"Welcome to Widow's Bay" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Earthquake

Out at sea, Shep chats over the radio with Lonnie, the harbourmaster, complaining about being kicked out of his house. Lonnie is distracted though, looking at his screens; he asks about Shep's heading because there's something odd on the monitor. That's when the power on Shep's boat goes out. As Shep hangs up his radio, he watches as the night sky fills with sea birds and a dense fog rolls in. Before long, all is silent save for the creaking of his vessel, bobbing in the murky water.

In Widow's Bay, a group of teens smoke up in a car as the radio fizzles out. They watch as the streetlights dim, then burst.

Soon, the island starts to tremor-- the first quake in Widow's Bay in twenty years. The mayor, Tom, wakes up in his bedroom and grabs a flashlight, rushing to his son Evan's room. Unfortunately, the teen isn't there.

Answer: The New York Times

As Mayor Loftis heads to his office in town hall, he arrives to find the building crammed with locals, all looking for answers. He consults some of the town staff regarding the timeline for the outages, which should be actively fixed by Mitch, but there's no answer, and Rosemary, one of his clerks, is more interested in gossip than solutions. The south point of the island should be back up shortly.

In the meantime, Tom has bigger fish to fry. In addition to making sure the local restaurant, The Salty Whale, doesn't close down for the day, he has to prepare for a travel writer to arrive. As it turns out, the outages couldn't come at a worse time because a reporter from the "New York Times" is planning on featuring Widow's Bay in an upcoming article. The Salty Whale just happens to be the only nice restaurant on the island; it has to be open, and Wayne needs to make sure it's working, with an available table seat, and without Kathy being present.

It's desperately important that this article be a hit; summer tourism would change Widow's Bay.

Answer: The harbourmaster's

Tom settles into his seat while he waits, hopefully, for the reporter to show up, and after speaking with Patricia and asking her to be supportive for the day, he receives his schedule and updates from his secretary, Ruth, who indicates that his rotary club lunch has moved to Monday and he received numerous calls from Wyck Crawford and the sheriff.

He calls the latter first and finds out that Shep Clark, who was out in his fishing boat the previous night, has been declared missing, possibly a result of the heavy fog that's settled in the water offshore. The fog is so dense, apparently, that the harbourmaster wants to cancel all ferry operations until it clears. Tom is against the idea-- they get 360 days of fog in a year-- but this is somehow different. And despite that, the 11:00am ferry has already arrived.

The reporter's on it. Tom has to rush over to collect him.

Answer: Witch burnings

Tom makes it to the ferry to complain about the early arrival but discovers that the writer from "The New York Times", Arthur, has arrived safe and sound, and has already been directed to the historical society building to await his pickup. Tom finds him in Gerrie's care as she recounts the town's history which, to put it briefly, was a bit melancholic...perhaps even a bit sordid considering the conditions of the local fishing industry. Tom fills in the other blanks, chiefly that the town of Widow's Bay was founded by forty-two (or forty-three) people who arrived from the mainland to start fresh. He calls the island a blank canvas; Gerrie reminds them that it was empty except for 'the teeth'. It's all thanks to the town's first mayor, Richard Warren who, subsequently, led the town through its first witch trials.

Arthur remarks that even with the local colour, something said to him on the ferry struck him as odd, specifically that the town of Widow's Bay seems prone to bad things happening. Tom rationalizes that seaside towns are subject to a lot of tall tales and, yes, just like Arthur heard, some of those tales might have involved cannibalism. But those stories were exaggerated over time, obviously.

Answer: Shuttering the town

Tom brings Arthur out into the town to get a taste of the local flavour, insisting it's the only way to truly understand Widow's Bay. During this, Arthur comments on the lack of cell reception, but Tom brushes it off, saying that most revel in the peace and quiet it affords. It is weird, nonetheless. Handing Arthur a map and recommending a couple spots (the lighthouse is the second oldest in America!), Tom lets him know that they'll meet at The Salty Whale for dinner. Best lobster in the country.

Tom quickly returns to town hall for a meeting but brings it back around to the writer in town, mainly due to his concern of having a good showing. They have 24 hours to make it work, and he knows that, at the very least, Gerrie at the historical society has been saying the wrong things. Dale, one of his employees, is set to walk Arthur around to the good landmarks, leaving out the old hospital. Rosemary reminds that it's okay to drive by the hospital, they just can't stop.

Wyck interrupts the meeting, asking Tom to shut it down. Shep, he reminds the room, is missing, lost in the fog. Widow's Bay's curse is starting back up again, having been dormant for years; they need to sound the siren from the 1940s. Tom refuses to accept the town's history, he says. Tom disagrees, claiming that the only thing the town is in danger of is crumbling infrastructure, and that requires cashflow, and that requires tourists.

The argument only ends when the sheriff calls in; Tom lets the room know they found Shep. Turth is, they didn't, but Tom insists he'll turn up.

Answer: The Boogeyman

Tom lets Patty know that he's heading out but she stops him and calls him out on his lie-- no one knows where Shep is yet. He has to ask if she believes in Wyck's nonsense and she reminds him that, many years ago, she encountered the Boogeyman. Back in high school, she was home along on the night he came. It was the most terrifying thing that ever happened to her; she still sleeps with the dresser in front of her door at night. Tom reasons that the Boogeyman only murdered teenage girls and, now, Patty's in her forties, so she'll be fine.

Tom returns home and calls out for Evan who, as it turns out, is out on the back steps smoking pot, much to his father's disapproval. It's time, Tom decides, for a talk, though he doesn't know what to say or what to do. Evan feels like the island is already a prison for him, but despite this, Tom worries about his safety and he's doing all he can to change things. It's just going to take time.

Of course, that's when the sirens start going off across the island.

Answer: Souls

When Tom and Patricia arrive at the harbour, they find Wyck and Lonnie having set up the siren to start the early warning system (in light of the fog). Tom negotiates, allowing Wyck to speak to him for five minutes about his worries, and with that they head to the bar nearby to hash it out.

Wyck doesn't have all the information, as he admits, because the town has its secrets, but something rotten is afoot. It all starts, he says, with the quake from the previous night; that event correlates to others in the past wherein locals also experienced 'a fog that stole souls'. It started with the victims' eyes turning white, then the loss of the five senses followed, and on and on. It could be possible, he claims, that they are being visited by the revenants of doomed sailors, back to cause havoc.

Tom can't help saying something, and this is enough for Wyck to walk out, certain that the mayor will never do the right thing. The man admits that he can't trust Tom in his role-- he thinks he's too much of a coward-- and because of that, Widow's Bay is likely doomed. Before Wyck departs, however, Shep stumbles into the bar and collapses.

Answer: No

Shep is brought to the emergency room and put into a stable condition. This said, it's clear he took a nasty fall and they need to keep him sedated, if only to wait until the swelling in his head goes down. The doctor's not worried; he'll be out until morning.

Tom heads into Shep's room to find Patricia talking to the unconscious patient, believing it to be a help, but since he's not in a coma, Tom says, it's not really going to do much. It gives Tom the chance to sit, alone, with Shep, and much to his surprise, the sedated man's records indicate that he wasn't inebriated during the time he was missing, supporting Wyck's claim that Shep had been sober for weeks before the fog rolled in. Tom doesn't notice as Shep's eyes open-- despite the sedatives-- to show nothing but white. Shep reaches out and grabs Tom, causing the both of them to tumble to the floor, before he collapses in a heap and is unable to be resuscitated.

The evening, Tom receives a call from Shep's doctor, but sidesteps asking, point-blank, if there was something truly odd going on. Unfortunately, there's no time to dig deeper into the situation; he's late for his dinner with Arthur at The Salty Whale.

Answer: Martha's Vineyard

Tom heads to The Salty Whale but almost seems distracted, occasionally losing track of his conversation with Arthur. Fortunately, Arthur loved visiting Widow's Bay; he goes so far as to ask why it isn't as popular a destination for east coast tourists as Martha's Vineyard (to which Tom laughs out loud). One thing stood out as weird during his wandering, specifically that a lot of locals believe that if you're born in Widow's Bay, you can't leave. Tom jokes that it's an old wive's tale, even though there are locals that went to the mainland and died shortly after stepping foot there. It's remarkable how superstitious everyone is.

Their waitress Kathy, meanwhile, heads back to get their food but instead takes a smoke break and finds herself distracted by the fog rolling in. Though Arthur goes on about the quaintness of the island, Tom once again finds himself looking away from their chat, gazing out the windows as a dense fog comes through. He nervously excuses himself to phone his son, but doesn't get through before the lights go out.

Answer: Yes

While Wayne, who owns The Salty Whale, offers to go out to check the breakers during the power outage, Tom attempts to convince him out of wandering out into the fog. This escalates into a physical altercation before Tom shouts that there's something out there in the fog. Ironically, that's when the lights flicker back on and the fog starts to lift-- moments after making a bit of a fool of himself. Arthur jokes that Tom must want Widow's Bay to be Salem instead of Cape Cod, but he doesn't need to lay on the gimmicks.

As everyone heads out, Wayne locks up the restaurant and says goodnight to Tom who, contemplating the event, stays past lights out. No one notices that the Kathy has yet to return from her smoke break. Tom grabs the keys that were left behind and makes motions to leave, but Kathy finally appears behind him to hand over his bill.

Far underneath the town, even lower than the cellar-- even lower than the corridors beneath the cellar-- is an empty chair with wrist restraints, and in front of that, a closed, metal cellar door.