Halloween II is the first episode in the second season of Chucky.
Synopsis[]
A year after seemingly defeating their nemesis Chucky, the "3 Amigos" Jake, Devon, and Lexy begin receiving mysterious, threatening calls from an all-too-familiar-sounding enemy.
Plot[]
Andy Barclay, held at gunpoint by Tiffany, drives a van filled with Good Guy dolls animated with the soul Charles Lee Ray. Some of the dolls in the back of the van argue, and Andy deduces the dolls are unaware that Tiffany betrayed Chucky to live a life with Nica Pierce. One by one, the Chucky dolls, each with a knife, begin to climb out of the boxes and attack Andy. To avoid being killed, he floors the van and drives into the Hackensack Gorge. The van explodes, killing many of the Chuckies onboard, but Andy's body is not found.
Devon and Jake say their goodbyes to each other, as they both found foster families. They want to stay as a couple, but the two hour drive from Salem to Hackensack is too great a distance. Though Jake promises to visit Devon once a week, the latter is more pragmatic. The two briefly contemplate breaking up and not having a long-distance relationship, but decide against it. They share a kiss, and Jake departs to his new home.
Sixth months later it's Halloween, and Jake is caught between two promises: visiting Devon and taking his foster brother Gary out trick-or-treating. After giving a kid some candy at the door, Jake turns back inside and helps Gary with his Robin mask. Just before Jake is about to go out with Gary, he receives a series of strange phone calls, and believes they are from Chucky. Jake ushers Gary away from the door, and gets into a videocall with Devon. The two realize they both have been receiving threatening calls from Chucky. Just then, Chucky enters the videocall and shows himself to be at the Cross house. Caroline unwittingly lets Chucky in, so Jake and Devon quickly call Lexy and the police respectively, though the former does not pick up, busy making out and snorting her mother’s Clonazepam with her new paramour on her bed.
The police burst into the room and catch Lexy and her teenage lover making out on the bed. They scramble to their feet as the police clear the area. When she learns that Devon had called the cops and reported a break-in at her house, she checks her phone and sees a series of text messages from Jake alerting her to the situation; Chucky is back. When Caroline reveals that she let in a kid who called himself "The Ghost of Halloween Past", Lexy asks if the child was about two feet tall. Caroline responds in the affirmative, which confirms for Lexy what is going on. She asks the cops if they found any dolls in the house, and the cops say they didn't. She asks the cops to remain at the house until their mother Michelle arrives.
The next day, at family therapy, Caroline recounts how Chucky killed all the people in the Hackensack Theatre, including her father, Nathan. Both Lexy and her mother try to convince her that it was Junior, Lexy's deceased boyfriend, who killed everyone. Caroline pleads with her sister to take her side, but as Lexy refuses to process her trauma and denies Chucky's existence. Dr. Mixter gifts Caroline a rare doll from her collection, a Wedding Belle doll. When they arrive home, Michelle conducts an interview with the local press, where she behaves like a typical politician, giving half-answers and trying to present a squeaky-clean smile-filled image to the public after her abysmal polling numbers her re-election campaign for mayor. She kicks the reporters out of the house when they press the issue, and storms off. Later that night and with everyone gone, Lexy drops the ruse. She reassures Caroline that Chucky did kill everyone and to never trust a doll. She bludgeons the doll against the floor for good measure, gives Caroline a knife for her protection, and ties the doll up away from her to a rocking chair.
On the other side of Hackensack, Devon sits alone in his room. Jake climbs in through the window, having snuck away and taken an Uber two hours from Salem. The two contemplate a picture of the Wedding Belle doll Lexy sent them and what Chucky might be playing at, before heading off to her house. The two climb through the window and share hugs. Lexy makes a bitter comment that she's been given the small room. Jake points toward a joint and says flatly that he thought she quit smoking. Lexy, in no mood to be lecture, snaps back that Jake hasn't stopped self-medicating his anxiety. Jake says it's not the same thing, as he has a medical condition, but so long as she's just smoking and not doing anything else, they aren't going to harp on her. They ask if she found out anything about the doll, and she tells them she tried bashing it against the floor, but nothing happened. Michelle, hearing voices, comes down the corridor. Jake and Devon hide in the closet. Lexy tells her mother that she was just singing Caroline a lullaby. Michelle escorts Lexy back to her room and Devon and Jake leave shortly after.
The next morning, Caroline tells Lexy that she has to take her to school and that their mother had already left for the day. She adds that the Wedding Belle doll is just a doll, and not possessed. Lexy tells Caroline she will be just a minute, and pockets two apples. She brings the food back to her room where Devon and Jake are waiting. She tells them that she thinks the other night was just a prank, and excuses herself to the restroom, where she crushes up her several of her mother's Clonazepam and snorts them. Meanwhile, downstairs, there is a knock at the door, and Caroline answers. It's Gary, with Chucky holding a bomb made of fertilizer and butane. Caroline, frozen with fear, lets Chucky and Gary into the house. They are soon joined by Devon and Jake, who are powerless to do anything, lest Chucky detonate the bomb and kill all of them. Chucky says that he's going to kill them all as revenge for foiling his plan to send seventy-two Chuckies all over the world. He tells those present that he's unafraid of a kamikaze mission since there are even more of his incarnations running around. He assures them that he won't truly die and it is therefore worth it to "waste" a life. Lexy, in a haze, begins to walk down the stairs. Her eyes barely focused, she notices Chucky with a bomb and freezes. Just as Chucky is about to detonate the bomb, Devon leaps forward and tases him. The bomb falls to the floor. Gary, naïvely thinking this is all play, carries the bomb into the kitchen and comes face-to-face with the Wedding Belle. He looks at the doll for a few moments before Chucky, appears behind him and pushes the plunger on the detonator, killing himself and Gary instantly.
At Dr. Mixter's office, a District Attorney admonishes the children for building homemade explosives, the trio having been blamed for Gary's untimely death. He informs them that they will be placed in a juvenile detention center for incredibly violent and troubled youths. However, Dr. Mixter intercedes on their behalf, and instead persuades the DA to send them to a Catholic reformatory school for ne'er-do-wells, the School of the Incarnate Lord, where she previously did work. When they arrive, they realize that they had been sent to what was formerly the Burlington Home for Wayward Boys, the orphanage where Charles Lee Ray spent his youth. With Caroline having been given the Wedding Belle doll, and now at the place where Chucky began much of his life of crime, the trio contemplate if Dr. Mixter is in league with Chucky. They don't have much time to dwell on it, however, as they arrive and are greeted by the stern abbess, Sister Ruth. She escorts them inside, and as the new environment settles over them, outside, a delivery driver brings in a suspiciously-shaped package wrapped in brown paper.
Victims[]
- Tiffany (Doll) - Head shot off by Andy.
- Several Chuckies - Destroyed in a van crash.
- Gary - Blown up with a fertilizer bomb.
- Chucky - Suicide by detonating a fertilizer bomb.
Cast[]
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Official Soundtrack[]
- Rilan - Lullaby
- Smart Babies - Five Little Ghosts
- Blakey - Crawl
- Allie X - Devil I Know
- The Wonder Kids - Trust in the Lord
Trivia[]
- Title Card: The Chucky logo is comprised of jack-o-lanterns carved with Chucky's face.
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1981 film, Halloween II.
- The movie Devon remembers Jennifer Tilly playing the Bride of Chucky from is Chucky Goes Psycho, referenced in Seed of Chucky.
- Chucky's phone call to Jake asking "Is Tamara home?" is a reference to the 2008 film The Strangers.
- Chucky saying "And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids", is a reference to the 1969 Hanna-Barbera cartoon Scooby-Doo.
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