The team encounters supernatural forces. Tommy tries to cope with her husband’s death as their anniversary draws near, when strange occurrences happen in her house that suggest he may still be near. Meanwhile, Owen takes Judd and Wyatt out searching for aliens.
Tropes:
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: After learning how different Wyatt is from him, Judd draws a blank on any alternative activities to do with his son, at least until the call with the “aliens”. He also invites Owen along to be their quote-unquote “guide.”
- Birds of a Feather: To Judd’s dismay, Wyatt finds more common ground with Owen with knowledge about plant-based ingredients, aliens and the related conspiracy theories.
- Body Horror: Two of the supernatural calls result in this.
- An ailing customer believes that she has been hexed, but the seance and paramedics find— to their disgust— that she was actually an unwittingly long-term host of… many fully-grown roundworms.
- Owen, Judd and Tommy follow a burned trail of dead animals to a smoking cabin, and find two people with severe radiation burns and poisoning.
- Conspiracy Theorist: The team is stunned to realize Owen's talk on Eisenhower making a deal with aliens for technology and such wasn’t just to calm down Caleb, he believes it.Owen: Who do you think built the pyramids?Mateo: ...The Egyptians?Owen: (letting out a "yeah, right" laugh) Okay, sure.
- Continuity Nod: The Hispanic seance uses the same series of candles and spiritual readings to diagnose a young woman’s failing health (which is actually a health problem) and Tommy’s haunting (which is not outright confirmed, but is implied to be a real visit from Charles’ spirit).
- Give Me a Sign: When learning that her lights have been flickering on and off in a certain pattern, which is scaring Izzy and Evie, Tommy identifies it as a radio signal that communicates “I love you”, which she and Charles used whenever they had conflicting work schedules. The seance takes it to mean that Charles’ spirit is trying to reach Tommy. Later, after Tommy walks away from the “date” when asking this of Charles, the candles she blew out suddenly re-light, implying that this is his delayed answer.
- It Never Gets Any Easier: Tommy struggles with this part of her grief as her and Charles’ anniversary date approaches. She even admits as much during their “dinner date.”
- Lethally Stupid: Two artists find an unknown substance from an abandoned hospital, and find that it glows in the dark. Without noticing its effects on their health, they eagerly and copiously use it in both their art projects and sell them inside necklaces to other poor unsuspecting customers.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Wyatt’s wildly different interests (i.e. skateboarding and tabletop/ video games as opposed to hunting and fishing) and lifestyle (i.e. a vegan diet and familiarity with associated ingredients, as opposed to a full-on Southern meal) become a source of angst for Judd.
- Mistaken for Aliens: The two artists in the episode.
- Recurring Extra: Brianna, Caleb, and the seance from season 1 make an appearance in the episode.
- The Reveal: The “aliens” stumbling around in the woods turn out to be two found-object artists who stole and used a canister of cesium chloride in their pieces. Over the course of four days, the prolonged usage resulted in them both developing severe radiation poisoning and nearly kills an unsuspecting suburban family.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted with Tommy, who attends a grief counseling group to talk about her missing Charles after his death.
- Too Dumb to Live: Two artists live out in the woods, taking lost items to use in their art. The guy finds a metal canister full of glowing blue stuff. And of course, their reaction is to break the canister open and pour it out. As if that wasn’t dumb enough, they use it in their art and sell it at a public fair.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Grace’s face basically screams this each time the credit card company she’s trying to warn about the radioactive material puts her on hold.
