Chapter Five 'The Lion's Den':
Volume: One
Written by: Holly Harold
Directed by: Jeff Woolnough
Original airdate: October 15, 2015
Synopsis:
Taylor, Bennet, and Quentin rush out from the room where Molly and the other evos were being kept. They discover a giant seed bank, the type needed after an extinction event that would help repopulate the world. Taylor decides to trick her mother into coming to her so they find the information they need.
Farah and Malina stop in a town in Canada so Farah can meet a contact, Hatman himself, now identified as Casper, while Malina hides. Unfortunately, the contact never appears and Farah returns to Malina with a Harris clone following her and confronting them, asking where the baby is. Farah tries to turn invisible but Epic locates her and they fire on her. Malina activates her powers and sends Harris and his partner flying away with a gust of wind and they run away. They run and try to hide but are quickly discovered again. This time, Phoebe joins Harris and somehow prevents Malina from using her powers. Farah is shot and hands Malina a blood stained envelope, telling her to run and read the contents for the answers she needs. Malina hides in the bed of a big rig and escapes.
Carlos goes to the police station to confront Captain Dearing about his missing nephew and the Pastor. Dearing tells the desk sergeant he will be there in a moment but he is stopped by several of his fellow cops who just tried on the new Epic glasses and realize their captain is an Evo. They tranquilize him and take him into custody. With the captain drugged, they begin driving him away, but El Vegandor appears and stops the car using some flares, and his newly enhanced strength to punch the cops out. He tears the door off the police van and threatens Dearing, forcing him to take him to his nephew and the pastor, using the stolen money as leverage. Dearing agrees.
Erica tells Harris Prime to get the sword back to her house and they discuss the Evernow cosplayers. Erica knows that they are their customers and have to be careful how they are treated. Harris creates another clone to find Miko in the crowd with the use of Epic. Miko uses her acrobatic ninja skills to jump a wall and protect her and Ren from being found however. They soon find a Harris clone taking the sword to a truck, as Ren places his phone inside the truck to track it.
Erica attends a demonstration from Dr. SciGuy (Richard Schwenkman) of another aspect of their program in which a large box is touched by a scientist with a special glove, and disappears. Erica takes a call from Taylor and returns to him to talk to her but accuses Taylor of using drugs again. Bennet reveals himself and holds Erica at gunpoint as he tries to get answers. Erica provides none and tells him that he is the one who wanted his mind erased, revealing they worked together up until the past year. She also reveals that Hiro died along with Claire at the Odessa incident. Harris shows up and manages to turn the tables, taking Bennet, Taylor and Quentin captive. As they decide what to do with them all, Miko busts through the window, taking the sword and unsheathing it, allowing her to disappear and Quentin to knock out Harris. While Bennet goes to find Erica, Miko reappears nearby, back with Ren. She prepares to enter Evernow with Ren vowing to join her via his own game controller and laptop.
Tommy is catalogued and implanted with a tracking device. The lead detective, Agent Cutler, reveals that he is actually adopted but before he can do anything else, Tommy uses his powers and escapes to Emily’s house, telling her what he found out. She convinces him that adoption isn’t the end of the world and to go talk to his mother. Meanwhile, back at the police station, Hatman shows up and asks Agent Cutler “a penny for your thoughts.” Tommy confronts his mother and she tells him that no matter what, he is her son. Hatman shows up and explains that he isn’t his father but has been keeping watch over Tommy for the past year. Anne tells him that she took him away because she didn’t want him to try and save his dad, thereby losing them both. Hatman says that Tommy is that important and that they shouldn’t have run as they could have avoided the whole hospital and tracking implant incident. He tells Tommy the world has one last hope for survival and Tommy is a part of that. Tommy refuses to take part and teleports away.
Luke returns to his home to find Joanne not there. He reminisces over pictures and videos of his son and then calls his work partner, asking him to pay him for his share of the practice, giving it up to him, saying he is atoning. He then activates his power, setting a picture of him and his son on fire and lets the entire house catch on fire and burn as he walks away.
Erica returns to Renautus and a new simulation reveals that with the Earth’s poles reversing, they are more susceptible to solar radiation and a giant coronal mass ejection is on its way sooner than expected with 96% total devastation on earth predicted.
Back-issues:
Pruitt Taylor Vince plays Hatman, otherwise known as Casper. He’s a “that guy” who has shown up in everything over the years from Bird Box to Agents of Shield, The Mentalist, Hawaii 5-0, The Walking Dead, Deadwood, Alias, CSI, Doctor Doolittle, The X-Files, City Slickers II, JFK, and I Know My First Name Is Steven.
Danika Yarosh plays Melina. She has around 30ish credits, but she may still be an up and coming actress. She is a lead in two movies scheduled for release, 13 Steps (a buried dark past that has riddled our world with fear and divisiveness while a group with different backgrounds must overcome their respective "demons" and beliefs, right the wrongs of the past and save the world from an ultimate evil. Based on true events), and also The Get Back Girl (a brilliant young woman plots a tumultuous path to physical and psychological freedom by exacting revenge on her parents' killer, overcoming personal demons and a doctor prescribed pharmaceutical drug dependency to ultimately find love and happiness). Previously, she was in 16 episodes of the 40 episode Netflix show Greenhouse Academy in a recast role (almost a year after their astronaut mother's tragic death, Alex and Hayley Woods start attending an elite boarding school for future leaders, but soon begin to realize that everything is not as it seems), 6 episodes of The Purge TV series, and a lead in Miracle Season (Helen Hunt, William Hurt, Erin Moriarty, After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship, based on a true story). She was a supporting cast member in Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher, 9 episodes of a 55 episode series called See Dad Run (with Scott Baio), and 11 episodes of William H Macy’s Shameless series.
Chapter Six 'Game Over':
Volume: One
Written by: Nevin Densham
Directed by: Gideon Raff
Original airdate: October 22, 2015
Synopsis:
Bennet beats up Harris for information while Carlos beats up Dearing for the same. Carlos gets the upper hand by threatening him with his stolen money, learning about a place called Sunstone Manor that pays $10,000 per Evo capture. Harris reveals the Evos have been moved to another facility, Phoebe is returning from Canada, and he promises to take them to Erica. Taylor gives them an updated power dampener to control Harris as she leaves to try to find Francis. She eventually finds the room where Francis was kept, but he’s already been moved. She infiltrates Erica’s office and copies secret files off her computer. Later, after taking a pregnancy test that turns out positive, she makes a video for Hero Truther revealing everything she knows about the operation, explaining where the missing 600 evos have been, exposing her mother.
Miko, inside the game, finds the man dressed as her father but he reveals he is just a guide, and shows her where she needs to go, and that her mission is to save the master of time and space.
In the real world, Erica talks with Richard who says that he knew Hachiro Otomo and his daughter and Miko is NOT her. He explains that they have been reprogramming Evernow to stop her progress, cloaking the fortress from detection. With Ren googling for the insignia Miko saw in the game, they find a Renautus building in Midian they head out to infiltrate. Once there, she enters the game and with Ren joining her they easily defeat the undefeatable giant in the game guarding the fortress. Unfortunately Ren’s battery dies and he is kicked out of the game and hides inside a box in the building.
Elsewhere, Luke runs into Malina who was trying to use her powers to get a candy bar from a machine, with Luke accidentally shorting out a soda machine nearby. He then calls Joanne to tell her he sold his practice, and burns the house down before he buys a yacht and jumps off of it into the water wearing a backpack full of bricks, ready to kill himself. Malina sees him nearby and uses her powers to raise the water up and save him. They talk and he vents about losing his purpose in life and she vents back, showing him the person she has been trying to find, Tommy. Luke recognizes him and tells her where he last saw him, and the two head off together.
Tommy goes to Emily and vents his frustration, but he then takes the two of them to Paris because he needs to get away. However, when the guards start scanning for visitors to the Eiffel Tower, Tommy stands up to them, refusing to back down before teleporting himself and Emily away as more armed guards gather. She tells him about comic books and superheroes, as if Tommy was never aware of this, and they find an issue of 9th Wonders he has always been searching for that depicts a character that looks like him. With her help, he begins to understand his destiny and he returns them home. After she expertly manages to remove the tracker from Tommy’s wrist, he thanks her for helping him and the two kiss.
Dearing takes Carlos to Sunstone but tells him that the only way in is if he has powers because they swab for them at the entrance. He gives Carlos a vial, telling him it will create a false positive on their scanners and get him in, but after he drinks it, Carlos passes out.
Miko exits the game and finds herself face to face with Harris, Benent, and Quentin and she attacks them all, but Harris gets away. Bennet convinces her he is an ally and there to stop Erica just like her. Together they find Richard and Bennet shoots him in the foot to get information from him who explains that Miko is not real as the real girl died in a car crash and that this Miko was a computer virus programmed by her father. Miko in the game begins fighting an evil doppelgänger as Richard reveals that the only way to free Hiro Nakamura from the fortress is for her to sacrifice herself.
Ren, escaping from the box that was brought inside the building with others, finds Bennet, Quentin, and now Miko. She tells him what she must do to complete her mission but Harris clones and Phoebe show up. Phoebe’s powers dampen Miko’s powers because that’s a thing now, meaning Miko can’t return to the in-game world. Bennet and company lock themselves behind the bulletproof glass doors to buy themselves some time. Miko and Bennet keep the Harris clones busy while Quentin goes to Phoebe trying to talk her out of what she’s doing. He tackles her and she momentarily gains some semblance of the old Phoebe but she believes Erica gave her purpose and continues her attack, filling Quentin’s mouth with her dark strands. Bennet and Miko take out two of the Harris clones with Bennet then knocking out Phoebe from behind. Miko enters the game again and defeats her doppelgänger easily and then plunges her sword into the prison door holding Hiro. She disappears as Hiro appears in the real world. As more Harris clones show up to take down Bennet, Hiro freezes time. Hiro agrees to take Bennet back in time to the Odessa incident.
