Friday the 13th: The Series S1E1
Twas a cold and rainy night when Uncle Lewis was just chilling in his Antique shop when in comes a family of 3 comes strolling on in to take temporary shelter and dry off in the meantime. Uncle Lewis reluctantly agrees. The little girl, Mary, goes off on her own to check out the place. Immediately, the mother is a little too stern to her. When her dad tried to tell her to listen to her mother Mary dead ass replies back that she is not her real mother because her real mother is dead.
Anyways, off she goes and eventually a doll catches her eye so she picks it up and runs outside for no apparent reason. She runs into 2 guys working on their car who express how she shouldn't be out alone. However, the doll starts talking! When she doll detects Mary's standoffish behavior, the doll reacts off her demeanor and lashes out then scratches the boys. Mary skeddaddles back inside the shop. And her little doll, too.
With her parents already looking for her, the dad notices Mary clutching the doll. So does Uncle Lewis who abruptly rips the dolls from her arms and kicks them out. Which is hella sus but now the dad wants to buy the doll but Lewis says nah nothing for sale so GTFO!
Well, I never! The family waltz back out in the pouring rain.
Uncle Lewis maniacally starts putting the doll and other random shit in bags and heads down to the basement. Uhh yeah they do not like that. Who is "they"? IDK but the whole shop itself goes apeshit. All the windows and doors fly open with papers strewn around. Uncle Lewis seals the vault with the doll inside sitting on a shelf. After the vault closed behind him, he proceeds to get tormented by unseen forces which escalates from there. It's safe to assume that he's dead now.
Next scene is a young man expressing his distaste for the unexpected change of plans that befell Micki, his fiancé. She explains to him that she doesn't know why her Uncle Lewis left her the antique shop upon his passing despite never meeting him. Even more confusing is that she is sharing ownership with her cousin whom she also hasn't met. But don't worry she'll hurry up and sell the whole dang thing and get back just as quickly as she arrived. Her sweet talk seems to calm down the douche. He even jokes that maybe he could get some litigation experience by suing the cousin. Wow.
Micki takes a cab and arrives alone to the antique shop which already gives her the heebie jeebies before she even steps foot in there. She looks around and sees all these oddities. Some covered in sheets and others just chilling there. Thinking she is alone, she helps herself on a personal tour of the place. That is, until she gets spooked by a man in a mask.
Nope. It's her younger cousin, Ryan!
They have very different personalities so they don't exactly warm up to each other right away. She comes from a more upscale background so she is a bit snooty and Ryan is younger and a sarcastic goofball.
With no electricity nor telephone until the next day, they take the liberty of inspecting the entire shop themselves since they have nothing else better to do. They make their way down to the vault. Ryan's aspiring intrigue leads to him opening the vault but supernatural shit starts happening immediately. Micki gets temporarily locked in the vault, despite getting spooked she manages to GTFO.
After they get back up to the foyer, Micki trips and sees a book that fell from a trap door above from the ceiling. It details all the items in it. Good, well she intends on selling every dang thing in the shop and let this be a distant speckel in her past. Ryan vehemetely disagrees. Go figure. Two different peeps but she seems to prevail. Cope, Ryan.
Not much longer later, they hold a liquidation sale and have people coming in and out of the shop buying random shit.
In walks the father from the beginning of the episode who inquires on the doll. He says it's been 6 months on his last visit. Ryan is none the wiser to sell it despite Micki's initial reservations. Cope, Mickey.
Later on that night when a good chunk of the items were already gone and sold, a mysterious robed man ambushes the both of them. He introduces himself as Jack Marshak. He was a close friend of Lewis and was actually his supplier for the shop. But don't worry, he's good people.
Now that they are all on the same page they sit and have a chat to get to know Jack. He explains to them that Lewis dabbled in devil worship on his quest to never get old and die which turned out as well as you expected.
Lewis, as speculated by Jack, made a pact with the devil to sell cursed antiques in exchange for wealth and immortality. If only there was some kind of way these antiques were documented...
Ryan reveals the hidden compartment where the book is stored. Jack now refers to this book here on forward as the Manifest - bound in hieroglyphic black magic.
Jack whips out newspaper clippings stored in a nearby desk so they can compare notes. Yup. Turns out Lewis documented cursed objects he sold into which caused certain death by the customers within days of possession. Since Uncle Lewis refused that sale of the porcelain doll to the girl, he suffered immediate consequences... Poor dude had a last minute conscience, eh? So while he is still dead, the antiques remain cursed which segues into the point of this show: retrieve the cursed objects they literally just sold!
This is when Micki comes to the realization of the doll. When she came face to face with it back when she was trapped in the vault, she swore up and down that it stared back at her as if it were alive. So that's their priority today: steal that doll from the little girls hands!!!
Luckily for them, they actually have receipts on who bought what so they know exactly who's door to knock on.
Hot take: step mother is not the bad guy because she is right deep down that her husband spoils his daughter rotten. Anyway, against her wishes the father ends up gifting the doll to her anyway. The doll continues to talk to Mary poisoning her mind that her step mother is totally evil. When step mother sets boundaries for her for not be responsible for cleaning up after herself, she decides to take the doll away for 1 week. However, doll turns killahhh moves a skate behind her and makes her step backwards. Stepmother slips on it and tumbles down the stairs.
Ryan and Micki get there too late as police are already on the scene. They see the little girl sitting on the curb with her doll. Micki tries to chat but Mary tells her to fuck off and she gets lifted into the ambulance by her father. The doll even hisses at her lolz.
The family is in the hospital and right when dad steps away, the doll tells Mary that she has to finish her off once and for call. Ok Satan.
