Revival Trivia Quiz

Answer: His fifth business

Jamie Morton first met Charles Jacobs, his minister, when he was 6 years old playing with an army set - a gift from his sister, Claire - shortly after his birthday. Charlie Jacobs, who showed up a week before his son and wife were to arrive in their small town, instantly took to Jamie, inviting him out to his garage to show off an electric model he created called Peaceable Lake. By the time all of the kids in town had actually seen it, it wasn't really special, but for a short time, it seemed like magic. It also showed Jacobs' fascination with electricity.

One day, while Jamie's brother, Conrad, went skiing, he was hit in the neck with a ski pole, causing him to lose his voice. Jamie went to the good reverend for help and it led him and his siblings to bring the mute boy to the parsonage to try out a mysterious invention called the 'electrical nerve stimulator'. And it worked! For the cost of prayers, Connie's voice came back.

Answer: The deaths of his wife and son

After a few years in town, Charlie Jacobs' wife, Patsy, and his young son, Morrie, died in a horrible accident involving their vehicle and a farm tractor. Morrie's face was removed in the crash; Patsy's arm was torn off. It wasn't until Jamie's mother, on her deathbed with ovarian cancer, recalled the event to remind her son of the terrible trials that followed. During a sermon on Thanksgiving not long after, Reverend Jacobs likened religion to an insurance scam and decried faith, alleging that the church's followers should look to the lightning for a power greater than themselves.

Before Jacobs left town, Jamie visited him one last time. Jacobs told him that up on Skytop, a nearby hill, there was an iron rod sticking in the ground and if he went up there, he could see what happens when lightning strikes. He left Peaceable Lake at the church, but shortly after the locals cleaned out the church, no one saw it again.

Answer: Rhythm guitar

The reason Jamie Morton picked up the guitar was a bit long-winded. His brother Conrad's friend, Ronnie Paquette, had a grandfather - Hector the Barber - who played once and it inspired Con and Ron to create their own band. Conrad wasn't that great, but Jamie picked up his guitar at one point and took to it quite well. Somewhere down the line, early in high school, Jamie went to an audition in the band room set up by Conrad, and it's what led him to join a high school band playing the rhythm guitar.

Originally, they were the Gunslingers; they became the Chrome Roses. It allowed him to get his first steady girlfriend, Astrid Soderberg, and it shaped a great portion of his life. Eventually, he went off to college, but he kept going with the music.

A band always needed rhythm guitar.

Answer: 'Portraits in Lightning'

Working in the travelling band lifestyle took its toll on Jamie. He picked up heroin in the 1980s and early 1990s, partly to deal with an addiction to morphine built up when he injured his leg in 1984. In the early '90s he came across Charlie Jacobs again, this time performing as Daniel Jacobs (taking his middle name) as part of a sideshow attraction called 'Portraits in Lightning'. At the Tulsa State Fair, Jamie watched as, right before his eyes, Jacobs used his electricity to make a woman named Cathy Morse seemingly transform before their very eyes, and most definitely in a photograph. When he saw the changes before him, Jamie fainted.

Jamie came to in a trailer - Jacobs' own - and his former minister helped him get what he needed, just a little bit of heroin, but he also gave him a possible way out. If Jamie wanted to get better, Charlie Daniel Jacobs could provide with the power of electricity...to the frontal lobe.

Answer: Recording studio

In a rented warehouse in West Tulsa, Jamie was sat down in a seat and Jacobs places a device around his head. With the press of a switch, before Jamie even realized, he was out like a light. Something happened.

According to Jacobs, it was a restructuring of the brainwaves. After Jamie blacked out, they chatted for hours, and Jamie would never need to take heroin again. And that was the truth. Something happened.

One night, a while later, Jamie woke up naked in the backyard of his boarding house, trying to jab into his own arm with a needle-like object. He felt as though something were controlling him to do so. Something weird also happened to Cathy Morse who, according to her enraged husband, believed she was acting delusional after her photo was taken.

Jamie continued to work with Jacobs for the summer, but at the end of the season, Jacobs bought him an Amtrak ticket to Denver and they parted ways. It would not be their last time together.

Answer: 'Prismatics'

Despite horrible dreams plaguing him on the way to Denver, he made it in due time and took a unique job working at the Wolfjaw Ranch and Recording Studio under the management of a man named Hugh who, as it seemed, owed Charlie Jacobs a favour after a similar healing session. After a few years on the job, Jamie discovered that Jacobs had returned, this time as a pastor and evangelist for a touring old-time tent revival. It's when they discovered that their healing common bond had returned in this form that Hugh told Jamie the truth: he used to be deaf. When Jacobs found him in Detroit and took him in at his new and used electronics store on the 8 mile stretch, he had Menieres Disease and was deaf, but Jacobs brought it back with his hidden electricity, and better than before at that. The only catch was that Hugh seemed to have moments where his vision tightened and the world around him would sharpen in colour. He called these moments 'prismatics', but could never explain them as anything but an after-effect, much like Jamie's dreams.

At the tent show, Jamie and Hugh sat in the back and watched as many were 'healed' of their ailments as Jacobs took them into his hands. During the event, Hugh had to leave, however. He later told Jamie that he had a horrible instance of prismatics at the tent, causing him to see everyone in the revival, including Jamie, as giant ant-like creatures. He asked to leave and made Jamie promise never to mention Jacobs' name in his presence again.

Answer: Upstate New York

Jamie didn't drop the Charlie Jacobs thread though. Partnering with Bree Donlin, the daughter of one of his co-workers, Georgina, they searched the names of the people appearing at Jacobs' revivals- both the one Jamie attended and the ones found online - and discovered that some of those who were 'healed' had been befallen with unfortunate circumstances, occasionally being admitted to institutions for unrelated compulsions and psychological issues. Cathy Morse, who Jamie remembered from 'Portraits in Lightning', was among them.

Jamie decided to go right to the source, pursuing Jacobs to his estate in the Catskills, Latchmore, where he was let right in to discuss the new business. Although Jacobs was put off by Jamie's forthright discussion points, he still took his former partner out to his lab in a renovated tool-shed out back to reinforce the fact that his experiments with electricity were still going strong and that he would not stop considering his advances. The secret electricity, after all, was his life's work. That said, he would be stopping his evangelist job as it was only a means to an end. Before Jamie left, Jacobs offered him a job as an assistant but would not tell him the finer details. Jamie, of course, refused and departed, but Jacobs warned that their destinies were still intertwined. Their business together was far from over.

Answer: Cancer

Time passed after Jamie's visit to New York. As Bree moved to New York City and got married, she was in touch less and less with Jamie and their discussions of Jacobs got fewer and further between. As Jamie neared 60 years of age, he headed back to Maine for his brother Terry's wedding anniversary, falling back into old memories and meeting his great niece. He even got to play with his old high school band-mates in the Chrome Roses.

The following winter was when Jamie received a hand-written letter from Charlie and another, enclosed, sent to Charlie by Jamie's first girlfriend, Astrid. Astrid wrote to Charlie because her friend (and partner), Jenny, sought out his help many years before and found the cure. Astrid, a heavy smoker all her life, was finally succumbing to lung cancer and it was her last effort to find help. Jamie, feeling that he had to do something, finally agreed to Charlie's request for assistance, even if only to save Astrid, but by saying yes to the request, he would also be doing whatever Jacobs asked of him whenever he needed it.

And so Jamie flew back to Maine and his hometown (again) to find Jacobs' new home, an abandoned ski lodge near Skytop and Goat Mountain. It was there that Jacobs informed him of his records; he had cured more than 3,100 people by secret electricity. In the end, less than 3% had any after-effects or issues. And with that, they prepared Astrid for her healing.

Answer: Mother

Instead of using rings like he had in the past, Charlie used rods to cure Astrid, cranking the switch to rid her of her lung cancer before their very eyes. The oddest thing to Jamie, however, was the moments in which Astrid blacked out during her curing, when she warned of a door of ivy and 'Mother' being on the other side above the broken city, above the paper sky. She was cured, absolutely, but something happened.

Astrid left the next day; both she and Jenny seemed eager to leave. Jamie headed home shortly thereafter, knowing that someday Jacobs would call upon him. It was shortly after returning to Denver that Jamie heard back from Bree again - another suicide - and this one left a note saying "I can't stop seeing the damned. The line stretches forever." All of the research led to a book that Jacobs may have read known as the 'De Vermis Mysteriis', a book the Catholic Church rumoured was destroyed but was said to be the basis of H. P. Lovecraft's "Necronomicon".

Jamie received the call from Jacobs in the late summer and returned to Maine. He didn't return alone though. Jenny was also invited back to the lodge, and in a few days, Jamie would meet the final resident set to assist Charlie in his final experiment.

Answer: To see what lay beyond death

On the final day in Maine, a horrible storm neared and Jacobs finally told Jamie enough of the truth. Although he spent years keeping tabs on his patients with private investigators, he also hired men to find his 'Patient Omega', his final patient, and he found that in a Irish woman named Mary Fay who was afflicted with Creutzfeldt-Jacobs syndrome through infected blood after a car accident that killed her family nearly took her life. His plan was to use her and the power that runs through the universe (his secret electricity, the 'potestas magnum universum') to peek through the keyhole of the doorway to the other side. In his latest days, he's wanted to know what happens on the other side from someone who's been there, and to do that, Mary was taken off life support just as the storm hit. She would be revived and he would find his answer.

Jamie brought Jacobs up to Skytop while Jenny fled into the night, her job complete when she pulled the plug on Mary Fay, and with him he brought a box containing a circlet. Using its powers and the powers of the universe flowing through Jamie, Jacobs was indeed able to harness the powers of the storm and the other side to bring Mary back to life, and in grabbing her (and having Jamie grab him), they glimpsed the beyond and the shambling bodies of the dead on the other side. And the horrifying ant-like creatures controlling the dead. And Mother and those beyond. There would be no death, no light, and no rest in the Null.

Jamie reemerged onto the material plane to see Mary Fay inhabited by something from the other side, and using the revolver hidden by Jacobs in the room, he shot Fay while she transformed, stopping anything from coming through to the other side. After that, he headed out into the storm and blacked out.

It took some time before Jamie realized what happened, but he fled to Hawaii shortly after, partly to get away from Maine but partly because of his brother, Conrad, who was Jacobs' first patient, technically. Shortly after the events at Skytop, Conrad's personality changed. He killed his boyfriend and tried to kill himself, failing and being institutionalized instead. He wasn't the only one. When Jenny returned home, Astrid killed her and then killed herself. In the years to follow, most of Pastor Danny's patients would commit suicide, killing many around them in the process. Jamie reasoned that Mother needed sacrifices.

After the events at Skytop, Jacobs died of an apparent stroke. Jamie staged the scene to make it look like the former pastor killed Mary with the gun in the room. When he fled to Hawaii, he also moved into the institution with his brother, partly to help him out but partly to help himself. Tempered by antidepressants, he hoped that perhaps the visions were lies, but deep down he knew that one day, perhaps when all of the others had been sacrificed, Mother would come for him as well, coercing him to open the door behind the ivy and bring him back to the Null.