"You nearly got yourself killed the day before your wedding!"
— Imaginary Young
A bus comes to the small town of Cloverdale. It's Matthew Scott coming home with his buddy Ron Greer. Across the street we see Young and Eli, Scott runs toward them and gets hit by a car. Was it a flashback? A flashforward, maybe? An alternate universe? No, he's actually lying on the ground in a forest on a alien planet, and gross blue stuff grows on his arm.
Tropes
- Adventures in Comaland: Most of the episode takes place in Scott's dreamworld.
- And You Were There: Scott's visions are populated by people he knows. Chloe is his fiancée, Greer is his best man, Young is his father, Eli is Chloe's brother, James is a waitress at his bachelor party, Telford is the sheriff, and Rush is the Justice of the Peace.
- Body Horror: Blue spores grow on you, causing you to suffer and hallucinate and who know how big it can grow to be. It consumed poor Scott's arm in a matter of hours.
- Hold the Line
- Hollywood Old: Scott imagines Young in the role of his father although their actors have only a 15-year age difference.
- Internal Reveal: Chloe is still infected.
- Kill It with Fire: Greer's improvised flamethrowers came handy
- Mundanization: Scott's hallucinations.
- Nothing Is Scarier: It takes half the episode before the Monster of the Week appears.
- Rule of Symbolism: Juxtaposition of imaginary wedding and real world blood transfusion certainly symbolizes something.
- Ship Sinking: Eli as Chloe's brother was used to ram home to the audience that Eli and Chloe have transitioned from Just Friends to Like Brother and Sister and are intended to be viewed as such by the audience.
