So we get this total grab bag of "previously on Miracles" scenes that don't really give you much information necessary for tonight's show so much as they seem to try to lay out the premise for the series itself. And we cut from the scenes of buses exploding and trains hitting cars and other such fun stuff to the Sodalitis Quaerito headquarters, where Keel and Skeet are playing chess at night, and Evelyn's all recovered from getting shot last week and is hanging out there too, like, GO HOME ALREADY, and Keel says "checkmate" and apparently this was a recreation of a match in which some novice beat a master champion or whatever, and Keel wants Skeet to explain that, and naturally Skeet comes up with a bunch of ways it could have happened, all of which make much more sense than divine intervention in a chess game. And all Keel can say is, "Oh ye of little faith."
And the phone rings, and Evelyn, who is actually working while the other two play games, answers it and is all "Sodalitis Quaerito," only no one answers, and then she says "SQ," like maybe this group is so well known that they're referred to just by initials now. And still no one answers, so she hangs up and complains that someone keeps calling and hanging up, and Skeet says, "Maybe it's the dead chess master!" and he and Keel make these gasping faces, and play more chess, like, don't mind Evelyn while she works her ass off for you or anything. ["And it seems to me like they'd get a fair number of hang-ups, given their line of work, but whatever." -- Sars] And the phone rings again, and she answers on speakerphone this time and this guy using a voice disguiser says "it's me" for some reason and then asks what exactly it is that the group does, and Evelyn sums it up for all the first-time viewers making the "previously" scenes all the more unnecessary, like, CAN WE PICK UP THE PACE HERE PLEASE with this guy who's acting like he got SQ's phone number out of the yellow pages or something. And the guy says, "I keep having these dreams. And they keep coming true," and finally Skeet and Keel are able to tear themselves away from their damn chess game to pay attention to this guy explaining that he dreams of "obliterating" people and when he wakes up they're dead for real. "Who's dead?" says Evelyn, and when we hear his real voice it sounds like a teenager, and he says "Mr. Bass" and "Miss Jansen," and then he says that since the cops can't stop him, he figured SQ might be able to, and the kid says he's from Red Deer, which made me do a double-take since Red Deer is right on the highway between Calgary and Edmonton and I've passed through it many times. And the kid says he's going to kill himself, so Skeet starts in with the "you don't want to do that," which startles the kid, since he didn't know he was on speakerphone. And meanwhile Keel has snagged some newspaper article that he starts waving at Skeet. And Skeet says, "We can help you," but the guy hangs up. And Keel puts down the front page of some tabloid called The Global Sun with a cover story headlined "Bigfoot Kills Again" over a drawing of Bigfoot, and Evelyn reads us the story with the placeline "Red Deer, Michigan," like, I DON'T THINK SO, MICHIGAN. And the gist of the story is that Red Deer (which according to this episode has been the site of many Bigfoot sightings) is reeling from the gruesome deaths of two people, with the same names as the kid had mentioned. The story even quotes some "local angler" whose fishing skills make him qualified to pronounce that "only one thing could have done this, and it ain't human." And Skeet's all "whatever" over the credibility of this tabloid, but Keel points out that two people have been mauled to death and someone has just confessed to having predictive dreams about it. "Doesn't that interest you, Paul?" intones Keel, and this is definitely some sort of employer test. And Skeet doesn't say anything.
Welcome to Red Deer, pop. 14,293, which is smaller than the real Red Deer. And in this church in the middle of the night is a minister practicing his sermon, and he's going on about "faith, hope and charity" and excuse me while I yawn on behalf of the congregation who will soon have to be bored to tears by this guy. And the priest is startled by a noise, and then a door swings open and we get the Scary Noises And Music portion of the soundtrack as the priest wonders if someone is there. And he hears more noises and gets freaked out and starts going "Though I walk through the valley…" like, something is stalking him and he busts out the Coolio songs. And suddenly he's thrown through the air, landing hard and realizing he's been slashed. And the priest's screams take us into the opening credits, and the light goes out in the church, like, at least the savage killer is concerned about conserving energy.
So the SQ crew drive into Red Deer with its "Home of Big Foot" sign at the city limits. And Evelyn gets off her Cell Phone Of Exposition to tell the other two that there's been another murder, like, maybe Evelyn should be driving so that Skeet and Keel can play Travel Yahtzee or something. And she explains about the minister, and says that Mr. Bass was a local Scoutmaster while Miss Jansen was the high school nurse, and the sheriff's at the high school now. Keel suggests they start there; they should "present [their] credentials" and "try not to ruffle any local feathers" while Skeet's all, "Dude, what credentials? Seriously, we have no credentials!" while Keel just gives him a look. Those two always fight on vacation!
So at the high school, a bunch of wrestlers are wasting valuable basketball court space by sublimating their latent homosexual urges into a more socially endorsed manner. And Skeet catches the eye of one particularly weaselly kid, who then gets soundly thrashed by a bigger, louder, more aggressive dude who then starts screaming about it in the manner of a teen movie high school jock who always gets his comeuppance by the time the credits roll. And the gang meets up with the sheriff, who looks at the SQ card Keel hands him like it's supposed to mean something, and the sheriff can't pronounce Sodalitas Quaerito so Keel does it for him, and we've heard the words "Sodalitas Quaerito" more times in the first ten minutes of this episode then we have in the entire series up to this point. And when Keel explains that SQ investigates unusual occurrences, the sheriff gives the "Bigfoot hunters" a thanks but no thanks. So Evelyn steps in a compliments the sheriff for showing up to practice to indicate that "life goes on," because yeah, everything's back to normal, the SHERIFF IS AT WRESTLING PRACTICE, and instead of giving her a "whatever" for her Lifetime-channel analysis of the situation, the sheriff says "you a cop?" like, yeah, I'm sure he would have guessed that. And Evelyn says, "I was," and suddenly she's all buddy-buddy with the sheriff and says, "I'm with these guys now. They're all right," like, SHUT UP, EVELYN. So then she's asking if the victims had anything in common, and the cop says they were just all local, and "good people," like, here we go again with Hollywood portrayal of small-town life as idyllic with "just folks" livin' their lives and not minding working hard for a livin' and just as honest as the trees are tall. And Evelyn says that SQ will stay out of their hair, as if the cop couldn't just order them to do so, and the sheriff thinks their presence might actually help. Sure he thinks that. A bunch of strangers looking for unexplained phenomena in the deaths of three residents. That'll go over big-time. Anyway, the cop goes away to show how much life goes on elsewhere. "Who says we don't have credentials?" says Keel to Skeet, while Evelyn has this bemused expression like she's really getting tired of just being eye candy.
Heading out to the station wagon, the SQ gang finds a note tucked under the windshield wiper. It's from the guy who called them, like, I WONDER WHO IT COULD BE, and he's surprised they actually showed up, and he says he'll be at the downtown library for an hour. And also, free breadsticks at Domino's! "It's a start," says Keel, like, no, the guy told you exactly where to meet him. It's not a cryptic clue, Keel, so quit making your Serious Face. Evelyn asks to be taken to the morgue so she can Scully things up a little.
So at the library is the same repressed jock who is stereotypically wearing a letter jacket and telling some girl that his parents are going to be away for the weekend, and Keel says that that guy saw them in the gym, but Skeet says it's usually not the aggressive ones, since "they have an outlet," and then sees the same puny guy from before who ducks around a stack of books. "It's the quiet ones," says Skeet. He and Keel follow the guy back to the desk where he was working and introduce themselves. The kid's name is Travis. "So you've been having some dreams, huh?" asks Skeet, and Travis looks all embarrassed and says "yeah," like, how much does this resemble a junior high health class film on wet dreams? Travis explains that the dreams began a few days after his thirteenth birthday. That's normal, Travis! You're not weird! Other information gleaned: Travis knew all three victims, Travis is on Ritalin, Travis has not woken up with bite marks on his tongue. Travis is upset because he can't go to sleep -- that's how he's avoiding "killing" people -- but he can't not sleep forever. "Did you sleep last night?" asks Paul. "I tried not to," says Travis, rolling up his sleeve to show marks from where he poked himself with a pin to stay awake. "I did it!" he adds, clearly distraught, but Skeet says they were brutal and violent murders, so if Travis had done it, he'd have a little more than pinpricks on his arm. And Skeet promises to help Travis, who gets skittish when he sees the sheriff's car pull up outside. "I gotta go," he says, and takes off, leaving Skeet and Keel free to expound on various theories. Keel's intrigued by the dream aspect of this case, since there's an Indian tribe in the area with a ritual that gives a young man "dominion over his dream self"; it's a ritual that involves torture and deprivation, which this kid seems to have a lot of. "Pressures which can lead to homicidal rage," says Keel. "You think he's killing these people?" asks Skeet, and Keel's all, did you SEE the way he freaked when the cop car pulled up? Only then they see Travis get in the sheriff's car, prompting Skeet to explain for us all that the sheriff might be the kid's dad.
Might be? Is! We're at Chez Sheriff, where Travis is shooting a bunch of people in a videogame. And he's got a blissful smile on his face as he blows away aliens and demons to pixilated Kingdom Come. And Sheriff Daddy tells him to shut it off since dinner's almost ready, and Travis doesn't whine about saving his game or finishing the level, like, here's your miracle. And while Travis sets the table, his dad grills him about wrestling practice and how the sheriff kept his part of the bargain by letting Travis do things his way at practice, but he doesn't think Travis did his part in trying his best. "You think your best is getting your clock cleaned by Jay Pearson?" he says, and Travis quite obviously would rather do anything than wrestle with his dad, but his dad orders him to, and under the guise of showing a movie to break out of a clinch, the sheriff delivers a very hard, very deliberate elbow into Travis's face, knocking him to the ground. "Hope you learned something," says Sheriff Loco, who orders Travis to finish setting the table. Travis lies on the ground with a bloody nose.
Red Deer Coroner's office, where we learn that Evelyn and the SQ gang have decided to squander the sheriff's cooperation and goodwill by breaking in and sneaking around. The minister's on a gurney, all scratched and gouged. Skeet and Keel recoil in horror, and it's clear that neither of these two has ever owned a cat. Skeet points out the illegality of what they're doing, and Evelyn (who is, remember, an ex-cop) justifies it because she asked the coroner nicely, but he called her "honey" and told her to "run along," so she did, with the guy's keys. Skeet checks out the body, noting the broken bones, some of which have been smashed into fragments, but the lacerations aren't consistent with a baseball bat beating. And Evelyn's floating the possibility that Travis did it while on amphetamines, and she oddly has to explain to Skeet (well, to us, actually) what Ritalin is. And Keel notices that half of the tibia is missing, demonstrated by his ability to bend the minister's foot all the way backwards at the ankle. Skeet asks if that means anything. "It might. I need to speak to some of the locals," he says, and zips off. Looks like the SQ gang is splitting up to tackle different jobs. Evelyn's going to check after Travis at school, while Skeet's going to stake out Travis's home to make sure he isn't sneaking out to kill people.
Turns out the guidance counselor is also the wrestling coach, and he remembers seeing Evelyn in the gym talking to the sheriff. "I'm actually here about his son," says Evelyn, and the guidance counselor says, "Okay," instead of, "Okay. And who might you be?" He just asks, "Is something wrong?" and Evelyn ignores this and just asks how Travis's grades are, and he says they're "not great" because Travis is "bright but not conventionally bright" and he falls through the cracks since teachers don't know how to teach kids like that. Or something. I was too busy being flabbergasted at this guy divulging confidential information like this. Also, Travis's mom is dead; Travis has an aunt in Hamilton (another Canadian place-name), but the counselor thinks she's out of the picture, so you know she'll turn up at some point. Does Travis have any friends? No, not really, says the counselor, laughing a bit. And when Evelyn asks if Travis ever exhibits any violent tendencies, the counselor, speaking as the wrestling coach, says, "I wish!" and explains that Travis, who's not a "naturally born athlete," is only on the team as a favour to his father. And Evelyn says it's probably not a lot of fun when you're getting "trounced on [sic]" by boys twice your size. The counselor says, "Sometimes a good ass-kicking is just what a boy needs to keep him in line," and Evelyn asks if Sheriff Loco agrees with him, and The Worse Guidance Counselor Ever tacitly agrees by explaining that the sheriff is a single parent doing his best to turn his boy into a man. So Evelyn throws the "little ass-kicking" line back in his face, and the counselor says the sheriff is "one of the good guys" and whatever goes on in that house is none of his business, which is absolutely hilarious coming from Counselor Blabbermouth here. Evelyn says she thinks it is his business, and they glare at each other, and the counselor says, "I think I'm done talking to you," and Evelyn strolls out of there.
Over at Sheriff Loco's house, Travis has decided to keep himself up by stabbing himself in the arm with a big knife and listening to really loud, really crappy music. Out in the car, Skeet can barely stay awake himself, like, nice stakeout. He does manage to see someone climb down the porch and run into the woods, so he gets out of his car and broodily, slowly, Skeetily gives chase.
Meanwhile, Keel's wandering into a dingy bar where Aerosmith is blasting, like, why can't Aerosmith just go away forever, and he orders a single-malt scotch and a water while the mostly Native American patrons eye him suspiciously, one of whom Keel laughingly tries to befriend by complimenting the "colourful establishment you have here." And the dude says, "They have a bar for guys like you outside town, called the Rainbow. Maybe you should go there." Yeah, I bet there are gay bars all over rural Michigan. Anyway, Keel responds in what is presumably this guy's native tongue, "They have a bar exclusively for investigation of the paranormal?" like, maybe we could have an episode without Keel demonstrating the mastery of another language. And instead of kicking Keel's condescending ass, the dude just looks over where there's an older guy sitting alone at a table illuminated by a single bulb, so here we go again with the mystical Indian cliché, as Keel wanders over to talk. They say "bonjour" to each other (or, as Keel pronounces it, "boo-zhoo") and then speak a bunch of not-French, so my guess is they're speaking Michif, which is a combination of French and Cree spoken by the Métis, who are half-native, half-French, the result of French settlers of North America -- but it's rarely spoken anymore anyway, and I thought it was interesting since there's a large Métis population in southern Alberta, where the real Red Deer and Medicine Hat (which comes up later in the show) are, so somebody is having fun with the script, even if they wind up pretending that this is Chippewa they're speaking and that they're in Michigan. And since I seem to recall the occasional X-Files episode with scenes set in Canada, I'm a little annoyed that they don't give the viewer enough credit to stick with the show if SQ goes to Red Deer, Alberta. Anyway.
Skeet saunters nonchalantly down the dark, wooded trail until he finds an old, ramshackle shed. Inside is Travis, who's huddled by a fire. Skeet knocks and says, "Can I come in?" Travis, despite having that crappy music now pumped directly into his ears via headphones, says okay. Skeet asks if Sheriff Loco knows that Travis is there. "He doesn't care," says Travis, who says nobody knows about his hiding spot but him and Jimmy, who is the obvious plot twist "surprise" alter ego of Travis. I mean, "Travis's best friend," who goes to reform school a couple of towns over in, um, Medicine Hat. "How'd you meet him then?" asks Skeet, and Travis gives only a vague "out there, a while ago" and says they talk about "life and junk" and goes on about how smart Jimmy is. Skeet wants to talk to Jimmy, but Jimmy doesn't like people and won't come if he sees Skeet there, because he doesn't like people's "perfumes" and stuff. Yeah, nothing suspicious about this. Skeet asks if Jimmy gave him the black eye, and Travis does the shifty cover-up-domestic-violence-by-blaming-myself thing and says he did it to himself because the pain helps keep him from sleeping, and therefore he won't kill any more people. So Skeet makes Travis a deal: Travis will go to sleep, and Skeet will make sure Travis doesn't "get up and murder anyone." So Travis lies down. "Skeet, what if I try to kill you?" he says. Skeet just tells him to hush up now.
Guidance counselor's office. He's doing reports or marking assignments or something when he hears a noise, just like the priest. He gets up to investigate and gets his ass beat down and thrown around, just like the priest, and we go to commercials after he sprays a bunch of blood on the door, and I wonder if this show wants us to root for the killer.
Words cannot describe how much I loathe the Dr. Pepper commercial with Run-DMC in which the sample of "Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay" is changed to "Run-DMC and Dr. Pepper." And to think I ripped off "Tricky" in a recap! To hilarious effect!
Anyway, Travis wakes up to find the strange older man watching over him, like, maybe ABC is showing that Michael Jackson special AGAIN. "I did it again!" he says, but Skeet assures him that he didn't move all night. Then we hear Sheriff Loco yelling for Travis, sending him scurrying off. And we see that Travis's dad is just in the driveway and it takes Travis all of about ten seconds to run home, so this shack with the path leading up to it is right behind the house, but no one else knows about it…right. And Sheriff Loco wants to know where the hell Travis has been, and Travis admits that he slept in the woods but before his dad can beat an explanation out of him, he sees Skeet. Sheriff Loco orders Travis into the car, then demands to know what Skeet was doing with his son in the woods. Skeet ignores the implied accusation and tells him that Travis has been trying to stay awake all week, because he's dreaming about the murders, thinking he's somehow involved. "What the hell are you talking about?" says the sheriff. Travis tries to say something, but his dad tells him to shut up, and Travis meekly gets into the car, spurring a Big Revelation for Skeet, who pointedly asks the sheriff how Travis got his black eye. The sheriff just glares at Skeet before responding to the radio operator, who tells him there's been a fatality just like the others at the high school. Skeet overhears this, and Sheriff Loco tells dispatch he's on his way, but not before warning Skeet to stay away from his son under penalty of jail.
Back at the Blue Bird Bar, the SQ gang has regrouped to share what they've learned about Travis and Sheriff Loco, with Skeet providing Travis's alibi for last night's murder. And Keel weaves the tale told him last night by the Chippewa Elder about an ancient tribe that believed twins were monstrosities, so when twins were born, one would be left in the woods to die. But when the surviving twin approached maturity, he was considered a great warrior because he had a spiritual double to protect him. Keel even gives the Indian name for it, which I won't even attempt to recreate here, but its translation is "one who scatters the bones of his enemies." Skeet doesn't buy that theory, because Travis doesn't have a twin. Yeah, um, Skeet? It would have been LEFT TO DIE AT BIRTH, SO NO, HE WOULDN'T HAVE A TWIN ANYMORE, as Keel just explained. And Evelyn suggests the possibility Travis had a twin once but that it was adopted. And I find it kind of odd that nobody considers the possibility that the other twin died, like it never happens in this day and age or something? Just in the times of mystical Indian warriors? And Skeet spills the beans about Jimmy, whom he assumed was an imaginary friend. And SQ splits up again -- Evelyn to interview Travis's aunt, Keel to go to Medicine Hat to Jimmy's reform school, and Skeet to "keep an eye" on Travis.
Travis's aunt and Evelyn bond over an old superstition involving swinging a ring on a chain to predict the sex of a pregnant woman's baby, and she instantly blabs about her sister having twins, while Evelyn looks a little surprised that we went from The Theory Of The Twins to Confirmation Of The Theory Of The Twins in about thirty seconds. And Travis's aunt fills us in on all the needed details: that Sheriff Loco was once a nice man who had a temper, and then he beat his pregnant wife so badly once that she miscarried one of the twins, and she buried the body in the woods out of fear and shame and narrative necessity. Auntie Exposition continues to spill the sordid family history to a total stranger, as she explains that Travis's mom died giving birth to Travis, and blah blah blah, she eventually discovered Travis was being beaten by his dad too, and she "took his ass to court" and lost, because Travis wouldn't answer the social worker's questions. "That's what breaks my heart; to this day, he loves his father." She pauses. "You know what I really wish?" "What?" says Evelyn, all pleasant. "I hear a sheriff's funeral can be really beautiful." Evelyn can barely contain her shock, but can I say that it was kind of a weird line? Like, just say she wishes the sheriff were dead instead of pretending that "a sheriff's funeral can be really beautiful" like it's folk wisdom or something.
Back at Travis's shack of solitude, a scruffy young tough is smoking a cigarette for Maximum Delinquency Signification and asking how long Travis is going to take crap from his old man, with Travis defending him. "Not a single soul in this nothing and nowhere town is ever going to stand up for you, you gotta know that by now," says Jimmy. Travis wants to know that Jimmy had nothing to do with the deaths, but Jimmy just smiles and tells him not to worry about it, that "they got what they deserved." Then he looks up, sniffing, smelling Skeet sauntering down the well-worn path to the secret shack no one knows about. Skeet hears something; he looks around but doesn't see anything, until Jimmy just kind of appears, jumping over his head and running down the trail, ignoring Skeet's entreaties to stop. Skeet continues on to the shack, where Travis is huddled up against the wall. "Go away," says Travis. "Did someone just leave here?" says Skeet, and Travis says it was Jimmy, but something is Clearly Wrong, and when Travis flips out yelling at Skeet to leave him alone, Skeet wrestles a fistful of pills from him. "Everything's my fault!" Travis screeches, as Skeet tries to calm him down. "I've always been bad! I killed…" and Skeet wants to know who Travis killed. "I killed my mother," says Travis, sobbing. "I killed her, okay?" Skeet's stunned. "My father told me," says Travis, but Skeet tells him his father is lying to excuse what he does to Travis, and probably for what he did to Travis's mom. "It's not your fault, it's not," says Skeet, as Travis hugs him. Oh, Sheriff Loco is going to love this.
And here comes Sheriff Loco now, pulling up at the house and angrily stomping on out of his car. Meanwhile, Skeet and Travis are leaving the shack with Skeet promising that Sheriff Loco will never hurt Travis again. Skeet's cell phone rings; it's Keel, with the news that Medicine Hat is a ghost town: "There's no reform school, no Jimmy!" Skeet asks, "Then who did I see bounding off in the woods an hour ago?" An hour? Just how long was Skeet "comforting" Travis, anyway? And Keel fills Skeet in on Travis's fraternal twin, who was killed in utero, explaining that fraternal twins have separate amniotic sacs, so "it's actually possible for one to miscarry and the other to thrive." And Skeet figures out that Jimmy is the spirit of Travis's brother, and it takes Keel about five hours to agree, and then point out that Jimmy is killing all the people who should have protected Travis but didn't. And Skeet's all, well, why not the sheriff, as said sheriff comes stomping down the trail unbeknownst to both Skeet and Travis. Keel speculates that Travis is protecting his father somehow, and then Skeet says he's going to take Travis over to child services in Darby. Only now does Travis see his dad stomping down the path towards Skeet. "Skeet, look out!" he yells, just in time for Skeet to get a billy club in the gut from Sheriff Loco. "I thought I told you to keep away from my son," he says.
In Darby, Keel and Evelyn are finding out that Skeet never showed up at child services.
At the police station, Skeet's in a holding cell while a jocular Sheriff Loco writes up the charges against Skeet, including resisting arrest and attempting to transport a minor outside the county, and Travis looks on, not helping. "Listen to me! You need to apologize to Travis!" yells Skeet at the top of his lungs. The sheriff laughs. "For what? A little discipline?" he says, and Skeet says that Travis blames himself for his mom's death and he needs to be told that wasn't the case, or else the sheriff is in danger. Naturally, the sheriff thinks Skeet is threatening him. "He's a good kid. You need to tell him what you did to her, and you need to tell what you did to his brother. Before it's too late!" says Skeet. The sheriff's face has gone rather stony through all this, and he pulls his gun and says he wonders if Skeet's case will even make it to trial. Travis rushes his dad to stop him, but Sheriff Loco shoves him aside; Travis hits a jail cell and falls down, unconscious. The sheriff moves to help his son, only Travis won't wake up. He's going to miss the best part! The door blows open, and there's Jimmy standing there. He strides in. "I went after the others. But I could never go after you," he tells the sheriff. "He loved you too much. I had to respect that." "Jimmy, don't!" yells Skeet. Yeah, that'll work. "I'm done respecting that," says Jimmy, which cracked me up for some reason. Then, just as Keel and Evelyn arrive in the doorway, Jimmy vanishes, leaving Sheriff Loco wondering just what the hell happened. Keel tells him to get out, but it's too late; Sheriff Loco gets picked up and tossed around like a chew toy before finally being smushed between the holding cell's bars, the SQ gang looking on in horror. Keel especially is cowering in the corner like a little baby. Travis materializes again to survey his handiwork. He takes off a charm-bracelet-looking thing with little carvings made out of what I assume are supposed to be bones, only when they clink together, they sound like those little plastic things you put on your bicycle spokes when you were a kid. Jimmy leaves the bracelet with Travis, then stands up and addresses Skeet. "You stood up for him. Thank you," and he walks out/vanishes while Skeet and Keel look like they're about to puke.
One week later, Skeet and Co. have apparently managed to not be investigated in the death of the local sheriff. And Skeet is leading Travis over to his aunt's house, where they bond for a moment over their shared orphan status. Skeet asks if Travis knows his aunt very well. "Kinda. She's okay," he says, and Skeet concurs that "she seems nice," and fortunately we missed the part where Skeet and Travis's aunt established a "special connection." And in a pointless addendum to this thoroughly predictable episode, the aunt comes out and goes nuts over Travis's little bracelet, since his mother had one just like it. "She was buried with it," she says. So…they weren't bones? It was just a trinket? And Jimmy's a grave robber? I have no idea what's going on here.