Granny Nita gives toddler Jared a jar of blood with animal teeth and names him 'Wee'git,' claiming he is the Trickster.

A raven speaks to Jared at a bus stop, warns him about David, and asks him to keep their conversation secret.

Someone knocks Jared unconscious in his friends' kitchen and steals his wallet, phone, and pot butter while he bakes cookies.

A Native man on a bus tells Jared that Phil is not his real father and that his own name is Wee'git.

Jared realizes Phil has been hiding his disability checks and relying on Jared's cookie money to pay the rent.

Maggie finds out Jared has been secretly helping Phil financially and attacks him, forcing Jared to flee the house.

While hitchhiking home, Jared sees terrifying supernatural features beneath the skin of an old woman who pulls over for him.

Maggie and Richie vanish for months, leaving Jared to pay bills and get food from the food bank alone.

A spirit disguised as Sarah lures Jared toward the woods using his dead dog as bait, then transforms into a river otter.

Jared admits his supernatural visions to Maggie, and she reveals she is a witch and that his experiences are real.

Jared wakes up bound in a muddy cave filled with bones, surrounded by river otter spirits who bite off his pinky toe.

Wee'git freezes time in the otter cave and reveals to Jared that he is both his inner voice and his true father.

Maggie and Richie arrive at the otter cave and Maggie drives off the river otter spirits by lobbing grenades at them.

Nana Sophia learns Phil is not Jared's biological father, calls Jared 'the son of a Trickster,' and ends their relationship.

Jwa'sins drives up to a struggling Jared and brings him to his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, where he receives a chip.

Jared Martin is a sixteen-year-old living with his volatile mother Maggie, coping with addiction and a revolving door of dangerous adults. Strange visions begin haunting him — a talking raven, a stranger on a bus who claims to be his real father — but he dismisses them all as drug-induced hallucinations. After Maggie punishes him for secretly helping his father Phil, his already fragile world begins to collapse further, culminating in a terrifying encounter with river otter spirits who drag him into a cave. The Trickster spirit Wee'git reveals he is Jared's inner voice and biological father before helping Jared escape, and Maggie arrives to drive the spirits off with grenades. The truth destroys Jared's relationship with his beloved Nana Sophia, but it also finally nudges him toward sobriety and the possibility of a better life.

The core events of Jared's journey from troubled teen to reluctant Trickster's son.

Nana Sophia reveals to young Jared that she had a secret DNA paternity test done to confirm he is Phil's son.

Richie's dog Baby is euthanized for heartworm, and Jared and Maggie spend the evening drinking together in his basement bedroom.

At a house party, a girl named Murchadh tells Jared she senses a loss in him and that magic calls to magic.

Jared visits his father Phil in the hospital, where Phil jokes that Jared now understands what life with a witch means.

Richie drives Maggie and Jared to their hunting cabin and teaches Jared how to aim and fire a gun.

Classmate Ebony proposes a business partnership to sell Jared's weed cookies, and they successfully sell a batch together.

Jared's stepsister Destiny shows up at his door and admits she knew Phil had been hiding his disability checks from Jared.

Jared meets the Jakses' eccentric granddaughter Sarah for the first time while helping clean spoiled meat from their broken freezer.

Sarah admits to Jared that she cuts herself to feel something, then tells him his bones appear to be glowing.

A group of crows gathers around Jared while he grills fish at a friend's house and begins speaking to him.

Jared dreams of swimming with wild orcas before finding himself on a fishing boat with the old woman from the highway.

Mrs. Jaks' brothers arrive with a moose to butcher, and Sarah's great-uncles and aunts welcome her warmly despite her fears of rejection.

During Sarah's mushroom trip, she and Jared share vivid visions of glowing fireflies, ancient cave-people, and another dimension entirely.

Ape men spirits begin appearing constantly around Jared's house, and he finds what appear to be dead Baby's paw prints outside.

Jared tells Nana Sophia that Wee'git is his true father; Sophia confronts Maggie, and Maggie reveals Phil always knew the truth.

While Jared navigates his chaotic home life, a series of significant but lower-profile events deepen his story and foreshadow the supernatural storm ahead. He sells weed cookies with his classmate Ebony to support his father, mourns his dog Baby's death, and meets the eccentric Sarah Jaks next door. Strange magic keeps brushing against his life — a girl who senses he is special, crows that speak, a shared dream with an old woman on a fishing boat — but he chalks everything up to substance use. His relationship with Sarah intensifies quickly, and their shared mushroom trip unleashes visions neither of them can explain away. By the time ape men spirits are circling his house and dead Baby's paw prints appear outside his door, Jared is no longer able to pretend nothing extraordinary is happening.

The relationships, encounters, and quieter moments that shape Jared's world.

Before the Martins leave for Kitimat, Granny Nita tells Maggie that Jared is the Trickster wearing a human face, not her son.

Maggie sells Richie's expensive new truck and snowmobiles to pay off the family home's mortgage, celebrating afterward with beer and pizza.

Jared recalls David discovering his report card and breaking several of his ribs before Maggie retaliates by nailing David's feet to the floor.

The night David abuses Jared, his spirit leaves his body and Mrs. Jaks' spirit sings him a lullaby and returns him home.

Jared confronts Phil about secretly hiding his disability checks and declares he will not return to help him anymore.

Jared and Sarah attend a protest on the reserve together, and Jared realizes he can no longer imagine life without her.

Jared attends the All Native Basketball Tournament with Dylan after spending two weeks staying with friends following Maggie's assault.

With Maggie still absent for months, Jared finally asks Nana Sophia if he can spend the summer living with her.

Maggie returns home from her months-long disappearance, dismisses Jared's worry as him being a big baby, and refuses all accountability.

Jwa'sins meets Jared at Pizzarama, tells him a story about a shaman's two sons, and offers to be his guide if he sees spirits.

The Jakses tell Jared they are selling their house and moving to the reservation with Mrs. Jaks' brothers.

Maggie reveals that both Sarah and Mrs. Jaks are witches, explaining that Sarah is magically unstable and Mrs. Jaks refuses to use her powers.

Maggie explains she shot Wee'git in the head and drowned his body after he tricked her into conceiving Jared.

After sharing Jared's magic overwhelms her, Sarah attempts suicide, and her mother bars Jared from the Jakses' house permanently.

Granny Nita writes back to Jared with expressions of love but warns him that Jwa'sins must want something from him.

Beneath Jared's day-to-day survival runs a current of pivotal revelations and turning points that gradually reshape his understanding of himself and his family. The earliest roots trace back to Granny Nita's warning and the childhood trauma of David's abuse, which produced Jared's first unknowing act of magic when his spirit left his body and found Mrs. Jaks. As his relationships with Phil, Maggie, Sarah, and Nana Sophia each reach a breaking point, Jared must confront hard truths about loyalty, love, and his own identity. The discovery that Wee'git is his father costs him his closest relationships but also unlocks the truth behind decades of family secrets, including why Maggie shot and drowned the Trickster years ago. Ultimately, the loss of Sarah and the Jakses pushes Jared toward sobriety and a tentative reconnection with Granny Nita, leaving the door open for a transformed but uncertain future.

The key decisions, discoveries, and emotional shifts that change everything for Jared.