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* HeroicSacrifice: Samuel offered to give up his life by letting Jacob take the last parachute. Unfortunately, Samuel survived the plane crash but Jacob died because his parachue wouldn't open.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Samuel offered to give up his life by letting Jacob take the last parachute. Unfortunately, However, while Samuel survived the plane crash but crash, Jacob died because his parachue parachute wouldn't open.
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* CoolOldGuy: Grandpa Samuel has a tendency to easy-going jollity.
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* CoolOldGuy: Grandpa Samuel has a tendency tends to easy-going jollity.
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* YouLookLikeYouevSeenAGhost:
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* YouLookLikeYouevSeenAGhost:YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost:
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* LoveTriangle: Sarah fell in love with Samuel while engaged to Jacob. She planned to tell Jacob the truth, but...
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* VengefulGhost: Jacob mistakenly believes Samuel to deliberately have given him a faulty parachute to save his own life. On a brief return to Earth, he aims to usurp Samuel’s body.
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* VengefulGhost: Jacob mistakenly believes Samuel to deliberately have given him a faulty parachute to save his own life. On a brief return to Earth, he aims to usurp Samuel’s body.body.
* YouLookLikeYouevSeenAGhost:
-->'''Grandpa:''' What's the matter with you two? You look like you've seen a ghost.
-->'''Alex:''' Bingo!
-->'''Jessie:''' We did!
* YouLookLikeYouevSeenAGhost:
-->'''Grandpa:''' What's the matter with you two? You look like you've seen a ghost.
-->'''Alex:''' Bingo!
-->'''Jessie:''' We did!
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* HeroicSacriice: Samuel offered to give up his life by letting Jacob take the last parachute. Unfortunately, Samuel survived the plane crash but Jacob died because his parachue wouldn't open.
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* HeroicSacriice: HeroicSacrifice: Samuel offered to give up his life by letting Jacob take the last parachute. Unfortunately, Samuel survived the plane crash but Jacob died because his parachue wouldn't open.
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Over ASpotOfTea, Samuel receives the news with vexed incredulity.
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Over ASpotOfTea, tea, Samuel receives the news with vexed incredulity.
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Up tonight is Sam, who hastily finishes a lengthily addressed birthday card to her grandmother. She warns against failure to get round to doing things, as the chance to do so might be snatched away - such as by death, for instance. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, she calls this story “The Tale of the Room for Rent.”
Jessie Dixon finishes tidying Mrs Simpson’s lawn, and approaches the door to find a sign announcing an anagogic reading to be in progress.
Jessie cycles back home, where she lives with Grandpa Samuel, who, on recent health trouble, has had his bed moved downstairs. To her dismay, he shows her a “room for rent” sign. Neither are keen on the idea of sharing with a stranger, but current finances demand it.
As Jessie hammers the sign onto the front lawn, her friend Alex cycles over, and urges haste, lest they miss the start of the zombie movie.
That night, as they ride home past Mrs Simpson’s, Jessie remembers to collect her lawn fee. Alex follows Jessie to the French windows.
Jessie Dixon finishes tidying Mrs Simpson’s lawn, and approaches the door to find a sign announcing an anagogic reading to be in progress.
Jessie cycles back home, where she lives with Grandpa Samuel, who, on recent health trouble, has had his bed moved downstairs. To her dismay, he shows her a “room for rent” sign. Neither are keen on the idea of sharing with a stranger, but current finances demand it.
As Jessie hammers the sign onto the front lawn, her friend Alex cycles over, and urges haste, lest they miss the start of the zombie movie.
That night, as they ride home past Mrs Simpson’s, Jessie remembers to collect her lawn fee. Alex follows Jessie to the French windows.
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Up tonight is Sam, who hastily finishes a lengthily addressed birthday card to her grandmother. She warns against failure to get round to doing things, as the chance to do so might be snatched away - such as by death, for instance. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, she calls this story “The "The Tale of the Room for Rent.”
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Jessie Dixon finishes tidying psychic reader MrsSimpson’s Simpson's lawn, and approaches the door to find a sign announcing an anagogic reading to be in progress.
Jessiecycles back home, where she lives with Grandpa Samuel, who, on recent health trouble, has had his bed moved downstairs. To her dismay, he shows her a “room "room for rent” rent" sign. Neither are keen on the idea of sharing with a stranger, but current finances demand it.
As Jessie hammers the sign onto the front lawn, her friend Alex cycles over, and urges haste, lest they miss the start of the zombie movie.
That night, as they Jessie and friend Alex ride home past Mrs Simpson’s, Jessie remembers to collect her lawn fee. Alex follows Jessie to the French windows. fee.
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Jessie Dixon finishes tidying psychic reader Mrs
Jessie
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Inside, the darkened floor and furniture are bedecked with numerous candles. In an armchair, Mrs Simpson sits in some kind of trance. With an ominous toll, the wall clock reaches nine. Across the room, from the ceiling, a blue spotlight glares into being, and spreads. Down the beam floats the blurred, faded figure of a man. As he turns to look at Mrs Simpson, the spotlight retracts, and he attains solidity.
As he steps towards them, the girls back away. A man-sized region of the nearby wall suddenly gleams brilliant blue. From within the glow, seamlessly through the wall, steps the man, now shining blue himself. As he emerges, the light fades from both the wall and him, and he strides serenely into the night. Halfway across the lawn, he fades from view.
Overcome, Jessie and Alex scream, and run to their bikes.
Back at Jessie’s, they blurt to Grandpa Samuel their disturbing encounter. He puts it down to a combination of tonight’s double horror feature, and spending too much time with eccentric Mrs Simpson.
Next day, Jessie arrives downstairs to see, through the windowed door, the man from last night, who now looks innocently solid. With a small smile, he announces his interest in the room for rent.
Invited in by Grandpa Samuel, he introduces himself as John Browning. Grandpa Samuel wonders if they’ve met before, as John seems somehow familiar. John says they haven’t.
Samuel happens to mention his recent heart trouble, and his need to take it easy for a while. While he describes the room, Jessie, in the doorway behind John, urgently makes silent negative gestures.
While John accepts the room, Jessie answers a knock at the door. She solemnly tells Alex to wait on the doorstep, and hurries back inside.
Grandpa Samuel introduces John, and asks Jessie to show him to the room. She uneasily questions the swift appointment. Samuel dismisses her fears with note of his apt judgement of character. With a small smile, John follows Jessie upstairs.
As John quietly looks around the room, Jessie excuses herself. Before leaving, she peeps round the door to see John examine, on the chest of draws, Grandpa Samuel’s photo from his air force service in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2. John reaches to touch it, and his fingers slip seamlessly through.
To Grandpa Samuel, Jessie confirms their lodger to be the ghost. With mild exasperation, Samuel dismisses her claim as an attempt to evade sharing their home with a stranger.
Outside the front door, Jessie tells Alex of the spectral lodger, and leads her to Mrs Simpson’s.
On her lawn, Mrs Simpson receives the news with solemn elation: last night, her welcoming meditation for a psychic event known as the Opening, said to happen on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month, appears to have helped a spirit return for completion of an unfinished task. The spirit has until midnight of the next full moon, which is tomorrow night, to do so. Furthermore, with minimal bodily influence on earthly matter, he’ll need a human body to inhabit.
Jessie uneasily suggests Mrs Simpson visit the new lodger. Mrs Simpson doubts Samuel’s agreeability. Anyway, she wants to be ready to welcome the spirit’s return to the portal opened in her house.
As he steps towards them, the girls back away. A man-sized region of the nearby wall suddenly gleams brilliant blue. From within the glow, seamlessly through the wall, steps the man, now shining blue himself. As he emerges, the light fades from both the wall and him, and he strides serenely into the night. Halfway across the lawn, he fades from view.
Overcome, Jessie and Alex scream, and run to their bikes.
Back at Jessie’s, they blurt to Grandpa Samuel their disturbing encounter. He puts it down to a combination of tonight’s double horror feature, and spending too much time with eccentric Mrs Simpson.
Next day, Jessie arrives downstairs to see, through the windowed door, the man from last night, who now looks innocently solid. With a small smile, he announces his interest in the room for rent.
Invited in by Grandpa Samuel, he introduces himself as John Browning. Grandpa Samuel wonders if they’ve met before, as John seems somehow familiar. John says they haven’t.
Samuel happens to mention his recent heart trouble, and his need to take it easy for a while. While he describes the room, Jessie, in the doorway behind John, urgently makes silent negative gestures.
While John accepts the room, Jessie answers a knock at the door. She solemnly tells Alex to wait on the doorstep, and hurries back inside.
Grandpa Samuel introduces John, and asks Jessie to show him to the room. She uneasily questions the swift appointment. Samuel dismisses her fears with note of his apt judgement of character. With a small smile, John follows Jessie upstairs.
As John quietly looks around the room, Jessie excuses herself. Before leaving, she peeps round the door to see John examine, on the chest of draws, Grandpa Samuel’s photo from his air force service in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2. John reaches to touch it, and his fingers slip seamlessly through.
To Grandpa Samuel, Jessie confirms their lodger to be the ghost. With mild exasperation, Samuel dismisses her claim as an attempt to evade sharing their home with a stranger.
Outside the front door, Jessie tells Alex of the spectral lodger, and leads her to Mrs Simpson’s.
On her lawn, Mrs Simpson receives the news with solemn elation: last night, her welcoming meditation for a psychic event known as the Opening, said to happen on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month, appears to have helped a spirit return for completion of an unfinished task. The spirit has until midnight of the next full moon, which is tomorrow night, to do so. Furthermore, with minimal bodily influence on earthly matter, he’ll need a human body to inhabit.
Jessie uneasily suggests Mrs Simpson visit the new lodger. Mrs Simpson doubts Samuel’s agreeability. Anyway, she wants to be ready to welcome the spirit’s return to the portal opened in her house.
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As he steps towards them, the girls back away. A man-sized region of the nearby wall suddenly gleams brilliant blue. From within the glow, seamlessly through the wall, steps the man, now shining blue himself. As he emerges, the light fades from both the wall and him, and he strides serenely into the night. Halfway across the lawn, he fades from view.
Overcome, Jessie and Alex scream, and run to their bikes.
Back at Jessie’s, they blurt to Grandpa Samuel their disturbing encounter. He puts it down to a combination of tonight’s double horror feature, and spending too much time with eccentric Mrs Simpson.
Next day, Jessie arrives downstairs to see, through the windowed door, the man from last night, who now looks innocently solid.
Samuel happens to mention his recent heart trouble, and his need to take it easy for a while. While he describes the room, Jessie, in the doorway behind John, urgently makes silent negative gestures.
While John accepts the room,
Jessie
Grandpa Samuel introduces John, and asks Jessie to show him to the room. She uneasily questions the swift appointment. Samuel dismisses her fears with note of his apt judgement of character. With a small smile, John follows Jessie upstairs.
As John quietly looks around the room, Jessie excuses herself. Before leaving, she peeps round the door to see John examine, on the chest of draws, Grandpa Samuel’s photo from his air force service in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2. John reaches to touch it, and his fingers slip seamlessly through.
To Grandpa Samuel, Jessie confirms their lodger to be the ghost. With mild exasperation, Samuel dismisses her claim as an attempt to evade sharing their home with a stranger.
Outside the front door, Jessie tells Alex of the spectral lodger, and leads her to
Jessie uneasily suggests Mrs Simpson visit the new lodger. Mrs Simpson doubts Samuel’s agreeability. Anyway, she wants to be ready to welcome the spirit’s return to the portal opened in her house.
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A foot in mid-air above the sleeping Grandpa Samuel horizontally floats John Browning. From within, his blurred body exudes a brilliant deep blue glow. He reaches a translucent hand to Samuel’s chest. With a brighter flash of blue, the hand seamlessly penetrates the chest.
Jessie cries out in horrified protest. The ghost's head turns to stonily glare at her.
The girls flee back to Jessie’s bedroom, pull the dresser across the door, and crouch beside the bed.
With a rush of energy, John, still glowing brilliant blue, leans seamlessly through the wood of the door. In a soft, thunderously echoing voice, he warns the girls not to stand in his way. With that, he withdraws.
Jessie assures the shaken Alex that the ghost is after Grandpa Samuel, who, back downstairs, they wake.
Told of having been targeted for bodily possession, he wearily follows them to John’s room, which proves empty. He checks the closet, feigns a gasp of fright, and laughingly orders the two back to bed.
As Samuel goes back to bed, Jessie and Alex inspect the closet further. From inside, a cylindrical box falls to the floor, and spills several black and white photos. As they stoop to inspect them, Samuel’s distant voice reorders them to bed.
Next morning, Jessie and Alex, asleep outside on two porch chairs, are woken by Samuel. He chuckles at Alex’s startled yelp, and announces his usual Sunday trip to the Legion Hall.
At her house, Mrs Simpson excitedly receives the news of Jessie and Alex’s encounter. Alex spots a framed photograph, and alerts Jessie to three familiar faces: before a UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 plane, in youthful bloom, stand Grandpa Samuel, Mrs Simpson, and...the ghost.
Mrs Simpson airily identifies him as her fiance, Jacob. However, young Sarah fell for another: Jacob’s fellow airman, Samuel. Before she could tell Jacob, he was killed in action. Samuel ordered Jacob to take a parachute and jump. It failed to open.
Jessie cries out in horrified protest. The ghost's head turns to stonily glare at her.
The girls flee back to Jessie’s bedroom, pull the dresser across the door, and crouch beside the bed.
With a rush of energy, John, still glowing brilliant blue, leans seamlessly through the wood of the door. In a soft, thunderously echoing voice, he warns the girls not to stand in his way. With that, he withdraws.
Jessie assures the shaken Alex that the ghost is after Grandpa Samuel, who, back downstairs, they wake.
Told of having been targeted for bodily possession, he wearily follows them to John’s room, which proves empty. He checks the closet, feigns a gasp of fright, and laughingly orders the two back to bed.
As Samuel goes back to bed, Jessie and Alex inspect the closet further. From inside, a cylindrical box falls to the floor, and spills several black and white photos. As they stoop to inspect them, Samuel’s distant voice reorders them to bed.
Next morning, Jessie and Alex, asleep outside on two porch chairs, are woken by Samuel. He chuckles at Alex’s startled yelp, and announces his usual Sunday trip to the Legion Hall.
At her house, Mrs Simpson excitedly receives the news of Jessie and Alex’s encounter. Alex spots a framed photograph, and alerts Jessie to three familiar faces: before a UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 plane, in youthful bloom, stand Grandpa Samuel, Mrs Simpson, and...the ghost.
Mrs Simpson airily identifies him as her fiance, Jacob. However, young Sarah fell for another: Jacob’s fellow airman, Samuel. Before she could tell Jacob, he was killed in action. Samuel ordered Jacob to take a parachute and jump. It failed to open.
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A foot in mid-air above the sleeping Grandpa Samuel horizontally floats John Browning. From within, his blurred body exudes a brilliant deep blue glow. He To Samuel's chest, he reaches a translucent hand to Samuel’s chest.hand. With a brighter flash of blue, the hand seamlessly penetrates the chest.
Jessie cries out in horrified protest. The ghost's head turns to stonily glare at her.
The girls flee back to Jessie’s bedroom, pull the dresser across the door, and crouch beside the bed.
bed. With a rush of energy, John, still glowing brilliant blue, leans seamlessly through the wood of the door. In a soft, thunderously echoing voice, he warns the girls not to stand in his way. With that, he withdraws.
Jessie assures the shaken Alex that the ghost is after Grandpa Samuel, who, back downstairs, they wake.
Told of having been targeted for bodily possession, he wearily follows them to John’s room, which proves empty. He checks the closet, feigns a gasp of fright, and laughingly orders the two back to bed.
As Samuel goes back to bed, Jessie and Alex inspect the closet further. From inside, a cylindrical box falls to the floor, and spills several black and white photos. As they stoop to inspect them, Samuel’s distant voice reorders them to bed.
Next morning, Jessie and Alex, asleep outside on two porch chairs, are woken by Samuel. He chuckles at Alex’s startled yelp, and announces his usual Sunday trip to the Legion Hall.
At her house, Mrs Simpson excitedly receives the news of Jessie and Alex’s Alex's encounter. Alex spots a framed photograph, and alerts Jessie to three familiar faces: before a UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 plane, in youthful bloom, stand Grandpa Samuel, Mrs Simpson, and... the ghost.
Mrs Simpsonairily identifies him as her fiance, Jacob. However, young Sarah fell for another: Jacob’s Jacob's fellow airman, Samuel. Before she could tell Jacob, he was killed in action. In their stricken plane, Samuel ordered Jacob to take a parachute and jump. It failed to open.
Told of having been targeted for bodily possession, he wearily follows them to John’s room, which proves empty. He checks the closet, feigns a gasp of fright, and laughingly orders the two back to bed.
As Samuel goes back to bed, Jessie and Alex inspect the closet further. From inside, a cylindrical box falls to the floor, and spills several black and white photos. As they stoop to inspect them, Samuel’s distant voice reorders them to bed.
Next morning, Jessie and Alex, asleep outside on two porch chairs, are woken by Samuel. He chuckles at Alex’s startled yelp, and announces his usual Sunday trip to the Legion Hall.
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As Samuel heats a pan of beans, "John" quietly approaches from behind. As Jessie hurries in, Jacob instantaneously vanishes. Closely followed by Alex, Jessie announces a visit from Mrs Simpson. Samuel smooths his hair.
Over ASpotOfTea, Samuel receives her news with vexed incredulity. The two heatedly assess each other’s general outlook. On the stairs, as Jessie prepares to break up their latest tiff, the door slams. However, it seems all they have to do is protect Grandpa Samuel until midnight.
That night, as Samuel dozes in a chair, Alex watches ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason2TheTaleOfTheMidnightMadness Nosferatu the Demon Vampire]]''. Upstairs, Jessie examines Samuel’s old box of photos, and finds a photo of Samuel and the young Mrs Simpson, inscribed on the back with a pledge of undying love.
In the darkened living room, behind Samuel’s chair, stands Jacob.
In the box, Jessie finds a diary. Inside, a newspaper cutting announces the death of a young airman.
Jacob nears Samuel, and begins to glow spectral blue…
Jessie reads a diary entry, and is singularly taken aback. She hurries downstairs - to find Grandpa Samuel absent. Just then, the phone rings: it’s Mrs Simpson, who wonders why Samuel is standing outside her house. Jessie announces a swift visit.
Mrs Simpson lets in her visitor. In Samuel’s body, Jacob softly says he’s missed her.
Followed closely by Alex, Jessie hurries in. His voice a thunderous echo, Samuel!Jacob commands her to stay back. Her grandfather will, he assures her, but with Jacob’s spirit, while Samuel’s spirit will return instead to the light.
Mrs Simpson begs Jacob not to do this. He retorts Samuel to have cheated him out of a life.
Jessie reads aloud Samuel’s account of the plane crash: with the cockpit filled with smoke, Samuel gave the order to bail out. With only Jacob and him left, there was only one remaining parachute. Samuel said he would follow Jacob, and told him to bail. Jessie hands the diary to Samuel!Jacob, who reads of Samuel’s devastation at the irony of Jacob’s failed parachute, and Samuel’s survival of the crash.
Samuel!Jacob returns the diary, and softly admits his misplaced indignation. As the clock strikes twelve, a brilliant blue glow blooms around them all. He steps into the ethereal spotlight from which it shines. He entreats earthly reunion with Sarah.
Mrs Simpson confesses to have instead loved Samuel, and urges him to return the favour of Samuel’s attempted self-sacrifice. From Samuel’s body emerges the figure of Jacob. Samuel falls to the floor. Jacob reaffirms his love for Sarah, asks her to thank his friend for him, and retracts up the spotlight, which fades.
As Samuel wakes, the other three gather round him. Mrs Simpson answers his disorientated queries with elated venture of a new start.
Grandpa Samuel and Mrs Simpson, closes Sam, renewed their love - proving that it’s never too late. Betty Anne laments their lost years. Sam ventures that nothing is ever lost - but comes back in a different way. As Gary douses the fire, Sam hurries to post her card.
Over ASpotOfTea, Samuel receives her news with vexed incredulity. The two heatedly assess each other’s general outlook. On the stairs, as Jessie prepares to break up their latest tiff, the door slams. However, it seems all they have to do is protect Grandpa Samuel until midnight.
That night, as Samuel dozes in a chair, Alex watches ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason2TheTaleOfTheMidnightMadness Nosferatu the Demon Vampire]]''. Upstairs, Jessie examines Samuel’s old box of photos, and finds a photo of Samuel and the young Mrs Simpson, inscribed on the back with a pledge of undying love.
In the darkened living room, behind Samuel’s chair, stands Jacob.
In the box, Jessie finds a diary. Inside, a newspaper cutting announces the death of a young airman.
Jacob nears Samuel, and begins to glow spectral blue…
Jessie reads a diary entry, and is singularly taken aback. She hurries downstairs - to find Grandpa Samuel absent. Just then, the phone rings: it’s Mrs Simpson, who wonders why Samuel is standing outside her house. Jessie announces a swift visit.
Mrs Simpson lets in her visitor. In Samuel’s body, Jacob softly says he’s missed her.
Followed closely by Alex, Jessie hurries in. His voice a thunderous echo, Samuel!Jacob commands her to stay back. Her grandfather will, he assures her, but with Jacob’s spirit, while Samuel’s spirit will return instead to the light.
Mrs Simpson begs Jacob not to do this. He retorts Samuel to have cheated him out of a life.
Jessie reads aloud Samuel’s account of the plane crash: with the cockpit filled with smoke, Samuel gave the order to bail out. With only Jacob and him left, there was only one remaining parachute. Samuel said he would follow Jacob, and told him to bail. Jessie hands the diary to Samuel!Jacob, who reads of Samuel’s devastation at the irony of Jacob’s failed parachute, and Samuel’s survival of the crash.
Samuel!Jacob returns the diary, and softly admits his misplaced indignation. As the clock strikes twelve, a brilliant blue glow blooms around them all. He steps into the ethereal spotlight from which it shines. He entreats earthly reunion with Sarah.
Mrs Simpson confesses to have instead loved Samuel, and urges him to return the favour of Samuel’s attempted self-sacrifice. From Samuel’s body emerges the figure of Jacob. Samuel falls to the floor. Jacob reaffirms his love for Sarah, asks her to thank his friend for him, and retracts up the spotlight, which fades.
As Samuel wakes, the other three gather round him. Mrs Simpson answers his disorientated queries with elated venture of a new start.
Grandpa Samuel and Mrs Simpson, closes Sam, renewed their love - proving that it’s never too late. Betty Anne laments their lost years. Sam ventures that nothing is ever lost - but comes back in a different way. As Gary douses the fire, Sam hurries to post her card.
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That night, as Samuel dozes in a chair, Alex watches ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason2TheTaleOfTheMidnightMadness Nosferatu the Demon Vampire]]''. Upstairs, Jessie examines
In the box, Jessie finds a diary. Inside, a newspaper cutting announces the death of a young airman.
Jacob nears Samuel, and begins to glow spectral blue…
Mrs Simpson lets in her visitor. In
Followed closely by Alex, Jessie hurries in. His voice a thunderous echo, Samuel!Jacob commands her to stay back. Her grandfather
Samuel!Jacob returns the diary, and softly admits his misplaced indignation. As the clock strikes twelve, a brilliant blue glow blooms around them all. He steps into the ethereal spotlight from which it
Mrs Simpson confesses to have instead loved Samuel, and urges him to return the favour of
Grandpa Samuel and Mrs Simpson, closes Sam, renewed their love - proving that
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sarah beseeches him to return Samuel’s body, Jacob, with an earnest reaffirmation of his love, readily complies.
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* VengefulGhost: Jacob [[spoiler: mistakenly]] believes Samuel to deliberately have given him a faulty parachute to save his own life. On a brief return to Earth, he aims to usurp Samuel’s body.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sarah beseeches him to return Samuel’s body, Jacob, with an earnest reaffirmation of his love, readily complies.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sarah beseeches him to return Samuel’s body, Jacob, with an earnest reaffirmation of his love, readily complies.
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* VengefulGhost: Jacob [[spoiler: mistakenly]] mistakenly believes Samuel to deliberately have given him a faulty parachute to save his own life. On a brief return to Earth, he aims to usurp Samuel’s body. \n* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sarah beseeches him to return Samuel’s body, Jacob, with an earnest reaffirmation of his love, readily complies.
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* DeathByIrony During the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 war]], as their plane crashed, Samuel tried to save Jacob’s life by deceiving him into taking the last parachute. Whereas Samuel survived the crash, Jacob’s parachute failed to open.
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* DeathByIrony DeathByIrony: During the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 war]], as their plane crashed, Samuel tried to save Jacob’s life by deceiving him into taking the last parachute. Whereas Samuel survived the crash, Jacob’s parachute failed to open.
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* SupernaturalLight: Jacob returns from the spirit world via an ethereal blue spotlight.
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* SupernaturalLight: Jacob returns from the spirit world via an ethereal blue spotlight. On attempt to possess Samuel, and when passing through matter, his ethereal body glows brilliant blue.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"It's his fault that I died."]]
Up tonight is Sam, who hastily finishes a lengthily addressed birthday card to her grandmother. She warns against failure to get round to doing things, as the chance to do so might be snatched away - such as by death, for instance. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, she calls this story “The Tale of the Room for Rent.”
Jessie Dixon finishes tidying Mrs Simpson’s lawn, and approaches the door to find a sign announcing an anagogic reading to be in progress.
Jessie cycles back home, where she lives with Grandpa Samuel, who, on recent health trouble, has had his bed moved downstairs. To her dismay, he shows her a “room for rent” sign. Neither are keen on the idea of sharing with a stranger, but current finances demand it.
As Jessie hammers the sign onto the front lawn, her friend Alex cycles over, and urges haste, lest they miss the start of the zombie movie.
That night, as they ride home past Mrs Simpson’s, Jessie remembers to collect her lawn fee. Alex follows Jessie to the French windows.
Inside, the darkened floor and furniture are bedecked with numerous candles. In an armchair, Mrs Simpson sits in some kind of trance. With an ominous toll, the wall clock reaches nine. Across the room, from the ceiling, a blue spotlight glares into being, and spreads. Down the beam floats the blurred, faded figure of a man. As he turns to look at Mrs Simpson, the spotlight retracts, and he attains solidity.
As he steps towards them, the girls back away. A man-sized region of the nearby wall suddenly gleams brilliant blue. From within the glow, seamlessly through the wall, steps the man, now shining blue himself. As he emerges, the light fades from both the wall and him, and he strides serenely into the night. Halfway across the lawn, he fades from view.
Overcome, Jessie and Alex scream, and run to their bikes.
Back at Jessie’s, they blurt to Grandpa Samuel their disturbing encounter. He puts it down to a combination of tonight’s double horror feature, and spending too much time with eccentric Mrs Simpson.
Next day, Jessie arrives downstairs to see, through the windowed door, the man from last night, who now looks innocently solid. With a small smile, he announces his interest in the room for rent.
Invited in by Grandpa Samuel, he introduces himself as John Browning. Grandpa Samuel wonders if they’ve met before, as John seems somehow familiar. John says they haven’t.
Samuel happens to mention his recent heart trouble, and his need to take it easy for a while. While he describes the room, Jessie, in the doorway behind John, urgently makes silent negative gestures.
While John accepts the room, Jessie answers a knock at the door. She solemnly tells Alex to wait on the doorstep, and hurries back inside.
Grandpa Samuel introduces John, and asks Jessie to show him to the room. She uneasily questions the swift appointment. Samuel dismisses her fears with note of his apt judgement of character. With a small smile, John follows Jessie upstairs.
As John quietly looks around the room, Jessie excuses herself. Before leaving, she peeps round the door to see John examine, on the chest of draws, Grandpa Samuel’s photo from his air force service in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2. John reaches to touch it, and his fingers slip seamlessly through.
To Grandpa Samuel, Jessie confirms their lodger to be the ghost. With mild exasperation, Samuel dismisses her claim as an attempt to evade sharing their home with a stranger.
Outside the front door, Jessie tells Alex of the spectral lodger, and leads her to Mrs Simpson’s.
On her lawn, Mrs Simpson receives the news with solemn elation: last night, her welcoming meditation for a psychic event known as the Opening, said to happen on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month, appears to have helped a spirit return for completion of an unfinished task. The spirit has until midnight of the next full moon, which is tomorrow night, to do so. Furthermore, with minimal bodily influence on earthly matter, he’ll need a human body to inhabit.
Jessie uneasily suggests Mrs Simpson visit the new lodger. Mrs Simpson doubts Samuel’s agreeability. Anyway, she wants to be ready to welcome the spirit’s return to the portal opened in her house.
That night, Alex stays for a sleepover with Jessie, who leads her drowsy guest downstairs for a midnight snack. From beneath the curtain drawn across the doorway to the living room, they notice a deep blue glow.
A foot in mid-air above the sleeping Grandpa Samuel horizontally floats John Browning. From within, his blurred body exudes a brilliant deep blue glow. He reaches a translucent hand to Samuel’s chest. With a brighter flash of blue, the hand seamlessly penetrates the chest.
Jessie cries out in horrified protest. The ghost's head turns to stonily glare at her.
The girls flee back to Jessie’s bedroom, pull the dresser across the door, and crouch beside the bed.
With a rush of energy, John, still glowing brilliant blue, leans seamlessly through the wood of the door. In a soft, thunderously echoing voice, he warns the girls not to stand in his way. With that, he withdraws.
Jessie assures the shaken Alex that the ghost is after Grandpa Samuel, who, back downstairs, they wake.
Told of having been targeted for bodily possession, he wearily follows them to John’s room, which proves empty. He checks the closet, feigns a gasp of fright, and laughingly orders the two back to bed.
As Samuel goes back to bed, Jessie and Alex inspect the closet further. From inside, a cylindrical box falls to the floor, and spills several black and white photos. As they stoop to inspect them, Samuel’s distant voice reorders them to bed.
Next morning, Jessie and Alex, asleep outside on two porch chairs, are woken by Samuel. He chuckles at Alex’s startled yelp, and announces his usual Sunday trip to the Legion Hall.
At her house, Mrs Simpson excitedly receives the news of Jessie and Alex’s encounter. Alex spots a framed photograph, and alerts Jessie to three familiar faces: before a UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 plane, in youthful bloom, stand Grandpa Samuel, Mrs Simpson, and...the ghost.
Mrs Simpson airily identifies him as her fiance, Jacob. However, young Sarah fell for another: Jacob’s fellow airman, Samuel. Before she could tell Jacob, he was killed in action. Samuel ordered Jacob to take a parachute and jump. It failed to open.
Alex realises Jacob to have returned for revenge. With Mrs Simpson, they hurry to Jessie’s.
As Samuel heats a pan of beans, "John" quietly approaches from behind. As Jessie hurries in, Jacob instantaneously vanishes. Closely followed by Alex, Jessie announces a visit from Mrs Simpson. Samuel smooths his hair.
Over ASpotOfTea, Samuel receives her news with vexed incredulity. The two heatedly assess each other’s general outlook. On the stairs, as Jessie prepares to break up their latest tiff, the door slams. However, it seems all they have to do is protect Grandpa Samuel until midnight.
That night, as Samuel dozes in a chair, Alex watches ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason2TheTaleOfTheMidnightMadness Nosferatu the Demon Vampire]]''. Upstairs, Jessie examines Samuel’s old box of photos, and finds a photo of Samuel and the young Mrs Simpson, inscribed on the back with a pledge of undying love.
In the darkened living room, behind Samuel’s chair, stands Jacob.
In the box, Jessie finds a diary. Inside, a newspaper cutting announces the death of a young airman.
Jacob nears Samuel, and begins to glow spectral blue…
Jessie reads a diary entry, and is singularly taken aback. She hurries downstairs - to find Grandpa Samuel absent. Just then, the phone rings: it’s Mrs Simpson, who wonders why Samuel is standing outside her house. Jessie announces a swift visit.
Mrs Simpson lets in her visitor. In Samuel’s body, Jacob softly says he’s missed her.
Followed closely by Alex, Jessie hurries in. His voice a thunderous echo, Samuel!Jacob commands her to stay back. Her grandfather will, he assures her, but with Jacob’s spirit, while Samuel’s spirit will return instead to the light.
Mrs Simpson begs Jacob not to do this. He retorts Samuel to have cheated him out of a life.
Jessie reads aloud Samuel’s account of the plane crash: with the cockpit filled with smoke, Samuel gave the order to bail out. With only Jacob and him left, there was only one remaining parachute. Samuel said he would follow Jacob, and told him to bail. Jessie hands the diary to Samuel!Jacob, who reads of Samuel’s devastation at the irony of Jacob’s failed parachute, and Samuel’s survival of the crash.
Samuel!Jacob returns the diary, and softly admits his misplaced indignation. As the clock strikes twelve, a brilliant blue glow blooms around them all. He steps into the ethereal spotlight from which it shines. He entreats earthly reunion with Sarah.
Mrs Simpson confesses to have instead loved Samuel, and urges him to return the favour of Samuel’s attempted self-sacrifice. From Samuel’s body emerges the figure of Jacob. Samuel falls to the floor. Jacob reaffirms his love for Sarah, asks her to thank his friend for him, and retracts up the spotlight, which fades.
As Samuel wakes, the other three gather round him. Mrs Simpson answers his disorientated queries with elated venture of a new start.
Grandpa Samuel and Mrs Simpson, closes Sam, renewed their love - proving that it’s never too late. Betty Anne laments their lost years. Sam ventures that nothing is ever lost - but comes back in a different way. As Gary douses the fire, Sam hurries to post her card.
!!This episode provides examples of:
*AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: A psychic event termed the Opening, said to briefly allow spirits earthly interaction, manifests in an ethereal spotlight, in which Jacob materialises, and into which he eventually fades.
*CoolOldGuy: Grandpa Samuel has a tendency to easy-going jollity.
*CowardlyLion: While severely spooked, Alex readily aids Jessie’s investigation.
*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Sarah Simpson’s reputation as a fanciful eccentric belies a genuine grasp of the supernatural.
*DeathByIrony During the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 war]], as their plane crashed, Samuel tried to save Jacob’s life by deceiving him into taking the last parachute. Whereas Samuel survived the crash, Jacob’s parachute failed to open.
*DecemberDecemberRomance: After the misunderstanding is resolved, Sarah and Samuel resume their relationship.
*GrandTheftMe: Jacob aims to inhabit Samuel’s body, and thereby send Samuel’s spirit, in his place, to "the light."
*TheLostLenore: From the perspective of the deceased Jacob, who aims to reunite with Sarah by usurping the body of Samuel.
*MagneticMedium: Sarah Simpson seems to use some kind of extrasensory tendency for psychic readings. On brief union of the material and spirit worlds, this seems to help Jacob’s arrival.
*RaisedByGrandparents: Jessie lives with her Grandpa Samuel.
*SupernaturalLight: Jacob returns from the spirit world via an ethereal blue spotlight.
*VengefulGhost: Jacob [[spoiler: mistakenly]] believes Samuel to deliberately have given him a faulty parachute to save his own life. On a brief return to Earth, he aims to usurp Samuel’s body.
*IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sarah beseeches him to return Samuel’s body, Jacob, with an earnest reaffirmation of his love, readily complies.
[[caption-width-right:350:"It's his fault that I died."]]
Up tonight is Sam, who hastily finishes a lengthily addressed birthday card to her grandmother. She warns against failure to get round to doing things, as the chance to do so might be snatched away - such as by death, for instance. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, she calls this story “The Tale of the Room for Rent.”
Jessie Dixon finishes tidying Mrs Simpson’s lawn, and approaches the door to find a sign announcing an anagogic reading to be in progress.
Jessie cycles back home, where she lives with Grandpa Samuel, who, on recent health trouble, has had his bed moved downstairs. To her dismay, he shows her a “room for rent” sign. Neither are keen on the idea of sharing with a stranger, but current finances demand it.
As Jessie hammers the sign onto the front lawn, her friend Alex cycles over, and urges haste, lest they miss the start of the zombie movie.
That night, as they ride home past Mrs Simpson’s, Jessie remembers to collect her lawn fee. Alex follows Jessie to the French windows.
Inside, the darkened floor and furniture are bedecked with numerous candles. In an armchair, Mrs Simpson sits in some kind of trance. With an ominous toll, the wall clock reaches nine. Across the room, from the ceiling, a blue spotlight glares into being, and spreads. Down the beam floats the blurred, faded figure of a man. As he turns to look at Mrs Simpson, the spotlight retracts, and he attains solidity.
As he steps towards them, the girls back away. A man-sized region of the nearby wall suddenly gleams brilliant blue. From within the glow, seamlessly through the wall, steps the man, now shining blue himself. As he emerges, the light fades from both the wall and him, and he strides serenely into the night. Halfway across the lawn, he fades from view.
Overcome, Jessie and Alex scream, and run to their bikes.
Back at Jessie’s, they blurt to Grandpa Samuel their disturbing encounter. He puts it down to a combination of tonight’s double horror feature, and spending too much time with eccentric Mrs Simpson.
Next day, Jessie arrives downstairs to see, through the windowed door, the man from last night, who now looks innocently solid. With a small smile, he announces his interest in the room for rent.
Invited in by Grandpa Samuel, he introduces himself as John Browning. Grandpa Samuel wonders if they’ve met before, as John seems somehow familiar. John says they haven’t.
Samuel happens to mention his recent heart trouble, and his need to take it easy for a while. While he describes the room, Jessie, in the doorway behind John, urgently makes silent negative gestures.
While John accepts the room, Jessie answers a knock at the door. She solemnly tells Alex to wait on the doorstep, and hurries back inside.
Grandpa Samuel introduces John, and asks Jessie to show him to the room. She uneasily questions the swift appointment. Samuel dismisses her fears with note of his apt judgement of character. With a small smile, John follows Jessie upstairs.
As John quietly looks around the room, Jessie excuses herself. Before leaving, she peeps round the door to see John examine, on the chest of draws, Grandpa Samuel’s photo from his air force service in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2. John reaches to touch it, and his fingers slip seamlessly through.
To Grandpa Samuel, Jessie confirms their lodger to be the ghost. With mild exasperation, Samuel dismisses her claim as an attempt to evade sharing their home with a stranger.
Outside the front door, Jessie tells Alex of the spectral lodger, and leads her to Mrs Simpson’s.
On her lawn, Mrs Simpson receives the news with solemn elation: last night, her welcoming meditation for a psychic event known as the Opening, said to happen on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month, appears to have helped a spirit return for completion of an unfinished task. The spirit has until midnight of the next full moon, which is tomorrow night, to do so. Furthermore, with minimal bodily influence on earthly matter, he’ll need a human body to inhabit.
Jessie uneasily suggests Mrs Simpson visit the new lodger. Mrs Simpson doubts Samuel’s agreeability. Anyway, she wants to be ready to welcome the spirit’s return to the portal opened in her house.
That night, Alex stays for a sleepover with Jessie, who leads her drowsy guest downstairs for a midnight snack. From beneath the curtain drawn across the doorway to the living room, they notice a deep blue glow.
A foot in mid-air above the sleeping Grandpa Samuel horizontally floats John Browning. From within, his blurred body exudes a brilliant deep blue glow. He reaches a translucent hand to Samuel’s chest. With a brighter flash of blue, the hand seamlessly penetrates the chest.
Jessie cries out in horrified protest. The ghost's head turns to stonily glare at her.
The girls flee back to Jessie’s bedroom, pull the dresser across the door, and crouch beside the bed.
With a rush of energy, John, still glowing brilliant blue, leans seamlessly through the wood of the door. In a soft, thunderously echoing voice, he warns the girls not to stand in his way. With that, he withdraws.
Jessie assures the shaken Alex that the ghost is after Grandpa Samuel, who, back downstairs, they wake.
Told of having been targeted for bodily possession, he wearily follows them to John’s room, which proves empty. He checks the closet, feigns a gasp of fright, and laughingly orders the two back to bed.
As Samuel goes back to bed, Jessie and Alex inspect the closet further. From inside, a cylindrical box falls to the floor, and spills several black and white photos. As they stoop to inspect them, Samuel’s distant voice reorders them to bed.
Next morning, Jessie and Alex, asleep outside on two porch chairs, are woken by Samuel. He chuckles at Alex’s startled yelp, and announces his usual Sunday trip to the Legion Hall.
At her house, Mrs Simpson excitedly receives the news of Jessie and Alex’s encounter. Alex spots a framed photograph, and alerts Jessie to three familiar faces: before a UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 plane, in youthful bloom, stand Grandpa Samuel, Mrs Simpson, and...the ghost.
Mrs Simpson airily identifies him as her fiance, Jacob. However, young Sarah fell for another: Jacob’s fellow airman, Samuel. Before she could tell Jacob, he was killed in action. Samuel ordered Jacob to take a parachute and jump. It failed to open.
Alex realises Jacob to have returned for revenge. With Mrs Simpson, they hurry to Jessie’s.
As Samuel heats a pan of beans, "John" quietly approaches from behind. As Jessie hurries in, Jacob instantaneously vanishes. Closely followed by Alex, Jessie announces a visit from Mrs Simpson. Samuel smooths his hair.
Over ASpotOfTea, Samuel receives her news with vexed incredulity. The two heatedly assess each other’s general outlook. On the stairs, as Jessie prepares to break up their latest tiff, the door slams. However, it seems all they have to do is protect Grandpa Samuel until midnight.
That night, as Samuel dozes in a chair, Alex watches ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason2TheTaleOfTheMidnightMadness Nosferatu the Demon Vampire]]''. Upstairs, Jessie examines Samuel’s old box of photos, and finds a photo of Samuel and the young Mrs Simpson, inscribed on the back with a pledge of undying love.
In the darkened living room, behind Samuel’s chair, stands Jacob.
In the box, Jessie finds a diary. Inside, a newspaper cutting announces the death of a young airman.
Jacob nears Samuel, and begins to glow spectral blue…
Jessie reads a diary entry, and is singularly taken aback. She hurries downstairs - to find Grandpa Samuel absent. Just then, the phone rings: it’s Mrs Simpson, who wonders why Samuel is standing outside her house. Jessie announces a swift visit.
Mrs Simpson lets in her visitor. In Samuel’s body, Jacob softly says he’s missed her.
Followed closely by Alex, Jessie hurries in. His voice a thunderous echo, Samuel!Jacob commands her to stay back. Her grandfather will, he assures her, but with Jacob’s spirit, while Samuel’s spirit will return instead to the light.
Mrs Simpson begs Jacob not to do this. He retorts Samuel to have cheated him out of a life.
Jessie reads aloud Samuel’s account of the plane crash: with the cockpit filled with smoke, Samuel gave the order to bail out. With only Jacob and him left, there was only one remaining parachute. Samuel said he would follow Jacob, and told him to bail. Jessie hands the diary to Samuel!Jacob, who reads of Samuel’s devastation at the irony of Jacob’s failed parachute, and Samuel’s survival of the crash.
Samuel!Jacob returns the diary, and softly admits his misplaced indignation. As the clock strikes twelve, a brilliant blue glow blooms around them all. He steps into the ethereal spotlight from which it shines. He entreats earthly reunion with Sarah.
Mrs Simpson confesses to have instead loved Samuel, and urges him to return the favour of Samuel’s attempted self-sacrifice. From Samuel’s body emerges the figure of Jacob. Samuel falls to the floor. Jacob reaffirms his love for Sarah, asks her to thank his friend for him, and retracts up the spotlight, which fades.
As Samuel wakes, the other three gather round him. Mrs Simpson answers his disorientated queries with elated venture of a new start.
Grandpa Samuel and Mrs Simpson, closes Sam, renewed their love - proving that it’s never too late. Betty Anne laments their lost years. Sam ventures that nothing is ever lost - but comes back in a different way. As Gary douses the fire, Sam hurries to post her card.
!!This episode provides examples of:
*AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: A psychic event termed the Opening, said to briefly allow spirits earthly interaction, manifests in an ethereal spotlight, in which Jacob materialises, and into which he eventually fades.
*CoolOldGuy: Grandpa Samuel has a tendency to easy-going jollity.
*CowardlyLion: While severely spooked, Alex readily aids Jessie’s investigation.
*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Sarah Simpson’s reputation as a fanciful eccentric belies a genuine grasp of the supernatural.
*DeathByIrony During the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 war]], as their plane crashed, Samuel tried to save Jacob’s life by deceiving him into taking the last parachute. Whereas Samuel survived the crash, Jacob’s parachute failed to open.
*DecemberDecemberRomance: After the misunderstanding is resolved, Sarah and Samuel resume their relationship.
*GrandTheftMe: Jacob aims to inhabit Samuel’s body, and thereby send Samuel’s spirit, in his place, to "the light."
*TheLostLenore: From the perspective of the deceased Jacob, who aims to reunite with Sarah by usurping the body of Samuel.
*MagneticMedium: Sarah Simpson seems to use some kind of extrasensory tendency for psychic readings. On brief union of the material and spirit worlds, this seems to help Jacob’s arrival.
*RaisedByGrandparents: Jessie lives with her Grandpa Samuel.
*SupernaturalLight: Jacob returns from the spirit world via an ethereal blue spotlight.
*VengefulGhost: Jacob [[spoiler: mistakenly]] believes Samuel to deliberately have given him a faulty parachute to save his own life. On a brief return to Earth, he aims to usurp Samuel’s body.
*IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sarah beseeches him to return Samuel’s body, Jacob, with an earnest reaffirmation of his love, readily complies.
