Season 2 - Episode 78: Mind of Madness

== Synopsis ==
Bjorn, Henry, Sammie, and Stanley meet up at Morgan Jenkins' house. Stanley breaks down the front door and they rush inside. Bjorn and Sammie subdue a nurse sitting at Jenkins' bedside. Stanley tries to wake up Jenkins but he doesn't respond. Sammie attempts to go into Jenkin's mind and connects with him. Sammie tries to tell him to stop but Jenkins gets angry. His wraith tries to possess Sammie but she's able to resist. Henry stabs the wraith and it recoils from Sammie before targeting Henry. Bjorn and Stanley try to physically shake Jenkins awake but don't make any progress. Sammie connects with his mind again to try and search for the psychic tether and break it but finds the tether is reinforced by someone or something else. While in his mind, Jenkins tells Sammie that he made a deal with the Empty Man to get Stanley's list and make him suffer. The wraith then possesses Sammie and causes her to shoot Henry in the chest. Bjorn shoots Jenkins in the chest and kills him. The wraith leaves Sammie's body and disintegrates into ash. Sammie tells them all what she learned from Jenkins and Henry erupts with anger. Stanley tries to tell Henry that they'll figure this out, they have a lead with the archive. When they get back to the Fort, Miguel tells them all that he's secured them an appointment at the archive in Ireland in two days. 
==Episode Description==
The heroes rush to find and neutralize the man responsible for attacking Stanley's contacts.
==Key Events ==
*Sammie tries to bargain with Morgan after connecting with his mind - Morgan reveals that he made a deal with the Empty Man to make Stanley suffer but doesn't know how the Empty Man got Stanley's list.
*Bjorn kills Morgan Jenkins to sever his connection to the wraith.
*Miguel has secured an appointment, two days from now, for Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie to visit an archive in Ireland to search for information on the Empty Man.
==Summary==
Sammie tells Bjorn and Henry that they need to leave. Francesca asks if she's gonna be okay and Sammie tells her if anything happens to call Stanley. Francesca tells them to keep Stanley safe as they run back to their car. Once in the Jeep, Sammie tells Bjorn and Henry everything she learned about Morgan Jenkins and his daughter. 
Bjorn is upset by all of this, he's uncomfortable with a person deciding who lives and dies due to a personal grudge. Henry asks if they have any plans for how to break the connection between Jenkins and his wraith but they're not sure. They drive over to Morgan Jenkins' house and find Stanley waiting for them, fuming outside his car. They all walk up to the door together but it's locked. Stanley takes two steps back and then kicks the door open before storming inside. 
In the living room, there is a surprised looking nurse on a couch next to an unconscious man in a hospital bed. The nurse stands up and begins to panic, saying she has a gun. Bjorn runs over to try and restrain her but she breaks free. Sammie mind wipes her and she drops to the ground, unconscious. They drag her back onto the couch. Stanley is standing at the side of the bed, fists clenched, looking at the ill, unconscious man in the bed. He is incredibly tense, obviously angry and upset. Bjorn and Henry decide to search the house for anything suspicious while Sammie tries to look inside the mind of Morgan Jenkins. 
Sammie sits on a chair next to his bed and then puts her hand on Morgan's forehead. She finds a connection with Morgan's mind and starts to speak with him. She says that her name is Sammie and she's here to figure some things out and he asks what's going on. Sammie says that she's trying to figure out if he's connected to what's been happening around Thornvale and Morgan is surprised, asking how she could possibly know it's him. Sammie says she just wants to figure out what's going on. Morgan becomes angry, saying that Sammie is with "him" and that he said she would come, that there would be more of them and they'd try to stop him. Sammie asks who he's talking about as she begins to feel a cold presence seep into her body. 
Sammie pulls out of Morgan's mind and pull herself away from the cold presence. She turns and sees a vague blue outline of a man. She shouts for Stanley to get back and then tries to hit it with fire. The wraith easily extinguishes her flame and grabs her fist, snaking up her arm. Stanley begins to shake Morgan, trying to wake him up. Bjorn and Henry run back into the room and are able to see the wraith. Henry slashes at the creature with his sword and sinks the blade into its arm. They all hear a horrific screech in their minds as the wraith jumps away from them at first before zeroing in on Henry and trying to seep into his chest. Henry feels like his energy has been pulled away from him. 
Bjorn joins Stanley in his efforts to try and wake up Morgan. He dumps the hospital bed over onto its side and the man topples to the floor but remains unconscious. Sammie dives over to Morgan and puts her hand back on his forehead - as she passes the wraith to get to the man's body it lashes out at her. Sammie tells Morgan to stop, that he's hurting innocent people. Morgan says that he's hurting people who helped Stanley, that Stanley has hurt innocent people and done nothing but lie. Sammie insists that Stanley saves people and that all Morgan is doing is taking away more people from their families and causing more pain. Morgan insists that Stanley has to die, it's the only way for things to be better - "he" told him so. Sammie asks who "he" is and suddenly feels a strange, extra energy enter Morgan's mind, like something else is here. Morgan says the 'man with no face' made a deal with him. He says that the Empty Man gave him Stanley's list and assured him that Stanley would be miserable when he died, allowing him to carry out the revenge he so desperately wanted against Stanley, saying that Stanley promised to save his daughter and then let her die. 
Sammie feels a cold sink into her as the wraith tries to posses her body. She ignores it, trying to find the mental connection between Morgan's body and the wraith. She finds it but also can tell that it's being reinforced by something else. She then feels herself being pulled from Morgan's mind and back into her own. She finds herself reaching down for her own gun and turning to point it at Henry. She pulls the trigger and shoots Henry directly in the chest. His armor blocks most of the impact but knocks him back. 
Bjorn sees Sammie be possessed by the wraith and realizes he's not skilled enough to break the connection magically and decides the best thing to do is kill Morgan Jenkins. He pulls his pistol and shoots the man in the chest. Sammie feels the wraith being ripped out of her body. They can see the wraith appear in front of them, writhe, and then disintegrate into blue ash. They all immediately know that the wraith is dead and so is Morgan Jenkins. 
Sammie holsters her gun and quickly apologizes to Henry, saying it wasn't her. Henry asks what she saw in Morgan's mind and she begins to look back and forth between Henry and Stanley. Bjorn rushes over to Henry to examine his gunshot wound. Sammie finally admits she learned from Morgan that it was the Empty Man who got Stanley's list. Stanley collapses onto his knees, one hand on the ground and the other on his chest. Sammie rushes over to him and puts a hand on his back. Stanley asks what Morgan said specifically. Sammie explains that he made the deal to get revenge against Stanley and the Empty Man promised he'd make Stanley suffer. 
Henry is filled with rage at the realization that Morgan Jenkins had information on the Empty Man and now he's dead. He begins to shout no over and over again, manifests his claws, and rips the hospital bed apart in frustration. When he's done, he is breathing hard and shouts that they were so close. Sammie tells Henry to calm down, they didn't have a choice. Bjorn says the wraith was going to kill Sammie when it was done with her, there was nothing else he could have done. Sammie says he didn't know anything else and Stanley asks her what else Morgan said. Sammie says that Morgan didn't know where the Empty Man got the list, just that he made a deal to make Stanley suffer, nothing else. Stanley is tense with rage but doesn't say anything. Henry counters that Morgan was a liar and a killer, they don't know he was telling the truth. Sammie insists that he was. Stanley tries to calm Henry by telling him he would have done the same. 
Henry closes his eyes and says that every time they have a lead, they lose it. Stanley tells Henry that they have a leave, that Miguel is working on getting them access to the archives to find what they need to figure this out - this isn't going to happen again. Sammie can tell that Stanley doesn't believe his own words - he's starting to get emotional at this point, tears filling his eyes. Sammie quickly drops to her knees to wrap Stanley in a hug and he hugs her back. Henry is still angry, breathing hard. 
They all start to hear a police siren approaching. Bjorn realizes someone must have called in the sound of the gunshot. He picks up his phone to call Holland to give her a heads up but as he's doing so Officer Crawford pushes the front door open. Bjorn quickly tells Holland that he was calling for her help in mitigating the situation but he thinks they'll be alright now that he knows its Crawford responding to the call. Crawford tells them all to head out and he'll take care of things. As Stanley is walking past him, he hands Crawford a business card and tells him to call with any questions. Bjorn pats Crawford on the shoulder and tells him thank you. Crawford says, politely, that he hopes he never sees them again. 
Bjorn, Henry, Sammie, and Stanley head back to the Fort. Stanley makes them all something to eat and pours Bjorn, Sammie, and himself a drink. As they're eating, Miguel wheels up to his spot at the table and stops. He tells them all that he's heard back from the Archive - he got them an appointment there for 2 days from now, in Ireland. 
==List of Appearances==
*Sammie Overbrook
*Bjorn Olafson
*Henry Marlowe
*Francesca Waters
*Stanley Marlowe
*Morgan Jenkins
*Ron Crawford
==Roll Tracker==
Player/Character	Move 	Roll	Result
Hannah/Sammie 	Use Magic: Mind Wipe	9 	Mixed Success
Andrew/Bjorn 	Help Out 	6 	Failure
Hannah/Sammie 	Use Magic: Communicate with Someone
Glitch: Unwelcome Attention	7 	Mixed Success
Hannah/Sammie 	Act Under Pressure 	8 	Mixed Success
Hannah/Sammie 	Burning Touch 	6 	Failure
Wesley/Henry 	Kick Some Ass 	11 	Full Success
Wesley/Henry 	Act Under Pressure 	7 	Mixed Success
Hannah/Sammie 	Use Magic: Communicate with Someone
Glitch: Take 1 Harm	8 	Mixed Success
Hannah/Sammie 	Act Under Pressure 	2 	Failure
Hannah/Sammie 	Use Magic 	9 	Mixed Success
Hannah/Sammie 	Kick Some Ass 	8 	Mixed Success
Wesley/Henry 	Act Under Pressure 	? 	Failure
Andrew/Bjorn 	Kick Some Ass 	12 	Full Success
Hannah/Sammie 	Act Under Pressure 	6 	Failure
Hannah Level Up: Took +1 Cool 
Andrew Level Up: Took +1 Sharp 
==Harm Taken==
Player/Character	Harm	Armor	Total	Reason for Harm
Hannah/Sammie 	1 IA	2 	1 	Wraith's touch
Hannah/Sammie 	1 IA	2 	1 	Wraith's touch
Wesley/Henry 	2 	1 	1 	Shot by Sammie
==Harm Dealt==
Player/Character	Weapon 	Harm	Target
Wesley/Henry 	Cold Iron Sword	2 	Wraith
Hannah/Sammie 	9mm 	2 	Henry
Andrew/Bjorn 	9mm 	2 	Morgan Jenkins
==Arc Totals==
Player	Harm Dealt
Andrew	2
Hannah	4
Wesley	7
Player	Harm Taken Before Armor
Andrew	0
Hannah	5
Wesley	6
Player	Harm Taken After Armor
Andrew	0
Hannah	3
Wesley	3
Player	Full Successes
Andrew	4
Hannah	10
Wesley	1
Player	Mixed Successes
Andrew	2
Hannah	9
Wesley	3
Player	Failures
Andrew	3
Hannah	3
Wesley	8