Original subtitles

Bela, we are so glad

that you were able to come visit.

I know it's not under the happiest circumstances.

Well, it's never fun getting fired,

but hey, we had creative differences.

Right, at the cat café.

What's a cat café?

Can cats even drink coffee?

What the hell is going on out there?

Samantha, we need to speak with you.

It's Thor. Next week

is the anniversary of his abandonment,

and he has become quite irritable.

He's being a real bummer, man.

Ghost thing?

Thor's shipmates left without him a thousand years ago,

and every year, on the run-up to the anniversary,

he starts acting out.

It's fine. Once it passes,

he'll return to a more normal level of Viking anger.

It's not fine. This morning, I waved at him,

and he chopped my hand off.

Was it the most physical contact I've had in months?

Was it nice just to feel something?

Point is, I'm available for setups, people.

Why so many steps?

Why you not build this house shorter?

Isaac, put out hand real quick.

Hetty is the one who built the house.

Cut her hand off.

No one needs to have their hand cut off.

Thor, you can talk to me.

I understand what you're going through.

I was also abandoned.

You mean, the time when you were nine

and your mother left you at a Target store

for an hour after you threw a fit?

Sure, she came back, but it was still traumatic.

All I wanted was

the Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper with the dolphin on it.

Mother leaving you alone in store with toys and candy,

not same as shipmates

leaving Thor in strange land alone to die.

I'm not saying it's the same.

It did kind of sound like you were saying that.

Your thing not same!

Okay. Thor?

I think it's time we go back to therapy.

How's the book coming, babe?

It's coming along. And the ghosts are loving

the new dish you've been working on

for the menu. Look at you two.

A published author and a soon-to-be

head chef? Okay.

They would be the power couple in their friend group

if they had any living friends.

Seriously? That guy Sean

that I was gonna hire to manage the restaurant?

He took another job.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Jay.

I don't have time to deal with all this managerial crap.

I got a list of, like, a thousand things

that Sean was supposed to do.

I wish I could help, but between the Viking therapy

and this vampire deadline...

More like un-deadline.

Uh, hello?

This is, like, perfect timing.

I'm unemployed.

Put me in, coach.

Whoa. That's a really generous offer, Bela.

I-I'm just not sure that I can take advantage

of your kindness like that.

Jay is lying through his teeth.

He don't want his screwup sister

anywhere near his restaurant.

Ugh, I should take this, it's my landlord.

But I'm serious, Jay.

I would love to help you out.

I'm very responsible.

Hi, Stanley.

So, yeah, someone put a hairbrush

in my garbage disposal.

Well, I don't really want to point fingers.

Jay, I know Bela doesn't have the best track record...

She got fired from a cat café. Okay,

but she also worked in advertising,

and event planning, marketing.

Yeah, she's been fired from some top companies.

Look, she's smart.

She just needs someone to believe in her.

So, Jay, what do you say?

You gonna let me help you out?

My guy Jay's a softie. I feel a cave coming on.

N...

Okay. Thanks, Bela.

Yeah!

I am not gonna let you down.

I don't know about this.

That girl is a train wreck,

and I've witnessed an actual train wreck.

Well, that was more of a heist gone wrong.

But if you want to know who was involved, I ain't talking.

So...

what I can help you with, Samantha?

Well, shipmates abandon me

a thousand years ago.

Translate.

Well, my mom left me at Target when I was in third grade.

And now Thor filled with rage.

And now I'm filled with rage.

That's hard.

And what was her reasoning for leaving you there?

Thor not know. Shipmates tell everyone Thor wander off.

I hear from my baby Bjorn, who is ghost now.

Well, she said that it was because I wandered off.

But Thor not wander off!

Thor get back to ship when Thor supposed to.

Only to see ship leave without Thor.

But I didn't wander off, I just, uh,

went to the little Target Pizza Hut

like I was supposed to, but she wasn't there.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

Doctor, is there something I can do

to relieve some of the pain I feel

around the anniversary of this incident?

Pain!

We're having that looked at.

Well, it sounds like you need

to get the real answer for why your mom left you.

How Thor do that? Shipmates long dead.

Unfortunately, my mom died seven years ago.

You know, death

its own form of abandonment.

It's possible you're conflating your childhood trauma

with the more recent trauma of losing your mother.

That's... Wow, that's really interesting.

You know, now that I think about it...

Shut up, Samantha. Thor just have amazing idea.

You go to Norway, talk to ghost of dead shipmates

and find real reason for Thor's abandonment.

I'm sorry, uh, Samantha,

it seemed like you were having sort of a breakthrough,

but then you just kind of trailed off.

Um... What you waiting for? Simple solution

drop everything,

go to Norway immediately.

I can't just go to Norway.

I'm sorry?

It's just another issue

that I have.

Fear of flying, specifically to Scandinavia.

Interesting.

Jay, we lost engine one.

And there goes engine two.

we're out of gas.

Damn it, I told Bela to fill her up

before we took off.

Okay, I see what's happening here.

It's a classic stress dream.

You're worried Bela's gonna screw up

that punch list you gave her.

I don't know what I was thinking.

You know, I could have said no,

but instead, I trusted my business

to the most unreliable person in the world,

and now I'm about to crash into the North Atlantic.

I'm pretty sure you'll wake up first.

Wait a minute, you could spy on Bela to make sure

she's not making any mistakes,

and then report back to me tomorrow night.

You know, usually, I don't like to get in the middle

of family drama, but that's not true. I'd love to.

Appreciate it, Sass. Oh, also, I'd brace for impact.

Can you maybe dream about something

a little less stressful tomorrow night?

I'll try. I love you, man.

Love you.

Please, Samantha.

Just book ticket to Norway. You're being very selfish.

I went to a Dead show in Norway once.

Or I thought I did.

It turns out, I was just on acid

and never left my bedroom.

Thor, I'm running a B and B,

I have a book deadline, the restaurant is opening...

What about Peter?

He's always annoying us with tales of travel.

Maybe he could go in Sam's stead.

I'd love to help, but Thor's village sounds very remote.

So? Well, when traveling

internationally, I like to stick close to airports,

so that way, when Little Pete starts to disappear,

I can make it home before I vanish into oblivion.

Isn't "Little Pete" what everyone calls your grandson?

I will work on a new nickname.

Thor very frustrated.

So close to fixing problems,

but no one willing to cross ocean for him.

Disappointed!

Oh, my God!

Sam?

I think Thorfinn fried my laptop,

and it had all my recipes on it.

You hear that, Pete?

Jay lose recipes all because you not go to Norway.

Wow, that was

cult-leader-level manipulative,

and I'm not gonna lie, it's kind of hot.

All right, fine. What good is having this miraculous power,

if I don't use it to help a friend?

And wherever I happen to be when "the hammer" disappears,

I'll just do my best to make it home in time.

Hmm, don't love that one. I'll be honest, I'm intrigued.

Bjorn, I have news!

Pete is in sky ship right now,

on way to motherland!

Hopefully, he will learn reason for Thor's abandonment!

I'm so jealous of Peter.

I miss the village.

This time of year is beautiful in Soørlia.

Why you say Soørlia?

We are from Steinkjer!

Oh, right, you do not know.

Year after you not return,

Steinkjer run out of cod,

so whole village move to Soørlia.

But if village move away,

then no ghosts of shipmates will be there!

Uh-oh.

Pete going to wrong village!

Being a spy isn't as exciting as the movies make it out to be.

Yeah, they rarely show James Bond

watching a woman order table linens.

What's going on here?

Jay has no faith in his sister,

so we're watching her do administrative tasks.

Setting up the reservation system, ordering supplies.

It's so boring. She did almost spill ginger ale

on her computer, but she caught it.

I have faith.

When Bela decides to do something,

she is a force to be reckoned with.

The only thing she has left to do

is order a hundred pounds of shrimp.

Guys, she only has one pound in the cart.

Oh, this would be a legendary screwup.

Bela, stay focused. Put some zeroes on that order.

She hit "place order."

That's only one pound of shrimp.

Bela, no.

And that's the game, folks.

Well, should we go tell Jay?

What? No. We got to tell Bela.

We should email her. No, there's no time. We're two minutes away

from the 5:00 p.m. next-day delivery deadline.

I didn't think it was possible, but this shrimp thing

actually did get exciting.

Wait, the screen is still open.

I can just order more shrimp now.

Jay never needs to know that Bela messed up.

Yeah, but I told Jay that I would let him know.

Sass,

I had a brother who was always underestimated.

I don't want Bela to feel the same way.

So please, just let me take care of it.

Okay, fine. Yeah, you get in there and order that shrimp.

One minute left for next-day orders.

I'm genuinely exhilarated.

Our lives are so sad.

Samantha,

I have something most urgent to tell you.

Yeah, we heard, Pete is headed to the wrong village.

He still doesn't realize that we can

hear him screaming at the top of his lungs.

Situation seems dark,

but if my military career taught me one thing,

you can always give up, and I suggest we do that here.

We're not giving up.

If only there was some way to contact Peter.

Admittedly, the fact that he's halfway around the world

and a ghost complicates things.

Wait.

Pete knew that this was gonna be a tight trip,

So he made a down-to-the-minute itinerary,

which I have right here on my computer.

Ugh. Stupid pop-up ads.

Wait, you're saying that we know where Peter is going to be

at any given moment?

Exactly. Every flight, every bus,

train, ferry and walk.

We just need to find a way to send him a message.

But that feels impossible.

Which, not to just push my thing,

brings us back to my "giving up" plan.

It could not be easier to execute.

Ugh, damn these ads.

Wait a minute. This gives me an idea.

You're gonna get tickets to Jersey Boyson tour?

It just might work.

No.

We send Pete our own kind of pop-up ad.

All right.

What's this?

"Go to Soørlia, not Steinkjer."

How did they know I'd be here?

The itinerary.

Nice work, Sammy.

Okay, it's gonna be tight, but you're still looking solid.

Why are there two separate orders of shrimp?

This is like 200 pounds. This is way more than we need.

Wait, this isn't right.

Well, I did order 100 pounds from these guys.

But I only ordered one pound from these guys.

Wait, she was ordering the one pound on purpose?

What are you talking about?

Well, the place you gave me

was super expensive.

But then I remembered my friend Katie

is dating this hot shrimper up in Maine,

so I DM'd him on Instagram

and had him overnight the order.

Okay, but why did she order

the single pound of the other shrimp?

But I know you, and I know you wouldn't be happy

unless you had a sample of the expensive shrimp,

so you could see for yourself they're not as good.

So that's why I ordered a small sample.

That's actually pretty smart.

Or it would've been if we hadn't ruined it.

Small sample?

We're drowning in shrimp, Bela.

Sam, get in here! We need you!

Well, clearly the one place sent too much.

Or you screwed up.

Okay, Jay, let's not say anything we're going to regret.

This is a huge waste of money.

You know what? It's on me.

I should've just handled this myself.

Jay, I didn't order this. Trust me.

Hey, guys. JAY: Great. Perfect timing.

Sam, can you ask Sass if he saw Bela

screw up this shrimp order?

Why would Sass know what happened?

Don't love that I'm the face of this.

Because I asked him to spy on you,

because I was worried that you were gonna mess something up.

And guess what? You did.

Sam, can you tell Jay we ordered the extra shrimp?

What?

Trevor did it on the computer.

You had a ghost spy on me?

Wow.

You really don't think much of me, huh?

Bela, wait. No, whatever.

All I wanted to do was help my brother.

Sam, tell him.

Okay, I'm just kind of catching up on all this,

but the ghosts are here and they said

to tell you they ordered the shrimp.

What? Why?

They thought she screwed up,

and they were trying to cover for her.

Oh, man, I just yelled at Bela.

God, I'm such a jerk.

I kind of feel like a bit of a jerk right now, too,

to be honest.

We should've had faith in her.

Well, in our defense, the woman arrived

with a gas station nozzle sticking out of her tank.

That's true. There was context.

I am Gorm, son of Gorm.

Oh, thank God.

I have been up and down the Norwegian coast

talking to anyone without a pulse.

And finally I found you.

The man they say has the information

I've been looking for.

Hey, look like we both die from arrow.

I get mine defending village from army of 300 raiders.

How you get yours?

Uh, s-similar. Yeah, very similar.

Um, anyway, back to the reason why I sought you out.

Uh, did you ever travel to the New World

with a guy named Thorfinn?

Uh, he loves cod and murdering.

Oh, yeah, I know of whom you speak.

Great. Well, I'm sort of his roommate

and I'm trying to get to the bottom of why

his shipmates abandoned him a thousand years ago.

Is very long and sad tale.

It was a very cold morning when the ship set sail from Norway...

And that is story why Thorfinn abandoned.

Not to be rude,

but do you know that your arm is disappearing?

Holy king crab!

I got to get a move on.

Uh, the 4:30 ferry picks up right here?

Most days, yes. Not today.

Today Sámi Day, national holiday.

No ferry today.

No, no, no, t-that can't be right.

See, I was a travel agent when I was alive.

I know every travel-affecting holiday there is.

Sámi Day new.

W-When is the next ferry?

8:00 a.m. tomorrow.

Oh, no.

Is terrible. Samantha should've been back from airport

with Pete hours ago.

Where are they?

This is by far the longest Peter's ever been gone.

I wonder what happens if he completely disappears.

Is it bad that I sort of want to find out?

I disappeared once.

Turns out I was just down a well.

It's a crazy story.

I'll tell you guys about it some time.

I couldn't find Pete.

I waited for him all day at the airport,

but he never showed up.

Oh.This all Thor's fault.

Can't believe we'll never hear

Pete's happy little voice again.

Son of a biscuit!

Voice haunting Thor.

Wait. No, it's Peter!

Oh.

Oh. Oh.

Pete! Thank Odin you're home.

Why weren't you at the airport?

Oh, it was a whole thing.

Basically, Sámi Day threw a wrench in my whole plan.

I had to fly into Newark instead of JFK,

then I had to crawl from the nearest bus stop.

You drove right past me, Sam.

I did? I didn't see...

You didn't see the one arm dragging

the severed torso up your driveway?

I think I might've been texting.

No judgement.

I was once reading a Thomas Paine leaflet

and drove my carriage right into a donkey.

Guess I wasn't showing a lot of "common sense."

Did you find out what happened to Thor?

I did.

Was it conspiracy? Betrayal?

Did ship captain fear that Thor

was threat to replace him due to Thor natural charisma?

Actually...

they just miscounted.

What?

Yeah, I guess they did a head count

and at first a guy named Ivar was wearing a hat

and then he took the hat off and they counted him twice.

So, they left Thor by mistake?

They not even know Thor missing?

Well, they realized their mistake eventually,

but by that point, they were halfway across the Atlantic

and they'd gone the long way to avoid the great monster.

Sure, best to avoid the great monster.

So they just sailed home.

They were so embarrassed by what happened

that they decided to make up a story

and say that you wandered off.

So they just... forget Thor?

I'm sorry, Thor.

According to Gorm, they felt really bad about it.

But not bad enough to turn around.

I dealt with the great monster during travels, once.

It's what we call John Jay's sensitive tummy.

That man could stink up a carriage.

Hey, Bela, you got a sec?

Don't worry, I'm packing up to leave.

Won't be able to mess anything else up for you.

I owe you an apology.

Turns out, Trevor's the one

who ordered the extra shrimp.

He thought you made a mistake

and he was just trying to have your back.

Really? So he still thinks about me?

You know, I met him in person and he's not that handsome.

I'm lying, he's beautiful.

We're never telling Trevor about any of this.

Nope, we're taking this to our graves.

Or, you know what I mean.Yeah.

I'm sorry, okay? I should've trusted you.

Look, I get why you were worried.

I've screwed up at a lot of different jobs.

Maybe because I never really cared about them.

But you're my brother.

This restaurant is your dream.

I take that incredibly seriously.

I might live to regret this, but...

would you maybe want to manage the restaurant?

Wow, that's a serious show of faith.

On an interim basis.

Okay, a little hedge, but still something.

Do you really mean that?

Don't answer. No take backs.

I'm in.

For real, though, Jay,

this is so sweet.

It means the world to me.

Sometimes you're a pretty good guy.

And you'll call Mom and you'll tell her what I did?

Sure. Um, but...

can I borrow your phone?

Mine fell in the toilet.

Sure.

These two dingbats.

God love 'em.

Hey. We just wanted to see how you were doing.

I'm fine, but you might want to ask Thor.

He's processing some terrible news.

Thor, in a way,

your abandonment is kind of a best-case scenario.

It was an accident.

And as I've told the grieving parents

of many factory workers over the years,

accidents happen.

Thor appreciate you all for trying to help, but...

Thor doing okay.

When Pete not return,

Thor not thinking about finding answer to abandonment.

Only thing Thor think about is Pete.

Aw, buddy.

Worrying about friends from past almost make Thor

lose friend from today.

Maybe what Thor really need is to...

let go of past

and appreciate the people that surround him now.

Wow, that's really healthy, Thor.

Thor take two sessions of therapy in four years.

Thor very evolved.

Thor did the work.

I think I'm gonna take a page out of Thor's book

and forgive my mom for leaving me at Target.

Again, not same thing.

No, absolutely not the same thing.

But sort of similar.

Pete...

you come through for Thor

in way that shipmates did not.

Thank you.

Aw.

I love that you're feeling so close to Pete right now.

I don't like where this is going.

I'm just saying, it would be rude of me and Thor

not to thank you properly.

And we're not rude.

If anything should transpire,

please report back regarding "the hammer."

Tell me how you're feeling this week.

Well, I do have some new issues

that have risen to the surface.

I'm listening.

Uh, I almost died

coming back from Norway last week.

It got pretty hairy.

You went to Norway since the last time I saw you?

Sam, say my thing.

Uh, there's more. I was stuck in a well

for a time last year, it was dark.

And wormy. Say wormy.

What else? Oh, right.

I'm still a virgin.

Aren't you married?

Yeah, it's weird.

It's not weird.

Do we really have to do this all together

in the same session?

It's an insurance thing.

Now say mine, Samantha.

Also, I'm very torn up to recently learn that I'm Irish.

I think we're gonna need to start meeting

multiple times a week.

Huh. Honey, she can't afford that.

Captioning sponsored by CBS

and TOYOTA.

Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org