#queensjackie

Meanwhile, that same afternoon, Jackie and Fez take a walk following the last day they saw Donna. They go to the Water Tower, then to The Hub and back to her home. In his declaration, Bob mentioned his daughter then left to be alone some time and took his car, the car was found near the lake and both walk there, trying to figure what else could had happen.

By the time they are at the lake, night is approaching and Hyde has got to the Burkhart’s house searching for Jackie to share the new information. He knows the news are going to freak her out, but there’s no one else he would talk to, to know what to do. When he’s told by the new cleaning lady she left hours ago, he panics a little and goes back to the Formans.

As Hyde keeps searching Jackie when he can’t find her at the Formans, she and Fez find an injured animal and they try to put it to sleep so it would stop suffering, but suddenly, something pulls at it and they run from the scene, separating in the process.

What nobody knows is that Jackie has been experiencing strange stuff happening in her house and around her. Lights go off and on suddenly, even during day, her stereo gets on in the same song three times until she gets the record out, but it gets on again in the same song.

It’s ‘Queens of Noise’ by The Runaways, Donna’s favorite song from the band that is the only band they like in common. Something tells her is not the energy being crazy in her house, but that somehow someone is trying to communicate with her, maybe they know something about Donna.

When one night her phone rang and she heard Donna asking for her in a very weak voice before the phone got burned or something, she goes to the police alone and is ignored (that’s what she thinks) by them. So she follows the lights, switching off and on, until it guided her back to her room in her house.

She stops running in the present, after realizing Fez is nowhere to be seen, she starts going back to the injured animal, searching for him and for answers. Back in her room, she has put with paint an alphabet and christmas lights in every letter, hoping the whatever at her house that may know something about Donna could talk to her.

Hyde finds this when he and Kelso sneak to Jackie’s room trying to see if she may be there. Both are surprised with the mess and the creepy alphabet in her wall. Kelso finds first a notebook with various phrases written. “LAKE”, “CREATURE - PORTAL”, “HYDE’S HOUSE”, “YES”. 

The lights go off and the christmas light start dancing over some letters. Hyde and Kelso freak out but soon, Hyde alizes the lighst are forming words. He takes the notebook and starts copying the letter until it reads, “RUN JACKIE IN DANGER LAKE”.

When Kelso and Hyde arrive to the lake, they hear Fez desperately yelling Jackie’s name and Hyde runs to his voice until he finds him kneeling by a– shining hole on a tree. Kelso arrives next, yelling in a high pitched voice, “IT’S A PORTAL!!!!!”

Hyde tries to pass it, but it starts to somehow close as Jackie calls for Fez’s help. Hyde yells her name, telling her to follow his voice to the exit or the entrace, or whatever it is, the point is to get her out. When her hands get out, Kelso reacts first and start pulling at her, Hyde and Fez following until they get Jackie out, even if covered in dirth and scared out of her mind.

She hugs Hyde crying, and Fez and Kelso see the hole closing until they are all sitting in the grass without any lights. They go back to Jackie’s house so she can take a shower and they can talk about what the fuck just happened.

Kelso drives El Camino to the house as Hyde keeps comforting Jackie the best he can and Fez drives the Lincoln back its place. Once in there, Fez tells them Jackie wanted to walk Donna’s last day in Point Place and see if they could find something, but he didn’t know about what is in her room. Kelso tells them about what he found at the station, and Jackie asks Hyde to be in the bathroom as she takes a shower.

They are pissing their pants, Fez asks Kelso why don’t they just tell the police and let them do their job, to what Hyde answers that it seems like the police knows as much as them and they probably don’t want anyone else knowing about it, or it could make a disaster in town.

Jackie is still in shock, she can’t talk and she’s tired as hell. Hyde offers to stay with her that night, but she tells them all to stay. Fez and Kelso walk out the room to her guest rooms, but she incist they should all stay together and maybe they can see why there’s lights in her room. They make a blanket bed for themselves, and Hyde sleeps with Jackie on her bed.

The next morning, Hyde realizes Jackie didn’t sleep. Someone tries to open her door, waking Fez and Kelso up. Pam asks Jackie why she has her door closed and she answers she’s getting dressed for the day. Her mother leaves and they prepare for their next steps.

Jackie tries her best to explain what has been happening to her and how Donna has been talking to her through the lights. No one believes her, even when Hyde and Kelso got a message last night. She tries to show them, but nothing happens, she gets mad at Hyde for not believing her but can’t help wanting to be at his side after what happened last night.

She tells them she passed the hole thinking she may find Donna, but the place she got in was strange, like Point Place but dark and cold, like if years have passed and no one has been living in it for the longest time. It’s the exact same town, same stores and houses, the lake, everything. But all empty, cold and dark, covered in dead plants and dirth.

Then, a monster started to ran towards her and she ran from it until, following Hyde’s voice, she found her way back. She believes the hole was the portal of the creature Donna told her about when talking in the lights, that it lived in the lake. She explains the words she has wrote in the otebook like this.

“Yes”, when she asked if it was Donna. Kelso tells her he believes her, he says it’s impossible not to after what the fuck happened last night. Fez agrees, and Hyde says he believes someone or something is talking to her in the lights, but he isn’t sure it’s Donna.

Jackie considers this now, but tells him about the song and he insists that, if they are dealing with monsters and ghots in the lights, and whatnot, they have to think shit like this is possible. She tries again for Donna to comunicate, but nothing happens.

In that moment, Pam knocks at her door again and tells her she has a phone call. Since her phone got burned, Jackie has to get out and take it in her living room. It’s Red, with the worst news. She starts crying loudly, making Hyde leave the room and finding her crying on her knees with the phone in the floor.

Eric has been found in the lake, dead.

Back in her room, the lights start to go on and off, Kelso yells for Hyde and Jackie to get back. Pam asks what is going on, why is everyone in their house, and why is Jackie crying so loud. Hyde takes Jackie and runs back to her room, still in shock and pale.

Jackie sees the lights and tries to write down the letters but can’t. She says out loud that Eric is dead and that she is sorry, Kelso and Fez get up immediately, but they don’t have time to ask because the lights get crazy again and something closes Jackie’s door as her mother tries to open it but can’t. When Kelso rans to the window, Jackie’s forniture moves to it and they are trapped in the room.

So Hyde takes the notebook and asks the light ghost to talk, it says “NO FAKE ERIC ALIVE HYDE’S HOUSE CREATURE HAS HIM ERIC IS ALIVE”. Hyde conforts the ghost, calling it out and saying if it is really trying to help, why isn’t it clear and how can Eric be alive when Red just told Jackie the police found his body in the lake.

All lights go off and he stands, ready to get back to the Formans because he needs to know about what just happened, how was his friend found, and he knows Red and Kitty, especially Kitty, may need him right n– Jackie’s stereo goes on and Donna’s voice, sounding sick but clear enough to recognize it, calls Hyde.

“You’re worse than we thought, you don’t even trust your girlfriend or your guts”, it says. They all look at each other, Kelso tries to ran again, but the ghost!Donna keeps them locked. “Eric’s alive in your house, through the portal, I can’t get to him”.

As they try to ask her more, the energy in all the house goes off. Nobody will believe them, they get to the Formans to help in what they can. Later, Kelso gets into the morgue during his shift, still pissing his pants and not sure of what is he doing. The Formans will get Erc’s body soon and he offered to be there, but in reality he stepped in to take a look at it.

If the voice that sounds like Donna’s is right, it can’t be Eric in the morgue. He finds the body and, on tears and about to seriously piss himself, he touches the body and realizes it doesn’t feel like flesh and bones. Still scared and crying, he takes a bisturi and makes a wound, but no blood comes out, instead, cotton padding gets out and holy fuck. He pisses himself, but rans to the Formans to inform his friends.

They realize the police may know about the body, which means they can’t be trusted. Fez suggest that if the creature has Eric in Hyde’s house, they should do as they would back in his homeland: kill the bitch. Kelso is scared shitless and says he’s out, that he has done enough, earning Hyde’s rage in the process.

They fight to the point of throwing at each other things that has nothing to do with the situation, like Hyde dating Jackie and Kelso trying to make him and Jackie break up. Jackie and Fez try to calm them down, but when Kelso pushes Jackie by accident to the ground, Hyde loses his cool and beats the shit out of him.

Red steps in when he hears the conmotion from the kitchen, asking Kelso to leave and Hyde to behave since Kitty nor him need any of this crap right now. Fez leaves with Kelso to make sure he gets home, and Red suggests Jackie to go, but she incists in staying for whatever is needed and for Hyde.

He’s bleeding, she knows Kitty can’t see Hyde right now, so she goes upstairs with Red for ice and the first aid kit. He tells her she’s a good girl and she hugs him, saying she’s sorry for all that is happening. Even when she believes Eric is alive, she knows his parents must be in great pain, just like Hyde. 

She helps him with his face and tells him they need to stay focused on what’s important: Donna and Eric. She offers to go back to her house and try to talk to Donna, but Hyde tells her they need to stay with the Formans for the time being, and then they should go to his house. That if Eric is there, maybe they can comunicate with him the same way Jackie has been talking to Donna.

Hyde apologizes to Jackie for not believing her since the beginning, she tells him it’s ok and apologizes for getting angry at him earlier. They stay together, even if a little bit more calmer after talking and realizing they may have a chance to rescue their friends. 

Fez gets back and hears the plan, they stay for the supposed funeral and Kelso gets in the next day for the burial. Fez tells him about the plan, but he incists he is out of it. He sees his friends walking away to Hyde’s car and he gets back home with his parents.

He calls Brooke and tells her he fought with Hyde, and now Fez and Jackie don’t talk to him. She knows about Donna and Eric disappearing, and he decides to not tell her about Eric’s fake dead. She tells him he has to apologize to Hyde after hearing Hyde hit him for Jackie, he incists Hyde never apologized for stealing Jackie, and Brooke laughs at him. 

She explains him why she thinks he is wrong and he breaks down in tears, teling her everything that has been happening. He knows she won’t believe him, but to his surprise, she tells him he was brave when needed and now his friends needed him to be again, he says he doesn’t want to be taken by the monster and she says he doesn’t want him to either.

In his underatnaidng, he thinks Brooke may think he is playing or something. She tells him to go to Chicago to her and Betsy for a few days, he says yes. Before hanging out, she reminds him that the last time they talked, he told her he actually was liking being a cop. Brooke asks him why and he immediatelly responds that he feels useful and not stupid when he gets thanked by some stranger for helping.

“Won’t you feel better if you get to help the people you love?”, she says and he answers that yes, maybe. They say goodbye and she tells him to not put himself in danger for Betsy’s sake, that she doesn’t want her daughter growing up without her father. He says he will leave Point Place right away and she ends the call saying that, “But if you feel you have to help, do it. We will be proud of you, we are proud of you, Michael”.

Kelso hangs up, his friends are already at Hyde’s old house. They put on an alphabet in the living room and christmas lights from the Formans’. No one asked why they left the house after the funeral, mostly because the adults think they need space and Eric’s parents honestly don’t have mind for anything else at the moment. Nobody blames them and they are just focused on bringing back Eric and Donna from wherever they are.

Nothing happens with the alphabet, they search around the old neighboor, that is now mostly abandoned, for a portal or the monster itself and when they realize they aren’t redy for anything like that, they put together all the money they have at the moment to buy some stuff that may help.

They get back t the Burkharts’ for Jackie’s fathers hunting guns and amo, some of his tramps and light that may help them. As they get to the store for more stuff, they recall what little they know about the creature and realize it seems to be attracted to blood and only appears at night.

When they get to the house, they set a tramp to burn the bitch down an decide to call the monster’s attention with their own blood. The three of them cut their plams and leave the blood in its spot, waiting.

In that moment, a car lights the inside of the house and Jackie takes a look outside to where Kelso is parcking. He is still looking like shit aftr his fight with Hyde and tries to convince her to let him in, that he wants to apologize and to help, but she incisit they are fine.

The lights go off, Jackie is near the door when she realizes something is coming from the damn wall in front of her. The Christmas’ lights start signalling letters in the alphabet, and Fez reads RUN when the monster gets out and almost takes Jackie, if not for Kelso thinking faster and opening the door to hit the monster and put Jackie down.

Shit gets real, Jackie takes Kelso’s wrist and runs with him to what was Edna’s room, telling him to jump when they are about to pass their tramp. They get into safety with Hyde an Fez, the monster gets in the tramp and Jackie opens the door for Hyde to throw his lighter on to it. It burns, but only disappears.

I was thinking that after they realize the monster is gone, they would find the portal and somehow, Fez and Hyde would go in there to find Donna and Eric, similar to the scene when Jonathan sees Joyce in the show when she and Hopper go to rescue Will. Jackie and Kelso can see Hyde and Fez, sort of. Donna keeps guiding them with the lights until Hyde and Fez finds her.

She is weak, can barely walk, but Fez helps her as they move furter into the house, to Hyde’s room. She explains she thinks that’s were Eric is. But when they arrive, he isn’t in there. They realize the monster is following him, since the wall is destroyed and they follow the lead without trying to tell Kelso and Jackie.

The police arrive to the house in the real world, none can explain what the hell are they doing and why there is so many tramps and guns in the house, the fire is what called the few neighboor’s attention and the yelling. Kelso tries to talk to the officials, but the lights go off again and the monster appears, they run from the scene.

Finding their friend’s steps again, they follow them to their old, burned down, school where in the Upside Down, Hyde, Fez and Donna find the monster has, like, put eggs or something and Eric is trapped between some sort of plant looking things. 

Hyde reacts first and puts him down, pulling at something he has in his mouth. Like some sort of thing connected inside his friend, he pulls until the thing, a parasite, is out and Fez kills it while Donna and Hyde try to bring Eric to react. He isn’t breathing, and they try to bring him back despertely.

At the same time, the monster follows Kelso and Jackie to the school, to where people shows up, people that isn’t from Point Place, nor the police. They try to catch them, like if ignoring there is a literal damn monster that eats people. As they run, Kelso gets hold of Jackie’s dad’s hunting gun and tells Jackie that maybe the portal will close if they kill the thing.

Just when this new company has them cornered, the mosnter attacks them and they run, it keeps following them until it has Jackie at its mercy again. Eric starts reacting in the Upside Down, and Kelso feels like if he is going to piss his pants again, but in a rush of adrenaline, bravery comes to him and shoots.

Eric wakes up and the world of the monster starts to gets colder. They run back to the portal, Hyde basically carrying Eric while Fez carries Donna. They don’t know what is happening back in the real world, but Kelso shoots again at the monster, it snaps against him, giving Jackei time to run and call for help. He shoots again and finally kills the thing, even when he’s injured, too.

The first thing Donna sees when she wakes up is her dad, he cries and asks her if she is okay but she is too lost to answer. After a few seconds, Jackie and Fez appear to greet her happily. 

Her friends sort of explain her what happened, one talking over the other, she barely understands that they rescue them from another world, from a monster that Kelso killed even when it broke two of his ribs and his left arm with a single blow, that Eric is fine and some secret goverment company faked his dead and was going to fake hers, but because they got into it and found them, they are now away from Point Place.

She starts laughing and after a while, thanks Jackie for believing in her even when someone else would had call it bullshit that someone may be wanting to talk to them in the lights or something. Jackie answers she just knew in her heart it was the rightt thing. 

“God, you are so corny!” 

“Shut up, goon!”

Later, she is put in a wheelchair and Fez takes her with Jackie to see Eric.  He is sleeping but his parents tell them he will be fine, and that Hyde is with Kelso. When they arrive there, they see him talking to Brooke. She greets them and asks Donna if she is okay, after a while, they see a couple of cops and their captain leaving what is supposed to be Kelso’s bed area. They salute Brooke and she walks inside with them.

Donna thanks him, too. He is drugged out of his mind in painkillers and is happily saying how he got to kill the monster. Every time he tells the story, it becomes more dangerous and fantastic, but no one says anything.