Layla

Leeds and Layla are hosting Aspen and Chad, who are celebrating their first anniversary. At dinner, Chad discusses their sex life while he drinks his ninth beer. Leeds and Layla are a little disgusted by his behavior.

Aspen changes the subject to the bed-and-breakfast. She says it's strange to see it so empty but that it might be cool to own a bed-and-breakfast. Layla replies that it seems like a lot of work, which disappoints Leeds because he had been considering buying it.

Leeds is watching Layla carefully, and he notices her body stiffen for a moment before she picks up a slice of pizza. She begins taking giant bites, whereas previously she had been eating in tiny bites with a fork. She continues eating hungrily, to the surprise of everyone at the table.

Afterward, Layla says that her head hurts and closes her eyes. When she opens them again, she screams, obviously afraid. Leeds takes her to the bedroom, and she takes her medication. She tells him that she hadn’t eaten anything, then looked down and saw that her plate was empty. Leeds thinks that maybe she blacked out or had a seizure. He gets Layla into bed and then goes back downstairs to Aspen and Chad, who has passed out on the table. Leeds helps Aspen get him to bed. After Aspen has gone to bed as well, Leeds opens his computer. He types, “Was that you?” and she answers, “Yes.”

Leeds realizes that Willow can inhabit Layla’s body and that she may have done it several times before. He tells her he wants to talk to her, and in a few moments she—Willow inside of Layla—comes into the grand room. Leeds asks her questions about her experience of being a ghost. She explains that she slammed his computer shut because she didn’t want him to contact the realtor about buying the house. She tells him that she slipped into Layla’s body that night and the night he made pasta because she was hungry, and Layla didn’t eat enough. When she is in Layla’s body, she can feel how she is starving herself. Willow also explains that she can feel Layla’s emotions and some of her memories when she is inside of her. She tells Leeds that she can tell that Layla loves him.

Willow is careful not to take advantage of Layla while she is in her body; she says she doesn’t want to be intrusive by going through her memories, and she seems to feel bad even for using her body to eat. She asks Leeds if he is mad at her for using Layla, and he is surprised, as if it never occurred to him that he should be angry about this intrusion.

They hear a noise and realize Aspen is awake. Leeds asks Willow if she can leave Layla’s body, but Willow doesn’t like to do that unless Layla is asleep because the transition might scare her. Aspen appears in the kitchen, telling them that Chad wet the bed because he drank too much. Aspen eats some chips and pizza with them, saying she can’t sleep. After a while, she tells Leeds and Layla to go to bed and she’ll clean up the kitchen.

In the bedroom, Willow tells Leeds that she won’t leave Layla’s body until she’s asleep, so Leeds sits and watches her while she falls asleep. He wonders what will happen to Willow when he and Layla leave and feels bad for what he assumes is her lonely existence.

Leeds and UndercoverInc pause their interview and listen to Layla. She is still screaming, and Leeds asks if he can bring her down to meet UndercoverInc, who says yes.

Layla does not know who he is or why he has come to the house, but Leeds says he found him on the internet and thinks he can help them. UndercoverInc introduces himself as Richard. Leeds corrects him because the name Randall is printed on his shirt. UndercoverInc is a lost spirit. He is inhabiting Randall’s body temporarily and doesn’t have a name.

Suddenly Layla’s demeanor changes, and Leeds can tell that Willow is inside her. She says they should tie Layla up again but that she feels bad about what they are doing to her. She tells them that she had been in the room the whole time Leeds had been talking to UndercoverInc but hadn’t made her presence known because he doesn’t have a solution yet.

Leeds sends Willow-in-Layla back upstairs, and UndercoverInc asks him if he is in love with Willow. He questions why Leeds is forcing Layla to stay and sacrificing her well-being for Willow’s sake. Leeds protests and says he loves Layla but cares about Willow, too.

UndercoverInc asks how often Willow inhabits Layla’s body, and Leeds answers that she doesn’t do it as much now as she did in the beginning. They resume the interview.

Leeds wakes up early the next morning so he can watch the security-camera footage of the previous night before Layla wakes up. He wants to communicate with Willow again but without her inhabiting Layla’s body. He opens his laptop and asks Willow questions out loud, to which she types answers.

Leeds discovers that Willow is good with technology and knows how to cook, but she doesn’t know how she learned to do those things or if she had even been alive before coming to haunt the bed-and-breakfast. As he is talking to Willow, Layla comes downstairs. She wonders why he let her sleep until 11:00 a.m., and he comments that it is the deadliest time of day, which was a bit of trivia she shared with him when they first met. She does not seem to remember that conversation, which makes Leeds wonder how severe her memory loss is.

Layla asks if he had been on the phone, because she heard him talking, and he lies that he was talking to himself. Layla complains that she’s gained weight on their trip; she has been more self-conscious about her body and weight since her injury, and Leeds wonders if he has said or done anything to make her feel insecure. He encourages her to allow herself to enjoy their vacation, particularly whatever food she wants.

She agrees and suggests they go to town for tacos and margaritas. Leeds is disappointed because he doesn’t want to leave the house. He comes back to the possibility of buying the house so he can visit Willow, and he offers to bring her tacos, which she would not be able to eat until Layla goes to bed. Leeds and Layla leave the house, but Leeds is looking forward to seeing Willow that night.

When Leeds and Layla go out for tacos, Layla drinks too much and eats too little. She gets drunk and knocks a margarita glass to the ground, smashing it to pieces.

When they get home, they sit outside to watch the sunset. Layla tries to initiate sex with Leeds, but he is not interested. He feels impatient for when Layla will go to bed and he can talk to Willow again. He also feels guilty for feeling that way. They end up having sex, and afterward Leeds waits for Layla to go to sleep.

While Layla is taking a shower, Leeds looks at her medications. He gets Layla a glass of wine and puts one of her sleeping pills in it to ensure that she will fall asleep. But the wineglass is knocked out of his hand and crashes to the ground. Willow is communicating her disapproval of his actions. Leeds immediately feels guilty.

Leeds lies awake in bed waiting for a sign from Willow that she has returned to talk to him. He gets up and goes downstairs to find that the shards of glass and wine on the floor have been cleaned up. Soon, Layla comes out of the bedroom, and Leeds can immediately tell that Willow is inside of her. She scolds him for putting the sleeping pill in the wine; she knows how drunk Layla had been because she can feel it in her body.

Leeds gets the tacos he ordered for her at the restaurant. While she eats, Willow tries to explain what the experience of being in Layla’s body is like. She has access to some of her thoughts and memories, but they are cluttered. And Willow doesn’t want to intrude too much into her mind.

When she’s done eating, Willow asks to go swimming. Leeds finds one of Layla’s bathing suits for her to wear. She dips her feet in the water but isn’t sure if she knows how to swim. He helps her get in and holds her hand until she is confident that she can swim. Leeds shares his theory that she was probably alive before she was a spirit and maybe knew how to swim and ride a bike in her previous life even if she doesn’t remember it.

They discuss whether Willow is a ghost and if she is stuck between death and an afterlife because she must resolve something. Willow is afraid that if she does find the answers she’s looking for, she will cease to exist. Willow touches Leeds’s scar from where Sable shot him and notices that it has healed, whereas Layla keeps touching hers, so it frequently reopens and bleeds, not allowing it to heal.

After they swim, they decide to watch the movie Ghost and eat popcorn. They are comfortable with each other, and it reminds Leeds of how he used to feel with Layla before her injuries. Normally he’d kiss her while they are having fun like this, but he doesn’t want to knowing that it's Willow inside her body.

While Willow finishes watching the movie, Leeds goes downstairs to make sure the bathing suit is dry so when Layla wakes up she doesn’t see a wet bathing suit and get confused. He opens his computer and goes back to the forum about supernatural activity. He has a message from a member named UndercoverInc. He is curious about whether Leeds communicated with the ghost he described in previous posts. Leeds tells him what he knows about Willow. UndercoverInc offers to help the ghost find answers about who or what she is and whether she had a previous life.

He returns to the bedroom to find Willow-in-Layla crying at the ending of Ghost because even though the ghost finds what he was looking for and can move on into another realm, the human is left with more grief than ever. Leeds asks her if she’d be interested in talking to UndercoverInc. Willow replies that she doesn’t want help because she doesn’t want to stop existing, which might happen if she resolves her issues. She’d rather stay a ghost and haunt the bed-and-breakfast so that she can continue spending time with Leeds.