The Outsider

"So I am the only one who can see you?"

Information
The Outsider is the first episode in the TV series Mystic.

Plot
Issie[1] starts the episode by running away from home on her bike, she wants to go somewhere on a bus, but there were no buses because it was a Sunday, causing her to go and ask a shopkeeper for help. She has recently moved from London to Kauri Point[2] in New Zealand because of her dads death, but hates it, claiming that you can’t walk anywhere. She then decides to go for a ride on her bike, entering a woodland area and she then sees a chestnut horse run past her, overlooked by a grey one, which then disappears into thin air. She struggles to make sense of it, suggesting that the horse is running away from something. She meets Natasha, who takes her to the stables, and tells her that the only horses around are the ones in the stables. When Issie asks the people at the stables to help her to look for the horse, they all go to an old abandoned chicken farm, rumoured to hold ghosts. Natasha accuses Issie of taking over, and leaves her. Issie then finds an unknown man trying to take a horse from the stables, and stops him by using her phone as an distraction while getting the keys from his car to unlock the horse float, but she accidentally turns on music, causing the horse thief to chase her, before he is stopped by Tom Avery when he arrives. Issie then goes home and sees the mysterious ghost horse, which she then realises that only she can see.

Trivia
• Issie’s determination to run away at the beginning of the episode reflects how she felt when Mystic died in the books.

• The horse in the float resembles Blaze, the pony in the books that Issie rescues, though the storyline regarding the two is slightly different.

• Unlike the books, Issie actually moved to New Zealand, which is portrayed most in this episode.

• Issie has a bike in this episode, similar to the bike she had in the novels,

• Unlike the novels, Issie has a grandma, in the novels it is an aunt.