Set Up: It's night in the suburbs of Sacremento and a boy is riding home from work on his bike when the chain breaks. He flies off and is about to call for a ride when he notices a man attacking a woman down the road. He tries to save her and almost succeds but the man shoots both of them. The boy dies but becomes a ghost. There are two other ghosts, Jacoby and Clementine, waiting to explain to him what is going on, they explain: When people are murdered or have unfinished business with the living they are given 100 years as a ghost to come to terms with their death, if they cannot by the time the 100 years are up then they have to stay as a ghost forever. Murderers are automatically turned into ghosts with no chance of being able to move on and be at peace. They have shackles around their wrists and are internally tortured for the rest of eternity. All ghosts are immediately assigned a certain weapon with which to kill the creatures invisible to the rest of humanity that cause chaos in the world. As the three travel around the city Jacoby explains to the boy about him and Clementine. She is 19 and he is 22, they both died around the same time in 1910 and were good friends back in a small town in Virginia although Clementine is originally from England. The boy notices that Jacoby has shackles signifying that he killed someone. Clementine and Jacoby both reside in the attic of a 67 year old widower's home. They act rather careless around him and he has noticed strange things happening in his home for years. He suspects it's haunted and has become extremely paranoid and supersticious. As they are walking a piece of paper floats towards them seemingly out of nowhere. Clementine grabs it and explains that it says she has exactly one month to accept her death or she will have to stay a ghost forever. Soon the boy meets a group of other ghosts who he goes off with and Jacoby and Clementine return to the old mans house.
Inciting Incident: Jacoby devises a plan to get Clementine on the road to remembering her death. For some reason that only Jacoby seems to know, Clementine doesn't want to leave the man whose attic they live in but he needs to get her to Virginia where she died and in order to do that the man must go to Virginia as well. So Jacoby briefly possesses the man's cat and tells him he has to go to Virginia to solve his ghost problem that the man, who is very superstitious and paranoid, has always suspected he has. After fainting several times from shock the man decides to go.
Rising Action:
1) On one of their stops on the way to Virginia Jacoby and Clementine hear from other ghosts that many are heading to the same small town in Virginia they are going to because there is a strangely powerful creature there wreaking havoc through the town.
2) Through many more conversations between Jacoby and Clementine we find out more about their past and personalities, specifically that Clementine could be selfish at times. Jacoby tries to help Clementine remember details about her death but nothing works.
3) The man consults a psychic while they're on the road. She performs a seance but Jacoby and Clementine know that she's a fake so they decide to freak her out and throw things around in her office and cause trouble which scares the woman but the man isn't worried by anything as he has been living with this sort of thing for a long time. At one point the man asks what he has to do when he's in Virginia and Jacoby possesses the woman's pet lizard and tells him to look up his ancestry. The woman kicks the man out once she's had enough and the three go on their way.
4) As they near the small town in Virginia the weather is getting worse and worse, they hear reports on the radio that that a hurricane is approaching and there have been many murders in the area lately but Jacoby and Clementine know that all of this is being caused by the abnormally powerful monster that they heard from the other ghosts has been seen in the small town.
5) Once in the small town, the man goes to the town hall to look through their records and find information on his ancestry. We discover that Clementine was actually the mans grandmother. In an instant all of her lost memories come rushing back. She remembers how she was forced to marry a man in the small town she was not in love with, how she was really in love with Jacoby and had an ongoing affair with him the whole time she was married. The man she was married to was rich but not very good with people and prone to violence and would sometimes abuse Clementine which caused Jacoby to start carrying around a gun in case he ever needed to protect her. Clementine didn't know he knew about the affair but that was the reason he started drinking and becoming increasingly more abusive to Clementine when he got drunk. The day she died Jacoby found her husband holding her body in his arms outside. He thought her husband had killed her and was disposing of the body so Jacoby shot him in the head. he was later convicted and executed for murder. The reality was Clementine had actually killed herself. She was 8 months pregnant with husband's baby and was depressed because she did not want to have his baby since she knew she could never love it or be a good mother. Doctors were able to save the baby however.
Climax: As Clementine is remembering this the town is getting worse and worse. Her grandson and everyone else are trying to get to better shelter when she realizes that the monster causing all of this must be the ghost of her husband, he just turned into a monster after his death because he was so distraught. As she feels remorse for what happened a bright light suddenly appears near her, she knows it's her chance to move on but she can't do it. Clementine decides she has to stop being selfish and passes up her chance to move on so that she can help destroy the tortured soul of what was once her husband.
Falling Action: In the End they all bring down the beast before he destroys the town and Clementine is left holding the shrunken dying form of her husband and she apologies for everything as he nods signifying that he is sorry too and a light appears for him to move on. Jacoby and Clementine go to find her grandson.
Resolution: When they find him he is running through the street trying to get to his car but another car speeds around the turn and almost hits him but before it can Clementine pushes him out of the way saving him but condemning herself to a lifetime of torture as shackles appear around her wrists because you are not allowed to interfere too much with the living. Jacoby and Clementine spend eternity together.
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