Olivia
So how's the new house?
London
It’s weird to live away from you, Mom and Dad…
London
But the view of the lake is great.
London
And so are the new appliances—
London
All of them are stainless steel.
London
But to be honest with you…
London
I think the house I bought is haunted or something.
London
I keep my books in order by author…
London
But Little Women keeps ending up in the wrong section.
London
The pillows on the couch are all smushed each morning, too.
London
Like someone has been sitting there.
London
I left some mail by the phone earlier.
London
I ran some errands…
London
But when I came home…
London
The mail was on the coffee table.
Olivia
Have you been working 80-hour weeks again?
London
I'm only teaching 3 classes this term.
London
But I've been offered a research fellowship, too.
Olivia
You should probably take time off.
Olivia
You need some rest, Lon.
London
I take sleeping pills to get my brain to be quiet and I still wake up exhausted.
London
So how's your DUI treatment program, BTW?
Olivia
I don't have a problem with alcohol, okay?
Olivia
I'd had 2 beers when the cop pulled me over.
London
I didn't mean to upset you, Liv.
London
Something's really strange about the house, Liv.
Olivia
What are you talking about?
London
You know the magnetic poetry I have on my fridge?
Olivia
All of the French words?
London
Well, some of them keep getting switched around.
London
And the text I've been reading for work—
London
The bookmark is never where I left it.
Olivia
So you still think the house is haunted?
London
I've never really believed in ghosts.
London
But I keep my stuff in order, so I know when stuff’s been moved.
London
I am baffled, TBH.
Olivia
Have you talked to anyone about the house?
Olivia
Other than me, of course.
London
I said something to Dad.
London
But he thinks I'm being paranoid or something.
London
I emailed you some links to job websites.
London
Have you looked at them yet?
Olivia
I don't wanna mop floors at the senior center, London.
Olivia
Or wash dishes at some crappy chicken shack.
Olivia
I'll keep looking, okay?
Olivia
Maybe you should get some sage.
Olivia
For all of the ghosts.
Olivia
I found something out about your house.
Olivia
Something really freaky!
Olivia
So I applied for the job at the senior center…
Olivia
And I talked to some old lady from your neighborhood.
Olivia
She said she knew of a previous owner—
Olivia
A woman who committed suicide in 1943.
Olivia
Yeah. Her husband went off to war…
Olivia
And she became obsessed with keeping the house clean for him.
London
Weird. Sounds like some strange combo of feng shui and the Good Wife's Guide…
London
So what happened to her?
Olivia
Her husband was killed in France…
Olivia
So she hung herself in the attic.
Olivia
She wasn't found for weeks.
London
Goodness gracious…
Olivia
I know. Have you checked the attic, Lon?
London
I think I need a break from all of the ghost stuff, TBH.
London
But I'll take a look around…
London
I looked in the attic, Liv.
London
And I found a vintage brooch…
London
Like, the kind women wore in the 1940s.
London
I’m getting more and more creeped out here.
London
Sometimes when I wake up…
Olivia
What?! That’s so creepy.
Olivia
Maybe the war widow is making a casserole.
Olivia
Or the oven could be broken, London.
Olivia
And the brooch is not proof of a ghost.
London
I’ll call a technician to look at the oven.
London
So how’s the apartment search going?
London
Did you check out that complex I told you about?
Olivia
The hell hole on South Street?
Olivia
I was rejected because of my credit.
Olivia
So I’m still here with Mom and Dad.
London
You’ll find something, Liv.
Olivia
But you also believe in ghosts now.
London
The brooch is gone, Liv.
London
I keep it in my jewelry box…
London
But it’s missing, along with my pearl earrings.
London
Do you think I’ve been robbed?!
Olivia
Has anything else of value been taken from the house?
London
All of the art and technology’s still here.
Olivia
So it’s probably not a robbery, Lon.
London
Yeah. Maybe the war widow needed her brooch…
London
And she could’ve liked the pearls!
Olivia
I’m getting really worried about you.
Olivia
Dad said you seemed off when he came by yesterday.
Olivia
And he saw the sage, London.
London
You told me to burn sage because of the ghosts!
Olivia
I was being a goof.
Olivia
You need some sleep, okay?
Olivia
Take a Tylenol PM and relax.
Olivia
I’ll text soon to check in.
London
All of the clothes hanging in my closet…
London
Have been turned inside-out.
London
And the bottles of liquor in the kitchen—
London
I think the war widow is taking sips out of them or something!
London
I’m so freaked out by the whole thing.
London
The suicide from 1943…
London
The brooch in the attic…
London
I think I’m gonna check into a hotel.
Olivia
You’re not actually being haunted by a war widow’s ghost.
London
The technician checked out my oven, Liv.
London
The thing works fine.
London
If there’s no ghost in my house…
London
Then who the heck has been messing with all of my stuff?
Olivia
It’s probably you.
Olivia
You’ve been working too much, Lon.
Olivia
You might be moving things around and then forgetting about them.
Olivia
Have you thought about talking to a counselor?
London
I don’t need a counselor—
London
I need an exorcist!
London
I've been fired from the school, Liv.
London
I've been missing meetings…
London
Cancelling classes…
London
All to research exorcisms!
Olivia
You're obsessed, London…
London
I'm being tormented!
London
I went to grab some coffee earlier…
London
And when I came home…
London
The dishes in the sink were clean.
London
The war widow washed them, Liv!
Olivia
I'm getting really worried about you.
Olivia
I'm afraid for you, too.
London
I don't think she likes me being in her house.
London
Maybe she’s angry that I'm making more work for her or something.
Olivia
What are you talking about?
London
The family photos I keep on the mantel…
London
She scratched out my eyes in all of them.
London
I think I need a doctor, Liv.
London
After I burned some sage, I took Tylenol PM.
London
But when I woke up…
London
The kitchen was on fire!
London
I must have fallen asleep with the sage still burning!
Olivia
Holy crap, London!
London
I already doused the flames with the extinguisher.
London
But I could've been killed!
London
All because I believed in a ghost.
Olivia
You don't anymore?
London
I know it’s not the war widow.
In the faint, pink glow of dawn…
London checks into a psychiatric hospital.
She weeps when the doctors take her in…
She knew about the spare key in the plotted plant at London's house.
Between all of London’s sleeping pills and hours at work…
Olivia could sneak in and out like a ghost.
No more Pretty Little London, PhD…
In the bathroom of the asylum…
Olivia smiles at herself in the mirror.
The pearl earrings look good on her, too.
