Cut to the episode’s final scenes and a tragically failed wedding between Isaac and Nigel (John Hartman), and we’re in the basement with the cholera ghosts who have a gift for Captain Higgintoot. But before our favorite ghost goes missing, only a few of Woodstone’s spirits know what happened in those final moments.
Earlier in the episode, the cholera ghosts, led by Nancy (Betsy Sodoro) are told they cannot come to the wedding. While this upsets them greatly and the cholera spirits attempt to get back at the upstairs ghosts, a dark figure emerges from the basement wall. Decked out in the most fashionable garb of the 1890s, the Puritan spirit has her head down while not much else can be seen. (It’s giving The Ring.) Her very appearance being shaded by the darkness says a lot about what her motives are leading to.
Fast-forward to the moment when Isaac comes down to visit the cholera ghosts, who reveal that though they are sorry he and Nigel broke up, they have a gift for him. As they are all suddenly looking around for Patience much to Isaac’s oblivion, he is suddenly yanked from behind into the shadows of the basement wall leading to the exterior of Woodstone’s grounds with a small, feminine voice saying,
“God bless you!” as a quip to his sneeze that left her behind all those years ago. With the cholera ghosts left stunned, Nancy says no one should tell anyone upstairs what happened. Audiences will surely be gasping as loudly as Isaac, but it’s also a moment that is foreshadowed shortly after his breakup with Nigel in the living room. As all his friends tell him it’s OK, Alberta admits how his failed relationship is not the end of the world and, with everything they’ve all been through this year with relationships, “Death has some surprises for you yet!” The surprise is definitely one no one saw coming!
