UTL S1E19: Canary in the Trigger Mine

On this episode of Under the Library:

 

At Gerald's house, Beau and Harold attempt to transport Philip out of the basement. Harold devises a complex pulley system using the bedframe while Beau pushes from below. Philip mutters his wife and daughter's names under his breath in an unending litany. 

 

Beau returns to the basement to place dynamite and a fuse, hoping to destroy the gate. He hears the voice of Jack Crabbe taunting him from the gate but shakes off the compulsion to enter, singing and plugging his ears. He lights the fuse and runs for his life as the remains of the house collapse behind him.

 

Harold and Beau leave the ruin formerly known as Gerald's house with Philip and the feverishly moaning Caspar/Jeremy strapped to horses. They head back to town.

 

It's dusk on the train from Deadwood. Jaker sleeps and Florence is silent, processing her experience with Rose. Oak Tree keeps watch as they return to Bloodstone. 

 

Upon their return, Florence and Oak Tree bring Jaker to Seraphim Falls and his Uncle Jeb. Jeb is drunk, and shows Florence a nearly empty whiskey bottle with a small lomava pellet in the bottom. He says it came from a secret part of Lloyd's General Store, and agrees to let her take the bottle with her. Florence also keeps Jaker's pills with her since it seems unwise to leave them with drunk Uncle Jeb.

 

The group reconvenes at Potter's Place (minus Jaker). Harold and Beau relate the events at Gerald's place to Florence, who tunes them out, fixated on the strangely familiar face of Caspar. He looks eerily like her sister Rose. Florence tries to wake him. and Oak Tree attempts first aid, but both fail. Florence slaps Philip out of his muttering trance and orders him to care for Caspar. 

 

At the same time, Harold shows Florence Caspar's pendant and she compares it to her own - other than the purple liquid-filled glass set into Caspar's pendant, the two are nearly identical.

 

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