Jay cuts a deal in the Ghosts season 4 finale. Executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman tease what’s next.
The fourth season of CBS’s Ghosts ends with “The Devil Went Down To Woodstone,” a finale that teases the possibility of more romance and otherworldly chaos in Woodstone Manor.
Sam’s (Rose McIver) novel dramatizing Issac’s (Brandon Scott Jones) life with a vampiric twist is finally ready to be released. She lies about having agoraphobia so Jay’s (Utkarsh Ambudkar) restaurant can host the festivities. This plan seems to be a win-win for everyone until Patience (Mary Holland) suddenly reappears, claiming there’s evil around. She then convenes an impromptu trial where Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) confesses her lusty thoughts about Pete (Richie Moriarty).
Unfortunately for Jay, the cost of good publicity for Mahesh is more than dollars. Elias Woodstone (Matt Walsh) reveals that he’s the PR agent and Jay technically sold his soul to Satan in the PR contract! How are Jay and Sam going to get rid of Elias this time around? One might expect this reveal to be the final scene in the episode, but it isn’t. Pete realizes he has feelings for Alberta as well. They talk about it, and this time, instead of a facepalm, Pete and Alberta’s lips meet.
Den of Geek spoke to executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman to find out their thought process on the romantic cliffhanger and other plot points from Ghosts season 4.
DEN OF GEEK: Ghosts season finales are infamous for having cliffhangers. This time, Jay’s soul is in danger because of Elias’ scam. What was behind this decision?
JOE WISEMAN: In the last couple of months we knew we wanted to end with another cliffhanger, and it seemed like a good one – that Jay’s soul is in the balance. We went through different iterations of how far to go, as far as rescuing Jay, or if that announcement is going to be the actual cliffhanger.
JOE PORT: I think we find it funny that Jay consistently bears the brunt of a lot of these ghost situations. He is an innocent bystander and it obviously has a lot of meaning for him, Sam, and the ghosts that he seems to be in peril right now. It leaves us a really rich place to start season five with Jay in trouble.
Patience from the season four premiere makes a return appearance and her blood on the wall routine is a wild card in the finale. Why does she have the creepiest power?
JW: When we shot Patience’s introduction scene from the season three cliffhanger, we thought there was a spooky creepiness which was a fun ghost flavor that we hadn’t had yet. We have all these ghosts, but we didn’t really have a creepy menacing one. We leaned into that and we were like, “Her power should be something pretty disturbing.” We spent some time coming up with ideas and it seems like making the walls bleed would be a pretty upsetting big power to have. It would give Patience a bit of leverage over Sam and Jay trying to run the B&B and try to impose her will on certain aspects of their life. We also loved how she was judgmental and didn’t understand a lot of things in the modern world and assumed everything was evil. It was a fun attitude to write.
JP: We liked that she was proven right at the end of this episode. She had an inkling about something and she was correct.
