Ghosts‘ long-awaited restaurant opening for Woodstone’s Mahesh finally arrived in the latest episode, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and What Were We Talking About?” but the celebration came with its challenges thanks to Hippie spirit, Flower (Sheila Carrasco).
Usually playing a pretty low-key role, Flower’s moment of mental clarity in this episode leads to some challenge-inducing shenanigans when she believes the end of the world is near. When the date, February 13, 2025, is uttered, it brings back to Flower, a memory of cult leader Bruce (Will Greenberg) declaring the world would end on that day.
Determined to save her friends, Flower tries warning Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) of the impending apocalypse and goes so far as to recruit the basement ghosts to incapacitate the kitchen crew with their ghost power. What is their ghost power, you might ask? It turns out they have the ability to give a living person cholera for a day if they walk through them.
Going to such an extreme leaves Jay without a crew to cook, and Flower faces Sam’s disappointment over the matter as the predicament leaves her and Jay uncertain they’ll even be able to open Mahesh. In the end, a solution is reached when Sam uses her ability to communicate with the ghosts to help facilitate the action in the kitchen, directing Bela (Punam Patel), Mark (Tristan D. Lalla), and Jay with the help of the ghosts speaking to her, Ratatouille style, for those who know.
While everything works out for the best, the experience is a learning lesson for Flower who discovers that everything she was taught to believe by the cult isn’t necessarily true. “I was so excited to finally get to remember something as a character,” Carrasco tells us of Flower’s storyline in the episode. “Not only just to be able to have a story to really sink my teeth into as an actor, but for it to be something that is so dynamic and really kind of world-ending for the restaurant itself.”
Carrasco says the arc allows her to better understand Flower moving forward, “[Being] able to dive into the cult backstory was so fun because you actually get to see just how manipulative Bruce was and what a follower she was and how she believed him. It’s kind of heartbreaking, but also really endearing,” she adds.
As for why the date managed to stick in Flower’s mind, Carrasco notes, “Flower was in this cult for at least a few years. I mean, she was probably one of the top people in the cult by the time she left. We don’t know why she actually left, which I think is going to be another cool thing we can explore in the future,” she adds. “And we don’t know what happened to Bruce. We don’t know if he’s still alive, which is also very exciting, but she was in deep. And so I think that this spiel he gives at the beginning of the episode, she probably heard this almost every day for all of those years she was there… and so for her, that’s been the truth.”
Hearing the date triggered her into action, leading to the basement ghosts’ gift being revealed. But why couldn’t Flower have been the one to sabotage the kitchen, making the cooks high rather than sick? “I actually asked that and one of the things we realized was, well then that would just give the kitchen staff the munchies and not necessarily make them worse cooks. We actually saw in a Season 2 episode that getting high actually made Jay a better cook,” Carrasco points out.
