Alone in the morgue, I hear little footsteps.
My daughter has finally come back to me.
My daughter has finally come back to me.
Laura lives in a hospital with her mother, Grace, who works as a mortician. Feeling neglected by her, Laura's normally monotonous life is interrupted when the ghost of a boy seems to be angry with her.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Chekhov's Gun: The faulty fluorescent lamp. Laura is trying to signal "I LOVE YOU" to her mother with it using Morse code.
- Dead All Along: Both Laura and Antonio are dead. Antonio is a friendly ghost who helps spirits pass on. Laura was killed in a car accident years ago, but she keeps coming back to the hospital every year on her birthday to say goodbye to her mother.
- Married to the Job: Grace has been burying herself in work ever since Laura died.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Grace is ultimately revealed to have experienced this.
- Parental Neglect: Grace never has proper time with Laura, and always dismisses her for work. It turns out that she is not present for her because Laura is dead; Grace has been talking to herself, lamenting why she had to die.
- Unfinished Business: Laura's ghost keeps coming back to the hospital because she has yet to say goodbye to her mother.
