Nancy Drew Review – The Voices in the Frost (3×09)

This is what nightmares are made of. 

Every single episode of Nancy Drew is chilling, but Nancy Drew Season 3 Episode 4 was the perfect kickoff to Halloween weekend! 

There’s a handful of iconic villains and monsters in this universe — Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, and the Sandman.

While the Sandman is oftentimes a force of good in European folklore as he is said to bring good dreams, on the other side of the coin, he’s known to haunt nightmares in many horror films. 

And naturally, in Horseshoe Bay, not only does the Sandman take hold of people’s dreams, but he also is able to haunt them on both planes — the real world and the dream world. 

Pretty soon, the Drew Crew was fighting the urge to fall asleep because whenever they did, they came one step closer to death.

At first, the hallucinations made them face their biggest fears. For Ace, that was his ordeal with papa Bobbsey. For Nancy, it was a mix of not acting on her feelings for Ace and the unsolved mystery of the Frozen Heart Killer. 

For George, it was the return of her biological father, while Nick’s was the youth center being all for nothing. 

This was followed by sleepwalking that caused them to nearly kill themselves. 

And finally, once they became trapped in their nightmares for good, whatever happened to them in their dreams also happened to them in real life. 

Therefore, staying alive was a top priority.

Everyone was seemingly affected by the “sleeping spell” except for Bess, who went above and beyond to save her friends despite feeling quite unappreciated by them. 

I didn’t notice it until Bess brought it up, but they have been brushing her and her ideas off. No one has been taking her seriously, but in reality, she’s the only one that’s doing things “by the book.” 

Bess is a walking historical society. She’s the Giles to Buffy and the crew. 

She deserves more respect simply because she’s always equipped to clean up all of their messes. 

It was awesome to see Nancy take a backseat for once while Bess takes the wheel of the Bess bus.

Also, can the Bess bus become a thing?

While people who experience lucid dreaming usually report hellish effects, Bess channeled that to her advantage in order to enter everyone’s dream realm and pull them to safety. 

Then, she pursued the Sandman in the dream, while Ryan was simultaneously pursuing it in the real world. 

Once the sand creature was killed in both the dream world and reality, they were all safe to finally get some much-needed shut-eye.

It’s also nice to see a Bess and Ryan team-up for once. The show is lucky in the fact that any pairing is a complete hit. The cast knows how to play off of each other so well.

How hilarious were they for geeking out over the realization that the Sandman got its name after being created from sand at Piper Beach?

Ryan is really flourishing and was a helpful assist on this case, especially since the kids at the youth center loved him so much. 

Also, talk about a bummer of an opening for Nick’s center. While three kids made use of it, much of it was sidetracked by a supernatural entity raining havoc on the town.

I guess when you live in Horseshoe Bay, you should always expect the supernatural, spirits, and serial killers to crash the party. 

Things didn’t calm down once they defeated the Sandman, however. They may have eliminated one threat, but many others were still looming large. 

Nancy kept digging into Trott’s warning and realized that there was another killer running amok. 

DA Rosario seemed to come to that realization at the same time when another body with its heart completely removed from its chest showed up on the street. 

This time, it was Jake, the cafe owner, who complained about Nick’s youth center and got into a public feud with Nancy.

She recently threw a cup of hot coffee at while sleepwalking, so my guess is that she’ll be questioned once again for her involvement. 

What does this second killer want? And what is this “part of something bigger” warning all about?

Carson and DA Rosario are definitely crushing on each other, so aside from cooking her a delicious primavera, he also offered to help her hunt down an associate by the name of Asher who was last seen at a cannery. 

He tasked Ace, the self-proclaimed tech billionaire, to help him focus some surveillance footage in hopes that it might shed light on people who last saw him. 

You could say Carson was pretty shocked to see Ace’s mug on that footage, and Ace has a lot of explaining to do. 

Thankfully, we know it’s a lot worse than it seems. 

If the surveillance footage spotted them together, it likely also saw Ace kicking Bobbsey out of his car when he realized what was going on. 

Ace might not want to hurt Amanda, but he’s going to have to cooperate to make a case against her father. Not to mention he has the drug package in his car that Mr. Bobbsey has been delivering around town. 

At this point though, Amanda doesn’t even really exist, so I don’t think he has any loyalty to her. I, for one, am fully on board with Ace and Nancy’s relationship. 

The writers teased their hook-up briefly, but it’s clear that Nancy’s subconscious is going to pester her until she makes her feelings known. And at the rate that they are all having a brush with death, maybe they should get everything off of their chests ASAP?

Elsewhere, Bess declared that she was joining the Women in White, a modern-day version of the coven to harness her power, while George tracked down her father, Edwin, who is a pediatric dentist. 

Is it crazy of me that I’m suspicious of the guy and think he’s somehow involved in the murders in town?

Anyone that just shows up out of the blue is on my suspect’s list! 

What did you think of the episode?