‘Ghosts’ Showrunners Talk Saving Woodstone From An Evil Water Conglomerate & Season 5 Finale Cliffhanger: “The Stakes Are Real”
The Season 5 finale of CBS' Ghosts sees Sam and Jay facing a major challenge as a corporation plans to build a data center near Woodstone Mansion. They seek to secure a historical landmark designation to protect their property, but face difficulties in proving its significance. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as one character mysteriously disappears just before returning home.
- ▪Sam and Jay discover that the mayor sold their bed and breakfast to a corporation transitioning into AI.
- ▪The couple consults the town historian about getting a historical landmark designation for Woodstone Mansion.
- ▪They find out that Nancy, a ghost in the mansion, was once a princess and need to prove her royal status.
- ▪The finale ends with a cliffhanger as Pete vanishes moments before arriving back at Woodstone.
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Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay and Rose McIver as Samantha Bertrand Calmeau/CBS SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 5 finale of Ghosts on CBS. Woodstone Mansion’s fate is up in the air in the two-part Season 5 finale of CBS’ Ghosts. Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) have to come up with a quick solution after they find out that the mayor sold his controlling stake in their bed and breakfast to a giant corporation that used to sell water but is now transitioning into AI, obviously, and they’ve decided the property surrounding Woodstone is a perfect place for a data center. No one in town is pleased, least of all the ghosts who would be doomed to an eternity of bright lights and noisy machines if that evil water conglomerate were to get its way.
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