Ghosts – Sam’s Dad

By: Gladys Luna

Patience (Mary Holland) is still getting used to live in the house and is continuously scared by the present time gadgets such as the toaster or even the stove and fire every time Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) cooks and although Sas (Román Zaragoza) tries to explain her what everything is for, she still believes that all of the artifacts are part of the devils’ play. Most of the ghosts are gathered in the kitchen with Jay and Sam (Rose McIver) where they are announcing that Sam’s father, Frank (Dean Norris) and his girlfriend Diane (Melinda McGraw) will be visiting the mansion for a few days. While most of the ghosts are unaware about who he is, Pete (Richie Moriarty) seems to know everything about the man. Based on the fact that Frank is never around his daughter, Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) assumes that he must be an absent father but Sam is quick to correct her about that saying that they just live separate lives that don’t allow them to see each other so often but Jay is not buying that at all and he questions if she doesn’t have any resentment towards her father for not being part of her life to what the woman says no eventhoug she is always complaining for him not showing up at her fifth-grade recital. As a way to back Frank up, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) says that some parents are not always available to be around like she did in 1893 when she only saw her son only twice. To top things off, Pete tells Sam that if her relationship with her father goes bad, he will be there to help her and gives her the permission to even call him “Daddy.”

On the other hand, Thor (Devan Chandler Long), Flower (Sheila Carrasco) and Trevor (Asher Grodman) are trying to have some fun watching tv but they are interrupted by Nigel’s (John Hartman) constant complains about being dumped at the altar and the realization that no one in the house cares about him. Once he leaves the room, Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) shows up and confesses that he has been waiting all along for his ex-fiancé to leave so he could join them expressing how difficult it has been to share the same space with his ex-fiancé. Trevor advises him to better fix the situation with Nigel as soon as possible since it is weird for the exes to continue to live together after the break-up. In that moment, Nancy (Betsy Sodaro) walks in asking them if it’s normal for her butt to itch even after death and when she sees Thor and Flower sitting there, she takes the opportunity to confirm their date night as a throuple and they agree to meet with her that night. After the woman leaves, the couple is left with an awkward feeling and thinking they should better gather the courage they need and end up the relationship with Nancy. At seeing this, Trevor suggests for them to be each other’s messenger so that way, Flower and Thor will ask Nigel to leave the mansion while Isaac will communicate Nancy that the throuple is over and the others find it to be a great idea. Isaac visits Nancy and without the minimum remorse tells her that he is there to announce that Thor and Flower have ended the throuple and they are back on being a couple again something that the basement ghost doesn’t take so well and starts punching him meanwhile, Thor and Flower don’t find it in them to ask Nigel to leave and end up doing the opposite by saying how happy they are that he is still there.

Later that day, everyone gathers at the living room to listen about how Sam’s father and Diane met. The man also confesses that Sam has a “history” with his prior girlfriends as she will always find a way to pull some pranks on them as a way to protest and when confronted about it, she will always blame it on the ghosts. Right that moment Patience joins them asking about the strangers in the living room so, Sas and Alberta explain who they are. The couple leave to their room and when Patience realizes that they’re not married yet she wastes no time in expressing that she won’t allow them to share the same bed until they’re situation changes but then Sam tells her that she does not have a say in it something that gets her so mad that she makes the walls bleed much to everyone’s surprise. Jay is trying so hard to remove the blood from the walls when an Amazon driver (Akeem Hoyte-Charles) comes in the room to leave a package and gets terrified at what he sees and although Jay tries to convince him that the blood is just ketchup, the other man doesn’t believe him and leaves as fast as he can.

Sam thinks they need to find a way to keep Patience under control so Hetty suggests that maybe she should talk to her father about it and ask for him and Diane to sleep on separate beds. Sometime after, Sam and Jay, followed by Sas, Patience, Hetty and Alberta go to Frank’s room and offer them an upgrade and the opportunity to have the Woodstone two-room experience just in the same way the used to in the gilded Age but Frank refuses the offer making Sam to confess that the reason why she is asking that is because Jay has become conservative and he doesn’t feel comfortable with their current situation as an unmarried couple. As it is expected, Frank feels that this is just another way of Sam to express her discontent with him but Diane tries to calm him down and agrees to what they are asking. That night, Franks sneaks in into Diane’s room while Patience watches him and the next day the couple wakes up to the word “SIN” written in blood in the wall.  Sam and Jay try to apologize for what happened but the man is not buying anything they say so he asks Diane to start packing her stuff so they could leave something that makes Sam react to by confessing that this is such a typical behavior of him, to just leave and disappear for years.

Meanwhile, Flower and Thor confess to Isaac that they couldn’t ask Nigel to leave and they made it worse instead. The captain is so desperate to find a solution to his situation that Alberta advises him to confront Nigel himself and end this for good. In another room, Frank and Diane are finishing with packing and the man feels disappointed as well as sad by his daughter’s words and confesses that he had always wanted to be there for her but her mother never allowed it. He says that he even tried to attend to Sam’s recital when she was in fifth-grade but her mother threatened him with making a scene if he will. Diane advises him to talk with Sam about it but he is not sure that would make a difference. Lucky for him, Sas and Pete have heard it all and go straight to the woman to tell her. Sam understands the situation but still blames her father for not making an effort to be part of her life but Jay tells her that maybe the fact that he had showed up to spend a few days with her it was his way of trying to change things between them.

Later, Isaac meets with Nigel to ask him to go back to the shed but when seeing how affected he is, he makes the decision to change places with him and let him stay at the mansion. He feels so well with himself that he runs to tell the others about his heroic behavior. Frank and Diane are taking their bags to the car when Sam comes out and apologizes for all the time she played pranks on his girlfriends and for not seeing things from his perspective then confesses that she would like for them to be closer to what Frank agrees and tells Diane that they are staying a little longer and in order to avoid Patience from making a scene, they lie to her saying that Frank and Diane got married in the car. That night, Sam performs her whole fifth-grade recital in front of everyone while her father looks at her proud and smiling.

Later, Sam and Jay show Isaac their latest pick on the tile for the restaurant but once again, he does not agree with their choice making the couple leave in disappointment then, he turns at the other ghosts that have been watching tv and tells them that he needs to go back to the shed for the night but he is stopped by Nigel who asks him to trade places with him again given that his former shade mates have been complaining about Isaac and his moral lessons on how to become a better version just like he did.