The Others
Patience brings her friends from the dirt and they have a connection to Flower’s past. And these ghosts cause new issues for the potentially blossoming relationship between Trevor and Patience.
Warning: Spoilers Below.
The Others
The episode picks up where the winter hiatus ended with “the others” leaving the dirt. It turns out to be a bunch of hippies that are clearly in a cult led by “Bruce.” Sass and Trevor remember that Flower talks about being in a cult led by Bruce. Just then, Flower walks in and it’s revealed this is the same cult that Flower had previously joined before what happened at Woodstock.
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The hippies claim to have gone into a bunker because the world was going to end and ended up getting stuck. All of the hippies suffocated and they’ve been stuck as ghosts wandering the dirt ever since. Flower seems to believe that everything about their story checks out and considers rejoining her old cult.
Ulterior Motives
Thor becomes jealous that Flower may not be done with her old hippie commune ways. He pulls her aside to talk to her. She informs him that she knows Bruce is a liar and fraud who pretends to be “enlightened” to manipulate his followers. She intends to expose him and disband the group for good. She stages a fake breakup that is a bit too convincing for Thor. Then she rejoins the cult with Isaac along for the ride for some reason.
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When the cult is off on its own, the hippies ask Bruce why he’s allowing Flower back into the fold. They went into the bunker when Bruce told them that Flower had betrayed them. They believe she’s the reason for their deaths. They plan to lure her to the bunker and then push her into the dirt for her past transgressions. Of course, what they don’t realize is that Pete is in the next room (He still insists on taking bathroom breaks despite no biological reason to do so as a ghost). He overhears them and quickly relays everything to Sam and Jay.
Vacation Delayed
While the ghost shenanigans had been going on, Sam and Jay were supposed to be going on a vacation. Jay got a metal detector to do some treasure hunting while they were spending time with their friends. They are about to walk out the door when Pete bursts in with the news about the others’ plan to push Flower into the dirt. Jay has been pretty clear he wants to be there for every moment of the vacation so they don’t miss out on anything on this trip or future plans. That is until Pete’s message.
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Jay can’t see the ghosts, but he still shows he’s the ultimate “dad” to these invisible children who are all adults and much older than him. He uses his metal detector to find the bunker and the pair arrive in time to save Flower from the cult’s attempted punishment.
Cult Exposed
Bruce reveals to Flower the cult had to go into hiding because she ratted them out to an undercover FBI agent at Woodstock about his fraud. She claims to have not betrayed them because she never told the FBI anything, just some people she met at the festival. She quickly realizes that those people she spoke to while under the influence were FBI agents.
She tries to get through to the rest of the cult by revealing the date the meteorite told them the world would end had already passed with nothing happening. He pulls out the “meteorite” to try to sway the cult but Flower recognizes it as a fake rock to hide a house key. Jay goes into the room where the dead bodies are and quickly finds the rock. This turns the rest of the cult against Bruce (many were already tired of following him), and the fraud is pushed into the dirt while Flower rejoins her friends.
Patience and Trevor
While all this is going on, Trevor is trying to figure out how to stop Patience’s pursuit of him. He turns to Sass, who he proclaims as the King of Being Dumped, for advice. Sass tells Trevor to act like everything that Patience hates. Trevor tries this but then he’s introduced to Patience’s friend Barbara, from the commune, who has a Philly accent that makes Trevor interested.
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Barbara clocks this, so she sets up a time to spend some time alone with Trevor. She starts trying to appeal to him, but the good guy who gave his pants to his friend comes through again as Trevor can’t do anything to hurt Patience. Unfortunately, Patience sees Barbara’s interaction but not Trevor’s and flees back into the dirt. Will she ever return?
What’s Next?
This episode paid off some long term storytelling but still felt quite odd. It showed some of Flower’s intelligence and guile, but did we really need to see the cult storyline paid off? I don’t think we did. It makes it feel like the creators are running out of storylines. That’s not a good sign since the show has already been renewed for more seasons.
The other issue right now is the Jay storyline. Where’s he going? The metal detector and “ghost dad” angle worked but you can’t go to that well too often. Eventually, he needs to see the ghosts because they can’t keep roping him in this way. Plus, he’s already been possessed multiple times and sent to the ghost realm because of how pure Pete’s soul was during possession. He’s seen Hetty on St. Patrick’s Day. At this point, it feels like there’s nothing they can do with him that isn’t repetitive. When this show delivers, it delivers which is why it keeps getting renewed. But episodes like this are just there and come across disappointing.
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Article Written By: Jeremy Brown for Stelmach Brown Media 2026
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