History Recap / TalesFromTheCryptS2E4TilDeath

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Logan Andrews, a morally bankrupt landowner on a tropical island, meets the wealthy but all-around unpleasant Margaret Richardson and falls in love with her, largely because he wants her wealth to finance the construction of a new hotel. He goes to Psyche, a voodoo priestess he briefly dated, then dumped after facing ridicule from his fellow elite and buying the land her tribe once lived on, for a solution to his plight. The selfish landowner not-so-subtly asks her for help, prompting Psyche to reluctantly give him a love potion. She tells him: "You give her one drop, she become your wife. But if you give her two, she be yours... for life." Evidently not understanding the implications of these instructions, Logan puts a drop of the potion in Margaret's drink, but the effect is not immediate. Hours later, Margaret comes to Logan's bedroom, where the two of them spend the night passionately making love. The next morning, Logan gives Margaret another dose of the love potion, knowing that she and her money will be his for life. In the meantime, Psyche makes an effigy of Margaret and uses it to kill her via a voodoo ritual. Before dying, Margaret triumphantly professes her undying love for Logan.

Margaret is buried the next day, but she returns to life and crawls out of her grave, much to Logan's delight. Margaret slowly decomposes and deteriorates overtime, but her love is undying and forever, much to Logan's growing horror and disgust. When calling his doctor partner Freddy to discuss what went wrong with Margaret and why she's still around, Margaret chops Freddy's head off (presumably under Psyche's influence) with a machete. Logan tries to shoot Margaret, but she proves immune to the bullets. The chase between the pair reaches the swamp Logan had bought earlier, where Logan sets Margaret on fire and throws her into the quicksand. As he wearily returns to the house, Margaret, now moldy and skeletal, breaks the door down. At the end of his rope, Logan tries to kill himself by drinking a vial of poison, but he is later revived by Psyche, who reveals that she engineered everything about his scheme against him as revenge for losing her land and being tossed aside. She presents him with Freddy's severed head, also brought back to life, and then brings in the skeletonized Margaret, who prepares to gruesomely kiss the screaming Logan.

* DrivenToSuicide: After failing to escape Margaret's corpse, Logan tries to take the easy way out by drinkinga vial of poison. It fails when Psyche revives him.

* EverybodyLives: Logan, Freddy, and Margaret die, but they're all ressurected by the end of the episode.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Psyche tosses a picture of Logan, her ex-boyfriend, into the ceremonial fire her tribe builds in the opening scene, hinting that she's going to be the reason why everything goes south for Logan.

* IgnoredExpert: The worker whose friend sinks in the quicksand that fills Logan's land. In spite of Logan's threats, the guy clearly tells him that a hotel just can't be built a swamp, and even if he could, it would take "more money than God" to fund.

* VillainProtagonist: Logan, who wants the equally loathesome Margaret's funds to finance his new hotel.

Margaret is buried the next day, but she returns to life and crawls out of her grave, much to Logan's delight. Margaret slowly decomposes and deteriorates overtime, but her love is undying and forever, much to Logan's growing horror and disgust. When calling his doctor partner Freddy to discuss what went wrong with Margaret and why she's still around, Margaret chops Freddy's head off (presumably under Psyche's influence) with a machete. Logan tries to shoot Margaret, but she proves immune to the bullets. The chase between the pair reaches the swamp Logan had bought earlier, where Logan sets Margaret on fire and throws her into the quicksand. As he wearily returns to the house, Margaret, now moldy and skeletal, breaks the door down. At the end of his rope, Logan tries to kill himself by drinking a vial of poison, but he is later revived by Psyche, who reveals that she engineered everything about his scheme against him as revenge for losing her land and being tossed aside. She presntes him with Freddy's severed head, also brought back to life, and then brings in the skeletonized Margaret, who prepares to gruesomely kiss the screaming Logan.

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wearing shades and lounging under a sun lamp)'' Ah! Welcome to my cozy crypt! Have I got a story for you! A tacky, tropical tale of love and lust, greed and ghouls, and my personal favorite - '''death!''' ''(quietly cackles)'' But I'm warning you, it's '''not''' a pretty picture. So, pack up your passport, and prepare for this torrid tale of putrefaction in paradise. I'm sure you'll find it... '''a-peeling!''' ''(cackles)''

Logan Andrews, a landowner on a tropical island, meets Margaret Richardson, a wealthy heiress, and falls in love with her. He goes to Psyche, a voodoo priestess who was once his girlfriend, who he dumped after facing ridicule from his fellow elite and gaining the land her tribe once lived on. The selfish landowner asks her for help, prompting Psyche to reluctantly gives him a love potion. She tells him: "You give her one drop, she become your wife. But if you give her two, she be yours... for life." Seeming to not fully understand the implications of these instructions, Logan gives the heiress a drop of the potion via a drink and she imbibes it. However, the effect is not immediate. Hours later, in the night, she comes to his bedroom, wanting him. The two of them spend the night passionately making love. In the morning, the landowner gives the heiress another dose of the love potion, knowing she will be his for life. In the meantime, Psyche makes an effigy doll of Margaret and uses it, as well as the ingredients in the love potion, to kill her. Before dying, the heiress professes her undying love for Logan.

Margaret is buried the next day, but she comes back to life, much to the delight of her new lover. However, unbeknownst to Logan, she is slowly decomposing (bodies tend to do that after death). Over time, the heiress' body gradually deteriorates, but her love is undying and forever. The decomposition process reduces her to a moldy skeleton who continues to chase her now ex-lover. Eventually, Logan tries to kill himself by drinking poison, but he is later revived by Psyche, who reveals that she engineered the entire scheme as revenge against Logan. She then brings in the skeletonized Margaret, who prepares to kiss the screaming Logan.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As per Psyche's warning: "Give her one drop and she will be your wife. But give her two, and she will be yours for life." Logan has no idea how truthful these words are until after he breaches the warning.
* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: Logan dumped Psyche in response to the ridicule he faced from his rich associates, prompting her to concoct an elaborate revenge scheme.
* ChekhovsGun: The quicksand, not that it helps.
* DeathOfPersonality: After overdosing on the love potion, Margaret's original stuffy and racist personality is completely overridden, and she only focuses on making love to Logan.
* DelayedReaction: When the love potion is first ingested by Margaret, she claims that she feels warm, but quickly slaps Logan across the face for forcing himself on her. The potion fully kicks in later that night, where she meets Logan in bed and slips between the sheets herself.
* TheDogBitesBack: Psyche, knowing full well that Logan won't listen to her, engineers everything that goes wrong for him as revenge for her being dumped after one date and then buying her people's land.
* DrivenToSuicide: After failing to escape Margaret's corpse, Logan tries to take the easy way out by drinking poison. It fails when Psyche revives him.

* EverybodyLives: All three main characters who died are brought back by the end.
* ForeShadowing: Psyche tossing a picture of Logan, her ex-boyfriend, into the ceremonial fire her tribe builds in the opening scene, hints that she's basically the reason why everything goes south for Logan.
* GoldDigger: Logan hopes to become Margaret's boyfriend or husband so he can use her money to finance the building of his dream hotel.
* HateSink: Margaret, before her DeathOfPersonality, is a haughty and stuffy woman who does nothing but complain about the island and its people, as well as Logan himself. It's a partial relief when her original self is erased thanks to the love potion.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Psyche is a voodoo priestess who can make {{Love Potion}}s that work (even beyond the grave) and raise zombies.
* IgnoredExpert: The worker whose friend Charlie sinks in the quicksand that fills Logan's land. In spite of Logan's threats to him, the guy tells him that he just can't build a hotel in a swamp, and even if he could, it would take "more money than God" to fund.
* IronicEcho: Freddy's advice to Logan of how he'll "always get ahead".
* LaserGuidedKarma: Every character who isn't a native of the island is punished for their deeds. Freddy (a fraudulent doctor who killed his patients) gets decapitated, Margaret (a snobbish IceQueen) is basically rendered an undead, love-obsessed zombie, and Logan (who manipulated others for his own benefit and used a potion to brainwash Margaret into loving him) is revived and stuck in an unwanted relationship with a reanimated corpse.

* MacheteMayhem: The zombified Margaret uses a machete to [[OffWithHisHead chop off Freddy's head]].
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Logan and the freshly resurrected Margaret have sex on top of her grave.
* ManOnFire: During their struggle in the swamp, Logan kicks Margaret on to an oil lantern, causing her dress to catch fire.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Logan's partner Freddy is a doctor from England who was known to intentionally let his patients die, and was presumably punished for his actions by being sentenced to exile in the tropics. He continues his shady dealings by letting rich, sickly people die, and then swiping essential medical documents belonging to them for Logan to turn into cash.

* QuicksandSucks: Logan loses one of his workers (and his hat) to the swampy quicksand that covers most of the land he just acquired. Later, while trying to escape from Margaret, he blunders into the same quicksand and starts being sucked down, only to be pulled out by her. After [[ManOnFire setting her on fire]], he shoves her into the quicksand and watches as she vanishes beneath the surface. Logan thinks he's seen the last of her this way, but she manages to escape.
* RichBitch: Margaret Richardson. On first meeting her, Logan describes her as "a bitch on wheels." She does nothing but complain about how primitive and unpleasant the tropical island is, and even after being enchanted to fall in love with Logan, she demands he sack his staff and employ more presentable servants. It's actually a relief when her original personality is completely erased through the love potion.
* RiseFromYourGrave: When the LovePotion restores Margaret to life, her hand bursts through the soil of her grave as Logan is kneeling beside it. She crawls out of the grave and immediately pulls him into a passionate embrace.

* VisualPun: As Margaret is set on fire, she tells Logan that she's "burning with desire".
* VoodooDoll: Psyche uses a pair of them to orchestrate her revenge on Logan.
* WhamLine: Logan being informed by Freddy that there's no way Margaret could still be alive because Freddy ''had her embalmed''.
* WomanScorned: Logan and Psyche dated for a short time, but he quickly kicked her to the curb when his friends weren't happy with him for having a native for a girlfriend, and then bought the land her people lived on. She engineers the events of the episode as revenge on Logan for all the trouble he put her through.
* WorldOfJerkass: Logan, Freddy, and especially Margaret pre-love potion are all utterly horrible people.

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' Well, Psyche can work that old black magic on ''me'' anytime she wants. And how about Maggie? Girls like that are pretty hard to ''dig up.'' ''(cackles)'' Anyway, looks like poor old Logan's got himself... a zombie! I think I'll have one, too. ''(holds up a tropical drink)''

* LaserGuidedKarma: Every character who isn't a native of the island is punished for their deeds. Freddy (a fraudulent doctor who killed a patient and fled to the island to set up a new practice) gets decapitated, Margaret (a snobbish IceQueen) is basically rendered an undead, love-obsessed zombie, and Logan (who manipulated others for his own benefit and used a potion to brainwash Margaret into loving him) is revived and stuck in an unwanted relationship with a reanimated corpse.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Every character who isn't a native of the island is punished for their deeds. Freddy gets decapitated, Margaret is basically rendered an undead, love-obsessed zombie, and Logan is revived and stuck in an unwanted relationship with a reanimated corpse.

* QuicksandSucks: Logan loses one of his workers (and his hat) to the swampy quicksand that covers most of the land he just acquired. Later, while trying to escape from Margaret, he blunders into the same quicksand and starts being sucked down, only to be pulled out by her. After [[WomanOnFire setting her on fire]], he shoves her into the quicksand and watches as she vanishes beneath the surface. Logan thinks he's seen the last of her this way, but she manages to escape.

* WomanOnFire: During their struggle in the swamp, Logan kicks Margaret on to an oil lantern, causing her dress to catch fire.

Margaret is buried the next day, but she comes back to life, much to the delight of her new lover. However, unbeknownst to Logan, she is slowly decomposing (much like how bodies usually do after death). Over time, the heiress' body gradually deteriorates, but her love is undying and forever. The decomposition process reduces her to a moldy skeleton who continues to chase her now ex-lover. Eventually, Logan tries to kill himself by drinking poison, but he is later revived by Psyche, who reveals that she engineered the entire scheme as revenge against Logan. She then brings in the skeletonized Margaret, who prepares to kiss the screaming Logan.

* IgnoredExpert: The worker whose friend Charlie sinks in the quicksand that fills Logan's land. In spite of Logan's threats to him, the guy tells him that he just can't build a hotel in a swamp, and even if he could, it would take "more money that God" to fund.

* LovePotion: Psyche provides Logan with a love potion that will enable him to secure Margaret's affection. She tells him that one drop will have her marry him, but two drops will render her his forever. Since Logan doesn't fully understand the implications of these instructions.

* WomanScorned: Logan and Psyche dated for a short time, but he quickly kicked her to the curb when his friends weren't happy with him for having a native for a girlfriend, and then bought the land her people lived on. She engineers the events of the episode as revenge on Logan for all the trouble he put her through

Logan Andrews, a landowner, meets Margaret Richardson, a wealthy heiress, and falls in love with her. He goes to Psyche, a voodoo priestess and presumably his ex-girlfriend, who he dumped after gaining the land her tribe once lived on. The selfish landowner asks her for help and she reluctantly gives him a love potion. She tells him: "One drop and she will be your wife but two drops and she will be yours for life." However, Logan does not seem to fully understand the implications of these instructions. He gives the heiress a drop of the potion via a drink and she imbibes it. However, the effect is not immediate. Hours later, in the night, she comes to his bedroom, wanting him. The two of them spend the night passionately making love. In the morning, the landowner gives the heiress another dose of the love potion, knowing she will be his for life. In the meantime, Psyche makes an effigy doll of Margaret and uses it to kill her. Before dying, the heiress professes her undying love for Logan.

Margaret is buried the next day, however she comes back to life, much to the delight of her new lover. However, unbeknownst to Logan, she is slowly decomposing (much like how bodies usually do after death). Over time, the heiress' body gradually deteriorates, but her love is undying and forever. The decomposition process reduces her to a moldy skeleton who continues to chase her now ex-lover. Eventually, Logan tries to kill himself, but it does not seem to work because the magic of the voodoo priestess keeps him alive and he is forever chased by an ugly, rotting skeleton who loves him and wants to have passionate relations with him.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "One drop and she will be your wife but two drops and she will be yours for life." Logan has no idea how truthful those words are until after the fact.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Psyche is voodoo priestess who can make {{Love Potion}}s that work (even beyond the grave) and raise zombies.
* LovePotion: Psyche provides Logan with a love potion to enable him to secure Margaret's affection. She tells him: "One drop and she will be your wife but two drops and she will be yours for life." However, Logan does not fully understand the implications of these instructions.
* MacheteMayhem: Zombie Maggie uses a machete to [[OffWithHisHead cut off Freddie's head]].
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Logan and the freshly resurrected Maggie have sex on top of her grave.
* QuicksandSucks: Logan loses one of his workers (and his hat) to the quicksand that covers most of the land he just acquired. Later, while trying to escape from Maggie, he blunders into the quicksand and starts being sucked down, only to be pulled out by her. After [[WomanOnFire setting her on fire]], he shoves her into the quicksand and she vanishes beneath the surface. Logan thinks he's seen the last of her, but he's wrong.
* RichBitch: Margaret Richardson. On first meeting her, Logan describes her as "a bitch on wheels and four-on-the-floor". She does nothing but complain about how primitive and unpleasant the tropical island is and, even after being enchanted to fall in love with Logan, she demands he sack his staff and employ more presentable servants.
* RiseFromYourGrave: When the LovePotion restores Margaret to life, her hand bursts through the soil of the grave as her lover Logan is kneeling beside her grave. She crawls out of the grave and immediately pulls him into a passionate embrace.
* WhamLine: Logan being informed there's no way Maggie could still be alive because ''she was embalmed''.
* WomanOnFire: During their struggle in the swamp, Logan kicks Maggie on to an oil lantern, causing her dress to catch fire.

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Margaret is buried the next day, however she comes back to life, much to the delight of her new lover. However, unbeknownst to Logan, she is slowly decomposing (much like how bodies usually do after death). Over time, the heiress' body gradually deteriorates, but her love is undying and forever. The decomposition process reduces her to a moldy skeleton who continues to chase her now ex-lover. Eventually, Logan tries to kill himself, but it does not seem to work because the magic of the voodoo priestess keeps him alive and he is forever chased by an ugly, rotting skeleton who loves him and wants to have passionate relations with him.