PART 1:
The Mystery Manor is officially OPEN! A family of five got lost on their way to Disney Land, and Stan took the opportunity to present the grand opening, even if there isn't many people. He then shock his family by saying that the tour is free, convincing them to take the tour. They follow Soos and Wendy to the Gift Shop while Stan takes Yuki and the twins to help him set up the tour.
The twins ask Stan what happened to make it give a free tour. He says that he is promoting discounts to convince people to come, but will raise the prices before they actually leave, after they fall for everything. Yuki is upset at Stan's dishonesty, but says nothing. Stan confirms with the twins that nothing weird is supposed to be happening today and goes inside to lead the tour.
Mabel tells Dipper to do a high-kick, something she has been doing a lot of since they saved the town two weeks previously. Dipper succeeds in the high-kick, and the two continue training for about an hour. When training is finished, they hang out on the porch outside, debating which creatures around town would win in a fight against one another.
Just after Dipper is outnumbered by Mabel and Waddles saying the Gobblewonker wins against the gnomes, Stan leads the family outside, merchandise in hand. As the family leaves, Stan tells the twins that he is rusty and only got 100 or so out of them. Stan tells the twins to keep an eye out for tourists and/or weird stuff from the woods before going back inside.
Three hours pass and the twins have moved inside with Wendy, Soos and Yuki coming and going as they try to repair parts of the Manor. During some downtime for everyone, Soos is telling the others about a business convention that will be coming to town in two weeks, explaining that he is trying to stay more informed about what happens in town since he came back from non-existence.
He also mentions the band Duskhope coming to town in a week or two. Dipper asks why so many important people are coming to Gravity Falls. Wendy explains that there is nothing in town to compete for attention, and the town would loose publicity if they turned down stuff, so it's a win-win.
Stan comes in asking where all the tourists are, depressed when he hears that no one has come by yet. He mentions online ads, but everyone either doesn't know how to program, or it would take to long for Stan's liking. Stan is about to head back inside the main part of the building when he hears a car coming. Looking out the window, he realizes that its more than one vehicle.
He starts barking out orders, everyone racing to comply, driving him to tears. As everyone waits for the customers to arrive, Stan stares out the window at the line of vehicles coming down the driveway. The vans, all with WPGTP on them, arrive and people start unloading cameras and microphones. Everyone inside the Manor watches the visitors unload, Mabel recognizing the NPPP guys from a few weeks ago.
Stan walks outside, Soos and the twins in tow, and tells everyone to clear out. A well-dressed man named Justin walks over and shakes Stan's hand, explaining the NPPP told him the Manor was a good place to film the pilot of a new show for the Watch People Go To Places channel. He says that the channel wants to begin exploring the paranormal, and the Manor will be the focus of the new show, Totally Real Paranormal Mystery Show.
The twins accuse Justin of ripping off another show on a different channel. Just tin tells them the show in question, and the host, are fake, while his show and the NPPP are the real deal. Stan starts to tell Justin of the trouble the NPPP caused him their first time around, but Justin tells him they will put the Manor on the air for free and give Stan ample time to promote his business, causing Stan to take the deal.
The four of them go back inside, the crew preparing to follow, and catch Yuki and Wendy up on what's happening. Wendy at first seems concerned, but plays it off like she's excited. The crew comes in, Stan leading most of them around so they could figure out how to film things. The NPPP hang back, brooding to themselves.
Once Justin and the camera guys figure out how things will be filmed, Justin asks one of the NPPP to interview the Manor employees/residents. Geoffrey steps up and the interview begins, but it doesn't go as well as Justin wanted. Geoffrey mentions the golems, causing Justin to halt the interview, telling everyone that they planned on a ghost haunting for the first episode.
The interviews continue, skipping over Wendy. The kids are forced to lie about seeing ghosts everywhere. Justin approves of this, much to Geoffrey's annoyment, as the latter wants more details of the real adventures the twins had. In the middle of Mabel's interview, Justin has her stare at a lamp for a few seconds, pleasing him greatly. He explains that he can use the shot to make it seem like Mabel heard a ghost. Stan is happy he will get to say the Manor is haunted and charge more for guests spending the night. Yuki says he is not used to humans lying so easily and often.
The crew starts moving stuff around, getting thing set up to use fishing line for some camera tricks. One of the crew members tells Justin the fishing line expired, and Justin asks Stan if he has any they can use. Stan send the twins in town to get some fishing line, Wendy following them into the gift shop. She grumbles about the NPPP getting on TV after how they acted when they first visited, but Dipper points out Geoffrey wasn't all that bad today. Wendy asks the twins if they can get her a copy of the Portland newspaper while they are in town, and after a quick game of rock, paper, scissors, the twins go into town on Mabel's bike.
In town, Mabel sees Candy and Grenda and goes with them while Dipper does the shopping. The twins reunite after the shopping is done, Mabel having made plans with her friends for a sleepover in a few days. Dipper tells her they are rowdy, causing her to poke him in the eye. As he rubs his eye, he notices a figure in a hoodie reading an old book. Confirming with his sister, the twins confront the Warlock.
They sneak up on him, Mabel grabbing him and shoving him into a alley, pinning him against the wall, making him drop the book. The twins threaten to hit him, but through his stuttering he begs them to let him explain himself. He says he was mad at his master and wanted to prove himself, so he did what he did to the twins and Soos. He says most of it was just to scare people, and says that he was about to leave town. Mabel releases him from the wall, neither twin believing anything he said.
As a peace offering, the Warlock takes out a necklace with a gold coin hanging on it. The Warlock explains that it is a talisman, and it is supposed to bring the wearer good luck. Dipper asks if it is cursed, but the Warlock points out that he wouldn't wear something that is cursed. The Warlock explains that one side reads Dreams Do Come True, and the twins allow him to leave, debating whether to toss out the talisman or not. Not getting any bad vibes from it, they test it by seeing if the stoplight turns green for them, which it does.
They return to the Manor with the talisman in their pocket and hand off the fishing line to the crew members. Justin says that belief in something is what makes it come true- if the cast believe there is a ghost, the audience will too. Soos asks what the talisman is, but before Dipper can explain, the crew starts shooting again, cutting him off.
As the crew shoots their camera tricks over and over again, going late into the night, the Manor gang and the NPPP are hanging out in the gift shop, catching each other up on what happened the past two weeks. Geoffrey tells the Manor gang that when they visited the first time, it was their first time actually reviewing a place, and they decided playing hard-ball would be better. Wendy tells them they came off as jerks, Soos agreeing but not saying so, Dipper nodding his head while he fiddles with the talisman.
The NPPP turn to Mabel, who says sweaters are nice. Dipper turns to her to mess with her a bit, but the weirdness detector Ben has in his coat starts acting up. It detected something solid, even if the Manor is not actually haunted. The lights start to flicker and then go out entire, causing groans from the crew deeper in the building. Yuki, who can see in the dark, goes outside to check the power box as Ben continues to mess with the machine, the reading getting stronger.
Ben says he thinks there is something real going on just before the door slams shut. The two groups huddle together in the center of the gift shop as the windows around them slam shut as well, the air getting colder. A disembosied voice laughs in the darkness, Ben confirming that the Mystery Manor has just become haunted for real.
PART 2:
As the temperature continues to decrease, Wendy asks how a ghost got in the building. The NPPP say that ghosts only haunt the places they died, and Stan told them no one has died at the Manor. Dipper pulls out the Journal and places the talisman in his pocket, telling everyone that ghosts have been recorded outside of the region they died in. Mabel comes over and points out that certain types of spirits, such as Poltergeists, haunt places for unknown reasons.
Wendy asks if they can fight the spirit just before they hear scream coming from farther into the house. Most of the crew members for the show rush into the room, trying to break down the door as a blue and purple mass of light gathers in the middle of the room. The poltergeist materializes and turns the crew members into mice, saying he loves being him.
The twins, Soos, Wendy and the NPPP run out of the gift shop, heading deeper into the Manor. The NPPP disappear as the others go into the kitchen, Dipper hiding in a cabinet, Wendy in the pantry, Soos under the table, and Mabel on top of the fridge. Once the poltergeist passes, they begin thinking of a plan. Dipper mentions salt being sacred, and Soos suggests silver because why not? It can't hurt anything. What can hurt is Soos shrugging and moving the table he is hiding under, making noise, alerting the ghost to their presence.
Thankfully, the ghost just opens the fridge before leaving, not finding anyone. Dipper sneaks out of the cabinet and opens the silverware drawers. Unfortunately, the ghost hears the noises. Dipper gives Soos and Mabel two utensils before the ghost comes back and sees him by the drawers.
Dipper asks the ghost what he wants, confusing the spirit. Dipper elaborate that since he is as ghost, he must want something. The ghost says he wants to haunt people like Dipper. Dipper throws a fork from the drawer behind him at the ghost, Mabel and Soos following suit. The utensils just fly through the spirit, who asks if that's how people act when they are scared. Wendy bursts out of the pantry, throwing salt at the ghost, but all it does is cause him to sneeze.
The four run out of the kitchen and head upstairs to the twins' room, Waddles sneaking in behind them. The twins and Soos debate their options as Wendy stares at the window. She asks if they hear something, and the four of them look out the window to see Yuki trying to get inside. She, Wendy and Soos pry the window open and quickly explain about the ghost.
Yuki asks if they could jump from the window. The girls think they could, but Soos doesn't think he could do it, and Dipper knows that splitting up when they are all together usually causes more problems than it solves. They hear Grunkle Stan screaming from inside the building, the yell scaring Waddles, who quickly jumps out the window. Yuki catches him and outs him down, but tells the others he probably couldn't catch them like he did the pig.
Dipper tells Yuki to find a priest after he says that he was unable to break into the building. Soos tosses down the keys to the golf cart, but Yuki is not confident in his driving abilities. The window they forced open begins tries to close again. Dipper tells Yuki to find help and not get hurt before it slams shut, quickly frosting up. They are able to see Yuki and Waddles head towards the golf cart, hear it start up, and watch as it jerkily drives away.
Dipper comments that Yuki will end up between two trees or in a ditch somewhere while they all die. Mabel tells him to think positive, and he responds that he is positive they will all die. They start trying to figure out how to beat the ghost, Dipper mentioning how the shack was never haunted before... before the camera crew showed up wanting to film a ghost show. Everyone realizes that Justin must have brought the ghost to the Manor and is controlling it somehow to get good ratings for the show.
Dipper comes up with a plan. Since the ghost can't sense them, they will move from hiding spot to hiding spot one at a time, sneaking around and making as little noise as possible. They would stop and regroup at a place big enough for all of them in case they need to check the Journal or something. Wendy decides to take the lead, Mabel, Dipper and then Soos following behind her.
It goes well, but then they reach the stairs. There is no cover on the stairs and the closest safe zone is a closet slightly farther along the hallway, and maybe a coat rack. Not to mention how rickety the stairs themselves are. Wendy starts down the stairs, making almost no noise. Halfway down, the ghost floats by, but doesn't notice her, and she is able to make it to safety.
Mabel follows Wendy, making more noise than the older girl. It's not much, but it is there. Dipper comes next, at first making a considerable amount of noise, but he gets better after Wendy gives him a tip. Three people now down the stairs, Soos takes his turn, making enough noise to wake the dead. Mabel tells him to just go for it, so he runs downstairs, making it to the bottom before the ghost starts heading his way. The twins hide in a closest, Wendy hiding herself farther down the hall. Soos closes the closet door on the twins as the ghost goes past. The twins open the door to see Soos hid himself in the coat rack, the ghost not noticing him.
A scream from the tour rooms has the four of them run in that direction to see the ghost holding Justin in the air. Justin asks the ghost what his story is, confusing the spirit. The ghost asks what more there is to being a poltergeist, and Justin explains how ghosts are supposed to have unfinished business in the living world. He asks the ghost what his life as a human was like before he died, making the ghost angry because he thinks he was never a human or alive. Justin says the ghost can't remember his life, but the ghost says he was never a human and turns Justin into a frog.
The group hides again, Dipper's theory shot to hell. Soos suggests they could sing the ghost to sleep, but Wendy tells everyone that ghosts and other undead don't sleep. Dipper points out that the ghost doesn't seem to have any memory, and Mabel points out all of the questions he is asking. Questions ghosts should know the answers to, but doesn't.
Dipper puts two and two together and realizes the 'ghost' they have been dealing with the whole time is actually a creature known as a Tulpa. He explains that because everyone in the building was trying to make it seem like there was a ghost in the Manor, the tulpa turned into a ghost. Mabel asks how a tulpa got in the Manor to begins with, Dipper putting his hands in his pockets as he tries to come up with an answer. In his pocket, he feels the talisman and realizes the Tulpa must have been connected to that the entire time.
Before he can explain about the coin, Stan and the NPPP come through the hallway. The twins, with the help of Ben, explain the Tulpa and how it came into the Manor. Ben scans the coin with his detector, getting back a positive, if peculiar, reading. They debate whether or not to break the coin when the Tulpa appears and screams at them.
The group runs into the museum and sees the exhibits are staring to come to life. Dipper, Wendy, Stan and Geoffrey run one direction while Mabel, Soos and the other four NPPP go the other way. The four pass the 'Wardrobe of Darkness,' which is just a normal wardrobe, except it means that they are trapped at the end of a hallway, the Tulpa and exhibits blocking their escape.
Wendy takes the coin from Dipper and breaks it in two. Wind picks up and the Tulpa begins twitching and screaming, but he doesn't disappear. Angered and in pain, he throws Wendy against the back wall of the hallway. Before she can recover, the Wardrobe of Darkness is hurled at her, throwing her against the wall hard enough to be seen. The wardrobe breaks and splinters and Wendy is down.
Dipper and Stan try to attack the Tulpa, but he levitates them into the air, Geoffrey following shortly afterwards. Tired of playing games and still hurting from Wendy's breaking the coin, the Tulpa prepares to end it all. But before he can do anything, they all hear humming. They look to see Soos, Mabel and the other NPPP guys standing in a line.
Mabel begins singing a Bohemian Parody, the other five in the line joining her piece by piece. The Tulpa is stunned by this and lowers Dipper, Stan and Geoffrey while he listens to the song. Dipper joins in with his sister, and the two take the lead, Soos and the NPPP acting as the chorus, everyone getting deep into the music.
The Tulpa becomes enveloped by the noise, and it becomes too much for him to handle. He yells and cuts off the song. Mabel explains what they did, and the ghost asks for more. Dipper says they will, as long as her turns Justin and the crew human again and promises to stop haunting the Manor. The Tulpa takes the deal and returns everything to how it was before, except for Wendy under the destroyed wardrobe.
Dipper and Stan go to check on her. Dipper digs her out of the rubble to see that she is surprisingly unhurt. Not a scratch or a bruise is on her body. Dipper is relieved until he notices a large splinter sticking out of her back, which she doesn't appear to feel. Stan pulls the splinter out of her back, getting almost no reaction from the girl.
Justin and the crew come into the room, Justin excited for the new business opportunity the poltergeist provides. Justin tells the poltergeist that he will provide the ghost new music every week in exchange for the ghost haunting locations for the show. The poltergeist takes the deal, and the crew begins filming actual footage of the Manor gang being chased by the poltergeist, whom everyone had begun to call P.G.
The crew, P.G. and Justin all pack up and begin to head out. The NPPP hang back for a second and apologize to the Manor gang for acting like jerks their first time around. The gang accepts their apology the the five head out, leaving the Manor gang to pick up the wreckage. Stan mention burning the exhibits he saw come to life, Soos excited about that plan, and the two of them head inside, leaving the twins and Wendy alone under the stars.
Dipper mentions Wendy needing to be home, causing her to run inside and grab her bag. She says bye and rides away on her bike, Dipper remembering something red from three weeks ago. Mabel catches Dipper's suspicion, and he explains about Wendy not reacting to the splinter in her back. Mabel's response is to slap his shoulder, a look of realization on her face. She reminds Dipper that the Tulpa was connected to the coin, and the coin was given to them by the Warlock as a 'peace offering.' The twins laugh at what they would do if they met the Warlock again, Mabel realizing that the Manor gang is missing a few members.
On her way home, Wendy stops her bike on the road to see Yuki in the golf cart trapped between two trees, Wadlles sitting on the passenger seat as Yuki tries to get the cart moving again. Wendy asks Yuki if her needs help, and he says yes, and that the human world is terrible. He slams hi head on the horn, jumps up and hits it on the roof from the noise, and breaks down crying, hugging Waddles for comfort.
Cryptogram:
Grgy, Vuux Cktje. O qtkc nkx. Alas, Poor Wendy. I knew her.
