Previously on "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
Luke has set a trap.
We'll hit him with every light we got.
- Say goodbye, kids. - Sardo!
Sardo, you know how to break the curse.
I need your help.
With only light, you see nothing.
With only dark, you see nothing.
It's the place where light and dark touch that matters.
It's where this story begins...
and it's where everything ends.
I heard the legend about the old lighthouse.
I didn't find anything, really, but
something found me.
To protect myself from the dark,
I grabbed every light I could.
I did my research.
Anything I could dig up about the legend,
the lighthouse, the curse.
That's when I found out about June Murphy.
See, I knew she was connected to the curse.
- But I needed more answers. - _
June? Are you there?
So I tried to summon her ghost.
Please, June. Tell me what happened.
But turns out, she summoned me...
No way.
To the past.
Wouldn't keep happening if you just fixed it already.
I saw everything.
You're getting pretty good at that.
I'm gonna take your job soon.
How they shut down the lighthouse.
The lighthouse is more than just a beacon of light.
It's a beacon of hope.
The light protected us, guided us.
Without it, we're all just lost to the dark.
Turning it off was a grave mistake.
For the safety of all our children,
I hope that one day the beacon will shine again.
How she died trying to turn it on.
And how her father tried to bring her back.
I seek you, in the darkest hour.
Hear my plea, and give me power.
But his spell backfired.
No!
The Curse of the Shadow was born.
I know it's here. I need that book, man.
I don't know what you speak of.
If you're not here to buy, I must ask you to leave.
I'll take that.
So I stole his spell book,
thinking I could use it to break the curse.
Spirits high and spirits low.
Protect me from this wicked foe.
But I was interrupted.
And my time ran out.
I'm not afraid of you...
Now I'm here.
Where it all began.
So, we're in the lighthouse?
Only technically.
It's more of a parallel universe
and we're trapped on this side.
We call it the Dark House.
When Sardo told us the story,
he said that the Shadowman roams the woods at night
because he's guarding the lighthouse.
What if he's not guarding the lighthouse?
- What if he's guarding this? - Yeah, he wants us in here.
Unless someone breaks the curse,
we're trapped in here forever.
There's no way out?
No.
But there might be a way in.
When you guys first went into the Haunted Woods,
I could hear you.
I called out Luke's name.
Luke!
When he heard my voice, he followed it.
If Luke can hear us, maybe he can find us.
It's up to him now.
He's the only one who could bring us back.
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I need your help.
Sardo, are you there?
Come on.
Please, Sardo, I know you wanted to tell me something.
Thank you for calling Sardo's Magic Mansion.
This is Sar-do, accent on the "do."
How can I help you? What?
Absolutely not!
We don't sell that here! This is a lawful business!
And you, you got my name from whom?
Magic word?
Sardo.
The young lad lives to see another day.
Wait, you can see me?
Man, you're not gonna believe this. I lit the match, and it...
A deal's a deal.
- You didn't open it, did you? - No.
So this is what you wanted me to see?
Your unfinished business, reminding me that I lied?
Promise me.
Promise me you didn't open "The Book of Shadows."
No good can come from that book, only evil.
Promise.
You have nothing to worry about.
Okay, I get it, Sardo.
I lied to you. I'm the worst.
So that's where you hide it.
I don't get it.
You want me to know where the book is now?
I thought I wasn't supposed to use it.
A friend broke into my shop on Sunday night
and stole something very valuable from me.
Ha, see? Right there.
- Bet he used a bobby pin. - No.
He used one of these.
Sold it to him the other day.
The boy is truly a barbarian.
Seth?
Wait, you're...
Mr. Sardo?
That's Sar-do.
No Mister. Accent on the "do."
It's been days, Sardo.
- Give it to me. - It isn't here, Charlie.
And even if it was, it's not what you need right now.
What I need right now is to bring my daughter back.
- Give me the book. - The book is dangerous.
It promises magic, but it betrays anyone
who tries to wield it.
Any spell you may cast,
the book will find a way to bring shadows into the world.
Use it only if you are prepared to face the consequences.
She was taken from me!
I tried to warn them, but they didn't listen,
and then they stole the light.
And she lost her life trying to bring it back.
Old friend, I know that what you think you're doing is right.
But it's the wrong way.
I couldn't save the lighthouse, but I can still save her.
The next time I'm in here,
you're gonna give me that book, or I swear,
you will lose everything you love.
As I did.
_
So,
still trying to unlock it, I see?
It's too hard.
That's because you're overthinking the problem.
The answer's facing you right now. You just can't see it.
The trick is in its mechanism.
You take the key, you put it into the false screw,
and the real keyhole will reveal itself.
I don't want any trouble.
I'm just a man who owns a magic shop.
Not for long.
Okay, stop!
Stop.
- They're setting a trap. - Show me.
Let's go.
- Must get that. - No. Don't touch that.
Pardon me, but this is still a place of business,
and I have unfinished business.
Thank you for calling Sardo's Magic Mansion.
This is Sar-do, accent on the "do." How can I help you?
I see. You'd like to return something. Yes, yes, yes.
You need to return.
Return, return. Return, return.
Now.
Yeah.
Bye now, or... bye now.
Bye, Sardo.
"Return what was stolen"?
A friend broke into my shop on Sunday night
and stole something very valuable from me.
Okay, okay, yeah. I already returned the book.
I don't know what else I'm supposed to do!
Unless you want me to use the book?
- "Return what was stolen." - _
They stole the light.
And she lost her life trying to bring it back.
Yes, yes. You need to return.
- Return, return, return... - _
I have to return the light.
Connor, get up.
Did you see that?
See what?
There was a light. Up there, like...
What's going on?
Gabby saw something.
It's disappeared.
I saw a light, it was right there in front of me.
And now it hovered up. And now it's gone.
I think the darkness is getting to her.
The darkness is not getting to me. I saw a light.
- It just went away. - Wait, look.
- Do you see that? - Yeah.
They say you see a light before you die.
This is it! Okay, everyone says what's in your heart.
- Okay, Hanna, look, I make fun of you behind your back. - Jai.
But secretly, I think you're really cool, okay.
Wait, what?
Hello?
Who is that?
It's the voice of the angels. This is it.
Jai?
The angels sound a lot like Luke.
- Luke? - Hanna!
- Where are you? - Luke, Luke!
- We're right here. - Where?
I can hear you, but I can't see you.
- Do you see me? - No, we just see a light.
Connor? Is that you?
Yeah, it's me, Luke. We're all trapped here in the dark.
- How do I get to you? - Don't. We're trying to get to you.
Okay...
What's in there? What can you see?
Nothing. Just a door.
- Is it locked? - No.
It's unlocked, we just like it in here.
I could just go, if you...
- No! - Please, no.
- Are you holding a flashlight? - Yeah.
Can you see it?
Zoey.
Have you ever seen that light in here before?
A few times.
The last time was before you got taken by Shadowman.
Right, that's the night I got cursed.
I came into the lighthouse with the flashlight.
- That's what you saw. - I don't understand.
How can we see the light from the other side?
Because I have to return the light.
That's how I get you out. With light.
Okay, tell me what you see.
Anything?
No. Shine your light on the door.
There's a keyhole.
Look. Symbols!
Those are the same runes from the spell book.
"The light guides me. Dark kills me."
It's a riddle.
I don't get it. Shadowman does riddles now?
It's like an escape room. I do these all the time!
- That surprises no one. - Right, whatever.
Okay, "Light hides me. Dark kills me."
It's a shadow.
What? Are you sure?
"Light hides me. Dark kills me."
Shadow. It's the answer of the riddle. It's pretty obvious.
It doesn't make sense.
The key is the shadow?
Hey, do you see that?
What's making that shadow?
You okay?
Yeah. Something tripped me.
- But there's nothing in here. - It was my backpack.
- You moved it. - Moved it? How did I touch it?
Because there was a shadow of it on the ground. The shadow. That's the answer!
Okay, wait, wait. Hold on, slow down. Tell us what you're thinking.
Luke's flashlight in there creates a shadow in here.
And Jai is able to touch that shadow.
Wait a minute. So Luke is in the lighthouse, we're in the Dark House, right?
When light and dark meet, they make shadows.
So, maybe shadows are the connection between the two worlds.
The key is a shadow.
Luke, do you see a key anywhere around you?
Yeah, I got a key.
Shine your flashlight on to the key
and make a shadow on the wall!
It's working.
- I got it. - Unlock the door.
Okay.
Hey, it's not working, are you sure this is the right one?
No, in fact, it's definitely the wrong one.
But, I mean, it's all I got.
I thought you said you were good at locks.
No, not in alternate dimensions, I'm not.
Okay. I'm almost there. I just I need something small,
just, like, a tiny, little thing that I can squeeze in there.
Bobby pin! Does anyone have a bobby pin? Hanna?
Jai, we already told you, we do not have a...
I do!
Zoey! I love you, okay.
We did it! Okay.
- Let's go. - Guys, let's go.
Luke.
- It's you! - Hey.
- It's you? - It's me.
The real me.
It's him.
Connor!
It's okay.
Where's everyone?
They disappeared.
We've been in the dark for too long.
We can't go into the light.
It's okay, Zoey.
You can get out of the dark now.
And we can do it together.
Okay.
Wait, what do you mean we're not done yet?
You said you figured out from the s�ance that we had to return light to the lighthouse,
and you did that, right?
So we're safe.
We saved ourselves.
That's it.
The Shadowman isn't gone, and the curse isn't broken yet.
- How do you know that? - 'Cause I know how to break it.
Sardo said that the only way to break the curse
was to stop the thing that started it.
Well, the lighthouse keeper started it.
And the spell he used said, "A curse that cannot be reversed
till what was stolen returned first."
I mean, the answer's been right in front of us this whole time. We were just overthinking it.
Then... what's the answer?
Save the lighthouse.
It's not about bringing light back now.
We have to return the light when it was first stolen 25 years ago.
Think about it.
If the lighthouse never shut down,
June would have never fallen off those cliffs,
her father would have never used "The Book of Shadows,"
and the curse would have never happened.
But how are we supposed to prevent the lighthouse from shutting down?
Yeah, what, do you want us to build a time machine?
Not exactly.
- No. - Are you crazy?
- Luke, no. - No way.
- There's a spell. - A spell?
Like the one that turned the lighthouse keeper into the Shadowman,
or the one that gave us evil Connor?
You hear Sardo. Nothing good comes from that thing.
- And we've seen it. - Sardo's the one that showed this to me.
This was his final message.
This was his unfinished business.
He wanted me to find this, 'cause he knew it was the only way.
It's called the return spell.
We can go back to the night that June died, for real this time,
and we can change the past.
If we stop her from falling off that cliff,
we can prevent any of this from ever happening.
It's too dangerous.
It'll backfire.
Just like it always does.
And who knows what'll happen this time.
I do.
If we use this book, we bring shadows into the world.
But as long as we're expecting that, we can...
we can get ahead of it.
Ahead of what?
We can cast a spell to go back in time,
but the Shadowman will be there waiting for us.
No.
- Where are you going? - We're leaving.
All of us. If the curse is still real,
that means that we have to get out of the woods before dark.
Otherwise, we're right back where we started again.
- Come on, let's go. - No, no, no, guys. We have to do this.
Did you not see what just happened?
To Zoey? To all of them? They're gone, dude.
Forever. Because of the Shadowman.
Because of the thing that you want to wake back up again.
- We're not going. - Okay, what about the curse?
Don't you think it's our responsibility to end this?
No. It's my responsibility to make sure this group stays safe.
I put you all in danger once. I'm not gonna do that again.
And I'm not gonna let what happened to Zoey happen to any of you guys.
I'm the leader of The Midnight Society,
and I say we're not going.
Maybe you shouldn't be.
What did you just say?
Luke, stop it. Why are you being so stubborn?
Why are you being so afraid?
If we don't do this...
the Shadowman wins.
Because any time a kid wanders into those woods after dark,
he'll come for them.
Just like he came for us, and he'll keep doing it.
We can stop him.
Gabby, you're kind.
You're the smartest person I know.
Jai, you're loyal,
and you would do anything for your friends.
Hanna, you never back down from a challenge,
and you fight for what you want.
Seth, you believe in magic,
even when there's nothing left to believe in.
And Connor...
I look up to you, man.
You lead us on adventures.
That's why we follow you.
But I can't follow you this time.
I have to do this.
But I can't do it alone.
So please, everyone, come with me.
We can't do it without you.
Do it for the kids.
And for June.
And Sardo.
And Zoey.
Okay.
Okay, everyone in the circle.
"Regard the words of which we speak."
"Reward us with the path we seek.
"Rewind the clocks and the hands of time.
"Remove the chains of fate that bind.
"Return us to where and when.
Until we speak, return again."
This doesn't feel right.
Something's... different.
We used dark magic to get back.
Everything's gonna be different this time.
- Let's go over the plan again. - Jai.
Make sure June doesn't leave the cottage.
Gabby, you get the lighthouse key from the cliff.
Seth, head down to the cellar and turn the power on.
Hanna, turn on the beacon.
What if I can't do it?
I've seen you make a light bulb out of a potato. You got this.
Okay.
And Luke and I will take care of the Shadowman.
Hey.
If anything goes wrong, I want you to get them out of there.
No way.
They need you.
Promise me.
Okay, she's still in there watching TV.
Any moment, she's gonna grab her coat and run out that door.
This time, we'll stop her.
The light protected us, guided us.
Without it, we're all just lost to the dark.
For the safety of all our children,
I hope that one day the beacon will shine again.
He's coming.
That's her. It's June! Come on, we have to go!
Run!
Okay.
We gotta stop her!
- I take it you still want to back out? - No.
- Do you want to back out? - No.
We've got to get him in the lighthouse.
Make sure the power's off.
Yes.
Okay.
You're just a potato. Just a very complex potato.
I got you!
Who are you?
We're here to save the lighthouse.
We still need the lighthouse key.
I think it's down by a bush.
It's, like, over here somewhere.
No, June, you're gonna slip!
- I'm fine. - No, I mean it.
Let us.
- Sure you don't wanna... - Jai.
Be careful.
Yeah, thanks. That's... that's helpful.
Jai, to your left!
I see it!
I'll grab a rope. You hold this.
Okay, I'm in. What now?
Okay, good. Do you see the breaker box?
- What does it look like? - A metal box with switches inside.
Okay. I found it.
Open it up and tell me what you see.
Nothing, just a bunch of switches. Which one do I flip?
Anything. Anything that says "lighthouse" or "control room."
I need you to get the power back on.
Nope, just a bunch of random numbers.
We're gonna have to try all of them. Go one at a time.
Switch it one way and then switch it back.
Got it.
Dude. What are you doing?
I thought we needed him in here.
We only need him at the top.
Here, grab this first!
Jai!
- Anything? - Everything's connected.
We just need the power back on.
My bad. Get that for me?
- Luke? - Luke?
Luke?
Connor, what is he doing?
He's locking himself in there.
Luke, you don't even have a light!
Yes, I do.
You can't do this yourself, man.
I'm not. I have you.
If anything happens...
get everyone out of here.
- Luke, no! Dude, don't do this! - Don't do this!
Luke, dude!
- I got it! - Okay, I'll pull you up.
No, there's no time! You have to get this to Hanna.
Go, go, I got this.
Okay.
Abracadabra. Shadowbrath.
Yes!
Luke!
Okay.
Got you.
I got the key.
- Do it! - Okay.
Thank you for saving my life.
And thanks for turning the lighthouse back on.
But it doesn't matter; they're still gonna shut it down.
Yeah. About your petition.
You were short, like, six signatures, right?
I can't believe it.
You guys, you really...
We saved the lighthouse.
Now it's time to go home.
You guys ready?
Return.
- June. - Dad.
Why is the lighthouse on?
You're not gonna believe this.
Look, I got the signatures.
They helped...
They, who?
Light.
You did it.
- We did it. - I definitely did it.
I saved June Murphy.
- That was me! - Yes, you did.
- You did do that. - Ooh, we did some stuff too.
Well, I flipped the most switches, so I think that...
- Okay, we can say we all did it. - I literally just said that.
Okay, so we all said it, and we all did it.
Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you.
- No one was scared. - It's okay.
Where are you going?
Camping trip.
In the Haunted Woods?
The...
Haunted?
Guys, look.
Guys.
Look.
_
- We changed the past. - We changed the future.
Wonder what else we...
Abracadabra.
Come, come. Have a look around.
I'll be with you in a minute. Just don't touch anything.
Now...
this is very powerful stuff.
Use only one drop at a time, trust me,
and they'll fall in love with you by morning.
And does it work on you,
- Mr. Sardo? - No Mister.
- Is there's a Missus? - Ms. Shaffner?
Hi, kids. How fun to see you here.
Well, I came into the store, of course, for this, obviously,
for the ancient history lesson next week on Mesopotamia.
You teach history?
I do teach history.
I love history.
I love chemistry.
Well, okay,
so I'm gonna go and get ready on the history lesson.
So, I'm just... this is for something else.
Okay. Excuse me. Okay, move, move, move!
- What? - You're alive.
Why wouldn't I be alive?
Well, you... you kind of... you...
- You don't know who we are, do you? - Of course I do.
You kids are all the same!
You come in here, you touch everything, but you never buy.
If you're not gonna shop, may I suggest a museum
or, you know, playground?
What's happening? What's happening?
We just wanted to say hi.
Yeah.
It's good to see you.
Come on, Seth. Let's go home.
Your friends okay?
They are now.
Thank you, Sardo.
For what?
You really don't remember.
Young lad, I have no idea what you're talking about.
But the next time someone tells you about an evil curse...
don't go messing around with it.
Now get out of my shop.
Luke, we got a problem.
- My phone... it says it's Friday. - Yeah?
No, it's supposed to be Sunday. That's the day we time traveled.
You didn't think I'd bring us back on a school night, did you?
Oh, my God.
I am so excited for the dance!
And just slowly come to a stop.
Nicely done. You're getting pretty good at this.
Practice pays off.
Thank you, Mom.
Have fun at your dance, sweetie.
Yo, Gabby.
Connor. You clean up nice.
I figured you'd be home studying.
Does mean you're skipping the PSAT tomorrow?
No. I'm still taking them.
But I figured I need a night of fun.
As you can see, this is a very important cause,
and I know someone like you who values their future
and well-being would appreciate this initiative.
It'd mean something to the world, and,
honestly, it'd mean the world to me.
Thank you. I honestly don't know how you do that.
I told you, people are flies. You just need some honey.
Hey, Stacy.
If you'll excuse me.
- Hi. - Hi.
You look...
I look "yeah"?
No, I was gonna say you look really pretty.
Thanks.
I like your hair.
- I didn't do anything differently. - No, they ruined it.
- No way, you're so wrong. - I am not wrong. It's overrated.
Okay, "The Return of the Ghastly Grinner" is a more than worthy reboot.
But it's not as good as the OG.
This is, like, a cardinal rule.
The original is always better than the reboot.
Okay. I see your point.
But, you know, sometimes the new stuff can be fun too.
Do you want to be my date tonight?
Can we...
talk more about comics?
Marry me.
_
- Guys! - Hi.
Hi, Gabby.
What's up, little gremlin?
Hey! Wait for me.
- Zoey? - Yeah?
You're Zoey?
Yeah. Sorry, do we know each other?
No.
No, I don't think we do.
Sorry.
Have a nice night.
I see.
Guys! Look.
It's the lighthouse!
It's on, it's on! We did that, we did that!
We are The Midnight Society.
Separately, we're very different.
We like different things. We have our own strengths.
But one thing draw us together...
the dark.
Who wants to lead us in our next scary story?
How about it, Luke?
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