It was another gasp-worthy cliffhanger on Thursday night’s Ghosts Season 3 finale! Following last season’s summer-long disbelief over one of Woodstone’s “main eight” ghosts getting “sucked off,” the Joe Port and Joe Wiseman series delivered one of the more shocking — and spooky, if you may — disappearances of the season.
With the show finally landing on its feet following a topsy-turvy 10 episodes that left audiences on the fence, the Season 3 finale embraced an unexpected twist that opens the door for more in the series’ beloved lore. In the show’s final moments, which finds Isaac (played brilliantly by Brandon Scott Jones) in the basement with the cholera ghosts, the American militiaman gets pulled into the darkness by the estate’s feral and vengeful Puritan ghost, Patience. But why did Patience take him away? Who is she, and what does this all mean for Season 4? To answer that, we need to look back at one episode in particular.
A young couple, Sam and Jay, inherit a haunted mansion and, unaware of their invisible housemates, plan to turn it into a B&B. Their lives become much more complicated after a fall causes Sam to see the ghosts. Based on the UK series.
Why Did Patience Abduct Isaac in the ‘Ghosts’ Season 3 Finale?
To understand why Patience abducts Isaac in the Season 3 finale, we have to look back at this season’s previous episode, “Holes Are Bad.” While the Woodstone bunch are trying their hardest to save Flower (Sheila Carrasco) from the well, Isaac and Sasappis (Román Zaragoza) reveal to the spirits how the two of them, along with Thorfinn (Devan Chandler Long) and Patience were once trapped in a hole and the only way to escape was to walk through the dirt. With the three Woodstone ghosts and Patience working together to get back to the manor’s basement, along the way Isaac sneezes and accidentally loses her hand, leaving her to an unknown fate.
The ghostly survivors admit they don’t know what became of her, but imagine she has become feral living underground alone since 1895, which, if you do the math, is 129 years! Oy vey. While audiences only get a tease about this in “Holes Are Bad,” two episodes later in the finale, “Isaac’s Wedding,” we find out from Flower that while she was calling for help in the well, she made a friend. Of course, it’s Patience! In her admission to Sam (Rose McIver) and her fellow spirit, Alberta (Danielle Pinnock), the ‘60s hippie ghost reveals Patience was “attracted by the sounds” of her screams and knows Isaac. In fact, she is “obsessed” with the American Revolutionary War captain and “only ever talks about him.” It’s at this moment, we get one of Alberta’s signature “shooketh” faces.
