Friday the 13th: The Series S1E5
Now: Episode 5 "Hellowe'en"
Cursed Object of the Week: Amulet of Sohar
It is Halloween night! Even more better is that there is a part-ay at Curious Goods. Ryan is hosting a Halloween party and while Micki is not too thrilled about it being at the antique shop, he assures her that it is sectioned off. She reluctantly strolls away.
Jack is having the time of his life at the party chatting it up.
Funny thing about sectioning it off though, the mighty string with a tiny banner on it is useless for 2 party goes but don't GAF about it and duck under to scope out the place just for the hell of it. Not like like, any nefarious intention or anything. Well, how else will the plot progress is nothing went array? Well the find the breaker box and decide to prank everyone but switching off power for a hot second. Okay, enough anyway, now turn it back on. Except it does not.
Jack being the life of the party was in the middle of a card trick to the great amusement of the party goers. After the power goes out he manages to keep in character and calm the crowd down
The bozo's upstairs sneak around and find a blue ball (heh) and one of them wants to summon Elvis but in the process seems to activate the and it starts glowing green. This is when Ryan pops out to fix the box, finds the goofs and tells them to get back to the party.
After turning back on the power, his spooky sense be tingling so Ryan walks over and to his horror he knows exactly that shit ain't right so he calls for Jack. The ball wastes no time to start fucking shit up. The ceiling starts to cave on them to everyone scrambles and party is now over. Boo!
Shop restores back to normal and Jack tell Ryan to make a pentagon around the desk so he can unfuck what his buddies did. He explains that they used his crystal ball and an evil spirit is now "hooked". Just great. Jack makes some incantations to command the spirit to vacate and there is some heavy breathing from presumably the spirit that just vanishes yay.
Thinking they solved the problem, Ryan thinking he needs a nice drink and shuffles off. Jack on the other hand steps outside real quick and sees a sobbing young girl who lost her mother in the craziness of trick or treating. Being the good guy he is, decides to walk her home. Too bad he didn't give Micki and Ryan the memo.
It's been a while now and Jack is now like waaaaaait a minute. He claims that they are going in circles but the little girl insists that they are almost at her house. Begrudingly, Jack obliges to keep walking.
Meanwhile back at the antique shop, Micki and Ryan hear the heavy breathing all over again and all of a sudden the ghost of their late uncle materialized before them. Both are obviously taken aback by his presence but the ghost of Uncle Lewis expresses sorrow and remorse for the evil he unleashed on the world when Ryan reminds him they are all are on a wild goose chase to hunt down all the cursed objects he willingly sold for his soul. Uncle Lewis claims he wants to undo the curse. Sure, buddy.
As Jack and the little girl turn the corner, he gets trapped in a cage just like that! The little girl poofs into an older lady cackling at how easy it was to subdue him. By those lines alone, he automatically knows who is behind this.
Uncle Lewis claims he needs their help and he doesn't have much time to undo the curse. I thought curses were forever? Not according to him. He motions for them to go into his secret room behind a bookshelf. In the room is filled with dated objects met at the end with his wife lifeless on the bed. Uncle Lewis claims he killed her. With his foolishness ya dorks. And he can makes the curse all go away if they retrieve the Amulet of Zohar from the vault. Pretty pweese?
As they head out they retrieve the Amulet and despite being skeptical Ryan rationalizes since he's a ghost and can't touch them, nothing will really go wrong, right? Right? They come back to the room where Uncle Lewis instructs to put the Amulet next to her.
BADDA BING BABBA BOOP!
The Amulet brings Uncle Lewis back in the flesh and blood in a snap of a finger. He ninjas his way out of the secret room and locks both of them in as he whistles his old bag of bones away in great contentment. Dat sucks.
He steps outside to join the woman that caged jack. She brings the car to him and he hops in the driver's seat. She informs him they have 3 hours and 41 minutes. For what? Well I surely don't want to find out!
While Jack is held up in his cage, in comes trouble. 2 guys come and heckle him they are probably drunk or something. Jack is taunting them but it seems like it is for good reason. He was immasculating them saying they didn't have the guys to even tear down this metal gate. One guy tells the other guy to get the "chains". Oh dear.
Being locked in, Micki is panicking wondering what evil plan he has in store with the Amulet in hand.
So what the guy did was use the chains to metal bars and the car which successfully breaks open the gate. Thinking they are now about to rumble, Jack uses his magic dust to blind them while he yeets away to safety. Lolz this was such an amusing Jack scene!
Ryan and Micki quickly manage to break out of the secret room and they whip out a book detailing about the amulet to get a clue to see what their uncle is up to. Not only is it in ancient ass writing but it's also in olde english so it is hard to decipher. Micki was able to get some context clues from the little she was able to make out. Looks like he is looking for a fresh dead body so he can do a resurrection. off they car even though they totally got carjacked. If there's a will, there's a way amirite?
The evil duo reach a mortuary to find their dead body. Uncle Lewis is named Greta where he beckons her one of the fresh dedz. However, they need someone who died a non-violent death so they have mucho trouble finding one. Well lucky for them because a fresh delivery just so happens to stop by to delivery a recently deceased body from the hospital. Uncle Lewis uses his assassin energy to yeet a box at the drivers head rendering him unconscious. Plan still in motion, they take the dead body and woopity doo, I think it may be a match. Good for them.
Bad for Ryan and Micki but they don't know that yet.
Jack finally makes his way to an empty Curious Goods and catches the note and wastes no time to head on out of there.
Uncle Lewis and Greta start the prep for the ritual. Ryan and Micki just arrived and staked out the place hiding just out of sight. They make a plan for Micki to lure Greta out on chase while Ryan will snatch the amulet from Uncle Lewis in hopes it will revert him back into a ghost.
What Micki didn't count on was that Greta had witchy powers so once caught, she is in a trance. Totally powerless.
Meanwhile, while performing the ritual, Ryan makes a mad dash but someone this old dude has the strength of a thousand men and just swats him out like a fly only to be met by Grets who uses her witchy powers on him next. Both are places in a coffins where he locks them inside. She takes it a step further and turns on the furnace ready for them to be cremated alive. Oh dear.
Thank goodness for Jack because he arrives to the mortuary just in time and saves Micki as her coffin was to be the first to go in the incinerator. Ryan next, I guess.
Jack doesn't need any explanation of what Lewis is about to because he was afterall, a supplier to the shop back when he was the owner, remember? Plus, he already read through the pages Micki looked at anyway. He explains to them that the only true way to avert disaster from whatever the fuck Lewis is doing is to prolong his ritual. If in anyway that he is unable to complete the ritual before sunrise, he will revert to going back to hell. Which will be in about 8 minutes from now.
So, distract him, got it!
Oh and he also tells them that Greta is a demon which is why she so easily overpowered them.
With the pair now free, they set their new plan in action by taunting them once more sending Greta also once more to go after them. By a stroke of luck, Greta just runs herself into a stake or something and her mortal body perishes back to hell.
And here is the showdown with Jack and his old chap Lewis. They smack talk each other. Lewis tries to continue with the ritual anyway but Jack tries to troll him to keep him from finishing with an incantation of his own. So it's really a race against time.
Time is ticking down with only 2 minutes to go looks like he finished the ritual and Jack looks defeated. Micki is like LOL NOPE turns out, the clock is broken (how convenient) and she proceeds to open the blocked window which unleashes the absurdity of sunshine unto their Uncle Lewis and he dissipates back to Hell.
Crisis averted.
Back at Curious Goods, Micki asks Jack just how much of Grace, Lewis' late wife, was true. Was she really murdered? Jack hesitates to say directly if she was really murdered or not but she damn well wasn't in that secret room. He said nothing but good things about the woman how he lost a dear friend who was great as a sunrise, while looking out the window panes of the door.
They said well at least the worst is over, right?
Jack's demeanor unwavered replies back NAH BRO because in 2 weeks is....FRIDAY THE 13th! Hey, that's the name of the show!
Special Guests this episode: R.G. Armstrong as Uncle Lewis