During breakfast, Lydia, Myrtle, and Linus notice Vera casually sitting with them, reading a newspaper. Curious, they finally ask how Ernest knows her, leading to a Halloween flashback when the adults were around ten years old.
In the flashback, Vera was pretending to be a runaway on the outskirts of town. When a creep picked her up, she let him take her to a secluded cabin in the woods, confirming his bad intentions. After feeding on him, she heard cries from the basement and found a young Ernest tied up and about to be sacrificed by a cult. Vera kills the cultists and frees Ernest, who eerily reminds her of Lydia.Before leaving, Ernest explains that the cult drugged and kidnapped most of the town's children after throwing a Halloween party. Since it’s the late '70s or early '80s, none of the parents would notice for a while. Ernest, too cool to attend the party, was planning to steal candy from younger kids when he witnessed the host kidnapping the drugged children. He was knocked out before he could warn anyone.The rest of the episode follows Ernest and Vera as they navigate the cult’s underground lair to save the children. The cult had been trying to grant ultimate power to a self-proclaimed demon king in hell, but botched the ritual. As a result, the demon king was cursed never to kill anyone—no matter what, his victims would always come back to
life.At the end, Vera also reveals to Ernest that the one true path to heaven is Mormonism.
