Cue the ghost panic.
The vault is opened. What’s inside isn’t gold or a body — but something worse: proof that Elias Woodstone was willing to let someone (or something) suffer for decades just to protect his reputation. Sam makes the call to preserve the evidence and turn the vault into a historical exhibit — not to glorify Elias, but to name him for what he was.
9.5/10 Best line: “That vault didn’t keep secrets. It kept prisoners.” — Hetty Woodstone
Hetty goes pale (well, paler). She recognizes the vault’s insignia. Turns out, her husband Elias Woodstone (yes, that Elias) had a secret vault installed in the 1890s — and he never told anyone what was inside. Hetty assumed it was empty. But the ghosts remember hearing muffled cries from behind that door… right before it went silent.
Final shot: Hetty, alone in the library, staring at her own portrait. She whispers, “I knew. I just didn’t want to know.” Then Sassapis appears beside her, silently offering his hand. She doesn’t take it. But she doesn’t walk away either.
Sam, being Sam, convinces Jay to break through a crumbling brick wall. And what do they find? Not treasure. Not a skeleton. But a vault door . An old, rusted, bank-style vault, half-hidden behind decades of dirt.
