Two nights before Phantasma, Ophelia wakes to the new reality of seeing Ghosts throughout Grimm Manor and New Orleans after inheriting the Grimm magic. Most of the spirits ignore her, but some stare and silently beckon, making her grief and unease worse. While she and Genevieve spend the day handling the practical aftermath of Tessie Grimm’s death, Ophelia also feels the new magic building painfully inside her and reflects on how unprepared she feels to wield it.

On the way to the coroner’s office, Genevieve tries to lighten the mood, but Ophelia’s thoughts turn to Devils, Hell, and the difference between romantic fantasies about danger and the frightening reality of power. The Shadow Voice in Ophelia’s mind resurfaces, as it has throughout her life, issuing threats and compulsive instructions. Ophelia remembers that Tessie once explained the voice was not possession but a permanent feature of Ophelia’s mind, something she has been forced to manage with rituals such as repetitive tapping and knocking.

At the morgue, the sisters are shown to Tessie’s coffin for a final farewell. Ophelia is disturbed by how ghostly Tessie looks in the black gown chosen for death, and she reflects on the Necromancer custom of skipping funerals because contact with the dead may still be possible later. Ophelia also recalls sewing Tessie’s eyelids shut with Demon-blessed thread before the body was collected, an act meant to protect Tessie’s rest from unwanted resurrection or possession.

When the coroner asks Ophelia to sign the paperwork and offers an autopsy because Tessie seemed too young to die of a heart attack, Genevieve firmly refuses to let him cut into their mother. After the coroner leaves them alone, Genevieve tries to reassure herself that Tessie’s death was likely a fluke, not a hereditary danger. Ophelia, however, focuses on the terrifying fact that Tessie is not returning and that the entire Grimm legacy and business now rest on Ophelia’s shoulders.

The sisters argue gently over what comes next. Genevieve insists they do not need to decide Grimm Manor’s future immediately and promises she will not abandon Ophelia, but Ophelia believes her own path is already decided. Looking at Tessie for the last time, Ophelia remembers her mother’s lessons, habits, and expectations, and vows that they will meet again someday.

That farewell is interrupted when the Shadow Voice suddenly orders Ophelia to knock on the door three times or die. Overwhelmed by violent images of her own death, Ophelia panics, rushes to the exit, and obeys the compulsion just in time. Genevieve recognizes what is happening and tries to help, but neither sister explains the outburst to the confused coroner, and they leave with their grief, family burden, and Ophelia’s unstable inner torment all still unresolved.