In Sickness and in Health (Fear Itself episode)

Infobox Television episode
Title = In Sickness and in Health
Series = Fear Itself


Caption =
Season = 01
Episode = 04
Airdate = June 26, 2008
Production =
Writer =Victor Salva
Director = John Landis
Guests =
Episode list =
Prev = Family Man
Next = Eater

"In Sickness and in Health" is the fourth episode of the NBC horror anthology "Fear Itself".

Plot

Samantha (Maggie Lawson) is about to be married to Carlos (James Roday), a man whom she loves deeply despite the fact that she has only known him for a short while. She suspects that many people -- including her lifelong friends/bridesmaids Kelly and Ruthie -- think that she is rushing the marriage. Samantha's brother, Steven, hasn't shown up yet; Samantha explains that he is just upset since she is the only family he has. Ruthie then passes Samantha a note that was given to her from Father Chris (William B. Davis), the presiding reverend. Samantha is told it was given to him by a woman in a red headscarf. Alone, she opens the letter and finds a typewritten note which reads: "The person you are marrying is a serial killer."

She meets up with Carlos, hoping to set her fears to rest but finds that she can't relax around him. Samantha meets up with Ruthie and asks for her to point out the woman who gave the Father Chris the note, but she is unable to find her. Outside the church they catch sight of a person with a red scarf getting into a taxi. They return to the church and Samantha accuses Ruthie of opening it before she reminds her that it was sealed.

Samantha and Carlos get married, despite some hesitation and awkwardness during the ceremony. Afterwards, preparing for the reception, Samantha tries to assure her friends that nothing has changed, even though they both notice something is wrong and ask if the note said that Carlos was having an affair. Obviously stressed, she asks them to leave and to agree that no one saw any note. Alone, she hears a knock on the door. She goes out and glimpses a person leaving, wearing a red head scarf.

She meets with Father Chris, and asks him who gave him the note, but he is unable to tell her anything new, but alludes to a tragedy in Carlos' past that she has not been aware of. Later, she talks with Bob (Marshall Bell), Carlos' uncle, who explains that Carlos' parents mysteriously disappeared when he was sixteen, which traumatized him. Carlos interrupts and pulls Samantha away to ask why her friends are being so cold to him but storms off when she can't give him an answer.

Samantha leaves a voicemail for her brother Steven, then confrontations ensue between Carlos, the bridesmaids, and Samantha. Samantha follows Carlos into the church, now dark, where he questions her about the note. When she asks if there is anything he wants to tell her, he responds by laughing, tells her not to be scared and starts to advance on her. Samantha tries the doors, but finding them locked she picks up a candlestick to use in self-defense. She retreats into a confessional booth and Carlos tries to coax her out, rattling the door several times. Without warning he enters the other half of the booth. Samantha tries to escape but finds that it is blocked. Carlos tells her through the grate about a woman who started stalking him and might have been crazy enough to want to ruin their wedding.

Elsewhere, the person in the red scarf enters a room filled with human heads in jars of green fluid and bloody corpses wrapped in cellophane in the chairs. After depositing a dead cat on a table then checking the voicemail (the same left by Samantha) the person is revealed to be Samantha's brother Steven dressed as a woman.

Carlos asks if they can just forget about the note but Samantha reveals that Father Chris accidentally told Ruthie to give the note to the wrong person; the note was not intended for her, but for him. Carlos says he doesn't want to know what it says so as long as they're together, and that "You'll show me when you're ready, promise?" to which Samantha replies "I promise."

She will most likely murder him later.

Trivia

The actors who play the main characters in this episode, Maggie Lawson and James Roday, both star in the television series Psych, and are dating in real life.

Cast

* Maggie Lawson as Samantha (bride)
* James Roday as Carlos (groom)
* Marshall Bell as Uncle Bob
* Sonja Bennett as Ruthie
* Christie Laing as Kelly
* Marie Zydek as Female Body
* William B. Davis as Father Chris

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