If last year’s special, “Halloween 4: The Witch,” was a surprising homage to Bridgerton and romance, then Ghosts‘ “Halloween 5: The Mummy” is every H-Money fan’s dream. The romantic reunion between Hetty Woodstone and Trevor Lefkowitz is something the series has been hinting at for a while now, but there’s no other way to explain the episode’s ending other than it’s clear now that they’re both hanging by a thread.
Back in Season 4, the two finally addressed their breakup, giving both of them the chance to open up about their individual wrongs as well as how it hurt them. Shortly after, they established their ridiculously perfect new alliance as Power Friends in “Ghostfellas,” and then, they started subtly, but surely flirting. Now, we’re not the only ones who see it.
Ghosts’ “Halloween 5: The Mummy” Is at Its Core About Lost Loves
On any other show, this idea would feel like reaching—eager fans simply wanting to justify that there’s something more underneath the surface. But the writers on Ghosts are smarter than that, and during SDCC, Asher Grodman confirmed that every little thing we see is intentional. Both he and Rebecca Wisocky not only care about the fictional ship, too, but they also know that eagle-eyed fans are going to pick up on everything they put down. They wouldn’t give us an obvious scene that shows the two of them flirting if we weren’t close to their reunion.
More than that, thematically, the episode is all about reuniting long-lost loves and allowing open conversations between former lovers. The romance is all explicitly laid before us. The ancient mummy that’s unleashed and the curse that is thrust upon Woodstone Mansion only breaks after Hetty and Sam tell Amunhotep (Farhang Ghajar) that they’ll reunite him with his love. Instantly, he believes them, and even more quickly, he reverses the curse.
So afterward, as the episode ends and Pete returns to tell them all about the reunion, we get Trevor openly asking Hetty if she can do a Philadelphia accent before his expression morphs into that of a man who’s visibly turned on? (Insert Jennifer Lawrence’s “What do you mean?” GIF here because I still can’t believe how obvious they’re being!?) This truth is then evidenced by the fact that Pete uncomfortably walks away while Flower and Sam both visibly react to the moment as well.
The H-Money scene can’t be accidental, and on any other show, I’d brush it aside. But for Ghosts’ “Halloween 5: The Mummy” to highlight a story about lost romance, then turn around and give us a scene as wildly overt as Hetty saying, “You like that?” and Trevor responding with, “Mhmm?”
Now, it’s unclear when Hetty and Trevor will actually start hooking up again, but it’s no longer subtle that it’ll start happening again. Will the power friends decide to add benefits to the mix? Or will they actually go in for something more exclusive? Regardless, it’s high time it happens—if for no other reason than at the very least so the tension could ease up a bit. But really, because they’re just better together. Glorious and ridiculous, in every way.
