In a tense standoff inside a lumber mill juke joint, Grace desperately pleads to rescue her husband while Annie explains the supernatural nature of the 'haints' hunting them. The group grapples with the realization that their friend is lost to a curse and discusses the spiritual stakes of the evil they face.
ANNIE: That’s cause vampires is different. Maybe the worst kind. The soul gets stuck in the body. Can’t rejoin the ancestors. Cursed to live here with all this hate. Can’t even see the sun.
SMOKE: Can we get him back? Maybe if I kill the one who made him like this?
ANNIE: Ain't no way of bringing no
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