The episode opens on a flashback. A young man with a brace on his leg is being chased through the woods by a group of men and dogs. The men finally catch up to him and when they do, they hang him from a tree!
Suddenly we’re back in the present and Margaret Langston is staring at the same tree with the same expression on her face — so that little girl was obviously Margaret. Chilling!
Back at the Langstons’ place, Margaret finds Lucille (Frances Fisher) crying into some flowers on the front porch. It turns out it’s because it’s the 32-year anniversary of Jacob’s (Landon Gimenez) death. Every year on that day she takes flowers to his grave but not this year obviously. “Having him back … it’s a miracle,” Lucille tells Margaret. “But it doesn’t erase what it felt like to lose him.” Margaret says she’s not alone and offers to cook a family dinner to turn the “day of sadness” into one of “celebration.”
Over at Marty’s, Maggie (Devin Kelley) asks him how the military knew that the bodies were returned and Marty plays dumb. But he says they can still identify the bodies — they know they’re from the 1930s, they know that one man was black and the other was white, and that the white man walked with a limp. “Maybe these could be the first returned,” he says. Hmm.
Rachel (Kathleen Munroe) and Janine (Lori Beth Sikes) run into each other at the supermarket and have a surprisingly positive conversation until Rachel suddenly falls to the ground in pain! Janine takes Rachel to see Dr. Maggie, who tells Rachel that although the baby seems perfectly healthy, it’s growing twice as fast as a normal fetus! So bizarre!
Sheriff Fred asks his mother, Maragret, if she knows anything about the bodies because he believes they were originally buried beneath the Langston family factory. Margaret plays dumb and says she doesn’t have the faintest idea. Fred seems to buy this but at least we know he’s on the right track!
Instead, he asks her if she remembers a man named Arthur Holmes and she lies. But then Maggie tells Fred that Margaret visited Arthur at the clinic before he disappeared — plus, she told Maggie that she remembered him from when she was a child! Caught in a lie, Margaret!
When the time comes for Margaret’s “celebration” of Jacob’s death dinner, all hell breaks loose. Lucille accuses Fred’s estranged wife, Barbara, of killing Jacob, who died when he tried to rescue her from drowning. Barbara was meeting her lover, Sam, down by the river that day, and Lucille says that if Barbara had ended the affair when Henry told her to, then Jacob never would have been there and he never would have died. Barbara apologizes but Lucille says she can never make up for it.
Marty and Fred go to search the Langston factory, and stumble upon one of the returned. They take him to Maggie’s clinic, where there are even more returned — and they’re all sick!
Meanwhile, after the Langstons’ dinner from hell, Margaret tells Jacob the creepiest bedtime story ever, telling him about a “little girl” (aka herself) who knows it’s her responsibility to kill all the “demons” in order to protect her family — even though she’s become a “demon” herself. Wow — it sounds like Margaret wants all the returned dead! Something tell us things are about to get really crazy.
