Strike "Troubled Blood" Episode 2

Episode 2 builds up on Margo's (Abigail Lawrie) disappearance and again with lots of flashbacks shows how her receptionist, Gloria (Jessica Impiazzi) was dating the man, Luca (Jacob James Beswick) whose father, Nico Ricci (Andy de la Tour) was a criminal as Strike (Tom Burke) notices the ring the man was wearing in the snuff video provided by his police friend.  Where they suspect the woman being assaulted half naked and wearing a blindfold could be Margot. That man being Nico.  Who they find out was in a nursing home and Robin (Holliday Grainger) pays him a visit.  Where Luca spots her and finds her in his room and she puts on a cockney accent claiming she was here to see another patient and paid him a visit too.  Obviously she can't wait to get out of there recalling her attack from series 1, but also since no way does Luca send out good vibes.  He and his father being as misogynistic as they come and even worse.  However the victim is ruled out as not being Margot as she didn't have a scar across her body.  She was Kara, as Robin feels the need to leave flowers at her workplace since she knows that Nico will never be brought to justice for her murder and probably countless others.

Margo it seems worked as some sort of a 'bunny' girl at a club where she met various men and pursued a so-called affair with one of them, a photographer, Steve (Jack Morris) who says that nothing happened, between them.  Strike and Robin also visit one of her former patient's family, The Athorns, the father who was accused of being Margot's killer.  Where his wife likes to do jigsaw puzzles on top of a large chest in the living room.  Whom Robin tries to build a rapport with for information.  Although they may be putting the two of them in danger from the Riccis. Two of Margot's nurses, Janice (Anna Caulder-Marshall - Tom Burke's real mother) and Irene are also interviewed and tell them about Margot and her visitors to the surgery.  Robin donning her same disguise as Venetia Hall again adds some interest to keep the episode going.

Margot's footage from the Christmas party filmed by a fellow colleague, Dr Gupta (Madhav Sharma) is alluded to many times.  As well as Strike visiting his aunt and uncle quite a bit now that she only has not long to live due to her cancer.  Then the scenes with Strike's hired PI, Saul (Jonas Armstrong) who pus his foot in it, left, right and centre and with Robin all the time.  As she takes him off the case he's working on and he says only Strike can do that.  But she reminds him she's a partner here.  He seems to want a 'thing' with her.  Again he too comes across as sexist and many scenes in this series all allude to the so-called 'weakness' of women as opposed to the men.  Margot who was all for feminism in such a time shows how things haven't changed at all no matter how times may have changed.

Strike "Troubled Blood" Part 1

Return of Strike after a few years absence.  Only worth watching for Tom Burke whom I haven't seen since 2019 with his appearance on stage in Rosmersholm. Though good in places it does become predictable who the actual suspect is by the time part 4 is concluded.  Along the way we still get the longing looks between Strike (Tom Burke) and Robin (Holiday Grainger) but as he later reveals she's his best friend and he doesn't want to f*ck it up cos that's what he'll do.  Well, based on his past romantic encounters he's probably right.  

This one kicks off with Strike in Falmouth, visiting his adoptive parents, Ted (Ian Radford) and Joan (Linda Bassett) as she is dying and has possibly a few days/weeks to live.  He's approached by Annie (Sophie Ward) the daughter of a missing GP, Margot (Abigail Lawrie) who vanished 50 years ago.  The main suspect Dennis Creed (Kenneth Cranham) a serial abductor/killer.  With various flashbacks the story is pieced together and Strike agrees to take on the case as obviously it has brought home some memories to him about what his adoptive mother is going through and also how he did have real feelings for his birth mother, Leda.  The office has had a revamp and more open planned with Strike taking on a PA, Pat (Ruth Sheen) and his two PI assistants, Saul (Jonas Armstrong) and Sam (Jack Greenlees).

The detective who initially investigated the case was himself looked at as crackpot with his theories and was replaced by another whose son is on the force and a friend of Strike's.  Margot disappeared after being on her way to meet her friend, Oonagh (Finola Flanigan).  Witnesses saying they spotted a white van, a woman sees two women having an altercation and the pub was accessible by foot.  He does tell Annie that the case is very cold and there's no guarantee they will get to solve it.  but this is Strike of course he and Robin will solve it.  Apparently Margot was a feminist and also caring.  She and Oonagh started out as hostesses/waitresses at a club frequented by men and here she catches the eye of Peter.  An artist and apparently they were meant to have had an affair and he painted her nude.  She was supposed to be his muse.  One night as they argue Oonagh comes to her rescue but he threatens them that if she reveals anything about him, he'll come after them.  Thus an obvious suspect.

This is based on the fifth book Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) and with all the controversy with her opinions and views this becomes more of a take it or leave it series.  Most will recall some of the books are topical and political commentary is contained within, this however has been toned down here.  Perhaps more so for a wider TV audience. 

Annie wants this investigation kept from her father who was interviewed but wasn't a suspect.  Her colleague, Dr Gupta has some home movies of the Christmas party from 1974 and other footage.  With info from their friend, DI George Layborn (Samuel Oatley) they begin their investigation and footage on an 8 reel comes to light which is disturbing to say the least and they don't know if it was Margo who was being attacked by three men.  One of them branding a knife and wearing a ring which Strike recognizes from the party footage.  

Strike is back and forth visiting his step mother and also Lucy (Sarah Sweeney).  His sister, loves them as real parents whereas Strike has a soft spot for his own mother, Leda).  It's Robin's birthday but he doesn't recall or know and sets off to buy her perfume, tho Carnal isn't one he'd go for.  Not with them teetering on the bring of lust, er, romance I mean.  So he buys her flowers instead.  Also Matthew (Kerr Logan) wants to rush through the divorce.  Family crawls out of the woodwork here, as his brother Al Rokeby also shows up wanting him to come down for the Christmas do and his father wants him there.  Now he wants to acknowledge his existence. 

Death Walker "Indiana State Asylum"

Indiana State Sanatorium where TB was treated,  the sanatorium became popular and everyone wanted to be there and was a waiting list and after the BCG injection it ceased to be operational.  The Adams House was built here. A senior care assisted living facility but also housed patients with mental illnesses and substance abuse as mentally ill patients left the grounds.  2006 patient barefoot and was struck and killed by a car. 2002 old woman died of exposure and a man left and hanged himself far away.  After a resident left the building in 2002 the State Dept of Health recommended they a female patient died.  As well as a murder/suicide.  The State stopped funding due to treatments on patients.  By 2012 all patients were relocated.  The property was sold and fell into disrepair.  Paranormal activity was reported in 2008 when a female patient entered a man's bathroom.  Nick will use new device showing him areas where shadow figures are around.  So he will have more of a chance of making physical contact on the other side. 

Confrontation may be found during Nick's investigation.  Four thousand people lost their lives from simple epidemics.  People have been scratched.  A loud sound is heard during the interviews and Becca feels an energy through the room.  She was about to say people here just want to be acknowledged.  She asks for communication with anyone still there.  She believes she's communicating with a female.  She's been physically touched here and disorientated too.  Shadow people, things moving in the corner of their eye.  She feels pain, like home, fear, being trapped.  Many emotions at once.

Nick gets some responses, sounds like "help."  He says he wants to communicate and not here to disrespect.  He feels distress and he feels electricity through his whole body in one spot.  One room has a lot of flies there.  He asks who he is, if they know.  "I'm dying" comes through and he feels there's so much residual energy here.  The Geobox picks up on it.  Nick felts a stabbing in his back and Justin felt dizzy.  He feels they may still be living  in their time and they're coming through now but they haven't had any intelligent contact.  He feels overcrowded and their emotions.  He asks if anyone's back here.  A female replies, "I am."  Heard "Nick" too.  Heard a "get out."  Lots of voices and talking.  "Hallway" is heard.  I said you can hear singing.  

In the admin building and a voice says "Hey Nick."  The paranormal puck detects movement in the hallway but he can't hear it.  The tunnels are dark but it's not scary.  He hears the paranormal puck now.  There's so much energy and then he says how intelligent communication is heard and then it goes back into the shadows.  Some rooms have strange vibes and can pick up on their emotions and he feels the energy from the past.  He mentions the body being discovered there.  "The past can leave emotional imprints on tragic events."  He "tried to feel a moment rippled in time."  The stories continue and residual energy also lingers.  He says they're still making contact during the day.  A voice says "I did" after Nick asks if it threw the object.

Ghost Adventures "Horror At Joe Exotic Zoo"

Hallowe'en Special continues the Tiger King saga.  Yes Zak 2020 was "crazy!"  He recalls the TV show Tiger King (I didn't watch it.)  Jeff Lowe said he has to give the park to Carol Baskin and she could have "all the ghosts that go with it."  Zak believes it to be haunted and in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, he's ready to investigate the spirits here.  They say Joe Exotic is paranoid and was found guilty.  Zak speaks with Jeff and Lauren Lowe.  Joe illegally transferred the property and Baskin could get it legally.  Zak says there's a "dark vortex of energy in this place lingers here, as Lauren says.  They are sure there have been murders here.  Zak adds they don't have any proof but it's still disturbing to hear.  They dug up the tigers that Joe killed.  Being here since 1998 and were stories about strange occurrences.  Joe was arrested and many residents were relieved.  Since they were afraid to talk about him.  Jeff doesn't know how he kept sane here.  Hear noises and are strange.  Zak asks if something caused Joe's behaviour on this land as it hides something.  Zak hasn't heard tiger growls before and they see the tiger pee through the fence.

It's mentioned Joe took a photo and saw someone was levitating above the alligator house.  He thought it was a spirit.  Erik lived here three years and he lost his friend, Travis here, husband of Joe.  He shot himself accidentally.  He removed the clip from his gun but it still went off.  Erik said the clip was in the gun when he found him, but it was reported the clip was removed.  Not emptied.  He talks with Alan, allegedly Joe paid him to kill Baskin.  He denies this.  Alan has experienced hauntings.  Zak says he heard a voice near him.  He says Travis is still with him.  Jeff says Travis still knocks on their window and came round a few nights ago.  Erik says he saw Travis seven days after he died.  Saw him on the couch and winked at him.  He was shaken up by it.

Malicia talks of seeing Travis too and he was near her son's age and they spoke together whenever she needed to.  She saw a mist from the cougar cage, Travis's height.  She shows them where he killed himself in the gift shop and the bullet hole is still there.  Zak feels there are more secrets to be found.  

Joe's house where Erik has been in once and had the feeling to leave and he avoids it.  The house is ramshackle and rundown.  Travis's couch is still there. Even his car key still hangs on the wall and Joe's pill bottle is still there.  Aaron can't breathe and has to leave.  Zak says Travis is still here and things have happened that they can't talk about.  Zak just had to touch the penis pump!  Lauren adds there are bodies under the cement island at the pond, one under a concrete slab and one where ashes were spread under the tiger cages.

At the Back 140 - had a bad reputation.  For 20 years animal remains were dumped there and the bodies were hidden there.  Jeff and Lauren believe bodies were here.  Erik has seen balls of light there and Jeff tells him about the bodies of two trespassers who were shot by two employees.  They know the names but due to lawyers they won't mention them.  Two employees were drinking and getting high and one employee shot and killed one and one was wounded.  The shooter couldn't did it and the other man shot him instead and then burned the bodies.  They have no evidence this happened.  Zak asks if there's a "dark force controlling those who walk this land?"  Zak calls up a forensic team.  He calls Terri to bring cadaver dogs down.  The dogs can tell the difference between human and animal remains.  

Bill Chappell comes down to carry out some experiments.  Recreate an area for EVPs.  He runs in a pipe system and adds some frequencies making up human voices and they should be able to 'amplify' the voices.  The dogs are able to smell human remains and bark when they found something.  They also can tell the difference between animal remains.  Zak hasn't seen any land that is drenched with energy.  The darkness "hangs over this entire zoo like a cloak of oppression."  The dog picks up human remains scent.  Jeff says there was a 14' alligator in the water.  The dog smells human remains.  

The experiment is to understand the method of  EVP generation.  Zak talks to Travis's spirit in the gift shop.  He uses the Trifield meter and gets a huge sweep on it.  Billy shows the tubes from the 'deep echo experiment' with the pipes heading along the land.  The pipe is filled with water, they'll broadcast some frequencies and see if anything is heard to nerve centre.  He asks whether an EVP can be carried through the water.  As Zak et al head to Joe's house they see two lights resembling eyes.  There is nothing seen on the path.  They use a mic that doesn't pick up any sound.  Bill takes an energy speaker and gives it some sound.  If they get an EVP they can convert it to sound.  As Bill places a mic where Travis killed himself, they see a mist go before them.  It could be a spirit manifestation.  Bill sees another mist outside by the door.  An anomaly then comes out of Bill's arm.  The tone generator experiment: 3 sounds were captured: underwater tone: "folks are dead??" or something...dead" is heard whispered.  The water mic: sounds like "a corn dog in the corner" yeah that's just corny!  Bill was surprised by the words being long.  The controlled experiment is historic for their investigations.

Zak investigates Joe's house.  Aaron asks if he remembers them.  Zak asks about the entity above the alligator house.  Zak feels panic and a light anomaly enters his body.  Aaron uses the Polterpod and I hear "gifted to him."  Not "give it to him."  The house is oppressive and need to leave.  The house is suffocating, it's the energy inside it.  Zak hears two people talking and music in the house.   Zak uses the Trifield and gets another high reading as in the gift shop.  He then gets emotional and apologizes.  Zak captures a figure on the SLS by the closet pointing at the shelf.  He finds a teddy bear and then a cap with Travis's name on it.  Zak places the hat on the couch next to a cigarette and ask for Travis to appear and a figure does appear.  Zak and the others can't contain themselves.  They play the voice again.  Which still sounds like "gifted to him."  Did someone gift him the hat.  

The Sheriff's department come to check out the alligator pit.  Zak says they came here for a paranormal investigation and now their discovery shows something more to the 'Joe Exotic investigation.'  The Sheriff concludes the remains found are animal and not human, something with a tail.  With which the cadaver dog people disagree.  Their dogs have been used in countless investigations and have found human remains underwater.  So they can't be wrong!  Something wasn't right here.  The Sheriff lets them take the dogs back but concludes that they have nothing to investigate.  The experts aren't happy with this.  Zak wonders how aggressive the spirits will get now that the dogs are still sensing human remains.  

Their second lockdown is prepped and Zak shows their findings to Erik, who recalls Travis and his hat that Joe took from him as punishment.  Zak is even more convinced that the figure is actually Travis.  Explains why he would've pointed to his hat and would've wanted it back.  Erik believes that Joe was possessed and he would repeat himself after he spoke.  He'd also not change his clothes for days even.  

Jay and Zak head to the Back 40, as Aaron and Billy investigate the alligator pit and then Alan's trailer.  Jay felt something tug his shirt and an anomaly/mist goes away from his back.  A growl is heard.  Which could be a tiger or residual.  They try to talk to the male voice from earlier where he said "play."  Zak asks if spirits are here? "Yeah."  How many bodies are buried? "Two."  How did they die?  "Fire."  Although they don't have any proof of the allegations.  Their final response to where are you buried?  "Here."  Must be something haunting that area.

Aaron runs out of the trailer as Alan is still asleep there and he saw his tiger blanket moving.  They investigate his trailer anyway.  They take Polaroid photos, EMF readings and a voice comes through the Polterpod, "David" comes through.  Then the Ovilus says "Satan Shining."  Zak explains when Lucifer was falling and the association of Isiah 14:12 refers to the Shining One instead of Lucifer.  David also being a biblical name.  

Zak and Jay investigate the gift shop.  Jay puts a tricycle out and Travis used to sit in it and it used to move.  The storm rages outside.  He uses a Vocorder like a live EVP.  They can talk and the sensitive mic will pick it up and play what it heard through the speaker.  Zak feels he was touched.  On the audio session he hears a voice saying "what up?"  Or "shut up"??  After Travis's voice Zak wonders what else they'll find here in the future.  Weeks later the experts tells Zak that there are human remains buried and they want to go again.  A week later the team returned to the zoo.  Four different dogs gave positive responses at the pit.  The zoo hides many secrets.  Not to mention that if there's anything of vale to the photo Joe took at the alligator house could this have any relevance to the alligator pit, since this is where the human remains appear to be.  Was it a sign to investigate there?

Ghost Adventures "Vengeance In Oxnard"

Oxnard, California: a historic, haunted house. A couple who moved here one year ago.  People were pushed by unseen forces, death.  The Henry Levy House.  Built for the Oxnard magnate over a century ago.  Henry died in 1936 and his wife Camille looked after it until the 1970's.  Camille died in the home but Juliet's whereabouts isn't known.  Their cruelty has caused owners to sell their house.  After being here one year they've asked for help.  A neighbour tells them of firsthand experience with the house and the sisters.  Marina tells them they were rude with everyone.  Her son had passed when she moved here.  He'd ride his tricycle and tell him "dirty Mexican go home."  They had to walk on the road.  She thinks it's the house and the way they were.  Her experience after their passing saying she felt negativity, chills.  She knows they're still there and want to stay there.  Zak says their prejudice is despicable but they now know what the sisters were like.

The couple, Eric and Jeff moved in a year ago.  First six months was fine then there was a stone in the garden and it resembled a gravestone, my sis said that too before he did.  The previous owner wanted it back, when they removed it they had their experience.  Heard shoes above them.  The third floor, the attic and above their bedroom the floor isn't finished.  At Marina's house, she tells them she couldn't go into the third floor.  Before Eric lived there, Mariana's high school teacher resided there and she'd go there.  On the third floor they felt watched.  The couple found the door wide open and on CCTV the door is seen to swing open after being locked.  Zak wonders if the sisters are here.  In the spiritual realm it's still their house.   

Zak only wants to know if the sisters are here behind the haunting.  He calls them out in not being good and how they treated others.  Zak has an uneasy feeling and feels a headache.  He may be feeling territorial oppression.  He's going to push back.  Aaron and Billy investigate the third floor.  He wants to go into the bedroom and feels someone is there causing him to go in.  He feels anger and sees the mirror and that's what my sis said again before Zak said it.  It's the bedroom where Camille passed and Lauren sits in front of it.  Billy sees the Trifield spiked all the way and peaked.  The homeowner tells them a female voice was caught on their camera.  Sounds like "leave us/our house..."??  He wonders if something darker happened on the grounds.  A woman's brother-in-law and sister were the first owners of the house.  They were told the pond wasn't original and there was an older one there and a man died in there.  No idea who he was or how he died.   Billy says Zak's feeling what they want him to feel.  Zak got affected as he used provocation and it was due to their treatment of Mariana and if they don't like it, they should do something.

Second day of their investigation Zak mentions the mirror room and he felt the most anger there.  He felt this wasn't him and it was one of the sisters.  Marina says she saw a figure in her home.  He believes the Levy sisters' spirits are travelling and could have backfired onto her due to his provocation.  She saw a shadow and then it vanished and looked like a person.  One of her daughter's couldn't sleep.  Zak thinks since they mentioned them perhaps one of the sisters or something came to this house.  He says there's no room for anything evil or inhuman in their house due to their faith and love.  Zak asks if they are here and he doesn't like them.  He asks who he saw in the mirror.  "Female" comes up on the Puck.  Who are they mad at?  'Holy.'   One of her daughter's says her grandmother used to call her, "her little witch."  Zak tells it to go the table.  Then says names: Camille, Juliet, Henry?  He asks why it's mad?  "Heavy"  comes through.   Marina asks who she saw.

Zak asks who the spirit that came to this house is?  "Many" they say was his son, Manny.  Zak wants to be sure it's him.  Billy asks who came to the living room?  "Evil."  Zak gets a stabbing pain.  A warning from Manny.  Zak's breathing got erratic and off balance and feels cold.  Marina has a pain in her side.  Zak does a quick EVP session.  "Many" comes through again.  And they feel cold air.  The Trifield spikes.  "Big" they describe him as heavy and big.  They believe it is Manny.  He asks him to help with who was in the house and asks if it was one of the sisters or something negative that affected the land and the sisters.  Then spikes again.  Zak feels cold.  Something gets hold of Zak on his shoulder.  Zak didn't feel any negativity.  Zak asks him to watch over his mother.  The location of the ice cold mass and charged air was near to the bedroom door that was Manny's bedroom. 

The XLS captures a figure where the man was found in the pond and jumps on the table.  Billy says that's what opened the door and the spirit moves from outside in or stays outside.  Zak uses the XLS and a full spectrum camera.  Eric then tells them he heard a growl on the camera last night.  They play the voice again and it sounds like a creepy, old woman rather than a growl.  Zak tells them this isn't their house anymore.  Footsteps are heard upstairs.  Aaron tells Zak to go quickly like he does to him.  He says they're territorial and possessive of the house.  They hear a growl that sounds like a voice.  Zak asks why they're not scaring him like the others.  

Aaron feels a pain and pressure and something's about to happen.  A figure touches the camera next to Aaron and Billy feels the cold air.  It keeps touching the camera and tripod.  Aaron feels drained as he was poked in his head after Aaron says there's something on his head.  One tries to film the other figure.  Was that the two sisters, would make sense.  Another figure tries to get Aron's camera on the table.  Zak says the figure is trying to sprinkle pixie dust and tries to control him and is doing something to Aaron's head and levitates over him and vanished.  Some of their best evidence.  Aaron has eye problems.  Damn the right part of my eye started hurting near the eyebrow.  He can't keep his eyes open.  

Camille's old bedroom and the mirror.  Aaron said he saw a woman and his eyes aren't hurting now.  Zak wants her to show herself.  He sees the mirror glow and something touching his leg.  He feels it stronger here and gives it permission to do something to any of them.  Zak: "Cross the veil, feel our breath, see through our eyes."  He says he sees a woman.  Zak speaks with the mirror when alone.  He does, no, personally and an anomaly comes out of the mirror.  Zak said he had a conversation with Camille and answering questions.  She said how dare he comes into their house and call her out, "he thinks he's really cool..."  How true ha! 

Zak uses the Estes method of communication wearing headphone and they ask questions.  Aaron asks if it lives here, its house?  "Yeah."  "Talking about the attic."  "Not physically or visible"??  No more voices.  Zak has Billy put his phone on the landline and a voice comes through on his phone as "great great."  Did that sound residual??   Zak asks if it can hear them, Camille?   A voice comes through on Zak's phone; was it Henry or the dead pond man.  Another voice comes through "can you hear the dead?"  When Zak asks who they're talking to he gets a call on his phone: No Caller ID.  He doesn't answer it and thinks it could be personal.  Someone should've answered it, accidentally.  If it was personal cos editing dude!!! should've picked up!  

That called the end of the investigation and he feels he made a connection with Camille.  Aaron got controlled and the EVPs they got were amazing.  But what happened to the house after the investigation and to Eric, Jeff and Marina?? 

Ghost Adventures: "Curse of Catalina Island"

Zak travels to Santa Catalina Island, California where he has to meet the others.  For whom the bell tolls ha, why y'all dressed as being on holiday.  Zak calls them embarrassing.

This investigation featured historic and iconic haunted Catalina Casino.  Built in 1929 it was a meeting place.  It has a theatre, ballroom and serpentine ramps, secret passages and strange rooms.  He says the whole island exudes mystery and a curse.  Ralph Glidden desecrated Native American graves and land, creating a museum where the bones and remains were used as props and were even sold.  Thousands of bodies were exhumed.  It awakened something on the island.  His collection was also housed in the casino once upon a time.  He says this adds to the paranormal activity.  Zak still  believes spirits can't cross water so they're dealing with thousands of spirits.  Erin has been in the building a lot.  She takes them to the first floor women's bathroom.  Something doesn't feel right here.  Women feel it's not right in there.  There's something in there.  She heard a voice by the door and she didn't go in.  A female voice.  Directly connected to what they will experience.

Inside the theatre she's seen black shadows watching them from ceiling vents.  Erin was 7/8 and saw a bright, white light and saw a black figure in the grate.  Chuck, a tour guide, was born and raised on the island and tells them about the grave robbing.  The Smithsonian wanted bones so Gidden went to all eight Channel Islands.  With case fulls of skulls, resembling a catacombs.  Chuck was told not to mention ghosts on the tour and he laughed that he wouldn't need to say anything; they'll find out for themselves.  The chiefs and religious island chiefs would have their meetings here and they believed there are green doors around, they worked and there were giants guarding the doors and letting certain people in.  Like portals.  Heard a woman's voice too. Chuck thinks it may be a woman in the woman's lounge.

Zak gets a warning on the Polterpod "wait."  Uncanny she sounded like Erin??!!  The Trifield goes bonkers.  Zak feels a force on his chest and can't go in there.  Chuck speaks to the spirits and gets a reaction when he says they'll get the attention they crave.  The meter pegs at 1,000 and can't go further.  Then goes to 48 when Chuck talks about them again.  An orb floats about the women's lounge with a woman's face saying "get out."   Zak talks about portals and this building being a portal.  Jay says they draw a circle when they do rituals and they're in a giant circle.  He talks about the skeleton and was surrounded by 30 children's corpses around the skeleton in an urn.  Jay says it could be a sacrifice.  Aaron feels pain on his back.  Outside the casino they review the Polaroids.  They find a stream of white light coming from one of the mirrors and in another photo, a massive white streaming mist/ anomaly comes out of Chuck's mouth.  When recreating was tried nothing happens.  The photos all centre around Chuck, referring t0 it as "evidence."  

Second level dressing room and projection room.  They continue investigating for the night.  They conduct an XLS sweep.  Zak sings the lyrics to Avalon as they're on the poster on the wall.  He sends Aaron in where he says he can smell damp towels.  Zak asks anything to sit on the chair.  When two figures manifest from the portal after Billy places a chair near the mirror.  The second one seems to struggle coming out.  The mirror being a portal.  The figures were in the reflection in the mirror.  

Zak heads back to the woman's lounge area.  Billy asks for the door to be rattled.  Zak hears someone sliding.   Zak describes the place as The Shining.  They hear the door again by the desk.  "Go back, I'm here" kinda sounds like it and some sort of tinging sounds like glasses clinking and a light anomaly.  They go back to the place with the mirrors they filmed with Chuck.  Zak says it's the portal as the energy shifts.  Zak tells everyone to take a mirror and close their eyes as he says "Bloody Mary" three times.  He did this chant when he was 11.  He saw a woman in the mirror.  They close their eyes and see if anything appears in the mirror.  Billy feels something around him.  Then look in the mirror.  Aaron hears a noise.  Zak asks permission to look through the portal.  They open their eyes on three.  Billy says he couldn't see his eyes and couldn't see his face which disappeared.  Zak faces the wall for 15 minutes.  

Aaron lies on a stage and thought they were behind him and felt dizzy.  He smelled leather and cigars.  Billy is discovered.  they were in the mirror room and he went into the bathroom and calls it scary even with the light on.  Aaron says he thought they were still following him.  Aaron notices the mirror he thinks is a doorway.   They hear creepy laughing.  It was all due to the "mirror thing"  they think they're in a Fun House in a movie.  Yeah House of Mirrors.  They come through the mirrors with an XLS they go back into the mirror room.  Zak asks to be shown how they come through the mirror and he catches a figure walking behind him on the mirror via the XLS.  Thus the figure was behind hi and he filmed the figure's reflection.  Didn't that look like Zak.  You know portals, being fu*ked up by the mirror chanting and losing track of the space around them and where they were! Just my opinion.  Since it wasn't even a stick figure.  Is it wearing a hat?  As the entities they captured before came though as stick figures, not as a 'human' figure form.

Billy says the mirror is at a 45 degree angle.  The reflection was in the first mirror - was that the one Billy saw himself in????  without his face.  Zak  sums up the green door theory again in relation to the evidence they captured.  

Jay asks if there's anyone in the rafters as he investigates the theatre.   He hears a voice.  Sounds like "here."  When Jay leaves, something is caught on the thermal camera filming the stage - a heat anomaly appears, don't know if it's paranormal or not.   Jay doesn't know what's going on but he hears voices and he notices the lamp moving.  That woman sounded like Erin.  

Ironically their evidence was caught around mirrors.  Proving the ancients are using the mirrors to continue between worlds.  Zak: "One of our most monumental investigations ever."  

Another ep where I had deja vu again.  It's uncanny how this keeps happening especially with the portals and the mirrors.  Okay it doesn't happen frequently, but it does with certain eps.  Channel Islands, we have those too, at least the name, known as Guernsey and Jersey.