Downstairs, Sam and Jay discover a mysterious old PC in the basement—a 1990s “Multimedia Personal Computer” with a bulky monitor and a CD-ROM drive. Plugging it in, the screen glows green: .

“You freed me,” Gary whispers. “So I’ll give you a gift: Most Powerful Corpse mode. Every ghost in this house gets one ‘NPC command’—they can briefly control a living human like a video game character.”

Freeze frame on Pete’s horrified face. Title card: GHOSTS. 80s synth sting.

In the final scene, Gary the game-dev ghost reveals the catch: MPC mode only works if someone in the house dies within 24 hours. Cut to Pete, nervously checking his arrow. “Wait. Does ‘dies again’ count?”