In the clearing, Kristen appears garbed as a hippie. To an amused David and Kiki, she respectively hands a pair of sunglasses and peace medallion. Tonight, Kristen's tale will supernaturally invert the old saying: "those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, she calls it "The Tale of Locker 22".
Mr. Shaffner shows newly arrived French transfer student Julie Dufaux to locker 22.
In chemistry, Julie accidentally drops a glass bottle. As the class disperse, Chris helps her clear up, and offers to show her the way to her next class. She gratefully accepts. As she makes to follow him, she sees, across the room, a lone, previously absent girl, garbed in sixties fashions. Julie turns to Chris, and looks back to find the girl to have vanished.
In the canteen, taunting of Julie by Donny and Fritz rouses the two to a food fight. Mr Shaffner commands a halt, and gets some yoghurt in the face.
Back at locker 22, Julie turns from her locker to see, watching her from behind, the girl from chemistry. The girl de-materialises. On the way home, Chris consoles her about the food fight. She hesitantly confides her suspicion of having seen a ghost.
In bed that night, Julie's phone rings. A youthful voice, with mock spookiness, threatens a haunting. At school the next day, she angrily blames Chris for starting gossip.
As an abandoned old necklace falls from Julie’s locker. She once again sees the vanishing sixties girl, who silently gestures to her own, similar necklace. Julie puts on hers.
With a brilliant flash of light, the faded walls of the corridor are revealed to have reverted to a bright shade of yellow, arrayed with flyers. The bustle of students has been replaced with a different crowd, dressed in headbands, ponchos, and such like. A yellowish glow tints the scene. A nearby girl addresses Julie as Candy, and compliments her beads. Perplexed, Julie returns to her locker, to find it emblazoned with a flower-shaped sticker and the name Candy. A younger, mustachioed Mr Shaffner addresses Julie as Ms Warren, and urges haste.
Julie removes the necklace, and with a flash, the recess reverts to its dim, cluttered state. On the locker door, Julie notices a faded, flower-shaped indentation.
She finds Chris, who explains he only repeated her story because the school is already rumoured to be haunted. To her locker, Julie leads Chris, and puts on the necklace. With a flash, the two find themselves in the corridor as it was in the sixties. The girl from before once more addresses Julie as Candy, and happily mentions acquisition of The White Album. The younger Mr. Shaffner again addresses Julie as Ms Warren, and sternly indicates her appointment with a delayed chemistry project.
Back in the present, Chris checks registration records for the year of the release of The White Album, 1968, and finds the name Candy Warren, of locker 22. In a yearbook, they find a head shot of the spectral girl, captioned with the epitaph "1951-1968...Friends Forever".
Chris consults Mr. Rider, who confirms a tragic accident in 1968: in the chemistry lab, Candy Warren was killed in an explosion while doing an experiment.
In the 1968 chemistry lab, Julie joins Mr. Shaffner. To a gas tap, he fixes a Bunsen burner - whose pipe is severely damaged. Mr Shaffner, still believing Julie to be Candy, gruffly re-explains the task, and leaves her to it.
A frantic Chris runs to Julie’s locker, but she's gone. Candy appears behind him. With a silent nod, she confirms Julie to be back in 1968. With a blaze of light, she vanishes, and sends Chris to 1968.
While Julie fumbles with a match, Chris pelts down the corridor, but is seized by Mr Shaffner, who chides him for running. He breaks free.
With a nearby candle, Julie re-attempts to light the Bunsen burner. Just in time, Chris arrives, calls out to her, douses the dropped candle. A fuming Mr Shaffner arrives in demand of explanation. Chris shows him the rotted gas pipe and tells him that Candy could have died if not for timely intervention.
Back in the present, Chris and Julie hug in relief. A strangely-familiar looking teacher asks what they're doing here so late. Chris explains to have been helping with Julie’s stuck locker. The teacher smilingly recalls similar trouble with that very locker, and introduces herself to Julie as assistant principal Ms Warren - Candy Warren.
- Kristen: The end.Gary: Far out!Kiki: Solid!David: Psychedelic!Frank: ...Neato!
This episode provides examples of:
- Alternate Timeline: Intervention in the past to save Candy’s life causes a present where Candy is alive, and is now the high school assistant principal.
- Artifact Domination: Wearing Candy’s old necklace reverts Julie to the day of Candy’s death in 1968.
- Bedsheet Ghost: Donny dresses as one.
- The Bully: Two of them, who pick on Julie just because she's an exchange student. They tease her more when Chris spilled about her seeing ghosts.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Chris disrupts Mr. Shaffner’s bluster by citing the lethally damaged gas pipe. The following quote hammers home that Shaffner has had this wake up call coming for a long time.Mr. Shaffner: (Stunned) I don't know what to say.Chris: (Disgustedly) I'd say you're in the wrong line of work.
- Caught in the Ripple: Only Julie and Chris seem to notice the effects of having altered history to save a life.
- Dean Bitterman:
- Mr Shaffner is quite dour and irascible.
- Very much averted with genial Mr. Rider.
- Never My Fault: Quite poignantly averted with Mr Shaffner's stunned realization that the damaged gas pipe could have killed Candy/Julie if Chris didn't stop the experiment in time.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Candy's ghost, via her necklace, is able to bring living people across time to the day of her death, enabling them to alter history by prevention of her death.
- Screw Destiny: Intervention by Julie and Chris successfully rearranges history to exclude the fatal accident.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Candy's haunting seems to seek rearrangement of past events to not only prevent her death, but also make her the rightful assistant principal in the present.
- Shout-Out:
- Fritz mockingly calls Julie a Ghostbuster.
- A sixties student fondly mentions the The Beatles’ White Album.
