Blog #7

Subplot:
More background information begins to be revealed about Johnny and Elizabeth through flashbacks. A good amount of the groups trip from Sacramento to Virginia involves insight on Johnny and Elizabeth's lives before they died. It becomes evident that they were in love, starting from when they were kids and Elizabeth would come over to Virginia with her father from England during the summers where they stayed in a house that Johnny's family staffed.  More is also revealed about who they were as people, Elizabeth's character is strikingly different she is happy and kind, not the argumentative stubborn person she is as a ghost. As the flashbacks progress there is still something important not being revealed to the audience as their characters change and their deaths near.

Into the Wide Unknown:
Elizabeth does not seem as motivated as she should be to remember her death, it's evident she is scared even though she won't admit it. Johnny wants desperately for her to remember her death and move on, but she refuses to leave and go to Virginia because she won't leave Carl, the old man whose house they've been "haunting" for years. One of the things ghosts in this world can do is temporarily possess animals and other people. Johnny possesses  Carl's cat and confronts the man, who faints several times, tries to convince himself this isn't happening but finally listens to Johnny. Johnny explains to him that he's one of the ghosts that's been haunting his house for years and that if he wants them to go away he'll have to go to Virginia. Carl asks why and Johnny explains the situation with Elizabeth. He finally agrees to go and when Johnny tells Elizabeth she says they have to go with him because they can't just leave Carl and they all set out on the road together where Johnny continually possesses Carl's cat so that they can communicate with each other. 

The "Aha" Moment:
The three arrive in the small-town and go to the town hall to look up Carl's family history. Upon discovering that she is Carl's great grandmother, Elizabeth suddenly remembers that she was once married and pregnant before her death and all the other circumstances surrounding it. But the real Aha moment comes when she realizes how wrong she was for lying to her husband all those years and how it drove him into such a distraught state that he turned into one of the creatures when he died, gaining more power as his 100 year mark after their deaths approached. Elizabeth and Johnny both realize that's where the creature come from, they are the souls of people so tortured they don't turn into normal ghosts but instead mindless creatures compelled to cause chaos in the world and that killing them is doing them mercy as they get to move on properly afterwards. Elizabeth also realizes that what she has to do next even though she has been presented with the opportunity to move on she must destroy the creature that was once her husband so that he can be at peace and they can save the town.