Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Lydia begins seeing Beetlejuice lurking in the audience during her supernatural talk show Ghost House, which serves as an early warning that the demon is attempting to cross back into the living world. This vision occurs before any summoning happens, suggesting Beetlejuice has been sensing an opportunity to return and has been drawn to Lydia specifically because of her past connection to him.

• lydia deetz
• beetlejuice
• ghost house
• talk show
• visions

Richard is Lydia's ex-husband who disappeared mysteriously two years before the story takes place. It is revealed in the afterlife that Richard works as an employee at the soul train station, having died at some point. He saves Lydia and Astrid from the Sandworm on Saturn's moon and helps them return to Winter River.

• richard
• astrid's father
• disappearance
• soul train station

Jeremy, who is actually a ghost, promises to help Astrid reunite with her long-lost father in exchange for her help restoring his life. When Lydia confronts him in the afterlife, Jeremy proposes a deal: he wants Astrid's hand in marriage in exchange for her safe return. This reveals his true intentions were manipulative rather than genuinely helpful.

• jeremy
• ghost
• astrid
• marriage deal
• afterlife

Lydia uncovers the dark truth about Jeremy's past while in the afterlife - he murdered his parents. This revelation explains why Jeremy is in the afterlife and why he is being haunted by his ex-wife Dolores. His true nature as a deceptive and dangerous entity is exposed.

• jeremy
• parents
• murder
• dark truth
• afterlife

Lydia brings back Beetlejuice out of desperation to rescue her daughter Astrid, who is trapped in the afterlife with the dangerous ghost Jeremy. With Astrid in significant danger and no other options apparent, Lydia invokes Beetlejuice to help navigate the afterlife and ensure her daughter's safety.

• lydia
• beetlejuice
• summon
• rescue
• astrid

Astrid heads toward the afterlife train station intending to catch the soul train to the beyond. When Lydia and Beetlejuice arrive just in time to disrupt this dangerous course, Astrid uses an incantation from the Handbook for the Recently Deceased to swap places with Jeremy, allowing him to reclaim his life in the living world while she returns to her mother.

• astrid
• soul train
• handbook
• incantation
• swap

Richard, Lydia's deceased ex-husband, is revealed to be working as an employee at the afterlife train station. He appears when Astrid boards the soul train and later saves Lydia and Astrid from the Sandworm on Saturn's moon, leading them back to Winter River.

• richard
• soul train
• employee
• saturn moon
• sandworm

During the chaos at the afterlife train station, an emergency exit propels Lydia and Astrid through to one of Saturn's moons. There they encounter a terrifying Sandworm, but Richard saves them and brings them back to Winter River.

• saturn moon
• sandworm
• emergency exit
• richard

After the chaotic wedding confrontation, Delia crosses over to the afterlife, reuniting with what remains of Charles Deetz. She boards the soul train to the afterlife, leaving Lydia and Astrid behind in the living world.

• delia
• charles
• afterlife
• soul train
• crossing over

Lydia and Astrid expose Beetlejuice's breach of contract and violation of Handbook rules during the wedding confrontation. This exposes his fraudulent actions, causing him to inflate dramatically and explode in a display of his ultimate downfall.

• beetlejuice
• explosion
• breach of contract
• handbook rules

At the end of the film, Lydia is haunted by nightmares of Beetlejuice, including a disturbing vision of Astrid giving birth to his child. This nightmare serves as a lingering ominous note suggesting Beetlejuice's influence may not be truly vanquished and could pose future threats.

• nightmare
• beetlejuice
• astrid
• baby
• haunting

Astrid uses the Handbook for the Recently Deceased to summon the Sandworm to the church during the wedding confrontation. Although the plan initially goes awry, it ultimately results in both Dolores and Rory being consumed by the Sandworm.

• sandworm
• handbook
• church
• astrid
• wedding