Thursday’s episode of Ghosts is titled, “Holes Are Bad.” Who knew that the meaning of that would be so literal?
While Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) are away trying to enjoy a relaxing vacation, it is revealed that Flower (Sheila Carrasco), whom everyone believed was sucked off at the beginning of the season, has actually been stuck in a well on the property this entire time. And much to their dismay, a contractor is about to fill up that well with cement, meaning Flower actually will be gone forever if something isn’t done quickly to save her.
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Of course, since the only ones privy to the problem are the ghosts, there’s little intervention they can take. They even try FaceTiming Sam for help, but it turns out ghosts don’t show up on video calls.
After some hand wringing over what to do, it’s Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) who steps in to save the day. And in doing so, she must reveal her true manner of death. In 1895, as the police were going to arrest her for her husband’s crimes, she killed herself with a telephone cord. It’s that same cord that, 150 years later, she uses to lift Flower out of the well.
“It’s jam packed. You put together so many plot points of what was happening in 1895,” Wisocky told Deadline of the episode.
The actress spoke with Deadline about the episode, putting together the pieces of Hetty’s backstory, and what to expect from the rest of Season 3 in the interview below.
REBECCA WISOCKY: She’s had a really great season. There’s two flashbacks for her, which was the first that she’s had, and we learn a whole lot more. I think the flashback that we showed earlier in the season when she was 25 years old and felt forced and compelled and trapped into making a decision to choose privilege and money and what she thought was safety over love and truth…I mean, I believe that that is the origin story of her misery. It certainly set a lot of other things in motion that you then see in this episode, in 1895. I think she believes that there’s been generations of misery and trauma in her family that I think she believes that she probably created. She gets it wrong a whole lot, but she finally, I think, put some pieces together 150 years later, in this episode, and realizes why killing herself was, she says, a great misjudgment. And I believe it, obviously it was.
WISOCKY: The showrunners, Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, very generously involved me in conversations about this storyline and how it was going to unfold. I’m so grateful that they did. Everyone involved knew how important it was to be accurate and sensitive and not sensationalize it as a plot point. I think it’s very earned. I mean, there’s so many seeds that were planted over the course of our three seasons that make this both shocking and also make complete sense. She’s had this cord wrapped around her — not only is she corseted in this beautiful but uncomfortable gown, but she’s had this cord wrapped around her neck this entire time. It’s funny, in retrospect. So many of the little behavioral things that I chose to do as an actor in the beginning of season 1, even like always fiddling with my neckpiece a little bit, always kind of nervously grabbing on to my fellow ghosts next to me…
Hetty doesn’t like to be alone. She has a terror of isolation. All those things planted seeds that made this make a lot of sense. And again, also be shocking and heartbreaking. I love that she’s only able to speak about this and really process it when her friend is in a similar, metaphorical situation. The title of the episode is, ‘Holes are Bad.’ When she realizes that flower is possibly going to be isolated and abandoned forever, she has to act, and that just makes real sense to me that the writing is gloriously funny, and then it’s smart enough to go to these places because they’re justified and because you’ve come to love all of these characters and realize how dependent they are on one another.
WISOCKY: With this episode, and this plot point, they involved me early in discussions about how, what would be the motivator for this. And it was important to me that we not live in a land of shame about it. Our show has such a wide audience, and we’re so grateful for the love and support that they’ve given us. So many people have said that they’re able to have conversations with family sitting watching the show that they migh
