"Only Time Will Tell" is the first episode in Season 2 of Secrets of Sulphur Springs and twelfth overall. It premiered on January 14, 2022 to 0.64 million viewers.
Plot[]
Griffin, Savannah and Harper find themselves face to face with Harper’s carbon copy, Daisy, and the Tremont ghost sends Harper and Griffin an important message.
Full Plot[]
Sarah carries boxes upstairs at The Tremont, unpacking now that the Campbell’s have decided to stay. She is distracted when she hears a woman’s voice singing “Amazing Grace.” She slowly walks down the hallway and sees the shadow of a rocking chair coming from one of the doors. It seems to be moving all on its own and as she gets closer, it stops. Looking inside the room, she is spooked to find it empty. Ben comes up from behind looking for Griffin, unintentionally scaring his wife.
In 1930, Griffin, Savannah, and Harper stand in the doorway of the farmhouse that will become The Tremont in the future, staring at Daisy. A man yells “Daisy, is that you?” and the trio run away, leaving Daisy looking confused. Her brother Sam comes to the door to ask her sister who was there and she tells him it was like looking into a mirror. Sam runs after the kids, dropping his bag which contains a copy of Tales of Time and Space by H.G. Wells. Griffin, Savannah, and Harper make it to the bunker and close it just in time. It disappears as Sam enters the clearing, but in the place where it was, Sam finds a bracelet with a star pendant.
Down in the bunker, Harper speculates that Daisy may be a relative of hers. Savannah announces that she has to get back to 1962 because this summer she’s going to be a counselor at Camp Tremont. She sets the radio back and tells her friends that she will look for clues about the family they just saw, making a plan to communicate by leaving messages under a loose floorboard at the bottom of the stairs.
Wyatt and Zoey have joined their parents in the room with the rocking chair as Sarah asks the twins to repeat their own experiences with the chair moving on its own. Zoey also adds that in addition to seeing the chair rock by itself, the ghost also writes on mirrors. Ben tells them he believes all of it is just Griffin playing a prank, but Griffin arrives just in time to dispel that theory. Sarah tells the family she would like to get rid of the mirror, too, but after Sarah and the twins leave the room, Griffin convinces his dad that it could be worth money and they should just put it in the basement. Griffin and Ben leave the room to go tools to take the mirror down and after they leave the room, the chair starts rocking again.
Jess is doing laundry when Harper gets home and Topher is watching a scary movie. Harper asks her mom if their dad was a fan of scary movies, but Jess tells her she doesn't know where Topher gets that interest from. Jess tells Harper that she was named after her father’s mother, Grandma Marie, and when Harper asks about Marie’s parents, Jess reveals a trunk in the garage full of family items her dad had in his possession. Before they can open it together, Jess gets an alert that she is needed at the cafe and she leaves, taking Topher with her. Inside the chest, Harper finds a small wooden box. When she opens it, her eyes go wide.
In 1962, Savannah leads a group of new campers through the woods and warns them to only go out at night accompanied by a counselor, sharing the legend of the Moss Man. A rustle through the leaves scares off the campers, who run away as Savannah goes closer to investigate. She finds a clearing with yellow mid-century patio furniture and footsteps nearby. She feels like she’s being watched.
Sarah, Ben, Griffin, Wyatt, and Zoey work together to put up new wallpaper in the hotel lobby and Griffin realizes they are almost out of both wallpaper rolls and paste. The family decides to go out together to get more and stop for ice cream on their way back, but Griffin asks to stay behind to do homework. Sarah tells him they will bring him back a chocolate milkshake and Griffin takes the opportunity alone to go to the mirror in the basement. “Hello? Can you hear me?” Griffin’s phone puzzles and he answers a video call from Harper, who announces that Daisy is her great grandmother and the man in the rocking chair is Daisy’s father, Elijah Tremont. She shows him some photos she found in the trunk, as well as a bracelet with a star charm on it, saying it belonged to her and she lost it. Her own bracelet was passed down to her through the trunk. Griffin sees something strange and asks Harper how soon she can get there, turning the camera around to show her that the mirror has fogged up with the words “Go back.”
The Campbell’s, minus Griffin, arrive at the cafe for ice cream and the twins excitedly go tell Topher that they’re staying in town. As Jess fulfills the ice cream order, she tells Sarah she’s surprised they’re staying in a haunted hotel, but Ben says that’s a rumor, just like Moss Man. Sarah takes this opportunity to tell Ben about the singing she heard when she discovered the chair rocking on its own. Jess tells them she would be looking for a new place if she were them.
In 1962, Savannah tells her mom that she finished all of her assignments for the night just as some campers break something. She goes to the basement to grab a broom, but footsteps coming down the stairs startle her and she hides. She notices that his feet leave muddy footprints and when the man goes back upstairs, she finds a clump of moss on the ground. “Moss man?”, she questions.
The Campbell’s arrive home with their ice cream to find that most of the wallpaper they recently hung has peeled off the walls. Zoey thinks it was the ghost and Wyatt tells their parents it must be mad that they moved the mirror.
Griffin and Harper sneak up to an open window to spy on the Tremont family, who are eating dinner. Daisy tells her dad that the three kids she saw earlier were in their house and Elijah reminds her that it’s not the first time people have wondered around their home, but that it’s because they’ve heard about the springs. He talks about how her mother also believed the water held special properties, but that they know there’s nothing special about it. Elijah gets up from the table and asks Daisy and Sam to clean up as he leaves the room. In private, Sam shows Daisy the bracelet he found and tells his sister he thinks the kids were from outer space, telling her that they disappeared in the middle of a field. Daisy looks out of the window, which startles Griffin and Harper.
Griffin and Harper run away from the house, hoping to not get caught. As they look back at the house, they see a woman in one of the upstairs windows, the same one they saw throwing stones in the springs. She puts her hands on the window, looks out at them, and screams at the top of her lungs. Then she disappears and they run back towards the hatch. They know now that the ghost of The Tremont isn’t Elijah, but this mysterious woman. As they run, Harper notices a tombstone and runs to get a better look.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Preston Oliver as Griffin Campbell
- Kyliegh Curran as Harper Dunn / Daisy Tremont
- Elle Graham as Savannah Dillon
- Kelly Frye as Sarah Campbell
- Josh Braaten as Ben Campbell
- Landon Gordon as Wyatt Campbell
- Madeleine McGraw as Zoey Campbell
- Diandra Lyle as Jess Dunn
Recurring Cast[]
- Jillian Batherson as Caroline
Guest Cast[]
- Ethan Hutchinson as Young Sam Tremont
- Robert Manning Jr. as Elijah Tremont
- Eugene Byrd as Moss Man
- Kenneisha Thompson as Grace Tremont
- Charli Slaughter as Camper #1
- Wyatt Parker as Camper #2
- Brady Evan Lewis as Counselor
Trivia[]
- The cast had the table read for this episode on May 28, 2021.
- This episode and the following episode are the first episodes to premiere after a ten-month hiatus.
- This is the first episode to air in 2022.
- The episode title is a reference to the 1982 song "Only Time Will Tell" by Asia.
- Savannah is now a camp counselor.
- This is the highest-viewed episode of the series.
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