From TV Series Spoilers: Season 2 Recap

Season 2, Episode 9: Ball of Magic Fire

1 — Reggie tells Boyd and Kenny that Paula said she was going to take a nap. He was downstairs and heard her screaming. Reggie tried to shake her to try to wake her up. She kept talking in her sleep. She kept repeating the same words over and over. Something cracked inside her.

<Interesting to note that Reggie and Paula were the ones who were mean to Sara in Season 2, Episode 5. They live in the house that belonged to Sara and Nathan. There might be a connection with why they were now victims of the cicadas.>

Boyd asked Reggie: What did she say? Reggie replied that Paula said: “They touch. They break. They steal. No one here is free. And then her face…”

<This were the exact same words that Kenny heard in his nightmare when he picked the phone in his sleep. The scary part about this new attack is that it happened in broad daylight. Paula was simply napping in daylight. The problem with this new type of attack is that it was triggered by Boyd. In the expedition into the forest's boundaries, Boyd ended up shoved into the Farway Tree by Sara after the Boy in White told Sara to enter the tree for safety. Old man Martin told Boyd to leave before the music box completed its music. Now Boyd, Marielle, Elgin, and now Kenny can hear the music box.>

2 — Boyd and Kenny leave Reggie’s house (formerly Sara’s). Boyd sees the house is surrounded by 9 townsfolk who heard Reggie’s shouting earlier. Boyd asks Ethan if he can go home and asks Julie to stay. Tia Chen takes Ethan to her house. Cicadas continue to chirp in the area.

Boyd says they have 30 minutes more of daylight. They need to go door to door. He asks Julie and Kenny to cover the town. He will cover the Colony House. Reggie will come with me. “We can’t leave anyone alone,” Kenny asks what about Sara.

Julie freaks out: “Boyd, what’s going on? What happened in here?”

Boyd replies something killed Paula. Julie is confused. It’s not dark yet. Boyd says there is something else here now. Something new. It is not safe for anyone to go to sleep tonight. Julie breaks her oath of silence. Her dad is out there in the RV.

3 — Jim scolds Randall. Donna threatens she will kill Randall. Jim asks Randall what is he doing. Jim apologizes to Donna. Randall tells Jim not to apologize. They were both right. Donna is part of this. Randall followed Donna earlier to the clinic and saw them moving the corpse of one of those monsters.

I think the writers messed up here. Boyd, Kenny, and Donna didn't talk about the monster when they were burning it. The monster was wrapped up with a blanket, and tied up in bundles with a large rope. Unless Donna told Randall off-screen what was in the blanket, there is no way he would have known.

Randall asks Donna what the monsters are: animatronics? Did they get a faulty model? Donna replies it was a body. Boyd killed one of them. Jim is shocked by the news. Randall asks if now the monsters die. It’s funny how suddenly the rules change when someone catches out your bullshit. Donna thinks he is out of his mind. Randall says he thought Jim would be more helpful with the questioning. This was Jim’s idea. Jim categorically denies this was his idea. This is fucking crazy. This was not part of the plan — he says.

Randall grows even more paranoid with Jim’s reaction. How does he know Jim didn’t put ideas in his head to mess with him for the big government experiment to see how he would react? “How do I know that you aren’t part of this?” Jim replies to Randall: “Because my house collapsed right on top of me. What the fuck is wrong with you?”

Jim tries to untie Donna. Randall pulls him and launches him to the ground (Jim just recently left the clinic with 3 broken ribs). Jim stands up slowly. Randall pulls a knife on him and asks if he wants to dance.

Boyd arrives and shoots in the air. Then points the gun at Randall. Randall asks if he is going to shoot him. Boyd aligns the gun with his eye and the gun’s rear sights to make his point. Randall throws the knife to the ground. Boyd asks him to move away from the knife. Boyd picks up the knife and gives it to Jim to cut the rope wrapping Donna to the tree.

Boyd says they have about 5 minutes to get in Donna’s van and get the hell out of the RV area to get back to town.

Asshole Randall responds: “Oh, you mean these keys?” He launches them into the air further into the woods. Randall says: “I guess we will have to spend the night here and see what happens.”

4 — Victor follows Jade to Kenny’s house. Julie tells her mom that she should have stopped her Dad. Jade asks what’s going on. Victor told Jade they couldn’t go to sleep.

5 — Sara stays in the Sheriff’s station with Kenny. She thanks Kenny and knows he doesn’t want to be here. She says things feel different and wrong in the town. Did Boyd tell him what happened out there to both of them in the forest?

Sara says the more they walked into the woods the worse things got. Boyd told her this place feeds on fear. Sara theorizes what if this place feeds more on more than just fears? Kenny wonders what she means. Sara says Nathan was always terrified of cicadas. When Sara and Nathan were kids, their stepfather would take them on these week-long camping trips. The cicadas would buzz all night long outside their tent. Nathan would cry the whole night. Nathan thought the cicadas were monsters.

Sara further theorizes what if the people who die here … what if their fears become part of the forest? What if these cicadas are Nathan’s nightmare out there? The camera shifts outside the Sheriff’s station looking at Sarah behind the window and pans outwards. Cicadas buzz louder. The camera continues to pan out as if in a drone and the camera follows the road and flies above the town’s buildings all the way to the Colony House. Cicadas fly in front of the camera as it moves toward the Colony House.

6 — Reggie talks to Fatima and the residents of the Colony House about what happened to Paula. He wants to talk to Donna about what happened. Kristi points out that Donna left the clinic hours ago. Donna said she was coming back to the Colony House. Reggie says they are all going to fucking die. Fatima tries to calm Reggie down and asks him to repeat Boyd’s exact words. Boyd said we can’t sleep. No one goes to sleep. Fatima says that that’s what they focus on.

Fatima will take Reggie to change his bloodied clothes and ask everyone to partner up and prevent each other from falling asleep.

Kristi asks Ellis if there is a room she and Marielle can stay at tonight. Marielle looks in bad shape through her drug withdrawal.

7 — Jim, Boyd, Randall, and Donna settle inside the RV. Donna places the talisman in the front of the RV. Jim asks Boyd what he means that they can’t fall asleep. Boyd asks why he thinks Boyd came out to the RV? Julie is terrified. Boyd asks him to place the lantern in the back of the RV. Randall asks Jim to pick a side. Doesn’t Jim see what this is? They come here and actually had Donna by the balls and the Sheriff comes out here with a new story and Jim falls for it. No wonder Jim’s family is a mess. This angers Jim and both go to each other’s throats. Boyd yells at them.

Boyd pins Randall with his own body weight on top of Randall and cuffs his hands. Boyd warns Randall whatever the fuck ideas he is cooking in that rock-hard head of his, those ideas are going to get him killed. Or worse, Randall is going to get one of them in the RV killed, and he is not planning to die in here tonight. (I guess Boyd just warned he’s gonna shoot Randall). “Shut the fuck up and sit down.”

Boyd turns to Jim. “After all the shit you’ve been through here, you still think this is a fucking game?”

Jim says his investigation, wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Donna replies so he led a pig to shit and now he is surprised he made a mess? Randall says Fuck you to Donna. Donna returns the same back at Randall.

Jim comes up with this stupid idea that even without the keys Randall threw away — those Volkswagen vans have a pretty basic ignition system he can probably rig. Boyd stops him there. Boyd is not going to lose another person on a “probably.” They are barely making it through right now.”

Randall stands up and complains he doesn’t want to spend the whole night listening to this crap. Boyd shouts he told Randall earlier that he wanted him to sit down.

Boyd walked slowly toward Randall with his eyes sideways looking away. Boyd says in a composed serious tone: “Sit. Down.”

Randall says he doesn’t know what his deal is. Whether Boyd is part of this [referring to being in on the government experiment to test their reactions] or if Boyd is fucking dumber than–

Randall doesn’t get to finish the sentence. Boyd slammed Randall hard against’ the RV’s wall by the jacket’s neck.

Boyd said: “I lost my wife here. My friend bled to death in my arms, and you still think I’m lying? You want proof? What if I tie your ass up to one of those trees out there, Let you find out for yourself?”

Boyd slams Randall to the ground to sit.

8 — Ellis escorts Kristi and Marielle to an unused bedroom. The bed has belts strapped on both sides. Marielle asks if this is the freaky sex room. Ellis sighs. He says that the first night is rough for some people. They can get unpredictable.

Kristi tells Marielle she is going to go downstairs for some supplies. Ellis tags along and both leave Marielle alone.

9 — Ellis is worried and asks Kristi for her medical perspective about this “Don’t sleep” warning. Fatima told him she is pregnant. Ellis is asking if he should be worried about the baby. They sleep in their Mom’s belly. Kristi said if she was further along, maybe. But she’s 6-7 weeks pregnant at most. She says of all the things to be worried about tonight that’s not one of them.

Ellis shares with Kristi that a new life is growing inside Fatima. Normally, in their world, he would be thrilled about the baby. But in this place, Ellis is worried at any second the baby would spring out of her belly with fangs and claws.

Kristi looks at him sideways with a smirk and says that if it is any consolation pregnancy is weird, no matter where you are. Pregnancy is beautiful, but it’s fucking weird. We’re just used to it because we see it every day. It’s like the magic ball of fire.

<Huh. That's exactly the title of Season 2, Episode 9 (just now). Ball of Magic fire.>

Ellis is lost with that answer. The what? Kristi says it is this thing from medicine school. The whole world, even the parts that we think we understand, it’s all really just one big mystery, floating through space around a giant ball of magic fire that keeps us warm from a million miles away. I mean, it’s fucking insane. We are just used to it, that’s all. Ellis is still lost trying to figure out what she is talking about. Kristi smiles. “Pregnancy is weird.”

<I see. In this context, the ball of magic fire is the Sun. However, the way she coins the entire sentence to compare it with pregnancy... gives out some vibes in contrast with Jade's recent comment to Tabitha about Chaos Theory. It might be my imagination, but maybe the writers are building up to something. In Season 3, there is something weird going on with Fatima's pregnancy.>

10 — Jade looks at Eloise’s crayon drawings. “I can’t believe he had a sister. How do you forget something like that? “

Tabitha says he should have seen Victor’s face when he opened his trunk. It was awful.

<At the bottom left, there are 9 people or children with sad faces. The 10th has a smiley face. Odd or suspicious. These are Eloise’s drawings. Not Victor’s. So… how does Eloise knows about the Farway Trees? The drawing in the bottom-right… did Victor and Eloise have a scare? That looks like one of the Monsters entered their house. Or someone else’s house. The drawing in the center-left is intriguing. That thing next to the large person looks eerily close to the staff or crutch Victor gave Ethan shortly after his family arrived to this place. Victor told him before taking him to the woods that the crutch Ellis made for him wasn’t good. Ethan needed a staff worthy of a quest. Huh. So the questions to ponder are… is that a quest staff in the drawing? Is that meant to be Ethan? Is that meant to be someone else who happens to have a different quest staff or young Victor? If the answer was: That’s Ethan — how did Eloise draw this nearly 30-40 years ago? I have only watched until mid-Season 3 at the time of this article as episodes now air each week. When you get to Season 3, you will discover this place has some time shenanigans going on. It’s not just Farway Tree teleportation shenanigans. We’ll have to wait and see what’s going on in Eloise’s drawings. The image below is from Season 1, Episode 4 to show what I mean about the quest staff as a crutch in Eloise’s drawing.>

Jade shows Tabitha one of Eloise’s crayon drawings. See the color of those uniforms? These are Civil War soldiers. Why the fuck would a little girl draw pictures of Civil War soldiers?

Tabitha says the crayon drawings came from the stories their Mother used to tell young Victor and his sister Eloise. Jade asks why the fuck then is he having visions of a story some dead woman told 40 years ago?

<For context, when Jade was helping Jim climb a tree to place the CB Radio antenna above the canopy, Jade had a vision of a Civil War soldier shooting at him and several Civil War soldiers' corpses hanging from the tree. Image below for reference: Season 1, Episode 6: "Book 74">

Jade moves away from the table to go deep in his thoughts. Tabitha pulls one of Eloise’s crayon drawings and asks Jade if he wants to see something really weird. Look at this.

Victor told Tabitha that his mother wanted to rescue the children who were locked in the tower. That it was the only way to get everyone home. Since I got to this town, I’ve had dreams about walking up the steps of a tower just like this.

<Tabitha refers to a dream she had in Season 1, Episode 9: "Into the Woods" where she is climbing a spiral stairway, which means she was climbing a tower. In the dream, there were dates scribbled on this spot. Tabitha is saying to Jade that she likely dreamed about the same tower -- which is actually a Lighthouse. Boyd and Sara found this Lighthouse in Season 1, Episode 10.>

Tabitha thought all this time the children were trying to scare her, but what if they were just asking for my help?

11– Downstairs, Tian Chen brings a board game to keep Julie, Victor, and Ethan entertained so no one falls asleep. Ethan worries and asks if their father is going to die in the RV. Julie assures him he is not going to die. Ethan asks if they all are gonna die. She reassures no one is going to die. Ethan says Victor told him when he was a kid everyone died. All at the same time. Victor said that it won’t happen like that again.

Ethan asks how Victor knows. Victor stays silent. Julie tells Ethan that she knows he is scared, but do you know what the Cromenockle would say? Ethan snaps at Julie and says it doesn’t matter. She (the Cromenockle) is not real. It’s just a stupid story.

Victor says his mother used to say that everything is a story, and we are the ones who get to decide how it ends.

Ethan asks what about the story of Victor’s mother. Did it end the way she wanted? Julie is horrified by Ethan’s response. It is not nice for Victor. Tian Chen scolds Ethan in Cantonese, then says in English: “Be good.”

Ethan leaves and says he doesn’t want to play any games. Julie apologizes to Victor.

12 — In the RV, Boyd laces the bullets with the Monster’s Bile. Jim asks Boyd if whatever was in his blood that killed the creature, the monster’s blood is going to–

Boyd corrects him. The monster’s Bile. Boyd says it doesn’t matter. If this works, they are walking back to town in the middle of the night guns-blazing against the Monsters with the Bile-laced bullets. Randall mocks Boyd. Boyd responds why does he care? It is not real, according to Randall.

Donna shares an idea. Why not let Randall test the Bile-laced bullet on the Monsters? Randall is not afraid to go outside, so give him the gun. She is just saying it so that if it doesn’t work, they kill Randall. See if these monster-killer bullets really work. One way or another, they get rid of a problem (again referring to Randall). A monster shrieks in the distance.

Donna asks Boyd to make up his mind. The Monsters are coming. Boyd asks how many she can see outside. Donna sees a few and they are closer.

Boyd says: “Showtime!” and hands the gun to Randall — who doesn’t pick the gun. Jim protests. Boyd says Randall is a big boy. He can choose. Jim opens the curtain in the back of the RV and says the Monsters are on that side too. (I counted 9 Monsters in total)

Boyd says the time is up. Are you going or not? Randall raises his cuffed hands. Boyd searches for the keys in his pocket and frees Randall. Boyd asks if he is having any second thoughts, and he gets his ass back inside.

Donna says: “The fuck!” They ask what happened. Donna says they stopped moving toward the RV. She says something is wrong. They don’t just do that.

Everyone in the RV freezes. The CB Radio begins to receive a broadcast in channel 47. The ballerina music box plays over the CB Radio’s speakers. Everyone can hear it, not just Boyd.

13 — At the Colony House, Marielle is screaming get away from me. She is throwing things to the floor. She’s trying to remove the wood planks from the window. Kristi enters the room with water and food and asks Marielle to stop. Marielle tears up the plank from the window in one pull. Kristi stops Marielle before she has a chance to lift the curtain.

Marielle says Kristi doesn’t understand. There is something standing there in the room with them. Kristi assures her there is nothing in the room. Kristi says that Marielle told her once when she first went through withdrawal she saw a lot of things that weren’t there. Marielle said that the guy downstairs said– (Kristi interrupts her)

Kristi says the guy downstairs said we can’t go to sleep, and that’s all. We know what the monsters look like here, and they are all outside. As long as you are in here and you are awake, you are safe. Now, come sit down.

Marielle aggressively steps back and asks Kristi to not touch her. Marielle tries to walk past Kristi to reach the bedroom door. Kristi says she is sorry and blocks the door. Marielle laughs and mocks her for being sorry. This is all Kristi’s fault for disappearing on her. She couldn’t eat or sleep. Kristi fucking did this to her. (She means relapsing into doing drugs again after a year sober).

Marielle apologizes for saying all that to Kristi, and Kristi says it is alright and hugs Marielle. Both sit on the bed and Kristi kisses her head. Marielle grabs the end of one of the belts and asks Kristi to put the belts on her. Kristi says she doesn’t think Marielle needs them. Marielle looks at the window and responds: “Yes, I do.”

14 — At the Sheriff’s station, Sara is looking at the map with pins. She says she guesses the pin near Springfield, Massachusetts is hers. She asks which pin is Kenny’s. She says something insensitive about his family being together before arriving here and apologizes again for what she caused to her dad — leaving the clinic door open for the monsters. Kenny asks her to stop talking.

Sara keeps talking about how difficult it is for him to see her every day, and that she wants Boyd to let her go into the forest. Kenny says he doesn’t care. He doesn’t give a shit what she wants or what she feels. Sara doesn’t get to sit here and have a pity party, because she is a murderer and should have gone into the box the second Boyd found out what she did.

Sara kept going on and on and mentioned Kenny’s dad. Kenny reached his patience limit. She pressed all the buttons. He yells very loud: SHUT THE FUCK UP! Throws the chair away and asks her to stop fucking talking about his Dad.

Sara said no. She says she didn’t ask for any of this. Does he think he is the only one that lost something? She lost everything. Everything she was and everything she could have been is gone. This place destroyed the only person she ever got to be and she is tired of being afraid and ashamed. She doesn’t want to be in this town anymore. She doesn’t want to be Kenny’s monster anymore. She wants it to be over.

Kenny says if she wants out, Boyd keeps his spare gun in the top-left-hand drawer. Kenny slams the door to be alone in the other room.

15 — Reggie rings the bell several times at the Colony House yelling Wake up! He tells everyone not to sleep. The talisman won’t protect them from this. No one is safe. Fatima asks Reggie to cut it out. He is scaring everyone. Reggie says everyone should be scared. She didn’t see what happened to Paula.

Ellis approaches and asks Reggie to calm down. Reggie reacts violently and pushes Ellis to the sofa. Ellis reels in pain. He’s still recovering from the stab in the stomach. Elgis locks his arms around Reggie and neutralizes him. Reggie cries they are all going to die tonight or tomorrow.

16 — In the RV, Boyd and Jim dismantle all cables and power from the CB Radio, but it continues to receive the music box signal through the speakers. Randall panics asking how can it continue to play the music.

Boyd opens the curtain to leave the RV through the front window which is positioned at the top with the RV turned on its side after the accident. Donna stops Boyd. Boyd turns to her and she squeezes herself against the wall with his menacing tone as he points a finger at her with the gun in the other hand. Boyd says he heard this music before in the forest. Every time it plays, bad shit follows. They need to get the fuck out of the RV before the music ends.

The music ends.

Something hits the wall of the RV hard and loud. The RV’s lights start to flicker on and off. Problem is with the RV turned sideways on the ditch, the wall is facing the ground. It is not possible for someone to knock the wall from the ground side. Boyd asks Jim and Randall to move to the front of the RV. Whatever happens, run.

Randall says fuck this. He uses a crowbar to break the back window to escape through it. They are screwed. That’s the equivalent of giving the Monsters authorization to come in. Boyd breaks the windshield window in the front and asks Donna to follow. Boyd tells Jim if he wants to see his family again, you get that fucking Volkswagen van going.

The 4 monsters in the back of the RV chase after Randall in slow motion.

Boyd shoots the gun at the 5 monsters in the front of the RV, with the Bile-laced bullets, while Donna and Jim run to the Volkswagen van.

The RV’s lights continue to flicker on and off. Boyd is shooting all of his Bile-laced bullets with no effect. Boyd hears a voice behind him: “Boyd, stop!”

Boyd looks back inside the RV. In one of the light flicks he sees Abby standing there, then disappears as the on-off flicking continues. Then reappears.

Abby asks Boyd to come back to her. Boyd hears a monster shriek behind him and looks. Then looks back toward Abby. She is no longer there.

Donna shouts at Boyd to come on. Jim hacked the Volkswagen van’s ignition system to turn on without a key.

<Boyd shoots 11 bullets.>

Randall is left behind. He can hear cicadas around him and they swarm all over his body and enter his mouth.

17 — In the Sheriff’s station, Sara sits in front of the desk. The gun with its cylinder open. Bullets on the table. Kenny opens the door to check on Sara, making sure she is not asleep. Kenny sees the scene and asks her to put the gun away. He didn’t think she would get through with what he said earlier.

Sara asks why. It’s what everyone wants. For her to die.

Sara tells Kenny that he said she should have been sent to the box. It wouldn’t be Kenny killing Sara. It would be this place (the monsters) killing her. So. Pretend that I am in the box. (Sara grabs the gun and prepares to load it)

Kenny slowly approaches from her flank.

Sara asks how many bullets will do. One? She loads one. Two? Loads another one. Sara closes the cylinder and points the gun at Kenny, who gets much closer.

Sara says no. He doesn’t get to decide. Sara rolls the cylinder, Russian roulette-style, and points the gun to her temple. Kenny asks her to stop.

Sara clicks the gun trigger. No bullet that round. She prepares to click the next cylinder round. Kenny no longer talks. He jumps forward to get a hold on the gun.

Kenny opens the cylinder and removes the two bullets. “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

18 — In the Colony House, Elgin teaches the old lady named Tillie how to crochet. Fatima asks what they both are doing. Tillie says he is teaching her how to crochet.

Tillie compliments Fatima for what she did tonight and how she handled things. She would make a great mom. Elgin looks at Fatima and asks her if she is pregnant. She hesitates but confirms she is.

Fatima asks Tillie how she knew. Tillie says: Oh, sweetie. I have had 4 kids and 7 grandchildren. She knows an expecting mother when she sees one.

Elgin goes pale. Fatima looks at Elgin and asks him what’s wrong.

Elgin says… “I just remembered my dream.”

Fatima looks toward the entrance. The Volkswagen van is back. The guard with the shotgun opens the door and announces that Donna is back.

19 — Upstairs, Kristi wets a towel to place on Marielle’s forehead. Marielle is tied to the bed with the belts holding down both her wrists and both ankles. Mariselle is thirsty.

Kristi tells her she will be back. She will bring her juice to drink. Mariselle asks her to stay. Kristi kisses her and leaves the room.

Mariselle can hear rustling and chirping in the covered windows. Cicadas start swarming the room and crawl all over her body.

Kristi enters the room and finds her in a panic attack swatting away at nothing.

Mariselle screams to get them off her. They are all over her. They are everywhere — she says.

Kristi says there is nothing on her.

20 — Downstairs, everyone is flooding Boyd and Donna with questions. When can they go sleep? Why do they have to stay awake? Donna responds they still need to figure it out.

Jim slowly moves away and surprises the guard at the entrance and manages to open the door briefly before the guard slams it shut and pushes Jim off. Boyd shouts at Jim.

Jim wants to get back to his family. Boyd tells Jim that every time that door opens at night everybody here is at risk. Jim says when the fuck are they not in risk.

Jim struggles with the guard and manages to open the door slightly, twice. (WHAT A GIANT #$%)

Boyd pulls the gun and aims it at Jim. The guard manages to push Jim away and also points the shotgun at him.

Boyd says: “Stand down.”

Kristi shouts that she needs help upstairs. Boyd asks the guardian that the door stays closed, and storms upstairs.

21 — Mariselle’s irises go completely white.

Boyd tells Kristi, who is panicking and crying, that Marielle needs a doctor right now, not a fiancé. Kristi says there is nothing medical she can do for her state. Boyd says Mariselle is breathing. Just hold on to her.

Ellis interrupts and tells Boyd he needs to hear this. Both leave the room. Donna stays.

22 –Downstairs, Elgin says this whole time, he felt like there was a reason why he had that dream on the bus. That there was something in the dream that he had to remember and forgot what it was. Then Fatima said that she was pregnant and it all–

Boyd’s jaw opens and he looks confused back and forth between Elgin, Fatima, and Ellis. Elgin realizes he said something out of place. Ellis tried to announce to his Dad earlier that Fatima was pregnant, but Donna pulled him away to take care of something, and Ellis didn’t get to break the announcement.

Elgin apologizes for revealing it without Fatima’s consent. Boyd says it’s ok and asks Elgin to resume telling about the dream.

There was this boy… all dressed in white, and … he kept repeating the same phrase over and over: “Here they come. They come for three unless you stop the melody.”

Bakta says: “Wait, I know that one. It’s an old nursery rhyme. My grandmother used to sing it to me. ♪ They touch. They break. They steal. No one here is free. Here they come. They come for three unless you stop the melody ♪”

<Boyd's eyes open wide. These are the words Kenny mentioned hearing in his nightmare. Boyd was also the first to hear the ballerina music box's melody. The same words were in Elgin's dream when he was in the bus.

I realize something now. In Tabitha's dream in the tower, she saw all those dates dating back to the 1500s. In Season 3, it is revealed that Victor's mom had dreams about the town long before she saw the fallen tree in the road. Tabitha dreamed about a settlement not far from the town when she was a child (over 30 years ago).

Now Bakta says that her grandmother used to sing this song to her. Bakta's grandmother was possibly born in the early 1910-20s. Bakta is a black woman. They way these lyrics sound, the nursery rhyme may have originated in the 1800s during slavery and passed down to the next couple generations for Bakta's grandma to pass it down to her. The Civil War happened... between 1861-1865. Look at the number in Tabitha's dream (in the image below). Eloise (Victor's sister) also drew the Civil War soldiers -- the same Jade saw in his lucid waking dream in the forest. This means this place has been around a long time, influencing the dreams of people for centuries. Choosing which person to lead to the fallen tree in the road. The dreams about the music box monsters became folklore and edged onto nursery rhyme.

Another explanation would be the other way around: that monsters who killed people in this place, who knew the nursery rhyme in the 1800s, absorbed their fears into the forest --- keeping in mind what Sara said recently about Nathan's theory.

According to Sara, the cicadas are Nathan's nightmare. They started to appear shortly after Nathan died.

23 — At Kenny’s house, Jade tells Tabitha if she realizes what she is saying is bat-shit crazy. Tabitha counters with: “Well, you were the one that said that everything’s connected.” (This in reference to when he explained Chaos Theory to her with the fluttering butterfly and Tsunami in Japan comparison).

Tabitha grabs the crayon drawing of the Lighthouse tower. She says this is a connection. What if Victor’s Mom is right? What if saving those children is how we all go home?

Julie screams. Tabitha and Jade run to find out what’s wrong.

Julie is screaming: “Get them off me!”

Julie is having the same lucid waking dream about the cicadas swarming around her body. The attack reached a new phase where sleeping is no longer required. The attack now happens while awake. Another detail: Those who are now in a trance swarmed by cicadas are Randall (1), Marielle (2), and Julie (3). ♪ No one here is free. Here they come. They come for three unless you stop the melody ♪

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