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The next day, Mac visits Marnie as she substitutes a class in the town's elementary school. She gives a presentation about the capsule, which the children stare at through the window, then asks the students what they believe to be in the capsule. After registering their answers, she presents the children with a slideshow that features woodcut illustrations taken from Eli Lester's journals, which apparently show evidence of another disappearance in ''16''21, 200 years before the first noted disappearance. When Marnie's presentation reaches a slide that depicts a monstrous face in the branches of a group of trees, the projector suddenly begins to go haywire, displaying the slides on its own accord. During this, the slides themselves transition into images of the villagers being mutilated and succumbing to decay and rot, just before Marnie manages to stop the projector. Rattled by the experience, Marnie meets up with Mac, revealing that she feels like she's seen the face depicted in the slideshow before. She also mentions that Eli's journals state that the man convinced the townsfolk that they ''needed'' to open the capsule, but she can't make out the reason why he felt the need to do so. Marnie also frets that the coming Friday will be exactly 200 years since the 1821 disappearance, and whatever the cause of it was will soon be returning to Oakwood. Marnie then discovers the same face from the slideshow formed in a group of trees in the nearby woods that surround the park, and realizes where she's seen the face before: a slab of wood that she swiped from the historical society.

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The next day, Mac visits Marnie as she substitutes for a class in at the town's elementary school. She gives a presentation about the capsule, which the children stare at through the window, then asks the students what they believe to be in the capsule. After registering their answers, she presents the children with a slideshow that features woodcut illustrations taken from Eli Lester's journals, which apparently show evidence of another disappearance in ''16''21, 200 years before the first noted disappearance. When Marnie's presentation reaches a slide that depicts a monstrous face in the branches of a group of trees, the projector suddenly begins to go haywire, displaying the slides on its own accord. During this, the slides themselves transition into images of the villagers being mutilated and succumbing to decay and rot, just before Marnie manages to stop the projector. Rattled by the experience, Marnie meets up with Mac, revealing that she feels like she's seen the face depicted in the slideshow before. She also mentions that Eli's journals state that the man convinced the townsfolk that they ''needed'' to open the capsule, but she can't make out the reason why he felt the need to do so. Marnie also frets that the coming Friday will be exactly 200 years since the 1821 disappearance, and whatever the cause of it was will soon be returning to Oakwood. Marnie then discovers the same face from the slideshow formed in a group of trees in the nearby woods that surround the park, and realizes where she's seen the face before: a slab of wood that she swiped from the historical society.



* CollectorOfTheStrange: Mayor Wrightson collects taxidermized animals, having their heads and bodies placed all throughout his office.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The episode's cover depicts a demon with a blue head and curved horns in the list of characters known simply as "The Demon". This character doesn't appear in the story whatesoever.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Mayor Wrightson collects taxidermized taxidermied animals, having their heads and bodies placed all throughout his office.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The episode's cover depicts a demon with a blue head and curved horns in the list of characters known simply as "The Demon". This character doesn't appear in the story whatesoever.whatsoever.



* FailureHero: Marnie may qualify as one of these. She desperately wants to find the truth behind the disappearances of Oakwood's populace and stop another one from occuring, but she spends the next few days looking over Eli Lester's research again and again, and only makes the crucial discovery just before her father damages the capsule's lock.
** She then proceeds to spout out Eli Lester's backstory, but spends so long monologuing about it that she doesn't think to tell everyone to evacuate before the capsule starts shuttering violently. Sure enough, her intervention leads to Oakwood's population getting slaughtered by the hordes of Hell.

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* FailureHero: Marnie may qualify as one of these. She desperately wants to find the truth behind the disappearances of Oakwood's populace and stop another one from occuring, occurring, but she spends the next few days looking over Eli Lester's research again and again, and only makes the crucial discovery just before her father damages the capsule's lock.
** She then proceeds to spout out Eli Lester's backstory, but spends so long monologuing about it that she doesn't think to tell everyone to evacuate before the capsule starts shuttering shuddering violently. Sure enough, her intervention leads to Oakwood's population getting slaughtered by the hordes of Hell.



** Deputy Anton manages to save Marnie by driving her as close the town limits as he can, sacrificing himself to one of the demons in the process.

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** Deputy Anton manages to save Marnie by driving her as close to the town limits as he can, sacrificing himself to one of the demons in the process.



* ImmuneToBullets: Anton tries to open fire on the demon on his squad car, but it is instantly able to shrug off the bullets.

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* ImmuneToBullets: Anton tries to open fire on the demon on his squad car, but it is it's instantly able to shrug off the bullets.



* IntrepidReporter: Mac, who actively tries to help Marnie figure out the truth about the time capsule and how to stop another disapperance from happening, as well as spread the word about it through alternative methods.
* KarmaHoudini: The town elder who murdered Eli Lester's daughter was released when he bribed the town counsel. In doing this, however, he prompted Lester to trick the townsfolk into opening the capsule and causing the 1821 disapperance.

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* IntrepidReporter: Mac, who actively tries to help Marnie figure out the truth about the time capsule and how to stop another disapperance disappearance from happening, as well as spread the word about it through alternative methods.
* KarmaHoudini: The town elder who murdered Eli Lester's daughter was released when he bribed the town counsel. In doing this, however, he prompted Lester to trick the townsfolk into opening the capsule and causing the 1821 disapperance.disappearance.



* TheQuietOne: Carmella, Mac's cameraperson, has only a handful of lines in the episode. As fitting her character, they're all pretty snarky.

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* TheQuietOne: Carmella, Mac's cameraperson, has only a handful of lines in the episode. As fitting to her character, they're all pretty snarky.



* TaxidermyTerror: Mayor Wrightson's office is ''covered'' with taxidermy animals, positioned everywhere in the room. Mayor Wrightson himself isn't actually evil, so he could possibly be a collector. Either that or the animals came with the office.

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* TaxidermyTerror: Mayor Wrightson's office is ''covered'' with taxidermy taxidermied animals, positioned everywhere in the room. Mayor Wrightson himself isn't actually evil, so he could possibly be a collector. Either that or the animals came with the office.



** The town elder who murdered Lester's daughter can also very well qualify, as he's the reason Eli let the 1821 disapperance happen.

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** The town elder who murdered Lester's daughter can also very well qualify, as he's the reason Eli let the 1821 disapperance disappearance happen.
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* WhamLine: "It's ''not'' a time capsule! ''IT'S A'' '''''CAGE!!!!'''''" Marnie says this right as her father is dismembered from the inside by the first demon to emerge, which slices the capsule's chains and releases Hell on earth.

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* WhamLine: "It's ''not'' a time capsule! ''IT'S A'' '''''CAGE!!!!'''''" '''''CAGE'''!!!!''" Marnie says this right as her father is dismembered from the inside by the first demon to emerge, which slices the capsule's chains and releases Hell on earth.

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