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Stacey, a young college student, boards a mysterious train that arrives at the station in the darkest hour of the night to travel back home for Thanksgiving. She's seated in the train's last car, where she meets a kindly old woman named Mrs. Crane, a bratty young boy named Joe, and an old man with a box of treats. Overtime, Stacey finds that the train hasn't stopped moving since she got on, the passengers' activities and belongings have changed, and unnerving events occur when her car passes through a "tunnel". She tries to find the conductor to get an explanation as to what's going on, but she soon discovers a horrific truth about the train, the passengers, and even herself. Or does she?
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* AndIMustScream: Anyone stuck on the phantom train and its neverending journey, which befalls Stacey by the episode's end.
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* AndIMustScream: Anyone stuck on the phantom train and its neverending never-ending journey, which befalls Stacey by the episode's end.
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Stacey, a young college student, boards a mysterious train that arrives at the station in the darkest hour of the night to travel back home for Thanksgiving. She's seated in the train's last car, where she meets a kindly old woman named Mrs. Crane, a bratty young boy named Joe, and an old man with a box of treats. Overtime, Stacey finds that the train hasn't stopped moving since she got on, the passengers' activities and belongings have changed, and unnerving events occur when her car passes through a "tunnel". She tries to find the conductor to get an explaination explanation as to what's going on, but she soon discovers a horrific truth about the train, the passengers, and even herself. Or does she?
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* AfterlifeExpress: Everyone aboard the train is dead, including [[spoiler: Stacy]].
* ArcWords: Tunnel... Tunnel... Tunnel...
* BrattyHalfPint: The little boy. His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun, and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
* DeadAllAlong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting in his shooting a passenger to death.
* ImColdSoCold: Seconds after the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so that she won't get cold, it's revealed that she is dead.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: One of the first clues that something isn't right about the train is the elderly woman's fascination with Stacy's watch.
* MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.
* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the train goes through another tunnel, and when the lights come back on, Stacy is a skeleton just like her fellow passengers.
* ArcWords: Tunnel... Tunnel... Tunnel...
* BrattyHalfPint: The little boy. His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun, and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
* DeadAllAlong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting in his shooting a passenger to death.
* ImColdSoCold: Seconds after the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so that she won't get cold, it's revealed that she is dead.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: One of the first clues that something isn't right about the train is the elderly woman's fascination with Stacy's watch.
* MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.
* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the train goes through another tunnel, and when the lights come back on, Stacy is a skeleton just like her fellow passengers.
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!! The Last Car
Stacey, a young college student, boards a mysterious train that arrives at the station in the darkest hour of the night to travel back home for Thanksgiving. She's seated in the train's last car, where she meets a kindly old woman named Mrs. Crane, a bratty young boy named Joe, and an old man with a box of treats. Overtime, Stacey finds that the train hasn't stopped moving since she got on, the passengers' activities and belongings have changed, and unnerving events occur when her car passes through a "tunnel". She tries to find the conductor to get an explaination as to what's going on, but she soon discovers a horrific truth about the train, the passengers, and even herself. Or does she?
!! Tropes:
* AfterlifeExpress: Everyone aboard the train is dead, including[[spoiler: Stacy]].
Stacey. Maybe...
* AndIMustScream: Anyone stuck on the phantom train and its neverending journey, which befalls Stacey by the episode's end.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The final shot of the episode features Stacey joining the ranks of her fellow passengers, turning into a mummified husk who is doomed to ride the train forever.
* ArcWords:Tunnel... Tunnel... Tunnel...
"Tunnel!"
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Stacey waits for the train to take her home, she pleads "Be my train!" to the approaching locomotive. She gets her wish granted, but doesn't get to leave said train ever again.
* BerserkButton: Mentioning time to Joe causes him to go ballistic, usually sending him running into the arms of Mrs. Crane.
* BottleEpisode: The episode takes place in Stacey's car in the titular train, aside from the opening scene of her in the station.
* BrattyHalfPint:The little boy. His Joe, whose antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at Stacey and the passengers others with his toy gun, and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Mrs. Crane and the old man have grown accustomed to their fates aboard the nightmare train, and usually comfort Joe when he gets scared or agitated. Stacey ends the episode similarly conditioned, only she's more broken than conditioned.
* DeadAllAlong: All of the passengers, plus Stacey. Or are they?
* DownerEnding: Stacey is shown to be dead as well, andheavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
brokenly succumbs to her fate of her never-ending ride on the nightmare train. She also has a boyfriend and family waiting for her back home, and they'll never know what happened to her.
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the traincar is anything but clear. The clear, and the tunnels are even worse:
** As the first "tunnel" is entered, Stacey's reflection acts on its own accord, closing her window for her while shooting a glare at her. The window rolls back up when the train exits, revealing that the reflection is no longer there.
** The "tunnels" themselves induce insanity and fear whenever thecar train passes through them and are implied to them.
** They can also warpreality reality, as demonstrated by the child's Joe's toy gun which becoming real and accidentally making him shoot the old man, though he comes back to life.
** The conductor becomesreal resulting skeletal when he steps outside the train as it passes through a tunnel, just as all the passengers inside become mummified husks.
** When not inhis shooting a passenger tunnel, there's no scenery to death.
be viewed outside the windows, just blackness as far as the eye can see. Stacey tries opening the rear door at one point, only to find the same black void, accompanied by thick fog and furious winds.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stacey chats with Mrs. Crane and tells her that she's "dead" from finishing mid-terms. It may or may not be the definite case, but it's eerily accurate to her situation.
* FourIsDeath: The train goes through four tunnels over the course of the episode, and the last one reveals that Stacey has become a mummified corpse just like everyone else on the train.
* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with another tunnel being entered, but this time it's Stacey who announces it to the passengers, having been broken by the horror she's seen and submitting to her maybe-dead fate.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The episode takes place the night before Thanksgiving, as Stacey wanted to take the train back home so she can see her family.
* ImColdSoCold:Seconds after Stacey is given a quilt by Mrs. Crane so she can stop feeling the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so sudden coldness she claims to be feeling, revealing that she won't get cold, it's revealed that she is dead.
she's dead. Possibly...
* LastNoteNightmare: Stacey's final declaration of "Tunnel!", which keeps going over the end credits and the fade to black.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: It doesn't talk to her, but the opening act ends with Stacey's reflection shooting her an unnerving glare and shutting her window for her, then disappearing when the window opens again.
* MindScrew: With all the unanswered questions lurking about, good luck figuring ''this'' episode out...
* MovingTheGoalposts: The car itself manifests new signs with new rules on them to keep Stacey from escaping.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: One of the first clues that something isn't quite right about the train isthe elderly woman's Mrs. Crane's fascination with Stacy's Stacey's watch, thinking it to be a strange bracelet.
* NightmareFetishist: At the end of the first act, Joe smiles after gunning down the old man, then gleefully turns the gun on Stacey, who just barely escapes.
* NoNameGiven: The old man and the conductor aren't given any names.
* NothingIsScarier: Everything about the nature of the train and the state of its passengers.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did Stacey die before the episode began, or did she die sometime after boarding the train? If it's the former, how did she originally die?
* RuleOfThree: Three separate times, the train conjures never-before-seen signs with new rules to keep Stacey from escaping her car, each time having Mrs. Crane reading them aloud.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Stacey initially believes Mrs. Crane to be one, given her fascination with her watch.
*MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.
TitleDrop: The title is stated by Mrs. Crane, describing the car of the train they're riding on.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Joe is a total brat to Stacey, even going so far as to fill her with lead while in a tunnel, while Mrs. Crane and the old man are more hospitable.
* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the train goes through anothertunnel, and when tunnel. When the lights come back on, Stacy Stacey is now a skeleton cobwebbed, mummified corpse, just like her fellow passengers.passengers.
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Stacey, a young college student, boards a mysterious train that arrives at the station in the darkest hour of the night to travel back home for Thanksgiving. She's seated in the train's last car, where she meets a kindly old woman named Mrs. Crane, a bratty young boy named Joe, and an old man with a box of treats. Overtime, Stacey finds that the train hasn't stopped moving since she got on, the passengers' activities and belongings have changed, and unnerving events occur when her car passes through a "tunnel". She tries to find the conductor to get an explaination as to what's going on, but she soon discovers a horrific truth about the train, the passengers, and even herself. Or does she?
!! Tropes:
* AfterlifeExpress: Everyone aboard the train is dead, including
* AndIMustScream: Anyone stuck on the phantom train and its neverending journey, which befalls Stacey by the episode's end.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The final shot of the episode features Stacey joining the ranks of her fellow passengers, turning into a mummified husk who is doomed to ride the train forever.
* ArcWords:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Stacey waits for the train to take her home, she pleads "Be my train!" to the approaching locomotive. She gets her wish granted, but doesn't get to leave said train ever again.
* BerserkButton: Mentioning time to Joe causes him to go ballistic, usually sending him running into the arms of Mrs. Crane.
* BottleEpisode: The episode takes place in Stacey's car in the titular train, aside from the opening scene of her in the station.
* BrattyHalfPint:
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Mrs. Crane and the old man have grown accustomed to their fates aboard the nightmare train, and usually comfort Joe when he gets scared or agitated. Stacey ends the episode similarly conditioned, only she's more broken than conditioned.
* DeadAllAlong: All of the passengers, plus Stacey. Or are they?
* DownerEnding: Stacey is shown to be dead as well, and
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train
** As the first "tunnel" is entered, Stacey's reflection acts on its own accord, closing her window for her while shooting a glare at her. The window rolls back up when the train exits, revealing that the reflection is no longer there.
** The "tunnels" themselves induce insanity and fear whenever the
** They can also warp
** The conductor becomes
** When not in
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stacey chats with Mrs. Crane and tells her that she's "dead" from finishing mid-terms. It may or may not be the definite case, but it's eerily accurate to her situation.
* FourIsDeath: The train goes through four tunnels over the course of the episode, and the last one reveals that Stacey has become a mummified corpse just like everyone else on the train.
* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with another tunnel being entered, but this time it's Stacey who announces it to the passengers, having been broken by the horror she's seen and submitting to her maybe-dead fate.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The episode takes place the night before Thanksgiving, as Stacey wanted to take the train back home so she can see her family.
* ImColdSoCold:
* LastNoteNightmare: Stacey's final declaration of "Tunnel!", which keeps going over the end credits and the fade to black.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: It doesn't talk to her, but the opening act ends with Stacey's reflection shooting her an unnerving glare and shutting her window for her, then disappearing when the window opens again.
* MindScrew: With all the unanswered questions lurking about, good luck figuring ''this'' episode out...
* MovingTheGoalposts: The car itself manifests new signs with new rules on them to keep Stacey from escaping.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: One of the first clues that something isn't quite right about the train is
* NightmareFetishist: At the end of the first act, Joe smiles after gunning down the old man, then gleefully turns the gun on Stacey, who just barely escapes.
* NoNameGiven: The old man and the conductor aren't given any names.
* NothingIsScarier: Everything about the nature of the train and the state of its passengers.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did Stacey die before the episode began, or did she die sometime after boarding the train? If it's the former, how did she originally die?
* RuleOfThree: Three separate times, the train conjures never-before-seen signs with new rules to keep Stacey from escaping her car, each time having Mrs. Crane reading them aloud.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Stacey initially believes Mrs. Crane to be one, given her fascination with her watch.
*
* TokenEvilTeammate: Joe is a total brat to Stacey, even going so far as to fill her with lead while in a tunnel, while Mrs. Crane and the old man are more hospitable.
* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the train goes through another
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* BrattyHalfPint: The little boy. His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
* DeadAllALong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting his shooting a passenger to death.
* DeadAllALong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting his shooting a passenger to death.
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* BrattyHalfPint: The little boy. His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun gun, and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
*DeadAllALong: DeadAllAlong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting in his shooting a passenger to death.
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* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting in his shooting a passenger to death.
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* DeadAllLong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* DeadAllLong: DeadAllALong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* Dead All Long: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* Dead All Long: DeadAllLong: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* AfterlifeExpress:Everyone aboard the train is dead, includ [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* AfterlifeExpress:Everyone AfterlifeExpress: Everyone aboard the train is dead, includ including [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* Dead All Long: All the passengers, and heavily implied with [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* AfterlifeExpress:Everyone aboard the train is dead, includ [spoiler: [[spoiler: Stacy]].
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* AfterlifeExpress:Everyone aboard the train is dead.dead, includ [spoiler: Stacy]].
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* MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.
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* MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.out.
*WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the train goes through another tunnel, and when the lights come back on, Stacy is a skeleton just like her fellow passengers.
*WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the train goes through another tunnel, and when the lights come back on, Stacy is a skeleton just like her fellow passengers.
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* ImColdSoCold:Seconds after the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so that she won't get cold, It's revealed that she is dead.
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* ImColdSoCold:Seconds ImColdSoCold: Seconds after the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so that she won't get cold, It's it's revealed that she is dead.
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* BrattyHalfPint:The little boy.His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
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* BrattyHalfPint:The BrattyHalfPint: The little boy.boy. His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
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* AfterlifeExpress:Everyone aboard the train is dead.
* ArcWords: Tunnel... Tunnel... Tunnel...
* BrattyHalfPint:The little boy.His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting his shooting a passenger to death.
* ImColdSoCold:Seconds after the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so that she won't get cold, It's revealed that she is dead.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: One of the first clues that something isn't right about the train is the elderly woman's fascination with Stacy's watch.
* MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.
* ArcWords: Tunnel... Tunnel... Tunnel...
* BrattyHalfPint:The little boy.His antics include changing costumes in the blink of an eye, constantly shooting at the passengers with his toy gun and going absolutely crazy at the mention of time.
* EldritchLocation: The nature of the train car is anything but clear. The tunnels induce insanity and fear whenever the car passes through them and are implied to warp reality as demonstrated by the child's toy gun which becomes real resulting his shooting a passenger to death.
* ImColdSoCold:Seconds after the elderly passenger gives Stacy a scarf so that she won't get cold, It's revealed that she is dead.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: One of the first clues that something isn't right about the train is the elderly woman's fascination with Stacy's watch.
* MindScrew: Good luck figuring this episode out.
