9. Chapter 9 "Into the Unknown"

In a flashback to Halloween before the brothers get lost in the Unknown, Wirt makes a cassette tape for his crush, Sara. Greg gives the tape to Sara's friends, who put it in her jacket pocket. They tell Wirt that another boy, Jason Funderberker, intends to ask Sara out at a party. Desperate to get the tape back without embarrassing himself, Wirt follows Sara to the party and then to the graveyard for ghost stories, oblivious to the fact that Sara is delighted to see him and has no interest in Jason.

A police officer jokingly scolds the teens for being in the graveyard. They scatter, and Wirt and Greg climb up an old stone wall. From the top, Wirt sees Sara finding the tape, and he panics. They jump off down from the wall, landing on train tracks. As Greg finds a frog in the bushes, a train approaches. The brothers jump out of the way and fall into a lake. They sink, both unconscious. In the present, Wirt wakes up and finds himself with Beatrice's bluebird family. He thanks them and heads off into a snowstorm to look for his brother.