GHOSTS: Brandon Scott Jones and Richie Moriarty Break Down the Isaac and Pete Finale Twists

[This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, May 2 season finale of GHOSTS.]

GHOSTS put another spirit in danger in the season 3 finale as Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) was yanked into the dirt by the vengeful Patience—a Puritan ghost who had been wandering, lost, thanks to Isaac accidentally dropping her hand while they were trying to navigate their way home (in the soil) to the mansion years earlier.

With the basement ghosts deciding to keep it quiet (it makes them look bad, after all, that they accidentally helped Patience grab him), the move puts Isaac in danger for the foreseeable future when the show returns for season 4.

“I think I found out [about the cliffhanger] when I read the script,” Jones tells Give Me My Remote. “And there was a big part of me that was like, ‘I think they’re going to change this.’ I didn’t know that was really going to happen, and then we were shooting it, and I was like, ‘You’re not gonna use it.’ And then they did. It’s amazing.”

For Richie Moriarty, who plays Pete, he had been waiting to see how they utilized the tease of Patience from earlier in the season. “As soon as the idea of Patience was brought up, I was like, ‘What are they going to do with this?’” he recalls. “To end it the way they did, it was both hilarious because it’s Isaac, but also terrifying. Like, I don’t know how they’re gonna resolve this.”

The quasi-kidnapping came after Isaac opted to halt his wedding to Nigel (John Hartman)…and Jones admits he thinks Isaac’s current predicament might be a bit of karma.

“Here’s the thing I love: He gets what he deserves, I think,” Jones says. When it’s pointed out Isaac didn’t intentionally hurt Patience, the actor concedes that, yes, he sneezed in that case, “but he [figuratively] killed the man he left at the altar, and so it’s like 250 years…I think he has a lot to atone for, and I think this kicks off that process.”

“I think [Isaac] got into that relationship way before he should have actually gotten into that relationship,” he continues. “He just kind of had [been going through the motions] like he knew what to do. I don’t know if he’s gone into that relationship with any passion; I think it’s been more dutiful. But as an actor, all I want is that John Hartman[‘s job] is safe and [he’s] on the show as much as he possibly can, because I—and everybody—love working with him.”

The episode also placed limits on Pete’s ghost power (of being able to leave the property), as the ghost started to literally disappear the longer he was away from home.

“I immediately thought of BACK TO THE FUTURE and the implications of this,” Moriarty says. “I knew they were gonna find a way to put a limit on the power, somehow. I was hopeful, at least; I was like, ‘Please don’t get rid of me forever.’ I was then like, ‘Oh, how am I going to play this physically? ‘And like, there’s a lot of discussion of like, hey, when I start reappearing once I’m back in the mansion, is it leg first, is it arm first? How does this happen?”

Looking ahead, Moriarty says he’s “so looking forward to who they cast as Patience and how they resolve that storyline.” But he’s still riding high from the final episode of season 3.

“There’s so much that happens in that finale,” Moriarty says. “And I had a very weird experience because that was our last week on set together, and I was away from everybody except for that one wedding scene. So I’m just with the actress who played Donna, Allegra Edwards, who was lovely, but like we ended the whole season—the season wrapped with just the two of us on set, which was kind of a strange experience not being with the rest of the [cast].” 

“But it was so fun,” he continues. “Such a fun thing for Pete to finally have a win and have a love interest. I’m so excited to see what they continue to do with that story, traveling in general, and how they’re gonna use that.”

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