February 26, 2014 - Manhattan, New York
The sound of a organ fills the air of a huge church in downtown Manhattan, New York, as a crowd of people, mourners, look on at the front of the church where
there lies a casket, a mahogany wood casket gleaming off of the lights inside the church. The music plays only briefly, before stopping to allow the pastor of the
church to speak, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember the life of Egon Eli Spengler, doctor & chief investigator of the paranormal sciences."
The church is filled to the brim with many of Egon's distant family members, even his friends & confidants Raymond Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, Walter Peck
the former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency of New York, Peter & Dana Venkman, Dana's son Oscar, Janine & Louis Tully, & a peculiar blonde
woman sitting at the edge of the front row pew, lightly wiping her nose with a handkerchief. As the funeral goes on, Egon's former friends Peter, Ray, & Winston
come up to the podium to memorialize their friend and share their greatest memories of Egon. As the funeral comes to a close, the pastor that is leading the
funeral service speaks, "By request of the family, I would like Jillian Holtzmann, Egon's niece to please come up and say a few words." Jillian Holtzmann, the
blonde girl sitting in the front row lightly wiping her eyes with a handkerchief looks up disturbed, pointing herself as if to say, "Me?". The pastor motions for Ji
llian to stand up and come to the podium and she hesitantly walks up to the front of the church and stands before the throngs of people. "Uh, as you already
know my name is Jillian Holtzmann, and I am the estranged niece of Egon Spengler. Uh, there wasn't much I knew about Egon, other than that when I was a
child, he liked for me to call him Uncle Eggs, you know, because it sounds like eggs!" Holtzmann gave a light chuckle, and in the crowd, a grin spread across
Ray's face, but other than that, crickets. "Uh well I guess that's it, my uncle will be missed tremendously and that he is indeed in a better place." Holtzmann
points upwards, again trying to make light of an extremely awkward situation, but again, crickets. As Jillian steps down from the podium, the pastor takes his p
lace once again, "Thank you Jillian, for that wonderful eulogy, now I would like to welcome another guest." As Jillian walked back to her spot in the front pew,
she felt her face getting red hot as she looked around at all of the precarious looks she was getting from people, obviously very few people knew that Egon had
a niece.
As the funeral comes to a close and people begin to filter out of the sanctuary, Jillian makes a bee line for the front doors, desperate to get out of the church and
away from the eyes that had been staring her down since she had went to the podium, reluctantly of course. As she's leaving however, she is stopped by the
voices of Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, & Winston Zeddemore, "Jillian wait!" "Jillian"! "Hey Jillian!". Jillian turns around to see Peter, Ray, & Winston behind her,
Ray does the talking, "Hey Jillian wait up, there's something we need to show you, something that Egon has left behind specifically for you.".
As Jillian is riding down the busy streets of downtown Manhattan, a very particular, but familiar firehouse comes into view, "That's it right there Jillian, our old
home." As Jillian, Ray, Peter, & Winston step onto the pavement, Ray looks onward opening up the huge double doors. "This Jillian, was our headquarters when
the Ghostbusters business was in it's prime! The original Ghostbusters were centered right here, me, Peter, Winston, and of course your uncle Dr. Egon
Spengler." Jillian looks to Ray, "You guys did know my uncle had a niece right?" Peter speaks up, "Uh yeah, we knew Egon like a book, there wasn't any part of
his life that was kept secret from us!". Jillian looks relieved, "Well that's good, people in there were looking at me like I was a circus freak." Ray guides Jillian
into the old firehouse, "Oh that's just because if you weren't that close with Egon, he was very well closed, like a book. Only opening once you got to know him,
take our word on that one!" As the gang walks deeper into the firehouse, the years of neglect and depilation were very clear. Jillian spots cobwebs and broken
wood up in the banisters, and what even looked like holes in the roof, "Say when's the last time this place got a good renovation?" Winston comes in this time
with a witty answer, "Never." Peter finishes, "When we originally bought it, this place had been closed as a firehouse for several decades already, we just came
in, set up shop, and bing botta boom, we had ourselves a profiteering ghost catching business!". As Jillian is examining the pole that the guys used to slide
down, Ray's voice sounds from the building's garage, "Hey guys come see this, you won't believe it!". Winston, Peter, & Jillian race to the garage where Ray is
unveiling a vehicle from a dusty old cover, "I can't believe this" Ray says, "Egon must've reinstated the Ecto-2 back to the Ecto-1 at some point." As the whole
cover comes off, there in all it's glory is the original Ecto-1 with the fading Ghostbusters logo on the side of car, like a call to a very distant past. As Ray's
excitement reaches a climax, he climbs into the driver's seat to discover an old 8-track tape. "Hey guys, look it's the 8-track tape of our theme song, I bet it still
works too, oh and look it's the keys!" With that, Peter & Winston both hopped in the Ecto-1 and Ray started it up. "Wow, this is incredible!" Winston felt a wave
of nostalgia, "Feels like the old days." Peter gives a smile, "I love this plan!". Ray signals for Jillian to open the garage as he puts the 8-track tape player in and
hits the gas pedal. Jillian steps out of the garage into the street, as Ray flips a switch to start up the ever familiar siren that blazed through many a street. With
the Ghostbusters theme song blaring through the car's aging speakers, Ray pulls the Ecto-1 out into the street with sirens going, only for smoke to begin
pouring out of the hood, with the car's engine giving an abrupt end to the original team's nostalgia trip. The three jump out as they cover their noses from the
toxic fumes Ray says, "Well that was great for the minute it lasted." Peter pumps his fist once he's out, "To Egon!". The four of them share laughs as the aging
Ecto-1 is crippled back into the garage.
At the end of the tour, after the fun and games had ended, Ray, Winston, & Peter stood at the doors of the firehouse with Jillian standing before them. Ray once
again leads the team, "Well Jillian, it's been fun, but this place, this sacred place of history now, belongs to you. Egon left the firehouse to you in his will, as he
bought the firehouse from preventing it from being sold to someone else, he considered this to be the pinnacle landmark of the Ghostbusters lore, and now it is
in your control, as he would've wanted it." Ray drops the key to the firehouse into Jillian's hands, as Jillian closes her hands around the key she says, "Thank
you guys, I'll be sure to do this place justice and dedicate every minute I spend in here to the paranormal sciences and investigations." Ray smiled at that
notion, "Egon would be proud of you Jillian, he really would be."
As Ray, Peter, & Winston drive off leaving Jillian the only one standing at the entrance to the firehouse, she looks around the exterior, then walks inside and
looks around, a smile gradually spreading across her face at the prospects of what she could do with an enormous piece of property, all to herself.
