Magicians.
- Okay. All right. - Thank you.
Look, I'm sorry.
- Performance anxiety, I... - Hey, don't give up.
You got this, Garvey.
- Okay? - Okay.
Try again.
Whoa.
Garv, you're doing it.
Something like that?
That's the dopest shit I've ever seen.
I mean, can you teach me how to do that?
Garv, that'd get me on America's Got Talent.
I mean, I don't think there's a way. Is there? I...
Whoa! I wish there was a way, I mean...
Wait, Russ...
Russ, there might actually be a way.
- What? - Look.
We shared blood.
Hastings blood is a part of every cell in your body.
Let's find out how strong.
Yes.
Mommy!
I'm so sorry.
Evan.
You don't have to do this.
You don't have anything to prove.
You're a good man, just as you are.
I wanna be like you.
I have to be you.
My family expects me to.
They'll understand.
It's gonna be okay.
Calvin!
No!
Evan! Ev!
Evan! It's okay, buddy.
You're all right. It's gonna be all right.
Breathe! Look at me!
- What kind of unholy alien... - Hey, Evan's okay.
Bullshit, he's okay.
And those doctors...
Severe dehydration? My ass.
That thing nearly sucked the life out of Evan.
- You were there. - That's why we gotta find
who or whatever it is bringing the negative energy.
Okay, here's what I'm gonna do.
- I'm gonna get on the phone to the C... - No, we're not doing that.
We gotta get those people out of there.
We gotta bring 'em to safety.
If we get everyone off the base,
we'll never find it.
Here, we keep 'em isolated and quarantined.
That's the way this works.
Wrong.
- I'm tracking down Colonel Donovan. - No!
You're not doing that. Hey!
You called me, you asked me to help you!
You wanna be a Hastings super friend?
This is what it looks like.
Now you let me call the plays,
that is how we save lives.
- All right. - Let me deal with Colonel Donovan.
I would have thought you had people for this.
They are all away right now.
Will we be having an organist?
We have a young seeker, but
to be honest, he isn't very good.
If he played,
Susan would crawl out of her grave and pull the plug.
She had your sense of humor.
I don't really remember her past the angry, abusive, withholding side.
You don't believe people can grow and change?
I believe people show you the side of them they want you to see.
I'm not rejoining the coven.
You haven't renounced your faith.
My belief is in a quieter place now.
But I've built a life here.
My purpose is just as holy as my faith.
You know, often times I'm actually the last human touch
the deceased ever have.
I understand purpose.
But do they love you, the Hastings?
Do they know you?
Truly know you?
In your times of loneliness and fear,
are they there for you?
You speak of purpose.
Mine is nearly done.
I haven't got much longer to live myself.
What?
When they said, "Smoking causes cancer, "
I should have listened.
Diana, I am so sorry.
Said them all.
I'm at the end of my calling.
That's why I want you to take my place.
What?
No, I couldn't do that.
I mean, I...
That would be an incredible honor.
Your true purpose is to lead.
Your Wiccan family have their arms out stretched to love you.
We need you, Tilly.
You turned your back on us in the past,
this time, come home.
You've lost your mind.
That's impossible. A paranormal event?
In layman's terms, yes.
What kind of event?
Well,
it appears to be...
draining its victim's life force
to increase its own power.
What kind of report do you expect me to write that includes that?
My theory, this is a green on blue.
- We're being infiltrated... - This base has a supernatural presence
and it is killing your people. Colonel,
this is not a green on blue.
My friend's nephew was nearly killed
and I guarantee you, it will kill again.
You don't have to believe me.
I don't expect you to.
But you got to trust me.
Colonel.
I believe you.
Something like that happened to me.
We had a rash of desertions.
I saw something.
I couldn't explain.
The only word I could think of was...
evil.
I never put two and two together until now.
What did it look like?
That almost didn't even have a look.
More of a shadow.
Why didn't you say anything?
I was one of three women in the first co-ed
Officer Candidate School.
I was living under a microscope.
Saying I saw some kind of shadow monster
would have been the end of me.
There was one person who I thought
maybe knew something too.
Have you spoken with recruit Raymond Overbay?
His father was at OCS with me
when the disappearances happened.
Everytime we spoke, it was as if we shared
a secret that neither of us wanted to admit.
What kind of recruit is Overbay?
He's the first one you'd bet on to watch out.
But somehow he finds some inner strength
to rally at the last minute.
Like father, like son.
Colonel...
where would I find Raymond Overbay right now?
Okay, what if Isaac walks in?
He won't. He's in his study.
Studying.
He'll be gone for hours, okay?
Just...
Are you ready for this?
- Well, you know me. I was... - Don't.
Don't say it.
All right, what do I do then?
You're gonna close your eyes
and focus all your energy on the spinner.
You wanna see it moving in your minds eye. It's like...
Look, give me your hand.
I'm gonna add my energy to yours, okay?
Okay.
You got this.
Clear your mind.
Don't think.
Clear.
You're doing it.
Russ, are you okay?
Russ!
Russ! Look!
I'm gonna get help, okay?
Grandpa!
Grandpa, we need you!
- Russ! - What happened?
Nothing, we were...
It's doesn't matter. Just do something.
Is there something in the alchemy room?
Not enough time.
Hang in there, Russ.
Stand back.
It's gonna get a little messy.
Oh, my God.
What happened?
I saved your life, Russ.
If you guys don't mind me asking,
why do we have blood on us?
That's your blood.
Cool.
Okay, please, Mr. Hastings, say something.
I can't take it anymore.
How do you feel?
A little weak, but okay.
What did you do?
Bloodletting, it relieved the pressure.
Practice goes back to ancient Egypt.
- Were you around when ancient Egypt... - Garvey,
what do you have to say for yourself?
Grandpa, it was an honest experiment.
To what end?
To see how close I am to becoming as powerful as you.
Good work.
Garvey...
you are the beneficiary...
of a sacred trust.
It's been passed down through literally centuries of Hastings.
Now our gift is not to be used as...
entertainment, to make parlor tricks, or...
bar bets, or entertaining our BFFs.
Look at me when I talk to you.
They are consecrated tools
to be used to protect the innocent
from harms way.
And in the wrong hands,
and naive or inexperienced hands,
our gifts, your gifts,
can get good people killed.
- Well, sir, I just like to say that... - Russ,
you're lucky to be alive, son.
You need to say thank you and bounce.
Thank you, Mr. Hastings.
Your taxi's here.
Uh... I didn't order a cab.
Time to say goodnight.
And Russ...
you're gonna get my tunic cleaned, right?
Yes, sir.
What you got there?
From my private stock.
Seven hundred bottles ever in existence.
- What's the special occasion? - You.
No matter what you decide, Tilly,
I'm good with it.
So whatcha gonna do, lady?
Um... I don't know.
I figured I'd just delay and delay until...
I make a decision in the last minute.
I do miss being part of the family now.
I always thought of you as part of our family.
If that's so...
why don't you and Bea ever invite me out to dinner?
Or watch the game with me or ask me how my day was?
It's like there's you guys
and there's me, the glorified help and it's just like...
I'm just on the outside looking in.
I didn't know you felt that way.
I know you don't have Hastings blood...
but you're not like family.
Tilly, you are... family.
To familia.
Please, let me die so that others can live.
- This is what you wanted. - No.
You have a long career ahead
and we have so much work to do.
- What's up? What's going on? - Base-wide search?
Raymond Overbay is missing.
We have to find him, he's the key to all of this.
Copy that!
Raymond!
Kill me.
Kill me, please.
You cannot have this one.
- Wanna bet? - Raymond, move!
- Veterans, yes? - Hell yeah.
Even better.
What the...
Oh, shit.
Calvin.
If you've got one of those M67 frags in that bag,
now is a good time.
Save yourself, Calvin.
- We need each other. - It's go time, Cal, come on.
Calvin, son of ***, we are legion.
*** Set us free.
Calvin,
***
Calvin!
Travis!
Oh, damn, San. Oh.
You okay, kid? Huh? You all right?
It's gonna be okay.
May I ask...
if Susan's only daughter, Tilly,
would like to say a few words?
Sure.
Thank you all for being here today.
I'm...
not really sure what I'm supposed to say...
Susan Bushay was my birth mother.
She always had really nice hair.
She did the best she could do
with what she had,
with what she knew.
And I'll miss her in my own way.
That's it, I'm done.
Diana...
I just wanted to thank you for your offer.
- And I wanted to let you know that... - I understand.
We al have to do what we think is right.
Thank you.
But it's best you not attend the burial.
It's family only.
How's Evan doing?
On the road to recovery.
Yeah.
He's should be released right about the time
that his class is graduatin'.
Good.
Thanks to your lucky charm.
Yeah... that and you.
You know, if you wanna thank me...
maybe now that you know some of my family secrets,
you can be our eyes and ears around town.
Let us know if you see anything weird goin' on.
Considered that done and done.
So, does that make me a new Hastings super friend?
It's not like you haven't earned it.
Bitchin'.
She broke it off.
I figured.
You okay?
Yeah.
It's better.
We gotta get going.
Then let's get to gettin'.
All right.
Less talk and more running.
I thought you were gonna say that.
You know, I got injured
- while in that battle with the Jinn thing. - Oh, yeah.
Oh, you got injured, you better run it off, soldier.
Huh.
You know, on the drive over, I was thinking
maybe I should take that Cottonmouth off your hands.
You?
Yeah, me.
Why not me? It's a nice side hustle.
I mean, if you can do it, it can't be that hard, right?